Archive for November, 2009
21 Free Web Apps That Can Make Your Lives Easier
This is one of the useful list of its kind where you can find the must have online web apps that may be very helpful for you as well when you want to get your work. I hope web designers and developers 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 Web Apps That Can Make Your Lives Easier. Just take a look at them and share your thought’s here.
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CodeRun Studio is a cross-platform Integrated Development Environment (IDE), designed for the cloud. It enables you to easily develop, debug and deploy web applications using your browser.
The easiest way to have a fancy and useful live search on your blog. Just grab the code and place it anywhere on your site and you are good to go. The search works just like Google suggest and you have all the power to customize it the way you want.
websnapr lets you capture screenshots of any web page. Allow your visitors to instantly visualize any web page before clicking. Increase site traffic, click-through rate and site stickiness.
HTML and CSS Rounded Corner Button Generator
HTML and CSS rounded corner button generator generates rounded button images with different color, different hover color and different radius.
Facelift Image Replacement (or FLIR, pronounced fleer) is an image replacement script that dynamically generates image representations of text on your web page in fonts that otherwise might not be visible to your visitors.
Wordoff is simple and useful web tool that lets you remove unnecessary tags and styles from HTML code. Most of us have to cleanup the HTML code manually in our working life. This web tool defintely help all of us in that situation and you also find this worth bookmarking.
LOOP PDF is a free web-based service that allows you to convert and combine files to PDF. You do not need to install software or be working from your desktop computer. LOOP PDF allows you to convert, organize, and combine files to PDF. Your customer will appreciate an email with one organized, professional, and visually consistent secure PDF rather than a series of attached files that are confusing, out of order, and time consuming for the recipient to review.
Pixenate is the photo editor of choice for photo printing and photo sharing businesses.
CSSFly is a web 2.0 tool for easy editing websites direct and in real-time in your browser. Simply edit the (X)HTML-code and the external Style-Sheet files : what you code is what you get! This tool is designed for developers. Use it for developing, testing or checking your web-project or take a look behind the scenerys of your favourite websites.
Posterous lets you post things online fast using email. If you can use email, you can have your own website to share thoughts and media with friends, family and the world. You can attach any type of file and they’ll post it along with the text of your email.
NeedASig is one of the best free signature generator. You can create beautiful and stylish email signatures and icons using NeedASig. It has more then 1500 different styles to choose from.
FreshGenerator is a webdesign tool which can create interesting graphic elements used in many web 2.0 sites.
Edicy is so easy to use you can build a site for your business or organization and have it live on the internet in a matter of minutes. All the tools are available online with no additional software required, just pick one of our beautifully made designs, enter your text, add your images and then publish your site to your own custom web address, it’s that simple.
Krunchd makes it easier for you to share multiple URLs of any category in an easy and short URL. It’s especially great for putting the finished URL on your Facebook status, Twitter updates, Ping.fm notifications, websites, forums, emails and more.
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.
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.
This is one of the simplest large file sending service that even does not need you to register. You will just need to upload and send you files and nothing else.
This free service will help you to re-size your images with basic and advanced options.
This website allows you to convert the pdf file to the word file.
With Google’s free online calendar, it’s easy to keep track of life’s important events all in one place. With Google Calender, you can let your family and friends see your calendar, and view schedules that others have shared with you. You can get event reminders via email or have text messages sent right to your mobile phone.
doTemplate is a web template builder. It offers a range of website themes you can personalize online before downloading. You can use this easy template creator for free.
10 Stunning Examples Of Traditional Art And Paintings
This is a post in which we are listing down some Stunning Examples Of Traditional Art And Paintings. These are some of the beautiful traditional artwork and painting examples. These are the wonder creations of artists and painters 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 Creative Traditional Art And Paintings 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.
Harry Potter Marauders by Gold-Seven
A Wave of Refreshment by ~ja5on
“Turn Me”- Twilight prom by noeling
15 Most Popular Free Software I Am Thankful For
Today, we are going to say big Thank You to everyone who support us, appreciate us, love us and always be there for us when we need them. So, how can we forget those that makes our computer life easier and did the tremendous work for us. They delivered us those applications/softwares that help us to get the routine work done for our daily use. There are many that we can not count and list down exactly but we are tried to make a list of 15 Most Popular Free Software I Am Thankful For. And Yes! Happy Thanksgiving all of you too…
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WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.
With a large and highly customisable set of key features coupled with a standards compliant interface, phpBB will grow with, and complement your website. With millions of installations worldwide, it is no wonder phpBB is one of the most popular ways to create and support a community.
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.
Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations are using Drupal to power scores of different web sites from personal weblogs to large community-driven websites.
GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
Ubuntu is a community developed, Linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It contains all the applications you need – a web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging and much more.
Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL, and Unix. Think of Wine as a compatibility layer for running Windows programs. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely free alternative implementation of the Windows API consisting of 100% non-Microsoft code, however Wine can optionally use native Windows DLLs if they are available.
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.
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.
VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
BitTorrent 6 is a client that transfers large videos, audios or softwares in a faster and cheaper way. A ‘client’ in this case is a computer program that follows the rules of a protocol. The BitTorrent 6 client will give you access to the world of content on the protocol in a lightweight, fast and reliable package.
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.
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.
Mozilla Firefox As An Open Source Faster, Safer And Smarter Web Browser
Firefox 3 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.
doTemplate, A Free Online Web Template Generator
There are thousands of web template catalogs on the Internet but none propose a way to bring a personal touch. doTemplate is different. doTemplate is a web template builder. It offers a range of website themes you can personalize online before downloading. You can use this easy template creator for free.
If you use this designer tool, You can change your title, your slogan, choose the fonts… You may also upload your own banner image or choose it from our image library. You can apply fading effect, change the opacity. The result is a fully personalized and profesionnal looking banner making your website unique.
You can change the template colors easily with their Photoshop® like color picker, and choose your favorite color scheme. We also provide a collection of pre-built fonts. All this is just a few clicks away.
If you download a template from one of the countless online catalogs, you will need expensive additional softwares like Photoshop® to finalize your design and match your branding. It’s time-consuming and it requires special skills. With doTemplate, do all this online. No Web design skill needed and no sofware to install.
Templates created with doTemplate are lightweight, tableless and compliant with XHTML and CSS standards. Therefore your website will be Search Engine friendly. This will increase the visibility and the traffic of your website.
Invoicera, A Free And Easy Online Billing Software That Helps You To Create And Send Invoices
Invoicera saves your time and helps you manage your bills in a snapshot. It is designed as a payment tracking application that helps you keep a track of your customer payments. For knowing the instant sending and receiving invoices process, just take one Invoicera tour, and call yourself a pro in handling this application.
This is best for freelancers like attorneys/lawyers, consultants, web developers, etc; for enterprises and businesses of all nature and size; for service providers that include computer & IT services, web hosting, etc. and practically for anyone that needs to send invoices.
Invoicera offers the Recurring Invoicing feature along with Auto Billing option that allows you to send periodic invoices to your clients automatically. So, you don’t have to scribble the same entries repeatedly. And if you are worried about management of invoice transactions in multiple currencies and multiple countries? Invoicera lets you handle invoices of diverse nations and currencies with its unique multiple currency feature. It assists you in dealing with bills for and from clients sitting in different corners of the world.
You can choose from multiple payment gateways like PayPal, Authorize.net, Google Checkout, etc., to receive and send payments. This ensures timely payment delivery and comfortability both for your firm and clients.
55 Angry, Mad and Soft Landscapes Captured By Photographers
Nature is beautiful, nature is amazing, and it is simply full of so many great opportunities for a photographer to polish his/her skills. Peaceful and pleasing natural atmosphere offers the ideal prospect to get more skillful as a photographer, while on the other side bad weather like tornado’s, shooting wind, lightning, rain, waves, volcanoes and storms can also provide an opportunity to capture some astonishing and beautiful shots. These scenes produce spectacular atmosphere and look stunning. Today, we have collected 55 truly brilliant landscapes captured by photographers that will definitely inspire you.
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Examples of Angry and Mad Nature Landscapes
Now will I shortly pour out my wrath on you.
Rust and Surf # 2 – San Francisco
Lava Blast and Electric Lightning Bolt Within a Lava Plume
Morning Rainstorm Over Vesuvius and Pompeii
Lava lake inside Kilauea volcano, Hawaii
I really don’t think life is about the I-could-have-beens
Examples of Soft Nature Landscapes
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Timetonote, A Simple And Free CRM To Track Communications With Customers
Who in your company spoke last with one of your customers? When and what did they talk about? You can use Timetonote to log conversations, calls or emails and keep a history of communications with customers, suppliers, leads or anyone else that matters to your business.
Timetonote is a web based collaboration tool that helps you and your team keep track of all interactions with customers, leads, or anyone important to your business. It helps you keep track of your contacts information and of what needs to be done next about them. With Timetonote, you know who you’ve talked to, what you talked about, and what you need to do next.
When you use Timetonote, all your contacts, all your communication history and all tasks are shared with your co-workers. Next time you need to contact a customer you can find out who else talked with that customer, what was said, and what was done.
You’ll also want to set a task for the next week presentation about this person. Only, it’s not you who will present your product, but your colleague Cristina, so you set her as responsible for this task.
Timetonote is great for sales people who want a mechanism for tracking customer information, real estate agents who want to keep track of their buyers and sellers information, journalists who want to keep track of people and companies they’ve covered, and many more.
You can use Timetonote to…
- Keep all important interactions(conversations, emails, calls, etc) with a customer on one page
- Log notes from a call with a potential customer
- Review all communication with your share holders
- Review your colleague’s notes about a customer before calling
- Enter contact info for a potential customer
- See all the people your company knows at CNN
- Build a list of all your company’s suppliers
- Effortlessly find a contact you need to call by his or her name
- See a list of your tasks for this week
- Set a follow-up sales call for tomorrow at 3pm
- Set a task for someone in your technical department to contact your customer
Keep a contact historyWho in your company spoke last with one of your customers? When and what did they talk about? You can use Timetonote to log conversations, calls or emails and keep a history of communications with customers, suppliers, leads or anyone else that matters to your business. Learn more » |
5 Websites To Cut And Re-size Your Images In 3 Easy Steps
This is one of the useful list of its kind where you can find the simplest online websites that 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 5 Websites To Cut And Re-size Your Images In 3 Easy Steps. Just take a look at them and share your thought’s here.
You are welcome to share more useful web apps that will be helpful for cropping and re-sizing images 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.
An extremely useful and simple site to cut your picture and to add a drop shadow in just 3 simple steps.
This is the fastest and simplest image resizer I have seen.
Resize Your Image is an another simple website to cut and resize your images.
Pixenate is the photo editor of choice for photo printing and photo sharing businesses.
This is the fastest way to resize your pictures and images. You will just need to choose an image file, select some resize options, and hit Resize it. Your image will be uploaded to the server, resized and then your resized image(s) will be provided in a single convenient view. The power comes from the simultaneous generation of different sizes and the ability to enlarge your images too.
Is It A Good Idea To Paint Your Room Blue? Test It Virtually With Colorjive
If you’re wondering whether it’s a good idea to paint your kitchen red, you can test it with Colorjive. It just takes a few clicks. You don’t even have to pick up a brush. You can paint virtually with Colorjive. They have got thousands of colors for you to choose from. They have a basic account that is absolutely free. With a free account, you can upload a single photo, paint three objects in that photo and save three different versions.
As they have got thousands of colors, enough to satisfy even the most demanding color “gourmet.” However, not every color can be produced in paint. If you don’t see your color, it may be because of the limitations of paint manufacturing. There are also some paint colors that don’t display properly on computer monitors.
Colorjive is not owned or operated by any paint brand. This means that they are not tied to one specific brand and can offer you the widest possible range of colors. Now, the question arise that how do you order your colors in a paint store? Don’t worry at all! You can use the color codes. The color code appears when you hover over a color swatch. Write it down and take it to your local paint store to get it mixed. Each code is brand-specific, so pick colors from the brand you want to use (if you have a preference). Most paint mixing machines can produce colors from more than one brand. The current version includes only a US (English) language version and US paint brands. If you’d like to see a Colorjive version for your own country, they are open to get your feedback.
The technology behind Colorjive is based on the idea that color involves three participants: light, surface and an observer. The quality of the light is mostly ignored and the observer isn’t even taken into consideration. Most color-matching software only takes the surface into account, using an RGB calculation. It ignores the quality of the light, and the way an observer perceives the color. The paint bucket was developed in cooperation with the University of Amsterdam. Some of the technology was originally designed to help robots recognize objects such as windows or walls.
Get Quality Review And Constructive Feedback On Your Concepts With Concept Feedback
Getting ready to launch a brand new concept? Would you like to know what other professionals think before you release it to the world? Concept Feedback is designed specifically for you.
ConceptFeedback.com could be a great idea for marketers, designers and developers, provides a free and simple tool for getting third-party reviews on design concepts. Concepts may be posted publicly or privately and can include websites, logos, advertisements, videos, and more.
Quickly Upload and Share a Concept
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- Receive tips and unique insight from qualified community members
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