Archive for February, 2010

Six Powerful Free Disk Defragmentation Tool

Posted by AN Jay

at February 4, 2010

Today, we are listing Six Powerful Free Disk Defragmentation Tool. These would be very helpful for you to remedy system sluggishness and crashes caused by disk fragmentation. 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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UltraDefrag 4.0

UltraDefrag is a powerful disk defragmentation tool for Windows. It is the first open source defragmenter with full support of system locked files defragmentation. Actually all files including registry hives and paging file can be processed by UltraDefrag during the Windows boot process. UltraDefrag is fully compatible with Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 and all of the 64-bit editions of Windows.

Auslogics Disk Defrag

Auslogics Disk Defrag was designed to remedy system sluggishness and crashes caused by disk fragmentation. It will help you get the maximum performance out of your expensive hardware investments. The new version can also consolidate free space and optimize system files placement. Disk Defrag is absolutely free for home users.

Defraggler

You can use Defraggler to defrag your entire hard drive, or individual files. This tool is unique in the industry. This compact and portable Windows application supports NTFS and FAT32 file systems.

PageDefrag

PageDefrag uses advanced techniques to provide you what commercial defragmenters cannot: the ability for you to see how fragmented your paging files and Registry hives are, and to defragment them. In addition, it defragments event log files and Windows 2000/XP hibernation files (where system memory is saved when you hibernate a laptop).

MyDefrag

MyDefrag is a disk defragmenter and optimizer (a maintenance utility to make your harddisk faster) for Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Vista, 2008, Win7, and for X64. It is freeware, no time limit, fully functional, no advertisements. Fast, low overhead, with many optimization strategies, can handle floppies, USB disks, memory sticks, and anything else that looks like a disk to Windows.

WinContig

WinContig is an easy-to-use stand-alone defragmentation tool that doesn’t create any installation directories or Registry entries on your computer. Its purpose is to quick defrag files without the need to defrag the whole disk. In addition, WinContig allows you to group files into profiles, and also it accepts a number of optional command-line switches that you can use to control how the program operates.

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Smashing Release : Free Computer Part Icon Set

Posted by AN Jay

at February 3, 2010

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Today, we are releasing our very first Computer Part Icons, a free icon set designed by Iconshock for exclusive readers of Smashing Apps. Iconshoc k – stock icons is a professional stock icons for web and software application. If you like, you can contact them for developing of a custom icon design project too. There are 5 icons included in this free icon set having a size of 512x512px in PNG format.

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Release Note And Usage Policy

This icon set is released under GPL lincense. You are allowed to use it for all (personal or commercial) your projects for free and without any restrictions. We will really appreciate you if you would like to spread the word and link to this article.

Download Icons

Please do not forget to share your thoughts with us about this icon set that will help us for the next release. Because Iconshock and we are also working on another free icon set that will be released in coming week. So keep visiting us and do not forget to subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter and do not forget to become our fan on facebook as well.

And yes! Thank you Iconshock for working with us to deliver something really useful to Smashing Apps community.

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Thank You Our Valued Sponsors For Being With Us In The Month Of January

Posted by AN Jay

at February 2, 2010

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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 January, 2010 as well.

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Smashing Apps always welcome new sponsors for our large and diversified visitor base from more than 188 countries. They are designers, developers, internet marketers, bloggers, IT entrepreneurs, etc. You will get noticed by the thousands of visitors every day. Moreover, a monthly recognition post to thank you as our valued sponsors. Are you really interested? Click here to contact us or see advertisement section for more information on advertising details.

Our valued sponsors were:

AN Hosting hosts more blogs than anyone else, hosting tens of thousands of independent blogs. With plenty of disk space, huge data transfer and the ability to host 20 sites on one account. You will get relax with them. We are thankful to them for hosting our website and to make us free of tension.

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At Dreamstime.com, you can find a large variety of Royalty-Free stock images.

Icons-Land offers Vista style royalty-free stock icons, vector icons, emoticons and custom icon design service.

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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.

PSD2HTML.com provides fast, high quality conversion of graphic Web design into Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and its extensions, as well as skins / themes / templates for various engines.

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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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85+ Excellent Resources And Tutorials Especially For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In January

Posted by AN Jay

at February 1, 2010

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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 85+ Excellent Resources And Tutorials Especially 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 January 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 and do not forget to become our fan on facebook as well.

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40+ Photoshop Tutorials for Creating Gadget Designs