Archive for October, 2011
45 Realistic Gadgets Designs Photoshop Tutorials
This is the era of gadgets, and we all love them. Creating levelheaded gadgets designs in Photoshop that look real is not an easy task particularly for the novices. But you can definitely get better in your general skills in Adobe Photoshop and then can design your own set of gadgets.
Keeping this in mind, 45 tremendous and realistic gadgets designs Photoshop tutorials are rounded up here. Go through this collection and learn new tricks in two of the most utilized graphic software the world has ever seen.
In this tutorial you will learn how to create an amazing fragmented golden phone.
Designing Canon Digital Camera
In this detailed tutorial we will learn how to design Canon digital camera.
Make a Floating in Air USB Key Illustration
In this tutorial, Artist will show you how to illustrate a USB key floating in the air and reflecting on a surface. We’ll be adding numerous details that will make this illustration shine. Notice how the Psdtuts+ name reflects off the floor in the illustration. These are the little details that add a degree of realism to your work.
In this Photoshop Tutorial, you’ll learn how to design an old vintage radio using simple shapes, gradients, patterns and textures.
How to Create a Detailed Audio Player
In this tutorial, artist will show you how to create a detailed audio player from scratch. This tutorial will be a great opportunity for you to practice those Shape Tools and Layer Styles skills, with lots of adding and subtracting of Shapes. Enjoy!
Design a Sleek Nature Themed Phone Advert
Here you will learn how to create a Sleek Nature Themed Phone Advert.
This tutorial is made for Photoshop 7 for advanced users but it also can be done in 6 and it will teach you how to create a photo camera from scratch in adobe photoshop.
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a beautiful Black Zune in Photoshop.
In this tutorial you will learn how to design a product in Photoshop. The product is a RCA Lyra X3030 portable media player. Although the chances are, you are thinking “why would I need to make it?”, the reason for this tutorial is to teach people the techniques used for mocking up a product design.
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a Custom MP3 Player with Photoshop.
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a Vector-Based Zune with Photoshop.
In this tutorial you will learn how to create an outstanding MP3 Player Illustration.
In this tutorial you will learn how to re-create an Apple iPod Shuffle by using the original image from apple’s website as a reference and using the gradient tool, layer masks and basic selection and guide techniques.
In this tutorial you will learn how to create an awesome 3D Mp3 Player.
How to Create the Zen Mosiac Mp3 Player
In this tutorial you will learn how to create the Zen Mosiac Mp3 Player.
Here in this tutorial we will learn how to create iPhone from Scratch in Photoshop.
Nokia 5300 Cell phone interface
This tutorial shows you how to use multiple vector shapes, layer styles, and various tools to create a mobile phone design. It’s a nice design with multiple small details explained.
Create a Mobile Phone Styled Like the HTC Touch Diamond
In this tutorial we will learn how to create a Mobile Phone Styled Like the HTC Touch Diamond.
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a Strawberry Cell Phone.
Super Retro Game Cartridge Design
In this tutorial artist will show you how to create a very easy, but really cool, 3D and geometric effect in Photoshop. After that, we will go a bit further and create our own retro Atari-style video game cartridge.
Creating a Set of Digital Painting Icons Part 4 – Digital Tablet Icon
For this forth installment of the Creating a Set of Digital Painting Icons series we will create a pen tablet from scratch, specifically the Wacom 12″ Cintiq tablet. This model combines touch and pressure sensitivity, which allows users to draw directly on the screen. These capabilities make it a favorite for illustrators. Let’s get to work.
In this detailed tutorial we will learn how to design a Slick Black iMac.
In this tutorial artist will show you how to create a Photoshop design bluethoth logo icon in photoshop.
USB portable speaker logo icon
In this tutorial artist will show you how to create a Photoshop design USB portable speaker logo icon in photoshop.
In this tutorial, you’ll be learning how to design the Apple iPad in Adobe Photoshop. We’ll be using various different tools, such as shape tools, gradient tools, different blending mode tools and loads of great techniques. Let’s get started!
Create A Realistic Video iPod Nano
Learn how to paint / recreate an object in Photoshop from an existing photo. This is a great exercise for working on your layer structure and pen tool skills. Breaking down the object and being able to separate and place in the correct order is what will take your artwork to a whole new level.
Today artist will show you how to create a Photoshop design sell MP3 digital player logo icon in Photoshop.
In this tutorial we will learn how to Draw an MP3 Player
How to Make a Bangin’ Woofer Embedded in Wood
In this tutorial, we’ll illustrate a woofer and make a simple wood texture for the background. We’ll place the speaker so that it appears to be inside the wood texture. Also, we’ll create screws that appear to hold it in place. Put some good music on and lets get working!
In this detailed tutorial artist is teaching you about How to Create Photoshop Ipod Portable Speaker Icon.
How to Create a Stylish Media Player in Photoshop
In this tutorial, we’re going to teach you how to replicate Apple’s iPod Nano. Not only will we recreate it’s signature body form, but also the headphones and put them in a unique setting that makes it pop.
In this tutorial artist will be showing you how to create a PC mouse from scratch. Right lets get started!
How to Create a Stylish Pair of Headphones
In this tutorial, you’ll see how to create a sleek pair of headphones, mainly using the Pen Tool and Blending Options. The tutorial is based on teaching some simple ways of using the Layer Styles to create some great shadows and a realistic sense of 3Dimension.
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a watch from scratch in Adobe Photoshop. I will guide you step by step until it is complete.
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a LG LCD Monitor Icon.
How to Create a Super Retro Style Game Controller
In this tutorial, we’re going to be drawing a retro game console controller. Rather than a perspective look, this one will have an isometric look. This tutorial is extremely detailed, and will be fun for all you classic arcade lovers.
In this tutorial you will learn how to create an outstanding TV aquarium.
This is step by step Photoshop tutorial that teaches you how to create original and nice blackberry glossy device concept design from blackberry photo using simple tools, filters and layer style effects.
Creating A Vector Style MacBook From Scratch
This tutorial is quite a long one, we are going to make a MacBook Pro in Photoshop using shapes and different blending options, combining these two simple things we get a realistic vector outcome which can be used in many different situations, so…let’s begin,
The new lesson we’ll try to represent a style illustration, dedicate to a certain topic, in this case, to the musicals.
Design a Stylish Retro Game Boy Poster
This tutorial will walk you through the process of creating a vector Nintendo Gameboy in Illustrator and then using it to produce a cool retro poster in Photoshop.
This tutorial teaches you how to draw the Sony Ericsson w800 Walkman phone from scratch in photoshop.
This tutorial will teach you how to create a photorealistic widescreen LCD HDTV from scratch. The LCD HDTV that we will be making is modeled after Samsung’s LCD HDTVs.
This tutorial teaches you how you can create a realistic looking Sony Playstation using Adobe Photoshop. Each stage is simply outlined allowing you to follow along.
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a Bamboo Fun tablet.
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40 Unbelievably Interesting Google Earth Photos
Google Earth lets the user explore rich geographical content and find out the places they plan to go. Google Earth provides users with satellite images, maps, landscapes and 3D building view to give them a better understanding of the surroundings.
One can search anything whether it is a building, a road, a landscape or any other thing. In this round up, we are sharing some bizarre and interesting Google Earth photos that will inspire you. Enjoy!
We’re not sure what the lake is called but the picture is astonishing. It looks just similar to a man with top hat and bamboo taking a walk across the countryside, quite literally.
Google Escher Effect – Paris, France
Stitching up together satellite pictures and aero pictures of cities can bring about situations like this where the special aerial vantage points give rise to buildings’ pictures being taken at diverse angles.
Another glamorous house with inherent smiling face, this time with a body. It looks completely intentional.
Yum! Brands Inc produced the logo near Rachel, Nevada, and asserted it’s the primary ad that can be viewed from space. If you remember, the same corporation had formerly wanted to broadcast a laser ad up onto the moon for Pizza Hut, however had afterward scaled back to purchasing ad placement on the side of a Russian rocket.
The Belly Flop that Shook the World
That was one titan-sized belly flop that produced that lake.
This red lake outside Iraq’s Sadr City gathered a fair share of macabre assumption when it was discovered in 2007. One tout told the tech blog Boing Boing that he was “told by a friend” that slaughterhouses in Iraq at times dump blood into canals. Nobody has offered an official clarification, but it’s more probable that the color comes from manure, pollution or a water-treatment process.
This is another weird image from Google map that shows the world’s largest fingerprint.
The Osmington White Horse, outside Sutton Poyntz, UK. This primeval figure is engraved into the white chalk of the sidehill – such horse carved shapes are called “Leucippotomy”.
Heart-shaped island highlighted by Google Earth becomes hit with lovers
The 130,000 sq yd isle of Galesnjak came to distinction subsequent to its extraordinary shape was highlighted on Google Earth.
Land Art or “Earth Art” coming out in an area closeto the airport in Munich, Germany.
Reap circle art made in the form of the iconic Firefox Logo close to Portland, Oregon,
Canadian performer Melanie Coles constructed a big image of the iconic “Waldo” onto a top on an unrevealed location in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Marriage proposal witnessed on a top side via Google Maps.
The terrain in Alberta, Canada unintentionally shapes what looks like a human face when saw from the air or when watching the satellite photograph in Google Maps.
Huge Pink Bunny made by a group of artists next to Artesina, Italy as seen in Google Maps.
This Coca-Cola logo in Google Maps was seemingly produced out of coke bottles immediately outside of Arica in Chile.
Portrait of Ghenghis Khan in Google Maps
Out of some kind of terror that they might overlook who he was, the people of Mongolia have engraved the similarity of Ghenghis Khan onto a hillside outside of Ulaanbaatar.
This is an extremely weird picture from Google Maps satellite picture of downtown Dallas. The rounded top structure in the upper middle is the JPMorgan Chase Tower. Adjacent to it is the high rectangular 2100 Ross Avenue building (dead center).
Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man – one of the world’s most decipherable illustrations – is furnished here in crop art in Germany.
The Palm Islands are non-natural islands in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on which most important commercial and residential infrastructure will be built. The islands are the Palm Jumeirah, the Palm Jebel Ali and the Palm Deira.
She’s acquired a substantial syndicated show and a magazine called O, and she was dubbed the most influential celebrity in the world by Forbes. An Arizona farmer produced this 2004 tribute to the TV talk-show host.
Next to Sebago Lake in Cumberland County, Maine, we discover an extraordinary arrow arranged from stacks of stones: What makes the arrow actually weird is that rather than your customary pointing-style arrow, this comes out to be a demonstration of the kind of arrow you might fire with a bow.
This mansion has been built in the shape of a guitar that is apparent when view from the air.
This would be the ideal place for the lovers as the Earth itself says I love u.
Site of an vanished volcano hole, the Cerro Prieto, located near Mexicali in Baja California (Mexico). It seems that, lots of visitors to the site have decorated it with their graffiti that appears to have been drawn with the purpose to be seen by people looking down into the crater from the eastern rim of the crater.
Believe parking is rough where you live? In Westenbergstraat, Netherlands, drivers actually have to park on the sides of walls.
Internet fan states he discovered the face of Satan using Google Earth
Issaouane Erg desert – Dunes (Algeria)
The contours and colors of the sandbanks in this desert are incredible. observe that the three dunes have approximately indistinguishable shapes. And there are tens of thousands just like those all around.
Giant Gulliver from Google Earth, Hunters Hall Park, Craigmillar, Scotland.
Here, you will see a giant Gulliver, present at Hunters Hall Park, Craigmillar, Scotland
Google Escher Effect pic from Houston
Here’s one more unusual satellite picture from Google Maps of some business district Houston skyscrapers. This outcome has become known as the “Escher Effect”, or the “Google Escher Effect”.
Roof ad viewed via Google Maps in New York City, actually for a “Roller Skating” rink. Probably intended to direct LaGuardia Airport travelers, but many rooftop ads like this are commencing to endow you with impressions all the way through users of Google Maps and other popular online mapping systems which comprise aerial photos and satellite photos.
This is an aerial picture of a road that looks like as if someone is asking you to show him a sign.
Here is a Google map for a ghost town located at Prypiat, Ukraine.
Not the most noticeable of Google’s determinations but at the top of these rocks on a tiny island off the West Coast of Ireland, it looks like if there’s a face with a pronounced Romanesque nose looking out to sea.
Ni Pena Ni Miedo (No Shame Nor Fear)
Written the sands of the Atacama Desert, Chile, are the terms “ni pena ni miedo” which interpret comparatively as “No shame nor fear”, and collectively they organize what must surely be the world’s largest poem.
This jumble in the UK was prepared to rejoice Brunel’s 200th birthday.
Effigy Tumuli, by Michael Heizer, are a small number of special land art pieces constructed on Buffalo Rock in Buffalo Rock State Park, neglecting the Illinois River. (Built between 1983-1985).
Karl’s Maze in Purkshof, Germany. Since 1921
Here is a mystery figure for you from Google Maps satellite.
Localised Black Hole Discovered
As we all recognize, the general relativity theory states that a black hole is a section of space from which nothing can get away – together with light. Astronomers have discovered lots of places where black holes may exist, but actually they missed one – about 60km north of Tokyo.
The ethereal image of a woman appears in a field in Ohio. Zooming in closer to the image brings out the eyes may be trees that the farmer has cut around and the mouth is just a obviously darker patch of grass.
28 Excellent iPhone Apps To Make Your Life Easier
Having a smartphone in your pocket has somewhat become a style statement, but apart from its appearance and style appeal, it allows you to perform all tasks that you would perform with your laptop or computer. This is the main reason of smartphone popularity.
For the iPhone users, there are plentiful iPhone apps accessible on the internet. So, rather than wasting time in looking for the one you require, have a look at this collection of apps that we have composed here to permit people discover the few useful apps they can magnify their productivity with.
SkyGrid is a beautiful and captivating way to stay up to date on your news. Follow all the sources and topics you want, and effortlessly receive updates on the interests you care about. Read your favorite news, people, blogs, and topics in a customized Photo Grid.
Intuitive TaskManager with cloud sync accross iPhone, iPod, iPad and web interface.
Salesforce Mobile gives you instant access to your Salesforce information on your iPhone.
Find My iPhone is free for anyone with an iPhone 4, iPad, or 4th generation iPod touch (iOS 4.2 or later required).* Just sign in with your Apple ID on your qualifying device and turn on Find My iPhone to allow you to locate it.
Adobe Photoshop Express software lets you use simple gestures to quickly edit and share photos from your mobile device. Enjoy having your photo and video library right in your hand — without wasting your device’s valuable storage space.
It’s easy to manage your WordPress blog or site from your iOS device. With WordPress for iOS, you can moderate comments, create or edit posts and pages, and add images or videos with ease.
SugarSync is by far the best solution to replicating and synchronizing your files across multiple computers. It really works.
With this tool you can remotely connect and work on your Windows computer.
With this app you can tweet and collaborate with your clients over Twitter.
Call, video call and instant message anyone else on Skype for free with Skype for your iPhone or iPod touch. Plus call and text your Contacts (or any other number) at Skype’s low rates. It’s great value with Skype Credit.
PCalc Lite is a fully functional and free taste of our popular scientific calculator. It includes an optional RPN mode, multiple undo and redo, unit conversions and constants, as well as two stylish themes and our highly praised design.
This is a great app that will come in very useful to a lot of people, especially teachers and business people.
Get the most advanced Google search experience for your iPhone, now with Google Goggles, Voice Search and My Location.
Access to Uploadingit from the most requested device is now here. Upload, manage, view and share all your files from the new Uploadingit iPad application. Viewing images, videos and more has never been so wonderful.
Cool Hunting is synonymous with seeking inspiration. Our global team of editors and contributors sift through innovations in design, technology, art and culture to create our award-winning publication, consisting of daily updates and weekly mini-documentaries.
Designed for creative and media professionals, the Getty Images app puts over 24 million powerful images at your fingertips. Access our entire collection from client meetings, the coffee shop or any place in between. Now you can search, save and share a world of creative stock photos as well as editorial and archival imagery – wherever and whenever you need them.
Accept credit cards and cash on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch with the free Square Card Reader. It’s only 2.75% per swipe for Visa, American Express, MasterCard and Discover. No contracts, monthly fees or merchant accounts. Funds are deposited into your bank account the next day. Square makes it easy for anyone to accept payments, anywhere.
Fring lets you chat and place calls to others for free.
Now a universal app for both iPad & iPhone, Twitterrific is the friendly, award-winning Twitter client that’s beautiful to look at easy to use and full of elegant features. Effortlessly read and compose tweets, search Twitter.com, filter message types and much more.
Doodle Buddy Gold is the most fun you can have with your finger! Finger paint with your favorite colors and drop in playful stamps. Connect with a friend to draw together over the Internet.
Brushes is a painting application designed from scratch for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Featuring an advanced color picker, several realistic brushes, multiple layers, extreme zooming, and a simple yet deep interface, it is a powerful tool for creating original artwork on your mobile device.
iBlueSky is a brainstorming and mind-mapping solution for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
The HEX RGB Colors Guide app gives you an easy reference to RGB and HEX color codes right on your iPhone or iPod touch. This app is designed for anyone who deals with HEX and RGB Color codes when it comes to designing offline and online media of multiple types.
Even seasoned jQuery developers need a quick refresher course in jQuery syntax and arguments from time to time. jQuery Cheat Sheet for the iPhone is designed to address that need. Use it as a quick reference for topics you’ve already learned but need a few reminders on, or if you’re still a beginner to jQuery, use it to better understand what jQuery is capable of.
An FTP client for the iPhone and iPod touch. All the features of a desktop FTP client and more; a very powerful app. With FTP On The Go, you can fix your website, and view files on your FTP server, from anywhere.
Hold the world in the palm of your hand. With Google Earth for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, you can fly to far corners of the planet with just the swipe of a finger. Explore the same global satellite and aerial imagery available in the desktop version of Google Earth.
Gowalla is the leading social guide to the world’s most loved places and cities. We make it easy to discover where your friends have visited, what the locals love to do and where experts recommend you go. It’s a delightful way to share and discover photos, experiences and recommendations on the go.
Download Fandango Movies – Times & Tickets, the number 1 movie ticketing app featured in numerous Apple commercials and winner of three Webby Awards!
Disk Drill Data Recovery Software For Mac Giveaway
Cleverfiles is running a contest, where 5 winners will get the license for Disk Drill PRO worth $89 each. Well, you guys know what is Disk Drill PRO? Let’s say it once again for n00bs.
Disk Drill is a Mac data recovery software designed natively for Mac OS: easily protect your files from accidental deletion with Recovery Vault and recover lost data from Mac disks. When something is deleted Recovery Vault makes it possible to recover not only the file itself, but also its properties, such as original file name, location, etc. So you will always be able to recover data from Mac files system (HFS/HFS+) & FAT32 partitions. Disk Drill also includes powerful S.M.A.R.T. disk monitoring right out-of-the-box; you can monitor your disks’ hardware status and get automatic notifications of potential failures or other issues. If a disk or partition is failing, you can easily backup it into a disk image (DMG) which can later be mounted for recovery. This way there’s no need to keep a failing media running until the completion of a Deep Scan for instance.
Disk Drill also features a number of advanced scanning modes for data recovery of FAT, NTFS, HFS/HFS+, other file systems and formatted (initialized) drives. Using Quick Scan you can locate deleted items on FAT and NTFS disks, this scanning method is fast and accurate, but is unlikely to find data deleted long ago. With Deep Scan you can try to recover data from any disk or memory card regardless of their file system. This recovery method is long and thorough, it scans your disk in a binary mode and is capable of finding deleted files even after formatting.
Disk Drill is a professional but extremely simple Mac data recovery software that helps you rescue data on your Mac disks, external or internal hard drives, memory cards, cameras, iPods Classic, etc. So if your hard drive was damaged, or you accidentally deleted your favorite photos, music, videos and other data, no worries about data loss. Disk Drill will recover deleted files on your Mac!
This contest will run from October 25, 2011 to October 30, 2011 November 5, 2011 and we will select the winners randomly by running MySQL query. Result can be announced any day before November 15, 2011 so keep visiting here or subscribe to our rss feed to get the latest updates. To participate in the contest and win Disk Drill PRO license, All you have to do is:
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So, what are you waiting for now? Let’s participate in the contest and good luck!
Resume Designs (Like Infographics) That Can Stand Out In A Crowd
What is the first step of getting your most desired job? Surely it is the resume that a candidate submits to the organization he wants to work with. Impressive resume always increase the chances of getting the formal interview call. Well-crafted and well-presented resumes not only stand you out as an ideal candidate but also demonstrate your professional level. Here we are featuring few resume cum infographics that can stand out in a crowd to give a better understanding of what goes in to show off your design chops. Take a look at this collection.
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An Infographic Resume
Curriculum Vitae di Lissi Mattia
Ester Liquori Design Visual Resume
Siddhesh Kabe Resume
Francesco Mugnai’s resume
Infographics Resume
Infographics Resume: Randall Knapp
Resume
Kumar Kolaganti Visual Resume
50 (NEW) High Quality And Free Icon Sets
Icons are the most adored component for any web design and keeping them simple yet attractive surely is the vision of every designer. Attractive and stylish icon sets are the plus point of any good web design. Innovative use of icon sets can simply make or break the entire look of any web design. Free sample design elements in particular fine-looking icon set is what every designer desires to have got in his designing kit.
In today’s section, we are delivering an overwhelming compilation of magnificently designed, fresh and beautiful yet professionally high-quality icon sets. Though all the icons sets presented below are free but be sure to read their terms and condition prior to using them for commercial purpose. We hope that you like this awe-inspiring collection of attractive icon sets and will share it with your friends. Enjoy!
Professional E-Commerce Icons Set
Vista Artistic Icons by Lokas Software
Electronics Icons by Double-J Design
Twitter Follow Buttons & Icons
Icon Set for Writers and Editors
Crayon Cute Icons by YohProject
Cool collection of Vector Food Icons
Summer Olympics Icons by Sportsbetting Spot
5 Free Internet Security Tools That Are Absolutely Useful
There are many internet security tools and applications out there, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. Today, we are sharing 5 Free Internet Security Tools That Are Absolutely Useful. Read each entry in the list and see which one suits your needs best.
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PowerTools Lite
PowerTools Lite 2011 is a freeware edition of jv16 PowerTools – the ultimate Windows optimization and tuneup utility suite. PowerTools Lite 2011 allows you to easily clean up your computer from unneeded data, unused temp files, registry left overs and automatically fix registry errors.
Glary Utilities
Glary Utilities is a freeware with registry and disk cleaning, privacy protection, performance accelerator and amazing multifunctional tools. It can fix dogged registry errors, wipe off clutters, optimize internet speed, safeguard confidential files and maintain maximum performance.
Advanced SystemCare Free
Advanced SystemCare Free (formerly Advanced WindowsCare Personal) has a one-click approach to help protect, repair, clean, and optimize your PC. This free PC repair software is a “must-have” tool for your computer.
Ad-Aware Free Internet Security
Ad-Aware Free Internet Security features real-time protection, advanced Genocode detection technology, rootkit protection, automatic updates, and much more — to ensure that you have the power to protect yourself online.
7 Must-Have Web Apps For Designers And Developers Toolbox
There are many online tools and web applications out there, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. Today, we are sharing 7 Must-Have Web Apps For Designers And Developers Toolbox. Read each entry in the list and see which one suits your needs best.
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Golden Ratio
There are two scenarios the calculator is designed for. The first is that you have a column with a certain width (perhaps to achieve a nice word:line ratio). You wish to find a matching column. Type in the width and use the left side, which gives you both a smaller and larger column. The second scenario is that you have a container and wish to divide it in two. Type in the container width and use the right side measurements.
SpiderScribe
SpiderScribe is an online mind mapping and brainstorming tool. It lets you organize your ideas by connecting notes, files, calendar events, etc. in free-form maps. You can collaborate and share those maps online.
Profitably
Profitably helps you plan for the customers you want, measure how you’re performing, and then execute. It’s web-based software connects securely to business applications like Intuit’s QuickBooks to provide insight to the ~6M small businesses in North America. CFOs, bookkeepers, and business owners alike use Profitably to understand customer profitability, manage cash flow, and plan for future growth, all in real time.
Manifested
Manifested is a new utility for getting a jump start on converting your existing web site to work offline using HTML5′s cache manifest. Manifested scrapes a website for images, stylesheets, and JavaScripts that you may want to cache. Manifested then gives you a custom cache manifest file as a starting point for upgrading your website to support offline functionality.
repl.it
The repl.it project is an attempt to create an online environment for interactively exploring programming languages. It provides a fully-featured terminal emulator and code editor, powered by interpreter engines for more than 15 languages. All our interpreters are written in (or compiled to) JavaScript, and run completely on the user’s device, regardless or whether it’s a desktop, laptop or phone.
Subtle Patterns
Subtle Patterns is a collection of 93 high quality design patterns for you to use freely.
Timeslot
Timeslot makes planning your day a breeze. It simply add items to your day’s agenda, and specify how long each will take. Timeslot will automatically generate start and end times for each item, so when you have to make a change, your entire agenda will update to flow around it.
Depositphotos – With Awesome New Design And 4 MILLION Stock Images
Depositphotos.com is the fastest growing stock photo agency in the world. It has more than four million stock photographs and vector images sold under royalty- free licenses. (To be exact it had 44, 759, 54 total stock images at the time of writing of this article.) This means once you buy an image from Depositphotos you don’t ever need to pay them again for the same image in the name of taxes or royalties. After a one time payment, images can be used for your purposes – lifelong!
Free!
A free subscription plan is available by which you may download a maximum of 5 stock images per day for a period of 7 days. This means you get 35 images absolutely free! And the wonderful thing is that these free images are also royalty-free and can be used just as the paid ones. Also, the free images can be chosen from the entire library of more than 4 million images!
Costs and Payments
The cost of images is very commercial. It begins from only 0.5 US $. There are at least four ways by which you may buy images from Depositphotos. Click here for details on subscription plans.
Payment options are numerous. All major credit cards like Visa, Master Card, American Express are acceptable. Similarly all major merchant accounts like PayPal, moneybookers, webmoney are acceptable.
New Design
On 29th Sep 2011, the site has unveiled a major update in design.
“It’s essential to organize your page logically so that viewers can scan it easily… put the most important information near the top, in larger type, and with plenty of white space surrounding it. “
Remember, you’re not trying to stuff as much as possible on a single page – you’re trying to cover what’s important for the topic at hand. If you have lots of material to cover, or more topics to deal with, you can easily make more pages and link them to this one.”
- Ed Tittel and Steve James HTML For Dummies; first edition; chapter seven.
Depositphotos seems to have taken this advice as a hardcore rule to build their new design. The home page seems to have enough space to “breathe” easily now.
New Home Page of Depoitphotos
Old Home Page of Depositphotos
The authorities of Depositphotos claim that their new look will give “10 times better performance”. To check this claim I made a small test.
The word “blog” returned 4568 results in 7.33 seconds on Depositphotos with excellent quality images. Indeed the performance is increased 10 folds.
The results were totally relevant with the search that I did. This is because of the extended search functionality and an updated website core. Every word from an image title is now used in determining the image rank in search results.
Every image size now has its own file type description and a separate download button. The new design enables you to buy an image just by clicking a button!
All dimensions of all browsing devices are compatible with the new design. The best fit starts from 1024 X 768 and higher resolutions are unlimited.
Fun Facts About Smartphones (Infographic)
I have recently came across to really interesting infographic about “Fun Facts About Smartphones”. This graphic is beautifully showing many little fun facts about smartphones.
This infographic was designed by MobDis. 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.
