TaskJuggler, A Modern And Powerful Open Source Project Management Tool 1
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TaskJuggler, A Modern And Powerful Open Source Project Management Tool

TaskJuggler is a modern and powerful, Open Source project management tool. Its new approach to project planing and tracking is more flexible and superior to the commonly used Gantt chart editing tools. It has already been successfully used in many projects and scales easily to projects with hundreds of resources and thousands of tasks. TaskJuggler is Open Source software licensed under the GNU GPL version 2.

TaskJuggler

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6 Free Softwares For Designers That Are Absolutely Useful 2
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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.

Synfig

Synfig

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.

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11 Most Popular Cross-Platform And Free Softwares

There are many software available that we can purchase and use to get our job done. But what do you think about those softwares that are cross-platform and available for free as well. In simple words, Cross-platform can be defined as any software that can work on more than one operating system and specially are available for Windows, Mac and Linux environment. This is absolutely a great list of 11 Most Popular Cross-Platform And Free Softwares. 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 want any cross-platform software to get your job done.

Skype

Skype

You can use Skype to call another person who also has Skype on his computer. Skype is free to call anywhere in the world regardless of location and time.

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13 Most Useful Free Scripts That You Should Know 3
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13 Most Useful Free Scripts That You Should Know

Today, we are publishing another list of 13 Most Useful Free Scripts and 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 have special infrastructure but you can download them and setup on your personal PC or incorporate with your websites or blogs. 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.

osTicket

osTicket

osTicket is an attractive alternative to higher-cost and complex customer support systems; simple, lightweight, reliable, open source, and easy to setup and use. The best part is, it’s completely free.

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11 Free And Useful Open-Source Alternatives For Designers 4
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11 Free And Useful Open-Source Alternatives For Designers

We have lots of commercial software available to use on different platform to complete our different work, but they are not free and sometime we do not able to purchase. Don’t worry about it, today we are listing here 11 Free And Useful Open-Source Alternatives 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 similar and useful alternative. You might 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.

Blender

Blender

Alternative: Autodesk 3ds Max

Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems. It includes tools for modeling – fast subdivision surface and polygon tools, multi-resolution mesh sculpting, metaballs, NURBS, vector fonts, and curves; uv mapping; shaders and texturing – both paint based and node based; ik and fk animation tools with rigging, constraints, skinning, morph targets, drivers, deformers, and modifiers; simulation tools including hard bodies, soft body, cloth, and fluids; and particle systems including hair. Blender has integrated rendering with both its native renderer and the raytracer Yafray as well supporting many external renderers; and python based scripting.

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45 Must-See Incredible Resources And Inspirational Collection To Discover The Best Of The Web In January 5
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45 Must-See Incredible Resources And Inspirational Collection To Discover The Best Of The Web In January

We are always in search of great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers like you. Today, we have another great post, “Discover the Best of the Web” on SmashingApps. In this, we make a list of 45 Must-See Incredible Resources And Inspirational Collection. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we will try to cover as much as possible.

40 Brilliantly Photoshopped Print Ads

40 Brilliantly Photoshopped Print Ads

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Dimdim Exits Beta, Releases Source Code, Launches SynchroLive 6
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Dimdim Exits Beta, Releases Source Code, Launches SynchroLive

DimDim

Dimdim, the world’s open source web conferencing company, today launched its new Dimdim 4.5 edition and simultaneously released the complete source code to the open source community. With this release, Dimdim officially exits its beta phase while introducing significant new customer-requested features designed to enable businesses, organizations and consumers to cut the costs of their expensive legacy conferencing products while enjoying improved performance, openness and ease of us.

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13 Most Essential Open Source Apps That You Probably Like To Say Thank You 7
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13 Most Essential Open Source Apps That You Probably Like To Say Thank You

Today, we are going to say big Thank You to everyone who supports us, appreciate us, love us and always be there for us when we need them. So, how can we forget those that makes our online life easier and did the tremendous work for us. They delivered us those applications/software that help us to get the routine work done for our daily use. There are many that we can not count and list exactly but we are trying to make a list of 13 Most Essential Open Source Apps That You Probably Like To Say Thank You. And Yes! Happy Thanksgiving

WordPress As An Open Source Fastest Growing And Damanding Blogging System

Wordpress

WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.

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11 Useful Open-Source Apps You Should Know About 9
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11 Useful Open-Source Apps You Should Know About

Today, we are listing another collection of open-source applications that you probably want to know to use in your daily life or did not know before. Today, we are listing another collection of open-source applications that you probably want to know to use in your daily life or did not know before. You may not find them between the top of the list projects and many of projects are not listed here but over all the list has variety of projects for every one to run their business process in a much cost effective way. This is the list of 11 Useful Open-Source Apps You Should Know About.

OrangeHRM

OrangeHRM

Free and open source human resource management software with rich features and easy to use interface. It provides a perfect platform for re-engineering and aligning your HR processes along with the organizational goals.

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15 Free Tools For Mac OS X You Should Bookmark 11
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15 Free Tools For Mac OS X You Should Bookmark

Today, we are going to write first post of its kind at SmashingApps. This is the post where we are listing out few great free tools 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 15 Free Tools For Mac OS X You Should Bookmark.

Xe-IMG Image Editor

Xe-IMG Image Editor

Xe-IMG Image Editor is a standalone image editor for your Mac. It supports the following images formtats: PNG, JPG, BMP, GIF and SWF. Xe-IMG Image Editor allows yoy to edit photos, add effects, ,filters mask and after you’re finished you can save files as JPG, PNG, BMP etc.

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6 Free Tools To Help You Run Windows Applications On Linux 12
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6 Free Tools To Help You Run Windows Applications On Linux

When switching from Windows to a more secured Linux operating system, you may come up with many difficulties. Like for example you might not find the applications you needed for doing your daily work. Although you can find any and all the replacements of a Windows application on Linux, there is a way through which you can run your favorite Windows application on your Linux operating system. Here we have compiled a list of 6 free tools that will help you run your favorite Windows application on a Linux system or help you to run virtual PC on any Operating System.

VirtualBox

VirtualBox

VirtualBox is an x86 virtualization software package, originally created by German software company innotek, now developed by Sun Microsystems as part of its Sun xVM virtualization platform. It is installed on an existing host operating system; within this application, additional operating systems, each known as a Guest OS, can be loaded and run, each with its own virtual environment. Supported host operating systems include Linux, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp, Windows XP or Vista, and Solaris, while supported guest operating systems include FreeBSD, Linux, OpenBSD, OS/2 Warp, Windows and Solaris.

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