Archive for October, 2010
50 Best Designed Logos With Punctuation Marks
A properly designed logo will help you establishing brand name and defining the nature of a corporation. This is the reason why designers are very much keen in experimenting with the new and interesting designs of logo just like here; in this post we are showcasing some very inspirational punctuation based logos.
All the logos mentioned below are designed from the punctuation marks such as commas, colons and semicolons, exclamation marks, question marks, brackets and parentheses. We are sure you will find them very interesting and creative.
Awesome (Yet Free) Sticky Note Taking Web Apps You Probably Never Used Before
Every now and then we come across something on the web which we’re eager to jot down for future reference. Sticky Note apps come in handy during this time and save your most casual notes taken down during browsing. Today we have eight of the best sticky note taking web apps which will help you a lot and provide you with features making your online life easier.
Short Text
Short text is the simplest sticky note taking app you can find. It requires no sign up, and if you have anything to share from a piece of text to a function call from a code, just paste it on the text window in shrt Text and with a click of a button your work will be given a unique URL from which others can access it. shortText.com supports direct linking to images and videos as well.
Yahoo Notepad
Yahoo Notepad is aptly named; it is simple and elegant like Windows Notepad. You can write notes in Yahoo Notepad with support for multiple notes and then group them as folders as well for your own convenience. It however requires you to sign in with your Yahoo account before using and you have to sign up if you don’t have one.
Your Draft
Your Draft is an online draft publisher and a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor which allows you to share your content with other without any passwords or fuss. You readers can also edit your documents if you have given write access to them. Your Draft can also be used to manage content on your webpage and allows data encryption.
MyStickies
MyStickies allows you to add sticky notes to webpages while you’re visiting the page and save it for later. The saved web pages can later be reviewed and edited from any other computer. MyStickies not only bookmarks the webpages in its online repository, but also saves the pages on how you tagged content on it and presents it the same way later. MyStickies is completely free to use.
Notecentric
An online note taking app with enhanced features, similar to those available in WordPad and a little few in applications like Microsoft OneNote or Word. It features a rich text editor for editing and you can share your notes with others as well, including reading their work as well. The class group creation for notes sharing feature is also a good way to collaborate online while doing home assignments.
Sticky-Notes.net
A freeware app for Microsoft Windows, Sticky-Notes can be downloaded on your PC and used to save your notes and share them over the internet. It features a friendly User Interface (UI) and is highly customizable with features like fonts, bullets and numbering, paragraphing, colors, transparency etc.
Sticky Notes
Another note taking desktop app which is easy to use for taking notes. You can type and stick cirtually anything in the always-ready for taking your notes. Notes can be positioned anywhere on the desktop, even hidden in taskbar and viewed later and are searchable as well. It supports basic text formatting such as fonts, colors, transparency and hyperlinks. Notes stay on the desktop even if the PC is rebooted.
Taskless
Taskless is a free in-browser web app used to take sticky notes and place them over the internet. Notes written can be placed on three ‘spaces’ for sharing. The personal space is the area where only you can see your notes. The non-public space is where you and your friends can view each other’s notes and the public space allows you to share your sticky notes with everyone else. Notes can be tagged with keywords. Taskless can be used by signing in with Google Account as well.
Steecky (sticky) notes
A little different from the above mentioned apps, Steecky notes is a web app from Apple for iPhone which allows you to create sticky notes which can be then set as iPhone background. You can set background colors, text colors and other settings and preview them before applying. This way your most important appointments can always be in front of your iPhone.
Sticky Screen
Probably the simplest of all sticky notes taking apps, Sticky Screen stores whatever you have typed into a single sticky note in a web browser cookie. It is easy to use and requires no fuss i.e. registration and can be setup easily on the iGoogle page for convenience.
BundleHunt 2 Giveaway (Take A Chance To Win $2000 Worth Of Designer Goodies)
BundleHunt 2 is running a contest, where 5 winners will get the largest design resources bundle (originally $2000 worth of Designer Goodies for $49). Well, you guys know what BundleHunt is. Lets say it once again for n00bs.
Note : This contest will run only for 3 days so do not wait to participate and take a chance to win has been ended.
BundleHunt is a premium resource pack aimed to empower the creative community with more than $1400 worth of outstanding apps, templates, icons, ebooks, hosting plans & premium memberships for less than 50$. This time Bundle Hunt team announced the release of BundleHunt 2, the big brother of BundleHunt, their original package of essential applications for developers. Packed with even more applications at discounts much higher than before, the idea for this release is to put together a complete designer’s resource pack for web developers across the board for the smallest price in history.
BundleHunt 2 comes with a number of new premium applications included such as 8 High Quality Fonts from FontSpring (priced at $289.75), 30 Premium Download Credits from Vecteezy.com (priced at $119) and a number of other useful desktop application licenses for both Windows and Mac OS X. In all, there are 16 applications, memberships and resources included in the bundle this time as against the 12 included in the previous version, all for the same amazing price – $49.99
When each of the applications in this exhaustive list is considered individually, the combined value of the bundle comes at $2,040. However, the entire bundle is available from www.BundleHunt.com at a heavily discounted price of $49.99!
This contest will run fromOctober 04, 2010 to October 6, 2010 and we will select the winners randomly by running MySQL query. Result can be announced any day before October 8, 2010 so keep visiting here or subscribe to our rss feed to get the latest updates. To participate in the contest and win $2000 Worth Of Designer Goodies from Bundle Hunt, All you have to do is :
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 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!
Siri Helps You Like A Personal Assistant To You On Your iPhone
Siri is like a real assistant to you, Siri understands what you say, it accomplishes the task for you and choose your preference over time. Siri helps you find and plan things like finding a romantic place for dinner, famous burger place around, booking a table at hotel, booking a Taxi, nearest gas station, who is playing at Madison Square Garden, what’s playing at a local jazz club or get tickets to a movie for Saturday night.
Simply just ask Siri and you will not need endless clicking on links and pages to get things done on the Internet. Delegate the work to Siri and relax while Siri takes care of it for you.
Siri is still young and it may misunderstand things but will improve quickly by getting to know you better and understanding a wider sets of task like referred things, flights stats and more.
With Latest Version 3.2 you can send alerts for reminders, a reserved table can be modified, Spoken requests can be edited by tapping speech bubbles and lots more improvements. Give it a try guys and I am sure you wont be disappointed.
Congratulations To The Winners Of PpcSoft iKnow
Thanks to all of the participants of contest in which you could win PpcSoft iKnow. We ran the MySql random query and selected these commenter to give them PpcSoft iKnow.
- Adi Nugroho
- Evandro
- Sandeep S
- drahendra
- Ham
- Alex
- Denuro
- Ishango
- Paul
- Clark
PpcSoft iKnow is an easy, fast, efficient tool for knowledge workers using MS Windows. PpcSoft iKnow is optimized for text, and more focused on personal knowledge management than simple note-taking (not only storing notes, but automatically linking notes to quickly find related information similar to (but easier than) Wikipedia).
PpcSoft iKnow can give you a lot of power, but it can also be easy and simple to use if you don’t need all the advanced functionality. Most of the time you will collect information, connect your notes and find them again using the Quick Search or full-text search. Easy and lightning fast.
The ability to store all the little details you need at work, quickly finding them again and connecting different notes to each other will probably save you a lot of time and increase your productivity (and make your day a little easier).
Congratulations to all the winners from SmashingApps.Com. All of the winners will be contacted in few days. If you are not winner at this time so please be patient and keep visiting here or subscribe to our rss feed, you can follow us on twitter because we are coming up with another new great contest in couple of days.
Thanks to PpcSoft iKnow for sponsoring this wonderful contest at Smashing Apps.
If you want to conduct any contest at Smashing Apps just contact us and send us all the details.
Thank You Our Valued Sponsors For Being With Us In The Month Of September
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 September, 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.
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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uTest is the world’s largest marketplace for software testing services – 25,000+ QA professionals from more than 150 countries.
Site24x7 is a hosted website monitoring service that helps webmasters ensure their websites are up and running at peak performance. The Site24x7 servers send out HTTP or HTTPS requests to your website at regular intervals of time and alerts you if it is down.
Intervals is web-based project management software that marries time tracking and task management in a collaborative online space with powerful reporting.
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.
We are also thankful to those advertisers who purchased favicon ads.
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You will just need to take a look at our advertisement section on how you can start advertising at SmashingApps to grow and spread more or contact us for more information and details related to
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Beyond The Belief Digitally Created CG Environments
If you are seeking for some astonishing computer generated environments, you landed at right place as this post contains some very astonishing and beyond the belief computer generated (CG) environments.
We all come across to computer generated environments even without realizing; examples include architectural visualization, cinematic production, and video game development and many others. So here is the inspirational collection of most beautiful and astounding computer generated environments for your inspiration. Enjoy!
Hunter III – Hiding from the Hunter
Absolutely Amazing Firefox Add-Ons That Can Make Your Lives Easier
There are too many handy options provided by the firefox and this is the main reason for its popularity. You can easily find lots of free download able firefox add-ons too that are available on the internet, we also featured few of them before and it’s demands are increasing. In this post, I am listing down few Absolutely Amazing Firefox Add-ons That Can Make Your Lives Easier . I would love to know at least one of your most favorite firefox add-on that makes your life easier and could be the part of this list.
You are welcome if you want to share more excellent Firefox add-ons that 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.
Firefox Sync
Free browser add-on that lets you stay in sync with your Firefox. You can access your history, passwords, bookmarks and even open tabs across all your devices.
Image Zoom
If you have ever had an image that was too large to fit on your screen or too small to see the finer detail in your browser or email, then image zoom can help. Image zoom gives you complete control of the size of most images displayed in mozilla based software. Both individual images or whole pages of images can be zoomed.
BugMeNot
BugMeNot will log in for you automatically so that you quickly bypass the login process of web sites that require compulsory registration and/or the collection of personal/demographic information (such as the New York Times).
AutoPager
AutoPager automatically loads next pages when you reach the end of a page. It works on a ton of sites,Google,Yahoo. It works well with most other add-ons adblock plus, WOT and most of the greasemonkey scripts too.
FastestFox
You can save time by speeding up repetitive tasks. Get faster, parallelized downloads, see definitions, auto-load the next page, improve searching, and more. FastestFox will dramatically enhance your productivity.
BetterPrivacy
Better Privacy serves to protect against not deletable longterm cookies, a new generation of ‘Super-Cookie’, which silently conquered the internet. This new cookie generation offers unlimited user tracking to industry and market research. Concerning privacy Flash- and DOM Storage objects are most critical.
Video DownloadHelper
The easy way to download and convert Web videos from hundreds of YouTube-like sites. This works also for audio and picture galleries.
InvisibleHand
Automatically get the lowest price when you shop online. InvisibleHand shows a discreet notification when a better price is available on a product you’re browsing or shopping for. It covers over 100 retailers in the US, UK and Germany.
Pixlr Grabber
Making screen grabs and pulling down images from the web just got a bit more easy. With the Pixlr grabber add-on you can choose to Edit, Share, Save or Copy your final grabs. You also get the possibility to right-click any image or background to edit.
AutoProxy
Are you concerned about your privacy? Or, are you blocked from some websites by a firewall? And, are you arming yourself with a proxy? In that case, AutoProxy is designed for you! A tool to help you use your proxy automatically & efficiently.
