31 Useful Resources Specially For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In September 2008
We are always in the search of great free resources, tips and tricks, etc for our readers. Every day, we work hard to find new resources and show them here for you. Today, we are starting another great section Discover The Best Of The Web on SmashingApps.com. In this, we will find and make a list for the best of the web for the whole month. Maybe, we cannot cover all of the best from around the web but we will try our best to cover as much as possible.
You are welcome to share if you know more best of the web in the month of august which our readers/viewers may like.
Design Tips, Tricks and Tutorial
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Design a Detailed Compass Icon in Photoshop
40 Photoshop Tutorials On Rain Showers and Water Drops
50+ Great Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials, Part II
31 Breathtaking Planet & Space Tutorials For Photoshop
Creating a Cartoon Hot Air Balloon Scene
Artwork, Digital Photography and Inspiration
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40 Creative Design Layouts: Getting Out Of The Box
100 Nice and Beautiful Blog Design
25 Beautiful Examples Of Macro Photography
Javascript and Ajax
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jQuery and JavaScript Coding: Examples and Best Practices
Javascript in Modern Web Design
xHTML and CSS
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CSS Typography: Contrast Techniques, Tutorials and Best Practices
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40+ Beautiful Icon Sets Hand-picked from deviantART- Part 2
Monitor Website Up / Downtime: 30+ Free Web Services and Tools
Designer´s Toolbox : 15+ Time Saving Tools- What´s your Secret?
20 Useful Web Applications For Firefox Sidebar
Miscellaneous Articles
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20 Creative and Inspiring Free Design Magazines
40 Brilliant Mid + Hi-Res Wallpapers for Photoshop Lovers
Statistical Link Tracking For Social Networks And Beyond - Shrink, Track, Grow With BudURL
BudURL was designed from the start to give small businesses and marketers insight into previously invisible click traffic. Not everyone has access to Google Analytics and most of those that have it don’t know how to use it. BudURL makes link tracking amazingly simple. Shorten the link, put it somewhere, and watch the clicks roll in. It’s that easy!
BudURL is easy to use! Just paste in a large, unruly web address in the box above and click the “Shrink It!” button. You’ll get a unique BudURL™ that you can use anywhere you’d like such as social networks, instant messages, emails, ad campaigns, electronic newsletters, etc.
11 Free Firefox 3 Themes You Probably Never Use Before
This should not be new for you that Firefox is a fastest growing popular web browser. There are lots of ease provided by the firefox and this is the main reason for its popularity. There are lots of free download able extensions, add-ons, themes etc available on the internet for firefox and there demands are increasing every day. As we have already published a post about Firefox add-ons. In this post, I am listing down 11 Free Firefox 3 Themes You Probably Never Use Before.
You are welcome to share if you know more nice and beautiful firefox themes that that can be attracted by our readers/viewers. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed
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A coat of Chrome for Firefox. Say hello to Chromifox, a bright and soft blue theme for Firefox 3 on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, inspired by the appearance of the Google Chrome web browser.
Firefox theme based on Microsoft Office icons.
Phoenity based on the SeaMonkey Modern theme. For Firefox 3 and Firefox 2.
A full featured retro theme for Firefox based on Netscape Communicator 4.8 on Windows.
Flook Theme for Mozilla Firefox based on Flock.
Myfirefox is the theme of the most perfectly simulating Internet Explorer 7+ by far. It can work perfectly in Windows Vista Ultimate.
This theme is designed to fit well in the Mac OS X environment. It looks more similar as the Mac Operating System theme.
This is very simple and elegant theme for firefox using mini icons. All credits go 2 Mattahan for his wonderfull icons.
This theme is Modern Modoki theme looks like Netscape 8.
Probably the most tacky & overdone piece of GUI design ever. Accept no less: Surf in style and browse like a king!
This is a glowing dark theme based on Windows Media Player 11 with shinny glassy look.
PDFescape, A Free PDF Editor & PDF Form Filler
PDFescape is a new way to open PDF files and escape from the typical software requirements for using the de facto document file format. PDFescape is a new way to open PDF files and escape from the typical software requirements for using the de facto document file format.
PDFescape is based on the functionality original found in CTdeveloping’s PDFtypewriter. A true PDF editor, PDFescape allows you to:
- Open PDF Files from your local computer
- View PDF Files discovered on the web
- Fill Out PDF Forms using PDF form fields
- Forget Hand Writing with the typewriter style tool & complete non-fillable forms
- Edit PDF files & forms
- Add Text & Shapes to PDF files, allowing customization & markup of PDF
- Move & Delete Pages in PDF files
- Insert Links other websites & pages in your PDF files
- Create New Form Fields, allowing others to easily fill our your PDF forms
- Edit Existing Content using whiteout tools
- Save PDF files to your local computer or your online account
- Print PDF files when you’re on the go without installing any software
- Email PDF files to you or any other email address
- Share & Collaborate on PDF documents needing commenting, reviewing, or the input of several people
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.
Disposable Temporary E-Mail Address
GuerrillaMail provides you with disposable e-mail addresses which expire after 15 Minutes. You can read and reply to e-mails that are sent to the temporary e-mail address within the given time frame.
The Best Hosted CRM application, And It Is Free!
Bizroof platform is a collaborative customer relationship management (CRM) and events scheduling system, which is the best way to store, organize and share the useful information collected from interactions with customers.
- People are contacts in your address book. Make it easy to have an intimate knowledge of your customers’ needs, wants, and buying patterns.
- Organizations are companies, associations, groups and other social arrangements. Everyone from an organization are in one place and providing the best picture of their collective goals.
- Events are meetings, tasks, projects and other social activities. Almost certainly the best event tracking and event chain monitoring system. Simply and functional.
- Users have usernames and passwords so they can log in. Share your address book, events and all other business activities with your colleagues and friends.
- Tags connects people, organizations and events. It is flexible and easy to keep related stuff together.
- Add-ons extend Bizroof, letting you personalize your business management experience.
13 Wordpress Plugins You Probably Don’t Use But Should
As we have already published a post few days ago about wordpress themes. I have also in my mind to write about 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 power using different plugins to give your blog readers an amazing and wonderful experience.
In this post, I tried to 13 Wordpress Plugins You Probably Don’t Use But Should. This list has few of the unlimited wordpress plugins introduction. I hope you will enjoy the post.
You are welcome to share if you know more useful wordpress plugin that our readers/viewers may like.
WordPress Flash Photo Carousel Plugin
This plugin is built to manage the excellent flShow Photo Carousel within the comfort of the WordPress dashboard.
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.
A WordPress plugin that allows for inline editing of the date, title, author, categories, tags, status and more on both posts and pages without leaving the “Manage” admin sections. No need to load each post or page individually. Simply double-click anywhere in the post or page row and when you’re done, press enter. Alternately, you can click the link in the new “Edit” column.
With DivvaFlip WordPress Plugins, you can now use your nextgen ready galleries or the new embedded media management on WordPress.
A plugin that adds a Twitter icon to every post and page, so your readers can share your blog entries on their Twitter accounts with ease.
WP Easy Uploader was created to make the life of WordPress bloggers easier by allowing an Administrator to add plugins, themes, and any type of file to WordPress directly from inside WordPress. You no longer have to load up an FTP client just to try out that latest plugin or to upload a text document for people to download.
AddfreeStats.com provides to Webmasters, free website statistics on their web site visitors.
Insert easily AddFreeStats tracker on your blog with this plugin.
Featplug is a Wordpress plugin that can mine your blog’s content and generate ‘featured content’ section for your site using the suitable stories. It can also run as a standalone script or even integerate into any other Blog/CMS/Forum software.
WP Super Cache is a static caching plugin for WordPress. It generates html files that are served directly by Apache without processing comparatively heavy PHP scripts. By using this plugin you will speed up your WordPress blog significantly.
This plugin allows you to notify your readers on their Instant Messaging (AIM, MSN, GTalk, ICQ…), Email or SMS when you publish new posts! It also adds a widget to your blog to allow your users to choose on which channel they want to be notified!
20 Top Blog Summission Directories WordPress plugin
A new WordPress plugin has been created that will have direct links to 20 different places to submit your blog. These twenty blog submission directories are popular places to advertise your new WordPress blog. They appear as links inside the back office of your WordPress blog.
Interactive Video Plugin for WordPress
Enhance your blog with both basic and advanced video capabilities. Upload/ record/import videos directly to your post, edit and remix video content, enable video responses, manage and track your video content and much more…
I Love Social Bookmarking plugin
There are other social media plugins that do a similar job. ILSB is trying to keep things as simple as possible for both you and your readers, to run with minimal system resources, and to look good whilst she’s at it.
Add Video To Your Website And Build A Video Community At Magnify.Net!
Whether you upload, embed, or invite user contributions, Magnify.net’s platform can power your site’s video experience. The magnifyfree product allows you to gather videos from across the web and build your own video channel for free!
Complete control of your site name, url, page design and CSS, as well as 50% of the advertising impressions delivered to an ad network of your choice.
Features
- Free webpage builder
- Webcam capture
- Video discovery from the most popular video sharing site
- Ten 50mb uploads per week
- “Friending” based social network
- 50/50 ad inventory share
3D Cartoon Icons Pack
We always in the search of nice and beautiful icons to feature at SmashingApps for our exclusive readers.
This is 3D Cartoon Icons Pack with attractive and bright colors and it has nicely done 3d effect. You can click here to see more icons set featured at SmashingApps
