Archive for September, 2010
With ZumoDrive You Can Upload And Access Your Files From Anywhere
We all want remote access to our computer files. Whether we want to listen to our favorite music, view pictures or videos stored on our computer, or open an important document, remote access to our files can be very beneficial. Although there are programs out there that enable remote access, they require your main computer to be powered on at all times with an active internet connection. ZumoDrive provides a better alternative.
ZumoDrive is a software and web service that will upload your files on the web and provide them in a very friendly interface.
The installable part of ZumoDrive comes in versions compatible with Windows, Linux, and Mac running machines. The service even has smartphone apps for iPhone, Android, and Palm Pre.
The Windows installer is sized at nearly 9 MB. After its installation you are prompted to sign up for a Zumo account which can be done through the app.
Zumo will then create your account and sign you into it. You are then asked to select the folders you want to upload to Zumo.
Then you choose your package. Free Windows users are provided up to 1 GB of storage and the upload size of each folder is shown against it.
Choosing your package will end the setup process.
Your files will be uploaded in the background. This upload activity will be shown by ZumoDrive’s cloud icon in the System Tray.
With the files uploaded, you can sign into ZumoDrive via your web browser and get access to the files.
When you access My Computer, you will see another drive added that will correspond to Zumo. Opening this drive will open the material already uploaded to Zumo.
If you log on to Zumo’s website and complete its tour after setting it all up, you can get an extra 1 GB of storage.
ZumoDrive will surely benefit many computer users desiring remote access but unwilling to leave their computers powered on all the time.
Stunning Digital Photos That Look Like (Surprisingly) Real But Are Not
This is a post in which we are listing down some Stunning Digital Art That Look Like (Surprisingly) Real But Are Not. These are some of the beautiful digital artwork and illustration examples. These are the wonder creations of designers who use their creativity with a different angle and approach to get the result that makes a difference.
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Fruit Hoot
First Photo-Manipulation Alone
Seating Area
Seperation
Digital Morning position
Open sky
BMW Z4
Flower Manipulation by ladyrapid
Suspicious Minds by DCSMC
ebertstrasse
Selfillumination
Can’t stop soaring xD
The 7 Must-Have Apps For Android Phones To Make Your Lives Easier
This is one of the very best list of its kind where you can find incredibly useful and life saver FREE apps for your android that you probably never used 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. The 7 Must-Have Apps For Android Phones To Make Your Lives Easier. Just take a look at them and share your thought’s here.
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You can edit and share anywhere with Adobe Photoshop Express software for Android phones. It will help you crop, rotate, and color-correct with the touch of a finger.
Twitter for Android is a fantastic application to use, and sharing any link or photo is super simple too. Just look for the share button in your favorite application and choose Twitter.
AndFTP is a FTP/SFTP/FTPS client for Android devices. It allows managing several FTP servers. It comes with both a device file browser and a FTP file browser. It provides download and upload features with resume support. Use device menu to rename, delete, copy, set permissions and create folders. It provides FTP (File Transfer Protocol), SFTP (SSH’s secure File transfer protocol) support and FTPS (Explicit FTP over TLS/SSL).
This PayPal application will give you easy access to your PayPal account right from your Android phone. You can withdraw funds from your PayPal balance. Request Money: Get paid faster. It’s the easy way to ask for the money you are owed. Split the Bill: Instantly split the bill, calculate tip, and request everyone’s share. Set Reminders: Never miss rent or a bill.
Thinking Space is a Mind Mapping application for Android phones. Portable Mind Mapping has never been so much fun! Thinking Space is available for free in the Android Market.
The initial release of WordPress for Android has focused on giving you the ability to manage your blog while on the go. You can manage posts, comments, pages.
Accessing your Dropbox using android phone can give you another great experience of data synchronization. You can upload photos from your Android and email its public link to a friend in less than a minute. All the contents of your Dropbox are available for viewing. You can even stream music and movies in your Dropbox straight to your Android.
Excellent Mockup And Wireframing (9) Web Apps Which You Would Love To Know
A wireframe or mockup tool is a must have tool for every web designer and developer. These tools have their importance in web designing and development world. It is good to use them because it saves your time and efforts, a mockup or wireframe can give you the whole idea about how your web will look and work. Combination of your own creativity and client’s requirement into a blank canvas, allows you to effectively plan the visual arrangements of the site’s contents. Well, a good and reliable wireframing application will cost you for sure and cost can starts from 150$ to 5000$. So, are you going to buy or what? and I definitely heard a big NO out there. So, my friends here comes the solution to the problem, I am listing some good web apps and tools for you in my article and you can use these mockup and wireframe apps and tools for FREE.
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MockFlow
MockFlow helps to design interactive UI mockups for Desktop Software, Rich Internet Apps and Web sites. MockFlow is Hybrid, so you can design seamlessly from anywhere & even with No net-connection. You can get your visual concept ready in minutes, it is faster than drawing/coding wireframes, you can share your UI design with your clients, team chat, track project activities and you can export your Mockup to image, PDF or PowerPoint Presentation.
Jumpchart
Jumpstart is a simple online collaborative wireframe designed to make planing websites simple, fast and more efficient. With a Jumpchart preview, -clients just get it and it’s not an abstract concept, it works just like the website will. It is great for Web Developers, Information Architects, Website Owners, and Copywriters. Now you can also export your mockup to HTML and WordPress WXR format! Besides WordPress – which is one of the most widely used Content Management Systems in the world.
PencilProject
PencilProject is a free and fairly powerful Firefox add on tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping. Its an open-source tool which is very popular among designers and developers. It has many built-in stencils for diagramming and prototyping webs and options like multi-page documents, adding external objects, inter-page linking, on screen text editing and exporting to HTML, PNG, Openoffice.org document, Word document and PDF makes this addon very necessary for designer and developer.
WebSite Wireframe Tool
You can build the wireframe in minutes with this particular tool, and if desired, a link to view the wireframe can be sent through email, instant message, or even the phone. The attraction to this tool is the simplicity of usage, lending itself to speed, both in wireframe creation, as well as being able to quickly share the results without having to send anything more than a web address. It is free to register and use, and works in modern web browsers including Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.
Lumzy
Lumzy is a quick Mockup creation and Prototyping tool for software designers and developers. As a Mockup tool, you can use it to create a rough sketch of how the final website or application will look like while prototyping extends this by adding event based functionalities. Its totally FREE and its function like send on the go, make it public, collaboration and chat, and quick drag and drop will attract you to use it. And by the way you can export your Mockup to jpeg, PNG and PDF files.
DUB – DENIM
DENIM is a system that helps web site designers in the early stages of design. DENIM supports sketching input, allows design at different refinement levels, and unifies the levels through zooming. It allows designers to quickly sketch an interface using an electronic pad and stylus. Its now available for Windows, Unix, and Mac OS X. You can download it from here.
fluidIA
fluidIA is an emerging agile design tool for prototyping rich user interfaces. It provides support for truly rapid prototyping and changes of interface representations, expression of rich interactions, and collaboration.
Prototype Composer
Prototype Composer is a completely new way of gathering requirements. Prototype Composer makes it possible to see how an application will look and function before any code is ever written. Instead of endless text documents, Prototype Composer makes it easy for business users and business analysts to collaborate on requirements by building simple, high-fidelity prototypes that simulate a working application.
iPhone Mockup
This simple web app allows you to create your own iPhone app mockups, share your mockup with other people, and the changes you make will be synced to everyone who has the mockup’s URL. This app is currently in Alpha and offers no password protection so, you better be careful about the privacy of what you creates.
Please let me know if there are more apps which should be listed. Thanks.
WorkingPoint Manages Business Transactions Efficiently
Running a business today is not as straightforward as it once used to be. This is primarily because one needs to maintain records of every transaction that has occurred. Because there are many transaction and of different types, organizing and managing them becomes difficult. To help business owners in this area, there are a number of options available. WorkingPoint is one of those options.
WorkingPoint is a web service that manages transactional records for its users. You start by creating an account on the site. During your signup, you specify a domain name that will generate a unique login page.
The URL will be of the form https://domainName.workingpoint.com/home. You can add other users to your account that can view and add transactional details. The following options are what you get each time you login; you can choose to disable them on startup.
This is how your WorkingPoint dashboard will look like:
You can import your history of transaction through your bank account or credit card online. You can then sort your transactions, classify them, and observe how your dashboard reflects the changes. Contacts can also be added to your WorkingPoint account. You can add clients or business contacts with ease.
Overall, the site is a great convenience to its users. As one satisfied customer puts it, “Best $10 I could ever spend on the internet. I love your product because it allows me to focus on my business and not the business of doing business.”
The site has a paid plan as well as a free one. It would be advisable to test the free service before signing up for the paid one.
Thank You Our Valued Sponsors For Being With Us In The Month Of August
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 August, 2010 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.
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TrackJumper is simple bug tracking software designed for freelancers and small software development teams. Designed with fanatical attention to simplicity, TrackJumper does not have any complex functionality.
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.
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