Archive for May, 2009
Your Key to Make Long URLs Short And Anonymize It With Just One Click
eKey is another free URL Shortening service that will make your life easier. With eKey, you will never have to worry about remembering long URLs ever again. You can use a much simpler, and smaller, URL in your web-posts, emails, and anything else you wish. We guarantee that the links you create on eKey will never break or expire.
If you are you posting something that you don’t want people to know what the URL is because it might give away that it’s an affiliate link? Are you afraid that when you post your links someone might steal your links? Then you can enter a URL into eKey, and your affiliate link will be hidden from the visitors. They will only see the ekey.us address and the final destination address.
For those users who wishes to track how many views his/her URL has received simply copy the compressed URL into the field, and hit “Decompressâ€.
An Open Source Data Visualization Framework For Charts And Graphs
Axiis is an open source data visualization framework designed for beginner and expert developers alike. Whether you are building elegant charts for executive briefings or exploring the boundaries of advanced data visualization research, Axiis has something for you. It gives developers the ability to expressively define their data visualizations through concise and intuitive markup. Axiis has been designed with a specific focus on elegant code, where your code can be just as beautiful as your visual output. By leveraging {inline} Flex Binding and the Axiis markup syntax you don’t need to write volumes of code to produce amazing results. In fact, some of the more complex Axiis examples have no more than 200 lines of code.
Axiis was designed to be a granular framework, allowing developers to mix and match components and build complex output by compositing together basic building blocks. We have specifically avoided long OO inheritcance chains to keep our classtructures flat and interchangeable. In Axiis you create visual complexity through engineering simplicity.
Axiis is an open source project, under an MIT license. This means you can use it for personal projects, commercial work, and pretty much anything you can think of with no restrictions, we just ask you keep our copyrights and license within the code.
21 Free And Useful Web Tools For Web Designers
This is one of the very best list of its kind where you can find the simplest online web designer’s tools that are developed for designers and may be very helpful for you as well when you want to get your work done or just for fun. I hope web designers will like this list, but you can also use them and will love them whether you are an office worker, a manager, a supervisor, a student, a home user, etc. Most of them are not very well-known, but they are really amazing in respect to their features. This is the list of 21 Free And Useful Web Tools For Web Designers. Just take a look at them and share your thought’s here.
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Pixlr is a free online image editor, jump in and start edit, adjust, filter.
Stripemania is a simple and free web 2.0 tool to create seamless diagonal stripes for your designs. You are able to choose the size of the stripes and the spacing between those. You can even add color gradient effect for all of your stripes.
FreshGenerator is a webdesign tool which can create interesting graphic elements used in many web 2.0 sites.
ColorPix is a useful little color picker that grabs the pixel under your mouse and transforms it into a number of different color formats. You can use the built-in magnifier to zoom in on your screen, click on a color value to copy it directly to the clipboard, and even keep ColorPix on top of all other apps and out of the way.
This is your online photo sharing, editing and hosting resource. You can upload, organize, edit, store (up to 2GB free) and share your photos.
Are My Sites Up is a very simple service to help you keep an eye on your sites and warn you if they go down.
Add your own colors to contemporary and retro pattern designs, or browse from thousands of pre-colored patterns in the seamless pattern background library. All artworks on this site can be used freely on personal blogs, mobile phone wallpapers, MySpace profiles and non-commercial web projects.
Adobe Kuler is the web-hosted application for generating color themes that can inspire any project. No matter what you’re creating, with Kuler you can experiment quickly with color variations and browse thousands of themes from the Kuler community.
Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. It is a free open-source online service. A number of distributed computers will open your website in their browser. Then they will make screenshots and upload them to the central server.
This online tool generates HTML/CSS code and images to decorate your Web site with rounded corners and gradient.
Picreflect helps you to give the reflection on any image, to resize your image, to make them tranparent or rotate them to any angle.
For using WhatTheFont font recognition system, Just upload a scanned image of the font and instantly find the closest matches in their database.
This free service will help you to re-size your images with basic and advanced options.
Wordoff is simple and useful web tool that lets you remove unnecessary tags and styles from HTML code.
SUMO Paint is an online image editor. This is an easy to use professional tool for creating and editing images within browser.
This generator will create a fluid or fixed width floated column layout, with up to 3 columns and with header and footer. Values can be specified in either pixels, ems or percentages.
With Wix you can create a free website or make free MySpace layouts and Flash MySpace layouts. It’s the simpler, faster, better way to build & design on the web.
net2ftp is a web based FTP client. It is mainly aimed at managing websites using a browser. Edit code, upload/download files, copy/move/delete directories recursively, rename files and directories — without installing any software.
The color wizard lets you submit your own base color, and it automatically returns matching colors for the one you selected.
Splashup is a powerful editing tool and photo manager. With all the features professionals use and novices want, it’s easy to use, works in real-time and allows you to edit many images at once.
This is a web based tiled backgrounds designer, you can create any pattern your site needs just in few minutes. Adjustable size, pictures, colors, texture and transparency is available.
13 Simply Useful WordPress Plugins That Can Make Lives Easier
This is another post about useful wordpress plugins. There are hundreds of wordpress plugins available on the internet. Some of them are very useful and some of them are only for sake of existence. But it’s totally up to you that how you can make your wordpress blog more strong and powerful using different plugins to give your blog readers an amazing and wonderful experience.
In this post, I tried to list down 13 Simply Useful WordPress Plugins That Can Make Lives Easier. This list has few of the unlimited wordpress plugins introduction. I hope you will enjoy this.
You are welcome to share if you know and want to share more Useful WordPress Plugins That Probably Are Essential and 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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Download Monitor 3 is upon us. Download Monitor is a plugin for uploading and managing downloads, tracking download hits, and displaying links.
Plugin Manager lets you to view, download and install plugins from wordpress.org from an AJAX’ed interface, instead of manually downloading, extracting and uploading each plugin.
Google Analytics for WordPress
The Google Analytics for WordPress plugin automatically tracks and segments all outbound links from within posts, comment author links, links within comments, blogroll links and downloads. It also allows you to track AdSense clicks, add extra search engines, track image search queries and it will even work together with Urchin.
Search Everything increases the ability of the default WordPress Search, options included Search Every Page, Search Every Tag, Search Every Category, Search non-password protected pages only, Search Every Comment and much more…
This plugin will manage and rotate your Google Adsense and other ads on your WordPress blog. It automatically recognises many ad networks including Google Adsense, AdBrite, Adify, AdGridWork, Adpinion, Adroll, Chitika, Commission Junction, CrispAds, OpenX, ShoppingAds, Yahoo!PN, and WidgetBucks. Unsupported ad networks can be used as well.
Featured Content Gallery creates an automated, fully customizable rotating image gallery anywhere within your WordPress site. Choose your images and display categories, pages or posts with custom overlay text and a thumbnail carousel. Custom options include gallery size, color, style and more.
Subscribe2 provides a comprehensive subscription management and email notification system for WordPress blogs that sends email notifications to a list of subscribers when you publish new content to your blog.
WordPress Automatic Upgrade allows a user to automatically upgrade the wordpress installation to the latest one provided by wordpress.org using the 5 steps provided in the wordpress upgrade instructions.
The TweetMeme button easily allows your blog to be retweeted. The button also provides a current count of how many times your story has been retweeted throughout twitter.
This simple plugin helps you easily integrate your BuySellAds zones and includes anti-AdBlock meaures to prevent AdBlock (and similar software) from blocking the advertisement.
Social Bookmarking for WordPress
Sociable is a plugin which adds social media buttons to your posts, and does so easily, and beautifully. It will automatically add links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on your posts, pages and in your RSS feed. You can choose from 99 different social bookmarking sites.
A plugin to build user communities all around WordPress, mainly it’s around having a well integrated profiles system. This plugin will provide all needed functions and widgets to make it easy and flexible the ways to show all information about a user. Also, there is some user privacy settings to permit which information to show in the profile page.
You can shrink, track and share any URL on the Internet from your WordPress website. Unlike other link shrinking services like tinyurl, budurl, and bit.ly, this plugin allows you to create shortlinks coming from your own domain! Pretty Link tracks each hit on your URL and provides a full, detailed report of where the hit came from, the browser, os and host.
Now Its Much Easier To Embed Fonts On Web Pages With FontJazz
FontJazz is a tiny typographic engine written in JavaScript, enabling webdesigners and developers to use any typeface on a website. You can select here any TrueType or OpenType typeface from your local computer, and upload it for processing.
FontJazz does not take the usual road, where an image is generated on the server-side, for every headline – an approach that is rather ineffective. Instead, FontJazz implements a simple type-rendering engine in JavaScript, which means that any headlines are rendered 100% client-side, without any kind of server-side dependencies or bandwidth overhead.
Unlike traditional web-font solutions, FontJazz requires the user’s browser to fetch only a single image and a tiny JavaScript file, and only once for any number of headlines.
The JavaScript uses DOM and works with IE5+, Firefox 2+, Opera 9+, Google Chrome and most likely any other standards-compliant browser. You can click here to read license information or visit here to download.
How To Create Your Own Community Website For Free
BoonEx Community Software Experts provides free, open-source and downloadable community-building software for websites. BoonEx delivers quality software, which enables you to build any kind of website: COMMUNITY, DATING, or SOCIAL NETWORKING. BoonEx has been working on software development for more than 5 years and endeavors to develop high quality software implementing the latest internet technologies.
The BoonEx flagship product is Dolphin Smart Community Builder providing the basic platform for a website. This is written in PHP, HTML, CSS, AJAX using a MySQL database, and other modern technologies such as RSS, JQuery etc. Dolphin is predominantly a Community and Social Network oriented software, but, thanks to innovative builders, the site administrator is able to easily customize or modify the site pages, remove/rename fields etc. to make a site for dating – or any other kind of site. Dolphin couldn’t be called community software without Flash Apps integrated into Dolphin. Flash Apss are the following FLASH and PHP based applications: Audio/Video Chat, Audio/Video Instant Messenger, Video Recorder, Video and Music Players, Web Presence, Desktop Application, Shoutbox and Whiteboard which presents a site that is modern and full of features to communicate and have fun with. To complete your Community site, BoonEx also developed and integrated the Interactive Forum Script into Dolphin which supplements your site with the addition of a discussion place by providing groups and a forum.
Dolphin is offered for free, but still it’s required to be registered.
Steps to build your own website.
- Navigate to BoonEx Unity, and register there to acquire a free license and also to be able to monitor licenses and have access to upgrades
- Download the software
- Secure a hosting provider whose servers match BoonEx software technical requirements
- Install the software manually, if your hosting company doesn’t use the one-click Dolphin auto-installer
Your site can be as unique as you wish. Look at how customizable and modifiable Dolphin is:
BoonEx is driven by its Unite People mission and despite the world’s current economic crisis, BoonEx is working hard right now to bring you a revolutionary, new Dolphin version.
13 High Quality And Exclusive Collections Of Colorful Wallpapers
Today, we are showing you the huge collections of beautiful and inspiring wallpapers. I appreciate to all those talented designers who create these excellent wallpapers with their efforts, imaginations and creativity to give us a chance to use these artistic wonders on desktop and refresh ourselves. This list is not long in numbers but I promise you that when you start browsing them in details it will surely refresh you and force you to download any or all for your desktop right now.
You are welcome if you want to share more resources to beautiful Wallpapers that 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. Click on the images to go from where the images has been taken and learn more about their creators and to appreciate them.
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26 Gorgeous Aurora and Colour Spectrum WallpapersÂ
6 (More) Free File Hosting Websites That Would Be Useful
Now a days its not hard to find a free file hosting at all but to find a high speed website that can help you to upload, send or receive your large files in an easier way is not that easy. We also know that people have a love and hate relationship with free file hosting sites. Some file hosting sites are really handy and make sharing data even simpler than sending a file via email. But we don’t want you to worried at all. We have compiled a list of 6 (More) Free File Hosting Websites That Would Be Useful.
You are welcome to share if you know more sites with free file hosting which 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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filehosting.org provides an easy possibility for you to send large files to your friends. Just upload the file you want to share with your friends and they send you a download link to your file. You can give this download link to your friends by mail or messanger. It is also allowed to link to the download page from websites and communities. This is easy, fast and reliable filehosting.
This service can be used for uploading files up to 100MB each. After uploading you will be given a link, that others can use to download your file. Their filesize limit is 100MB and each file can be downloaded unlimited times.
wiki upload is a free file hosting & sharing service. You can upload documents, videos, images, mp3s, ebooks, shareware etc. It supports upto 5GB file size.
FileSend is a free file hosting and delivery service generally used to send files that are too large for email.They offer a generous 120 MB of space for you to upload your files and send to your friends.
With FileSave you can share music, movies, pictures, documents and any other file with ease. Just upload them only once and share with all your friends. You can link to files from your MySpace, Facebook or Bebo page or post links on your blog page or forums or simply use as personal storage. It’s upto you.
InfiniteMb is a free file hosting service that enables you to upload and share unlimited files, images, videos and music with people around the world.
An Open Source And Free Invoicing Web Application
SIWAPP is an open source web application meant to help manage and create invoices in a simple, straightforward way. Using a swapp is comfortable and everything is placed where you are expecting to find it.
This web application will also be able to work as a module -interconnected through its API to many otner business management applications- which takes care -the easy way- only of the billing of the company.
Siwapp is built on Symfony, a PHP web development environment, which heavily rests on MVC ideas (model, view, controller). This environment allows us to develop “Extreme Programming” techniques, as well as guarantee a proper application evolution in the future.
SIWAPP is
- Simple & straightforwards
- Comfortable
- Useful
- Pretty
- Flexible
- Productivity – oriented
- Anywhere
- Secure
- Supported
17 Creative Collection Of Inspirational Resources For Designers
As a designer, all of us are continuously searching for effective inspiration because getting an idea and inspiration is sometimes really hard and when you are planning to start your new web design project and you are curiously finding for a mind blowing web design inspiration so you don’t want to spend too much time and want to get start something as soon as you can. But most of the time, your mouse is not moving around as you want or your hand is not in your creative control or maybe when you are just tired and do not have creative mood to work. So if you want to get fresh your creative man or come up with some creative web design ideas or just need to motivate and inspire yourself with current design trends, we are today listing down 17 Creative Collection Of Inspirational Resources For Designers. This list is not long in numbers but I promise you that when you start browsing them in details it will must boost your creative design ideas professionally and motivate you for to design your project in such a way that people will never forget that you have made it!
You are welcome to share if you know more resources and collection to get inspired with current design trend that 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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Totally Awesome Joker Collection
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