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80+ High Quality And Useful Resources For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In October
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 80+ High Quality And Useful Resources For Designers. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.
You are welcome to share if you know more best of the web in the month of October 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 well.
Design Tips, Tricks and Tutorial
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50+ High Quality Icon Design Tutorials (Part 2)
55 Terrific Cinema 4D Tutorials and Techniques
Create a Realistic Looking Nokia 5800 in 3ds Max
How to Create Roads and Rail Tracks on a Path
40 Adobe Illustrator Text Effect Tutorials
A Beginners Guide to Digital Textile Printing
Create a Transparent Text Effect with Fresh Grass Texture and Custom Brushset
75 PSD to HTML Resources for Web Designers
The Ultimate Round-Up of Print Design Tutorials
Design A Killer Fashion Model Poster
How to Create Smoky Brushes and Type In Illustrator CS4
50 Hot New Tutorials From Around The Web
45+ Adobe Illustrator Tutorials for Creating Cartoon Character Illustrations
Design a Minimal and Modern Portfolio Layout with Photoshop
How to Create an Icon in Illustrator
30 Advanced Photoshop Tutorials for Gamers
Blog Headers: 20 Great Examples and Best Practices
Build a Slick Rich User Interface in Photoshop
40 Quality Photoshop UI Design Tutorials
Artwork, Digital Photography and Inspiration
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50 Awe-Inspiring Underwater Photos
21 Adorable Pieces Of Manga Art
100+ Clean, Simple and Minimalist Website Designs
15 Fabulous Examples of Origami Inspired logo Designs
39 Astonishing Examples of 3D Typography
35 Smart Logos With Second Thought To Make You look Twice
11 Amazing Photo Manipulated and Digital Art Wallpapers
A Showcase of 35 Beautiful Typographical Illustrations
40 Beautiful HDR Pictures You Would be Amazed
Trends in Pricing Page Design and Layout
14 Bold and Colorful Print Ads from Various Brands
44 Examples of Nature Inspired Website Designs
35 Creative Twitter User Profile Designs
Showcase Of Beautiful Textured Web Designs
23 Eco Friendly Sites that are Using WordPress
30 Superb Examples of Infographic Maps
Website Design Showcase Of 21 Popular Brands
30 Jaw Dropping 3D Character Creations
45 Inspiring Navigation Menus That You Must See
15 Inspirational Single-Page Websites
10 Unforgettable Interactive and Inspirational Business Cards
105 People Photo Manipulation Works You Will Really Marvel
40+ Beautiful Fish Inspired Logos
25 Absolutely Magnificant Landscape Photo Manipulation
Showcase of Social Networking Websites
15 Elegant Cartoon Wallpapers You Can Not Miss
40 Striking Examples of Graffiti Art
24 Awesome Single Page Portfolio Designs
80+ Photo Manipulations Art to Ignite Your Creativity
Javascript and Ajax
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How to Build a Simple Content Slider jQuery Plugin
35 Fresh and Useful jQuery Plugins
Curtains Opening Animation with jQuery
xHTML and CSS
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Mastering CSS Coding: Getting Started
The Blueprint CSS Framework – Tutorials, How-to Guides and Tools
Purely CSS – Faking Minimum Margins
Resources
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Most Useful Collection of Premium 3d models
1000+ High Quality Free Grunge Textures, Icons, Brushes and Fonts
45 Beautiful Dual-Screen Wallpapers
30 Stunning Fonts To Enhance Your Designs
Collection of 8 Free and Exceptional Icon Sets
80 Stunning Background Patterns For Your Websites
9 Open Source Microblogging Applications
500+ Free Download High Quality Photoshop PSD Files For Designers
24 High Quality Free And Stunning Symbol Fonts
50 Surprisingly Amazing Themes for Blogger
40 Amazing Photoshop Brush Directories and Collections
Miscellaneous Articles
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20 Best Wordpress Typography Plugins To Enhance Readability
How to Properly Prepare a Guest Post in 5 Simple Steps
5 Highly Applicable, Yet Easily Overlooked Features in Photoshop
The History and Evolution of Social Media
20 Useful & Nicely Designed Web Applications
24 Useful Tutorials on Creating Photoshop Brushes
30+ Super Secret OS X Features and Shortcuts
15 Most Important Wordpress Plugins To Help You Fight Spam
Guide to a Successful Blog Post
8 Powerful Wordpress Plugins You Probably Don’t Use But Should
9 OpenSource URL shortening apps to make your own services
7 Key Principles That Make A Web Design Look Good
Windows Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows 7
20 Handy Photoshop Tips For a Faster Workflow
10 Useful WordPress Coding Techniques
Present.ly Allows Secure And Private Microblogging For Your Business
Present.ly allows individuals to post short, frequent updates that are tracked or “followed” by others. Unlike Twitter, Present.ly provides a secure and private way to share updates among members of a company, without them being visible to the outside world.
You can keep your conversations focused by creating Groups for each project or topic of discussion. Users receive messages that are relevant to the topic at hand and are free to move between conversations as desired.
With Present.ly, it’s easy to share images, documents, video, and audioclips with your colleagues. Whether you’re looking for quick feedback on a new design mockup or sending out new policy documents for human resources, it has never been easier to rapidly share and communicate media in your company.
You don’t need a computer at the ready to touch base with your team. Present.ly provides multiple interfaces that let you keep in touch wherever you are. You can use it from your computer, your mobile phone, or most any device capable of connecting to the internet.
65+ Must See Resources Especially For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In September
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 65+ Must See Resources Especially For Designers. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.
You are welcome to share if you know more best of the web in the month of September 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 well.
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10 Stunning Photos That Look Like They are Photoshopped But Are Not
23 Awesome Photos That Look Like They’re Photoshopped But Are Not
21 Brilliant Photos That Look Like They’re Photoshopped But Are Not
60+ Incredible Tutorials And Resources Collections For Designers
50+ Creative Masterpieces Of Logo Designs Using Gradient Effects
21 Stunning Examples Of Creatively Done Stop Motion Animations
15 Most Useful & Free Collection Of Ready-To-Use Design Freebies
43 Really Useful Photoshop Tutorials For Excellent 3d Effects
17 Mind-Blowing Digital Painting Tutorials Of Beautiful Girls
31 Masterpieces Of Creative And Clever Advertising Concepts
21 Really Stunning Photoshopped Photos For Creative Inspiration
43 Of The Extremely Creative Wonders Of Macro Photography
27 Best Places You Should Visit To Get Incredible Web Design Inspiration!
21 Extremely Vibrant And Creative Advertisements With Animals
39 Masterpieces Of Creative Advertisements
17 Digital Image Illustration Which You Probably Never Seen Before!
15 Digital Photo Manipulation From Flickr To Get Inspiration
23 Awesome Photos That Look Like They’re Photoshopped But Are Not
Design Tips, Tricks and Tutorial
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82 Earth-Shattering ZBrush Tutorials
56 Absolutely Brilliant and Intriguing Photoshop Video Tutorials
45 Tutorials for Learning Pixelmator
27 Excellent Digital Photography Tutorials
40 Useful Photoshop Tutorials for Photo Manipulation
10 Wonderful Letterpress Type Tutorials
6 Different Ways to Make Your Text and Images Glow [Tutorials]
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11 Fascinating and Educational Tutorials Teaching You How to Produce Better Photo Effects
How to Effectively Use Contrast, Auto Levels, and Batch Processing
50+ Most Amazing Adobe After Effects Tutorials You Need to Learn
20+ Car Pimping and Tuning Photoshop Tutorials
15 Of The Best Character Illustration Tutorials Online
Photoshop Tutorials You Do Not Want to Miss
Urban Art Tutorial in Photoshop and Illustrator
Top Places to Find Quality Illustrator Tutorials Online
Artwork, Digital Photography and Inspiration
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Typographic Portraits That Are Absolutely Beautiful
100 Artworks from the Top 20 Designers in The Middle East and Africa
23 Colorful And Smart Examples Of Beautiful Web Designs
70 Fresh and Inspirational Blog Designs
Stunning illustrated typography on dark backgrounds
Best of Best WordPress 404 Error Page Designs
20 Amazing Examples of Vector Artwork
Website Design: Some of the most uniquely designed E-commerce websites
40 Gorgeous Fantasy Wallpapers to Spice Up your Laptop
40 Creative and Inspiring Website Backgrounds Techniques
13 Striking Digital illustrations of Horror Girls by Yoshitaka Kawakami
40 Excellent Examples of Interior Designs Rendered in 3D Max
25 Examples of Web 2.0 and Traditional Design Rules Coming Together
33 Creative and Beautiful Logos
50 Inspiring Web Application and Service Web Site Designs
50 Beautiful & Unique Twitter Profile Designs
30 Powerful and Inspiring Street Fighter Characters Artworks
50 Websites (and More) for Your Design Inspiration
20 Creative Illustration Advertisements from behance
40 Breathtaking & Creative Logo Designs Just to Inspire
Amazing Character Designs: 75 Brilliant Examples
25 Inspiring Examples of Abstract Vector Design
15 Mind Blowing Dragons Illustrations and Artworks
Javascript and Ajax
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40 Super-Neat JavaScript Plugins
25 Useful jQuery Tooltip Plugins and Tutorials
35+ Create Amazing Image Effects and Sliders with These Awesome jQuery Plugins
10 Easy jQuery Tricks for Designers
xHTML and CSS
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Create a photorealistic web layout – CSS/XHTML available
CSS Wishlist: New Ideas, Debates and Solutions
51 Form Element Resources and Tutorials Using CSS And Javascript
30 CSS Best Practices for Beginners
Resources
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60+ Totally Free Rusted Metal Textures for Designers
460 Free High Quality Icons For Web Designers
60 High Quality Photoshop PSD Files For Designers
Massive Collection of Stunning Photoshop Actions
27 Best WebSites to Download Free Seamless Patterns
Fresh Free High-Quality Icon Sets
Style Switchers Showcase and Resources
76 Dirty, Extreme And Creative Free Grunge Fonts
99 High-Quality Free (X)HTML/CSS Templates
Five Free Tools for Multi-Monitor Computer Set-Ups
14 Best Online Typography Tools for Web Designers
16 Free “Premium Quality” Wordpress Magazine Themes
13 Excellent Firefox Add-Ons That Are Absolutely Useful
49 Amazing Resources for Free Vector Graphics
Miscellaneous Articles
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20+ Powerful Wordpress Security Plugins and Some Tips and Tricks
10 Revealing Infographics about the Web
30 Incredibly Useful WordPress Hacks
The Only SEO Tools You’ll Ever Need
The Difference Between Art and Design
Must See SEO Guide for All WordPress Bloggers
13 Simply Useful Wordpress Plugins That Can Make Lives Easier
This is another post about useful wordpress plugins. There are hundreds of wordpress plugins available on the internet. Some of them are very useful and some of them are only for sake of existence. But it’s totally up to you that how you can make your wordpress blog more strong and powerful using different plugins to give your blog readers an amazing and wonderful experience.
In this post, I tried to list down 13 Simply Useful Wordpress Plugins That Can Make Lives Easier. This list has few of the unlimited wordpress plugins introduction. I hope you will enjoy this.
You are welcome to share if you know and want to share more Useful Wordpress Plugins That Probably Are Essential and 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 well.
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17 Really Useful Wordpress Plugins That Probably Are Essential
13 Wordpress Plugins You Probably Don’t Use But Should
11 Most Popular Cross-Platform And Free Softwares
13 Most Useful Free Scripts That You Should Know
13 Simplest Free Web Tools That Are Absolutely Useful
5 Useful And Free Photo Viewers For Your Mac OS X
7 New And Useful Free Sites With Unique File Hosting Features
11 Premium But Free And Useful Web Apps For Designers
31 Power Tools For Twitter Lovers To Make Lives Easier
13 Premium-Like Wordpress Themes That Are Free And Stunning
13 Simple And Elegant Free Wordpress Themes
The 5 Best Free File Hosting Services To Store Your Files
7 New And Useful Free Sites With Unique File Hosting Features
Download Monitor 3 is upon us. Download Monitor is a plugin for uploading and managing downloads, tracking download hits, and displaying links.
Plugin Manager lets you to view, download and install plugins from wordpress.org from an AJAX’ed interface, instead of manually downloading, extracting and uploading each plugin.
Google Analytics for WordPress
The Google Analytics for WordPress plugin automatically tracks and segments all outbound links from within posts, comment author links, links within comments, blogroll links and downloads. It also allows you to track AdSense clicks, add extra search engines, track image search queries and it will even work together with Urchin.
Search Everything increases the ability of the default Wordpress Search, options included Search Every Page, Search Every Tag, Search Every Category, Search non-password protected pages only, Search Every Comment and much more…
This plugin will manage and rotate your Google Adsense and other ads on your Wordpress blog. It automatically recognises many ad networks including Google Adsense, AdBrite, Adify, AdGridWork, Adpinion, Adroll, Chitika, Commission Junction, CrispAds, OpenX, ShoppingAds, Yahoo!PN, and WidgetBucks. Unsupported ad networks can be used as well.
Featured Content Gallery creates an automated, fully customizable rotating image gallery anywhere within your WordPress site. Choose your images and display categories, pages or posts with custom overlay text and a thumbnail carousel. Custom options include gallery size, color, style and more.
Subscribe2 provides a comprehensive subscription management and email notification system for WordPress blogs that sends email notifications to a list of subscribers when you publish new content to your blog.
Wordpress Automatic Upgrade allows a user to automatically upgrade the wordpress installation to the latest one provided by wordpress.org using the 5 steps provided in the wordpress upgrade instructions.
The TweetMeme button easily allows your blog to be retweeted. The button also provides a current count of how many times your story has been retweeted throughout twitter.
This simple plugin helps you easily integrate your BuySellAds zones and includes anti-AdBlock meaures to prevent AdBlock (and similar software) from blocking the advertisement.
Social Bookmarking for WordPress
Sociable is a plugin which adds social media buttons to your posts, and does so easily, and beautifully. It will automatically add links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on your posts, pages and in your RSS feed. You can choose from 99 different social bookmarking sites.
A plugin to build user communities all around WordPress, mainly it’s around having a well integrated profiles system. This plugin will provide all needed functions and widgets to make it easy and flexible the ways to show all information about a user. Also, there is some user privacy settings to permit which information to show in the profile page.
You can shrink, track and share any URL on the Internet from your WordPress website. Unlike other link shrinking services like tinyurl, budurl, and bit.ly, this plugin allows you to create shortlinks coming from your own domain! Pretty Link tracks each hit on your URL and provides a full, detailed report of where the hit came from, the browser, os and host.
17 Creative Collection Of Inspirational Resources For Designers
As a designer, all of us are continuously searching for effective inspiration because getting an idea and inspiration is sometimes really hard and when you are planning to start your new web design project and you are curiously finding for a mind blowing web design inspiration so you don’t want to spend too much time and want to get start something as soon as you can. But most of the time, your mouse is not moving around as you want or your hand is not in your creative control or maybe when you are just tired and do not have creative mood to work. So if you want to get fresh your creative man or come up with some creative web design ideas or just need to motivate and inspire yourself with current design trends, we are today listing down 17 Creative Collection Of Inspirational Resources For Designers. This list is not long in numbers but I promise you that when you start browsing them in details it will must boost your creative design ideas professionally and motivate you for to design your project in such a way that people will never forget that you have made it!
You are welcome to share if you know more resources and collection to get inspired with current design trend that 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 well.
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43 Really Useful Photoshop Tutorials For Excellent 3d Effects
17 Mind-Blowing Digital Painting Tutorials Of Beautiful Girls
31 Masterpieces Of Creative And Clever Advertising Concepts
23 Magical Photographs To Believe That Are Not Photoshopped
13 Premium-Like Wordpress Themes That Are Free And Stunning
21 Really Stunning Photoshopped Photos For Creative Inspiration
43 Of The Extremely Creative Wonders Of Macro Photography
27 Best Places You Should Visit To Get Incredible Web Design Inspiration!
13 Simple And Elegant Free Wordpress Themes
21 Extremely Vibrant And Creative Advertisements With Animals
39 Masterpieces Of Creative Advertisements
17 Digital Image Illustration Which You Probably Never Seen Before!
15 Digital Photo Manipulation From Flickr To Get Inspiration
23 Awesome Photos That Look Like They’re Photoshopped But Are Not
25+ Most Creative and Stunning Photo Manipulations
100 (Really) Creative Business Cards
20 Beautiful Examples of Photoshopped Smoke Art and Technique Tutorials
25 Unique uses of WordPress as CMS
40 Useful and Creative Infographics
35 Examples Of Masterful Lighting Effects In Web Design
Totally Awesome Joker Collection
20 Stunning Panoramic Landscapes
21 Colorful Artwork Of Character Design To Grab Your Attention
42 Amazing Resources for Inspirational Typography
25 Great Examples of Using Gradient Effects in Web Designs
60 Beautiful Fractals Created with Apophysis:Part 1
25 of the Best Websites for Educational Institutions
50 Inspirational Web Design Blogs
21 Premium-Like Free Photoblog Themes For Wordpress
Few days ago, we have been requested to list down some beautiful photoblog themes for wordpress. Today, we are going to deliver the most beautiful collection of photoblog themes for wordpress. This is not the long list with all the available wordpress themes on the internet but this is an exclusive collection of free photoblog wordpress themes that are nice, simple and elegant looking and you may consider any of these themes as per your need if you are searching for your photoblog.
You are welcome to share more wordpress themes for photoblogs which our readers 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 well.
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43 Really Useful Photoshop Tutorials For Excellent 3d Effects
17 Mind-Blowing Digital Painting Tutorials Of Beautiful Girls
31 Masterpieces Of Creative And Clever Advertising Concepts
23 Magical Photographs To Believe That Are Not Photoshopped
13 Premium-Like Wordpress Themes That Are Free And Stunning
21 Really Stunning Photoshopped Photos For Creative Inspiration
43 Of The Extremely Creative Wonders Of Macro Photography
27 Best Places You Should Visit To Get Incredible Web Design Inspiration!
13 Simple And Elegant Free Wordpress Themes
21 Extremely Vibrant And Creative Advertisements With Animals
39 Masterpieces Of Creative Advertisements
17 Digital Image Illustration Which You Probably Never Seen Before!
15 Digital Photo Manipulation From Flickr To Get Inspiration
23 Awesome Photos That Look Like They’re Photoshopped But Are Not
PhotographerDream Wordpress Theme
PhotographerDream Wordpress Theme was build specially for photographers. Right from the main page visitor will see photographer shots. On the photo page image pan is used, so if the image is extra large user will drag it to view every pixel. Your blog visitors can also press control and drag photo to zoom the image.
AutoFocus is a Wordpress theme specifically for photographers looking for a simple and elegant way to display their work online.
Grain Theme for WordPress is a fixed-width photoblog theme for WordPress 2.3+. To use it you have to additionally install the Yapb plugin; Recommended versions are 1.9 or newer. Grain comes with an administrative backend and relies heavily on CSS for it’s styling. It uses a mosaic style overview page, has archives, can display exif data, browse to random photos etc.
Fotofolio is a free wordpress template designed for easy creation online portfolio for Visual Workers; Photography, Graphic Design, Manga, Architect, etc.
Wordpress Theme – Photo Blog is a simple Wordpress theme. No widget and fix width. Huh! Important here it’s simple, clean and easy to modify.
Wp Foto theme is single layout theme designed for photo blogger. It uses custom fields for displaying thumbnail in home page, archive page, category and tag page.
Sharpfolio is a WordPress theme designed to enable Web Designers, Graphic Designers, Photographers, Motion Designers, Artists or any creative professional to showcase their work in a simple, clean, beautiful portfolio.
The Unstandard is a split two / three column WordPress 2.6 or 2.7+ compatible theme. The home and archive index pages utilize photos rather than text. The latest update is completely optimized and stripped of any unnecessary code allowing for complete customization
Fotolog WP theme for photoblog is suitable for those who have huge interest in photography but have no specific template to showcase their high quality photos with wide dimension. It has 1 column, showing 1 photo for each page and showing maximum 800px width photo on main page (can be modified). Previous photo and next photo link on top and bottom of each page, this will help for better/faster navigation.
PhotoBlog Theme for WordPress uses the jQuery JavaScript-Framework, which has been included with the standard WordPress installation since version 2.1. The plugin uses the standard JS that is part of WordPress, meaning that it does not need to be installed separately. The decision to use jQuery was made on account of its very small file size (20KB)
Free Photo Gallery is a perfect theme for those photo bloggers who want to display bigger sized images. The simple web page has links to other pages like About and other images and comment section below the image.
Reflection is a simple, clean and elegant theme for running your photoblog using WordPress.
Photoblog Dark Portfolio Wordpress Theme
Photoblog Dark Portfolio Wordpress Theme is ajax content sliderDark style, online portfolio premium wordpress theme.
Grace is a stylish, minimalistic photoblog theme for WordPress. Grace’s muted color scheme and big frame puts your photos right at the center of the blog making colors seem even more vibrant and beautifully complementing those in black and white.
iQ2 is a WordPress photoblog theme that fully integrates with the PhotoQ Photoblog Plugin. The main features of the theme consists Fixed width, Fully widget compatible, Built-in EXIF support etc.
Ascari is a very simple theme so it is perfect for portfolios of any kind. This will also post a coming soon image if you don’t post a image yourself to keep the theme looking professional.
Spotless is a Wordpress Theme designed specifically to be used for Photoblogs. This is valid XHTML and CSS wordpress them. This is the most simplest free wordpress photoblog theme of its kind.
Linquist is a simple, portfolio oriented theme, without the usual blogging garbage. Inspired by and partially based on the fantastic Sharpfolio theme.
WP Pix Free Theme is not just another WordPress theme, it’s more to it than meet the eye — it’s a real photoblog/portfolio.
Photo-Biyori is a simple yet beautiful wordpress theme that can generate thumbnail automatically. This is widget ready theme with default picture size 500px.
Viewport Free Wordpress ThemeÂ
Viewport Free Wordpress Theme is a 1 column grey photoblog Wordpress Theme. This is very beautiful theme having attractive navigational structure for images.
Eight Most Useful And Robust Twitter Tools
As we all know Twitter is a rapidly growing micro-blogging service in these days. No doubt, It’s a great fun to share information or talk with your friends and the powerful way to spread the word as much as possible. For this reason, there are too many free twitter tools available that are offering you hassle free and simple way to tweet. In this post, we are listing down Eight Most Useful And Robust Twitter Tools that are free and absolutely useful. Whether you are designer, developer, office worker, manager, supervisor, student, home user, etc. We have tried to add something interesting for everyone. 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 thought here. If you like this post so please spread the word as much possible via twitter.
You are welcome if you want to share more twitter tools that we have missed here and you think 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 well.
TweetDeck is an Adobe Air desktop application, currently in public beta, that looks to capture the abundance of social media and display it in a unique columned user interface. This is a realtime application that allows users to monitor that information in a single concise view. TweetDeck currently integrates services from Twitter, Twitscoop, 12seconds, Stocktwits and now Facebook.
twhirl is a desktop client for the Twitter microblogging service. Most of the features available on the Twitter website are accessible through twhirl, too.It displays notifications for new messages and can also shorten long URLs. You can record a video on Seesmic, and share it on twitter immediately and much more…
Twitterfeed is a free service that will automatically tweet any post directly via your rss feed on twitter that you publish on your blog.
Tweetburner is the webservice that lets you shorten URLs, post them to Twitter and follow statistics about them. Simply, Tweetburner lets you track what happens with the links you share on Twitter.
DestroyTwitter is a compact though robust Twitter application built to run on Mac, Windows, and Linux using Adobe AIR. It consists of a series of canvases that constantly update to keep tweets up-to-date using notifications that appear when a new tweet arrives. DestroyTwitter uses a minimal amount of memory compared to its AIR-based alternatives without sacrificing functionality and performance. As a result, it can easily run in the background as an automated process.
TwitterFon is a simple, clean, easy to use, and super fast Twitter client for your iPhone and iPod Touch. TwitterFon is focused on 80% of your task of Twitter such as check friends/replies timeline, check direct messages, send a reply and/or a direct message, and search. It also focused on easy to use. It has very clean user interface, very fast response and scrolling.
TwitterGadget is a clean, robust, web 2.0 style client for Twitter.com, designed to submit status updates to Twitter via your iGoogle homepage or Gmail Account. TwitterGadget is completely AJAX based, meaning, at the user-specified refresh interval, only the status update content is refreshed in-line, on the gadget page. This means reduced bandwidth utilization between you and Twitter.com, while providing for a more user-friendly experience.
HootSuite is the ultimate Twitter toolbox. With HootSuite, you can manage multiple Twitter profiles, pre-schedule tweets, and measure your success. HootSuite lets you manage your entire Twitter experience from one easy-to-use interface.
40+ Must-See Resources And Inspirational Collections For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In March
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 40+ Must-See Resources And Inspirational Collections 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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5 Useful And Free Photo Viewers For Your Mac OS X
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21 Really Stunning Photoshopped Photos For Creative Inspiration
17 Mind-Blowing Digital Painting Tutorials Of Beautiful Girls
43 Of The Extremely Creative Wonders Of Macro Photography
27 Best Places You Should Visit To Get Incredible Web Design Inspiration!
13 Simple And Elegant Free Wordpress Themes
21 Extremely Vibrant And Creative Advertisements With Animals
39 Masterpieces Of Creative Advertisements
17 Digital Image Illustration Which You Probably Never Seen Before!
15 Digital Photo Manipulation From Flickr To Get Inspiration
23 Awesome Photos That Look Like They’re Photoshopped But Are Not
Design Tips, Tricks and Tutorial
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20 Beautiful Photoshop Montage Tutorials
30+ Photoshop Tutorials in Creating Amazing Posters
50 Stunning Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials
Create A Cute Panda Bear Face Icon
40+ High Quality Adobe Fireworks Tutorials, Resources & PNG Files
15 Tutorials for Recreating Authentic Photo Effects
RocknRolla Style Twitter Icon Tutorial
25 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating that Perfect Web Page Design
Use type as a creative effect in Adobe Photoshop
How to Create Super-Malleable Effects with Colorful Lines
Create An Amazing Diamond Advertisement Poster in Photoshop
44 Must Learn Web Design Layout Tutorials in Photoshop
Artwork, Digital Photography and Inspiration
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40 Excellent Logos Created with Helvetica
Bizarre Surreal and Dark Art Pictures
50 Stunningly Creative Interactive Flash Websites
15 Beautiful Typography Inspired Websites
50 Brilliantly Photoshopped Movie Posters
26 Floral Websites in Full Bloom
25 Beautifully Colorful Websites – Part 4
15 Powerful Military Photographs
30+ Excellent & Inspirational Digital Paintings
25 Impressive and Inspirational Dark CSS Web Designs
Designing Drop-Down Menus: Examples and Best Practices
Cartoon Websites and Characters
Javascript and Ajax
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25 Powerful and Useful jQuery Tutorials for Developers and Designers
70 New, Useful AJAX And JavaScript Techniques
xHTML and CSS
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10 Rare HTML Tags You Really Should Know
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50 Excellent Image Galleries You Can Use Today
A Huge Compilation Of 60 Free Illustrator Brushes
10 Free Grunge Photoshop Textures
The Ultimate List Of Sources For Free Background Patterns
10 Must Have Firefox Plugins For All Bloggers
30 Photoshop Actions for Touch Ups and Enhancements – Part 2
12 WordPress Plugins for Theme Development
200 Free Exclusive Icons: Siena
60 Excellent Free 3D Model Websites
Miscellaneous Articles
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50+ Essential Techniques and Tools for Visualizing your Data
9 Steps To A Happy Relationship With Your Hosting Provider
10 User Friendly Tips for Good Content Heavy Web Designs
11 Great Resources And Inspirations Of Current Design Trends
Getting an idea and inspiration is sometimes really hard and when you are planning to start your new web design project and you are curiously finding for a mind blowing web design inspiration so you don’t want to spend too much time and want to get start something as soon as you can. But most of the time, your mouse is not moving around as you want or your hand is not in your creative control or maybe when you are just tired and do not have creative mood to work. So if you want to get fresh your creative man or come up with some creative web design ideas or just need to motivate and inspire yourself with current design trends, we are today listing down 11 Great Resources And Inspirations Of Current Design Trends. This list is not long in numbers but I promise you that when you start browsing them in details it will must boost your creative design ideas professionally and motivate you for to design your project in such a way that people will never forget that you have made it!
You are welcome to share if you know more resources and collection to get inspired with current design trend that 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 well.
You may be interested in these older posts
5 Useful And Free Photo Viewers For Your Mac OS X
31 Masterpieces Of Creative And Clever Advertising Concepts
23 Magical Photographs To Believe That Are Not Photoshopped
13 Premium-Like Wordpress Themes That Are Free And Stunning
21 Really Stunning Photoshopped Photos For Creative Inspiration
17 Mind-Blowing Digital Painting Tutorials Of Beautiful Girls
43 Of The Extremely Creative Wonders Of Macro Photography
27 Best Places You Should Visit To Get Incredible Web Design Inspiration!
13 Simple And Elegant Free Wordpress Themes
21 Extremely Vibrant And Creative Advertisements With Animals
39 Masterpieces Of Creative Advertisements
17 Digital Image Illustration Which You Probably Never Seen Before!
15 Digital Photo Manipulation From Flickr To Get Inspiration
23 Awesome Photos That Look Like They’re Photoshopped But Are Not
45 Beautiful Free Fonts for Modern Design Trends
The proper selection of typography in a design can set the appropriate theme and mood that the designer is going for. In this collection, you’ll find 45 first-class fonts uses in Modern Design Trends.
Logo Design & Branding Trends 2009
In this collection, you will find the logo design and branding trends in 2009.
In this post, you will find Web design trends for 2009 like recent developments, new design elements and new graphic approaches.
More Web Design Trends For 2009
This post is the second part of Web Design Trends For 2009. In this, you will find design trends for 2009 in terms of layouts, visual approaches and design elements.
In this article you will take a logo at the logos of over 50 popular airlines for your inspiration.
This is an interesting and useful review of 20 websites from big corporation to small portfolio sites who organized their footer cleverly to enhance usability.
In this post, you will see how photo galleries, design studios, art-connected websites, music bands personal pages tend to have elements of grunge and vintage, collages and sketches.
Logo Design Trends 2009 – Showcase
This collection is a showcase of logo designs in different category with current trends to get you inspired.
30 Creative Examples of Illustrations in Web Design
In this article, you’ll be able to set your eyes on some of the best examples of websites that have chosen to use illustrated elements as part of the design.
40+ Beautiful Examples of Paper Websites Design
Here is a collection of 40+ Beautiful Examples of Paper Websites Design. You will see some of the coolest websites using paper as a part of their design.
In this post, you will take a look at 50 websites in which texture has been applied to the design to improve it in some way. The websites are categorized according to how the texture is used.
33 Nicely Designed And Well-Colored But Simple Web Designs
Where do you go normally when you are planning to start your new web design project and you are curiously finding for a mind blowing web design inspiration or just want yourself to bring up with some amazing creative ideas which can help you to create your web design project like it will make a trend or inspiration for others. But sometimes, your mouse is not moving around as you want or your hand is not in your creative control or maybe when you are just tired and do not have creative mood to work. So if you want to get fresh your creative man or come up with some creative web design ideas or just need to motivate and inspire yourself, we are today listing down 33 Nicely Designed And Well-Colored But Simple Web Designs. This list is not long in numbers but I promise you that when you start browsing them in details it will must boost your creative web design ideas professionally and motivate you for design your web design something which people will never forget that you have made it!
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