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Now Use ClickMeter For Real-Time Click Tracking Of Your Link

ClickMeter is an essential tool to track results from the small blog to a full-fledged marketing campaign. This is versatile, scalable and easy to use tool to track how many clicks you have got on your external links. You can enjoy reliable real-time statistics over suspect click-fraud activity: filter per campaign; customize fraud-detection parameters and compare results for multiple campaigns in a single chart. The best about this tool that it has absolutely FREE plan with huge list of amazing features.

You can monitor your overall performance over a customizable time-frame through detailed charts; make comparisons of traffic volume and click-fraud reliability among different marketing campaigns.

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There is an option to track all the clicks, real-time, through a detailed self-updating report. You can filter for campaign and get details over the link used: the user’s browser; system; country and much more in a single screen.

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You can view where all your traffic originates on a navigable world map: monitor all your clicks or just group for specific campaigns with click-fraud statistics and geographical density at a glance.

With ClickMeter, Now you can provide your clients with a reliable monitor of your performance through a read-only guest account or share your results on affiliationlink-exchange agreements.

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85+ Excellent Resources And Tutorials Especially For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In January

We are always in search of great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers like you. Today, we have another great post, “Discover the Best of the Web” on SmashingApps. In this, we made a list of 85+ Excellent Resources And Tutorials Especially For Designers. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.

You are welcome to share if you know more best of the web in the month of January 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 and do not forget to become our fan on facebook as well.

Design Tips, Tricks and Tutorial

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40+ Photoshop Tutorials for Creating Gadget Designs

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How to Create a Realistic Fountain Pen

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51 Bangin’ Blender Tutorials

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How to Make a Professional Buddy Icon in Photoshop

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Create a Stunning 3D Liquid Explosion Artwork

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40 Imaginary Photoshop Tutorials & Techniques

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35 Tutorials and Guides for Working With Wacom Tablets

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Creating a Realistic Torn Photo Effect – Photoshop Tutorial

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18 Outstanding Typography Photoshop Tutorials Of 2010

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Design a Surreal Desert Scene in Photoshop

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Mastering Photoshop: Unknown Tricks and Time-Savers

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23 Professional Facial Photoshop Retouching Tutorials

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35 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating Web Design Layouts

35-Photoshop-Tutorials-for-Creating-Web-Design-Layouts

Easy Digital Painting Illustration in Photoshop

Easy-Digital-Painting-Illustration-in-Photoshop

Artwork, Digital Photography and Inspiration

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40+ Examples of Typography Inspired in Web Design

40-Examples-of-Typography-Inspired-in-Web-Design

33 Astounding CG Environments

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The Colorful Showcase Of Beautiful Typography

The-Colorful-Showcase-Of-Beautiful-Typography

40 Beautiful Corporate Websites

40-Beautiful-Corporate-Websites

62 Gorgeously Designed CG Characters

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70 Fairly Creative Fresh Logo Designs for Design Inspiration

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Showcase Of Modern Navigation Design Trends

Showcase-Of-Modern-Navigation-Design-Trends

45 Superb Examples of Warrior and Battle Art

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30 Great Uses for 3D in Flash Websites

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Amazing Grunge Artworks by Alex

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50 Digital Fairy Tale Character Illustration Collections

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Textures In Web Design: Examples And Best Practices

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Beautiful Digital Art by Miriam Moshinsky

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11 Most Popular Blog Design Styles (With Examples)

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35+ Fantastic Robot Art Illustration

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40 Inspiring Single Page Websites

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50 Packaging Designs That Pack A Punch

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20 Stunning Typographic Designs

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25 Absolutely Magical Fantasy Traditional Art Drawings

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Newsletter Design: 50+ Great Examples

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30 Clever And Creative Packaging Designs for Inspiration

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Super Cool Pictures of Insects

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“The Page Can’t Be Found” Coolest Error 404 Pages In Web Design

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60 Sites with Attractive Typographical Introductions

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Javascript and Ajax

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20 Fresh JavaScript Data Visualization Libraries

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45 jQuery Navigation Plugins and Tutorials

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30 Stylish jQuery Tooltip Plugins For Catchy Designs

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25 Tutorials and Resources for Learning jQuery UI

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Sexy Animated Tabs Using MooTools

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30 Useful Tutorial for JavaScript Framework Navigation

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90+ Useful jQuery Plugins for Designers and Developers

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xHTML and CSS

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14 Helpful Cheat Sheets for Front-end Web Development

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30 Cutting Edge Examples Of CSS Navigation

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The New Hotness: Using CSS3 Visual Effects

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How To Create Depth And Nice 3D Ribbons Only Using CSS3

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Resources

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The Ultimate Collection Of Colorful And Inspiring Vector Art

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20 Fonts Ideal for Big and Powerful Headings

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31 Rare WordPress Themes

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33 Absolutely Free E-Commerce Icon Sets

33-Absolutely-Free-E-Commerce-Icon-Sets

Massive Collection of Over 1,000 Floral Photoshop Brushes

Massive-Collection-of-Over-1000-Floral-Photoshop-Brushes

10 Free Professional PSD Web Templates

10-Free-Professional-PSD-Web-Templates

70 Awesome Wooden Texture Packs from DeviantArt

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4800 Mini Icons You Ever Need for your Apps

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30+ Must Have Photoshop Actions For Photo Touch-Ups

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40 Valuable Tools and Resources For Web Designers

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100+ Seamless Patterns Great for Creating Website Backgrounds

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A Roundup of 45 Industrial Free Fonts

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35 High Quality Apple Inspired Icons

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50 Fabulous Flash Web Design Tools and Software

50-Fabulous-Flash-Web-Design-Tools-and-Software

30+ Useful Free Icon Sets in PSD Format

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25 New High Quality Free Fonts

25-New-High-Quality-Free-Fonts

20 Abstract Effects Photoshop Brushes

20-Abstract-Effects-Photoshop-Brushes

10 Completely Free Wireframe and Mockup Applications

10-Completely-Free-Wireframe-and-Mockup-Applications

25 Fresh, Clean and Unique WordPress Themes

25-Fresh-Clean-and-Unique-Wordpress-Themes

18 Useful WordPress Contact Form Plugins

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35 Stunning Free Fonts To Enhance Your Designs

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Miscellaneous Articles

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30+ Very Useful Color Tools For Designers

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The Evolution of a Design Blog

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A Basic Guide to Photoshop’s 3D Tools

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55+ Most Wanted WordPress Tips, Tricks, and Hacks

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16 useful Mac cheat Sheets

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20 Must Have WordPress CMS Plugins

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10 Tips for Better Print Style Sheets

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How to Create Creativity

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10 Essential Tips You Should Know

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Getting Inspiration from Admiration

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The Complete Guide to Getting the Most Out of Twitter

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14 Traits of Successful Blogs

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How to Make All Browsers Render HTML5 Mark-up Correctly – Even IE6

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13 Useful WordPress SQL Queries You Wish You Knew Earlier

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Useful Tools for Testing Cross Browser Compatibility

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11 Amazing Free Web Applications To Make Your Lives Easier

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Five Best Online Diagramming Tools

Today, we are listing The Five Best Online Diagramming Tools. These would be very helpful for you to create professional looking diagrams, such as flowcharts, sitemaps, organisation charts, wireframes, and many more. If you are designer, developer,  office worker, manager, supervisor, student, home user, etc but we hope that these are worth checking for all of you. Most of them are not very well known but they are really amazing in respect to their features. Just take a look at them and share your thoughts here.

You are welcome to share more useful online diagramming tools that will be helpful 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 and do not forget to become our fan on facebook as well.

Creately

Creately

Creately is an Online Diagramming and Design is a joy to use. Its designed for ease of use and collaboration. It takes ‘easy’ to a whole new level by intelligently adapting to the kind of diagram you are drawing. Creately has been designed so you can draw just about anything, fast and easy.

Mockingbird

Mockingbird

Mockingbird is an online tool that makes it easy for you to create, link together, preview, and share mockups of your website or application.

Draw Anywhere

Draw-Anywhere

DrawAnywhere is an online diagramming website, where you can draw, modify and share flowcharts and other diagrams, with the look & feel of a desktop application. It runs on any browser with Flash 9 installed. There is no need to download and install any custom software. It runs entirely on the web, and thus it is an always-on-access-anywhere solution. It meets all your diagramming needs without installing, maintaining and purchasing expensive software.

Cacoo

Cacoo

Cacoo is a user friendly online drawing tool that allows you to create a variety of diagrams such as site maps, wire frames, UML and network charts. All you need is a browser to easily create attractive diagrams for documents like Blogs, Wikis online.

Lovely Charts

Lovely Charts

Lovely Charts is an online diagramming application that allows you to create professional looking diagrams, such as flowcharts, sitemaps, organisation charts, wireframes, and many more… With Lovely Charts’s extremely simple and intuitive drag’n drop drawing mechanism, you’ll be able to focus on what really matters. You won’t have to draw boxes and arrows, you won’t have to worry about what symbol to use.

70+ Promising Resources and Tutorials Especially For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In December

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 70+ Promising Resources and Tutorials Especially For Designers. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.

You are welcome to share if you know more best of the web in the month of December 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 and do not forget to become our fan on facebook as well.

Design Tips, Tricks and Tutorial

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45+ Truly Stunning Digital Painting Tutorials

45-Truly-Stunning-Digital-Painting-Tutorials

Create a Watercolor-Themed Website Design with Photoshop

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How To Create a Sleek Audio Player Interface in Photoshop

How-To-Create-a-Sleek-Audio-Player-Interface-in-Photoshop

65 Mold-Breaking 3ds Max Tutorials

65-Mold-Breaking-3ds-Max-Tutorials

Creating a Modern, Glossy Mouse Icon in Photoshop

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40+ Excellent Adobe Illustrator Cartoon Tutorials

40-Excellent-Adobe-Illustrator-Cartoon-Tutorials

25 Photoshop Tutorials for Designing Portfolio Sites

25-Photoshop-Tutorials-for-Designing-Portfolio-Sites

How to Create a Curious Owl in Illustrator CS4

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30+ Useful Logo Design Tutorials for Photoshop and Illustrator

30-Useful-Logo-Design-Tutorials-for-Photoshop-and-Illustrator

72 Magnificent Maya Tutorials

72-Magnificent-Maya-Tutorials

22 Tutorials To Create Shiny Effect Using Photoshop

22-Tutorials-To-Create-Shiny-Effect-Using-Photoshop

The 50 Best Photoshop Tutorials of 2009

The-50-Best-Photoshop-Tutorials-of-2009

Artwork, Digital Photography and Inspiration

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Visa Campaign does Amazing Arts on the Go

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16 Popular Website Redesigns Of 2009

16-Popular-Website-Redesigns-Of-2009

32 Superb Examples of Photo Manipulation

32-Superb-Examples-of-Photo-Manipulation

Logo Design A to Z

Logo-Design-A-to-Z

Stunning Mosaic Illustrations from Charis Tsevis

Stunning-Mosaic-Illustrations-from-Charis-Tsevis

Data Tables In Modern Web Design

Data-Tables-In-Modern-Web-Design

50 Beautiful Watercolor Paintings

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25 Ultra-Creative Packaging Designs From DeviantArt

25-Ultra-Creative-Packaging-Designs-From-DeviantArt

Changing Design Trends for Site Maps

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Logo Design Inspiration: 70 Creative Fresh Designs

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35 CSS-based Layouts that Look Awesome

35-CSS-based-Layouts-that-Look-Awesome

25 Beautiful and Creative Artworks Featuring Year 2010

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The Best of 2009 in Flash Web Design

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Talented Landscapes and Scenery Artist Ksenia

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50 Creative Examples of Illustrations in Web Design

50-Creative-Examples-of-Illustrations-in-Web-Design

Business Cards: Collection of Inspirational Designs

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30+ Examples Of Tilt-Shift Photography And How To

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Headers and Footers that Grab You Coming and Going

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Go Bananas with 50+ Vector Illustrations that Monkey Around

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30 Examples of Beautiful Portfolio Designs

30-Examples-of-Beautiful-Portfolio-Designs

28 Breathtaking Nature and Wildlife Photos

28-Breathtaking-Nature-and-Wildlife-Photos

24 Typographic, Clean and Minimalist Motifs to Inspire

24-Typographic-Clean-and-Minimalist-Motifs-to-Inspire

High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography: Tutorials, Tips and Stunning Examples

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Javascript and Ajax

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15 Incredible Apple Webdesign Style Coding Tutorials

15-Incredible-Apple-Webdesign-Style-Coding-Tutorials

Solutions to 5 Common Ajax Problems

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18 Latest jQuery Plugins for Your Next Project

18-Latest-jQuery-Plugins-for-Your-Next-Project

20 Professional jQuery Image Gallery Plugins

20-Professional-jQuery-Image-Gallery-Plugins

7 jQuery Cheatsheets For Every Designer & Developer to Have

7-jQuery-Cheatsheets-For-Every-Designer-Developer-to-Have

xHTML and CSS

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33 Must Read CSS3 Tips, Tricks, Tutorial Sites and Articles

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Stronger, Better, Faster Design with CSS3

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Fundamental CSS3 Resources for Designers

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CSS Techniques I Wish I Knew When I Started Designing Websites

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Resources

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40 High Resolution Photoshop Brushes

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25 Beautiful Free PSD Files to Download

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50 Free Resources Of Hand Drawing Style Icons, Brushes, Textures and Fonts

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Beautiful Fresh Free Fonts for Designers

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30+ Free Online Multimedia (Photo, Audio, Video) Editors

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50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design

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25 High Quality Abstract Photoshop Brush Sets to Touch Up Your Design

25-High-Quality-Abstract-Photoshop-Brush-Sets-to-Touch-Up-Your-Design

The Top 50 Web Development Icon Sets from 2009

The Top-50-Web-Development-Icon-Sets-from-2009

10 Free Apps for Managing Your Fonts

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Ultimate Resource List for Vector Graphics

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30+ Free Adobe Illustrator Pattern Sets

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Great Free Denim Textures

Great-Free-Denim-Textures

30 Excellent Fresh Free Fonts For Your Designs

30-Excellent-Fresh-Free-Fonts-For-Your-Designs

Miscellaneous Articles

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30 Powerhouse and Prospective Design Blogs

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The 6 Most Common Posts on Design Blogs

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7 Tools To Optimize The Speed of Your Website

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69 Coolest Web Apps Of 2009

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30+ Portable Window apps for your USB drive

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35 Adobe AIR Tutorials for Web Developers

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How to Build a Shopping Cart using CodeIgniter and jQuery

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22 Latest Exceptional WordPress Hacks

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How to Find Anything Online: Become an Internet Research Expert

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20 Excellent Facebook Scripts and Resources

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The Role of College for Web Designers Comments Feed

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Useful Suggestions To Secure And Speed Up Your WordPress Blog

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25 Graph and Chart Solutions for Web Developers

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How Many Ideas Do You Show Your Clients?

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60+ Ultimate Resources Especially For Designers

Let’s Create Fast And Professional Looking Diagrams With Creately

Creately is an Online Diagramming and Design is a joy to use. Its designed for ease of use and collaboration. It takes ‘easy’ to a whole new level by intelligently adapting to the kind of diagram you are drawing. Creately has been designed so you can draw just about anything, fast and easy.

Creately

It has a fully interactive, easy to use interface that works right in your browser. No downloads or installs. Creately comes with smarts that make diagramming easy. Smart Objects & Shapes and our easy to use Contextual Toolbars make diagramming a pleasure.

Creately-diagram

Creately is purpose built for easy collaboration. Get your whole team working together on diagrams and designs. Post-it Notes and built-in Commenting makes collaboration more effective. Add Comments and notify collaborators with just 1-click. These diagrams are easy to publish or embed into your website or Wiki. Automatically published to a short URL (http://create.ly) for easy sharing.

Creately is smart enough to figure out what you’re drawing and will help you along the way with the right features, logic and shapes. It’s free templates for everything from SWOT to Web Mockups, let you get your ideas flowing and get started faster.

Now Create Beautiful Sitemaps And Flowcharts For Free With SlickPlan

SlickPlan is a web-based sitemap/flowchart generator that allows for the creation of free sitemap and flowchart design. SlickPlan was handcrafted with PHP/MySQL and jQuery. It was exclusively developed with the web designer and developer in mind, but it can be used by anyone who needs a quick and professional sitemap or flowchart for their planning project.

SlickPlan

The only function of SlickPlan is to provide a professional flowchart/sitemap service free of charge. SlickPlan doesn’t muddy the waters with any other design services, so it’s completely devoted to generating beautiful, functional sitemaps.

SlickPlan Sample

Creating an account enables you to keep your sitemaps neatly organized on SlickPlan’s website. That way, you don’t have to keep track of them yourself. Your sitemaps will be right in front of you when you sign in.

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15 (More) Free Web Tools To Simplify Your Work Life

Today, we have a new post in which we are covering few more simplest free web apps that can really simplify your work life. Whether you are office worker, manager, supervisor, designer, developer, student, home user, etc. But we make sure to add something useful 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.

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MyFontbook

MyFontbook

MyFontbook is an unique online font viewer that can save your 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. MyFontbook tries to fill the gap between the limited font tools provided by your operating system and the expensive font management applications aimed at power users.

Box.net

Box.net

Box.net’s online file storage makes it easy to securely share content as a link or a shared folder with anyone inside or outside your company. This will help you create an online workspace where you can share project files, add comments, assign tasks, start discussions or create new content.

Ronin

Ronin

Ronin is a flexible application designed for creative professionals looking for an easy, affordable, web-based way of managing clients and invoices. You can send invoices and estimates in multiple currencies. The dashboard provides an at-a-glance summary of account activity for all of your staff users. Quickly access existing invoices and create new clients. Manage your account with simplicity.

Go2Convert

Online image converter for free

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.

DeskAway

DeskAway

Managing projects and work via email is just so old-school. How do you keep track of tasks, issues, files, timesheets & feedback via email? How much work is still yet to be completed? Who is working on what? Where is all the communication related to this project? Is it done yet? What’s holding the project back? DeskAway is simple to use, feature-rich online service. This is a web-based project collaboration service that provides teams a central location to easily organize, manage and track their projects.

Atmail

Atmail Webmail Client

Atmail allows users to access IMAP Mailboxes on any server of your choice. You and your users can experience webmail via a fluid, intuitive interface that excels aesthetically and functionally; a benchmark that very few webmail clients have achieved. Staying in touch with business or personal contacts is made easy by the groupware features of Atmail. The easy-to-use calendar events, tasks, and free-busy scheduler provide collaboration and communication around the clock, with the simplicity of a browser-based interface.

247webmonitoring

247webmonitoring

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.

ViewLike.Us

ViewLike.Us

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.

PDF to Excel

PDF-to-Excel Converter

You can use PDF to Excel to quickly and easily create highly, editable XLS files, making it a cinch to re-use tables and spreadsheets from PDF files in Microsoft Excel, OpenOffice, Google Docs, and WordPerfect Office. Best of all, you can do it entirely free.

Shareflow

Shareflow

With Shareflow you can share your team conversations so everyone involved can clearly see what’s being said, and you can all get more done. The more you use email, the more work you create for your team. Important information gets lost in the shuffle. The Shareflow bookmarklet gives you one-click access to post content from the web to any of your flows. You can use the bookmarklet with Yahoo! Mail, Windows Live Mail, and Gmail to share your email on a flow. Create multiple flows to organize different projects or teams. You can add or remove someone at any time and invited members can create their own flows, so different teams can work amongst themselves.

Vyew

Vyew

Vyew is a new and powerful platform for real-time and always-on interaction between people and connent. Vyew’s clear-view workspaces enable a transparent collaboration flow with content. Review the past, work together in the present and prepare for the future.

SkyDrive

SkyDrive

Windows Live SkyDrive works well on any Windows or Macintosh computer with Firefox 1.5 or higher, or Internet Explorer 6 or higher. 5 GB of free online storage, available from any computer with Internet access. You can create personal, shared, and public folders and you can decide who has access to each folder.

ShowDocument

ShowDocument

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.

AlertFox

AlertFox

AlertFox is a revolutionary new self-service website transaction monitoring service that is capable of keeping tabs on the functioning and performance of all websites. You can monitor even complicated steps, (e.g., complete check out process, not just store uptime) , only AlertFox can monitor the function and performance of sites that are based on any of the major rich internet applications (RIA), including ActiveX, AJAX, Flash, Flex, complex HTML and Silverlight technology. AlertFox also helps SaaS users monitor their provider’s reliability.

tgethr

tgethr

tgethr is for Project teams who need a no-frills, secure email-based collaboration solution and useful for families, friends, and clubs who don’t need the overhead of more complicated solutions. This is also best for remotely located people who still use email as a primary collaboration mechanism. With tgethr all correspondence over the web and email can be safely encrypted.

21 Absolutely Useful And Inspiring Collection Of Most Desirable Freebies

We are always in search for the great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Everyday we work hard to find new and useful stuffs for designers like you. Today, we have another great post for designers with a great collection of freebies stuffs like Icons, Fonts, Vectors, Brushes, Textures, Patterns and PSDs and much more. We obviously cannot cover all of the best available on internet, but we have tried our best to cover as much as possible.

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45 Sets of Seamless Vector Patterns

45 Sets of Seamless Vector Patterns

72 Sets of Free Social Bookmarking Icons72 Sets of Free Social Bookmarking Icons

7 High Resolution Stone Textures

7 High Resolution Stone Textures

35 Excellent Websites for Downloading Free CSS Template

35 Excellent Websites for Downloading Free CSS Template

34 Free and Elegant TrueType Mini Pixel Fonts

34 Free and Elegant TrueType Mini Pixel Fonts

50 Free and Exclusive Twitter Icons

50 Free and Exclusive Twitter Icons
23 WordPress Themes for your Website

23 WordPress Themes for your Website

Free Typographic XHTML/CSS-Layouts For Your Designs

Free Typographic XHTML/CSS-Layouts For Your Designs

20 Really Useful And Free Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Site Or Blog Pages

20 Really Useful And Free Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Site Or Blog Pages

30+ Most Wanted Free Photoshop Floral Brushes Set

30+ Most Wanted Free Photoshop Floral Brushes Set

17 Remarkably Professional Looking Free Fonts

17 Remarkably Professional Looking Free Fonts

80+ Texture Resources for Designers

80+ Texture Resources for Designers

30 High-Quality Icon Sets for E-Commerce Designs

30 High-Quality Icon Sets for E-Commerce Designs

30 High-Res Paper & Plastic Packaging Textures

30 High-Res Paper & Plastic Packaging Textures

36 Color Gradient Sets For Photoshop and Resource Sites

36 Color Gradient Sets For Photoshop and Resource Sites

20 Free Handwritten Fonts And Resources

20 Free Handwritten Fonts And Resources

40 Sources To Download High-Quality Free Photoshop PSD Stuff

40 Sources To Download High-Quality Free Photoshop PSD Stuff

12 Free & High Quality Burnt Paper Textures

12 Free & High Quality Burnt Paper Textures

500+ Truly Useful Resources of Free High Quality Patterns

500+ Truly Useful Resources of Free High Quality Patterns

300+ Excellent Photoshop Brushes for Creating Painted Effects

300+ Excellent Photoshop Brushes for Creating Painted Effects

50 Free High-Quality and “New” (X)HTML/CSS Templates

50 Free High-Quality and “New” (X)HTML/CSS Templates

20 Really Useful And Free Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Site Or Blog Pages

Plotting your data can serve as a replacement to tabular data, and is also a great way to add practical graphics to your web page or application. There are many ways you can plot data, but here I have included 20 Really Useful Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Sites/Blog Pages which serves as a easy Charting solution. Hope you like it.

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JS Charts

20 Really Useful Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Site Or Blog Pages

JS Charts is a free JavaScript based chart generator that requires little or no coding. With JS Charts drawing charts is a simple and easy task, since you only have to use client-side scripting (i.e. performed by your web browser). No additional plugins or server modules are required. Just include our scripts, prepare your chart data in XML or JavaScript Array and your chart is ready.

Flot

20 Really Useful Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Site Or Blog Pages

Flot is a pure Javascript plotting library for jQuery. It produces graphical plots of arbitrary datasets on-the-fly client-side. The focus is on simple usage (all settings are optional), attractive looks and interactive features like zooming and mouse tracking. The plugin is known to work with Internet Explorer 6/7/8, Firefox 2.x+, Safari 3.0+, Opera 9.5+ and Konqueror 4.x+.

Style Chart

20 Really Useful Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Site Or Blog Pages

Style Chart is an innovative technology that allows you to easily embed sophisticated and dynamic charts in your Web site.

FC_RTGraph

20 Really Useful Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Site Or Blog Pages

FC_RTGraph is a tool that allows you to collect and graph information from SNMP devices. FC_RTGraph takes an XML formatted config file as input. FC_RTGraph is an excellent tool for real-time monitoring. Collected SNMP data can be graphed in highly customizable 3D graphs (Bar, Area, Line, 3D).

Raphaël

20 Really Useful Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Site Or Blog Pages

Raphaël is a small JavaScript library that should simplify your work with vector graphics on the web. If you want to create your own specific chart or image crop and rotate widget, for example, you can achieve it simply and easily with this library. Raphaël uses the SVG W3C Recommendation and VML as a base for creating graphics. Raphaël currently supports Firefox 3.0+, Safari 3.0+, Opera 9.5+ and Internet Explorer 6.0+.

Open Flash Chart 2

20 Really Useful Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Site Or Blog Pages
Edge cases such as tooltips encourage user interactivity and data exploration and you can re-size the charts. It can manage the missing data. This solution saves the chart as an image form. You can highlight or emphasize one (or many) points.

Google Visualization API

20 Really Useful Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Site Or Blog Pages

The Google Visualization API lets you access multiple sources of structured data that you can display, choosing from a large selection of visualizations. Google Visualization API enables you to expose your own data, stored on any data-store that is connected to the web, as a Visualization compliant datasource. Thus you can create reports and dashboards as well as analyze and display your data through the wealth of available visualization applications.

Yahoo UI Charts Control
20 Really Useful Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Site Or Blog Pages

The YUI Charts Control visualizes tabular data on a web page in several possible formats including vertical columns, horizontal bars, lines, and pies. Notable features include support for the DataSource Utility, customizable series and axes, a customizable mouse-over datatip, combination charts, and skinning.

ProtoChart

20 Really Useful Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Site Or Blog Pages

ProtoChart is an opensource library using Prototype and Canvas to create good looking charts. This library is highly motivated by Flot, Flotr and PlotKit libraries. It supports line, bar, pie, curve, mix, and area charts, multiple data series on same graph, customizable legend, grid, grid border and background. It supports: IE6/7, FF2/3 and Safari and even works on an iPhone.

PlotKit

20 Really Useful Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Site Or Blog Pages

PlotKit is a Chart and Graph Plotting Library for Javascript. It has support for HTML Canvas and also SVG via Adobe SVG Viewer and native browser support. PlotKit is a complete rewrite of CanvasGraph. It is better structured and supported.

EJSChart

20 Really Useful Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Site Or Blog Pages

EJSChart supports mouse tracking, mouse events, key tracking and events, zooming. Scrolling, and crosshairs raise interactivity and user experience in web charting to a new level. You can choose multiple chart types: line, area, scatter, pie, bar and function series. Every aspect of the charting display can be configured and customized through well-documented properties and methods.

Only Pure Css Data Chart

20 Really Useful Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Site Or Blog Pages
Data visualization is mostly achieved with flash applications or with help of some programming languages. Are those solutions the only way to present, let’s say simple data chart? How about giving it a try with nothing but good ol’ css? CSSGlobe provides this useful tutorial which explains how to draw simple data Charts using only CSS, without using JavaScript or any backend application.

fgCharting

20 Really Useful Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Site Or Blog Pages

fgCharting is a nice jQuery plug-in which allows you to plot easly charts. It supports several types of charts (line, filledLine, additiveLine, additiveFilledLine, pie, bar, additiveBar) you can customize how you prefer.

JavaScript Diagram Builder

20 Really Useful Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Site Or Blog Pages

The JavaScript Diagram Builder supports several types of chart and graph types including bars, dots, lines, and pie charts. The developer has provided a Browser Support tool to help you check if particular objects/methods of the library are supported by your current browser.

Canvas 3D Graph
20 Really Useful Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Site Or Blog Pages

If you need to graph 3-dimensional data, Canvas 3D Graph is worth checking out. Canvas 3D Graph is written with excanvas.js to support Internet Explorer.

Dynamic Drive Pie Graph script

20 Really Useful Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Site Or Blog Pages

DynamicDrive offers a DHTML/CSS based solution for graphing pie charts. The implementation is straightforward, just include two scripts provided (wz_jsgraphics.js and pie.js), define the values of each segment of your pie chart either inline or in an external JS file, and you’re set!

Flotr Javascript Plotting Library

20 Really Useful Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Site Or Blog Pages

Flotr, written by Bas Wenneker of Solutoire.com, is a plotting solution inspired by Flot that uses the Prototype JS library and excanvas.js. It supports most modern browsers including Internet Explorer 6, and has many features of Flot including mouse tracking, selection, mouse-tracking features.

Emprise JavaScript Charts

20 Really Useful Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Site Or Blog Pages

Emprise JavaScript Charts offers a free Personal License for their feature-packed charting/graphing script. Check out their feature comparison table of the different types of licenses to see which license is right for you.

Dynamic Drive Line Graph Script

20 Really Useful Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Site Or Blog Pages

The Line Graph script is another DHTML solution from DynamicDrive that allows you display line graph data. The procedure for implementation is similar to the Pie Graph script.

JGraph

20 Really Useful Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Site Or Blog Pages

JGraph – JGraph is the leading Open Source Java Graph Visualization Library. It follows Swing design patterns to provide an API familiar to Swing programmers and functionality that provides a range of features. Graph visualization is a central requirement for applications such as workflow editors, computer and telecommunication networks display, flowcharts, VLSI and CAD, business process modeling, organizational charts, entity-relationship and cause and effect diagrams, and much more.

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Widgenie Can Help You To Create Powerful Visualizations Of Charts And Graphs

Widgenie empowers everyone, from bloggers to business people, to quickly visualize data and share it in many different ways. Now you can publish data in the places you already know and love, places like iGoogle, Facebook, Blogger, and even your own website. They combine all the power of an enterprise-level business intelligence platform and provide it in a convenient Web 2.0 widget. Best of all, you can do it all by yourself! And it’s free.

Widgenie

Widgenie’s one-click upload process makes it easy to upload your data to their service. Once the data is here, widgenie allows you to customize your data to only display the columns and fields you want to see. Best of all, when your data changes, it’s easy to re-upload your data so all of your widgets will have the latest information in real-time.

It’s really simple to get started, all you need is the Internet, a browser and an understanding of your needs. Are you:

This could be useful for any one of you. Once your widgenie is free for the world to see, track its popularity and usage with our powerful reporting statistics.