Archive for April, 2011
Eight Cool Apps That Show The Power Of HTML5
There are many tools out there for designers and developers, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. That is why I am sharing Eight Cool Apps That Show The Power Of HTML5. Read each entry in the list and see which tool suits your needs best.
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vintageJS
vintageJS is a tool where you can upload your images and apply a custom retro, vintage look to them for free. Just try it out: upload your photo, apply the vintage effect and share the retro image it with your friends via twitter or different social networks.
fontdragr
You can drag and drop your truetype (ttf), opentype (otf), scalable vector graphics (svg) or Web Open Font Format (WOFF) fonts in the left hand side module on this website and it will be added to the list. The last font dropped will change the font-family of this text and the above title on the page for preview.
CSS 3.0 Maker
CSS Maker is a free tool to experiment with CSS properties and values and generate a simple stylesheet for your site.
was it up?
This is simple yet very useful site to get a notice when your web page/website goes down. It will notify you by emailing you.
IMGMI
This is IMGMI, a no frills image uploading service. Here, you don’t need an account, you don’t need to see ads, all you need is images.
iPaint
iPaint is essentially the online version of MS Paint program. This is just a demonstration of how we can implement the graphic-based program without worrying about those what-ifs question and performance. It uses the javascript object-oriented programming technique to construct the basic hierarchy of graphics elements.
Canvas Threshold Filter
A threshold filter is a html5 app that converts grayscale or color images into high contrast, black and white images with ease. This threshold filter has been created with canvas.
Klowdz
Klowdz lets you unleash your creative cloud shape hunting skills and share them with the world. You can pick from a large number of “blank” clouds, imagine and draw, then save and share with the world.
7 Excellent Collaboration Tools You Might Now Know About But Should
There are many collaboration tools are out there, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. That is why I am sharing 7 Excellent Collaboration Tools You Might Now Know About But Should. Read each entry in the list and see which tool suits your needs best.
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Banckle
Banckle creates easy-to-use Collaborative & Social Apps to increase business productivity and sales. The Apps enable business to efficiently share, communicate and discuss anywhere, anytime. This is free for 1 year for everyone.
Webplanner
Webplanner is an online collaborative project management tool. You can use the power of the cloud to brainstorm project goals, phases, tasks, and multiple levels of subtasks with your team. Assign responsibility for tasks to team members, who will be notified automatically, and then work out task details through comments. Upload and share project-related files. Print reports. Schedule your project using a dynamic Gantt chart with dependencies and a critical path view. It will help you track the progress of your project using the Overscreen screen (at left), which includes a project status pie chart, a list of approaching tasks for the whole project and individual team members, a project activity feed,
and a team status list.
ideapi
ideapi allows you to create briefs, proposals and documents quickly, share them easily with your team and/or clients, work together to create better content and share ideas.
managewith.us
managewith.us is a collaborative task manager. Now sharing a task list is simple, just send someone your task list’s unique URL. You’ll be able to see each user’s updates in real-time, the second they happen. Also, there’s no need to sign up, just 1-click and away you go.
collabedit
Collabedit is an online text editor that lets people collaborate in real-time. It works in your web browser so no installation is needed. You can use it as text editor, chat, document history, syntax highlighting for programmers, account to track your documents.
Cacoo
Cacoo is a diagram creation tool that runs in your web browser. Multiple people can work together on the same diagram in real time. Diagrams can be published directly to websites, wikis, and blogs.
Byapp
Byapp task list is a simple to-do list that supports multiple users. It helps you get things done. You can assign tasks to yourself or to others. Add them to lists (project x, personal, Fax, Email) for quick scanning and to check them off when they’re done.
The Statistical Journey Of Mozilla Firefox So Far (Infographic)
As we know web browsers are a necessity for us to browse the world wide web and web browser isn’t just a software which was once created and we have been using that same application today. Like technology, it has evolved from time to time, and there are a few big companies who are constantly participating and struggling in the browser’s war. Mozilla Firefox is one of those browsers which is growing everyday. They launched Firefox 4 in March 2011 that was downloaded 7.1 million times in the first 24 hours, and is now more than 100 million downloads and counting. Below you can find a great statistics of the journey of Mozilla Firefox so far.
This infographic was designed by Royal Pingdom. 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.
30 (Simple Yet Effective) Logo Designs Created With Strong Typographic Elements
Logo design is the most crucial aspect of establishing a brand identity. In order to create simple, effective and memorable logo design, sometime designers only make use of the typographic elements. Type-based logo designs not only are simple but attention grabbing as well. This post contains a collection of some amazingly simple yet effective and powerful logo designs that are based on typography. Enjoy!
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Five Great Apps To Enhance The Way You Use Your iPhone
iPhone apps are a great way for customizing the way you use your iPhone. They offer flexibility, more features than normal services would and are very easy to use. The Apple iTunes App store has millions of apps which aim to provide users an enriching smartphone experience overall. Today we’ll be reviewing five great iPhone apps which can be used to enhance the way you use your smartphone. Have a look:
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SoundTracking
SoundTracking allows users to share the songs they listen to with other people while on the go. It does so by informing your friends who also use SoundTracking to share the music which they listen to. You and your friends can comment on the music being shared as well. SoundTracking provides a really great and easy way to share you music without really doing much effort.
PairShare
PairShare is probably the best real-time P2P music sharing app available for the iOS right now. It lets you to stream your music stream live on your friend’s iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch nearby. It is a great way to listen and share music with your friends while doing different real world tasks together. A must have for anyone.
Sign Me Out Lite
Sign Me Out Live is another great app which lets users monitor their important accounts such as Gmail, Google Apps, Facebook, Twitter etc. and immediately know if anyone else is trying to start another session of their respective accounts. Moreover, it also allows users to sign out from different accounts with a single tap. Sign Me Out also provides a complete info about your current session details to each of the services you are logged in. If you like using multiple services on your iPhone, then Sign me Out is a great app to have for a combined signout from all those services in a single click.
Follows
Follows is an app for social networking freaks. It provides users the aggregate data about different aspects of social networking information from their profiles on multiple services. Information presented to users is about the total number of friends, subscriptions made following others, social connections developed, likes and so on. Follows supports a lot of social networks and other socially active services like Facebook, Twitter, Vimeo, YouTube etc. and gives quite accurate results for you to analyze your social performance.
HeyWire Free Text Worldwide Plus Facebook Chat, Twitter & IM
This all-in-one app provides users with the ability to send free text messages to others in the US and worldwide, have Google Talk and Facebook chat conversations with them, Twitter via text, auto-reply to text messages while driving and last but not the least, locate and text other friends who also use this great all-in-one app. HeyWire is really easy to use and it DOES provide the ability to send FREE texts all over the globe. HeyWire easily switches between 3G and WiFi when WiFi is available saving you data costs making it economical as well. A little downer for us was a single add which appeared in the app. Overall, it’s a must have!
60 Extremely Beautiful Mobile Phones GUI PSD Packs
This is the age of Mobile Phones. Mobile phones are everywhere, not only in your hands but also on the internet. Keeping this trend in mind, many businesses especially design GUI just for the smart phones to cater this market as well.
Here in this post, we are showcasing an implausible summary of most excellent Free Mobile Phones GUI PSD Packs for you. We hope that this collection saves your time next time you want to design GUI for smart phones.
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Fireworks template for Android
Why People Prefer Using Google Earth (Graph)
Google Earth is a miraculous service provided by Google which is used by billions of users. Google defines it as “Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean. You can explore rich geographical content, save your toured places, and share with others.” Well that is perfect to hear and use, but it is used totally in the opposite direction. Here is a hilarious analysis in the form of graph showing how people prefer using Google earth.
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45 Stunning Examples Of Bird’s Eye View Photography That Captured The Beauty Of Earth
Here is an awe-inspiring collection of Bird’s Eye View photography that is a special technique of capturing photographs from an elevated location. This gives the bird’s eye view of the object being photographed. In Bird’s Eye View Photography, the camera is usually not supported by land based structure rather it is hand held or mounted and photographs are taken through triggering the camera either remotely or automatically.
Bird’s Eye photos is a great source of inspiration and therefore we compiled this post. We have already published a post about Aerial Photography and that was greatly appreciated by our readers. Now we have gathered another great collection of Bird’s Eye View photography. Feel free to share your opinion with us. Your comments are always more than welcomed!
The Orinoco River near the Esmeralda, Amazonas region, Venezuela
Meanders in the Amazon River near Manaus, Brazil
Meanders in the Amazon River near Manaus, Brazil
The Arecibo radio telescope, Puerto Rico
Heart island? Mnemba Island Tanzania
Louis-Saint-Laurent icebreaker in Resolute Bay, Nunavut Territory, Canada
Aerial Photography, Feitsui Reservoir, Taipei County
Landscape art – Aerial picture of a little island in lake Superior in Ontario Canada
Lake Blue Ridge-Blue Ridge Dam
Water point, near Koulayyou, mountains of Makarrassou, Republic of Djibouti
New balloon plus our shadow/ glory
Crops, Above The Great Plains, USA
Iguazu waterfalls, Misiones province, Argentina and Brazil
Algae blooming near Ravenswood Slough
El Temple de la Sagrada Familia
Elepants grazing in Lake Amboseli
Pyramid of the Louvre, Paris, France
6 Lesser Known Websites To Buy/Sell Your Cars
With online business and trade being commonplace these days, there’s no wonder when we talk about online automobile selling/buying. For years now, there have been countless websites present online which allow people to buy and sell cars. AutoTrader is a famous portal for doing automobile business online. However, today we would be presenting a few websites which are great place to go and shop for your next car but don’t come in the limelight due to some reason. This does not mean that they’re not good. Have a look:
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Clcarz
Clcarz is a website for US based customers who want to buy/sell their automobiles. The website provides a search engine which allows users to search for cars across multiple cities. There are a lot of search options available which include make, models, year of production, price range. Search results are displayed beautifully sorted against different cities.
EcoFOURCOURT
If you’re interested in eco-friendly cars, then this is the place to go to buy eco-friendly cars. It has separate search options for vehicles based on environment friendly fuel systems and the normal fuel systems cars. Moreover, you can list your own eco-friendly car on the website as well so it can come up in the eco-friendly searches performed by other people as well
Honk
Honk is a unique type of online car shopping portal since it advises the visitor on what kind of car would be suitable for them keeping in view their requirements. Moreover, Honk has a car review section as well which reviews new car models from various manufacturers around the world.
Mota
Mota is an online car buying place which specializes well in used cars. If you’re someone who is looking to buy used cars, Mota is the place to go since it has a great features listing section for each car on sale. Moreover, it allows people willing to sell their cars a platform which can effectively be used to market their car across different domains such as social networks (Facebook, Twitter etc.), blog ads etc.
Motortopia
Motortopia is a complete online portal related to automobiles. It has various sections such as cars, new rides of the week, cool rides, car photos and videos, forums related to automobile talk and so much more which any car lover would like. Moreover, it allows its users to perform selling and buying of cars as well. Motortopia also lists any automobile related events which are to be held at any place in the US.
TrueCar
Truecar not only helps you to search for the car which you want, but also tells you what is the average price paid for similar cars which have been sold in the area. This helps users to get an accurate estimate on how much to bargain for a good car deal.
The Current State of Mobile App World (Infographic)
The trend of having a mobile version of any website or application is growing very fast. The main reason behind this trend is a rapidly increasing usage of smartphones all over the world. And ofcourse no brand would ever want to loose their mobile audience. That is no surprise if we take into account that 5 billion apps were downloaded in 2010. There are some serious predictions that 21 billion apps will be downloaded by 2013. What are the other numbers behind the present and the future of the Mobile App World? In this post, you can find below is a well designed and easy to understand example of infographic that shows the current size of state of mobile apps world.
The credit goes to ShoutEm Blog who compiled these stats into an amazing infographic. 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.
