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The Robust Collection Of (50) Mindblowing Icon Sets For Your Next Design

AN Jay — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:17:36 +0000

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.

Pos Machine Icons

ADOBE CS5 PREMIUM ICONS

Android 2.2 Official Icons

Daft Punk Helmets v2.0

New exclusive icon set: Copenhagen

Apple Mug Icons and Extras

Hel?

Detailed 3D Icon Set

Alias Badges

Applications Icons and Extras

Briefcase

Camera Sony Alpha 380

Social Buzz Icon Pack

Mixed Icons Pack

Payment Method Icon Set

Umbrella

The ‘Square’ Social Media Icon Set

E-Commerce Icon Set

Sketchy Social Media Icons Freebie

IronMan Icon Pack

Cute Blogging Icon Set

Freebie Fiesta – Twitter Bird & Egg

The Ultimate Free Web Designer’s Icon Set (750 icons, incl. PSD sources)

NIXUS Icon Pack

Great Web Button Set

Designer Icons – Professionally Hand-Crafted Free Icon Set

FontLab Studio Icons OS X

Glass icons

The ‘Free Style’ Social Media Icon Set

Mobile Icon Set

Ball

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

Cartoon Icons

This is ART Icons

Free Computer Part Icon Set

Oxe Icons Set

El Bandito

Women’s Day Icons

‘The’ Lens

CalorieQuick Icons

PixeloPhilia 32PX Icon Set

Free Web Design Icon Set By Iconshock

OLED social icons

FriendFeed

Once

Touchscreen Icons

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10 Best Business Web Apps To Make Your Lives Easier

AN Jay — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:59:42 +0000

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

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

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

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.

inDinero

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.

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21 Stunning Examples Of High Definition Wallpapers

AN Jay — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:24:17 +0000

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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32 HD Avatar Wallpapers

HD Nature Wallpapers

HD Multi Colored Lines

Favorite HD Wallpapers

HD Matrix Wallpaper

Widescreen HD Wallpapers

EgFox Windows 7 touch HD 2010

HD Red And Purple Spiral

Mario wallpapers 7

Blue Snow Leopard Aurora HD

Amanecer

Steampunk Wallpaper

Barred Spiral Galaxy

Graffiti On First Street

Flower

Colours 01

The Emperor – Wallpapers

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7 Coolest Web Apps You Might Not Know About But Should

AN Jay — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 02:25:30 +0000

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.

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The 7 Useful (And Unknown) Web Browsers That Are Worth A Try

AN Jay — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:19:16 +0000

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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Hilariously Entertaining Examples Of Celebrity Caricatures

AN Jay — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 11:02:56 +0000

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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Will Smith

Harry Potter

LEON

Mr_OBM

Bushie the kid

DE NIRO

Bean

Blade Caricature

S spielberg caricature

Dexter caricature

Marilyn Monroe Caricature

Steven Seagal

Tom Cruise Colored

Lady O

Scarlett II

Keira

Frodo from LOTR

Bruce Lee

John Locke from LOST

Jack Bauer from 24

Jack Shephard from Lost

Snoop dogg

Bree Van De Kamp from Desperate Housewives

Robert Pattinson

Larry King

leonardo-dicaprio

Arnold SCHWARZENEGGER

Marilyn MANSON

Michael Clurke DUNCAN

Gerard DEPARDIEY

Cristiano Ronaldo Manchester United

Michael Jackson

Elvis Presley

Carrie Bradshaw

Michael Scofield

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The 9 Insanely Cool Google Chrome Extensions You May Need To Know About

AN Jay — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 11:35:19 +0000

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.

Readness

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

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.

Docs PDF/PowerPoint Viewer

It will automatically previews pdfs, powerpoint presentations, and other documents in Google Docs Viewer.

Trash Can

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.

Note Anywhere

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

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.

Session Manager

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.

Web2PDFConverter

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.

BitDefender QuickScan

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.

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Most Attractive (39) Corporate Website Designs Of Top Brands

AN Jay — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 06:55:14 +0000

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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Volkswagen

Microsoft Office

ThinkFree

10 24 Media

Sony

Tracking Time

Adobe

Geticeberg

Loreal Paris

Coca Cola

Blitzagency

Eeci2009

Panelfly

Antiquorum

Kupferwerk

Mail Chimp

TreeHouse

Krop

OneHub

Campaign Monitor

Officevp

HelpTeck

Reinvigorate

Light CMS

Quaffslabs

Checkout App

Nokia

Hewlett-Packard

760 Disc

TeaRoundApp

Breeze Legal Solutions

Redbrick Health

Real Macsoftware

CubeScripts

Direct Design

Fused Network

Tracking Time

Creative Logic Media

Paramoreredd

Embrace Water

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World Of Fantasy And Imagination Which Depict Future Cities (Dreamy Artworks)

AN Jay — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 11:26:18 +0000

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.

Hyper-Technology – Hegemony,

Orbital city

NMP-City

Futuristic cityscape

Lightbringer

Deus Ex Machina

Sail City

Visions of South Korea’s Urban Future

Future Project in Jakarta

Flight To The Blue Tower

Cassiopeians

The Future City

Instant City – Procedural City

Futuristic city

City, xiaodan cheng (3D)

City of the future

Azureus Rising – Concept Art

Worth enough?, Radoslav Zilinsky (3D)

RAEVONA – Docking Towers

3D Future City

ASTEROIDCOLONY

FE FutureCity

3D illustration futuristic industrie

Dark City

City Concept

The City

City visualisation

Starcraft-ii

DaylanCole

City Concept Art

Futuristic City

Involution, sebastien czaja (2D)

Azureus Rising – Concept Art

Concept arts

Concept City

Future City

FUTURE CITY

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Absolutely Amazing Digital Paintings That Make You Say Wow

AN Jay — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 09:00:04 +0000

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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Summer Rain by AlectorFencer

Warriors left the city by Andruth

Farthest Outpost by Rahll

Supervivencia by Pablo Olivera

Ravnica Green by Fyreant

La Rochelle by Radojavor

Tree Of Lava by janaschi

Adamant Citadel by Alexiuss

The colossus by Noah-kh

E vs N by Sandara

The Evil Snowman by Beloved-Creature

The Lion and The Unicorn by Jdillon82