Archive for August, 2010
Congratulations To The Winners Of SlideshowBox (Amazing Photo Slideshows Using HTML & Pure JavaScript) Giveaway
Thanks to all of the participants of contest in which you could Take A Chance To Win SlideshowBox (Amazing Photo Slideshows Using HTML & Pure JavaScript). We ran the MySql random query and selected these commenter to give them SlideshowBox.
- Sandeep S
- Mrs. gil
- Johnny
- Lili
- Corker
SlideshowBox is an easy to use application that enables you to create amazing Flash and HTML (JavaScript) photo slideshow galleries.
SlideshowBox comprises 24 high-quality slideshow templates that allow you to create custom photo slideshows without the pains of coding. Many new templates will be added in the near future, including more pure JavaScript slideshows.
SlideshowBox enables you to create professional photo slideshows starting from dozens of stylish templates, and no coding. SlideshowBox will output Flash AS3.0 and JavaScript galleries using standard XML files as sources, though neither AS3.0 nor JavaScript coding is required for you to use their templates.
The HTML (JavaScript) version of SlideshowBox makes all the Flash templates available to non-Flash developers without the need for Adobe Flash, through their online configuration panel. Because these slideshows consist in configurable SWF files, Flash Player is needed for them to work. Also on the HTML version, there are 5 full JavaScript slideshows which are compatible with iPad and iPhone. See all available templates.
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Easily Create Online Survey Polls With Flisti
Are you thinking of holding up a vote on your website or blog? Holding an online poll is perhaps the easiest way to do this. And thanks to Flisti, creating online polls had never been easier.
Flisti is a free and user friendly website that assists visitors in poll creation. There is nothing to download or install – everything happens within your web browser. Moreover no registrations or account creations are required. You can jump right into the poll creation process.
The entire poll creation interface is located on the site’s homepage. You start by entering the question your poll will ask. Then you enter the answers. By default you can enter two answers; using the little “Add” button in the bottom right, you can add fields for more answers.
You can also allow or disable choosing multiple answers. When you have entered your questions and answers, click on the “Create New Poll” button. This will create a simple poll with a unique URL.
You can invite people to cast their vote by sharing the poll’s URL or by sharing it directly on the supported social networks. If you want to put the poll up on your own website or blog, you can copy the generated HTML code and paste it on your website.
In these easy steps, you would have created your online poll. Visit Flisti.
GoGoPlot Helps You Create Graphs To Keep Track On Almost Anything You Do
Have you ever made use of simple point-to-point graphs? You will be surprised with how useful they can be. Imagine yourself at the doctor’s. You are there because of your backache. The doctor asks you about how severe the backache has been the past week. You show him a graph on which you have plotted the pain degree of every day. It can be immensely helpful to your doctor.
Such point-to-point graphs can be easily made using GoGoPlot.
GoGoPlot is a free to use website that helps create graphs. The graphs have very basic plotting options. You select one point for each day; the value of each point ranges between 0 and 10. The points are joined by straight lines. This simple procedure can help express a number of things graphically.
Suppose you want to record how your mood was through the entire week. All you need to do is create a new graph, name it, and start recording. While creating a plot you can either record a point a day or enter all the values in simultaneously.
After setting your options you can record each value.
Through this way you can obtain graphs of anything you want and review them. You can view multiple graphs simultaneously; they are differentiated by separate colors.
Apple device owners can get GoGoPlot’s app from the App Store and record their plots on the go.
Overall, the service is quite an interesting concept and will surely benefit a good number of people.
Read User-Generated News From Across the Globe With MaYoMo
Many people believe that news channels keep their sponsors’ interests in mind and broadcast biased views on news. It is believed that the simplest solution to this is user-generated news: news reported and shared by average people. Of course if you have something about your area to share, it might be quite some time before your local news channels airs it, if at all. This is exactly why online user-generated sources are great to publish and share news.
One such online source is MaYoMo.
MaYoMo is a great user-generated news website. It derives its name from “Map Your Moments.” Visitors to the site find a map on the homepage with red dots spread out geographically.
These red dots represent active news in the areas they are placed on. You can hover your mouse pointer over any red dot and a preview of the news will be shown.
You can click on the red dot to display the news details which can include text, pictures, audio, and video. The news might be in a non-English language; you can figure this out by reading the text in the preview.
If you would like to view news according to your interests, you can filter the global news according to the category that interests you. Choose the news genre at the top of the global news map. The website also provides visitors with the option to filter news by their date. This can be done via a slider present at the bottom of the global news map. You can create an account on MaYoMo to submit news you have.
Overall, MaYoMo is a wonderful news website that can help you stay aware of what is going on in the world. Check out MaYoMo.
World Of Fantasy And Imagination Which Depict Future Cities (Dreamy Artworks)
An imaginative mind is marked by independence and creativity in thought or action, and the ability of human mind to think creatively is matchless. Mostly creative people become artists and mesmerize the world with their creativity and imagination sometime beyond the limit. A creative artist can create a castle in the sky for his visitors who look at his artwork.
In this post, we have also created a world of fantasy and imagination which depict our future city. All these images are not only inspiring but also beautiful, dreamy and extremely futuristic. Hope, you will like this post. Feel free to share your opinion with us.
Visions of South Korea’s Urban Future
Visions of South Korea’s Urban Future
Instant City – Procedural City
Worth enough?, Radoslav Zilinsky (3D)
3D illustration futuristic industrie
Involution, sebastien czaja (2D)
Mojo Helpdesk Performs Best As Online Ticket-Based HelpDesk And Issue Tracking App
The customer services departments of nearly all organizations tag each complaint with a number. This number is the complaint’s ticket. In case you want to track the complaint and check its status, you search for its ticket number in the status. The ticket therefore greatly simplifies handling and solving complaints.
Mojo Helpdesk is an online ticket-based helpdesk and issue tracking application used for tracking customer support cases within an organization.
The best features of this valuable service are offered under its 5 different paid plans but a free version is available for trial purposes.
After creating your account and logging in, you will fill out details of yourself and your company.
You will also get an access key that can be used with widgets and APIs.
Initially your dashboard will not have any tickets on it.
You can easily create new tickets by clicking the “+New ticket” link on the left.
To properly make use of your Mojo Helpdesk account, you will add other users to your account. Then anyone can generate a ticket, queue it up in the proper section, and assign it to particular user. The ticket’s priority and creator will also be visible to anybody who sees it.
Managing customer complaints within a company can become a complicated issue when there are many departments involved; however Mojo Helpdesk simplifies the entire matter and provides its services at reasonable rate.
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Thank You Our Valued Sponsors For Being With Us In The Month Of July
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 Thanks to our valued sponsors who helped us to make this blog possible in reach of everyone in the month of July, 2010 as well.
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Top 12 Sites For Online Video Chatting
If you feel that your instant messaging client is not satisfying your video chat needs, do not try downloading and installing any other applications. Give video chat facilitating websites a try. You are bound to find something that will let you video chat the way you want. The best part is that you will not have to install any new applications on your computer.
The internet has many video chat websites. In case you are looking for one, do not spend time searching on the web; simply give my list of top 12 sites for video chat a read. You will find the list below. See which site suits you best.
1. EkkoTV
If you are already familiar with video chatting sites and want something more, then visit EkkoTV. On the site you can have a 3 people video conference. This is great for chatting with 2 friends at the same time. Click here to visit EkkoTV.
2. RandomDorm
This video chatting website is for college students. You need to sign up using your college’s email (ending with EDU or AC). You can use this site to fine students from other or even your own universities. Click here to visit RandomDorm.
3. StreamFame
SteamFace is a site to tell show the world how entertaining you can be. You can choose to have your webcam broadcast video to the website; your feed is kept active unless more than 50% of your audience votes you down. Click here to visit StreamFame.
4. ChatRide
ChatRide is a more traditional video chatting website. You can create a chat room and share its URL with another friend to video chat. Only one on one video chat is possible. Click here to visit ChatRide.
5. Imo.im
This website is a collection of web messengers for popular instant messaging clients. In case the person you chatting with supports video chat, you can use Imo.im to initiate one on one video chatting. Supported services include MSN, AIM, Yahoo, Skype, Google Talk, MySpace, and Facebook. Click here to visit Imo.im.
6. MeBeam
MeBeam is another traditional video chatting site that lets you create a video chat room to which you can invite others. Visit MeBeam here.
7. BoostCam
BoostCam focuses on speed. You can start video chatting rather quickly. After gving the site access to your webcam, it creates a temporary URL which you share with people to video chat. Click here to visit BoostCam.
8. Confabio
Similar to BoostCam, Confabio lets us create a chat room of which the URL can be shared to invite others. Click here to visit Confabio.
9. WooMe
If you are hoping to find a special someone through video chatting, pay WooMe me a visit. The site helps singles get to know other singles through video chatting. Visit WooMe here.
10. Chatroulette
Even if you have not video chatted before, you must have heard of Chatroulette. It is a highly popular speed-video chatting site. Random connections are made between two people; this connection can be terminated by any party anytime. The site is highly addictive and has a very simple interface. Visit Chatroulette here.
11. TinyChat
TinyChat is a great video chat site especially for Twitter users. Visitors can sign in with their Twitter accounts, create a video chat room, then invite up to 10000 people to video chat with them. Visit TinyChat here.
12. 6rounds
Chatroulette might be addicting for many people but it provides very few options to play around with. 6rounds expands the Chatroulette concept and does a wonderful job in helping you find new friends online. The interface is very user friendly and new features are constantly being added to the site. Click here to visit 6rounds.
Backup Data Stored On Email Servers And Online Social Networks With Backupify
Through emails and online social networks, you share a lot of information with your friends. This includes photographs, videos, documents, and a lot more. All this data is stored on the website you are using. In case of a website glitch or a mistake by you, the data is removed you would lose many important things. Take Facebook for instance; if your data was removed from there you would lose photos, videos, notes, wall posts, event dates, and probably even more. Backupify is a tool that prevents such situations.
Backupify is a web service that can be used to backup the data you store on email servers and online social networks. The site offers free and paid packages, with the free package offering 2 GB of backup storage. A number of websites are supported including Flickr, Twitter, Delicious, Zoho, Google Docs, Photobucket, WordPress, Basecamp, Gmail, Facebook, FriendFeed, Blogger, Hotmail, Picasa Web Albums, Google Contacts, and Google Calendar.
After signing up for an account and logging in to it, you can start adding your accounts from the abovementioned websites to be backed up. If you are using the free package you will be able to add only one account per service.
To view the backups you can access the “Archive” page from where you select an added service.
Once the service is selected, your backed up data is shown in a simple interface.
The “History” page records all successful and unsuccessful backups.
If you want to view your account details, simply enter the “Profile” page which is also where you can upgrade your account from.
Overall the service is a great way to secure the data store on your online email and social networking accounts. The free package will suit most internet users; if not, the paid packages are quite economical and provide great storage capacity.
ExtentionFm Helps You Create A Playlist Of Your Mp3 Songs On Your Favorite Website
Most audio streaming websites offer the audio in MP3 format. Suppose you come across your favorite artist’s page on a music site; instead of clicking on each song and streaming it individually, it would be more convenient to get a playlist of all MP3 files on the given webpage.
That is precisely what ExtensionFM does. ExtensionFM is a user friendly extension for Google Chrome.
After installing the extension, you find a newly placed icon in Chrome’s address bar.
Before you go ahead and start using the extension, you will first need to create an account on the ExtensionFM website. This account will help in keeping the playlists saved even if you browse away from the songs page.
Having created the account, click on the extension’s icon the next time you are on a webpage with songs. This will open ExtensionFM mini-window from the icon.
Alongside the icon you will see the number of songs detected on the webpage. From the mini-window you can play the found songs – this will transform Chrome into an audio player. You can optionally add the songs in the playlist to your ExtensionFM account. Your ExtensionFM library can be accessed by clicking on the Home button next to the playing controls.
Your library contains information on each played song, its artist, and the website it was captured from.
ExtensionFM will appeal to all music loving Chrome users.
