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40 Useful Photoshop Free Plugins And Filters
Traditionally plugins are an amateurish photographer’s best friend who used to take photographs, fired up Photoshop, and applied some preset filters in order to have a realistically professional image. Skilled photographers have been acknowledged to bring plugins into play as a base and after that tweak and include effects to accomplish there own special proficient touch.
Plugins are essentially an essential tool that does not get the attention they are worthy of. The Photoshop community is chock-full of several free resources, tutorials, instructions and techniques, .psd files and even Actions.
In this post of some free Photoshop plugins and filters, you will discover a handful plugins that are (more or less) as old as time itself but they will work flawlessly on all versions of Photoshop and the effect they create are just as valuable now as they were then.
virtualPhotographer lets you instantly apply high quality, professional photographic styles to your digital images with just one click. Adjust film grain, color, B/W, soft focus, high contrast and many other effects to achieve the same professional-looking images that used to take hours of photo editing. Get great results in seconds.
BleachBypass Professional is an advanced Photoshop-compatible plug-in designed to digitally simulate the traditional film “bleach bypass” technique.
Filter Forge Freepack 2 – Photo Effects
Freepacks are free Photoshop plugins based on the Filter Forge technology. Each freepack is centered around a different theme. Freepacks are distributed free of charge and don’t have any time limitations. All filters included in the freepacks are also available from the Filter Library, so users of commercial Filter Forge can benefit from them as well.
This little plugin will help you remove wires and other unwanted objects from your images. There are, of course, other tools to achieve this goal, e.g. the good old clone stamp or the healing brush, besides a number of dedicated plugins and applications.
This filter creates a wide range of well known craquelure (krakloor) effects. The filter is useful in designing various abstract patterns, decorative surfaces and construction materials. Two independent craquelure layers can be controlled to achieve an amazing variety of texture effects, from etched metal and silk plaster to melted glass and water ripples.
SuperPNG is a free Adobe Photoshop plug-in for using PNG (“ping”) files. It has more comprehensive support for the format than Photoshop’s included plug-in and provides control over alpha channel handling.
j2k is a free Photoshop and After Effects plug-in set for reading and writing the JPEG 2000 file format, the successor to JPEG. Also known as JP2, JPEG 2000 uses wavelet compression as opposed to the DCT compression used in standard JPEG. The end result is better image quality in a smaller file. JP2 also includes mandatory metadata such as information about an image’s color space.
The plugin Curves proposes eight predetermined, interesting curves. Interface shows several miniatures of curves; select one and observe impact on the image.
Absolute Color is based on a hue wheel subdivised into 6 sectors of 60 degrees. Choose a sector to restrict the tints of the image to this one.
Color MegaMix modifies the colors of any image. It is based on two rows of colors: 8 source colors and 8 target colors. According to these data, the plugin reconstructs completely the color space.
This plugin’s main purpose is to bring out detail. This is accomplished by increasing the contrast between a pixel’s value and the mean value of the adjacent pixels in a local area of the photo. You can control the amount of the increase of contrast, the size of the local area and the amount of blending with the original photo.
Fotomatic 1.4 : A collection of 8 plug-in filters for use with Adobe Photoshop or compatible host applications. They offer a series of effects based on traditional photography equipment and techniques. They are not meant to be complex or exact matches, merely a quick and easy method to achieve results that are similar to what can be produced via conventional non-digital formats.
HotPixel is an Adobe Photoshop© compatible filter/plugin designed to remove “hot pixel” noise from digital images.
Digitally simulate traditional film cross-processing techniques, creating skewed color effects that range from the subtle to the extreme.
RPM Fog is a plugin for Photoshop (and compatible hosts such as Paint Shop Pro) that digitally adds blended graduated fog filter effects to your photographs.
Quickly and easily simulate the old 2-color Technicolor process in Photoshop to produce an old-style film image.
Produce outstanding images that really pop. Create flattering soft-focus, high-key and infra-red simulation effects… and do it all for FREE! This plug-in softens and enriches photographs in a way that brings them to life.
Ready-made library of 21 pattern templates and 61 color palettes for any 32-bit Photoshop compatible program. Ulead ArtTexture.Plugin is ideal for use with PhotoImpact!
Mosaic makes your photos look as if they were created out of a mosaic tile. Photo-realistic depth and variable tile size and color options give this effect an infinite number of looks.
Dreamy Photo gives images a soft romantic feel. This is a superb effect for enhancing stock photography, digital camera photos and any image you want to add a warm feel to.
Water Ripples is a freeware Adobe Photoshop compatible plug-in filter. The highly realistic water ripples effect designer has numerous options as well as an impressive 3D quality. The random settings generator produces unlimited variations of rippled surfaces.
Lattice Composer is a freeware Adobe Photoshop compatible plug-in filter. It effectively designs grids and nettings. It produces a variety of weave patterns, fabric textures, body art tattoos and skeleton simulations. The 3D text effects are extraordinary.
Jama 3D is a freeware Adobe Photoshop compatible plug-in filter. It’s the simplest way to create corrugated and cellular like patterns from 2D images. You can easily make various bricks and herring bone textures. Sequenced filtering produces bizarre unreal deformations of the original picture, crumpled paper effect, etc.
Plug-In Switch 1.3 : With hundreds of plug-in filters now available for expanding your host applications, it becomes essential to have an easy way of organising all the installed files.
AlphaWorks – Transparency Effects
AlphaWorks quickly removes black or white values and making the region transparent. There are 6 different options, depending on the type of image you are working on (colour photo, mono photo, lineart).
Quite often some parts of a photo require a saturation adjustment while others do not. If we increase the saturation globally, the most saturated parts get oversaturated and if we decrease it, the less saturated parts get undersaturated. We need a Saturation Mask based on the individual pixel saturation in order to adjust it just where it is needed. So this plugn, Selective Saturation, lets the user define a Saturation Zone by setting it’s center and range with two sliders
Color MegaMix modifies the colors of any image. It is based on two rows of colors: 8 source colors and 8 target colors. According to these data, the plugin reconstructs completely the color space.
Icon Plugin for Photoshop enhances Adobe Photoshop with an ability to export and import Windows icons (.ico).
Face Control plug-in allows you to change facial expressions of people in the digital photos. It is very easy-to-use freeware program. Human, animal, alien, or any other faces are welcomed.
This filter allows you to open a mask, texture, grunge, or paint layer and blend it with your image in any of 30 blend modes. You can even use it to simulate layers by blending it with the original or a modified version of the image you are editing.
Now you can, with the Camouflage™ plug-in! Use the Camouflage plug-in to make army, fashion and animal camo. You can even make patterns not found anywhere else.
Stereogram Lab Filter is a stereogram maker plug-in, which allows to generate Hidden Image Stereograms right in your Photoshop, which is quite convenient. This filter is free and you can use it both for commercial and non-commercial purposes, however, distributing the filter itself is not allowed.
Smart Refinement Filter is an Adobe Photoshop® plug-in for photographic images enhancement. This plug-in allows: sharpness and depth-of-field (DOF) enhancement, and noise (dust) reduction.
The plugin Fur 2, disperse a simple figure (line or circle, configurable dimensions/thickness) over the whole image.
Kaleidoscope 2.1 is a plugin which proceeds to multiple symmetries to obtain beautiful patterns.
This plug-in helps creating amazing wavy effects. And you will be surprised with the random results what you get.
The NightVision plug-in can make any image like the ones from night vision goggles. By using the effects in this plug-in, you can make images look like they are from a black & white security camera or CCTV system. It’s also possible to make them look like infra-red photos. Or you can just use the interlace to make an image look like a TV picture. You can even use it to enhance real night images!
This photoshop plugin changes circle shapes into squares.
Noise Shampoo is an edge-preserving smoothing filter. It can help to reduce noise on some pictures.
Unlike the traditional threshold command of Photoshop, the plugin Fine Threshold allows to get quickly, anti-aliased and sharp shapes.
7 Excellent HTML5 Tools And Resources
There are many tools and resources out there for designers and developers, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. That is why I am sharing 7 Excellent HTML5 Tools And Resources. Read each entry in the list and see which one suits your needs best.
You are welcome if you want to share more html5 tools and 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.
Heartcode CanvasLoader Creator
The Heartcode CanvasLoader Creator is a free online tool which you can use to generate scripted preloaders (spinners or throbblers) for your HTML projects. The Creator is using the CanvasLoader UI Library.
Html5 File Upload with Progress
Html5 finally solves an age old problem of being able to upload files while also showing the upload progress.
Making a Beautiful HTML5 Portfolio
In this tutorial, you will be making a beautiful HTML5 portfolio powered by jQuery and the Quicksand plugin. You can use it to showcase your latest work and it is fully customizable, so potentially you could expand it to do much more.
Create a Stylish Contact Form with HTML5 & CSS3
Here is a step by step process to create your own stylish contact form completely out of HTML5 and CSS3.
Periodic Table of the HTML5 Elements
The table here shows the 106 elements currently in the HTML5 working draft and two proposed elements.
Interactive Typography Effects with HTML5
This tutorial outlines what is really just the tip of the iceberg that is interactive design. It will go over the development of dynamic, and generative banners to give your website that little extra wow.
JavaScript Mobile Framework for HTML5 Web Apps
DHTMLX Touch is a free open source JavaScript library for building HTML5-based mobile web apps. It’s not just a set of UI widgets, but a complete framework that allows you to create eye-catching, robust web applications that run on iOS, Android, and other mobile platforms.
Five Simple Yet Useful Windows Tools Worth Checking Out
There are many useful Windows tools out there for Windows users, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. Today, we are sharing Five Simple Yet Useful Windows Tools Worth Checking Out. Read each entry in the list and see which one suits your needs best.
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WinUSB Maker
WinUSB Maker, is a tool to make any Removable Device as bootable with Windows Setup
2Tware Virtual Disk 2011 Free
2Tware Virtual Disk can create disk capacity up to 16TB,The virtual disks made by 2Tware Virtual Disk 2011 Free are just as any other disks. You can use it as normal disk,storing any files (e.g. documents, pictures, music, movies…), and opening those files directly from the virtual disk. You can even install application on it.
CheckDrive
CheckDrive offers you an easy way to check your hard drives for errors. CheckDrive may detect and fix hard drive errors that might appear on system crashes or when switching off your PC without a proper Windows shutdown. If you ever had a system crash then CheckDrive is for you.
Recovery Toolbox File Undelete Free
Recovery Toolbox File Undelete Free is an efficient recovery tool for the NTFS file system. The program can be used free of charge, but it’s not limited in any way – it provides all the recovery features usually found in popular commercial products. The software has a very clear, straightforward and easy to use wizard-based interface that turns the entire recovery process into a chain of interconnected steps. In fact, the program is so easy to understand that anyone can use it, even if they have no recovery experience and possess a bare minimum of computer skills. All you need to do to get from point A to point B is to follow on-screen instructions and make your choices.
Registry Cleaner Free
Registry Cleaner Free, the fastest and most reliable registry cleaner for Windows, can scan your registry, fix registry errors, repair registry files, remove DLL errors, and boost your PC to peak performance with the absolute minimum of hassle.
3 Cool Web Apps To Help You In Your Daily Life
There are many useful apps out there for web users, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. Today, we are sharing 3 Cool Web Apps To Help You In Your Daily Life. Read each entry in the list and see which one suits your needs best.
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The astonishingly simple way to share, track, protect, and control your files, messages…and relationships. Dialawg is a secure conversation, accessible from anywhere, where parties may exchange messages, share files and collaborate on documents.
Speckle is an online spec-list management app. It lets you manage your to-dos with multiple check-boxes per item.
ContactMe lets you consolidate all of your contacts—and the business information that relates to each one—into one convenient, online system. ContactMe keeps you on top of tasks, deadlines, details, correspondence, and appointments. Being organized has major benefits: you save time and effort and run a more professional and profitable business.
Congratulations To The Winners Of Disk Drill Data Recovery Software For Mac
Thanks to all of the participants of contest in which Disk Drill is a Mac data recovery software were givingaway. We ran the MySQL random query and selected these comments to give them Disk Drill Data Recovery Software For Mac.
Winners of Disk Drill Data Recovery Software
- Peter Steven
- HenryLouis
- Sanjar
- Rafael
- Art Clarke
Disk Drill is a Mac data recovery software designed natively for Mac OS: easily protect your files from accidental deletion with Recovery Vault and recover lost data from Mac disks. When something is deleted Recovery Vault makes it possible to recover not only the file itself, but also its properties, such as original file name, location, etc. So you will always be able to recover data from Mac files system (HFS/HFS+) & FAT32 partitions. Disk Drill also includes powerful S.M.A.R.T. disk monitoring right out-of-the-box; you can monitor your disks’ hardware status and get automatic notifications of potential failures or other issues. If a disk or partition is failing, you can easily backup it into a disk image (DMG) which can later be mounted for recovery. This way there’s no need to keep a failing media running until the completion of a Deep Scan for instance.
Disk Drill also features a number of advanced scanning modes for data recovery of FAT, NTFS, HFS/HFS+, other file systems and formatted (initialized) drives. Using Quick Scan you can locate deleted items on FAT and NTFS disks, this scanning method is fast and accurate, but is unlikely to find data deleted long ago. With Deep Scan you can try to recover data from any disk or memory card regardless of their file system. This recovery method is long and thorough, it scans your disk in a binary mode and is capable of finding deleted files even after formatting.
Disk Drill is a professional but extremely simple Mac data recovery software that helps you rescue data on your Mac disks, external or internal hard drives, memory cards, cameras, iPods Classic, etc. So if your hard drive was damaged, or you accidentally deleted your favorite photos, music, videos and other data, no worries about data loss. Disk Drill will recover deleted files on your Mac!
Thanks to Cleverfiles for sponsoring this wonderful contest at Smashing Apps.
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Nine Excellent Online Apps For Web Designers And Developers
There are many useful apps and tools out there for web developers, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. Today, we are sharing Nine Excellent Online Apps For Web Designers And Developers. Read each entry in the list and see which one suits your needs best.
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WhatFont Tool
WhatFont is a great tool, with which you can easily get font information about the text you are hovering on. To embrace the new web font era, WhatFont also detects services used for serving the font. Now supports Typekit and Google Font API.
Cssizer
Cssizer is a simple tool to let you edit the design of an html page in real time. You can then use the url you are given to share your design with others.
Clickable Mockups
Clickdummy is about communicating your designs better. ClickDummy turns your website, mobile and software mockups into clickable prototypes with room for annotation and feedback from your clients, friends, and co-workers. No more emailing .PDFs, trying to trace feedback through message threads, or worrying about putting Photoshop images into an HTML container. Clickdummy puts your designs and feedback in context.
CSS Pivot
This is a great website that can allow you to add CSS styles to any website, and share the result with a short link. You can also invite others to submit
improvements for your website.
Prefixr
This tool can automatically update CSS3 properties with the necessary browser prefixes.
Screenfly
Screenfly allows you to view your website on a variety of device screens and resolutions.
CoderDeck
CoderDeck can help you create interactive live-coding presentations.
Patternizer
Patternizer is an easy to use stripe pattern generator.
alphaPun.ch
alphaPun.ch will trace the opaque part of your PNG or GIF image. It will then punch through the alpha channel (i.e. the transparent bit), so you can click on things behind it.
12 Truly Helpful (Yet Free) Web Tools For Effective Business Management
The best business management tools are that will help you keep track of variables affecting your business and finances, let you generate invoices and directly send to your clients, creating presentations, scheduling meetings, document management, team collaboration and do more in aiding you with your business activities. Today we have gathered a list of 12 Truly Helpful (Yet Free) Web Tools For Effective Business Management.
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Doocuments is about people exchanging VIP documents. Doocuments technology is perfect for sending VIP files through the Internet without being afraid of the final destination or usage of the VIP information. This is designed both for individual use or company-wide deployments, Doocuments is a Cloud Computing tool that integrates seamlessly into user and corporations workflows with a suite of plug-ins for the main office software suites.
Projectial is a system which makes managing projects, human resources, finances, and time, more effective. Implementing it, you can overview the employees, their tasks and projects, and the whole company.
Skyclerk will change the way you look at bookkeeping and accounting forever. Our system makes it so any small to medium size business can be up and running with a fully robust accounting system in seconds.
Freedcamp offers an extremely easy, yet fully customizable user permission system. You can choose what your co-workers and clients can see, or create a custom group to manage permissions. Each application can be separately managed allowing you to track each and every user role.
Quote Roller helps to automate and streamline the proposal creation process. Forget routine text copy-pasting in Word. With Quote Roller, you can save and reuse general information about your company, terms of service and other things you used to manually put in proposals. Quote Roller also comes with a friendly and intuitive drag&drop interface which features unlimited customization capabilities.
Reel helps you quickly create and share presentations. Each presentation is stored online behind a unique URL, making it easy to poll your audience for for their impressions.
This is a simple time tracking for the busy freelancer. TimePanther can easily track your time straight from your web browser with a single click.
You can work with everyone on Podio: with your co-workers or with your clients in dedicated work spaces. In your free Employee Network your entire company can communicate, anyone with a company email-address can join. Podio Apps add structure to your work, with a social activity stream featuring comments, likes and status updates.
It’s an online replacement for the old carbon copy telephone message pad. Any Messages is designed to be super easy and quick to use.
All common tools for taking meeting minutes (like pen &paper, Microsoft Word or Excel) are not suitable to track tasks or create follow-up meetings, nor are the capable of sharing the document easily with many meeting participants. AgreeDo addresses all these issues. And there is a lot more, From the moment you start using AgreeDo, your meetings will generate results.
Tradeshift is a global startup with the ambition to change the way we do business by allowing organizations to exchange invoices for free. It connects businesses to all their suppliers and customers regardless of company size not only saving time but also ensuring they get paid faster at both ends of the supply chain.
Otipo is a web-based application which provides a new and fun way for scheduling shifts. Forget your Excel sheet, notes and chasing after team members, forget phone calls and all that nonsense. With Otipo, all the required information is in one place, and all the team members can access it from anywhere, anytime. It’s time to say goodbye to the pen and paper and let Otipo schedule like a pro.
28 Excellent iPhone Apps To Make Your Life Easier
Having a smartphone in your pocket has somewhat become a style statement, but apart from its appearance and style appeal, it allows you to perform all tasks that you would perform with your laptop or computer. This is the main reason of smartphone popularity.
For the iPhone users, there are plentiful iPhone apps accessible on the internet. So, rather than wasting time in looking for the one you require, have a look at this collection of apps that we have composed here to permit people discover the few useful apps they can magnify their productivity with.
SkyGrid is a beautiful and captivating way to stay up to date on your news. Follow all the sources and topics you want, and effortlessly receive updates on the interests you care about. Read your favorite news, people, blogs, and topics in a customized Photo Grid.
Intuitive TaskManager with cloud sync accross iPhone, iPod, iPad and web interface.
Salesforce Mobile gives you instant access to your Salesforce information on your iPhone.
Find My iPhone is free for anyone with an iPhone 4, iPad, or 4th generation iPod touch (iOS 4.2 or later required).* Just sign in with your Apple ID on your qualifying device and turn on Find My iPhone to allow you to locate it.
Adobe Photoshop Express software lets you use simple gestures to quickly edit and share photos from your mobile device. Enjoy having your photo and video library right in your hand — without wasting your device’s valuable storage space.
It’s easy to manage your WordPress blog or site from your iOS device. With WordPress for iOS, you can moderate comments, create or edit posts and pages, and add images or videos with ease.
SugarSync is by far the best solution to replicating and synchronizing your files across multiple computers. It really works.
With this tool you can remotely connect and work on your Windows computer.
With this app you can tweet and collaborate with your clients over Twitter.
Call, video call and instant message anyone else on Skype for free with Skype for your iPhone or iPod touch. Plus call and text your Contacts (or any other number) at Skype’s low rates. It’s great value with Skype Credit.
PCalc Lite is a fully functional and free taste of our popular scientific calculator. It includes an optional RPN mode, multiple undo and redo, unit conversions and constants, as well as two stylish themes and our highly praised design.
This is a great app that will come in very useful to a lot of people, especially teachers and business people.
Get the most advanced Google search experience for your iPhone, now with Google Goggles, Voice Search and My Location.
Access to Uploadingit from the most requested device is now here. Upload, manage, view and share all your files from the new Uploadingit iPad application. Viewing images, videos and more has never been so wonderful.
Cool Hunting is synonymous with seeking inspiration. Our global team of editors and contributors sift through innovations in design, technology, art and culture to create our award-winning publication, consisting of daily updates and weekly mini-documentaries.
Designed for creative and media professionals, the Getty Images app puts over 24 million powerful images at your fingertips. Access our entire collection from client meetings, the coffee shop or any place in between. Now you can search, save and share a world of creative stock photos as well as editorial and archival imagery – wherever and whenever you need them.
Accept credit cards and cash on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch with the free Square Card Reader. It’s only 2.75% per swipe for Visa, American Express, MasterCard and Discover. No contracts, monthly fees or merchant accounts. Funds are deposited into your bank account the next day. Square makes it easy for anyone to accept payments, anywhere.
Fring lets you chat and place calls to others for free.
Now a universal app for both iPad & iPhone, Twitterrific is the friendly, award-winning Twitter client that’s beautiful to look at easy to use and full of elegant features. Effortlessly read and compose tweets, search Twitter.com, filter message types and much more.
Doodle Buddy Gold is the most fun you can have with your finger! Finger paint with your favorite colors and drop in playful stamps. Connect with a friend to draw together over the Internet.
Brushes is a painting application designed from scratch for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Featuring an advanced color picker, several realistic brushes, multiple layers, extreme zooming, and a simple yet deep interface, it is a powerful tool for creating original artwork on your mobile device.
iBlueSky is a brainstorming and mind-mapping solution for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
The HEX RGB Colors Guide app gives you an easy reference to RGB and HEX color codes right on your iPhone or iPod touch. This app is designed for anyone who deals with HEX and RGB Color codes when it comes to designing offline and online media of multiple types.
Even seasoned jQuery developers need a quick refresher course in jQuery syntax and arguments from time to time. jQuery Cheat Sheet for the iPhone is designed to address that need. Use it as a quick reference for topics you’ve already learned but need a few reminders on, or if you’re still a beginner to jQuery, use it to better understand what jQuery is capable of.
An FTP client for the iPhone and iPod touch. All the features of a desktop FTP client and more; a very powerful app. With FTP On The Go, you can fix your website, and view files on your FTP server, from anywhere.
Hold the world in the palm of your hand. 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.
Gowalla is the leading social guide to the world’s most loved places and cities. We make it easy to discover where your friends have visited, what the locals love to do and where experts recommend you go. It’s a delightful way to share and discover photos, experiences and recommendations on the go.
Download Fandango Movies – Times & Tickets, the number 1 movie ticketing app featured in numerous Apple commercials and winner of three Webby Awards!
Disk Drill Data Recovery Software For Mac Giveaway
Cleverfiles is running a contest, where 5 winners will get the license for Disk Drill PRO worth $89 each. Well, you guys know what is Disk Drill PRO? Let’s say it once again for n00bs.
Disk Drill is a Mac data recovery software designed natively for Mac OS: easily protect your files from accidental deletion with Recovery Vault and recover lost data from Mac disks. When something is deleted Recovery Vault makes it possible to recover not only the file itself, but also its properties, such as original file name, location, etc. So you will always be able to recover data from Mac files system (HFS/HFS+) & FAT32 partitions. Disk Drill also includes powerful S.M.A.R.T. disk monitoring right out-of-the-box; you can monitor your disks’ hardware status and get automatic notifications of potential failures or other issues. If a disk or partition is failing, you can easily backup it into a disk image (DMG) which can later be mounted for recovery. This way there’s no need to keep a failing media running until the completion of a Deep Scan for instance.
Disk Drill also features a number of advanced scanning modes for data recovery of FAT, NTFS, HFS/HFS+, other file systems and formatted (initialized) drives. Using Quick Scan you can locate deleted items on FAT and NTFS disks, this scanning method is fast and accurate, but is unlikely to find data deleted long ago. With Deep Scan you can try to recover data from any disk or memory card regardless of their file system. This recovery method is long and thorough, it scans your disk in a binary mode and is capable of finding deleted files even after formatting.
Disk Drill is a professional but extremely simple Mac data recovery software that helps you rescue data on your Mac disks, external or internal hard drives, memory cards, cameras, iPods Classic, etc. So if your hard drive was damaged, or you accidentally deleted your favorite photos, music, videos and other data, no worries about data loss. Disk Drill will recover deleted files on your Mac!
This contest will run from October 25, 2011 to October 30, 2011 November 5, 2011 and we will select the winners randomly by running MySQL query. Result can be announced any day before November 15, 2011 so keep visiting here or subscribe to our rss feed to get the latest updates. To participate in the contest and win Disk Drill PRO license, All you have to do is:
1. Just leave a comment.
2. Use valid email ID in the email box.
3. Make sure that you are following @SmashingApps on twitter and subscribe our rss feed to track this contest and for future updates.
4. And that’s it!
So, what are you waiting for now? Let’s participate in the contest and good luck!
5 Free Internet Security Tools That Are Absolutely Useful
There are many internet security tools and applications out there, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. Today, we are sharing 5 Free Internet Security Tools That Are Absolutely Useful. Read each entry in the list and see which one suits your needs best.
You are welcome if you want to share more internet security tools 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.
PowerTools Lite
PowerTools Lite 2011 is a freeware edition of jv16 PowerTools – the ultimate Windows optimization and tuneup utility suite. PowerTools Lite 2011 allows you to easily clean up your computer from unneeded data, unused temp files, registry left overs and automatically fix registry errors.
Glary Utilities
Glary Utilities is a freeware with registry and disk cleaning, privacy protection, performance accelerator and amazing multifunctional tools. It can fix dogged registry errors, wipe off clutters, optimize internet speed, safeguard confidential files and maintain maximum performance.
Advanced SystemCare Free
Advanced SystemCare Free (formerly Advanced WindowsCare Personal) has a one-click approach to help protect, repair, clean, and optimize your PC. This free PC repair software is a “must-have” tool for your computer.
Ad-Aware Free Internet Security
Ad-Aware Free Internet Security features real-time protection, advanced Genocode detection technology, rootkit protection, automatic updates, and much more — to ensure that you have the power to protect yourself online.
