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15 Free Mac OS X Apps That Can Make Your Lives Easier
This is the post where we are listing out few great free apps for Mac Operating System, this is an exclusive post for our those readers who are the Mac users. But our other readers will also enjoy this post. Don’t forget to bookmark this post for your future reference as it has few most useful and free application that will be helpful for you when you are on your Mac system. This is absolutely a great list of 15 Free Mac OS X Apps That Can Make Your Lives Easier.
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iSynchronize is an application that synchronizes the original file or folder of aliases. It creates a folder in your home directory, where you can put either real files and folders or aliases, and then syncs the contents to another folder you specify. The application concludes a daemon that does al the work in the background.
MPlayerX is a multimedia player designed for Mac OS X. It has Multi-Screen Fullscreen support. MPlayerX is also offering support for Apple Remote, Multi-Touch support, Automatic find next proper file to play, Auto detect the encode method of subtitle file (with Universal Charset Detector) etc.
iAnalyse can synchronize the pages of a score (or PDF images) on an audio or video file. You can draw annotations (graphics, texts or images) on the score, the fade in and fade out of these annotations are also synchronized with the audio file. Moving a cursor on the score to the rhythm of music can be drawn very quickly. The fullscreen and export (images or Quicktime movie) functions allow you to show or distribute your work.
iNetGet is a download utility that gives you convenience and flexibility in downloading on the Internet. iNetGet supports auto-resuming and guarantees maximum speed possible thanks to our multi-thread download tasks. iNetGet is a perfect video downloader for Mac OS X. It can Auto-sniff and download any FLV, Mp4 video from YouTube or any other video sites.
Using XMind with XMind.net’s sharing service is a revolutionary way to enable both team brainstorming and personal mind mapping. With this major upgrade, they bring Web 2.0 concepts on community sharing into a popular desktop application.
Raw Photo Processor is a very useful RAW converter, supporting almost all available digital RAW formats made for photographers by a photographer-programmer.
Nimbuzz is a great chat application that allows you to interact, call and chat with your friends on all popular instant messaging and social networks. Connect to all your friends at once – Chat and interact with all your friends from one place: Windows Live Messenger (MSN), Yahoo, ICQ, AIM, Google Talk, Facebook, MySpace, and more. One secure login for all communities.
mBrowser is a file organizer especially designed to let users catalog video files with movie snapshots. Users can open, launch, locate and trash imported movies easily. Simply, create a movie album and then drag and drop a movie file, one at a time onto the drop box. With Auto shot on, mBrowser will automatically take a screenshot of the movie you’ve dragged and dropped onto the movie drop box. Then click on Launch to open the selected movie with a default application or click on Play to watch the selected movie directly through mBrowser’s own movie player.
MacClean 2 is here! MacClean will allow you to free up space on your hard drive, clean your cache, and allow you to verify permissions and images.
FileClipper allow you to operate files (e.g. moving files, copy, making alias files and symbolic links) with Copy & Paste metaphor through the clipboard.
iFind is a nice and useful Internet Speed Search tool. iFind is the top internet search program. To avoid the initial search entry pages of the search engines with their annoying advertisements. After entering the search, your default browser will open with the result pages of the chosen search engine.
Droplr Desktop is a tiny application for Mac OS X that aims at helping people share things easier. Every day people come across many situations in which they need to share something with someone else.
Folx (currently in beta stage) is a free downloader for Mac OS X. It helps you download files of any size via HTTP, HTTPS, FTP. Folx supports auto-resuming and guarantees maximum speed possible thanks to our multi-thread download tasks.
To tag a file – just drag it onto the Tagit application in the dock. You can also assign ratings. Tagit lets you drag multiple documents to it at once. With multiple documents, Tagit will add tags to all the documents, leaving individual tags on specific documents alone. Which is just what you expect and need. Your most recently set tags are easily added with a single click.
Stunning Photos That Are Not Manipulated
There are hundreds of posts available on the internet about photoshop and photo manipulation. You probably have also seen many photos or images that have been manipulated and inspire others. Today, we are posting another post that probably will make you look twice. In this post we are listing few 10 Stunning Photos That Are Actually Not Manipulated. These are not manipulated in terms of that all the objects and their actions are real but might be edited for colors adjustments etc. I appreciate to all those talented photographers who taken these excellent photos with their efforts, imaginations and creativity to give us a chance to see these photographic wonders from their creative eyes. This list is not long in numbers but I promise you that when you start browsing them in details it will surely refresh you and force you to know more about these photographers. These are the wonder creations of photographers who use their creativity with a different angle and approach to get the result that makes a difference.
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The Creative Examples Of Colorful Splash Pages
You may have often noticed some splash pages that appear to welcome you to certain website and then never appear again. These pages are called Website Splash Pages which are not being used frequently. Some of these splash pages are bright and creative, some are dark yet appealing, and some appear only once while some are permanent one, but overall they are a source to enlighten your creativity and imagination to your web design skills. So, without a further ado, here we are presenting a list of some most amazing and incredible website splash pages you have ever seen.
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Six Powerful Free Disk Defragmentation Tool
Today, we are listing Six Powerful Free Disk Defragmentation Tool. These would be very helpful for you to remedy system sluggishness and crashes caused by disk fragmentation. If you are designer, developer, office worker, manager, supervisor, student, home user, etc but we hope that these are worth checking for all of you. Most of them are not very well known but they are really amazing in respect to their features. Just take a look at them and share your thoughts here.
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UltraDefrag 4.0
UltraDefrag is a powerful disk defragmentation tool for Windows. It is the first open source defragmenter with full support of system locked files defragmentation. Actually all files including registry hives and paging file can be processed by UltraDefrag during the Windows boot process. UltraDefrag is fully compatible with Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 and all of the 64-bit editions of Windows.
Auslogics Disk Defrag was designed to remedy system sluggishness and crashes caused by disk fragmentation. It will help you get the maximum performance out of your expensive hardware investments. The new version can also consolidate free space and optimize system files placement. Disk Defrag is absolutely free for home users.
You can use Defraggler to defrag your entire hard drive, or individual files. This tool is unique in the industry. This compact and portable Windows application supports NTFS and FAT32 file systems.
PageDefrag uses advanced techniques to provide you what commercial defragmenters cannot: the ability for you to see how fragmented your paging files and Registry hives are, and to defragment them. In addition, it defragments event log files and Windows 2000/XP hibernation files (where system memory is saved when you hibernate a laptop).
MyDefrag is a disk defragmenter and optimizer (a maintenance utility to make your harddisk faster) for Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Vista, 2008, Win7, and for X64. It is freeware, no time limit, fully functional, no advertisements. Fast, low overhead, with many optimization strategies, can handle floppies, USB disks, memory sticks, and anything else that looks like a disk to Windows.
WinContig is an easy-to-use stand-alone defragmentation tool that doesn’t create any installation directories or Registry entries on your computer. Its purpose is to quick defrag files without the need to defrag the whole disk. In addition, WinContig allows you to group files into profiles, and also it accepts a number of optional command-line switches that you can use to control how the program operates.
85+ Excellent Resources And Tutorials Especially For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In January
We are always in search of great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers like you. Today, we have another great post, “Discover the Best of the Web” on SmashingApps. In this, we made a list of 85+ Excellent Resources And Tutorials Especially For Designers. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.
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How to Make a Professional Buddy Icon in Photoshop
Create a Stunning 3D Liquid Explosion Artwork
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35 Tutorials and Guides for Working With Wacom Tablets
Creating a Realistic Torn Photo Effect – Photoshop Tutorial
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Design a Surreal Desert Scene in Photoshop
Mastering Photoshop: Unknown Tricks and Time-Savers
23 Professional Facial Photoshop Retouching Tutorials
35 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating Web Design Layouts
Easy Digital Painting Illustration in Photoshop
Artwork, Digital Photography and Inspiration
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40+ Examples of Typography Inspired in Web Design
The Colorful Showcase Of Beautiful Typography
40 Beautiful Corporate Websites
62 Gorgeously Designed CG Characters
70 Fairly Creative Fresh Logo Designs for Design Inspiration
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45 Superb Examples of Warrior and Battle Art
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50 Digital Fairy Tale Character Illustration Collections
Textures In Web Design: Examples And Best Practices
Beautiful Digital Art by Miriam Moshinsky
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35+ Fantastic Robot Art Illustration
40 Inspiring Single Page Websites
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Newsletter Design: 50+ Great Examples
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Super Cool Pictures of Insects
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Javascript and Ajax
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20 Fresh JavaScript Data Visualization Libraries
45 jQuery Navigation Plugins and Tutorials
30 Stylish jQuery Tooltip Plugins For Catchy Designs
25 Tutorials and Resources for Learning jQuery UI
Sexy Animated Tabs Using MooTools
30 Useful Tutorial for JavaScript Framework Navigation
90+ Useful jQuery Plugins for Designers and Developers
xHTML and CSS
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14 Helpful Cheat Sheets for Front-end Web Development
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30+ Very Useful Color Tools For Designers
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45 High Quality And Inspiring 3D Desktop Wallpapers
3 Dimensional wallpapers are always been a great source of inspiration and you will always find a great number of fans out there. When an expert puts his experience and creativity in 3D images, these images become a master piece of art and even a very small project by a professional artist can create tons of good feedback from 3D lovers. Mostly different software are being used to create 3D artworks like 3DMax, Maya, Blender, Caligari and Photoshop. If you’re also a 3D lover, we are sure you would like to enjoy some creative and cool 3D Wallpapers.
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The Ultimate Collection Of Colorful And Inspiring Vector Art
We know that designers are always searching for beautifully designed vector arts too and vector art or vector image are the most wanted freebies on the internet. Specially those designers who want to create their design in a more robust style and willing to use available freebies that can help their designs to become beautiful and attractive. SmashingApps is all about to feature all those smashing stuffs that are free and useful for designers. Today, we are going to list down 30+ Truly Impressive And Colorful Collection Of Free Vector Art. We hope you all will like this collection.
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Tweevil – The Dark Twitter Bird
Vector Art Design Elements of Freedom
FREE VECTOR CHIBI SOCCER FOOTBALL PLAYERS
“The Page Can’t Be Found” Coolest Error 404 Pages In Web Design
If you have a broken link on your website then visitors will get an internal error message from the server, which don’t exist any longer, have moved to a new server or have never existed at all. By default these messages aren’t that helpful. Therefore, we believe that having a cool and creative Error 404 page in website including beautiful web design is as important as having great content. If you have an interesting 404 error page on your website or blog, you may have a second chance to re-engage your visitors by re-directing them to the home page, and if you do not have an error page that can show the quality of your web design then you might be thinking of creating one which can inspire everyone. So here are 50+ Wonderful and Creative Examples of 404 Error Pages in web design you must check out.
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13 Easy And Powerful Website Building Tools To Create Your Free Site
This is one of the very best list of its kind where you can find about some best online website building tools available to create your free website. These free website building tools can help a lot to beginners who do not have technical knowledge but have interest in web design. These website building tools can be very helpful for you when you want to get your work done. I hope all of you will like this list if you are office worker, designer, developer, a manager, a supervisor, a student, a home user, etc. Most of them are not very well-known, but they are really amazing in respect to their features. This is the list of 13 Easy And Powerful Website Building Tools To Create Your Free Site. Just take a look at them and share your thoughts here.
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You can create free website, pages, sell online, send newsletters, and blog online with GetShopped. This is perfect for any new or existing business that wants to sell products or services online. GetShopped integrates with Google Checkout, Paypal, Payment Express, and many other trusted payment processors. This will ensure secure payment processing for your clients.
Webnode allows visitors to create, design, develop and run powerful free websites and web application from start to finish. It was engineered for ease of use and extreme speed, it can effortlessly produce high-caliber professional web pages within minutes.
It’s really easy to create a free website with Jimdo: just sign-up, follow the link to your own Page, integrate pictures, videos and texts in seconds, change the design with a click, add as many pages as you want…and show your swifty JimdoFree-Page to your friends.
WebStarts is another great option to create a free website. You can drag and drop photos, videos, text, and more. You can create a unique professional online presence. Choose from dozens of pre-designed layouts or make your own using free website builder.
350 pages is easy to use free website builder that can help you create a website and edit your pages from anywhere in the world at any time. Since 350pages is hosted on the safe, fast, and reliable web servers, you don’t need to download, install or configure anything. All you need is a web browser (IE 6/7, Firefox, or Safari) and an internet connection.
With Wix you can create a free website or make your free MySpace layouts and Flash MySpace layouts. It’s the simpler, faster, better way to build & design on the web.
Yola is absolutely dedicated to helping you build your free website quickly and effortlessly. They offer critically-acclaimed, easy-to-use tools and web hosting all for free. You can choose from over 100 customizable website templates to get the look you want and much more…
Google Sites is a free and easy way to create and share webpages. This is powerful enough for a company intranet, yet simple enough for a family website as well.
Weebly is the easiest way to create a free website. From personal to professional sites, Weebly will enable you to spend your time on the most valuable part of your site, its content. You can create free website and free blogs.
doTemplate is a web template builder. It offers a range of website themes you can personalize online before downloading. You can use this easy template creator for free.
Edicy is so easy to use you can build a site for your business or organization and have it live on the internet in a matter of minutes. All the tools are available online with no additional software required, just pick one of our beautifully made designs, enter your text, add your images and then publish your site to your own custom web address, it’s that simple.
Creating your own website with Moogo is incredibly easy. Moogo offers you a simple way of creating your own easy-to-update website with style even if you have never created a website in your life before. Moogo is perfect for individuals, small businesses, clubs and organizations, sport teams, real estate…or making a website for your band or your pet.
The Colorful Showcase Of Beautiful Typography
Today, we are showing you 30+ Colorful Examples Of Beautiful Typography. I appreciate to all those talented artist who designed these excellent typography artworks with their efforts, imaginations and creativity to give us a chance to see these creative wonders from their creative eyes. This list is not long in numbers but I promise you that when you start browsing them in details it will surely refresh you. These are the wonder creations of designers who use their creativity with a different angle and approach to get the result that makes a difference.
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