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Get Quality Review And Constructive Feedback On Your Concepts With Concept Feedback

AN Jay — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:29:30 +0000

Getting ready to launch a brand new concept? Would you like to know what other professionals think before you release it to the world? Concept Feedback is designed specifically for you.

ConceptFeedback.com could be a great idea for marketers, designers and developers, provides a free and simple tool for getting third-party reviews on design concepts. Concepts may be posted publicly or privately and can include websites, logos, advertisements, videos, and more.

Quickly Upload and Share a Concept

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Website Designs
Advertisements
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Flash Presentations
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Landing Pages
Banner Ads
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Receive tips and unique insight from qualified community members
Each reviewer has a reputation score, helping you pick the best feedback
A standard review template keeps feedback consistent
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Present.ly Allows Secure And Private Microblogging For Your Business

AN Jay — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:23:02 +0000

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.

Now Create, Track, Customize And Design Beautiful Proposals With Bidsketch

AN Jay — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:19:31 +0000

Bidsketch is an application that lets you create, track, customize, and design beautiful proposals. Multiple ways to present your proposals ensure clients get what they want. You can export to PDF or share online. Every client gets a portal that lets them view and comment on their proposals.

You can quickly mix and match proposal sections, fees, and designs to create professional proposals that win. Example proposal data is provided to help you get started quickly. You can even embed images and Flash content for online viewing by your clients.

Bidsketch provides you with several professional looking templates. Each template is available in different colors and exports to PDF for extra portability.

It has an easy way to keep track of all current and prospective clients. You can add client contact information as well as private notes to each client to ensure you never forget what you talked about last time.

This is highly customizable and you can create or customize proposal sections, pricing items, and content templates. You can customize all of these at a global level, or do it on a proposal by proposal basis.

Let’s Make It Easy And Efficient To Get Your Design Ideas Out With Notable

AN Jay — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:31:33 +0000

Are you stuck sharing feedback in text documents and email? Notable makes it possible to put your feedback directly on the webpage, highlighting your points exactly. With Notable you can quickly and easily give feedback on design, content, and code on any page of a website or application without leaving your browser.

It helps your team collaborate through visual feedback on screenshots, via a chaos-free process so that everyone can express their opinion. By using this wonderful application you are transforming the way you create designs and communication with clients.

Notable makes it easy and efficient to get your ideas out. Forget useless emails with attachments or powerpoint. Get feedback done 400% faster than ever. You can shoot out alerts and provide feedback to anyone on your team from any computer. Asynchronous feedback makes it a perfect tool for teams working remotely or using outsourcing partners.

You can download the tool button in seconds and start grabbing screenshots. Within a minute you can have your annotated feedback shared with your team. There’s no need for a technical team.

This is not enough! If you are you an App Store or Mobile Safari developer then using the Notable iPhone app you can upload screen captures for feedback on NotableApp.com. How? You just need to open up the Notable iPhone app, sign in, and choose an image to upload from your Camera Roll, or snap a picture of anything.

Notable for iPhone is perfect for capturing screens of your iPhone app, Mobile Safari web app or even pictures of sketches, mockups and more.

Notable makes it easy to keep feedback organized in sets, workspaces and history. Never lose feedback in your email inbox because it’s all stored online for you.

Four ways to capture a page

Capture logged in views and code via a Firefox tool button
Upload a JPG image or design mock-up from your desktop
Type in a URL to fetch a screen grab
Capture on your iPhone or iPod Touch

Any computer, any time.

Provide online design feedback to your team in minutes
Awesome web or PDF presentation
Give feedback in sets by capturing a web page flows
Track the history of design changes

Control the feedback.

Track who views your feedback for easy design collaboration
Assign permissions per page or set
Send email alerts to collaborators to request their feedback
Simple feedback management with group viewing, private or public URLs

The 10 Most Popular And Useful iPhone Apps

AN Jay — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:22:47 +0000

This is one of the very best list of its kind where you can find the iPhone version of popular apps. I hope everyone of you will love them whether you are an office worker, a manager, a supervisor, a student, a home user, designer, developer etc. This is the list of The 10 Most Popular And Useful iPhone Apps. Just take a look at them and share your thought’s here.

You are welcome to share more useful iPhone versions of software 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.

iPhone App for Skype

You can download the iPhone App and then sign into Skype from any WiFi zone and reach friends and family free with Skype-to-Skype calls.

Photoshop.com Mobile App For iPhone

It’s easy to use the Photoshop.com Mobile App on your iPhone. Simply drag your finger to crop, adjust color, apply effects. You can crop, rotate, change color with just a touch, give an extra glow with Soft Focus, apply one-touch effects like Warm Vintage and Vignette etc.

TweetDeck For iPhone

TweetDeck is your mobile browser for staying in touch with what’s happening now on Twitter from your iPhone or iPod Touch. TweetDeck shows you everything you want to see at once, so you can stay organised and up to date no matter where you are.

QuickBooks Online on the iPhone

QuickBooks Online for the iPhone now lets you add and edit customers, vendors, and employees, create and email invoices, view balance sheet and profit & loss reports, access vendor, customer, and employee lists, view bank account and credit card balances, understand who owes you money and who you etc.

Dropbox For iPhone

Dropbox is the easiest way to store, sync, and, share files online. You can access your Dropbox on the go and download files for offline viewing. There is an option to sync photos and videos to your Dropbox and to share links to files in your Dropbox.

Facebook for iPhone

Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. Facebook for iPhone will help those people to stay connected when they are away from their computers but would not like to away from facebook.

Google Earth for iPhone

With Google Earth for iPhone and iPod touch, you can fly to far corners of the planet with just the swipe of a finger. You can explore the same global satellite and aerial imagery available in the desktop version of Google Earth, including high-resolution imagery for over half of the world’s population and a third of the world’s land mass.

Waze For iPhone

Waze is a free social mobile app that enables drivers to build and use live maps, real-time traffic updates and turn-by-turn navigation for an optimal commute. 100% powered by users the more you drive the better it gets. Join the community of drivers in your area today.

Twitterrific For iPhone

Twitterrific is the iPhone’s premiere app for reading and posting to the Twitter social network. The software has been designed to provide ease of use and a wide range of features while sporting one of the most elegant user interfaces available.

Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, post links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.

Now Its Possibile To Synchronize Many Devices Simultaneously With SyncMate

AN Jay — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 07:36:11 +0000

SyncMate is a sync tool for Mac OS X software, which allows syncing your Mac with a line of devices – Windows Mobile and Nokia S40 phones, other Macs, Google account and online storage. Since version 2.4 SyncMate also supports Mac to Windows PC, Mac to PSP and Mac to USB drive synchronization.

Now SyncMate provides you with the possibility to synchronize many devices simultaneously. You can sync your Mac with another Mac or PC, your Windows Mobile device, Nokia series 40 phone, PSP, USB Drive or your Google account. You can do that all at once and have an instant access to synchronized devices from the main toolbar.

SyncMate Free edition allows synchronizing Contacts and Calendar entries between your Mac and any device or account supported. Since version 2.4 you can sync these data between your Mac and Windows PC or PSP.

You can keep your address books organized at all your devices by just syncing them with friendly SyncMate.

Salient Features

SyncMate makes installing any applications to your PDA quick and simple (CAB).
Store your Contacts, Calendar and more (Expert Edition) online.
By synchronizing files at your Mac with other devices you will always have access to the most fresh and actual version of your data.
View, delete, create and send messages from your Mac with Expert edition. More features here.

7 Twitter Tools That Are Not Essential But Would Be Useful

AN Jay — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:24:40 +0000

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 7 Twitter Apps That Are Not Essential But Would Be 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.

Readtwit

Readtwit filters your twitter feed to links only, resolves link destinations and publishes the content as an RSS feed. You can then use any feed reading software / service to read twitter posted content along with the rest of your feeds.

TweetAlarm

With tweetalarm, you will get alerted when someone tweets about your company, your product or anything that interests you.

Clicktotweet

Clicktotweet is the best, easiest and simplest way to promote your stuff on Twitter. Now, whoever clicks on the link will have the message automatically added to their Twitter status box, then they simply click to tweet.

Tweepler

Tweepler Is an easy, more enjoyable way of processing your New Twitter Followers. View a list of New Followers and classify them in one of two “Buckets” Follow (meaning you wish to follow them back) and Ignore (meaning you don’t wish to follow them and want to archive them out of the way, reducing clutter).

monitter

It’s a twitter monitor, it lets you “monitter” the twitter world for a set of keywords and watch what people are saying.

Qwitter

If you want to know that when and why someone stops following you on twitter then Qwitter is a best tool for you. Qwitter e-mails you when someone stops following you on Twitter.

FutureTweets

FutureTweets is a free service that lets you schedule your Twitter messages. You can send it at a specific time in the future or send a recurring Tweet daily, weekly, monthly or yearly. With the help of this toop you’ll never forget the birthdays of your beloved Twitter friends again. Just schedule a nice Tweet on their birthday.

Let’s Create Smart Reminders Right From Your Email With Task.fm

AN Jay — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:21:39 +0000

Task.fm is a realy simple reminder and task management tool. Just use task.fm to create reminders that can be dilivered via sms, email or voice call. Task.fm is smart enough to understand your natural lnguage so you don’t need to bother entering daters manually. Instead, just type something like “meeting with bob next Tuesday at noon” and they will pick out the date, time and event automatically. You can create reminders on the task.fm site, through email or Twitter. Task.fm is free and allows you to create an unlimited number of reminders.

Task.fm is smart and can understand hundreds of date & time formats. This can works with Twitter and can create reminders by sending them a Direct Message. Another good option is sending reminders to others is as simple as CC’ing a contact.Â Task.fm includes a built in to-do manager so you can create unlimited lists.

9 Excellent Apps That Are Absolutely Useful

AN Jay — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 07:55:56 +0000

Today, we are publishing another list of 9 free web based applications that are very helpful for you to process your daily work. They are too much simple in terms of their usage because many of these do not need to register with them to use the service. Whether you are designer, developer, office worker, manager, supervisor, student, home user, etc. But we 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. Just take a look at them and share your thought here.

You are welcome if you want to share more free and simple web tools that are useful 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.

Free login to any site

This service is made for you to save your time on registration for many sites.
You can not register at all sites, so just type the name of site for which you need to enter login and password and click «Get».

Mailto Encoder

You can prevent spambots from getting your email, encode all the addresses you publish on your site with Mailto Encoder.

Temporary Inbox

A temporary inbox is a disposable email address, which doesn’t require registration and can be used to avoid spam. Use this email address in forums, lotteries, erotic sites or wherever. The spammers will never find out your private email address. You can also use their forwarding email address to register at websites/boards/lotteries and so on.

Tweet Blocker

Tweet Blocker is a free resource for Twitter users and application developers. Using highly advanced filtering, they catalog and rank the top spammers on Twitter, allowing users to quickly and easily find spammers.

Ta-da List

Ta-da List is a simple tool that lets you create to-do lists. It’s really useful and absolutely free. Ta-da List is the web’s easiest to-do list tool. You can make lists for yourself or share them with others. It couldn’t be simpler but Ta-da List is the web’s simplest and fastest to-do list maker.

Friendpaste

A fast service where you can copy/paste your code, recipe, anything else and give the link to your friend. You can select your preferred languages and possibility to edit pastes. This service support for a large number of syntaxes that you would need.

Cozi

Cozi is a free web service that helps families manage crazy schedules, track shopping and to-do lists, organize household chores, stay in communication and share memories”all in one place.

EmailTheWeb

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.

Whisper Bot

The Whisper Bot is a free, simple, and secure service to provide a modern day passing of the notes between you and your friends and keep away prying eyes. Stop using e-mail for your confidential messages.

9 Free Web Apps From Microsoft You Might Not Know About

AN Jay — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:37:36 +0000

Now a days, it’s really not hard to find free and online web service to perform your daily task but offering really useful and free online web applications from Microsoft is a great step. Today, we are discussing about some web tools from Microsoft. We hope this list will be helpful for for everyone and specially it could be useful for designer to developer, office worker, manager to supervisor, student to home user and so on. Most of them are not very well-known, but they are really amazing in respect to their features.

You are welcome to share more useful and free web tools that would 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 as well.

Office Live

You can use this service for free online storage and document sharing. You can store files up to 5GB, and share with anyone, and collaborate on a single document. It will allow you to view Microsoft Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint files from your Web browser.

My Phone

Microsoft My Phone syncs information on your mobile phone to a storage space on a web site hosted by Microsoft. If your phone is lost or stolen, or if you upgrade to a new phone, you can easily restore the contacts, calendar appointments, photos, and other information that you stored on My Phone to a compatible new or replacement phone. Most phones that run the Windows Mobile 6 operating system are compatible with My Phone service.

Live Safety Scanner

Windows Live OneCare safety scanner is a free service designed to help ensure the health of your PC.

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.

Office Live Small Business

Office Live Small Business provides your company with everything needed to create a professional web presence for free, including easy-to-use website design and management tools, and 100 email accounts. You also get a free suite of professional business applications that will allow you to manage customers, projects, and documents and easily share information with employees, customers, suppliers and vendors. All this is security-enhanced, managed, and maintained by Office Live Small Business.

Live Sync

With this service, you can keep important files up to date on all your computers, PC or Mac. This will also help you to share folders to sync files with friends or coworkers very easily. There is an option to sign in to the Sync website for remote access to any computer where you’ve installed Sync.

Silverlight Streaming

Microsoft® Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live is a companion service for Silverlight that makes it easier for developers and designers to deliver and scale rich media as part of their Silverlight applications. The service offers web designers and developers a free and convenient solution for hosting and streaming cross-platform, cross-browser media experiences and rich interactive applications that run on Windows and Mac.

The Microsoft® Translator

The Microsoft® Translator is a free online translation service for worldwide web. You can type or paste text on the site that you want to translate and choose your translation language before you click translate. The Microsoft® Translator webpage widget allows you to bring real-time, in-place translations to your web site as well.

Live Mesh

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.