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21 Colorful Artwork Of Character Design To Grab Your Attention

This is the post dedicated to the creative examples of mascots and characters in graphics design. In this post, we will give you an idea in one place to see an attractive usage of characters to get viewers attention. It helps you to boost up your creative men who are willing to create the new character design or specially willing to have his new mascot design for the client or himself. Overall, mascots showing in this list are simple, funny and cartoon-style. The usage of color scheme, illustration and look and feel of presentation is really cool and attractive. This list is not long in numbers, but I promise you that when you start watching them it will must inspire you for creative mascots and characters in modern design. These are the mind-blowing creations of creative designers who use their creativity with a different angle and approach to get the result that makes a difference.

Business Contacts and Networking Tools

Now It’s Easy To-Do With Ta-da List

Ta-da List is a simple tool that lets you create to-do lists. It's really useful and absolutely free. Ta-da List is the web's easiest to-do list tool. You can make lists for yourself or share them with others. It couldn't be simpler but Ta-da List is the web's simplest and fastest to-do list maker.

Tools

SMARTReporter Can Help You To Protect Your Data Or Hard Disk With Failure Prediction

SMARTReporter is an application that can warn you of some hard disk drive failures before they actually happen! It does so by periodically polling the S.M.A.R.T. status of your hard disk drive. S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a technology built into most modern hard disk drives that acts as an "early warning system" for pending hard disk drive problems. SMARTReporter can notify you of impending hard disk drive failures by sending e-mails, displaying a warning dialog or executing an application. The current status of your hard disk drives is always displayed through the customizable menu item.

Best of the Web color Schemes Inspiration

21 Fantastically Captured Macro Photography With Natural Beauty

Macro photography is close-up photography. In simple words, Extreme closeup photography is referred to as macro photography. Anytime you see a super close photo of a fly for instance, or a flower petal, the photographer probably used macro photography techniques to get that gorgeous close up photo of any thing. Today, we are showing you 21 Fantastically Captured Macro Photography With Natural Beauty. 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. 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.

Backgrounds Best of the Web color Schemes

Smashing Release : 15 Free And High Quality Tree Wood Textures

Today, we are feeling very happy to release our first free set of Tree Wood Textures in collaboration with Desizntech for SmashingApps readers. In this set, you will find 15 High Quality Tree Wood Textures that you can use in your design projects, websites and anywhere you want. All of the textures can be downloaded individually via Flickr from Free Tree Bark Wood Textures set or download the single zip file of all the textures to get actual size textures that is 3072px x 2304px.

Best of the Web Blogging color Schemes

21 Premium-Like Free Photoblog Themes For WordPress

Few days ago, we have been requested to list down some beautiful photoblog themes for wordpress. Today, we are going to deliver the most beautiful collection of photoblog themes for wordpress. This is not the long list with all the available wordpress themes on the internet but this is an exclusive collection of free photoblog wordpress themes that are nice, simple and elegant looking and you may consider any of these themes as per your need if you are searching for your photoblog.

Freebies

Get Your Free FlashEff 2 Premium Plus Beta Invitation

FlashEff is an advanced Flash effects component (works both on Flash CS3 and Flash CS4, AS3.0) developed by JumpeyeComponents for easing the animation/transition process. It is also a collection of over 140 effect patterns (and growing) that enable cool transition effects and interactive actions on visual objects and texts. FlashEff can be fully used/customized from both, the visual interface and from code.

FlashEff 2 Premium Plus Beta Invitation Patterns Showcase

SmashingApps and FlashEff are teaming up exclusively to do our part and providing you the opportunity to use the most robust and beautiful Flash Effects Component for free. All of you will get access to FlashEff2 BETA. This is only a phase in releasing the actual commercial FlashEff2 product which will be delivered in different packages (Free, Premium and Premium Plus). When there will be a commercial release of the product, the beta one will stop working and all users will only have access to the free version. In the beta phase you will get the FlashEff2 features equivalent to the Premium Plus commercial license (to be launched). So you would be the first and only one who can get the chance to use FlashEff2 (for a limited time).To make you confirm for Free FlashEff 2 Premium Plus Beta Invitation you will need to post it on Twitter, or post it on your blog. You can spread your words in anyway you like as long as we can verify it and you can post the link in the comments below to share with us that how you spread the words. Also, donâ€™t forget to follow us on twitter.

Best of the Web color Schemes Inspiration

50+ Truly Useful Photoshop Tutorials For Amazing Photo Effects

Designers love all of those photoshop tutorials that can help them to learn more and more everyday and give them direction to design more beautiful and attractive creative works. And the demand for Photo Effects tutorials are too much in these days. We know this very well and SmashingApps is all about to feature all those smashing stuffs that are free and useful for designers. Today, we are going to list down 50+ Truly Useful Photoshop Tutorials For Amazing Photo Effects. We hope you all will like this collection.How to Digitally Paint Lip Gloss with a Tablet

Best of the Web color Schemes Inspiration

23 Stunning Examples Of Digital Art & Manipulation

There are hundreds of posts available on the internet about photo manipulation. Today, we are posting another post that probably will make you look twice. In this post we are listing 23 Stunning Examples Of Digital Art & Manipulation. I appreciate to all those talented designers who created these excellent graphics with their efforts, imaginations and creativity to give us a chance to see these wonders. 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 designers. These are the mind-blowing creations of creative designers who use their creativity with a different angle and approach to get the result that makes a difference.Dream In a Puddle 2 by pixelcriminal

Best of the Web Codes and Scripts Frameworks and Platforms

15 Excellent And Useful Microsoft Silverlight Tutorials & Resources

Microsoft Silverlight is a free framework empowering you to build new types of applications for the Web regardless of target platform or browser, using all the familiar features, languages and tools of the .NET framework. To see the magic of Silverlight, we must suggest you to check out this showcase applications on Microsoft's website. Here is the list of 15 Excellent And Useful Microsoft Silverlight Tutorials & Resources that includes some useful tutorials and few great applications that has been developed on Microsoft Silverlight. We are hoping that you will learn further on Microsoft Silverlight after reading out this post.The Importance of an Impressive User Interface

The Importance of an Impressive User Interface

In this lesson of the Silverlight tutorial, you will learn about the elements used for drawing graphics and to animate graphics by using Expression Blend.

Best of the Web color Schemes Education and Learning

22 Motivational And Excellent Photography Dedicated To The Labor Day

Labor Day is an annual holiday celebrated all over the world that resulted from the labor union movement, to celebrate the economic and social achievements of workers. The majority of countries celebrate Labor Day on May 1, and it is popularly known as May Day and International Workers' Day. But why we are talking this? Because today, Labor Day is celebrating all over the world, and we are trying to take part by giving labors a warm tribute. Today, we are posting another post that probably will make you look twice. In this post we are listing 22 Motivational And Excellent Photography Dedicated To The Labor Day. 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 Labor Day and motivate you to appreciate them. 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.HARDWORKED HAND by Cristian Naidin

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

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50+ Promising Collection Of Resources And Inspirations For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In April

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 made a list of 50+ Promising Collection Of Resources And Inspirations For Designers. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.115+ Ultimate Round-Up of 3D Studio Max Tutorials

115+ Ultimate Round-Up of 3D Studio Max Tutorials

Announcement Charts Open-Source

Congratulations To The Winners of Visifire

Thank you for all of the participants of contest in which Visifire, Giving Away 10 Developer Licenses Of Worth $99 Each. We and Visifire selected these 10 best commenter and decided to give them free Developer Licenses of Visifire.