Archive for June, 2011
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10 Newly Discovered Websites You Should Try Out
In this round up of 10 we look at some really cool newly discovered websites for you to try out, so that you don’t have to wander to look for them, and they are just not cool they live up to the purpose they are built for.
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Bandwidth Place
Do you want to know if you are getting the internet bandwidth that you were promised by your ISP?, if YES, just log in to Bandwidthplace, where testing your bandwidth is as simple as pressing a button. Once the websites loads just press on the “Start Test” button and you will have the results in no time. Its fast and accurate. So test your bandwidth right now.
Document Corrupter
You read it right corrupt your documents so they won’t work, and why would you need it?, well have you been in times when you had to submit a paper at college or submit a report at work by a certain deadline and you know you won’t be able to make it, and that your merciless teacher or boss will hold you accountable? Well this will just buy you sometime, go the website choose the file and click upload, it will corrupt your file and give you a download link to the corrupted version. The Document Corrupter supports old and new versions of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
Qurify
Qurify is a website that lets you code a message of max. 255 character in a QR Code and lets you either email it directly download it in PNG or JPG formats or print it. QR codes are 2 dimensional barcodes that are easily scanned using any modern mobile phone and then converted into understandable text. So it’s an easy way to pass a message across the hall that you don’t want others to peek on, or just make your messages more secure cause the coded message just looks like abstract art.
Privnote
If you are looking to communicate through electronic medium and not leave evidence Privnote is the right website for you. Just open the website write in your note and create it. It will give you a link that you can send to the person who the note is intended for. That link can be accessed only once so it leaves no evidence or risk of being read again or by someone it is not intended for. The website supports up to seven languages so you can choose a language of your preference. It’s simple, easy and secure.
i2type
This website gives you access to a virtual keyboard that can adapt into 67 different languages. So if you are looking to type in a different language this is the best solution for you. It also lets you directly use famous search engines and websites to put your text in. You can also save your file in a word document.
DarkCopy
DarkCopy is a website which is for anyone who appreciates the old school typing interface of a typewriter and wants to increase their productivity as all the colors in today’s software makes it hard to focus on your typing. You can switch to a full screen option to be even more productive and save your work in a Notepad file. It’s simple and effective.
Make Some Time
Do you find it hard to keep track of time you spend on a specific Task, Project or client? MakeSomeTime helps you keep track of your time and helps you invoice like a professional. Just create an account add clients to it, associate projects to the clients and create tasks for the projects.
BeatLab
Beatlab makes it very easy for you to make your own tracks, just open up their site and you will see a gird, click on the gird and make a sequence and selection of sounds you want to be played, select a tempo and you are good to go. It’s easy and exciting. Save your track and share it with your friends.
FutureMe
Talk to your future by logging into Futureme and writing yourself a letter about how things are now, and what you expect from your future. You just need to write in your email and the subject is already written with a date. Write what you want to say put in a date you want this letter to be delivered to your email address, you can even add a picture and send it to your Future.
Textify
Textify.it is a website that lets you add any text or symbol affects to any picture of your choice. It has a very simple and easy to use control panel on the top right that lets you control the texts and symbols you want to use as well as its font and quantity with many other options. It’s very simple to use , just drag a picture in the browser on the webpage or open a picture using the controls. The website is only compatible with Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox 4.
45+ Useful Yet Free eBooks For Designers And Developers
Internet has made the world of knowledge and information so much open than it ever had before. With thousands of tutorials available online and proper standards in place, it just takes few days of study to master even the most complicated skills.
Designing community always require useful resources and new techniques to bring novelty in their designs. Here, we are showcasing an incredibly useful collection of 45+ free e-books that every designer and developer must read. We hope that you will learn some new techniques and get help in mastering your own area of expertise. Enjoy!
Head first HTML with CSS & XHTML
A learner’s guide to creating standards-based Web pages.
MacLeod, an advertising executive and popular blogger with a flair for the creative, gives his 26 tried-and-true tips for being truly creative. Each point illustrated by a cartoon drawn by the author himself. If you’ve ever felt the draw to do something creative but just haven’t been able to pull it together, you’ll love this manifesto.
Web Designers Success Guide (PDF)
Web Designer’s Success Guide is the definitive guide to starting your own freelance Web design business.
WebGuru is glad to offer an ebook named “Design Your Imagination”; a one stop resource for the beginners and learners of website design. Though this e-book is mainly targeted for the beginners of website design, it might prove helpful for the experienced web designers as well.
From Simon Schoeters, the author: Yet another overview of the changes introduced by HTML5. How does it look like? What is sexy? What is sexy? This presentation, that’s what.
The definitive guide to HTML & XHTML.
JavaScript Programming for the Absolute Beginner
For the Absolute Beginner, No Experience Required
Learn how to use the content management framework to create powerful customized web sites.
Completely revised for standards compliance, including CSS 2.1 and XHTML 1.0.
Molly Holzschlag has her finger on the pulse of what web developers need to know. And small wonder, she has been working in the trenches herself for years.
Building a Successful Joomla, Powered Website
Up to Speed on HTML 5 and CSS 3
A presentation to Refresh DC about the emerging HTML 5 and CSS 3 standards, namely about aspects that are beginning to become applicable to web design and development.
Faster, and More Secure Webfonts
Font embedding for the web is a great step in making the web look better and become more functional, but what about security and load times?
Bram Pitoyo’s slide deck takes the top layer off font embedding and shows us how things work, and ultimately how to improve performance and make it more secure.
20 Things I learned about Browsers and the Web
What’s a cookie? How do I protect myself on the web? And most importantly: What happens if a truck runs over my laptop?
For things you’ve always wanted to know about the web but were afraid to ask, read on.
Integrating Accessibility Throughout Design (HTML)
Accessibility is designing products so that people with disabilities can use them. Accessibility makes user interfaces perceivable, operable, and understandable by people with a wide range of abilities, and people in a wide range of circumstances, environments, and conditions. Thus accessibility also benefits people without disabilities, and organizations that develop accessible products.
Web Style Guide: 3rd Edition (HTML)
Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites
This book has been made to help you learn the 10 broad classifications of type. These are the basic foundations of what you need to learn to learn typography and it is essential for any designer to know how to classify type.
Time Management for Creative People
It’s subtitled ‘Manage the Mundane – Create the Extraordinary’ as it’s designed to help you maintain your creative focus while dealing with your other commitments.
Quick reference for SEO terms and phrases.
Rated Five Stars at Amazon.com since the day it was published, “Taking Your Talent to the Web” is now a free downloadable book from zeldman.com
The Design Funnel: A Manifesto for Meaningful Design
Are you a professional designer? Would you like a process to create more consistently creative work which distinguishes itself from the work of your peers?
Would you like a process which would help translate the often vague, unclear wishes of your clients (and yourself, for that matter) into a clear and solid basis for your design? This manifesto will show you how.
The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web (HTML)
A practical guide to web typography.
Essential JavaScript And jQuery Design Patterns – A Free New Book
The booklet is written to provide some core messages for which we can create a common chorus. It defines the power of Designing, a larger concept that includes strategy as well as artifacts across a variety of disciplines.
The Woork Handbook is a free eBook about CSS, HTML, Ajax, web programming, Mootools, Scriptaculous and other topics about web design… directly from Woork.
A Concise Guide to Archiving for Designers
In 10 short chapters the guide provides designers with the proper ways to store and describe their collections.
Discover the smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web-based application. A book by 37 signals.
Freedom, Money, Time,Key to Creative Success
Dive Into HTML5 seeks to elaborate on a hand-picked Selection of features from the HTML5 specification and other fine Standards.
As fans of HTML5 and its possibilities for the web, it’s nice to see major sites like Scribd jump on board the train and push it forward. Your move, Slideshare.
A pain free introduction to Building Interactive Web Sites.
This guide introduces you to just the main elements of HTML5 that you’ll probably want to use right away. This guide is for those who want to get the basics figured out first, and worry about the finer details later on.
This book answers two questions. The first question is “Why should I make my web site more accessible?” If you do not have a web site, this book is not for you. The second question is “How can I make my web site more accessible?” If you are not convinced by the first answer, you will not be interested in the second.
Eloquent JavaScript is a book providing an introduction to the JavaScript programming language and programming in general.
This book presents the state of the art of search interface design, based on both academic research and deployment in commercial systems.
A universal design approach to web usability.
Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines
Throughout your Web design or redesign project, you should take advantage of what is already known about best practices for each step of the process. The Research-Based Web Design and Usability Guidelines, compiled through an extensive process of research and review, bring you those best practices.
In this eBook you’re about to learn to use the most powerful web development language that can be found, and, what’s more, you will do so with the minimum of fuss.
A Beginner’s Guide to HTML.
Knock Knock is now available for you to read for free. It’s a short take on how to use the new online marketing tools to make any website work more effectively.
Quick Solutions to Common CSS Problems.
Beginning CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design
Cascading style sheets (CSS) are the modern standard for website presentation. When combined with a structural markup language such as HTML, XHTML, or XML (though not limited to these), cascading style sheets provide Internet browsers with the information that enables them to present all the visual aspects of a web document.
Creating Web 2.0 Sites with Programming and Usability Patterns.
Flash 8: Projects for Learning Animation and Interactivity
Projects for Learning Animation and Interactivity.
Lighting Fast Web Development
Action Script 3.0 Programming Fundamentals.
The expert’s Voice in Web Development.
Free Premium Download: WonderFox DVD Ripper
We have got a great honor to give an exclusive chance to download and enjoy WonderFox DVD Ripper for free to SmashingApps.com visitors. It’s a paid product, but now is being given away from June 1 to June 7, 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!
WonderFox DVD Ripper is the powerful and professional ripper software. It is the good solution which is also easy to use for ripping content of DVDs to a wide range of mainstream video formats such as AVI, MPEG, MP4, MOV, FLV, WMV, 3GP etc. The WonderFox DVD ripping software is also a powerful DVD converter which supports to convert DVDs to the popular portable devices such as iPhone, iPad, iPod, Nokia N8, BlackBerry PlayBook, Motorola Xoom…
WonderFox DVD Ripper is easy to use (three steps – Load DVD > Set Profile > Get Start) but provides fast ripping speed. The ripper software would also ensure the quality of output videos. The software supports all popular DVD formats and will continuously update to support the latest DVD copy protections. It is really one of the best solutions for ripping DVDs.
Furthermore, the DVD ripper is 100% Clean, and with No Spyware, No Malware, No Adware and No Virus.
How The Internet Is Killing Our Planet (Infographic)
It’s not that easy to believe and understand that we are killing our planet’s environment every time we use internet for any task. Yes, you read it right, while majority of the global names are trying to incorporate eco-friendly green environment but at the same time with the usage of internet for any of our tasks we are probably destroying all those efforts. You will be amazed to know that every month Google produces 260,000 kg CO2 to process user searches that is enough to power a freezer for 5,400 years. This is one of the million examples. In this post, you can find below is a well designed and easy to understand example of infographic that show the how internet is killing our planet.
The credit goes to WordStream, Inc 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.
