Fonts
Five Great Web Applications For Designers And Alike
There are many web applications out there, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. Today, we are sharing Five Great Web Apps For Designers And Alike. Read each entry in the list and see which web application suits your needs best.
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LayerStyles
LayerStyles v 0.1 is just like your favorite graphics editor but in your browser. You can use it to create css code of the special effect you would like to give on your web design.
The Web Font Combinator
This tool was created in order to preview web font combinations. There have been various printed collections of font examples that the reader can combine in order to see how a header and body font work together.
Grid Calculator And Generator
GridCalc is a easy to use grid calculator. Just enter the desired width of your page and an aproximate range for your column and gutter width and the calculator will give you all the possible combinations within the limits you entered. You get a nice visual representation of the results, click preview on a result and you get a better presentation of how the grid can be used. When you have decided which grid configuration you want to use you can download the configuration as a css file to use in your project.
CSS3 Shapes
This is a very simple css3 snippets resource site from where you can find css3 code of different and unique shapes.
FontFont Subsetter
FontFont Subsetter is a tool for optimizing and customizing Web FontFonts in three easy steps. The free service lets you significantly reduce file sizes of your Web FontFonts to reduce bandwidth costs and make your websites faster.
34 Fresh And Stunning Fonts That Can Enhance Your Designs
Effectively usage of fonts in a web design not only makes it visually alluring but also conveys the message to the right targeted audience in a right tone. Basically typography is the art of arranging or modifying type glyphs. The filed of typography is continually evolving and now typography has become a key component of any web design. The proper selection of typography can make or break the complete design.
This round up covers fresh and stunning fonts which are available for free and can significantly enhance your web design. Have a look!
20 GRUNGE FONTS by lexiibabii01
TYPORM01 Round ans Square by RGSONE
Cappuccino Serif Font 0.563 by keisans-bold
Tipografía Gratis: Spatha Serif
11 Excellent Online Converters That Can Help You Convert Files And Formats
There are many online file converters out there for designers and developers, but getting by good ones is not that easy. That is why I am sharing 11 Excellent Online Converters That Can Help You Convert Files And Formats. Read each entry in the list and see which one suits your needs best.
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iWebPrint
You can convert web pages to elegant printer friendly PDF. It will also help you to save, read, and print dDirectly from your Browser. There is an option to control page size (Letter, Legal, A0-A9, B0-B10, +more), control orientation (Landscape, Portrait), Control PDF Mode (Color, Gray). If you want, you can exclude web page images or background to optimize printing. You can also use it as Chrome Extension or Firefox Add-On.
PDF to Flash Page Flip
This online tool will help you to convert your pdf files into a flash flipping book movie. This interesting tool will make your pdf visually more attractive and interactive.
FontConverter
With this online font converter you can convert even exotic font file formats into another format. They support most font file formats common on Mac or PC.
Free Online OCR
Free Online OCR is a free service that allows you to easily convert scanned documents, faxes, screenshots and photos into editable and searchable text, such as DOC, TXT or PDF.
Free online file converter
This free online file converter lets you convert media easy and fast from one format to another. They support a lot of different source formats, just try. If you can’t find the conversion you need, you can contact them. They will try to help you.
Picasion
You can create animated GIF online for free, Just upload your pictures or grab them from Flickr or Picasa Web, make avatars or funny animations and post it to MySpace, HI5, Facebook, eBay, Orkut, Bebo, Digg, QQ, Friendster, etc. To use this tool you do not need flash installed on your system.
Brickify
Brickify is an awesome tool that turns your images into bricked out awesome.
RoboVoice
RoboVoice is a text-to-speech service, that can help you to listen web pages. You may open a one page, starts to play a long text from it, and continues surfing in a new browser window.
CMYK Converter
CMYK Converter is a small application designed to make converting your images between RGB and CMYK colour profiles easy. It is aimed at non-professionals who may not have the desktop tools available. CMYK Converter uses the AppleRGB and US Web Coated SWOP colour profiles for converting.
Neevia Document Converter
Neevia Document Converter makes it possible for anyone to instantly convert many of the file formats that are used daily to PDF or Image. You do not need need to install anything on your computer. Simply upload the file and select your delivery method.
PDF to JPG
If you ever want to convert your pdf files into JPG file for any reason, then you can anytime use this pdf to jpg conversion tool.
Absolutely Incredible Collection Of High-Quality Design Freebies For Designers
Today, we have made a list of incredible collection of high-quality design freebies. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible that are fresh and must have for designers.
You are welcome if you want to share more useful collection of design resources 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 and follow us on Digg as well to get updated.
50 Free Web UI, Mobile UI, Wireframe Kits And Source Files For Designers
45+ Neat Coming Soon and Under Construction Templates
50 More Beautifully Designed Tumblr Themes
Fresh Icon Sets To Improve Your Designs
Premium Quality Free WordPress Magazine Themes
80+ Color Altering Photoshop Actions
50+ Hand Picked (Yet Free To Use) Fonts for Designers
50 Fantastic Textures for Your Toolbox
Useful PSD Files For Your Creativity
60 Attractive Photoshop Grunge Brushes for Designers
45 Free And High Quality (X)HTML/CSS Website Templates
Six Useful Google Code Labs Products For People Who Develop Websites
There are many web apps out there, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. That is why I am sharing some Useful Google Code Labs Products For People Who Develop Websites. In Google Code Labs, you’ll find developer products that are experimental but can become useful. Some of these will one day graduate out of labs, others may remain experimental or even be shut down. That’s what a lab is for. Read each entry in the list and see which tool suits your needs best.
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Google Safe Browsing API
The Safe Browsing API is an experimental API that enables client applications to check URLs against Google’s constantly updated blacklists of suspected phishing and malware pages. Your client application can use the API to download an encrypted table for local, client-side lookups of URLs that you would like to check. If you use this, you can warn users before clicking on links that appear in your site when they lead to malware-infested pages and prevent users from posting links to phishing pages from your site.
Google URL Shortener API
The Google URL Shortener at goo.gl is a service that takes long URLs and squeezes them into fewer characters to make a link that is easier to share, tweet, or email to friends. The Google URL Shortener API allows you to develop applications that interface with this service. You can use simple HTTP methods to create, inspect, and manage goo.gl short URLs from your desktop, mobile, or web application.
reCAPTCHA
reCAPTCHA is a free CAPTCHA service that protects your site against spam, malicious registrations and other forms of attacks where computers try to disguise themselves as a human; a CAPTCHA is a Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Human Apart. reCAPTCHA comes in the form of a widget that you can easily add to your blog, forum, registration form, etc.
BigQuery
BigQuery is a web service that enables you to do interactive analysis of massively large datasets. Scalable and easy to use, BigQuery lets developers and businesses tap into powerful data analytics on demand.
Google Font API
The Google Font API helps you add any high quality web fonts to any web page available at Google Font Directory. Applying a font is easy: just add a special stylesheet link to your web page, then use the font in a CSS style and you are
done.
Google Sites API
The Google Sites API allows client applications to access, publish, and modify content within a Google Site. The API is available to both Google Account and Google Apps users. You can create new sites or copy existing sites as well as
retrieve, create, modify, and delete pages, comments, attachments and can do much more…
50+ Hand Picked (Yet Free To Use) Fonts for Designers
Every designer wants to make his artwork amazing and memorable; and for that he makes lots of effort. Fonts or typeface is one of the key components that outshine a design. Every designer is well aware of the importance of font in their design; and how an appropriate font can completely make or destroy a design.
Here, we have hand picked some very stylish and elegant free fonts for the graphic designers. These fonts help designers bring creativity and liveliness in their designs without spending too much time or resources.
Kingthings Gothique
Karabine
A Bit Empty
A Okay
A Trip To Hell And Back
Accessories
Acid Label
Action of the Time New
BA Wet Paint
Evolution True Type Font
NETWORK VAMPIRES
Angel Tears
Oomph, Regular
Let Me Ride
Early Tickertape
Cul De Sac
Bohemia
BILLY ARGEL FONT
Quad
Quadrron
Quaker Shade
Narnia BLL
Oberon
Umberto
Undercover
Sketch Rockwell
Acidic
Adriator
AlaskanNights
Alpha Sausage
CHUNKFIVE
PINCOYABLACK
AQUILINE
JUNKOS TYPEWRITER
CHOPIN SCRIPT
ROTHENBURG DECORATIVE
CLUTCHEE
AlphaWizard
EXOTICA
VAL
BLACKCASPER
HVD PEACE
QUIGLEYWIGGLY
COSTURA
DEAREST
DROID
ASTONISHED
GRUTCHSHADED
BLACK ROSE
WC MANO NEGRA
ANAGRAM
BIGFISH
Ten Excellent Web Apps To Simplify Designer’s Work Life
There are many web apps out there for designers, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. That is why I am sharing The Ten Excellent Web Apps To Simplify Designer’s Work Life. Read each entry in the list and see which tool suits your needs best.
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X-Icon Editor
X-Icon Editor is an HTML5 application (based on <Canvas>) that allows you to create high resolution icons that lets your sites shine with IE9. With X-Icon Editor you can quickly get your site ready with a large icon which will be available for pinned sites and the new tab page.
HTMLform
HTMLform.com is completely free. Just design your HTML form, download it and that’s it, the form is yours. Your HTML form doesn’t require any programming or configuration in order to work. With HTMLForm.com you will be able to easily design whatever HTML form you need. You will have the most popular components: text and numerical fields, check boxes, date selectors, as well as other special fields: country, state, region, website, email, telephone number.
Spritebox
Spritebox is a WYSIWYG tool to help web designers quickly and easily create CSS classes and IDs from a single sprite image. It is based on the principle of using the background-position property to align areas of a sprite image into block elements of a web page. It was made using a combination of JQuery, CSS3 and HTML5, and is totally free to use.
MarkUp
MarkUp lets you draw on any webpage with a variety of tools to express your thoughts, make a point or just simply edit.
Font Comparer
This is a tool to compare web fonts in a simple way. The advantage of using theese fonts is that they can be used dynamically instead of using static images.
GeneratePrivacyPolicy.com
This site offers a user friendly online privacy policy generator that can help you create a free privacy policy specifically tailored for your website and how you operate it.
Gridulator
Gridulator your layout width and the number of columns you want, and it’ll spit back all the possible grids that have nice, round integers. Just the thing for pixel-based designfolk. There are inline previews, courtesy of the canvas element, and when you’re all set Gridulator can crank out full-size PNGs for you, ready for use in your CSS, Photoshop docs, or what have you. And there’s full keyboard control for you snazzy power users.
Uptime Robot
Uptime Robot is all about helping you to keep your websites up. It monitors your websites every 5 minutes and alerts you if your sites are down.
Awesome Fontstacks
Awesome Fontstacks automatically match fonts based on typographical metrics, optimize the font bundles for their intended purpose, and deliver rock solid CSS for those fonts and their fallbacks to copy & paste.
Xeo CSS
Xeo CSS is a fully web-based styling tool for web designers. With this app, you can design web pages in detail with no coding.
The Ultimate ‘Best Of 2010′ Resources For People Who Create Designs
Today, we are going to take a look on few of the best of 2010 collection for designers and developers that we think you would really like to bookmark for 2011. We hope you guys will like this stunning collection of inspiration, resources, tutorials and showcases of design related stuffs. Just take a look at them and share your thought’s here.
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33 Creative Movie Posters of 2010
The 69 Coolest Apps Of 2010
Best of 2010: Sites of the Week
The best of the best tools and resources for web design of 2010
Top 50 Free Fonts Created in 2010
Best Free Textures and Patterns of 2010
40 High Quality Free PSD Files Released In 201040 High Quality Free PSD Files Released In 2010
Best of Best WordPress Tutorials of 2010
The Best Premium-Like Free WordPress Themes Of 2010
Our Favorite Photoshop Tutorials of 2010 on Psdtuts
A Review of Web Design Trends from 2010
Absolutely Amazing Techniques To Create Eye-Catching Websites With JQuery (Best Of 2010)
Best of the Best Photoshop Tutorials from 2010
The Top 50 Best Digital and CG Artworks from 2010
21 Best Tutorials for Creating Icons in Photoshop from 2010
Awesome Tutorials That Will Make You Acquainted With What Photoshop Can Do (Best of 2010)
Best Illustrator Tutorials from 2010
The Top 100 Best Business Cards from 2010
50 of the Best Photoshop Tutorials of 2010
Best Icon Sets Of 2010 You Would Not Want To Miss
The 69 Coolest Apps Of 2010
The year 2010 is almost ended. We have explored and reviewed so many useful tools and resources for you all the year. Today, we are going to take a look on few of the web apps we have featured that we think you would like bookmark for 2011. I hope designers, developers and programmers 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. They are really amazing in respect to their features. This is the list of 69 Coolest Web Apps Of 2010 at Work. We have categorized them as Web Apps, Desktop Apps and Smartphone/Tablet PC Apps. Just take a look at them and share your thought’s here.
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Web Apps
Join.me
Join.me is an impromptu meeting space that happens wherever, whenever. It’s getting a second or third pair of eyes on your presentation from across the hall or across the continent. It’s sharing your screen instantly with anyone or everyone to get stuff done, quickly.
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Kodingen
Kodingen is an Online Development Environment including Code Editor, Cloud Hosting, Database Administration, Collaboration, Web based access to file-system, Web based ftp & svn integration.
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Write Maps
Write Maps is a free web app which allows its users to create, edit and share sitemaps online. With sitemaps, a blogger can easily plan the layout of their newest website according to its topic and for people who like to work in teams; the ability to collaborate and work on a project on a centrally stored sitemap through Write Maps is a great way to get the job done.
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MyStickies
MyStickies allows you to add sticky notes to webpages while you’re visiting the page and save it for later. The saved web pages can later be reviewed and edited from any other computer. MyStickies not only bookmarks the webpages in its online repository, but also saves the pages on how you tagged content on it and presents it the same way later. MyStickies is completely free to use.
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PhotoPeach
PhotoPeach is a great free web based slideshow creation service which allows creating, sharing and embedding slideshows online for any type of content which you want. A sign up is required to use the service.
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Sketchfu
Sketchfu is simple drawing website where people can share their drawing with each other.
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Wix
With Wix you can create a free website or make your free MySpace layouts and Flash MySpace layouts. It’s the simpler, faster, better way to build & design on the web.
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HRLocker
HRLocker is low cost HR management software designed for managing employee record and things associated with it. With HRLocker you can streamline annual leave and absence management, manage HR documents online, organize time sheets and generate reports. HRLocker comes with a lot of customization options as well.
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GoWaza
GoWaza is a web service that helps you plan your travels. You enter your destination, along with arrival and departure dates; consequently a list of nearby hotels and their prices are provided. The locations are marked on a small map that can be enlarged. You can share your created maps and trips with your friends that have accounts on GoWaza.
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Mobyko
Mobyko gives you complete control over your cellphone as it allows you to safely backup your important contacts and their details online, securely in your Mobyko account. It also features live syncing of contacts, phonebook and calendar present in your cellphone in sync with those present online so whether you make changes in one or the other, your data stays consistent throughout.
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NameChk
NameChk’s feature and usage is quite simple: it simply check for the available of the entered username across many social networking and social bookmarking websites.
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PrintWhatYouLike
Tired of printing web pages only to find your printout is full of ads, empty space and other junk you don’t want? PrintWhatYouLike is a free online editor that lets you format any web page for printing in seconds.
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Abouthisite
Through Abouthisite you can find out the main details of a site – owner’s name, daily visitors, language, server location, server location’s on a map, thumbnail image of the homepage, and the color composition of the thumbnail image.
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Skylight
Skylight puts powerful but easy-to-use business management tools in the hands of the whole team, in or out of the office. Skylight helps business users achieve success while providing anytime, anywhere access to important business information. Projects, contacts, resources, accounts and files in one place.
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TimsFreeStuff HTML Editor
This real time HTML editor solves the problem of continuously switching between browser windows and provides a live show of what HTML code would look like in a separate preview pane. This solves the problem of first writing the HTML code in the web development software and then testing it in the browser window.
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dushare
dushare is a simple direct file-file-transfer service. It makes sending unlimited file sizes between two people as simple as clicking a link. You can send you files to your peers directly (P2P) with no server for upload/download.
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Qhub
Qhub is a platform you can use on your blog or website that allows your audience to ask questions and get real answers, it doesn’t just help answer questions it allows a genuine community to develop around your site.
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SnapBird
SnapBird is a free online tool that helps you search Twitter for things in a much better way than Twitter’s native search allows. Using SnapBird you can search for a particular keyword in a particular Twitter user’s stream. You can also search for items in Tweets with your mentions or in the sent and received DMs (direct messages). In addition to those features, SnapBird lets you search for items in very old Tweets along with the latest ones.
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Slide Deck
Slideshows on websites serve an important purpose: they easily let you showcase the latest or the most popular content of your website. Instead of spending a lot of time coding up the slideshow, you can use Slide Deck. Slide Deck will provide you with the slideshow you desire for your website. It comes as a jQuery plug-in and a WordPress plug-in.
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TeamworkPM
TeamworkPM is an online tool that can help you manage those tasks in an easy manner. No matter how big or small your team, the online service will help you setup a good communicating ground for your team.
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Webpage Test
Through “Webpage Test” you can set a number of parameters before you begin testing a URL. The test results are comprehensively broken down into speed tests, JavaScript file sizes, and image file sizes. The site also provides tools to compare the performance of multiple websites.
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LiveMocha
LiveMocha offers free and paid plans. It provides its users with a unique combination of tutorials and practice with native speakers from around the world.
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Bounce
Bounce is a little app that lets people quickly to add feedback to any webpage and toss that back and forth with other people.
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Project Bubble
Project Bubble is a simple and easy tool for managing your projects, client and invoices. It’s intuitive interface makes project management a breeze. You can easily generate PDF invoices and get paid through PayPal.
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icloud
icloud lets you do just that. icloud is a web service that provides its users with a virtual desktop. After creating an account and signing in to it, you virtual desktop loads up.
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Flash Paint
Flash Paint is a full web based drawing tool with many drawing features. The feature I liked best was its ability to create complex geometrical drawings with ease. This was achieved through a combination of lines and curves which you can modify easily.
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Zoho
Zoho is the name for a collection of services. The entries you see in the image above are only few of what Zoho has to offer. We can sign up for an account and use Zoho’s services to easily gather ideas and create plus modify files / documents / images / presentations as a group. Click here to visit Zoho.
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WhatTheFont
WhatTheFont recognizes fonts in the same way as IdentifyFont. The image we upload can be of GIF, JPEG, TIFF or BMP image format and must not have more than 25 characters. As the characters are scanned by the website, we are asked to confirm if the right character has been confirmed. The site then proceeds to analyze each character and find our font.
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IDriveSync
IDriveSync syncs files online and across multiple PCs. On installing and logging into the application, it opens up a ‘Sync’ area where you can drag-n-drop files from your PC into or add your files into. Anytime you make a change to synced data anywhere on those multiple PCs, all the PCs will shortly reflect the modified data. IDriveSync does easy sharing too.
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1DayLater
1DayLater is a free website that lets users enter tasks and enter the value of those tasks either in time units, money, or distance units. Once we have all our tasks fed into our 1DayLater account, we can view graphs of our activities and vary the graph parameters to see what our time/money/distance is being concentrated on.
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Youblisher
With Youblisher you can make your pdf documents flippable and attractive looking book style presentation. It is like touching a real document.
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Lookout
Lookout is a free application compatible with all major mobile operating systems. In addition to the remote location and remote controlling features, the application also has built-in antivirus and firewall tools that protect it against malware.
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Web Page to PDF
Web2PDF Converter helps Internet users, website publishers and bloggers to save their content to PDF and then share, print or archive it. Web2PDF Converter is fast, powerful and easy to install.
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Springnote
Springnote is a great way for you to create notebooks for ideas, interests, multimedia, projects, and documents. It allows you to create pages, to work on them together with your friends, and to share files.
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Crocodoc
crocodoc takes your PDFs, Word documents, and PowerPoint presentations, and lets you view and mark them up online. Documents can be shared with others, who can collaboratively highlight or strikeout text, add notes and comments, and make revisions. All files are stored securely on their servers, and can be password protected and encrypted for maximum security.
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Dial2Do
Dial2Do lets you do common tasks by just calling a number and speaking. You can use it to send EMAIL or TEXT messages, record REMINDERS to help you remember things, post updates to your TWITTER or JAIKU stream and LISTEN to your favourite internet content. It’s easy and hands-free.
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AppliancesEnergyUse
AppliancesEnergyUse lists the power input of almost 50 household appliances. By finding out how much power we are using simultaneously we can see if we are wasting energy. We can also set a personal power goal for ourselves and vow to never cross that wattage at a given time. Whether or not we are crossing our goal can then be determined by AppliancesEnergyUse.
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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.
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Google Notebook
Google Notebook is a free online application offered by Google that allows users to save and organize clips of information while conducting research online. The browser-based tool permits a user to write notes, clip text and images, and save links from pages during a browser session. The information is saved to an online “notebook” with sharing and collaboration features. Notebooks can be made “public”, or visible to others, and can also be used to collaborate with a list of users (either publicly or privately).
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Desktop Apps
Recuva
Accidentally deleted an important file? Lost something important when your computer crashed? No problem! Recuva recovers files deleted from your Windows computer, Recycle Bin, digital camera card, or MP3 player. Even if you’ve formatted a drive so that it looks blank, Recuva can still find your files on it.
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YouTube Jockey
With YouTube jockey you can save the YouTube videos you watch without having to login with your YouTube or Google account. YouTube Jockey is a video player based on Adobe Air platform and has the ability to search for YouTube videos from within the player and drag and drop feature for playing videos.
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Cloud Magic
Cloud Magic is a free web tool that works as a browser extension for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome for people running Mac, Windows, or Linux machines. The extension indexes all emails and their data locally. It then provides an interface for you to quickly search those emails. The response time is amazing because your search is conducted locally instead of online. Cloud Magic supports indexing multiple Gmail accounts.
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AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 2011
AVG Free provides you with basic antivirus and antispyware protection for Windows and is available to download for free. It can work like a fast and effective protection against viruses and spyware. You will stay protected on social networks with AVG Social Networking Protection.
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Elmedia Mac Media Player
Elmedia Mac media player is a versatile tool that supports multiple formats playback (FLV, SWF, XAP (Silverlight), RM and RV (Real), AVI, MOV, MP4, WMV). No need to install a separate player for each video you want to watch. Enjoy your screening with Elmedia Player.
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Freemake
Freemake is an installable video converter for Windows operating systems. In addition to converting videos to AVI, MP4, 3GP, and DVD formats, the application can also rip DVDs, rip audio from videos, and split videos and upload them to YouTube as a playlist.
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Google Dictionary
Google Dictionary extension is Google’s own extension for its own browser, Chrome. With the extension installed, Chrome users will no longer need to bookmark any dictionary websites. The extension simplifies looking up word meanings by eliminating the need to visit a dictionary website in a new tab.
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Apture Highlights
Apture Highlights is a free tool, built from the ground up to let you take the power of Google search, and the richness YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, and Wikipedia with you to any site. Just highlight a phrase on any site to reveal the web’s best content without ever leaving the page. Fast, powerful, and fun.
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Lunascape
Lunascape is the world’s only triple engine browser. With Lunascape, you can choose the right engine at the right time, realizing a dramatic decrease in web-browser compatibility issues, long loading times, and messed up websites display. You need only 2 clicks to change your engine. Lunascape is 20 times faster than IE7, 6.5 times faster than IE8. And it stays up! We have gone head to head with well-known “fast” browsers, and have achieved one of the fastest JavaScript speed.
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Smart Defrag
Smart Defrag is a tiny Windows compatible utility sized at only 1.8 MB. When you run the program, you can view all your hard drive partitions. Click on the partition you feel is responding slowly, and perform an analysis to see if any files require defragmentation.
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AppFresh
AppFresh helps you to keep all applications, widgets, preference panes and application plugins installed on your Mac up to date. All from one place, easy to use and fully integrated into Mac OS X.
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CodySafe
CodySafe is a simple to use program that can be installed on any flash drive or removable media. The installer is only 2.1 MB large and installs directly to your flash drive.
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IE Tab
Some sites can only be displayed using IE, and with this extension you can now see those sites without leaving Chrome. Great for web developers who want to test the IE rendering engine, users who use sites with ActiveX controls, and users who want to use the explorer view for local files.
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Windows Memory Diagnostic
Microsoft has its own memory testing tool and it is called Windows Memory Diagnostic. The program performs a series of extensive tests on your system to find anything wrong with your computer’s memory. This tool also gives you the options to either create a bootable floppy disk or CD / DVD (by burning the image). Booting from the disk or optical disk will automatically begin the testing process.
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CCleaner
CCleaner is the number-one tool for cleaning your Windows PC. It protects your privacy online and makes your computer faster and more secure. Easy to use and a small, fast download.
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FastestFox – Browse Faster
You can save time and get faster, parallelized downloads, quick definitions, auto-loading of next page, improved searching, and can do more with FastestFox.
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iSynchronize
iSynchronize is an application that synchronizes the original file or folder of aliases. It creates a folder in your home directory, where you can put either real files and folders or aliases, and then syncs the contents to another folder you specify. The application concludes a daemon that does al the work in the background.
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ComparePSD
ComparePSD compares two Adobe Photoshop PSD files for you and highlights the differences. It can compare the difference Layer by layer, Effect by effect. ComparePSD allows you to select the files in Windows Explorer by right-clicking on them.
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Smartphone And Tablet PC Apps
0.03 Seconds
0.03 Seconds was the top iOS game in many countries within 2 days of its release. The game, sized at 11.9 MB, helps you judge your reaction time. Through a variety of responses it determines how fast you react and tap the screen.
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Read It Later
When you come across an article or a webpage you’d like to read but can’t at that time, save it to your Read it Later list. You can then read it whenever you have a moment, on the couch, in your commute, on the plane, train, or practically
anywhere.
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Google Mobile App
You can use Google Mobile App to search fast from your phones. It has some stunning features like you can speak your queries instead of typing, use pictures to search the web, avoid typing your current location while searching for nearby businesses (e.g. “pizza” or “best buy”). You can also quickly navigate to other Google services, such as Maps and Gmail. Available on iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Windows and Nokia S60.
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Chess with Friends
This simple game lets you play chess over the network with a friend or a random player. The game’s simple functionality and cool graphics make the game worthwhile.
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LEGO Photo
Here’s an app to immortalize your favorite things and those special moments in LEGO form. Just point the camera, snap a pic, press the button, and watch the masterpiece build.
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WordPress for Android
The initial release of WordPress for Android has focused on giving you the ability to manage your blog while on the go. You can manage posts, comments, pages.
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Google Earth
With Google Earth for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, you can fly to far corners of the planet with just the swipe of a finger. 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.
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Wi-Fi Finder
This app for iPhone has tremendous use. Instead of shaking your phone to discover a good Wi-Fi signal, you can Wi-Fi Finder to find many free and paid Wi-Fi hotspots. The app has indexed over 280,000 locations in 140 countries worldwide.
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Hair MakeOver Lite
Do you want to find out what is the best hairstyle for you and your friends? With Hair MakeOver you can try on many different kind of hair styles and hair cuts in less than a minute on your iPhone. There are 32 32 hairstyles that you can try in this app.
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Lightning Bug – Sleep Clock
Just running and jogging and taking control over your eating habits is not important. Studies shows that adequate sleep is also necessary for the body to stay fit. Now with Lightning Bug – Sleep Clock relax and get to sleep easier by playing soothing sounds. It can also wake you up after specified time to keep you going.
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Angry Birds
Angry Birds is a puzzle video game developed by Finland-based Rovio Mobile. Since its release for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch devices, over 10 million copies of the game have been purchased and versions have appeared for other touchscreen-based smartphones. You can download this app for your Samsung Galaxy Tab from Android Market.
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Photoshop
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.
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See How Sites Would Look If They Use Web FontFonts
“Web FontFonts” are high quality, screen-optimized fonts designed specifically for web use. There are many websites that do not currently use Web FontFonts; they use regular fonts instead. But using “FontFonter”, you can view any website’s text in Web FontFonts.
FontFonter is a free and simple to use website that will let you view any website in Web FontFonts. The site’s usage is extremely simple: you enter a website’s URL, FontFonter analyzes the webpage, and displays the website with its default fonts replaced by Web FontFonts.
For example, our SmashingApp website looks like this by default:
But if I pass SmashingApp’s website through FontFonts, I get the following view:
You can see the clear font difference between the two images. Of course there are different types of Web FontFonts. You can choose to jump from one Web FontFonts view to another using the yellow bar that is located at the top of each preview.
Here you can check which font on the webpage to replace and which font to replace it with. The preview you see above replaced Sans Serifs with FF Meta Web and Serifs with FF Meta Serif Web.
In the image below, all fonts have been replaced by FF Yoga Web.
Currently FontFonter can be used for previewing purposes only and it does not support JavaScript, cookies, mobile browsers, Opera, and Internet Explorer. Furthermore FontFonter uses some HTML tricks that do not work on all sites.
Nonetheless, it is an interesting tool which web developers should check out. Visit FontFonter now.
