Archive for March, 2010
13 Incredibly Useful Web Apps (You Probably Never Heard Of)
This is one of the very best list of its kind where you can find incredibly useful and life saver FREE web apps that you probably never heard of and these would be great enough to bookmark or just for get in your knowledge. I hope everyone of you will like this list, you can try these whether you are an office worker, a manager, a supervisor, a student, a home user, etc.These are really amazing in respect to their features. This is the list of 13 Incredibly Useful Web Apps (You Probably Never Heard Of). Just take a look at them and share your thought’s here.
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ShiftPlanning is a free online employee scheduling management software aimed at helping businesses with their employee scheduling. Interactive and easy to use, ShiftPlanning is next-generation scheduling software that delivers precision and speed to the business’s scheduling responsibilities, freeing up time to concentrate on other demands.
Whether you’re on the couch at home, taking the morning commute or waiting at the airport, you can catch up on your reading list whenever you have a minute or more. LaterLoop is a free service that’s optimized for iPhones, Blackberries, Nokias and similar smartphones. LaterLoop also has a clean web interface for your regular browser.
ScreenToaster is a free web-based screen recorder designed to capture your screen activity, audio and webcam images in real-time then publish and share your video in blogs and websites. Unlike others, ScreenToaster works in all browsers and doesn’t require any download so that you can use it anywhere, anytime.
Floorplanner is the easiest, quickest, and best looking way to create and share interactive floor plans. Using point-and-click, drag-and-drop tools, you can make your house plan in minutes, and rearrange it as often as you want. Then you can save, send, and print your designs to share them, or place them on your own website.
Tracking time has never been easier. Keep your times organised by clients, projects and tasks with MakeSomeTime. This is super easy and having simple user interface. No clutter. Just what you need to get your work done.
Backupify provides daily automatic backups, archiving, and export for all your social media and SaaS data. You can take back control of your online data with Backupify.
Do you have friends that always owe you money? Or do you lose track of how much you owe your colleagues for lunch? Credeble never forgets who owes money to whom. Credits and debts are automatically balanced.
HiTask is a friendly and easy-to-use task management system that anyone can start using right away. It is designed to satisfy both sophisticated followers of David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” methodology and anyone who just needs a quick and easy tool to manage their everyday tasks.
Fotobabble lets you create talking photos in two clicks. Simply upload a photo and then record your voice directly through your computer to create a talking photo. You can easily share it by e-mail, Facebook, Twitter or embed it into a blog or website.
Shrinking is the easy, fast, and free way to track your weight and see your progress. Simply login and enter your weight. They will automatically track your weight-loss for you on their easy to read chart and show you how you are progressing toward your goal.
Everyone with a website knows that, things can sometimes go wrong. Sometimes it is with the code, the server or the network. Uptime Robot is all about helping you to keep your websites up. It monitors your websites every 5 minutes and alerts you if your sites are down.
Project Bubble is a simple and easy tool for managing your projects, client and invoices. It’s intuitive interface makes project management a breeze. You can easily generate PDF invoices and get paid through PayPal.
crocodoc takes your PDFs, Word documents, and PowerPoint presentations, and lets you view and mark them up online. Documents can be shared with others, who can collaboratively highlight or strikeout text, add notes and comments, and make revisions. All files are stored securely on their servers, and can be password protected and encrypted for maximum security.
Web Based Microsoft Office 2010 Soon To Be Launched
A new productivity suite of Microsoft windows is soon to be fully launched for everyone who uses computers, it will be a successor of Microsoft Office 2007. Yes, it is Microsoft Office 2010 and this time it will be free to use and a web based application. Microsoft has somehow assured that Office 2010 will be released around mid of year 2010. Beta version of this app is available to users since November 2009 and many unofficial beta versions have been leaked since July 2009.
The application, which includes Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote, will be available to anyone with a Windows Live account. This app will be running flawlessly in many popular browsers like Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Apple Safari.
There are many good reasons we can have to use this app.
- It has new picture editing and formatting tools like saturation and many artistic effects which will let you transform your document visuals into an artistic work.
- Microsoft One Note will let you share and work on a document with many people working from different location. It will be very helpful to you if you are working in a team or group.
- Office 2010 will be available for more devices like smart phone or any computer with an internet connection.
- Presentation can be shared via web regardless of having power point installed. You can broadcast your PowerPoint presentation to remote audience via web.
- Office 2010 allows users to write emails while keeping track of your family, friends and colleagues by viewing status updates and past communication history with everyone. Schedules and upcoming appointments can also be viewed with this new feature and users can request friends.
Backstage view in Excel 2010
Edit pictures directly within PowerPoint 2010
Multiuser co-authoring in Word 2010 enables more than one person to edit documents at the same time
Features of Office 2010:
- Emailing
- File Sharing
- Letter Styling
- Refined Ribbon interface and Backstage View across all applications
- Background Removal Tool
- The Word 2007 Equation editor will become common to all applications, replacing MS Equation 3.0
- New SmartArt templates
- New text and image editing effects
- Screen Capturing and Clipping tools
- Live collaboration functions
- Jumplists in Windows 7
If you want to try out the beta Version of Office 2010 Click Here!
Beta Version can be activated using following steps
- Open Microsoft Word 2010 Beta.
- Open Backstage view by clicking on the “File” tab.
- Click “Help” in the set of tabs on the left.
- On the right side of your screen click on “Change Product Key” option
- Enter the Multiple Activation Key (MAK) which was provided to you, when you downloaded Office 2010 Beta.
- Check the box to activate automatically or restart the app to activate using the activation dialog box.
Further, office 2010 will be available for Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista SP1 and Windows 7. Microsoft’s update to its mobile productivity suite, Office Mobile 2010, will also be released for Windows Phones running Windows Mobile 6.5 and Windows Phone 7 Series.
30+ Artistic Examples Of Colorful Wallpapers
Here we are showing you the huge collection of beautiful and inspiring wallpapers. I appreciate to all those talented designers who created these excellent wallpapers with their efforts, imaginations and creativity to give us a chance to use these artistic wonders on our desktop and refresh ourselves. This list is not long in numbers but I promise you that when you start browsing these in detail it will surely refresh you and motivate you to download any or all for your desktop right now.
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25+ Beautiful And Creative Business Card Ideas
With all the business cards we’ve being flooded these days, it is always nice to find a business card that stands out from the rest and adds a little attractiveness to your card. Here’s a clever and useful little business card design that perfectly expresses the mission of the company it represents.
It doesn’t matter in which business you are, a professionally designed business card is as important as your identity. Let’s take a look at these outstanding business cards which show that there are truly no limits to the design of a business card.
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SheetSeat Business Card
Jobless Writer
Caddy Shack Business Card
Die Cut Business Card Design
Business card plane
Petit Coeur @ Etsy Business Card
kenspecklegifts business card
1scale1-business-card
Peanut Business Cards
Die Cut Business Cards
In Watermelon Sugar
Cardapult
Tongue Depressor Business Cards
Green Business Card
Sergii Bogulavkyi Business Card
Self-Promotional-Pop-Up-Card
Business Card Outside
Bottle opener business card
Creative business card mixtape
Nathan Jones business cards
Sarah Powers Media
Bow Tie Business Card
Fifth Floor Gallery
Michael Strauss
FOUR SEASONS
Space150
SyncMate Is Giving Away 15 Single User Expert Edition Licenses
Eltima Software is running a contest, where winners will get 15 Single User licenses of SyncMate Expert Edition (worth $39.95 each). Well, you guys know what SyncMate is. Lets say it once again for n00bs.
SyncMate is probably the only sync tool which allows syncing your Mac with multiple devices simultaneously (Windows Mobile devices and Nokia S40 phones, other Mac and PC computers, Google account and online storage, Sony PSP and USB flash drive). No need to purchase several sync solutions in order to sync your Mac with each device – just download SyncMate and all supported devices will be synced within one application.
With SyncMate you can easily backup your data online and access it from any spot on the globe in a few clicks. Store your Contacts, Calendar, Firefox and Safari bookmarks, ToDos, Entourage notes, Mail notes and even more online.
Sync iTunes & Video, iPhoto, bookmarks, folders, mail, notes and even more to all your devices at once with Expert Edition plus all the features you already tried in free version. With Expert Edition you can easily create, send, delete search and export your SMS messages not even touching the phone. Autosync option allows you to keep in sync all your devices. Customize your settings only once and don’t worry anymore.
This contest will run from March 12, 2010 to March 18, 2010 and we will select the winners randomly by running MySQL query. Result can be announced any day before March 20, 2010 so keep visiting here or subscribe to our rss feed to get the latest updates. To participate in the contest and win free license of of Sync Mate Expert Edition, All you have to do is just :
1. Just leave a comment.
2. Use valid email ID in the email box.
3. Not necessary, but you can subscribe to our rss feed and follow us on twitter and do not forget to become our fan on facebook as well. (To track this contest and for future updates)
4. And thats it!
So what are you waiting for now? Let’s participate in the contest and good luck!
Flickroom Makes It Easier To Browse Flickr On Your Desktop
flickr is a leading photo sharing platform that allows you to share your photos and browse those uploaded by other users. In order to use flickr, you need to visit flickr.com and perform your photo sharing activity.
Many thanks to Flickroom that takes the flickr on your desktop. Flickroom is a free Adobe AIR based application that provides an enhanced user experience in browsing flickr photos on your desktop. With Flickroom, you can navigate between the photos in a quick manner and share your photos seamlessly. Since it’s developed with Adobe AIR, the application is cross-platform and can run on all the operating systems having Adobe AIR runtime installed.
Key features of Flickroom include:
- Browse photos and groups of photos in an uncluttered manner.
- Upload your photos seamlessly with easy drag-and-drop operation.
- Select multiple items and apply privacy settings at once.
- View images in three different layouts – Filmstrip, Grid and Map view.
- Quickly checkout the explored photos or schedule it for a day to show explored photos.
- View photo information such as owner, license, privacy information and comments in an enhanced manner.
- Advance search that allows you to search photos based on text, tags, licensing, date and safe search options.
- Edit your existing photos and related information quickly and easily.
- View recent updates from your contacts and put comments or add notes.
- Upload your photos directly to your Facebook from Flickroom.
- Use Flickroom in English, Russian, Korean, Chinese and many other languages.
Flickroom team runs a blog that you can visit to get in touch with the latest updates and you can also follow it on twitter.
29 Premium-Like Free But Extremely Tremendous Portfolio WordPress Themes
As you people already know about wordpress that it is one of most popular blogging service, so we are not going into its detail. It is so popular because of its highly useful plugins and readily available free themes that make blogging absolutely interesting and pleasing experience. For a web designer or a graphic designer, wordpress is the perfect platform to show his/her portfolio that can be very easily maintained. There are an increasing number of themes that are developed specifically for this purpose.
In this article, we are gonna show you a inclusive collection of 29 free but extremely tremendous portfolio wordpress themes that you can use for your portfolio. If you don’t have a portfolio site yet or are looking to create an interesting, easy to update, fast loading and professional looking portfolio than you must use these Portfolio themes of wordpress.
You are welcome to share if you know more premium-like free portfolio wordpress themes 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.
How To Organize Calendar, Tasks Manager, Address Book And Notes Modules The Easy Way
For the person who wants to use his/her computer as an interactive personal diary, there are many options available. There exist countless applications for each of the following tasks: organizing your calendar events, scheduling your tasks, recording your contacts, and taking down notes. Freeware programs available on the internet specialize in one of these tasks and perform their functions excellently. While all these programs are great, they do not turn the computer into a personal diary on their own – they always need to be coupled with another program.
There is one program however which we have discovered recently that performs as a personal diary software all on its own without hogging up your system’s resources. This application is named Osmo.
Osmo is a freeware program with a size of only 4.6MB. The download and installation of the program take no time at all. After you install and run the program you will notice its icon in the system tray:
Whenever you close the application by clicking on the cross button, it will minimize to this icon. Here is how the program’s main window looks like:
Osmo opens in the Calendar tab. The current day is highlighted; at the bottom you can find the “Moon phase,” the week number of the year, the day number, and weekend days. You can right-click on any date in the calendar to display a window which will let add a task to that day:
To add notes to about a particular date, simply double-click on it to be shown the note region below the dates:
The dates with an apostrophe sign have notes included in them. You can always double click on the date to view the notes you store for it.
The Tasks tab lets us add new tasks and view existing ones:
The Contacts tab lets us add and view contacts. The Contacts tab also has a ‘show birthdays’ tool which ensures we do not miss any birthdays:
Our contact list in Osmo can be saved to a CSV or XHTML file. We can also import contacts from CSV files.
The notes tab lets us add notes in separate files and then show us these files:
We are presented with the list of titles of notes. Double-clicking on any title will open the respective notes and enable us to view and/or edit them.
Apart from these functions, Osmo also printing functionality and options to modify our existing tabs. Amongst other things we can change the font of the fonts being store and the colors of the program.
Providing an impressive functionality by remaining user-friendly and having a minuscule memory footprint, Osmo is the ultimate diary program which the computer users of today simply should not miss.
Now Edit And Share From Anywhere With Photoshop For iPhone
Earlier Adobe Photoshop was developed for the admirers of art and design professionals only. But now a days it seems like every person who even knows very little about computers no matter man, woman and child, everyone wants to use every software that are available to them or they are anxious to know almost about everything exist in computer industry. So regardless of keeping in mind about the requirements of professional designers, Photoshop has its own iPhone application, in the shape of Photoshop.com Mobile. What it means is, any one who has an iPhone and wants to do some basic changes with their pictures, this little application will be very helpful to them.
To be honest, this application is an extremely too little version of Photoshop, it has limited functionality. It allows you to perform basic image editing tasks, giving you the option to select a photo from your iPhone, or take one using the device’s camera.
There are four drop-down menus at the top of the Photoshop.com Mobile interface, and thats where editing tools ca be accessed. The first is for cropping, rotating and flipping images; the second lets you tweak exposure, saturation, tint and black and white settings; the third applies sketch or soft focus effects; and the final menu will lets you select from a variety of special effects. The effects like Rainbow, Border, Pop, and etc can be found there.
I took some pictures below for you to see how it looks
Just as I said you might be thinking by now, that this is not a powerful bunch of tools. Well, you are right, it’s not, because Photoshop.com Mobile is certainly for quick photo editing on the move. If you look it this way, then it is actually a great move because the user interface is just so intuitive. Photoshop Mobile makes intelligent use of the iPhones touch technology. Like, the effects of Saturation and Exposure editing needs you to swipe across the screen to increase the intensity of the effect. At the same time, rotating and flipping is done by manipulating the image with your finger. Confusing but, you can’t pinch the screen to zoom into a photo. The matter of fact is, there is no zoom at all in this App.
What’s important and cool about Photoshop.com Mobile is that once you’ve finished capturing and editing your pictures, you can quickly upload them via online Upload tool. Obviously, the thing is that you can only upload to the Photoshop.com site, well it’s worth signing up for because it’s one of the better photo sharing sites out there.
Well well well again, Photoshop.com Mobile is a cool portable, on-the-go image editor. Just don’t expect anything more than the most basic of imaging tools. Please note that Photoshop.com Mobile is currently only available in the US and Canadian iTunes stores.
Photoshop.com Mobile is being modified every now and then and right now they introduced some more feature
written below:
- Crop, rotate, change color with just a touch.
- Give an extra glow with Soft Focus.
- Get artsy with Sketch.
- Apply one-touch effects like Warm Vintage and Vignette.
- Video playback
- New Straighten
- Sharpen and Contrast tools
- Borders: Eight artistic borders are now available in the Effects menu; one touch
- adds fun frames to your photos.
How to Get Free Content and Media Hosting at Screencast.com
Let’s say you’ve created a video or image you want to share, but you don’t want it saved to your computer. You want to save it in a safe place, where you can access it at any time. You want some storage options, and the ability to share it in multiple file formats… or keep it private. You want its original integrity to stay intact. And you want complete control.
You’re picky… but you have a right to be. Good thing Screencast.com was designed for content creators like you. At Screencast.com, you’ll get all of the above and more—plus it’s free.
What is Screencast.com?
Screencast.com is a free web service from TechSmith Co. that lets you upload, manage and share your content without changing a thing. From high-quality videos, to presentations, documents and images—Screencast.com gives your content the perfect home.
How does it work?
Step 1: Upload files
Logging into Screencast.com automatically takes you to the Library where you can upload your content. You can use any content creation tool to upload your videos and images to Screencast.com. But when you use TechSmith software—like a video recorded and edited with Camtasia Studio, or a quickly marked up image and video with Jing—you can directly upload to Screencast.com from within the application.
- Keep the original quality. What you upload is exactly what your viewers see. Content hosted on Screencast.com isn’t compressed or re-encoded into a “one-size-fits-all” format.
- Control the rights to your own content. Anything you upload to Screencast.com still belongs to you. So feel free to delete files you’ve uploaded and make room for something new.
Step 2: Store and protect
Create a folder in Screencast.com and save the videos and images you want to keep in one place. Simply store your content… or turn it into a portal for viewers to access.
- Decide who views your content. Make a folder public and visible to everyone. Hide it so only you can see it. Password protect it. Or make it so only authorized viewers can access your content.
- Access the stats on your content. At a glance, you can see how many times a specific file has been viewed and how much bandwidth each file is using.
Step 3: Share in multiple formats
Uploading is only part of it. Share your stuff outside of Screencast.com easily with a URL or send a link directly to your viewers. Screencast.com even gives you HTML embed code so you can post images and videos on your own website or blog.
- Share in high-quality. With options like Flash, WMV, QuickTime and others, Screencast.com is sure to give you the highest quality playback available.
- Share conveniently. Provide your audience with anything from a link to your content, to a MediaRoll widget, or to an RSS feed that they can subscribe to.
How do you get started?
Start off with a free Screencast.com account to instantly begin storing and sharing your content. With the free version, you’ll get 2GB of storage space and 2GB of monthly bandwidth at no cost. Or sign up for the Pro version of Screencast.com and get extra storage, bandwidth and customization options. With the Pro version, you’ll get 25GB of storage space and 200GB of monthly bandwidth for just $9.95 a month.
Whatever you do, your content will never be changed at Screencast.com. What you upload is exactly what you’ll see. So when you’re ready to share that video or image, or just save it for later, give Screencast.com a try. You’ll get your content, your way—every time.
Post content provided by Nikki Wickham at TechSmith Corporation.
