Archive for June, 2011
Ten Great Online Apps To Help You Manage Business Tasks Efficiently
The best business management tools are that will help you keep track of variables affecting your business and finances, let you generate invoices and directly send to your clients and do more in aiding you with your business activities. Today we have gathered a list of Ten Great Apps To Help You Manage Business Tasks Efficiently.
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Clockitin
Clockitin is a simple and easy to use online time tracking site. It makes it easy to track your time through the day and quickly shift between tasks. So using this app you will be able to manage unlimited number of sessions/projects/tasks. You will also be able to make your projects public or share projects with specific people with out making them public. Creating an account only takes a few seconds and it’s free!
Enloop
Enloop lets you autowrite your business plans in which Enloop helps you easily develop a bank and investor ready business plan, complete with all text and financial forecasts, for free. Then you can measure the success of your business (on a scale of 0-1,000) before or after you start the business. You also get automated financial forecasts with this service that is based on your input. The service automatically generates a 3-year bank and investor ready financial forecast for sales, profit and loss, cash flow, balance sheet forecasts and financial ratios. The forecasts are bank and investor ready to help loan underwriters evaluate your business for risk. This amazing service does all the technical stuff for you.
Invoiceto.me
Invoiceto.me is a very simple and easy to use online invoice generator that does not require you to sign up or put in any sort of log in details. Just click the link above and you will see an invoice that has all its fields editable. So edit to your will and once finished editing generate a PDF of it by clicking on the tab located on the middle left of the webpage. Save it on your computer and print it to your will.
Tradeshift
Tradeshift lets all your suppliers invoice you electronically for free. It doesn’t matter if they have an ERP system or they use papers, they can now access unlimited electronic invoicing for FREE. This will save you on electronic invoicing systems for your business and save you the hassle of scanning paper invoices.
Paperfreebilling
Paperfreebilling lets you generate and manage all your invoices at one place. It is a very simple to use service for which you can sign up for free. Once signed up just log in to your account and fill in the invoice details. When you are done with filling in the invoice details just send the invoice to your clients inbox and when your client pays the money in your account the invoice status is updated with the amount that you have received. This is one of the leading web-based online invoicing tool.
Cronsync
Cronsync is one of the most comprehensive web-based solution for managing clients their projects and their related activities. An account can be used by the administrator and the team members who will log in with their log-in with their assigned privileges and fill in the details for activities performed by them. You can put in hourly rates for tasks performed that will calculate the costs, revenue and the profitability of the project. You can generate invoices directly and keep a record of them. This tool also lets you manage free lancers working on a specific project. This is a great tool that you can test for FREE.
Billable.me
Billable.me is another web-based invoice generator that doesn’t require for you to sign up. Just visit the page and use the predefined invoice format with editable fields to generate an invoice that you can directly print or download as PDF. The invoice automatically calculate the subtotal, VAT or TAX and total for provided quantity and rate. It is free and easy to use.
Invoicera
Invoicera lets you customize your own invoice template according to your business’s needs. You can than send an invoice to multiple contacts send invoice as an attachment. With this web-based service you can perform recurring invoicing with auto billing, manage your staff members by delegating duties to team members and letting them manage few billing transactions as you set different levels of access for them. Invoicera also has time tracking, expense tracking, invoice scheduling, report generation, set exchange rate, data back up and a lot more. You can try Invoicera for free.
Invoicebubble
Invoicebubble is a free invoice generating software that lets you create professional invoices for free. You can also automate recurring invoices of the same amount. You can send your invoices directly to your clients. Using this service you can get paid through Paypal. This service is add supported and if you want the adds removed just pay $5 per month. Just sign up and start using this tool. It is perfect for freelancers & small businesses.
Invoicejournal
If you want your clients for the services or products you offer you should use Invoicejournal. It incorporates all of the features that commercial products and services offer and wraps them in an easy to use complete online service that is free to use. You can use Invoicejournal to send unlimited invoices to unlimited number of clients. You can customize the invoice template or just use the standard template and save your invoicing record for you to access from anywhere in the world. This tool is free and you don’t need to pay a penny to use it.
TN3 jQuery Image Gallery Pro Licenses Giveaway
TN3 Gallery is running a contest, where 10 winners will get the full fledged HTML based customizable jQuery Image Gallery. Well, you guys know what they are offering? Lets say it once again for n00bs.
TN3 Gallery is a full fledged HTML based customizable image gallery with slideshow, transitions and multiple album options. This is compatible with all modern desktop and mobile browsers. Powered by jQuery.
With TN3 Gallery you can easily create amazing photo galleries and slideshows with slick transition effects, as well as multiple albums, CSS skinning, XML and Flickr support with a host of additional features.
The full version of TN3 Gallery ships with three skins. Besides editing the default skin style sheet, you can also create your own skin HTML and CSS files from scratch. Galleries can be divided into albums and a single image can be used across any number of albums. Mouse wheel navigation can be enabled to allow users to scroll through the images in the gallery using their mouse scroll wheel. To simplify implementation on larger sites, the option to specify images in an external XML file is included.
This contest will run from June 28, 2011 to July 03, 2011 and we will select the winners randomly by running MySQL query. Result can be announced any day before July 5, 2011 so keep visiting here or subscribe to our rss feed to get the latest updates. To participate in the contest and win TN3 Gallery, All you have to do is :
1. Just leave a comment.
2. Use valid email ID in the email box.
3. Make sure that you are following @SmashingApps and @tn3gallery on twitter and subscribe our rss feed to track this contest and for future updates.
4. And that’s it!
So, what are you waiting for now? Let’s participate in the contest and good luck!
Five Desktop Tools To Create Excellent Windows Environment
There are many desktop tools out there for every type of computer users, but getting by good ones and free is not that easy. That is why I am sharing Five Desktop Tools To Create Excellent Windows Environment. Read each entry in the list and see which one suits your needs best.
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File Repair
File Repair software is a powerful tool to repair your corrupted files. It scans the damaged file and extracts maximum data from it to a new usable file. You can repair word documents, excel spreadsheets, zip, rar, selected video formats, pdf, etc.
Cryogenic FileSplitter
This is a simple application written in C# by which you can split large files into several pieces to transfer them easily over Internet. With its unique “Drag and Drop” feature, you can split or join .001 files easily.
USBFlashCopy
USBFlashCopy is a small Windows utility to back up your flash drives and storage cards on the fly. It runs in the background and copies files from inserted media to a safe location on your hard drive. USBFlashCopy copies only newer or updated files, you can optionally keep old versions of the files.
Appnimi ZIP Password Unlocker
Appnimi ZIP Password Unlocker is designed to let you search for passwords of protected ZIP files. This program guarantees the most complicated passwords recovery. Appnimi ZIP Password Unlocker allows to search for the password of the protected ZIP file using Brute Force algorithm. After recovering the password it will extract the files to a destination folder.
Driver Magician Lite
Driver Magician Lite is freeware, it identifies all the hardware in the system, extracts their associated drivers from the hard disk and backs them up to a location of your choice. Then when you format and reinstall/upgrade your operating system, you can restore all the “saved” drivers just as if you had the original driver diskettes in your hands.
50 Minimalist And Stylish Free WordPress Themes
WordPress is the preferred content management system of many bloggers and internet marketers owing to many reasons. Out of them its easily available theme is the most important reason that can completely transform the look as well as the functionality of the website.
In order to let the content communicate with the visitors, bloggers tend to choose neat and clean minimalist WordPress theme. Such minimalist themes are best suited for those projects that demand simplicity. Furthermore, you can easily customize a minimalist WordPress theme based on your needs or requirements.
You’re in luck if you’ve been looking for some nice minimal WordPress themes. Here are 50 classy and free minimalist WordPress themes that you would find useful.
Congratulations To The Winners Of Awwwards Latest Digital Book
Thanks to all of the participants of contest in which Awwwards Latest Digital Book were givingaway. We ran the MySQL random query and selected these comments to give them free Awwwards Latest Digital Book.
- Russ
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The awards for design, creativity and innovation on the Internet, which recognize and promote the best web designers in the world. Awwwards are the awards that recognize and promote the talent and effort of the best developers, designers and web agencies in the world. They have featured the best 365 css websites around the world in this book.
An international jury made up of some of the most important designers, bloggers and Internet agencies, will evaluate each site by means of a strict system of evaluation; scoring it on a scale of 1 to 10 for its Design, Creativity, Usability and Content.
Congratulations to all the winners from SmashingApps.Com. They 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 and you can follow us on twitter as well because we are coming up with another new great contest very soon.
Thanks to Awwwards for sponsoring this wonderful contest at Smashing Apps.
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10 Online Note Taking Web Services Every Internet User Should Know About
Majority of people take notes while surfing the web to jot down ideas, bookmark websites, use notes as reminders and much more. There are certain software available as well for Windows but many people prefer not to install them as they may hog system resources. To solve this problem, we have gathered a list of some worthy online note taking applications which one can use.
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PrivNote:
PrivNote is a free online note taking applications which you can use to jot down ideas or for any other reason. The best thing about PrivNote is that it generates a specific link for the Notes you create so that you can share them with your friends and family. Once the recipient read the note, it will be deleted automatically. It even notifies you once the recipient has read the note.
The service is absolutely free and you dont have to go through long registration process if you want to use it.
Evernote
Evernote is one of the best online note taking applications right now. You can take notes anywhere from your computer or your mobile and sync them. You can then access the notes from any device you have access to. The best thing about this service is that you can even install its desktop client as well if you are satisfied with it. You can access evernote on your iPhone, iPad or Android device as well.
Listhings
Listhings is a simple and easy to use online note taking application which can be used by users to bookmark sites on the go or write down importants tasks while working. Listhings is one of the easiest web based note taking services I came across. You can even save your notes by creating an account on Listhings and then access them from any computer you use.
Jjot
With Jjot, users can take multiple notes at the same time and share it with their friends, family or colleagues. You can either create an account on Jjot to save the notes you write or continue using the unregistered version of the tool and share it. Like other services, users can access the notes from anywhere by logging in Jjot.com.
UberNote
Ubernote is an excellent online note taking service with many exciting features apart from taking notes online. With Ubernote, users can send direct messages through Twitter and save them as notes on Ubernotes. Other main features include Firefox Toolbar for Ubernote with which you can clip different websites, save bookmarks and much more. UberNote is mobile compatible as well and you can take notes on your mobile devices by opening m.ubernote.com and save them. If you like the service, you can even subscribe to Ubernote’s paid plan which include many features which are not available in the free version.
Penzu
Penzu is an online diary and personal journal that is focused on privacy. With Penzu, you can take notes or use it as your daily diary where you write all the stuff and make your own ToDo lists or any other note. You can use Penzu on all major mobile OS including iOS, Android and Blackberry.
NoteFish
NoteFish is a nifty note taking web service which helps users take notes, gather research, write ideas, save bookmarks and much more. With NoteFish, you can drag and drop notes, colorize or annotate notes and share them with your friends and colleagues. To use Notefish, you have to make an account so that you can use Notefish’s full functionality.
Google Notebook
Google Notebook is an excellent web application for all those who take notes to save bookmarks or for any other purpose. Best thing about Google Notebook is that you dont have to create a separate account to use the service, you use your Gmail account to access this web application like all other Google Apps.
MyNoteit
MyNoteit is another excellent web 2.0 note taking application with which you can create notes, drag and drop notes to rearrange them, edit and share them with your friends or colleagues, manage To-do lists, add notes to built in calender and much more.
Memonic
Memonic is an excellent free online note taking web app. With Memonic, users can easily take notes online, clip web content and add it to their notes, share them and print them. You can even sync the notes across different computers and mobile devices so that you can access them anywhere. One drawback of Memonic is that it only allows you to save 100 Notes and if you want to take more notes, you have to subscribe to paid version of Memonic.
50 Creatively Designed (Unusual and Entertaining) 404 Error Pages Worth Checking Out
The Error “404 Not Found” is inescapable no matter how hard a web master tries to not let this happen. This is because even if you make sure that you have removed all the errors from your site, there is no such guarantee that 404 Error would not happen. Clicking on the broken link or coming across to a moved or deleted page are the main reasons of 404 Error.
Here we are sharing with you some cool examples that have made the melancholy of encountering a 404 error page a fun activity. We hope you find these creatively designed 404 error pages worth seeing. Enjoy!
Free Premium Download: WinX DVD Copy Pro
We have got a great honor to give an exclusive chance to download and enjoy WinX DVD Copy Pro to SmashingApps.com visitors. It’s a paid product, but now is being given away from June 22 to June 26, 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!
WinX DVD Copy Pro is specially designed to meet users’ up-to-date DVD backup demand; clone DVD to DVD disc for safe storage; copy DVD to ISO image for later burning, playing or ripping; copy DVD to MPEG2 file with intact content for further usage in media center, DVD library establishment and DVD playback in PS3, HTPC.
Without the need of packing with any third party DVD decrypter, WinX DVD Copy Pro has unlimited access to all region codes and copy protection systems. It faultlessly supports Disney’s Fake, severely scratched DVDs and Sony ARccOS bad sector, while these three obstacles beat off most of DVD copy software in the current market. In a word, in his summer movie season, WinX DVD Copy Pro is your must-have DVD video application.
The license they provide for the giveaway will not support upgrading to future version. Please make sure that you activate the software before July10, 2011. You can click the Download button on this page to get the installtation file and activate the software with BR-TQTYTHYH-PPMIEU.
11 Totally Awesome Time-Saving Apps For Your iPhone
Wondering how to make your iPhone helpful for you so most of the time you don’t need other devices to perform different tasks? One obvious way is to keep an eye on countless iOS developers who develop such apps. And here we are listing down 11 Totally Awesome Apps For Your iPhone. Read on this list of great iPhone apps f to try them all out – they’re free!
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CamScanner Free
CamScanner turns Phone into Scanner. With CamScanner, you are able to digitize any paper documents by photo shooting. Simply take a picture of any paper documents such as receipts, whiteboards, notes, agreement and so forth, and CamScanner can auto crop image, enhance image quality and to create an industry standard PDF file. Then you can easily sync documents via iTunes, upload to cloud like Evernote, Dropbox, Google Doc, Box.net, iDisk, or manage by tagging or searching.
Free Wi-Fi
The Free Wi-Fi locator helps you find free Wi-Fi hotspots where ever you are. With a simple tap of the icon you can see locations near you. Click on a location and receive the exact driving directions.The bad about this application is that this is valid for US users only.
Text’nDrive
This app allows you to be a responsible driver and stay connected by reading unlimited messages for free.
Touch Mouse
Touch Mouse by Logitech turns your iPhone or iPod touch into a wireless trackpad and keyboard for your computer. works over Wi-Fi, so you can use it anywhere in the house. And to make typing easier, text is displayed on the screen of your iPhone or iPod touch as you type, so you can see what you’re doing without having to continually look up and down.
USB Disk
USB Disk lets you store and view documents on your iPhone and iPod. It has an amazing built in document viewer and is very easy to use, with a simple and intuitive interface, yet it contains many powerful features. Drag and drop files in iTunes to transfer them to your iPhone / iPod, then view them anywhere.
Use Your Handwriting
Have you ever wanted to write fast, beautiful notes without having to use the popup keyboard? How about just using your finger on your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad’s gorgeous screen? Use Your Handwriting® (UYH) is a powerful yet simple way to organize and express yourself. Instead of typing items in, Use Your Handwriting lets you write them by hand (well, by finger) – and with its unique graphic rendering engine, makes what you write look like your actual handwriting.
Convert Everything FREE
Convert Everything is a simple application that can convert between units (distance, area, weight, etc), translate words (online using google translate), convert currencies with rates updated online.
Decibels
Want to know what noise level is around you? in the restaurant? in the train? in the office? This app will show you how much noise is there in your surrounding.
Battery Master Free
Battery Master Free shows you the current battery level of iPhone /iPod Touch, e.g. the remaining time for standby, audio, video, Internet browsing in different scenarios. It can also notify you while your iPhone/iPod Touch is fully charged.
Camera Zoom Free
This camera app has some really good features like take new pictures while other pictures are saving, this allows you to take multiple pictures in a short period of time. It controls horizontal and vertical zoom separately, which makes your camera more fun. For example, you can take a picture that makes someone look skinny/chubby.
WiFi HD FREE (Wireless Hard Disk Drive)
Turn your iPhone into a wireless, mobile external hard drive. It works over any WiFi connection. You can now share, copy, and backup your files to and from your PC / Mac / Linux / or another phone.
50 Truly Eye-Catching And Detailed Web Layout Tutorials
An eye-catching web layout can help capture the attention of your potential customers by giving them a feel of confidence and trust. Designers mainly use Adobe Photoshop to create beautiful and stunning designs. Adobe Photoshop is the most widely used graphics software that is being employed all over the world.
Here we are showing 50+ most useful tutorials of Adobe Photoshop that show you the creation of beautiful web layouts by the sole use of Photoshop. We hope that you enjoy this collection.
