Archive for February, 2009
13 Most Desirable Collection Of Free Resources For Every Designer
In the search of free resources, We always work really hard to bring all those stuffs that could help others. We mainly focuses that all the resource should be attractive and useful for everyone in anyway. There are countless free stuffs available for designers which everyone should check at least once. In this post, I have collected 13 Most Desirable Collection Of Free Resources For Every Designer.
You are welcome if you want to share more free resources and collection for designers that we have missed here and you think our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter as well.
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39 Masterpieces Of Creative Advertisements
17 Digital Image Illustration Which You Probably Never Seen Before!
15 Digital Photo Manipulation From Flickr To Get Inspiration
23 Awesome Photos That Look Like They’re Photoshopped But Are Not
21 Simple But Impressive Corporate Web Designs Of Top Brands
15 Beautiful Web Designs Empowered With Ajax Techniques
50 Free High-Quality Icon Sets
30 Useful Open Source Apps for Web Designers
45+ Free Design Template And PSD Files
50 Free Rusted Metal Texture Backgrounds
15 High Quality Free Premium WordPress 2.7 Themes
15 Incredibly Useful WordPress Plugins to Boost your Blog
30 Amazingly Creative Social Bookmarks Icon Sets
11 Premium But Free And Useful Web Apps For Designers
50+ textures for Your Design Appetite and lot more Resources
The Ultimate Collection Of Free Photoshop Patterns
45 Sites, Free Icons And PSD Resources For Web-Design
12 Free Online Background Pattern Generators
21 Typography and Font Web Apps You Can’t Live Without
Create Your Free Online Surveys And Polls Using SiS Survey
With SiS Survey, you can start creating Polls and Surveys, and place them on your website in minutes. They are simple and flexible, allowing you to customize default styles to match your website social networking profile or email campaign. You can use their in-depth reporting engine to aggregate, print and export your results.
Salient Features
- Advanced online reporting in real time of your data as it is collected.
- Insert HTML directly allowing you to add pictures, video and more.
- Full foreign language support. Create your own langueges packs.
- 11 question types to choose from with multiple options for each.
- Export your data as XML, CSV and subscribe to your results via RSS.
- Close surveys after a certain date or quota has been reached, and create custom start and finish pages for your survey.
- Create multi question, multi page surveys with ease using our new advanced survey editor.
- A selection of skins to choose from or create your own in CSS
Thank You Our Valued Sponsors To Be With Us In The Month Of February
This is a post in which we want to say a big Thank You to the SmashingApps’ fastest growing community for regularly visiting our blog. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and be the one of 500k+ subscribers. But how can we forget to say a Great Thank You to our valued sponsors who help us to make this blog possible in reach of everyone in the month of February, 2009 as well.
Do you want to get noticed? Advertise with us and feel the difference!
Smashing Apps always welcome new sponsors for our large and diversified visitor base from more than 188 countries. They are designers, developers, internet marketers, bloggers, IT entrepreneurs, etc. You will get noticed by the thousands of visitors every day. Moreover, a monthly recognition post to thank you as our valued sponsors. Are you really interested? Click here to contact us or see advertisement section for more information on advertising details.
This month, Our valued sponsors are:
Wix.com is a Flash website builder, built to create a simple way for everybody to build and design Flash website. Create a free website like whether it’s business or personal, music or art. Wix’s Flash website builder is simple to use with a “drag and drop” builder and is the complete solution to publish & promote your Flash website like a pro.
ThemeForest is a website from where you can buy and sell site templates and themes to skin popular CMS products like WordPress Drupal and Joomla. Files are priced from just five dollars, based on the complexity, quality and use of the file. Anyone is free to signup for an account and begin trading or purchasing files.
Deploy and Scale Websites, Servers and Storage in Minutes with Mosso. For Cloud Hosting technologies and expert support.
Feedmyapp is a Web 2.0 Directory with the best and latest web 2.0 sites, daily updated. They classify web apps by tagging them and creating a brief description for each one listed.
BuiltWith Website Optimizer provides Technology, SEO, Web Standards and Monetization reports for your website and business.
FreshBooks is an online invoicing and time tracking service that saves you time and makes you look professional.
Awaken turns your Mac into the ultimate alarm clock and sleep timer. You don’t have to wake to an annoying buzzer anymore. Your Mac is filled with your music and Awaken would like you to wake to a playlist of your choice.
In Web 2.0 style jobBlogs provides a integrated CRM and Project Managment solution that uses private blogs to organize your team and get work done.
HotCards offers services of Highest Quality, Lowest Cost Full Color Printing in the Nation. Business Cards, Postcards, Flyers and Club Cards, Posters and More.
Premier Survey is the users’ choice for free online survey management. This system, a powerful self-service application developed on the concept of Software As A Service (SAAS) is designed to minimize cost and maximize ease of use.
Do you want us to say Thank You in this special way? So help us to help you!
You will just need to take a look at our advertisement section on how you can start advertising at SmashingApps to grow and spread more or contact us for more information and details related to
- direct marketing
- sponsored giveaways and contest for Smashing Apps readers
- releasing a free font, a WordPress-theme, some wallpapers, an icon-set or anything else
Next Generation’s Free Live Support And GeoTracking System For Your Website
LiveZilla is the Next Generation free Live Help / Live Support System connects you to your website visitors. You can use LiveZilla to provide Live Chats and monitor your website visitors in real-time. This way chat with your website visitors and provide Live Help when it’s needed.
LiveZilla enables you to get exact information about what’s happening on your website. See all visitor’s accessing your website in real-time and get further information about each of them which includes Location, Language, Browser, OS Details, Navigation History. Track the way they take from site to site and receive valuable marketing information day by day. See which areas of your website are currently hot and how much time your visitors spent by browsing your sites.
LiveZilla is the perfect contact platform. Even when your are offline. Using a simple online web form, your visitors can leave you a message whenever they need your help. LiveZilla is able to resolute the Geo Location based on IP-to-location for the visitors on your website. Now see the visitors Hometown, the regarding Region and the Country. Each visitor is displayed on a zoomable World Map that is powered by Google Maps®. The visitors you are currently chatting with will be highlighted.
Get Your Free Beta Invitation Code For PDF-to-Word Converter
When it comes to file conversion, PDF to Word conversion is really a basic need of our daily routine. There are many converters out there but to use them we have to compromise with quality results. SmashingApps and PDF to Word are teaming up to do their part and providing you the opportunity to use the most accurate online PDF-to-Word Converter.
Using this PDF-to-Word conversion technology, you can quickly and easily create editable DOC/RTF files, making it a cinch to re-use PDF content in applications like Microsoft Word, Excel, OpenOffice, and WordPerfect. But the service is still running under close beta period. No need to worry at all! we have got exclusive beta invitation for 200 readers.
All you have to do to get your free beta account is to share how it will make your lives easier. When sharing your thoughts please post a link to this post. You can spread your words in any of the following ways…
Post it on Twitter, post it on your blog, or post a video of it on YouTube, or create a picture and post it on Flickr. You can spread your words in anyway you like as long as we can verify it and post the link in the comments below to share with us that how you spread the words. Also, don’t forget to follow us on twitter.
To sign up for your free beta account for PDF-to-Word service you will need to enter “smashingapps” in the invitation code field and share your experience with us in the comments below. The last date to create your free account will be Saturday, March 7, 2009.
Here are some samples you can post on twitter
* I love to use this free PDF-to-Word Converter because it’s free and simple. Did you try this?
* I always had a problem when trying to convert PDF to Word but with this free service, I am impressed. Did you try this?
* I have never seen more accurate results with any other tool out there for PDF to Word Conversion. Did you try this?
How did I spread the word?
I always had a problem when trying to convert PDF to Word but with this free service, I am impressed. Did you try this? http://twitter.com/naveedjavaid/status/1251277785
15 Beautiful Web Designs Empowered With Ajax Techniques
Ajax a short form of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML is a set of techniques used by many modern and popular web sites. This technique allows portions of a Web page to be updated without refreshing the entire page, a significant advance in the development of websites and web-based applications. For example, a site might allow you to rate a product or item by clicking on a star image. With Ajax, your vote could be registered without having to load the entire page again. In this post, we are listing down 15 Beautiful Web Designs Empowered With Ajax Techniques for your inspiration. If you like this post so please spread the word as much as possible via twitter.
You are welcome if you want to share more web designs empowered with Ajax techniques that we have missed here and you think our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter as well.
I will appreciate if you can spread the word via Digg, Stumbleupon and other social media websites, Thank you.
Shelfari
Free Online Diagramming Application To Create Professional Diagrams And Flowcharts
Lovely Charts is an online diagramming application that allows you to create professional looking diagrams, such as flowcharts, sitemaps, organisation charts, wireframes, and many more… With Lovely Charts’s extremely simple and intuitive drag’n drop drawing mechanism, you’ll be able to focus on what really matters. You won’t have to draw boxes and arrows, you won’t have to worry about what symbol to use.
Lovely Charts’s biggest strength lies in its innovative workflow and in its ability to generate lovely diagrams in minutes, with no effort. To view a diagram, Lovely Charts require users to be identified, by a login and password. A fully functional version of Lovely Charts is available for free.
A Simple Way To Send PDF Files With Ease
PDFvia is a free service that empowers users to share PDF files with anyone, anywhere, across the world without clogging inboxes. Once you upload your PDF, you will be given a link that you can send to your colleagues or clients, without the worry of clogging anyone’s inbox. You can also specify a password once you upload your PDF. This will also allows you to host multiple files.
Each file you upload must be less than 50.00 MB in size for free accounts. If it is greater than that amount, your file will not upload. You may upload gz, pdf, zip file types. All files that will not accessed within 90 days will be removed from free accounts.
How To Split Your Monitor(s) Into Regions
MaxTo is a small Windows program that divides your monitors into regions. When you maximize a window, it will no longer fit the entire screen, but only the region it was maximized into. Your windows are neatly organized into the grid you have defined when they are maximized. MaxTo has been described as a tiling window manager.
MaxTo is light-weight, and works on both 64-bit and 32-bit versions of Windows XP and Windows Vista. The .NET framework version 2.0 or higher is required, it’s pre-installed on Windows Vista.
Features
- Easily change regions
- Easily disabled by holding Shift
- Move windows using shortcut keys
- Multi-monitor support
- Light-weight (less than 200kB to download)
- It’s Free
- No spyware/adware/badware
Launch A Free And Synchronized Document Collaboration Web-Meeting With Anyone
ShowDocument is a free service for online meetings with fully synchronized co-browsing of any document. It is a quick and simple way to share a document with other people at the same time. It is a web collaboration platform that lets individuals have a free online meeting. It is an alternative to various commercial desktop sharing applications. One can easily upload any file and during the session mark it up with a pen or a highlighter tool in addition to a text box tool and eraser.
There is also a chat box to discuss ideas and changes. Everyone’s cursor is tracked with their name as it moves around the screen. Show Document is a very effective collaboration tool. This conferencing tool requires no download or installation, just upload your document and launch a free online web meeting. The maximum session length is one hour. User is notified 5 minutes before the session timeout.
Document-types that you can upload to Show Document
PDF files (*.pdf)
Microsoft Word (*.doc)
Microsoft Excel (*.xls)
Microsoft PowerPoint (*.ppt)
Rich Text Format (*.rtf)
Images
JPG files (*.jpg;*.jpeg)
GIF files (*.gif)
PNG files (*.png)
BMP files (*.bmp)
Any text file like
Comma-Separated Values (*.csv)
Plain Text (*.txt)
XML files (*.xml)
Open Office documents
OpenDocument Text (*.odt)
OpenDocument Spreadsheet (*.ods)
OpenDocument Presentation (*.odp)
OpenDocument Drawing (*.odg)
