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17 Most Desirable Designers Collection
We are always looking to come up with the post that is attractive and useful for everyone. We most of the time focuses on the designer’s stuff and where anything is going to launch free of cost. There are countless designer’s free stuff available which everyone should review at least once. In this post, I have collected 17 Most Desirable Designers Collection.
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70 beautiful websites with a large background
Large and amazing collection of websites that have large backgounds than normal.
7 Ingredients Of Good Corporate Design
For a good corporate design, we need to be aware of two main elements, which can be further broken down into a total of seven “ingredients”.
48 Mind-Blowing Ideas and Designs
In this issue you will find over 48 fresh ideas to spice up your environment with a number of innovative gadgets, advertisements.
Top 7 Most Cliché Stock Images Used in Web Design
This is simply by showcasing the most generic and cliché stock images (still) used in web design today. Please also take note that there is nothing wrong with using any of these images if used appropriately.
6 Exceptional Web-based Image Editors
This article shares 6 of the finest, free online image editors that are capable alternatives to desktop applications like Adobe Photoshop and GIMP.
This list has 15 examples of original yet reliable menu designs created to easily guide you through the website.
10 of the Best Color Resources and Tools
It is so important to choose the right palette when creating a new design. Here are some resources and tools to help you choose that perfect color palette
Adobe Illustrator Tutorials - Best Of
In this post you’ll find some basic tutorials on getting started with certain aspects of Illustrator and some of its specific tools. You’ll also find more advanced tutorials that deal with all of the potential that Illustrator brings to graphic design.
25 Amazing Photoshop 3D Text Effect Tutorials
This is the 25 of the cool 3D typographic Text effect tutorials, well some of them are all done by the combination of some 3D software’s like Studio Max, Xara and some times illustrator with texture and coloring done in photoshop and others completely designed using photoshop.
30 Beautifully Blue Web Designs
This collection showcases some of the best, unique, creative designs that utilize shades of blue as a primary color and theme.
111 great and free textures from stock.xchng
This is a little list of some great textures, the only thing you got to do is created a account @ stock.xchng. Dont worry it will cost you nothing.
40+ Beautiful Icon Sets Hand-picked from deviantART
Let’s take a close look at some of the most beautiful icon sets listed in this post from deviantART.
45+ Sources and Sets of Photoshop Custom Shapes
27 Best Photoshop Gadget Design Tutorials to Design Realistic Gadgets
25 Extremely Useful & Free Web Resources, You should not Miss
27 Adobe AIR Applications - Handy For Web Designers
11 Free And Helpful Web Based Tools That Every Designer May Want To Know!
Today, we are listing another 11 Free And Helpful Web Based Tools That Every Designer May Want To Know! We tried to make this list most useful and interesting for every designer. 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’s here.
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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.
ResizR is a nifty, free and very useful little helper. ResizR allows you to resize an image from your local computer or the web.
adhesiontext is a dynamic text tool. This is to provide texts with a limited set of characters in several pseudo-languages. These can be particularly useful for typeface designers and font developers, especially during early work stages.
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.
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.
Enjoy instant access to your files, and share them with colleagues and friends anytime, anywhere. Documents editing is fundamental.
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.
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.
An intuitive interface makes managing tasks fun. Set due dates easily with next Friday or in 2 weeks. Extensive keyboard shortcuts make task management quicker than ever. Receive reminders via email, SMS, and instant messengers. Adding tasks is as simple as firing off an email (even from your phone) and much more…
Picreflect helps you to give the reflection on any image, to resize your image, to make them tranparent or rotate them to any angle.
This site is dedicated to the use of colors in design, and especially in web design. This site will give web designers a better understanding of the importance of colors– that there might be more to colors than you once thought.
17 Online Free Web Based Applications That You Probably Love To Use!
Today, we are listing 17 online free web based applications that are very helpful for you to process your daily work. 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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With TweetLater you can schedule future tweets for all your twitter accounts. Keep your Twitter stream ticking over with new tweets even when you’re not in front of your computer. Or, use it as your personal reminder system.
Screencast-O-Matic is the free and easy way to create a video recording of your screen (aka screencast) and upload it for free hosting all from your browser with no install!
With Site-Perf.com, you get an accurate, realistic, and helpful estimation of your site’s loading speed. The script fully emulates natural browser behaviour downloading your page with all the images, CSS, JS and other files – just like a regular user.
TextReminders.net is a free service that allows you to send out free text messages (sms) to others. Use the form below to send out an immediate text message to a friend. It won’t cost you anything to send the text message, however standard text messaging rates my apply to the receiver.
Letterfu is a website that provides you foldable letter templates. You can take their print out. You will need to choose the template you like, print it, write message on it and finally just fold it according to the instructions on the website before sending to anyone. That means you will no need for the envelope anymore.
Yammer is a tool for making companies and organizations more productive through the exchange of short frequent answers to one simple question: “What are you working on?” As employees answer that question, a feed is created in one central location enabling co-workers to discuss ideas, post news, ask questions, and share links and other information.
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 software. It is an always-on-access-anywhere solution. It meets all your diagramming needs purchasing expensive software.
Tinymail is an anti spam blocker and protection tool which secures and blocks out your email address from bots and stops junk mail from cluttering your Outlook Exchange, Gmail, Yahoo client.
Quarkbase is a free tool to find complete information about a website. It is a mashup of over 30 data sources and many algorithms gathering information from Internet on various topics like social popularity, traffic, associated people, etc.
Broong is an online social note service that lets people search, create and share multimedia content via a quick note from anywhere with everyone. People use Broong to search, create and share their thoughts, videos and pictures across multiple platforms over desktop and mobile devices.
Create your own online magazines, fanzines, brochures, catalogues, 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.
pleasenotify.me is a simple, free service to let you send tasks to people, and be notified when they’re done. You can use the form to email someone a task. If they don’t mark it complete by the time you specify, both of you will be notified. You’ll both be reminded daily until it’s finally completed. It’s the simplest project management imaginable.
This website can help you to find out who is the owner of any website, where are the server located and other websites name hosted on the same server etc
This is really helpful and interesting multipurpose web application that integrates 3 useful features in one website. These are URL shortener, email ‘mailto’ link protector and a tool that helps you overcome max. character limitation.
SantexQ, or “the Q” as you like to call it, is a web-based tool created to assist businesses in the detail-driven world of time and task management. Designed to enhance team efficiency, the Q keeps the critical information close by: the progress reports, deadlines and time budgets for all of your projects…all available at a glance.
Anyvite is a site designed to give you the necessary tools to quickly and effectively coordinate plans with your friends, without any unnecessary or confusing features to slow you down.
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.
Free Quality Photoshop Brushes
Qbrushes.com is a website from where you can download a good collection of free Quality Photoshop Brushes from around the net. They have categorized the brushes in these different category Abstract, Grunge, Misc, Nature, Objects, Plants, Splatter, Swirls
Create Interactive Guided Presentations By Combining Web Pages, Photos, PowerPoint And More With Your Voice, Notes And Highlights!
A flowgram combines the advantages of slide presentations and screencasts with an interactive user experience that fully exploits the fact that almost all the information we might ever need is already on the web.
Using the zero download Flowgram Maker, creators can assemble and annotate web pages, photographs, videos etc on any topic, and add a voice narrative which provides context, emotion and consistency. This uniquely personalized package can be shared as an embeddable widget, email or as a link to either a private group or with the world. Flowgram recipients can interact with any of its pages by, for example, clicking on links, and playing and pausing videos.
WebSnapShot, An Adobe AIR Application Which Helps You To Take Snapshot For Any Websites In Just A Second!
Most of the time we need to take snapshot of any website just for saving the design/interface in the PC or just want to send to friends/clients etc. WebSnapShot is really handy and easy Adobe AIR application which helps you to take snapshot for any websites in just a second, if you have already installed this in your computer . With this application you will just need to Enter the Url and Press Snap. Or Drag&Drop it from your browser. Click on the Thumnails to Save. If you have Auto Save Checked, the thumbnails are immediatly saved to your ’save’ folder in you PC. You can also select the type of Snapshot you want to make: Thumbnail, Browser size, or Full Page.
You can tailor the way the snapshots are take in the Preferences pane. Set the download folder as needed. By default the snapshots are saved to the Desktop.
With Facelift Image Replacement You Can Breathe New Life Into Your Web Pages
Facelift Image Replacement (or FLIR, pronounced fleer) is an image replacement script that dynamically generates image representations of text on your web page in fonts that otherwise might not be visible to your visitors. 
The generated image will be automatically inserted into your web page via Javascript and visible to all modern browsers. Any element with text can be replaced: from headers (<h1>, <h2>, etc.) to <span> elements and everything in between!
FLIR is beta software and available free of charge. Head over to the download page to get started. If you don’t know what to do next? Take a look at quick start guide.
Free And Easy To Integrate Flash Image Gallery
Flash Gallery is a FREE, simple photo gallery built in Macromedia Flash 2004, that uses XML files to store the information about which images to display. The gallery is easy to configure and update since you need to change only the XML file. You can also check out the demo of this flash gallery.
Flash Gallery Features
Create Something With Myoats
Myoats is a community where people create designs using an online drawing application. These designs can be rated, downloaded, and archived. The most liked and most liked in last 24 hours designs are rewarded by being featured on the home page.
The designs that you create can be:
- Downloaded as an image.
- Downloaded as a transparent png.
- Saved to your personal account, which allows for editing and re-saving.
- Made into a wallpaper
Free Web 2.0 Logo Creator
Web 2.0 Logo Creatr is free logo creator with reflection. This helps you to create your logo in a new web 2.0 style and best of all the logo image will be stored on the site’s server so no need to ftp anything. You can just get the code and paste it where ever you want.
