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13 Free Adobe AIR Apps That Can Make Your Lives Easier

Adobe AIR is a cross-platform runtime environment for building rich Internet applications using Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, HTML, or Ajax. Itâ€™s popularity is increasing every day and getting more lovers who are using tools developed on Adobe AIR for diversified purposes. Designers are the top on the list in those lovers and this list is specially for designers who can save their time and complete their task in the less time using these little but simple AIR apps. But you probably will like this if you are developer, office worker, manager, supervisor, student, home user, etc. Because 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. The best thing about these apps that they are cross-platform using Adobeâ€™s AIR technology. Just take a look at them and share your thought here.

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21 Absolutely Useful And Inspiring Collection Of Most Desirable Freebies

We are always in search for the great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Everyday we work hard to find new and useful stuffs for designers like you. Today, we have another great post for designers with a great collection of freebies stuffs like Icons, Fonts, Vectors, Brushes, Textures, Patterns and PSDs and much more. We obviously cannot cover all of the best available on internet, but we have tried our best to cover as much as possible.

50 Free High-Quality and â€œNewâ€ (X)HTML/CSS Templates

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10 Stunning Photos That Look Like They are Photoshopped But Are Not

There are hundreds of posts available on the internet about photoshop and photo manipulation. You probably have also seen many photos or images that have been photoshopped and inspire others. Today, we are posting another post that probably will make you look twice. In this post we are listing few 10 Stunning Photos That Look Like Theyâ€™re Photoshopped But Are Not. These are not photoshopped in terms of that all the objects and their actions are real but might be edited for colors adjustments etc. I appreciate to all those talented photographers who taken these excellent photos with their efforts, imaginations and creativity to give us a chance to see these photographic wonders from their creative eyes. This list is not long in numbers but I promise you that when you start browsing them in details it will surely refresh you and force you to know more about these photographers. These are the wonder creations of photographers who use their creativity with a different angle and approach to get the result that makes a difference.

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30 Inspiring And Creative Examples of Colorful Pattern Designs

As we all know that textures, backgrounds and patterns are the most wanted freebies on the internet. Specially designers who love all of those textures that can help their designs to become more beautiful and attractive. This collection would be really useful for inspiration and ideas. SmashingApps is all about to feature all those smashing stuffs that are inspiring and useful for designers. Today, we are going to list down 30 Inspiring And Creative Examples of Colorful Pattern Designs. We hope you all will like this collection.

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Smashing Release : Grunge Style, A 3-Column Free WordPress Theme

Today, we are releasing our very first wordpress theme Grunge Style, a free WordPress theme designed by Brian from TemplateLite for SmashingApps exclusive readers. The theme will be useful for personal and private blogs. We will appreciate you for your creative usage of this theme and would love to know about your experience with this. This theme will work best with WordPress 2.8+.

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Thank You Our Valued Sponsors To Be With Us In The Month Of June

This is a post in which we want to say a big Thank You to the SmashingApps' fastest growing community for regularly visiting our blog. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and be the one of 600k+ subscribers. But how can we forget to say a Great Thank You to our valued sponsors who help us to make this blog possible in reach of everyone in the month of June, 2009 as well.

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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, â€œDiscover the Best of the Webâ€ 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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Easy & Secure Group Collaboration Over Email

tgethr is for Project teams who need a no-frills, secure email-based collaboration solution and useful for families, friends, and clubs who don't need the overhead of more complicated solutions. This is also best for remotely located people who still use email as a primary collaboration mechanism. With tgethr all correspondence over the web and email can be safely encrypted.

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Now Make Your Job Search Process Efficient & Effective Than Ever With ResumeBear

As today's career marketplace requires job seekers to be ever more proactive. ResumeBear is a great free service that can help you to make the job search process easier, more efficient and more effective for your dream career. ResumeBear allows you to activate alerts so you will know in real time when your resume has been opened and is being read. This allows you to act quickly to secure that initial interview. If the recipient forwards your resume to someone, you will have that information as well. ResumeBear offers statistical information on your dashboard that allows you to track what is happening to your resume at any time. Was it opened? Who opened your resume? How long was it open? Was it printed? Was it forwarded? All this information is available too. Click here to see the sample resumes.

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20 Really Useful And Free Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Site Or Blog Pages

Plotting your data can serve as a replacement to tabular data, and is also a great way to add practical graphics to your web page or application. There are many ways you can plot data, but here I have included 20 Really Useful Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Sites/Blog Pages which serves as a easy Charting solution. Hope you like it.

20 Really Useful Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Site Or Blog Pages

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6 Free Web Based Apps For PDF Files Available For Use 24/7

Today, we are publishing another list of 6 Free Web Based Apps For PDF Files Available For Use 24/7. Whether you are designer, developer, office worker, manager, supervisor, student, home user, etc. But we hope this collection of free tools for PDF will be helpful for all of you. Most of them are not very well-known, but they are really useful and interesting in respect to their features. Just take a look at them and share your thought here.

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23 Colorful And Inspiring Web Designs Where Textures Are In Full Action

Where do you go normally when you are planning to start your new web design project and you are curiously finding for a mind blowing web design inspiration or just want yourself to bring up with some amazing creative ideas which can help you to create your web design project like it will make a trend or inspiration for others. But sometimes, your mouse is not moving around as you want or your hand is not in your creative control or maybe when you are just tired and do not have creative mood to work. Today, We are listing down 23 Colorful And Inspiring Web Designs Where Textures Are In Full Action. This list is not long in numbers but I promise you that when you start browsing them in details it will must boost your creative web design ideas professionally and motivate you for design your web design something which people will never forget that you have made it!

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10 Rock Solid Free Platforms To Start Your Successful Website

Now a days, unlimited websites are coming live everyday to take part in the internet world. They can be classified in business sites, blogs, social networking sites, directories, forums, e-commerce sites and many more other creative ideas applied to do something that has never been done. Today, We are compiling a list of Ten Rock Solid Free Platforms To Start Your Successful Website. These free web applications can be use in diversified ways to get your customize results for your fresh and new websites. You can easily find their showcase of running websites to get inspiration and ideas.