Archive for November, 2009
13 Excellent Mac OS X Apps That Could Be Really Useful
This is the post where we are listing out few great free apps for Mac Operating System, this is an exclusive post for our those readers who are the Mac users. But our other readers will also enjoy this post. Don’t forget to bookmark this post for your future reference as it has few most useful application that will be helpful for you when you are on your Mac system. This is absolutely a great list of 13 Simple, Useful And Free Mac OS X Apps That Could be Really Useful.
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Picturesque is a simple app with a simple goal to make images more beautiful. Whether you are in web or print, your images can benefit from a touch of Picturesque magic.
iStat pro is a highly configurable widget that lets you monitor every aspect of your Mac, including CPU, memory, disks, network, battery, temperatures, fans, load & uptime and processes.
Do It is a small application to manage categorized to do lists. to do item can be linked witha a file on your computer, a url, such as the address of a website, or a contact from your address book. The linked item can be opened directly from the Do it window. To do items can also include notes, priorities and deadlines, which can be set as reminders in iCal.
Think will help you to limit your attention to one application—any application—at any time, you can bring other apps up quickly if you need them, and lets you put them out of sight again just as quickly.
VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1, mp3, ogg, aac …) as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.
Seashore is an open source image editor for Mac OS X’s Cocoa framework. It features gradients, textures and anti-aliasing for both text and brush strokes. It supports multiple layers and alpha channel editing. It is based around the GIMP’s technology and uses the same native file format.
smcFanControl lets the user set the minimum speed of the build in fans. So you can increase your minimum fan speed to make your intel mac run cooler.
Transmission is a cross-platform BitTorrent client. It uses fewer resources than other clients. Transmission has the features you expect in a BitTorrent client: encryption, a web interface, peer exchange, DHT, UPnP and NAT-PMP port forwarding, web seed support, watch directories, tracker editing, global and per-torrent speed limits, and more.
Fluid includes Tabbed Browsing, built-in Userscripting (aka Greasemonkey), URL pattern matching for browsing whitelists and blacklists, bookmarks, auto-software updates via the Sparkle Update framework, custom SSB icons, a JavaScript API for showing Dock badges, Growl notifications, and Dock menu items, and more.
Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats.
SuperDocker gives a full access to Mac OS X hidden functions and lets you rediscover your system in a unique way. You can take advantage of SuperDocker’s powerful export and import features to share your creations as well.
Sequential is an image viewer for Mac OS X. It was originally designed for opening a folder of images and displaying them in order. It works well for viewing comics and manga. Sequential can display folders and archives (ZIP, RAR, CBZ and CBR) of images (including JPEG, PNG, and GIF) and PDF files. It is able to load images on the internet from a page or image URL.
80+ High Quality And Useful Resources For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In October
We are always in search of great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers like you. Today, we have another great post, “Discover the Best of the Web” on SmashingApps. In this, we made a list of 80+ High Quality And Useful Resources For Designers. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.
You are welcome to share if you know more best of the web in the month of October 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.
Design Tips, Tricks and Tutorial
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50+ High Quality Icon Design Tutorials (Part 2)
55 Terrific Cinema 4D Tutorials and Techniques
Create a Realistic Looking Nokia 5800 in 3ds Max
How to Create Roads and Rail Tracks on a Path
40 Adobe Illustrator Text Effect Tutorials
A Beginners Guide to Digital Textile Printing
Create a Transparent Text Effect with Fresh Grass Texture and Custom Brushset
75 PSD to HTML Resources for Web Designers
The Ultimate Round-Up of Print Design Tutorials
Design A Killer Fashion Model Poster
How to Create Smoky Brushes and Type In Illustrator CS4
50 Hot New Tutorials From Around The Web
45+ Adobe Illustrator Tutorials for Creating Cartoon Character Illustrations
Design a Minimal and Modern Portfolio Layout with Photoshop
How to Create an Icon in Illustrator
30 Advanced Photoshop Tutorials for Gamers
Blog Headers: 20 Great Examples and Best Practices
Build a Slick Rich User Interface in Photoshop
40 Quality Photoshop UI Design Tutorials
Artwork, Digital Photography and Inspiration
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50 Awe-Inspiring Underwater Photos
21 Adorable Pieces Of Manga Art
100+ Clean, Simple and Minimalist Website Designs
15 Fabulous Examples of Origami Inspired logo Designs
39 Astonishing Examples of 3D Typography
35 Smart Logos With Second Thought To Make You look Twice
11 Amazing Photo Manipulated and Digital Art Wallpapers
A Showcase of 35 Beautiful Typographical Illustrations
40 Beautiful HDR Pictures You Would be Amazed
Trends in Pricing Page Design and Layout
14 Bold and Colorful Print Ads from Various Brands
44 Examples of Nature Inspired Website Designs
35 Creative Twitter User Profile Designs
Showcase Of Beautiful Textured Web Designs
23 Eco Friendly Sites that are Using WordPress
30 Superb Examples of Infographic Maps
Website Design Showcase Of 21 Popular Brands
30 Jaw Dropping 3D Character Creations
45 Inspiring Navigation Menus That You Must See
15 Inspirational Single-Page Websites
10 Unforgettable Interactive and Inspirational Business Cards
105 People Photo Manipulation Works You Will Really Marvel
40+ Beautiful Fish Inspired Logos
25 Absolutely Magnificant Landscape Photo Manipulation
Showcase of Social Networking Websites
15 Elegant Cartoon Wallpapers You Can Not Miss
40 Striking Examples of Graffiti Art
24 Awesome Single Page Portfolio Designs
80+ Photo Manipulations Art to Ignite Your Creativity
Javascript and Ajax
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How to Build a Simple Content Slider jQuery Plugin
35 Fresh and Useful jQuery Plugins
Curtains Opening Animation with jQuery
xHTML and CSS
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Mastering CSS Coding: Getting Started
The Blueprint CSS Framework – Tutorials, How-to Guides and Tools
Purely CSS – Faking Minimum Margins
Resources
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Most Useful Collection of Premium 3d models
1000+ High Quality Free Grunge Textures, Icons, Brushes and Fonts
45 Beautiful Dual-Screen Wallpapers
30 Stunning Fonts To Enhance Your Designs
Collection of 8 Free and Exceptional Icon Sets
80 Stunning Background Patterns For Your Websites
9 Open Source Microblogging Applications
500+ Free Download High Quality Photoshop PSD Files For Designers
24 High Quality Free And Stunning Symbol Fonts
50 Surprisingly Amazing Themes for Blogger
40 Amazing Photoshop Brush Directories and Collections
Miscellaneous Articles
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20 Best WordPress Typography Plugins To Enhance Readability
How to Properly Prepare a Guest Post in 5 Simple Steps
5 Highly Applicable, Yet Easily Overlooked Features in Photoshop
The History and Evolution of Social Media
20 Useful & Nicely Designed Web Applications
24 Useful Tutorials on Creating Photoshop Brushes
30+ Super Secret OS X Features and Shortcuts
15 Most Important WordPress Plugins To Help You Fight Spam
Guide to a Successful Blog Post
8 Powerful WordPress Plugins You Probably Don’t Use But Should
9 OpenSource URL shortening apps to make your own services
7 Key Principles That Make A Web Design Look Good
Windows Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows 7
20 Handy Photoshop Tips For a Faster Workflow
10 Useful WordPress Coding Techniques
Thank You Our Valued Sponsors For Being With Us In The Month Of October
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 600k+ subscribers. But how can we forget to say a Great Thank You to our valued sponsors who helped us to make this blog possible in reach of everyone in the month of October, 2009 as well.
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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.
HotCards offers services of Highest Quality, Lowest Cost Full Color Printing in the Nation. Business Cards, Postcards, Flyers and Club Cards, Posters and More.
RapidxHTML is a small team of designers and developers, with a wide range of skills and experience. They know their strengths and weaknesses and how these fit into the big picture.
Sifter is a hosted bug and issue tracking application focused on making work less tedious. This is is specially designed for non-technical people.
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.
FreshBooks is an online invoicing and time tracking service that saves you time and makes you look professional.
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.
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