Archive for September, 2009
7 Twitter Tools That Are Not Essential But Would Be Useful
As we all know Twitter is a rapidly growing micro-blogging service in these days. No doubt, It’s a great fun to share information or talk with your friends and the powerful way to spread the word as much as possible. For this reason, there are too many free twitter tools available that are offering you hassle free and simple way to tweet. In this post, we are listing down 7 Twitter Apps That Are Not Essential But Would Be Useful. Whether you are designer, developer, office worker, manager, supervisor, student, home user, etc. We have tried to add something interesting for everyone. Most of them are not very well-known, but they are really amazing in respect to their features. Just take a look at them and share your thought here. If you like this post so please spread the word as much possible via twitter.
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Readtwit filters your twitter feed to links only, resolves link destinations and publishes the content as an RSS feed. You can then use any feed reading software / service to read twitter posted content along with the rest of your feeds.
With tweetalarm, you will get alerted when someone tweets about your company, your product or anything that interests you.
Clicktotweet is the best, easiest and simplest way to promote your stuff on Twitter. Now, whoever clicks on the link will have the message automatically added to their Twitter status box, then they simply click to tweet.
Tweepler Is an easy, more enjoyable way of processing your New Twitter Followers. View a list of New Followers and classify them in one of two “Buckets” Follow (meaning you wish to follow them back) and Ignore (meaning you don’t wish to follow them and want to archive them out of the way, reducing clutter).
It’s a twitter monitor, it lets you “monitter” the twitter world for a set of keywords and watch what people are saying.
If you want to know that when and why someone stops following you on twitter then Qwitter is a best tool for you. Qwitter e-mails you when someone stops following you on Twitter.
FutureTweets is a free service that lets you schedule your Twitter messages. You can send it at a specific time in the future or send a recurring Tweet daily, weekly, monthly or yearly. With the help of this toop you’ll never forget the birthdays of your beloved Twitter friends again. Just schedule a nice Tweet on their birthday.
Congratulations To The Winners Of SQLyog Enterprise
Thank you for all of the participants of contest in which Webyog Is Giving Away 5 Single User licenses Of SQLyog Enterprise Of Worth $99 Each. We ran the MySql random query and selected these 5 commenter to give them Single User licenses of SQLyog Enterprise.
SQLyog MySQL GUI is the most powerful MySQL manager and admin tool, combining the features of MySQL Query Browser, Administrator, phpMyAdmin and various other MySQL Front Ends and MySQL GUI tools in a single intuitive interface.
Congratulations to all the winners from SmashingApps.Com. All of the winners will be contacted via email within 15 days. If you are not winner at this time so please be patient and keep visiting here or subscribe our rss feed because we are very soon coming up with another new great contest.
Thank you Webyog for sponsoring this wonderful contest at SmashingApps.
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Outright, A Simple To Use Free Online Bookkeeping And Business Performance Tracking Software
Outright is a very simple-to-use web service that helps you track income and expenses, pay estimated taxes on time, and see how your business is doing. It’s perfect for self employed people.
This is a great tool to streamlining the work involved with owning a business, helping entrepreneurs pay the right taxes, record financial transactions, and keep their businesses on track and growing. It was created after watching a number of small businesses, struggle to capture business deductions, often piecing together different solutions. Believing business owners spend too much time and effort on the least enjoyable part of running one’s own business, the goal of developer is to make it simple, helping entrepreneurs track all of their income and expenses to get their taxes done accurately.
The current Outright.com service is free to all customers and will remain so. Right now, Outright is designed for the US tax system but they are hoping to add support for more countries as well.
Now Create Beautiful Sitemaps And Flowcharts For Free With SlickPlan
SlickPlan is a web-based sitemap/flowchart generator that allows for the creation of free sitemap and flowchart design. SlickPlan was handcrafted with PHP/MySQL and jQuery. It was exclusively developed with the web designer and developer in mind, but it can be used by anyone who needs a quick and professional sitemap or flowchart for their planning project.
The only function of SlickPlan is to provide a professional flowchart/sitemap service free of charge. SlickPlan doesn’t muddy the waters with any other design services, so it’s completely devoted to generating beautiful, functional sitemaps.
Creating an account enables you to keep your sitemaps neatly organized on SlickPlan’s website. That way, you don’t have to keep track of them yourself. Your sitemaps will be right in front of you when you sign in.
SlickPlan Features
- Unlimited Sitemaps
- Send your clients HTML sitemap links instantly
- Export your sitemaps as PDF files
- Easy organization
- HTML navigation generator
Stunning Pieces Of Digital Art That Would Make You Say ‘Wow’
This is a post in which we are listing down some Stunning Pieces Of Digital Art That Would Make You Say ‘Wow’. These are some of the beautiful digital artwork and illustration examples. These are the wonder creations of designers who use their creativity with a different angle and approach to get the result that makes a difference.
You are welcome to share if you want to share more Digital Art And Illustration For Creative Inspiration 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.
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13 Excellent Firefox Add-Ons That Are Absolutely Useful
As we all know that Firefox is the fastest growing popular web browser and its growing more and more every day. There are too many handy options provided by the firefox and this is the main reason for its popularity. You can easily find lots of free download able extensions and add-ons that are available on the internet for firefox, we also featured few of them before and there demands are increasing. In this post, I am listing down 13 Excellent Firefox Add-Ons That Are Absolutely Useful.
You are welcome to share more firefox add-ons that you think will be useful and feel a better browsing experience 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.
You can add useful extra features to Gmail, like hierarchical labels, an unread message icon on your browser tab, file attachment icons, and more.
This add-on will open the File Browser at the right location, using simple filters on the downloaded file. The filters are based on filenames and hosted domain’s name.
DownThemAll is all you can desire from a download manager: it features an advanced accelerator that increases speed up to 400% and it allows you to pause and resume downloads at any time. is fast, reliable and easy-to-use! It lets you download all the links or images contained in a webpage and much more: you can refine your downloads by fully customizable criteria to get only what you really want.
Wherever you need to click through ads or wait for countdowns, SkipScreen will be there to make your life easier. SkipScreen automatically clicks through the hoops to get to the content you want. You can skip unnecessary pages on sites like Rapidshare, Megaupload, zShare, Mediafire, and more.
DownloadHelper is a tool for web content extraction. Its purpose is to capture video and image files from many sites. Just surf the Web as you are used to, when DownloadHelper detects it can do something for you, the icon gets animated and a menu allows you to download files by simply clicking an item.
With FastestFox, you can browse faster and save time by speeding up common tasks. Get faster, parallelized downloads, convenient shortcuts and more.
Perform Google searches and see results right from the Firefox 3 address bar. You can search Google Web, Local, Videos, Blogs, News, Books, Images, and Patents. Plus you can restrict some types of Google searches to specific sites.
Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.
Easy YouTube Video Downloader will add buttons on youtube video page to download YouTube videos in FLV, 3GP, MP4 and HD quality.
ImTranslator includes Online Translator in 1640 language combinations for Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simp.), Chinese (trad.), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, TTS (Text to Speech) for English, and many more. Virtual Keyboard for more than 40 languages and Russian Decoder. It has Interface localization in 11 languages and other multilingual tools.
PDF Download by Nitro PDF Software is the leading tool for handling, viewing and creating Web-based PDF files and is enjoyed by millions of Firefox users every day. The browser extension removes the pain you can experience when you encounter PDF files online, reducing browser crashes, speeding up the display of a PDF’s content, and letting you convert any (unsecured) Web page into a high-quality PDF that’s great for archiving, printing and sharing.
Screengrab saves webpages as images. It will capture what you can see in the window, the entire page, just a selection, a particular frame… basically it saves webpages as images – either to a file, or to the clipboard.
Read It Later allows you to save pages of interest to read later. It eliminates cluttering of bookmarks with sites that are merely of a one-time interest.
CamStudio, An Open Source And Free Streaming Video Software
CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs).
CamStudio can also add high-quality, anti-aliased (no jagged edges) screen captions to your recordings in seconds and with the unique Video Annotation feature you can even personalise your videos by including a webcam movie of yourself “picture-in-picture” over your desktop.
And if all that wasn’t enough, CamStudio also comes with its own Lossless Codec that produces crystal clear results with a much smaller filesize compared with other more popular codecs, like Microsoft Video 1.
- You can use it to create demonstration videos for any software program
- Or how about creating a set of videos answering your most frequently asked questions?
- You can create video tutorials for school or college class
- You can use it to record a recurring problem with your computer so you can show technical support people
- You can use it to create video-based information products you can sell
- You can even use it to record new tricks and techniques you discover on your favourite software program, before you forget them
3 Really Useful And Informative Educational Websites
Today we are listing here 3 Really Useful And Informative Educational Websites. I hope these sites can help you to find and search the useful information you would love to know. All of them are huge sites and full of information.
You are welcome if you want to share more useful websites that are worth checking and 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.
Read Print is a free online books library for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast. This is an amazing website with over 8,000 online books by 3,500 authors at your fingertips.
Webopedia is a free online dictionary for words, phrases and abbreviations that are related to computer and Internet technology. Webopedia provides easy-to-understand definitions in plain language, avoiding the use of heavy jargon when possible so that the site is accessible to users with a wide range of computer knowledge.
Google For Educators support teachers in their efforts to empower students and expand the frontiers of human knowledge. They’ve assembled the useful information and wonderful tools that you can find there.
Top 10 Free Software Download Sites
Today we are listing here Top 10 Free Software Download Sites. There are many other sites are available for software download, but I just tried to list down some very popular sites that I like most. I hope these sites can help you to find and download the software you want to have with you. All of them are huge sites and full of useful software collection that you might looking for.
You are welcome if you want to share more useful useful sites to download free software 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.
The Invoice Machine, An Online Invoicing Service Which Simplifies Your Invoicing And Makes It Beautiful
The Invoice Machine takes a new clever approach to online invoicing. It’s beautiful and simple-to-use interface makes producing professional looking invoices a very pleasant experience.
This is ideal for freelancers and businesses who want an easy way to manage, create and send their invoices. It’s great for anyone who has a service or product to sell.
You can create new invoices in a snap. Set options like currency, taxes, shipping, discounts, language, notes and more and can see which invoices have been sent, paid or are due. You can filter your invoices by period, client or status. This will help you to send invoices directly to your clients. You can attach the invoice as a PDF file to an email. The Invoice Machine comes with a billing timer. Just let the timer tick in the background while you do your work.
Yes, you can impress your clients with professional looking invoices. You can customize your invoices with colors and logo. There is an option to customize your emails. You can have The Invoice Machine automatically send out thank you and reminder emails.
