Archive for October, 2009
7 Excellent Apps To Help You Simplify Your Worklife
Today, we are listing 7 Excellent Apps To Help You Simplify Your Worklife. If you are designer, developer, office worker, manager, supervisor, student, home user, etc but we hope that these are worth checking for all of you. 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 thoughts here.
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MyFax Free lets you send a fax at no charge through the Web to 41 countries including the US, Canada, most of Europe, China, Japan, and South Korea. MyFax supports 178 files types including files created by most popular word processors and graphics programs.
CeeVee is really easier and smarter way to create and share your résumé with anyone. It can simplify the process of posting your resume online.
meebee uses the devices and apps you already use: your email accounts and your calendars, and helps you organize meetings with your friends. Best of all meebee will contact you about meetings, in the way you prefer i.e. vie email, or on your iPhone, or via SMS, even on Facebook
Moreganize is a multifaceted organisation tool. It is suited for both professional and private use and is especially convenient if a larger group of people needs to get organized.
Pixavid is a FREE image hosting and sharing service. There are no complicated login or sign-up requirements. With Pixavid, pictures can be shared on Facebook, Twitter, Stumbleupon, Reddit and other social networking sites. Pictures can also be posted on personal sites, message boards and emailed.
Present.ly is an award-winning microblogging platform that keeps your company connected in real-time. Increase your team’s productivity by posting updates, sharing files, exchanging ideas, and more.
Creating your own website with Moogo is incredibly easy. Moogo offers you a simple way of creating your own easy-to-update website with style even if you have never created a website in your life before. Moogo is perfect for individuals, small businesses, clubs and organizations, sport teams, real estate…or making a website for your band or your pet.
The Most Freakiest Digital Art Collection For Halloween Season
This is a post where you can see scary digital arts, creepy wallpapers and creative advertisments for the Halloween Season. 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 for Halloween Day. So, you may say this post is an exclusive post for Halloween.
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is Halloween by the-black-rabbit
Haloween witch by lycoris-vampire
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Articles And Wallpapers
Photoshop tutorials – most shocking ever
55+ Amazing Halloween Wallpapers to Charm Up Your Desktop
19 Creative Halloween Advertisements
30+Halloween Photoshop Brush Sets And Vector Images
55 Terrific Cinema 4D Tutorials & Techniques
Cinema 4D is getting very popular day by day mainly due to the body paint functionality. It has artist friendly interface with a customizable work flow. Many films like Spiderman 3, Monster House, Chronicles of Narnia, Beowulf, Polar Express and Superman Returns also used Cinema 4D to present a long lasting effect. People also used Cinema 4D in motion graphics because of its excellent integration with compositing application pipelines. The most useful thing about Cinema 4D is its instinctive interface and sound work flow that lets an artist to jump in and be creative and dynamic swiftly. In this post we have gathered 55 excellent tutorials which we will greatly help you to create some beautiful 3D graphics.
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This work is fully modeled and rendered in Cinema 4D. Artist have used BodyPaint and Photoshop for the textures.
How to Create Explosive Typographic Effects in Cinema 4D
In this tutorial artist will walk through the steps he used to create this illustration to bring alive the word “collide.”
Tutorial on how to make tentacles like this in the image using cinema 4D 
How to create a 3D type effect using Cinema 4d and Photoshop.
Creating a Ball Bearing using Arrays
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a ball bearing using an Array Object. You will also learn about the use of the Taper object, Fillet option and Bevel function.
In this tutorial you will learn how to create great looking Line Renders using extruding and deformers, line renders are amazing looking renders that are often used on wallpapers or photo manipulations.
Modeling a Car using Blueprints
In this massive tutorial you will learn how to model a car using blueprints, points and the bridge tool. Basic Cinema 4D knowledge is required for this tutorial!
Enable or disable multiple objects at with one click Increase viewport speed and animation playback.
Here’s the Zebra 3D modeling tutorial by Pupi for Cinema 4D. And the Great thing is, you can download his 3D model for FREE!
Learn the animation basics and looping in Cinema 4D.
In this tutorial you will learn how to create an explosive type effect!
In this tutorial you will learn How to create an animated dotted line stroke.
The “UV-Map Dirtmap Baker” Tutorial
Cinema 4D veteran Peter Hofmann aka peXel presents us with this handy tutorial covering the following topics: How to get a “clean” UV – Map, How to calculate a Dirt – Map, How to work with Baker.
In this tutorial we’re going to use Cinema 4d to create the 3d text like in the image above. Feel free to use the software of your choice, this is a technique that can be easily duplicated in other 3D apps.
In this tutorial we will learn how much powerful procedurals are, and also some basics regarding shading/lighting.
This tutorial will teach you to make a great sandglass, which you can use for plenty of purposes. You can find the finished model and other stuff from there.
Just a quick, easy dirty way to create a peanut can (or most types of cans with lids for that matter) in cinema 4D. Again its more about how easy the actual model and geometry is compared to the actual texturing.
This amazing 3d scene, entitled Daylight, was created by Carles Piles. Read how the scene was created in the tutorial below.
This tutorial will teach you how to make beautiful car tires step by step.
Texturing Objects and Lights in Cinema 4D
In this tutorial, artist will go though the steps in texturing objects in Cinema 4D. He also play with using textures to actually light the scene.
In this 3 tutorial series we’ll look at how to build a glass shatter effect, based on a recent project for Damages 2, using Illustrator, After Effects and Cinema 4D. This section includes capturing the template in After Effects, paths in Illustrator and setting up imported splines as polygons in Cinema 4D.
This tutorial will show you how to make awesome model of piano.
Create 3D objects in Cinema 4D from vector art
This is a video tutorial on taking vector art and importing it into Cinema 4D to create a 3D object that can be animated, textured, and manipulated in 3D space. In this tutorial, written by David from filmmakingcentral.com he shows you exactly how to do this.
In this tutorial you will learn how to create awesome matterial, that can be very useful for your upcoming tasks.
In this tutorial artist will show you how to create a basic textured disc shape and then drop it into an Array Object where you can create an epic looking UFO.
Although in this tutorial does not cover entire car, only the bonnet, fender and door, hope that you will learn lots of techniques in this tutorial.
In this tutorial you will learn how to make E Book Cover step by step.
A great step by step tutorial on Armor plates.
Nothing fancy, but it could help someone, somewhere, somehow, this tutorial iGrass Tutorial Cinema 4Ds written for Cinema 4D, but could easily be adapted for any other 3D app out there.
Tutorial made for Cinema 4d but can be applied to almost any 3d rendering program.
In this Cinema 4D tutorial, he get into lighting a scene with the Ambient Light and Area Light CS Tools.
Tutorial made for Cinema 4d but can be applied to almost any 3d rendering program.
This tutorial shows how to make a simple modern trash can or “abstract” form you can use in your scenery, it also serves as practice for extrude tools and getting familiar with them.
Cinema 4d Low Poly Gun Tutorial
Wanna make something like this in Cinema 4D R8 and Unwrap 3D? so this tutorial is best for this.
This week, artist will show you how to make your own geometry easily. Although almost every 3D application can perform the same task, he will use Maxon’s Cinema 4D.
A detaild and very comprehensive tutorial about Interior.
This tutorial will show you how to make beautiful grass.
A very useful Tutorial that how you can make a city buildings.
A detailed and step by step tutorial that will teach you lots of techniques.
In this tutorial Artist will examine a few different strategies for achieving a realistic skin shader in Cinema 4D. Skin has a particular quality that sets it apart from ordinary surfaces: it is luminously translucent.
A very detailed and step by step tutorial on how to create electric bulb.
Beautiful tutorial and its mixture of Cinema 4D and Poser.
Not for complete beginners as artist made it pretty quick, but those of you that know the basics should understand.
Mindblwoing tutorial and you will learn in this how to make a beautiful Lamp.
Great tutorial on Ipod Making.
Part 1 of 3 video tutorials for Cinema 4D showing how to model a Dvd Player.
Create this abstract with the easiest way!
Create an Amazing Liquid Apple Effect in RealFlow, Cinema 4D, and After Effects
Learn the animation basics and looping in Cinema 4D.
Model, Texture, and Render an Interior Scene With Cinema 4D and VRay
In this beginner/ intermediate level tutorial, you will learn how to create and render a realistic interior scene in Cinema 4D and Vray. In this tutorial you will focus on modeling the room and all of the furniture, and the second on materials, lights, rendering, and post production.
How to Export 3d Camera Data from Cinema 4D into After Effects
When it comes to motion graphics, exporting camera data from a 3D program to a 2D compositing program is one of the most important techniques you could know. In this tutorial, you will learn the basics behind getting Cinema 4D and After Effects to talk to one another, including using exporting tags, using the camera data in After Effects within 3D layers and effects, and how to set up and tweak your render for the best results.
Create Mac OSX Intro Video with C4D
In this tutorial Satya Meka will walk us through Cinema 4D and how to create the 3d text in this effect.
Making of Portrait of a Silent Man
In this tutorial Patrick Eischen is going to show you how he created his image “Portrait of a silent man” using Cinema 4D and ZBrush.
How to a rolling carpet and text effect in Cinema 4d.
Paper Crumple Tutorial in Cinema 4D
This tutorial shows you how to create an animation that makes a piece a paper crumple into a ball with no keyframes at all. It uses the cloth tag.
Making a glass and a wine bottle with C4D
This tutorial demonstrates ways to make a glass, its materials and the content inside the glass. Artist made the model in c4d r9, but It can be done with lower versions.
11 Most Popular Open Source Softwares Of All Time
Today we are listing here 11 Most Popular Open Source Softwares Of All Time in which most of them are cross-platform. You might not be able to enjoy all the features as commercial software but it will really help you to perform your task in a better way when your pocket does not allow you to purchase paid software.
You are welcome if you want to share more Open Source softwares 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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Firefox 3.5 sets the pace with dozens of new features, including the smart location bar, one-click bookmarking and blindingly fast performance. Avoid online scams, unsafe transactions and forgeries with simple site identity. View Web pages faster, using less of your computer’s memory.
FileZilla is a cross-platform graphical FTP, FTPS and SFTP client a lot of features, supporting Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and more. FileZilla Server is a reliable FTP server for Windows. It has a powerful Site Manager and transfer queue and drag & drop support.
7-Zip is a file archiver with the high compression ratio. The program supports 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, LZH, CHM, GZIP, BZIP2, Z, TAR, CPIO, ISO, MSI, WIM, NSIS, RPM and DEB formats.
FullSync is a universal file synchronization and backup tool which is highly customizable and expandable. It is especially for developers, but the basic functionality is easy enough for everyone.
Gimpshop is a hack made on top of the original Gimp project which changes all menues, dialogs, etc., in order to make them look as much as their counterparts in Photoshop. This makes users who are already familiar with the layout of Photoshop feel right at home in this open source application. Please note that all features in Photoshop in not available in Gimpshop, since it is based on the Gimp project and it’s feature set.
ClamWin is a free antivirus for Windows. It includes virus scanner, scheduler, virus database updates, context menu integration to MS Windows Explorer and Addin to MS Outlook. Also features easy setup program. Uses a well respected ClamAV scanning engine.
OpenOffice is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.
Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment. This is based on a powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. By optimizing as many routines as possible without losing user friendliness, Notepad++ is trying to reduce the world carbon dioxide emissions. When using less CPU power, the PC can throttle down and reduce power consumption, resulting in a greener environment.
TightVNC is a free remote control software package. With TightVNC, you can see the desktop of a remote machine and control it with your local mouse and keyboard, just like you would do it sitting in the front of that computer.This is a cross-platform, available for Windows and Unix, compatible with other VNC software.
Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems. It includes tools for modeling – fast subdivision surface and polygon tools, multi-resolution mesh sculpting, metaballs, NURBS, vector fonts, and curves; uv mapping; shaders and texturing – both paint based and node based; ik and fk animation tools with rigging, constraints, skinning, morph targets, drivers, deformers, and modifiers; simulation tools including hard bodies, soft body, cloth, and fluids; and particle systems including hair. Blender has integrated rendering with both its native renderer and the raytracer Yafray as well supporting many external renderers; and python based scripting.
Audacity is a free, easy-to-use and multilingual audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to record live audio, convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs, edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files, cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together etc.
Present.ly Allows Secure And Private Microblogging For Your Business
Present.ly allows individuals to post short, frequent updates that are tracked or “followed” by others. Unlike Twitter, Present.ly provides a secure and private way to share updates among members of a company, without them being visible to the outside world.
You can keep your conversations focused by creating Groups for each project or topic of discussion. Users receive messages that are relevant to the topic at hand and are free to move between conversations as desired.
With Present.ly, it’s easy to share images, documents, video, and audioclips with your colleagues. Whether you’re looking for quick feedback on a new design mockup or sending out new policy documents for human resources, it has never been easier to rapidly share and communicate media in your company.
You don’t need a computer at the ready to touch base with your team. Present.ly provides multiple interfaces that let you keep in touch wherever you are. You can use it from your computer, your mobile phone, or most any device capable of connecting to the internet.
21 Adorable Pieces Of Manga Art
Manga is the Japanese word for comics. It is used in the English-speaking world as a generic term for all comic books and graphic novels that were originally published in Japan. However, Manga is often considered an artistic and storytelling style that can also encompass non-Japanese works. This is a post in which we are listing down 21 Adorable Pieces Of Manga Art. 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.
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Fading Dreams of Sakura by cherriuki
Kimi ni aete… by blizztheevilone
Tsukiakari :: for Ten-chan by blizztheevilone
Thousand Paper Stars by cherriuki
over the distance by Razuri-chan
Madame Peacock by Red-Priest-Usada
Deland’s new book cover by deland-fox
Wind Loves Me by Red-Priest-Usada
Kiss from a Rose by kaoru-chan
Now Create, Track, Customize And Design Beautiful Proposals With Bidsketch
Bidsketch is an application that lets you create, track, customize, and design beautiful proposals. Multiple ways to present your proposals ensure clients get what they want. You can export to PDF or share online. Every client gets a portal that lets them view and comment on their proposals.
You can quickly mix and match proposal sections, fees, and designs to create professional proposals that win. Example proposal data is provided to help you get started quickly. You can even embed images and Flash content for online viewing by your clients.
Bidsketch provides you with several professional looking templates. Each template is available in different colors and exports to PDF for extra portability.
It has an easy way to keep track of all current and prospective clients. You can add client contact information as well as private notes to each client to ensure you never forget what you talked about last time.
This is highly customizable and you can create or customize proposal sections, pricing items, and content templates. You can customize all of these at a global level, or do it on a proposal by proposal basis.
Website Design Showcase Of 21 Popular Brands
Where do you go normally when you are planning to start your new web design project? Today, we are listing down 21 Website Designs Of Popular Brands. This list is not long in numbers but I promise you that when you start browsing them in details it will surely refresh you.
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Let’s Make It Easy And Efficient To Get Your Design Ideas Out With Notable
Are you stuck sharing feedback in text documents and email? Notable makes it possible to put your feedback directly on the webpage, highlighting your points exactly. With Notable you can quickly and easily give feedback on design, content, and code on any page of a website or application without leaving your browser.
It helps your team collaborate through visual feedback on screenshots, via a chaos-free process so that everyone can express their opinion. By using this wonderful application you are transforming the way you create designs and communication with clients.
Notable makes it easy and efficient to get your ideas out. Forget useless emails with attachments or powerpoint. Get feedback done 400% faster than ever. You can shoot out alerts and provide feedback to anyone on your team from any computer. Asynchronous feedback makes it a perfect tool for teams working remotely or using outsourcing partners.
You can download the tool button in seconds and start grabbing screenshots. Within a minute you can have your annotated feedback shared with your team. There’s no need for a technical team.
This is not enough! If you are you an App Store or Mobile Safari developer then using the Notable iPhone app you can upload screen captures for feedback on NotableApp.com. How? You just need to open up the Notable iPhone app, sign in, and choose an image to upload from your Camera Roll, or snap a picture of anything.
Notable for iPhone is perfect for capturing screens of your iPhone app, Mobile Safari web app or even pictures of sketches, mockups and more.
Notable makes it easy to keep feedback organized in sets, workspaces and history. Never lose feedback in your email inbox because it’s all stored online for you.
Four ways to capture a page
- Capture logged in views and code via a Firefox tool button
- Upload a JPG image or design mock-up from your desktop
- Type in a URL to fetch a screen grab
- Capture on your iPhone or iPod Touch
Any computer, any time.
- Provide online design feedback to your team in minutes
- Awesome web or PDF presentation
- Give feedback in sets by capturing a web page flows
- Track the history of design changes
Control the feedback.
- Track who views your feedback for easy design collaboration
- Assign permissions per page or set
- Send email alerts to collaborators to request their feedback
- Simple feedback management with group viewing, private or public URLs
8 Powerful WordPress Plugins You Probably Don’t Use But Should
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 those powerful wordpress plugins that are really essential for every blog.
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This plugin is streamlined for some best practices for WordPress SEO. Using this plugin you can automatically optimizes your titles for search engines and generates meta tags automatically. IF you are beginner, you don’t even have to look at the options, it works out-of-the-box. Just install and get relax.
Automattic Kismet (Akismet for short) is a collaborative effort to make comment and trackback spam a non-issue and restore innocence to blogging, so you never have to worry about spam again. When a new comment, trackback, or pingback comes to your site it is submitted to the Akismet web service which runs hundreds of tests on the comment and returns a thumbs up or thumbs down to approve or disapprove them to publish on your blog.
W3 Total Cache improves the user experience of your blog by improving your server performance, caching every aspect of your site, reducing the download time of your theme and providing transparent content delivery network (CDN) integration. With this plugin, you can save up to 80% Bandwidth via Minify and HTTP compression of HTML, CSS, JavaScript and RSS feeds.
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) gives you a list of posts and/or pages related to the current entry, introducing the reader to other relevant content on your site. An advanced and versatile algorithm that is using a customizable algorithm considering post titles, content, tags, and categories, YARPP calculates a “match score” for each pair of posts on your blog. You choose the threshold limit for relevance and you get more related posts if there are more
related posts and less if there are less.
Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.
Wapple Architect Mobile Plugin for WordPress
Wapple Architect Mobile Plugin for WordPress is a plugin that allows you to mobilize your blog in minutes. Every single mobile device is detected and all aspects of your blog are tailored to the visiting handset. Sites aren’t dumbed down to the lowest common denominator but instead use the features and functionality that advanced phones offer.
The ShareThis WordPress plugin provides a simple way for users to add your post to many social bookmarking sites, or to send a link to your post via email, AIM, Facebook, Twitter and more.
This plugin will create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog. It supports all of the WordPress generated pages as well as custom ones. Everytime you edit or create a post, your sitemap is updated and all major search engines that support the sitemap protocol, like ASK.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO, are notified about the update.
