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The Robust Collection Of (50) Mindblowing Icon Sets For Your Next Design
Icons can be useful to furnish users with unforgettable images and examples if used properly, and this is the reason why Icon sets always come in handy. You will find the huge collection of recently released icon sets which are believed to assist you in bettering your designs on websites as well as on web applications.
In this post, we have also gathered some useful icon sets for your inspiration. If you like them, you can use them in your next design project. The icon sets that we have provided below may become valuable and useful in corporate designs, portfolios, blogs, and magazines as well as in Web-applications. Feel free to suggest and share more icon sets in the comments section below.
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The ‘Square’ Social Media Icon Set
Sketchy Social Media Icons Freebie
Freebie Fiesta – Twitter Bird & Egg
The Ultimate Free Web Designer’s Icon Set (750 icons, incl. PSD sources)
Designer Icons – Professionally Hand-Crafted Free Icon Set
The ‘Free Style’ Social Media Icon Set
Picasso: A Free Social Media Icon Set
Isometrica (Volume 1): A Free Social Media Icon Set
Free Social Media Icons: Tricons
Content Management System Icon Set
Free Web Design Icon Set By Iconshock
10 Best Business Web Apps To Make Your Lives Easier
This is one of the very best list of its kind where you can find incredibly useful and life saver FREE web apps that you probably never heard of and these would be great enough to bookmark or just for get in your knowledge. I hope everyone of you will like this list, you can try these whether you are an office worker, a manager, a supervisor, a student, a home user, etc.These are really amazing in respect to their features. This is the list of 10 Best Business Web Apps To Make Your Lives Easier. Just take a look at them and share your thought’s here.
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Project Bubble is a simple and easy tool for managing your projects, client and invoices. It’s intuitive interface makes project management a breeze. You can easily generate PDF invoices and get paid through PayPal.
Collabtive
Collabtive is a modern Web application that allows teams to collaborate on projects, manage tasks, milestones, and files, and send instant messages to each other. It is multilanguage capable, supporting more than 20 languages. Collabtive integrates with other webservices via an XML API. It also provides importing functionality for data from other applications.
Pivotal Tracker
Pivotal Tracker is a great collaboration tool for people working on a software or web coding project. You start work on a project by first creating an account on the site. After logging in you can create and name a new project.
ShiftPlanning is a free online employee scheduling management software aimed at helping businesses with their employee scheduling. Interactive and easy to use, ShiftPlanning is next-generation scheduling software that delivers precision and speed to the business’s scheduling responsibilities, freeing up time to concentrate on other demands.
Doit.Im
Fortunately I have found a greatly user friendly task management tool and am about to share it with you – Doit.Im. Doit.Im is a free web app that offers task management services. It offers comprehensive options yet packs them into a neat and tidy interface.
Stixy
Stixy is a free to use website that acts as your portable work desk. Basically it is a virtual desk that operates from within your browser. You create an account on Stixy then upload files to your account; you get thumbnail views of each file; these thumbnails can be dragged around or stacked on top of each other, whichever way suits you best. Thus whether it is organization you want or that scrambled documents look, Stixy can help you out.
Zoho
Zoho is the name for a collection of services. The entries you see in the image above are only few of what Zoho has to offer. We can sign up for an account and use Zoho’s services to easily gather ideas and create plus modify files / documents / images / presentations as a group.
Tabzon
Tabzon is a free website that acts as an in-out board. It can work as a wonderful attendance tool for businesses. To take advantage of the site, the boss creates a Tabzon account. This requires entering the name of the company and no kind of personal details. Upon successful account creation we are provided with a URL for our company’s in-out board. We can then proceed to invite our employees to Tabzon either from within our account or by sharing the URL.
HiTask is a friendly and easy-to-use task management system that anyone can start using right away. It is designed to satisfy both sophisticated followers of David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” methodology and anyone who just needs a quick and easy tool to manage their everyday tasks.

Even if you are running a small business you need a service that analyzes your finances and keeps the figures updated. Through this analysis you can view if there are any upcoming shortages or anything you should be alarmed about. By monitoring the financial health of your business you are able to better ensure its success. inDinero makes that possible. inDinero is a web service that can be dashboard for your business’s financial health.
21 Stunning Examples Of High Definition Wallpapers
Today, we are showing you 21 colorful and Impressive examples of high definition/wide-screen wallpapers. These can be find in different resolution e.g. 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200 and more. I appreciate to all those talented designers who create these excellent wallpapers with their efforts, imaginations and creativity to give us a chance to use these artistic wonders on our desktop and refresh ourselves. 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 download any or all for your desktop right now.
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7 Coolest Web Apps You Might Not Know About But Should
There are many web apps out there, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. That is why I am sharing The 7 Coolest Web Apps You Might Not Know About But Should. Read each entry in the list and see which tool suits your needs best.
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icloud
icloud lets you do just that. icloud is a web service that provides its users with a virtual desktop. After creating an account and signing in to it, you virtual desktop loads up.
WobZIP
WobZIP is a free web service created to unzip ZIP archives. All you do is upload your archive on the site and get the list of files it contains. If the archive is password protected, simply provide the password.
FontFonter
FontFonter is a free and simple to use website that will let you view any website in Web FontFonts. The site’s usage is extremely simple: you enter a website’s URL, FontFonter analyzes the webpage, and displays the website with its default fonts replaced by Web FontFonts.
Pilot Handwriting
Professional font creators have mastered the tools of their trade and know exactly how to bring their font concepts to life. To dodge the traditional font creation tools, you can use a wonderful service named Pilot Handwriting. Pilot Handwriting lets you create a font in your handwriting.
Favitt
Everyone knows how important search is. You search Google, YouTube, Twitter, Wikipedia, Flickr, Last.fm, Amazon and plenty of other sites for different products, content, images, videos etc. Unfortunately, none of these sites lets you customize the search interface as good as Favitt does. Favitt lets you simplify the search experience by bringing all these search engines in a customized start page.
Historious
Normally when you work with separate computers, there are not many ways you can share your bookmarks. Having access to your bookmarks therefore, is quite a problem. And Historious is its solution. Historious stores your bookmarks by indexing them, much like a search engine does.
Backupify
Backupify is a web service that can be used to backup the data you store on email servers and online social networks. A number of websites are supported including Flickr, Twitter, Delicious, Zoho, Google Docs, Photobucket, WordPress, Basecamp, Gmail, Facebook, FriendFeed, Blogger, Hotmail, Picasa Web Albums, Google Contacts, and Google Calendar.
The 7 Useful (And Unknown) Web Browsers That Are Worth A Try
This is one of the very best list of its kind where you can find out of the box web browsers that you probably never heard of and these would be great enough to bookmark or just for knowledge. I hope everyone of you will like this list, you can try these whether you are an office worker, a manager, a supervisor, a student, a home user, etc. These are really amazing in respect to their features. This is the list of The 7 Useful (And Unknown) Web Browsers That Are Worth A Try. Just take a look at them and share your thought’s here.
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Lunascape is the world’s only triple engine browser. With Lunascape, you can choose the right engine at the right time, realizing a dramatic decrease in web-browser compatibility issues, long loading times, and messed up websites display. You need only 2 clicks to change your engine. Lunascape is 20 times faster than IE7, 6.5 times faster than IE8. And it stays up! We have gone head to head with well-known “fast” browsers, and have achieved one of the fastest JavaScript speed.
Browzar is based on the Internet Explorer engine, which means it’s such a small file that it only takes seconds to download. We’ve made it disposable; so you have the choice of keeping Browzar on your PC, or downloading it each time you need to protect your privacy. You don’t even need to install it. You can just click ‘run’ and go.
SlimBrowser is a fast and secure tabbed internet browser for Windows fully loaded with powerful features. It saves you the burden of completing web forms with intelligent form filler. The built-in popup killer and AD filter eliminates annoying advertisement effectively. The quick-search box provides you instant access to all kinds of search engines and allows you to easily define your own. The auto-login function enables you to log into your favorite internet accounts with a single click.
Camino is an open source web browser developed with a focus on providing the best possible experience for Mac OS X users. With innovative features like Tab Overview alongside security features like phishing and malware protection, Camino 2 is the safest, cleanest Camino yet.
K-Meleon is an extremely fast, customizable, lightweight web browser based on the Gecko layout engine developed by Mozilla which is also used by Firefox. K-Meleon is free, open source software released under the GNU General Public License and is designed specifically for Microsoft Windows operating systems.
xB Browser is the most popular free and open-source anonymous web browser in the world. With xB Browser you can securely and anonymously surf the internet, and bypass firewalls and website censorship. xB Browser also has advanced features such as SSL MD5 RSA certificate vulnerability detection, DOM object and flash cookie protection, cross-site scripting attack prevention, user-agent cloaking, and java proxy control. xB Browser also detects and disables malicious browser addons that are hidden in the windows registry.
Flock is faster, simpler, and more friendly. Literally. It’s the only sleek, modern web browser with the built-in ability to keep you up-to-date with your Facebook and Twitter friends. You can share web pages, photos, and video. It can update your status and make comments—from anywhere on the web!
Hilariously Entertaining Examples Of Celebrity Caricatures
Caricature is the representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effects; and this is why caricatures have always been very entertaining and one of the great sources of fun for almost every individual. Since it creates an exceptional entertaining visual portrait of a person that draws attention of many visitors and appeal them; many artists love to create funny, hilarious yet entertaining and fun to see caricatures. Here, we have gathered some very famous celebrity caricatures that you may have never seen before. Hope you’ll like this collection.
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Bree Van De Kamp from Desperate Housewives
Cristiano Ronaldo Manchester United
The 9 Insanely Cool Google Chrome Extensions You May Need To Know About
You might have been using Chrome for a quite some time now but there is a good chance you are not taking its full advantage. Chrome’s maximum potential lies in the power of its extensions. Below We have gathered 9 Insanely Cool Google Chrome Extensions You May Need to Know About. You will not find these extensions in similar lists on other websites; I hope you find them to be useful to your computer usage.
Give the list a thorough reading, try out any extension you are interested in, and let me know in the comments how they worked out for you. You are welcome to share if you know more useful chrome extension which 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.
As you’re reading content (eg: nytimes.com articles) around the web, Readness.com will suggest additional content that you’ll enjoy – based on what your friends have recently read, and also what articles are popular that you have yet to read. It uses Facebook Connect to import your friends – but does not write to your wall / spam your friends.
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. Fast, powerful, and fun.
It will automatically previews pdfs, powerpoint presentations, and other documents in Google Docs Viewer.
With this extension you can easily reopen previously closed tabs. There is no limit on how many tabs can be remembered. It is kind of a mix of the “recently closed” bar on the New Tab page and the History page. It currently supports only the very basic functionality.
With this ext, you can make notes on any web page, any position. when you open that page again, the notes get loaded automatically.
PanicButton makes it easier for you to hide all of your tabs at once just by clicking on a button. They are then saved as bookmarks in a separate folder. After that the PanicButton turns green and shows you how many tabs are currently hidden. Another click on the PanicButton restores all of the tabs you have hidden earlier.
With Session Manager you can quickly save your current browser state and reload it whenever necessary. You can manage multiple sessions, rename or remove them from the session library. Each session remembers the state of the browser at its creation time, i.e the opened tabs and windows. Once a session is opened, the browser is restored to its state.
Convert any website to PDF document with this incredible Web to PDF online converter. It Allows you to view the converted PDF using Google Docs and of course you can download it to your computer.
Whenever you need a quick check or a second opinion, such as before logging into your favorite game, when using your bank account or buying something online, use QuickScan, directly from your browser. BitDefender QuickScan takes full advantage of the “in-the-cloud” scanning service and is capable to detect active malware in less than a minute, taking just a fraction of the system resources needed by a regular virus scan. It’s not a virus cleaning tool.
h this extension you can easily reopen previously closed tabs. There is no limit on how many tabs can be remembered. It is kind of a mix of the "recently closed" bar on the New Tab page and the History page.
Most Attractive (39) Corporate Website Designs Of Top Brands
World is changing rapidly and now people are making their fortune on the internet by virtue of a website, and due to this reason a professional website design is so important to achieve a solid and long-lasting impression on customers. It is a well designed corporate website which convey information about your business to your potential customers in the most direct, clean and usable manner. Below we have listed excellent examples of corporate website for your inspiration so that you can choose the best layout, graphics and color palettes for your website.
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World Of Fantasy And Imagination Which Depict Future Cities (Dreamy Artworks)
An imaginative mind is marked by independence and creativity in thought or action, and the ability of human mind to think creatively is matchless. Mostly creative people become artists and mesmerize the world with their creativity and imagination sometime beyond the limit. A creative artist can create a castle in the sky for his visitors who look at his artwork.
In this post, we have also created a world of fantasy and imagination which depict our future city. All these images are not only inspiring but also beautiful, dreamy and extremely futuristic. Hope, you will like this post. Feel free to share your opinion with us.
Visions of South Korea’s Urban Future
Visions of South Korea’s Urban Future
Instant City – Procedural City
Worth enough?, Radoslav Zilinsky (3D)
3D illustration futuristic industrie
Involution, sebastien czaja (2D)
Absolutely Amazing Digital Paintings That Make You Say Wow
Digital painting is an emerging art form in which traditional painting techniques such as watercolor, oils, impasto, etc. are applied using digital tools by means of a computer, a digitizing tablet and stylus, and software. Today, we are showing you Absolutely Amazing Digital Paintings That Make You Say Wow. I appreciate all those talented artist who created these excellent paintings with their efforts, imaginations and creativity and give us a chance to see these wonders. 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 those guys who use their creativity with a different angle and approach to get the result that makes a difference.
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Warriors left the city by Andruth
Supervivencia by Pablo Olivera
The Evil Snowman by Beloved-Creature
The Lion and The Unicorn by Jdillon82
Save. Our. Souls. by AquaSixio
Arctic Express 2008… by Raphael-Lacoste
Entrance To The Sacred Tree by Industrial-Forest
Speedpaint – Neglected Beetle by ANTIFAN-REAL
The Eye of the Storm by Lardacil
Tree Root Canopy by ANTIFAN-REAL
The Witching Hour by Dark-spider
Imagine the Music by Artsangel








































































































































































































