Archive for January, 2011
7 Best Android Apps Students Can Really Make Use Of
Most of the students buy Android devices for fun, gaming and social activities. Some buy it for marking their status symbol in the society. No matter what your reason is but you can always use it to help it with your studies or at least a pocket tool to provide you help on the go. No matter what stream of studies you are in because anyone can always find a useful application for his daily educational needs. Below are 7 handpicked application to make your school and college life easier and the good news is they are free and will not cost you a penny from your pocket money.
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RealCalc Scientific Calculator
A fully featured scientific calculator in a student pocket is very important but if you are carrying an Android you can just install RealCalc and forget the rest. RealCalc A fully featured scientific calculator which looks and operates like the real thing. It provide Result history, Unit conversions, Percentages, 10 memories, Hex/binary/octal, Trig functions in degrees; radians or grads, Scientific, engineering and fixed-point display modes, Digit grouping, RPN mode and a full built-in help.
Formulas Lite
How good are you in remembering the confusing formulas of Physics and Math, Well I sucked at it. Wished I had something like Formulas Lite for Android at that time. A must have App for all students. Formulas Lite is a simple, easy to use application which helps you to refer collection of most important formulas of maths, physics & chemistry.
Calculus Tools
Calculus is the mother of calculation and you may get involved with it no matter what field you are working on. This application help you with calculus and finds derivatives, computes definite integrals, arc lengths, finds Taylor series, plots graphs of functions, including polar and parametric and slope fields. It also includes integral tables and custom keyboard
Memory Trainer
Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things. No matter how many books you study, if you don’t have a sharp memory its as good as its in drain. Memory Trainer is an app to exercise your nerve muscles and train them to remember intense amount of data. It works out your spatial and working memory, focus, chunking and concentration skills.
ColorDict Universal Dictionary
A pocket dictionary can be useful where ever you go and ColorDict is one such useful dictionary app. Its more than just a dictionary; it’s a thesaurus, bible dictionary and foreign-language dictionary all rolled into one. It supports Quick Search Box and Color Note App to make your referencing easier.
Perfect Chemistry Lite
The application is a must have Android application for all the chemical engineers out there. It is a fun game and reference application with following set of modules to help you on the go. With Perfect Chemistry lite, you can balance chemical equations, solve different questions about elements, get details about different chemical compounds and much more.
World FactBook
A student should be well versed with the most important acts round the globe. World Factbook is a mobile version of popular CIA World Factbook. This application provides facts, information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for about 250 world countries. So read it when every you are free and get a chance to boost your IQ.
Congratulations To The Winners Of QHub Pro Lifetime Account
Thanks to all of the participants of contest in which you could win Qhub. We ran the MySql random query and selected these commenter to give them QHub Pro Lifetime Account.
- Chris
- Ian
- Aleem
- CoreySH
- Photosphere LLC
Qhub is an amazingly simple way to add a question and answers forum to your website.
Unlike old forum software Qhub structures user interactions into simple question and answer exchange so its really easy for visitors to understand and get involved in, its really like having your own personal Quora.
- No coding or programming required - No technical skills required, it takes under 3 minutes to build a Qhub.
- Integrates with you existing site – Use you own domain and integrate into you website with a selection of widgets and plugins.
- Hosted & Fully Managed Solution - Never worry about hosting costs or your site going down.
- Badges and Point System - Built in reputation system keeps users coming back for more and encourages comprehensive answers.
- Google optimized - Search engine friendly
- Adsense & Analytics Ready - Easily integrate advertising and analytics.
- Q&A is a great way to increase traffic to you website by crowd sourcing content for free and creating long tail pages that rank well in search engines.
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30 Insanely Beautiful Digital Paintings
Today we have assembled some of the most incredible and beautiful digital paintings from Deviant Art. In this post, you will find that most of the masterpieces are softly colored yet look truly stunning.
You will notice that each of the artwork tells its story in its own way. Surely there are some very amazing artists out there who have created such masterpieces. Kindly note that, all these images have been gathered from Deviant Art and therefore have been linked back properly to their original sources.
Into the Unknown by kerembeyit
Anamnesis of estivation by alexiuss
The Evil Snowman by Beloved-Creature
Mountain serenity by AndreeWallin
Commission: Declan by charlie140588
Chinese Monastery Concept by I-NetGraFX
The Leviathan, revisited by forgottenpurpose
Pirates of the Spanish Main by viag
Elephant who likes Eggplant by ethe
Tree Root Canopy by ANTIFAN-REAL
10 Evergreen (Yet Free) iPad Apps To Kill Your Boredom
Wondering how to have fun with your iPad? One obvious way is to play games or try fun apps on it. And here we are listing down Top 10 Evergreen iPad Apps To Kill Your Boredom. Read on my list of top 10 free iPad apps for your entertainment. Try them all out – they’re free!
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Atlas of the World
A Digital Atlas of the United States and the World, with satellite images of over 400 famous landmarks. The World map lets you view data at the country level, while the United States can be viewed at the state and county levels. Data is provided from the World Bank, Wikipedia and the 2000 US Census.
Optical Illusions
An optical illusion (also called a visual illusion) is characterized by visually perceived images that differ from objective reality. This Simple Application is a collection containing 70 different optical illusions. Just watch them and be amazed.
Mood Sense Lite
Mood Sense knows that your mood is so much more than just happy or sad. You are a unique and complex individual with intricate feelings. Let the Mood Sense Podlingz (4 specialized oracles trained exclusively to interpret your feelings and emotions) read the deep ripples of your inner being and enlighten you.
Google Earth
With Google Earth for iPad, you can fly to far corners of the planet with just the swipe of a finger. You can explore the same global satellite and aerial imagery available in the desktop version of Google Earth, including high-resolution imagery for over half of the world’s population and a third of the world’s land mass.
Save Stickly – Free Fall Down Game
Do You Have What It Takes To Save Stickly? Save Stickly is an addicting, fun, (and free) fall down game. Simply tilt your device left and right to falldown the holes in the game. Avoid the ceiling for as long as possible to keep from crushing Stickly.
10,500+ Cool Facts
What’s a better way to waste your time than learning 10,513 new cool facts? With this app you can learn thousands of those facts that you might did not know before.
Planets
A 3D guide to the solar system for aspiring astronomers. You can discover when you can see your favorite planet, and where to look in the sky in relation to the stars and so much more.
Fotopedia Heritage
With 25,000 awe-inspiring photos, this much loved app has been called the world’s largest photo book, an inspiring travel guide, an entertaining teaching device and even a bed-time relaxation tool.
700 City Maps
Tired of having the paper map blown to pieces by the wind every time you try to figure out where you are and where you need to go? The mobile streetmaps are for you, All the map data is loaded on your iPAd before you leave your home, so can you be on the streets, offline, and still know everything about the area you are in, and locate yourself or any street in the city. You don’t need any network connection at all once the application is installed on your iPhone.
Test Your IQ
Desire To Know Your IQ? “TEST YOUR IQ” is the easiest way to check your IQ with your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. The test is fully consistent with the standards of IQ testing. You are offered to answer various questions. At the end of testing, the program will calculate your IQ.
7 Best (Yet Free) Online Website Builders
There are many apps out there for you, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. Today, we are sharing the 7 Best (Yet Free) Website Building Tools. Read each entry in the list and see which tool suits your needs best.
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Google Sites
Google Sites is a free and easy way to create and share webpages. This is powerful enough for a company intranet, yet simple enough for a family website as well.
Wix
You can create your own free website that looks and functions the way you want. Wix is an online editor with a drag and drop interface that lets you learn how to make a website without the need to bother with any code or web programming. To build your site, use the free design elements found inside the Wix website builder. Add pictures, text, contact forms, Google maps, social network icons and links, music, video files and more, in just a few simple clicks. You can also upload your own content, to add your own photos, animation files, text and more.
DevHub
DevHub is your place to create on the Web with no hosting hassle, guided site-editing, money-making tools, social features integrated, and a whole lot of fun mixed in.
SnapPages
SnapPages is the easiest way to create your own website online. With it’s simple drag and drop tools you can have your new website up and running in no time.
Webs
The Webs site builder provides everything you need to get your business online which is a wide variety of customizable templates, and engaging features like blogs, photos, videos, forums and more.
GetShopped
You can create free website, pages, sell online, send newsletters, and blog online with GetShopped. This is perfect for any new or existing business that wants to sell products or services online. GetShopped integrates with Google
Checkout, Paypal, Payment Express, and many other trusted payment processors. This will ensure secure payment processing for your clients.
Webnode
Webnode is a tool for the fast and easy creation of web sites. This is simple, on-line and free. You can even use your own domain. It can really get your site up and running in only five minutes.
13 Most Robust WordPress Plugins To Speed Up Your Blog’s Loading Time
There are hundreds of wordpress plugins available on the internet. Some of them are very useful and some of them are only for the sake of existence. But it’s totally up to you that how you can make your wordpress blog more strong and powerful using different plugins to give your blog readers an amazing and wonderful experience. In this post, We are listing down wordpress plugins that are really essential for every blog.
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W3 Total Cache
W3 Total Cache improves the user experience of your blog by improving your server performance, caching every aspect of your site, reducing the download time of your theme and providing transparent content delivery network (CDN) integration. With this plugin, you can save up to 80% Bandwidth via Minify and HTTP compression of HTML, CSS, JavaScript and RSS feeds. We personally use W3 Total Cache and recommends this plugin to our all the visitors.
WP Super Cache
WP Super Cache is a static caching plugin for WordPress. It generates html files that are served directly by Apache without processing comparatively heavy PHP scripts. By using this plugin you will speed up your WordPress blog significantly.
HeadJS Loader
This plugin reformats your page to utilize Head JS in your WordPress site. It strips out all your old javascript declarations and puts them into head.js calls so that they are loaded in parallel.
Plugin Organizer
This plugin allows you to change the order that your plugins are loaded. It also adds grouping to the plugin admin age.
JS & CSS Script Optimizer
This plugin will help you make your website more quick. It can grouping and packing Java Scripts and CSS. Also it makes fewer HTTP requests.
WP Minify
This plugin integrates the Minify engine into your WordPress blog. Once enabled, this plugin will combine and compress JS and CSS files to improve page load time.
Scripts Gzip
A WordPress plugin to merge and compress the CSS and JS links on the page. It does not cache, minify, have a “PRO” support forum that costs money, keep any logs or have any fancy graphics. It only does one thing, merge+compress,
and it does it relatively well.
html-compress
This plugin clears html of web page. It reduces space, tab, etc. on all source content, including in line css and javascript.
Performance Optimization: Order Styles and Javascript
What if you are using plugins and that are adding calls to JavaScript and CSS files dynamically. This is case of WordPress blog, where we use many plugins and those plugins add various Styles and Script files dynamically from wp_head() call. This plugin helps you assign the order to stylesheet and JavaScript (external and inline) for performance optimization.
External Files Optimizer
It automatically combines and compress css/js files generate with wp_head() and wp_footer().
It enables gzip-compression if the visitor’s browser can handle it. This will speed up your WordPress website drastically and reduces bandwidth usage as well. Uses the PHP ob_gzhandler() callback.
WP Parallel Loading System
The WP Parallel Loading System is a wordPress plugin that will enhance the loading efficiency of your Blog.
CloudFlare
The CloudFlare WordPress Plugin ensures your WordPress blog is running optimally on the CloudFlare platform.
How Big Is The Internet? (Infographic)
Who would have thought that a little research project that was initially experimented for specific group of people called “ARPANET” will transform the world and get the revolution that will change the life of every individual. Started from early 1960′s to the 2010, it changes lots of faces and expanded like a spider web. But there are so many of us who love to see the statistics. Here, we have found an infographic in which you can see the periodic growth of internet from 1998 to 2010 in a very attractive manner.
This infographic was designed by TNW. We would love to know what you are thinking while viewing this infographic. 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. Click here for the larger view.
13 Excellent jQuery Techniques And Demonstrations
Are you looking for some cool and handy jQuery Plugins, you landed at right place. Below we are presenting 13 most useful and handy techniques that you can use in your next project and make it stand out.
jQuery is the most well-known and open source JavaScript library which is being used all around the world because it simplifies the client-side scripting of HTML. You can also create marvelous effects by using these plugins. Enjoy!
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Animate Curtains Opening with jQuery
Creating a polaroid photo viewer with CSS3 and jQuery
How to Make an Impressive Animated Landscape Header with jQuery
Incredible Login Form With jQuery
Awesome Bubble Navigation with jQuery
Making an Interactive Picture with jQuery
“Outside the Box” Navigation with jQuery
Now THIS Is What We All Really Hate About Our Lives (Cartoon)
This is so true. The perfect example of what “Modern Life” term means. Now a days whatever we do, from studies to games, entertainment to gathering everything is done via computers and internet. Computer is a part of our modern life and is considered one of the basic necessities in most of the part of the world. This comic strip gives 100% accurate overview of what our lives are turned into, and what we call “Modern Life”.
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Source: Unknown
11 Extremely Beautiful (Yet Free) Animal-Themed High Quality Icon Sets
In the past, we had posted good collection of icon sets which were highly praised by our visitors and on their request, we have compiled yet another exciting post on animal-themed icon sets.
Icon set if used properly help users with nice metaphors, and for this reason designers and artists all around the world put lots of attention on the selection of icon set, feel free to suggest and share more icon sets in the comments section
below.
Birdie Adium Dock Icons
Animals
Tweeties: A Free Twitter Icon Set
Birdies
Zoom-eyed Creatures
FREE Plush Icons Set
Animals
Underwater
Maneki Neko
Animals
Cute Critters Free Icon Pack
