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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
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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
11 Most Popular Open Source Softwares Of All Time
Today we are listing here 11 Most Popular Open Source Softwares Of All Time in which most of them are cross-platform. You might not be able to enjoy all the features as commercial software but it will really help you to perform your task in a better way when your pocket does not allow you to purchase paid software.
You are welcome if you want to share more Open Source softwares 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.
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Firefox 3.5 sets the pace with dozens of new features, including the smart location bar, one-click bookmarking and blindingly fast performance. Avoid online scams, unsafe transactions and forgeries with simple site identity. View Web pages faster, using less of your computer’s memory.
FileZilla is a cross-platform graphical FTP, FTPS and SFTP client a lot of features, supporting Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and more. FileZilla Server is a reliable FTP server for Windows. It has a powerful Site Manager and transfer queue and drag & drop support.
7-Zip is a file archiver with the high compression ratio. The program supports 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, LZH, CHM, GZIP, BZIP2, Z, TAR, CPIO, ISO, MSI, WIM, NSIS, RPM and DEB formats.
FullSync is a universal file synchronization and backup tool which is highly customizable and expandable. It is especially for developers, but the basic functionality is easy enough for everyone.
Gimpshop is a hack made on top of the original Gimp project which changes all menues, dialogs, etc., in order to make them look as much as their counterparts in Photoshop. This makes users who are already familiar with the layout of Photoshop feel right at home in this open source application. Please note that all features in Photoshop in not available in Gimpshop, since it is based on the Gimp project and it’s feature set.
ClamWin is a free antivirus for Windows. It includes virus scanner, scheduler, virus database updates, context menu integration to MS Windows Explorer and Addin to MS Outlook. Also features easy setup program. Uses a well respected ClamAV scanning engine.
OpenOffice is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.
Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment. This is based on a powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. By optimizing as many routines as possible without losing user friendliness, Notepad++ is trying to reduce the world carbon dioxide emissions. When using less CPU power, the PC can throttle down and reduce power consumption, resulting in a greener environment.
TightVNC is a free remote control software package. With TightVNC, you can see the desktop of a remote machine and control it with your local mouse and keyboard, just like you would do it sitting in the front of that computer.This is a cross-platform, available for Windows and Unix, compatible with other VNC software.
Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems. It includes tools for modeling – fast subdivision surface and polygon tools, multi-resolution mesh sculpting, metaballs, NURBS, vector fonts, and curves; uv mapping; shaders and texturing – both paint based and node based; ik and fk animation tools with rigging, constraints, skinning, morph targets, drivers, deformers, and modifiers; simulation tools including hard bodies, soft body, cloth, and fluids; and particle systems including hair. Blender has integrated rendering with both its native renderer and the raytracer Yafray as well supporting many external renderers; and python based scripting.
Audacity is a free, easy-to-use and multilingual audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to record live audio, convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs, edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files, cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together etc.
23 Brilliant Web Apps To Simplify Designer’s Work Life
This is one of the very best list of its kind where you can find the simplest online web designer’s tools that are developed for designers and may be very helpful for you as well when you want to get your work done or just for fun. I hope web designers will like this list, but you can also use them and will love them whether you are an office worker, 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 23 Brilliant Web Apps To Simplify Designer’s Work Life. Just take a look at them and share your thought’s here.
You are welcome to share more Useful web tools that will be helpful for web designers 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.
An easier and faster solution for cross-browser testing. You can preview and test your web pages on leading browser and operating systems. This will help you get your results in real time, from virtually any computer connected to the internet.
Color Scheme Designer generates color schemes of several types. Every scheme is based on one (base) color, which is supplemented with additional colors making together the best optical imperession.
PHPanywhere is a new online service that’s changing the way people develop on the web. They enable users to develop and maintain their php/html projects online using any standard web browser.
With Carbonmade, you can manage your online portfolio with a variety of tools that allow you to change how you display your work. The core idea behind the design of Carbonmade is to keep your images or video at the forefront.
Posterous lets you post things online fast using email. If you can use email, you can have your own website to share thoughts and media with friends, family and the world. You can attach any type of file and they’ll post it along with the text of your email.
With iPlotz you can create clickable, navigable wireframes to create the experience of a real website or software application. You can also invite others to comment on the designs, and once ready, you can then manage the tasks for developers and designers to build the project.
This is your online photo sharing, editing and hosting resource. You can upload, organize, edit, store (up to 2GB free) and share your photos.
The Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. Its primary role is to make web designer’s life easier. As the new fonts are bundled into operating systems.
Pict is a free image hosting service that lets you upload and share your images with one click.
You can upload images up to 3.5Mb, JPG/PNG/GIF formats supported, it has automatic image resizing, multiple uploading & much more.
Font Burner is the easiest way to add great fonts to your website. Just pick one of over 1000 quality fonts, add a chunk of code to your site, then sit back and admire your beautiful typography.
A collection of free icons that can be colored and reduced in size to your taste. If you are a happy site or blog owner, you will be able to pick icons that will fit right into your design.
Verb is a user focused task management and sharing application. If you have things that need to be done, then this is for you. Verb was built with individuals and small teams in mind. It is the perfect solution for freelance designers and coders who want to manage themselves and their collaborations.
CurdBee is a safe and secure web-based billing application. You can use it to send clients invoices and then collect payments via PayPal or Google Checkout, billing them easily in the currency you choose. It’s so simple, you won’t believe it till you see it.
EmailTheWeb is the only web-based service that allows you to email any web page to any one. The entire web page is emailed in a flash and is captured as it is now. Your recipient will see the same exact page as you.
MyFontbook is an unique online font viewer that helps save designers time by providing a number of tools to view installed fonts quickly and easily. Unlike a classic font management tool, MyFontbook is platform independent and can be used freely through any web browser.
Having a good uptime is essential for the success of your website. 247webmonitoring will monitor it 24X7 from their servers and notify you whenever it goes down. This will check your website every 15 minutes to know it is up. They will send you notification by email or SMS when it goes down. So you can quickly fix the issue and you can stay happy. This way you can relax and focus on your core business. In future, you will also find out how fast your site is from different location.
This is a brand new site that allows you to check out how your website looks in the most popular resolution formats. It’s all powered by Ajax & PHP so no need to download anything. Using ViewLike.Us is perfectly free.
Tracer is a brand new way to generate more visits and page views. You can get credit when content is copied from your site. It will help you to measure and understand user engagement and Improve your search engine ranking.
Picnik makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools. Tweak to your heart’s content, then get creative with oodles of effects, fonts, shapes, and frames. It’s fast, easy, and fun.
Go2Convert is a set of free web based tools that allow you to convert, resize a picture without having to install any software on your computer. It is not meant to be a complete Image editing software package. It is meant to be an easy to use solution to convert, resize your pictures and digital photos without the need to learn a complex software package. Once you convert, resize an image, you can choose to copy image’s URL or download it directly to your computer – It doesn’t get easier than that.
ShowDocument is a free service for online meetings with fully synchronized co-browsing of any document. It is a quick and simple way to share a document with other people at the same time. It is a web collaboration platform that lets individuals have a free online meeting. It is an alternative to various commercial desktop sharing applications. One can easily upload any file and during the session mark it up with a pen or a highlighter tool in addition to a text box tool and eraser.
This is an online calculator that can help you easily covert pixels, to EM, to percent or to points.
A simple online usability test that helps you identify the most prominent elements of your user interfaces.
13 Excellent Firefox Add-Ons That Are Absolutely Useful
As we all know that Firefox is the fastest growing popular web browser and its growing more and more every day. There are too many handy options provided by the firefox and this is the main reason for its popularity. You can easily find lots of free download able extensions and add-ons that are available on the internet for firefox, we also featured few of them before and there demands are increasing. In this post, I am listing down 13 Excellent Firefox Add-Ons That Are Absolutely Useful.
You are welcome to share more firefox add-ons that you think will be useful and feel a better browsing experience 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 can add useful extra features to Gmail, like hierarchical labels, an unread message icon on your browser tab, file attachment icons, and more.
This add-on will open the File Browser at the right location, using simple filters on the downloaded file. The filters are based on filenames and hosted domain’s name.
DownThemAll is all you can desire from a download manager: it features an advanced accelerator that increases speed up to 400% and it allows you to pause and resume downloads at any time. is fast, reliable and easy-to-use! It lets you download all the links or images contained in a webpage and much more: you can refine your downloads by fully customizable criteria to get only what you really want.
Wherever you need to click through ads or wait for countdowns, SkipScreen will be there to make your life easier. SkipScreen automatically clicks through the hoops to get to the content you want. You can skip unnecessary pages on sites like Rapidshare, Megaupload, zShare, Mediafire, and more.
DownloadHelper is a tool for web content extraction. Its purpose is to capture video and image files from many sites. Just surf the Web as you are used to, when DownloadHelper detects it can do something for you, the icon gets animated and a menu allows you to download files by simply clicking an item.
With FastestFox, you can browse faster and save time by speeding up common tasks. Get faster, parallelized downloads, convenient shortcuts and more.
Perform Google searches and see results right from the Firefox 3 address bar. You can search Google Web, Local, Videos, Blogs, News, Books, Images, and Patents. Plus you can restrict some types of Google searches to specific sites.
Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.
Easy YouTube Video Downloader will add buttons on youtube video page to download YouTube videos in FLV, 3GP, MP4 and HD quality.
ImTranslator includes Online Translator in 1640 language combinations for Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simp.), Chinese (trad.), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, TTS (Text to Speech) for English, and many more. Virtual Keyboard for more than 40 languages and Russian Decoder. It has Interface localization in 11 languages and other multilingual tools.
PDF Download by Nitro PDF Software is the leading tool for handling, viewing and creating Web-based PDF files and is enjoyed by millions of Firefox users every day. The browser extension removes the pain you can experience when you encounter PDF files online, reducing browser crashes, speeding up the display of a PDF’s content, and letting you convert any (unsecured) Web page into a high-quality PDF that’s great for archiving, printing and sharing.
Screengrab saves webpages as images. It will capture what you can see in the window, the entire page, just a selection, a particular frame… basically it saves webpages as images – either to a file, or to the clipboard.
Read It Later allows you to save pages of interest to read later. It eliminates cluttering of bookmarks with sites that are merely of a one-time interest.
DeeperWeb, An Innovative Google Search Plugin For Firefox And Internet Explorer
DeeperWeb.com is an innovative search engine tool and an essential addon for Google users. DeeperWeb is integrated into Google web search results and is available for Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox browsers. DeeperWeb boosts searching by employing Tag-Cloud techniques to help users navigate through search results more efficiently and uses Topic-Mapping-Technologies for fast results identification. Visit us online for more information on our search plugin and Firefox extension.
A number of key features in this addon release make this the best time yet for Google users to reload their searching experience and boost Google web search results with DeeperWeb. All features are available for Internet Explorer and Firefox:
Improving search results with TAG-CLOUD techniques
•    See the full picture hidden beneath the pile of search results
•    Find related tags and phrases extracted from your search results
•    Modify search with one click tweak, rephrase and focus your search
In addition to these, there are several clever business and internet marketing applications to the DeeperWeb’s Tag-Cloud extension: identifying main competitors, pinpointing targeted sites for most effective advertisement and isolating the authoritative websites of a particular topic.
Finding the desired information hidden beneath the pile of web search results has never been easier. DeeperWeb’s Topic-Mapping search engine technologies reduce the clutter and help users to more effectively identify search results upon topic and type (e.g. articles, videos, podcasts, slides…).
Quick Zoom-In by Area of Interest with TOPIC-MAPPING technologies
•    See Mapped Information for fast results identification
•    Quickly Zoom-In (& Out) to categories such as answers, news, Wikipedia, video, podcast, slides,    research, expert’ advices and more…
•    Get Access to high-quality targeted news and information from leading publications.
IE (Trident)+Firefox (Gecko)+Chrome.Safari (Webkit)=Lunascape, The World’s Only Triple Engine Browser
You spend most of your time in front of the computer doing internet, but may not have thought about what a browser can do and which browser is right for you. In reality, each browser is different in its own way. Lunascape is the world’s only triple engine browser. What this means is that you can have the best features, performance, and speed of Windows Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Apple Safari all in one browser and can view any website in an optimal way without a need to open another browser and you know that using Lunascape is 100% free.
It’s standard set-up is highly multi-functional without installing a lot of add-ons and plug-ins. This browser has several highly effective tools for anyone working with web developing, especially in our bookmarklets. Although it is possible to add many features to other browsers through add-ons and plug-ins, many browsers tend to become slow and unstable as the number of these increase, because the add-ons and plug-ins search for updates every time the program is started. With Lunascape, all the features you need come standard, so start up is lightning fast. You can try to download here.
Lunascape certainly offers Mouse Gestures! You can set the functions you want for mouse movement while right clicking. Many people choose to make a movement to the left go “back”, a movement to the right go “forward”, and so forth. Once you have experienced the convenience of these mouse gestures, you will never be able to surf the web without them again.One of the biggest problems while browsing is crashing (when the browser is forced to automatically close). Lunascape comes equipped with crash prevention features. Only the problematic tab will be closed, preventing the crash of the browser itself in most situations. However, in the event that a crash does occur, Lunascape allows you to restart the program at the same pages you were viewing immediately before the crash.
A “bookmarklet” function that you can use to check a site’s source code without an HTML Editor comes standard. In the “Web Development” menu below, features such as “Style Test”, “Style Sheet Display” and “List of image without Alt Text” are also installed standard.
This feature allows you to set information you have registered in your favorites, RSS feeds, and tickers to be displayed as a pop up in the lower right hand corner of your screen (or elsewhere). These pop-ups will be displayed even if the browser is housed in the task tray so you won’t miss a thing.
With Lunascape, you can display up to 100 tabs and have very precise control over all of them. You also get highly convenient tab functions such as the ability to change rendering engines between tabs and make settings such as “View banking websites with Trident, and G-mail with Gecko”. When it comes to “fast” browsing, browser launch speed is also an important factor. Lunascape has been keen on improving this speed aspect as well.
Lunascape provides a useful tool for your Internet search. Enter words in the Search Bar, select the search engine you want to use in a pull-down list and get your results without type any URL. You can also add your own favorite search engine easily if it is not already listed.
Windows4all, An Online Virtual Operating System
Windows4all is a Microsoft Silverlight based online virtual operating system. It is a website that simulates an operating system inside a web browser. Windows4all.com replicates the desktop environment of a modern operating system. The user can launch applications right away without installation.
Are you assuming that above screen shot is showing my desktop. No, this is the Windows4all desktop view. At first glance, you will would not believe that it’s just virtual version of web based Windows.
Windows4all.com requires Silverlight 2 player to operate because it was developed on Microsoft Silverlight. Besides desktop, taskbar, start menu and sidebar, currently it includes such applications.
* File Explorer
* Internet Explorer
* Video Player
* Rich text editor
* RSS reader
* Notepad
* Paint
* Calculator
* Games like Chess, Solitaire, Spider, Tic-tac-toe
The system also supports installing program functionality. But this program should be developed in Silverlight and be available in Internet or local file system. This is the alpha version of Windows4all.com but it’s still wonderful.
Update: Thank you Akmal Wardak for your point. After you commented here, we have figured out that Windows4all is not a Microsoft product and we have mistakenly Introduced it like this. We apologize to our community.
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9 Online Free And Useful Tools That Can Help Designers A Lot
We are always in the search for useful stuffs on the internet that are freely available for everyone and specially for designers who spend their whole day in to design or create something creative. We aimed to help you and keep you updated with all the new online tools that you probably would love to use. In past, we have listed various free web apps that are really useful for any one of you and specially for designers. Today, we are listing 9 Online Free And Useful Tools That Can Help Designers A Lot that are not only for designers and every one of you will probably love to use any or all of them. Whether you are designer, developer, office worker, manager, supervisor, student, home user, etc. This post contains a diversified collection of free web apps and we tried to make sure to add something interesting for everyone. Most of them are not very well-known, but they are really amazing in respect to their features and functionality. Just take a look at them and share your thought here.
You are welcome if you know and want to share more free web apps that are really simple but useful specially for designers 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.
Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. It is a free open-source online service. A number of distributed computers will open your website in their browser. Then they will make screenshots and upload them to the central server.
For using WhatTheFont font recognition system, Just upload a scanned image of the font and instantly find the closest matches in their database.
Wix
With Wix you can create a free website or make free MySpace layouts and Flash MySpace layouts. It’s the simpler, faster, better way to build & design on the web.
DimDim is a free web conferencing service where you can share your desktop, show slides, collaborate, chat, talk and broadcast via webcam with absolutely no download required for attendees.
FreshBooks is an online invoicing and time tracking service that saves you time and makes you look professional.
Zapproved is a lightweight Web tool that makes group decision-making faster, easier and more accountable. It is a unique solution that introduces peer-to-peer and organizational techniques to improve the process of building consensus.
FileDropper’s beauty is in its simplicity. It has one click file hosting where you simply click on the upload button and select your file. After the file is uploaded you are taken to the page where the file is hosted. If the file is an image, it shows the image directly on the page for easier sharing. Upload size is an impressive 5 GB.
W3Counter is your free, hosted website analytics solution for answering the key questions about your website: who’s your audience, how they find your site, and what interests them.
Create your own online magazines, fanzines, brochures, catalogs, portfolios and more. Using the formatpixel online editor you too can design page based projects, layout text, upload your own images, add interactivity and customise their appearance.
Do You Know How To Synchronize Files With All Of Your Devices
Many of you guys using multiple computers that are located on different places. How about if your work computer, your home laptop, your Mac, your mobile phone devices live in multiple places. With Live Mesh, you can synchronize, share and access files with all of your devices, so you always have the updated copy of your files. It’s very simple and easy that you can now access your files from any device or from the web, easily share them with others, and get notified whenever someone changes a file. The best of all this service is powered by Microsoft and absolutely free for everyone.
Live Mesh enables you to connect to your other computer and access its desktop as if you were sitting right in front of it.
Now its time to stop e-mailing yourself and get files across your devices by synchronizing them instead. Just add each device to your mesh by installing the Live Mesh software, and then choose folders to sync. You can sync a folder with only one or two of your devices, or with all of them.
Yes, Its true that Live Mesh makes it easy to share your stuff with anyone. You can Invite others to share a Live Mesh folder and keep it in sync on everyone’s devices as files are added or updated. Isn’t that a great idea?
After you will sign up for Live Mesh, you automatically get your own personal Live Desktop that will work like your Windows PC on the web with 5 GB of free storage. This way you can Synchronize files to your Live Desktop, and you’ll be able to access them using almost any web browser, its really no matter where you are.
The 7 Time Saving Firefox Add-Ons To Make Your Lives Easier
As we all know that Firefox is the fastest growing popular web browser and its growing more and more every day. There are too many handy options provided by the firefox and this is the main reason for its popularity. You can easily find lots of free downloadable extensions and add-ons that are available on the internet for firefox, we also featured few of them before and there demands are increasing. In this post, I am listing down The 7 Time Saving Firefox Add-Ons To Make Your Lives Easier.
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Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer
Foxmarks is the essential bookmarking add-on. Just Install Foxmarks on each computer you use, and it works silently in the background to keep your bookmarks and (optionally) passwords backed up and synchronized. If you’re away from your computer, Foxmarks allows you to access your bookmarks online by logging into my.foxmarks.com. Foxmarks’ Suggested Tag feature helps you stay organized by recommending relevant tags as you add bookmarks in Firefox 3.
If you use any site like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Digg, Google Gmail, StumbleUpon, etc you’ll likely enjoy having Shareaholic by your side. This add-on enables you to quickly, and very easily share, bookmark, and e-mail web pages via a wide array of your favorite web 2.0 social networking, bookmarking, blogging, and email services.
You can drag, drop and arrange pictures adding photo titles, and create albums by multi-selecting photos, and then upload to one of a selection of online photo services – all of this without interrupting your Internet browsing with Fotofox.
This extension lets you organize websites by day and open them up simultaneously as part of your daily routine. This is really handy if you read sites that update on a regular schedule (like SmashingApps, CNN, Digg, webcomics, weekly columns, etc.).
ReminderFox displays and manages lists of date-based reminders and To Do’s. ReminderFox does not seek to be a full-fledged calendar. In fact, the target audience is anybody that simply wants to remember important dates (birthdays, anniversaries, bills, etc) without having to run a whole calendar application. ReminderFox makes sure you remember all of your important dates via easy-to-use lists, alerts, and alarm notifications.
Sxipper makes interacting with the Web simpler by keeping track of an unlimited number of usernames, passwords and personal information such as name, address, phone numbers, etc. Presented as you need it, Sxipper securely stores this personal data on your computer.
The tab sidebar extension, if you haven’t heard of it already, provides a sidebar in the browser that can act as a replacement to the main tab bar, complete with always visible preview thumbnails and in tab navigation buttons. Just got to View – Tab Sidebar to see it.
