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60+ Incredible Tutorials And Resources Collections For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In June
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 60+ Incredible Tutorials And Resources Collections For Designers. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.
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Design Tips, Tricks and Tutorial
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53 Crazy-good Digital Photography Tutorials
40 Top-Notch Print Based Tutorials
10 Most Wanted Vector Tutorials
13 Useful Techniques for Enhancing Web Design Photography
Design a premium wordpress blog with Photoshop
Create a Character Illustration Wallpaper
50 Excellent 3D Adobe Illustrator Tutorials
Simple Coffee Cup Icon Photoshop Tutorial
Photo Manipulate a Falling Angel
77 Ultimate Round-Up of Adobe After Effects Tutorials
25 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating 3D Text Effects
Useful Flash Cartoon Tutorials
It’s Time to Create a ‘Neo-Constructivist’ Poster with Photoshop
Create a Texture Based Vintage TV Poster in Photoshop
Artwork, Digital Photography and Inspiration
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50 Breathtaking CG Images
50+ Creative Masterpieces Of Logo Designs Using Gradient Effects
50 Inspiring Abstract Illustrations in Web Design
100 inspiring character designs
40 of the Best Websites of Non-Profit Organizations
Vector Backgrounds in Web Design: Examples And Best Practices
60+ Really awesome Typography Showcases
74 Fresh Examples Of Beautiful Single Page Website Designs
50 Beautiful Hand-Drawn Web Design
100 Creative Twitter Backgrounds Featuring Illustration
25+ Examples of Effective Glowing Effect in Web Design
13 Beautiful Graffiti and Street Art for you inspiration
43 Spectacular Examples of Fractal Art
20+ Excellent Free Character Illustration Wallpapers
Creating a tri-fold brochure plus 15 amazing examples
25+ Examples of Inspirational Text Art
40 Examples of Incredible Photo Manipulation
21 Stunning Examples Of Creatively Done Stop Motion Animations
Javascript and Ajax
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55 Jquery Tutorials, Resources, Tips And Tricks
Playing with jQuery Color Plugin and Color Animation
15 Best Techniques For Implementing Autosuggest With AJAX
10 Ways to Instantly Increase Your jQuery Performance
xHTML and CSS
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24 CSS (in some cases with jQuery) Navigation and Menu Tutorials
7 New Essential CSS 3 Techniques Revealed
15 Effective Tips and Tricks from the Masters of CSS
Resources
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50+ New and Beautiful Free Wordpress Themes
30+ Useful Photoshop Custom Shapes Set
15 Most Useful & Free Collection Of Ready-To-Use Design Freebies
Ultimate List of 32 Font And Typography Tools
25+ Useful Wordpress Themes with Ads Ready
Hibiscus flowers - vector freebies
100 New and Beautiful Seamless Patterns
35 Excellent Websites for Downloading Free CSS Template
20+ Beautiful Free Serif Fonts
30+ High Quality Metallic Texture, Pattern, Brushes and Photoshop Tutorials
Miscellaneous Articles
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12 Essential Rules to Follow When Designing a Logo
Ten Rock Solid Free Platforms To Start Your Successful Website
40 Must Have Cheat Sheets for effective Web Designers
20 Tools to Make the Life of a Web Developer Easier
10 Ways To Make Your Site Accessible Using Web Standards
21 Free And Useful Web Tools For Web Designers
This is one of the very best list of its kind where you can find the simplest online web designer’s tools that are developed for designers and may be very helpful for you as well when you want to get your work done or just for fun. I hope web designers will like this list, but you can also use them and will love them whether you are an office worker, a manager, a supervisor, a student, a home user, etc. Most of them are not very well-known, but they are really amazing in respect to their features. This is the list of 21 Free And Useful Web Tools For Web Designers. Just take a look at them and share your thought’s here.
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11 Premium But Free And Useful Web Apps For Designers
31 Power Tools For Twitter Lovers To Make Lives Easier
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The 5 Best Free File Hosting Services To Store Your Files
7 New And Useful Free Sites With Unique File Hosting Features
Pixlr is a free online image editor, jump in and start edit, adjust, filter.
Stripemania is a simple and free web 2.0 tool to create seamless diagonal stripes for your designs. You are able to choose the size of the stripes and the spacing between those. You can even add color gradient effect for all of your stripes.
FreshGenerator is a webdesign tool which can create interesting graphic elements used in many web 2.0 sites.
ColorPix is a useful little color picker that grabs the pixel under your mouse and transforms it into a number of different color formats. You can use the built-in magnifier to zoom in on your screen, click on a color value to copy it directly to the clipboard, and even keep ColorPix on top of all other apps and out of the way.
This is your online photo sharing, editing and hosting resource. You can upload, organize, edit, store (up to 2GB free) and share your photos.
Are My Sites Up is a very simple service to help you keep an eye on your sites and warn you if they go down.
Add your own colors to contemporary and retro pattern designs, or browse from thousands of pre-colored patterns in the seamless pattern background library. All artworks on this site can be used freely on personal blogs, mobile phone wallpapers, MySpace profiles and non-commercial web projects.
Adobe Kuler is the web-hosted application for generating color themes that can inspire any project. No matter what you’re creating, with Kuler you can experiment quickly with color variations and browse thousands of themes from the Kuler community.
Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. It is a free open-source online service. A number of distributed computers will open your website in their browser. Then they will make screenshots and upload them to the central server.
This online tool generates HTML/CSS code and images to decorate your Web site with rounded corners and gradient.
Picreflect helps you to give the reflection on any image, to resize your image, to make them tranparent or rotate them to any angle.
For using WhatTheFont font recognition system, Just upload a scanned image of the font and instantly find the closest matches in their database.
This free service will help you to re-size your images with basic and advanced options.
Wordoff is simple and useful web tool that lets you remove unnecessary tags and styles from HTML code.
SUMO Paint is an online image editor. This is an easy to use professional tool for creating and editing images within browser.
This generator will create a fluid or fixed width floated column layout, with up to 3 columns and with header and footer. Values can be specified in either pixels, ems or percentages.
With Wix you can create a free website or make free MySpace layouts and Flash MySpace layouts. It’s the simpler, faster, better way to build & design on the web.
net2ftp is a web based FTP client. It is mainly aimed at managing websites using a browser. Edit code, upload/download files, copy/move/delete directories recursively, rename files and directories — without installing any software.
The color wizard lets you submit your own base color, and it automatically returns matching colors for the one you selected.
Splashup is a powerful editing tool and photo manager. With all the features professionals use and novices want, it’s easy to use, works in real-time and allows you to edit many images at once.
This is a web based tiled backgrounds designer, you can create any pattern your site needs just in few minutes. Adjustable size, pictures, colors, texture and transparency is available.
13 Simply Useful Wordpress Plugins That Can Make Lives Easier
This is another post about useful wordpress plugins. There are hundreds of wordpress plugins available on the internet. Some of them are very useful and some of them are only for sake of existence. But it’s totally up to you that how you can make your wordpress blog more strong and powerful using different plugins to give your blog readers an amazing and wonderful experience.
In this post, I tried to list down 13 Simply Useful Wordpress Plugins That Can Make Lives Easier. This list has few of the unlimited wordpress plugins introduction. I hope you will enjoy this.
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11 Most Popular Cross-Platform And Free Softwares
13 Most Useful Free Scripts That You Should Know
13 Simplest Free Web Tools That Are Absolutely Useful
5 Useful And Free Photo Viewers For Your Mac OS X
7 New And Useful Free Sites With Unique File Hosting Features
11 Premium But Free And Useful Web Apps For Designers
31 Power Tools For Twitter Lovers To Make Lives Easier
13 Premium-Like Wordpress Themes That Are Free And Stunning
13 Simple And Elegant Free Wordpress Themes
The 5 Best Free File Hosting Services To Store Your Files
7 New And Useful Free Sites With Unique File Hosting Features
Download Monitor 3 is upon us. Download Monitor is a plugin for uploading and managing downloads, tracking download hits, and displaying links.
Plugin Manager lets you to view, download and install plugins from wordpress.org from an AJAX’ed interface, instead of manually downloading, extracting and uploading each plugin.
Google Analytics for WordPress
The Google Analytics for WordPress plugin automatically tracks and segments all outbound links from within posts, comment author links, links within comments, blogroll links and downloads. It also allows you to track AdSense clicks, add extra search engines, track image search queries and it will even work together with Urchin.
Search Everything increases the ability of the default Wordpress Search, options included Search Every Page, Search Every Tag, Search Every Category, Search non-password protected pages only, Search Every Comment and much more…
This plugin will manage and rotate your Google Adsense and other ads on your Wordpress blog. It automatically recognises many ad networks including Google Adsense, AdBrite, Adify, AdGridWork, Adpinion, Adroll, Chitika, Commission Junction, CrispAds, OpenX, ShoppingAds, Yahoo!PN, and WidgetBucks. Unsupported ad networks can be used as well.
Featured Content Gallery creates an automated, fully customizable rotating image gallery anywhere within your WordPress site. Choose your images and display categories, pages or posts with custom overlay text and a thumbnail carousel. Custom options include gallery size, color, style and more.
Subscribe2 provides a comprehensive subscription management and email notification system for WordPress blogs that sends email notifications to a list of subscribers when you publish new content to your blog.
Wordpress Automatic Upgrade allows a user to automatically upgrade the wordpress installation to the latest one provided by wordpress.org using the 5 steps provided in the wordpress upgrade instructions.
The TweetMeme button easily allows your blog to be retweeted. The button also provides a current count of how many times your story has been retweeted throughout twitter.
This simple plugin helps you easily integrate your BuySellAds zones and includes anti-AdBlock meaures to prevent AdBlock (and similar software) from blocking the advertisement.
Social Bookmarking for WordPress
Sociable is a plugin which adds social media buttons to your posts, and does so easily, and beautifully. It will automatically add links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on your posts, pages and in your RSS feed. You can choose from 99 different social bookmarking sites.
A plugin to build user communities all around WordPress, mainly it’s around having a well integrated profiles system. This plugin will provide all needed functions and widgets to make it easy and flexible the ways to show all information about a user. Also, there is some user privacy settings to permit which information to show in the profile page.
You can shrink, track and share any URL on the Internet from your WordPress website. Unlike other link shrinking services like tinyurl, budurl, and bit.ly, this plugin allows you to create shortlinks coming from your own domain! Pretty Link tracks each hit on your URL and provides a full, detailed report of where the hit came from, the browser, os and host.
Now Its Much Easier To Embed Fonts On Web Pages With FontJazz
FontJazz is a tiny typographic engine written in JavaScript, enabling webdesigners and developers to use any typeface on a website. You can select here any TrueType or OpenType typeface from your local computer, and upload it for processing.
FontJazz does not take the usual road, where an image is generated on the server-side, for every headline - an approach that is rather ineffective. Instead, FontJazz implements a simple type-rendering engine in JavaScript, which means that any headlines are rendered 100% client-side, without any kind of server-side dependencies or bandwidth overhead.
Unlike traditional web-font solutions, FontJazz requires the user’s browser to fetch only a single image and a tiny JavaScript file, and only once for any number of headlines.
The JavaScript uses DOM and works with IE5+, Firefox 2+, Opera 9+, Google Chrome and most likely any other standards-compliant browser. You can click here to read license information or visit here to download.
13 Useful And Free Websites To Make Your Lives Easier
Today, we are publishing another list of 13 Useful And Free Websites To Make Your Lives Easier when you want 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.
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11 Most Popular Cross-Platform And Free Softwares
13 Most Useful Free Scripts That You Should Know
13 Simplest Free Web Tools That Are Absolutely Useful
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7 New And Useful Free Sites With Unique File Hosting Features
11 Premium But Free And Useful Web Apps For Designers
31 Power Tools For Twitter Lovers To Make Lives Easier
13 Premium-Like Wordpress Themes That Are Free And Stunning
13 Simple And Elegant Free Wordpress Themes
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.
OpenWith.org provides detailed information about most file extension and links to free programs that can open and create each type of file.
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.
You can use DialMyCalls to send group announcements to your friends. Remind them of parties, events, or any other announcement you may have. It’s really fun to use and even useful in daily life. You can use their free service and send 1 group call per day to 25 people or less that is sounds interesting.
Tini.us is a simple url shortening service encompassing all the features commonly found with any link shortening service but with one huge added feature that other services lack. With tini.us you have the added option of creating a ‘Super Tini’, a short URL that supports reviews.
Cometdocs is a one of its kinds free online document conversion interface that offers a large set of document conversions that can’t be found anywhere else online. Its unique features include on the fly OCR conversion capabilities, over 50 different conversion options and proprietary XPS and PDF conversion abilities that retains formatting, images and text in the selected output format. And best of all its available free of charge for everyone.
Tracer is a brand new way to generate more visits and page views. You can get credit when content is copied from your site. It will help you to measure and understand user engagement and Improve your search engine ranking.
Pict is a free image hosting service that lets you upload and share your images with one click.
You can upload images up to 3.5Mb, JPG/PNG/GIF formats supported, it has automatic image resizing, multiple uploading & much more.
Gazup is the leading website for social file mirroring online. By using this service you’ll be able to upload files to multiple file hosts in one go thus saving you time and bandwidth. Simply upload a file to Gazup service and their servers utilizing gigabit speeds will rapidly mirror your file to 8 hosts, including RapidShare, MegaUpload, FileFactory, zShare and many more.
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.
rarhost is a unique new file hosting site, only for winrar .rar archives. They offer much more than just basic file hosting, their system has advanced information about each rar file, therefore they have decided to specialize in .rar files, for example you can see what the archive contains before you download, ensuring it contains the files you want.
Speedtile keeps track of your favourite websites. It saves and organizes your bookmarks in a clear and visual environment, always up to date with daily snapshots. And there is more too! Sort your personal tiles by most frequently used, recently visited or just drag and drop them as you see fit!
Sometimes upgrading to a newer version can be a good thing. Other times, your computer may not be compatible with the new version, the new version is bloated, or all the options you liked are no longer available. OldVersion.com has been supplying the online community with old versions of various programs.
50+ Promising Collection Of Resources And Inspirations For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In April
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 50+ Promising Collection Of Resources And Inspirations For Designers. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.
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31 Masterpieces Of Creative And Clever Advertising Concepts
23 Magical Photographs To Believe That Are Not Photoshopped
13 Premium-Like Wordpress Themes That Are Free And Stunning
21 Really Stunning Photoshopped Photos For Creative Inspiration
17 Mind-Blowing Digital Painting Tutorials Of Beautiful Girls
43 Of The Extremely Creative Wonders Of Macro Photography
27 Best Places You Should Visit To Get Incredible Web Design Inspiration!
13 Simple And Elegant Free Wordpress Themes
21 Extremely Vibrant And Creative Advertisements With Animals
39 Masterpieces Of Creative Advertisements
17 Digital Image Illustration Which You Probably Never Seen Before!
15 Digital Photo Manipulation From Flickr To Get Inspiration
23 Awesome Photos That Look Like They’re Photoshopped But Are Not
Design Tips, Tricks and Tutorial
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115+ Ultimate Round-Up of 3D Studio Max Tutorials
40+ Cartoon Character Illustration Tutorials
40 Apple-themed Photoshop Tutorials
30+ Most Wanted Photo Manipulation Tutorials in Photoshop Part I
101 Examples of Text Treatments on the Web
Create a Cute Easter Bunny Vector
Create a Glossy Volt Icon in Photoshop
30+ Fresh & Useful Adobe Illustrator Tutorials & Neat Tips
33 Tutorials to Unleash the Photoshop Beast in You
Create a Bright Retro Grunge Vector Illustration
25 Photoshop Tutorials for Working with Textures
Create an Asian Inspired Illustration with Impact
How to Make a Stylish Glowing Box in Photoshop
30 Hand-picked Flash and Essential Actionscript 3.0 Tutorials
44 Must Learn Web Design Layout Tutorials in Photoshop
How to Create a Retro Vector Illustration with Stylized Lines
35 Tutorials to create amazing Vector Graphics using Inkscape
14 Tutorials for Creating Photoshop Brushes
Retro Rainbow Tutorials and Design Showcase
Artwork, Digital Photography and Inspiration
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41 Great Looking Free WordPress Themes
15 Best Places to get Inspirational Web Designs
30 Creative Illustrative Website Headers
70+ More Rainbow Colors Inspired Photos and Pictures
50 Great Wallpapers about Design
30+ Cute and Clever Anime Paper Child Art
50 Beautiful Websites with Illustrated Landscapes
15 Stunning Examples of Underwater Photography
40 Stylish, Minimal and Clean Free Wordpress Themes
Beautiful And Creative Logo Designs For Your Inspiration
Hover Effects in Web Design: Best Practices and Examples
Wonderful Fantasy Landscape Artwork
Javascript and Ajax
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20 More Excellent AJAX Effects You Should Know
18 jQuery scripts and tutorials to improve your portfolio
20 Useful PHP + jQuery Components & Tuts for Everyday Project
Essential PHP Techniques for Web Designer and Developers
xHTML and CSS
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30 Exceptional CSS Navigation Techniques
The Mystery Of CSS Sprites: Techniques, Tools And Tutorials
Resources
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21 Free Apps For Mac OS X That Are Useful and Productive
50+ Sources To Download High-Quality Free Vector Stuff
44 Excellent Free Icon Sets Everyone Must Have
270+ High-Res Rough and Grungey Photoshop Brushes
20 Free Original Hi-Res Ink Stained Paper Textures
Miscellaneous Articles
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50 Totally Free Lessons in Graphic Design Theory
Beginner’s Guide to E-Commerce Solution
100+ Massive Wordpress Tutorial Collection
6 Tips to Help You Get the Most Out of Google Docs
7 More Useful Tips To Help Your Site Convert
9 Online Free And Useful Tools That Can Help Designers A Lot
We are always in the search for useful stuffs on the internet that are freely available for everyone and specially for designers who spend their whole day in to design or create something creative. We aimed to help you and keep you updated with all the new online tools that you probably would love to use. In past, we have listed various free web apps that are really useful for any one of you and specially for designers. Today, we are listing 9 Online Free And Useful Tools That Can Help Designers A Lot that are not only for designers and every one of you will probably love to use any or all of them. Whether you are designer, developer, office worker, manager, supervisor, student, home user, etc. This post contains a diversified collection of free web apps and we tried to make sure to add something interesting for everyone. Most of them are not very well-known, but they are really amazing in respect to their features and functionality. Just take a look at them and share your thought here.
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Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. It is a free open-source online service. A number of distributed computers will open your website in their browser. Then they will make screenshots and upload them to the central server.
For using WhatTheFont font recognition system, Just upload a scanned image of the font and instantly find the closest matches in their database.
Wix
With Wix you can create a free website or make free MySpace layouts and Flash MySpace layouts. It’s the simpler, faster, better way to build & design on the web.
DimDim is a free web conferencing service where you can share your desktop, show slides, collaborate, chat, talk and broadcast via webcam with absolutely no download required for attendees.
FreshBooks is an online invoicing and time tracking service that saves you time and makes you look professional.
Zapproved is a lightweight Web tool that makes group decision-making faster, easier and more accountable. It is a unique solution that introduces peer-to-peer and organizational techniques to improve the process of building consensus.
FileDropper’s beauty is in its simplicity. It has one click file hosting where you simply click on the upload button and select your file. After the file is uploaded you are taken to the page where the file is hosted. If the file is an image, it shows the image directly on the page for easier sharing. Upload size is an impressive 5 GB.
W3Counter is your free, hosted website analytics solution for answering the key questions about your website: who’s your audience, how they find your site, and what interests them.
Create your own online magazines, fanzines, brochures, catalogs, portfolios and more. Using the formatpixel online editor you too can design page based projects, layout text, upload your own images, add interactivity and customise their appearance.
13 Free Mac OS X Apps That Can Make Your Lives Easier
This is the post where we are listing out few great free apps for Mac Operating System, this is an exclusive post for our those readers who are the Mac users. But our other readers will also enjoy this post. Don’t forget to bookmark this post for your future reference as it has few most useful and free application that will be helpful for you when you are on your Mac system. This is absolutely a great list of 13 Free Mac OS X Apps That Can Make Your Lives Easier.
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SketchBox is a new and multifunctional yet uncluttered, Sticky Notes Manager for your Mac Desktop. You can enter text or make drawings and set individual reminders for each sticky to use them as a visual alarm clock.
Appointments is an application designed to keep record of customers, contact persons and important events related to them. Information is collected in a structured way, there are separate dictionaries with customers data, contact persons, appointment managers etc. which are used to create appointments record.
SnapNDrag lets you take a screenshot by just clicking a button and dragging the resulting screenshot off. If you want to email a screenshot, you would drag the screenshot from SnapNDrag to the Mail application.
Bean is a small, easy-to-use word processor (or more precisely, a rich text editor), designed to make writing convenient, efficient and comfortable.
SyncMate is FREE and easy-to-use synchronizer for Mac and Pocket PC, that will help you keep all your documents, text messages, contacts, calendar entries and events and other stuff well organized.
Caffeine is a tiny program that puts an icon in the right side of your menu bar. Click it to prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers. Click it again to go back. Hold down the Command key while clicking to show the menu.
MacLoc is the perfect solution for a busy work environment as well as at home where wandering hands can create a bothersome reduction in productivity. This simple application activates the Fast User Switching feature built-in to Mac OS X. After clicking on MacLoc, it will appear that you’ve logged out, however upon entering your username and password, all open documents and applications will be right where you left them.
Carbon Copy Cloner features an interface designed to make the cloning and backup procedure very intuitive. In addition to general backup, CCC can also clone one hard drive to another, copying every single block or file to create an exact replica of your source hard drive. CCC’s block-level copy offers the absolute best fidelity in the industry.
EverSave is a clever tool which allows you to save all of your documents - if possible - in a specific time interval or by changing the frontmost application. This means no more data loss if applications crash.
Vienna is a freeware, open source RSS/Atom newsreader for the Mac OS X operating system. It provides features comparable to commercial newsreaders, but both it and the source code are freely available for download.
The Unarchiver is a much more capable replacement for BOMArchiveHelper.app, the built-in archive unpacker program in Mac OS X. The Unarchiver is designed to handle many more formats than BOMArchiveHelper, and to better fit in with the design of the Finder.
AppCleaner is a small application which allows you to thoroughly uninstall unwanted apps. Installing an application distributes many files throughout your System using space of your Hard Drive unnecessarily. AppCleaner finds all these small files and safely deletes them.
Folx (currently in beta stage) is a free downloader for Mac OS X. It helps you download files of any size via HTTP, HTTPS, FTP. Folx supports auto-resuming and guarantees maximum speed possible thanks to our multi-thread download tasks. With Folx you will be able to download not only separate files, but the whole folders with all the contents via FTP.
Large Collection Of Free File Converters For Online Media Conversion
Cometdocs is a one of its kinds free online document conversion interface that offers a large set of document conversions that can’t be found anywhere else online. Its unique features include on the fly OCR conversion capabilities, over 50 different conversion options and proprietary XPS and PDF conversion abilities that retains formatting, images and text in the selected output format. And best of all its available free of charge for everyone.
To use this, you do not need to install anything on your computer. You can use the easy upload interface to convert your file. Your original file will not be affected, and you can choose your own file name for the converted file which will instantly download to your computer.
Cometdocs currently offers over 50 online conversions. They can handle many different types of file conversions. A List of Online Conversion Types:
Convert from PDF:
(some conversion support OCR conversion for scanned PDF)
PDF to Open Office Writer format
PDF to Open Office Calc format
PDF to Open Office Impress format
PDF to image BMP
PDF to image JPG
PDF to image GIF
PDF to image PNG
PDF to image TIF
PDF to text
PDF to HTML
PDF to MS Word
PDF to MS Excel
PDF to AutoCAD (dwg)
PDF to AutoCAD (dxf)
Convert to PDF:
Bmp to PDF
Word (doc) to PDF
Gif to PDF
htm to PDF
html to PDF
jpeg to PDF
jpg to PDF
log to PDF
mht to PDF
mhtml to PDF
ODF to PDF
ODP to PDF
ODS to PDF
ODT to PDF
PNG to PDF
PPS to PDF
PPT to PDF
RTF to PDF
SDA to PDF
SDC to PDF
SDD to PDF
SDS to PDF
SDW to PDF
SXC to PDF
SXD to PDF
SXI to PDF
SXM to PDF
SXW to PDF
TIF to PDF
TIFF to PDF
TXT to PDF
WRI to PDF
XLS to PDF
Convert from XPS:
Convert to Open Office Writer format
Convert to Open Office Calc format
Convert to Open Office Impress format
Convert to image BMP
Convert to image JPG
Convert to image GIF
Convert to image PNG
Convert to image TIF
Convert to text
Convert to HTML
Convert to MS Word
Convert to MS Exsel
Other File Conversions:
Excel to CSV (XLSTOCSV)
XML to LINT (XMLLINT)
HTML to RSS (HTMLTORSS)
ASC TO PDB
ASC TO EBC
UNIX TO DOS
DOS TO UNIX
MAC TO UNIX
FIX TO DELIM
DELIM TO FIX
CSV TO DELIM
SORT FILE
PDF INFO
COMPARE FILES
MP3 INFO
FILEINFO
ICONV
6 Free Softwares For Designers That Are Absolutely Useful
We have lots of commercial software available to use on different platform to complete our different work. As they are not free and sometime we do not able to purchase or for some reason we urgently need some software to complete any task but without having a licensed copy of commercial software we can not perform that job. Don’t worry about it, today we are listing here 6 Free And Simple But Useful Free Apps For Designers in which most of them are cross-platform. There are many alternative available for single software, but I just tried to list down some very non-familiar and useful free software. You probably will not be able to enjoy all the features as original software but it will really help you to perform your task in a better way when your pocket does not allow you to purchase commercial software.
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Synfig is a powerful, industrial-strength vector-based 2D animation software package, designed from the ground-up for producing feature-film quality animation with fewer people and resources.Synfig eliminates the task of manual tweening, producing smooth, fluid motion without the animator having to draw out each frame individually. This allows you to produce 2D animation with fewer people while producing art of a higher quality.
Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/UNIX, Mac OS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of “press-ready” output and new approaches to page layout. Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation.
HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows. HandBrake now offers total control over multiple audio tracks. HandBrake is no longer limited to DVDs: it will now accept practically any type of video as a source. This massive enhancement was achieved by tapping into the power of libavcodec and libavformat from the FFmpeg project.
Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.
Artweaver is a simple Freeware program for creative painting, i.e. Artweaver offers you all artistic effects which you need for your work. You can create sketches from photos and experiment with a wide range of brushes. The brush simulation is thereby so realistic as possible.
Photoscape is the fun and easy photo editing software that enables you to fix and enhance photos. You can do resizing, brightness and color adjustment, white balance, backlight correction, frames, balloons, mosaic mode, adding text, drawing pictures, cropping, filters, red eye removal, blooming etc
