Archive for May, 2011
The Geek’s Routine (Cartoon)
Technology plays an important role in our lives. There are some technologies which addict us with themselves and we actually forget our social and physical activities. For Example now a days physical games are replaced with video games, and from the age of 5 when a kid should be playing outside with his friends, is spending his time on games. This type of addiction goes on and on and never ends in any age. This cartoon shows 100% truth about this issue which was designed by The Chaos Level.
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50 High Quality Free PSD Icon Sets You Probably Never Want To Miss
We have previously shared many collection of free icon sets with our readers and upon huge request and demand, here we have compiled yet another collection of Free Icon Sets which you probably never want to miss. These icon sets are available in editable PSD format so that you can edit or modify them according to your own needs.
Designers are ecstatic to find out free icon sets that are accompanied by the .psd files. This is because PSD file format allows you to extend the icon set up to your requirements. So without any further ado, here is the complete list after this jump. All psd icon sets are free. Please read the license agreements carefully before using the psd’s, the license can change from time to time.
Computer processor, CPU icon (PSD)
Design a Stylish Mail Icon in Photoshop
Silver computer database icon (PSD)
PSD mobile phone, black cellphone icon
Graphics processing unit, GPU icon (PSD)
30 Colorful Examples of Vector-based Artworks
If you search the internet for a while, you will come to know that vector art or vector images are the most wanted inspirational collection on the net. Designers all over the world are trying to create unique styles by incorporating new and unique ideas. Designer community is willing to bring available freebies into play that can assist their designs to turn out to be more attractive and fine-looking.
You are welcome if you want to share more vector based designs 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 and follow us on Digg as well to get updated.
Banana Black Fruit by by Tsepo.makate
Craise Squirell by by Petshopbox Studio
Starbucks Coffee by by Giorgio Cantù Creative
Clint the Good by by everttdesousa
Landscape vector by Cutelittlestar
The witch’s cupcake house by LittleGrimm
Spirit of the forest by recycledwax
Seven Promising Websites That Offer Great Yet Free Services
The internet is a rapidly growing phenomenon which now offers a lot of free of cost services which would otherwise be unavailable to users. Today we’ll be looking at some great websites which offer free services which we often overlook. We bring these free and great websites into the limelight so everyone can benefit from the service which these websites offer. Take a look:
You are welcome if you want to share more websites that offer great free services 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 and follow us on Digg as well to get updated.
Gumroad
We’re all familiar with various places of selling stuff online. Gumroad is a concept which enables users to sell anything which they want over the internet in a matter of seconds. All you have to do is mention the link of where your product is placed, value it and share it with other Gumroad users.
Otomata
Otomata is a website which lets users make and play awesome sequential sounds. One can create some beautiful melodies using Otomata thanks to its 9×9 sequencing matrix which gives a lot of options to users for creating ear catching vibes.
Make a Thumbnail
Make a Tumbnail is an online service which lets users create thumbnails from their regular pictures. It is extremely easy to use with users only need to specify the input picture to create thumbnail from followed by selecting the size of the thumbnail. The rest is very well handled by the app. Make a Thumbnail is one of the most useful websites you’ll find around
QuickForget
Uploading and saving files online is commonplace today. However, most online storage services require lengthy signup procedures and configurations before you can actually save a file. If you are in need of a quick way to store files online temporarily, QuickForget is the place to go. It lets users to upload files quickly and set the limit (time or views) after which the file will be removed from storage. A great website to store those important files securely.
Peepmail
Peepmail is a cool initiative taken which allows users to search for the business e-mail addresses of people even if they are not publically available. The exact nature of how this website works is not known, but it claims to tell the business e-mails of users so why not give it a try and see how well it does
vintageJS
If you’re someone who likes to bring ‘classic’ or retro/vitage look in everything they do, vintageJS is for you. This cool website allows you to take a picture, add some really attractive vintage effects to it and then share it with your friends via facebook, Twitter etc. The retro-look given by vintageJS is very good and gives a classic feel to any image which you like. Here’s an example of an image made retro with vintageJS:
Filebird
Filebird is a website which consolidates all major free file storage services on a single platform and provides users the ability to access their stored files on all the platforms at the same time. All you need to do is specify which service you want to upload the file and get the download link to that file via e-mail. Filebird makes it very easy to store files online without going through lengthy signups.
66 Desirable Photoshop Brush Sets For Creating Colorful Lighting Effects
Having a quality set of Photoshop brush pack in place is like the icing on the cake for the designer when he is up to creating a new design. Graphic designers use different types of brush sets to give their design an edge that sets it apart from others’ work.
High quality Adobe Photoshop brush set without a doubt is an inevitable tool for the designers and artists. Therefore, we have assembled this post where we are showcasing huge remarkable and striking light effects Photoshop brush packs. We hope that this collection will come in handy in particular when you are running out of the time.
MistyLight Brushes (5 Brushes)
ExtremelyABSTRACT (20 Brushes)
High-Res Glowing Light Stream (6 Brushes)
Sui Generis Brushes Volume 1 (10 brushes)
High Res Photoshop Lens Flare (20 Brushes)
Evasion Brush Set (18 brushes)
Space Light Brushes for Photos (13 Brushes)
Abstract Light Brushes (25 brushes)
Mystical Light Effects (20 Brushes)
Abstract Light Swirl Brushes (8 Brushes)
Light Swirls Brushes (22 Brushes)
Light Streaks Brushes (30 Brushes)
Raging Dawn Brushes (8 brushes)
High Res Light Effect Brushes (46 brushes)
Abstract Curves Brushes (28 brushes)
Abstract brush pack vol. 7 (4 brushes)
Unreal Brushes v.4 (9 Brushes)
Unreal Brushes v.2 (8 brushes)
Lightning Bolt Brushes (40 Brushes)
Fantasy Lighting Brush Kit (19 Brushes)
Sparkling Light Effects (24 brushes)
Abstract brush pack vol. 8 (4 brushes)
Justinmind Prototyper Professional Licenses (Worth $495 Each) Giveaway
Justinmind is running a contest, where 5 winners will get the perpetual license of Justinmind Prototyper (worth $495 each). Well, you guys know what they are offering? Lets say it once again for n00bs.
Justinmind offers a powerful wireframe tool to create, share and test high fidelity wireframes quickly and easily without any coding. It lets you create dynamic (data-based) and highly interactive (JS-like events) wireframes. And all this without coding as it’s fully drag & drop featured. You can use their free widget libraries for iPhone, iPad, Android or BlackBerry and prototype fully functional mobile, desktop or web apps.
With Justinmind, you can share your HTML prototypes online with your users. They can add comments right on components, and you can even carry out user tests, as Justinmind integrates with most usability testing tools like UserZoom, ClickTale, Google Analytics and many more.
This contest will run from May 3, 2011 to May 13, 2011 and we will select the winners randomly by running MySQL query. Result can be announced any day before May 18, 2011 so keep visiting here or subscribe to our rss feed to get the latest updates. To participate in the contest to win free Justinmind Prototyper Professional License, All you have to do is :
Just tweet this:
Win a free license of @just_in_mind Prototyper Professional (worth $495 Each) from @SmashingApps (RT to Enter) http://bit.ly/khjB0X
1. Once you have tweeted, come back to this post and comment with a link to your tweet and put your valid email ID in the email box.
2. Make sure that you are following @SmashingApps and @just_in_mind on twitter and subscribe our rss feed to track this contest and for future updates.
And that’s it! So, what are you waiting for now? Let’s participate in the contest and good luck.
Top Ten Of The Best Add-ons That Can (REALLY) Rock Your Firefox 4
There are many Firefox add-ons out there for designers and developers, but getting by good ones (which works with Firefox 4) is not that easy. That is why I am sharing Top Ten Of The Best Add-ons That Can Rock Your Firefox 4. Read each entry in the list and see which one suits your needs best.
You are welcome if you want to share more Firefox 4 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 and follow us on Digg as well to get updated.
KwiClick
KwiClick delivers search results from your favorite services directly to you, so there is no need to open new tabs or go back and forth between pages. KwiClick helps you complete tasks more efficiently.
Awesome Screenshot
You can capture the whole page or any portion, annotate it with rectangles, circles, arrows, lines and text, blur sensitive info and it has one-click upload feature to share.
Tab Scope
Tab Scope shows a popup on tabs and enables you to preview and navigate tab contents through popup. It’s major features are real-time preview of tab contents, navigate (Back/Forward/Reload/Stop) through popup, scroll pages or frames in preview with mouse wheel, click links or buttons directly in preview, automatically show preview for tabs opened in background.
Apture Highlights
Apture Highlights is a free tool, built from the ground up to let you take the power of Google search, and the richness YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, and Wikipedia with you to any site. Just highlight a phrase on any site to reveal the web’s best content without ever leaving the page. It’s fast, powerful, and fun to use.
InstantFox
You can sSearch via your addressbar with shortcuts – e.g. simply enter g searchword to search with Google (instant results appear as you type!), g » Google (or try “i” or “m”), e » eBay, a » Amazon, y » Youtube, w » Wikipedia, c » Calculator, f » Weather.
Thumbnail Zoom
It’s a free browser add-on that shows a floating panel with the full size of a thumbnail when hovering over an image or thumbnail from the sites like Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Amazon, Picasa, Flickr, LinkedIn, Hi5, Twitpic, deviantART, PhotoBucket, Tagged, Last.fm, Wikipedia, YouTube, DailyMile, IMDb, Imgur, Photosight.ru, Google Images and few more.
MouseControl
This was created to allow easy tab switching in full screen mode and in Firefox 4 with tabs all the way at top. You can switch, close, undo close, jump, new, duplicate, and zoom tab control all through just your left, right, and scroll mouse buttons.
FoxySpider
FoxySpider is your personal web crawler. It can crawl into a given web site and retrieve what you really want (video clips, images, music files, etc.). FoxySpider displays the located items in a well-structured thumbnail gallery for ease of use.
QuickFox
QuickFox Notes is a multi-tab note taking add-on for Firefox that uses the integrated bookmarks system or a single sqlite database to store notes. Therefore, if you already have either a bookmarks synchronization add-on (e.g: XMarks) or a file synchronization software (e.g: Dropbox, SugarSync, Syncplicity), your notes will be synchronized automatically.
Drag & DropZones
Drag & DropZones is a brand new and innovative way to search the internet. Extending the Firefox Search Engine manager window, you simply drag a Search Engine onto 1 (or more) DropZones to link them. Once you are all set up, you can just drag some text or a link on any website to activate the Drag & DropZones. A stylish transparent grid (in the color of your choice) with all your Search Engines will be displayed over the site you where viewing, and the DropZone you are currently hovering above will be highlighted. Just Drop the text on any of the DropZones and your search will be performed the way you where used to.
Full Licensed MacX Video Converter Pro (Mac And Windows) Available For Free To Download
We have got a great honor to give an exclusive chance to download and enjoy MacX Video Converter Pro (Mac or Windows) for free to SmashingApps.com visitors. It’s a paid product, but now is being given away from May 2 to May 4, 2011. During this period, You can get this full licensed software for free without any functional limitations without doing anything. Yes, you just need to download it!
MacX Video Converter Pro is feature-rich video converting software for you to convert videos in any format to your computer and portable devices. With it, you could have your favorite video clips whether downloaded from YouTube, recorded by HD camcorder & HDTV, or get from Blu-ray videos, and convert to the format that works on laptop and familiar multimedia devices. With the capability of YouTube video downloader, it is easy and fast to download online streaming videos for enjoy them anywhere anytime you want. Moreover, it also enables users to create VOB file from videos for burning to DVD to make a perfect backup.
Built with 420+ Audio/Video codecs, MacX Video Converter Pro has plenty of features and supports almost any file format that is widely used, such as MKV, AVCHD, M2TS, MOD, TOD, ASF, AVC, RMB, AVI, FLV, MOV, MP4, WMV, WebM, Google TV, DAT, etc. With intuitive user interface, it facilitates the conversion process in a few clicks. The default settings are also pre-configured and optimized for newbie, including iPhone, iPod, iPad, PSP, Apple TV, mobile phone, and so on. The advanced functions “High Quality Engine” and “Deinterlacing” are specially designed to ensure
the output video quality. To speed up the conversion speed, multi-core CPU options and hyper threading technology are adopted as well.
You can visit to this page to download MacX Video Converter Pro for Mac or Windows. Here is the license code for Mac: AY-UJUNTWYO-FFIQET and license code for Windows: BO-UMUPYGYX-BGRRED. And yes, do not forget to share your thoughts with us and please spread the word to the world by tweeting and sharing it.
Note: No free update or technical support is provided.
Congratulations To The Winners Of Pastebin’s Lifetime PRO Account
Thanks to all of the participants of contest in which Pastebin’s Lifetime PRO Accounts were givingaway. We ran the MySQL random query and selected these 10 comments to give them Pastebin’s Lifetime PRO Account.
- PSR
- DrMacinyasha
- Andy Merskin
- HaKiM
- TheKilledDeath
- shadowm
- Adi Nugroho
- Rafael Lima
- Shadark
- Bjorn
Pastebin is a website were you can store a piece of text for a certain amount of time. The site is mainly used by IT professionals to store pieces of programming code and configuration information. You can however store any type of text that you like. Many twitter users use Pastebin to store tweets which are over 160 characters and normally wouldn’t fit in a Twitter message. Pastebin.com launched 9 years ago as a simple text sharing website. Back then we didn’t realize that one day we would be hosting millions of pastes for millions of users.
You can either use the website as a guest, a free member or as a paid member. Guests can paste, but not manage anything they have pasted. Free members get control over their pastes, but it comes with certain limits. PRO members get full control, secure https connection, direct file-uploading, much higher limits and can use the website ad-free. To learn about the PRO features check out this page.
Congratulations to all the winners from SmashingApps.Com. All accounts have been upgraded to PRO accounts. If you are not winner at this time so please be patient and keep visiting here or subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter as well because we are coming up with another new great contest very soon.
Thanks to Pastebin 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.
