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9 Online Free And Useful Tools That Can Help Designers A Lot

We are always in the search for useful stuffs on the internet that are freely available for everyone and specially for designers who spend their whole day in to design or create something creative. We aimed to help you and keep you updated with all the new online tools that you probably would love to use. In past, we have listed various free web apps that are really useful for any one of you and specially for designers. Today, we are listing 9 Online Free And Useful Tools That Can Help Designers A Lot that are not only for designers and every one of you will probably love to use any or all of them. Whether you are designer, developer, office worker, manager, supervisor, student, home user, etc. This post contains a diversified collection of free web apps and we tried to 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 and functionality. Just take a look at them and share your thought here.Browsershots

Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. It is a free open-source online service. A number of distributed computers will open your website in their browser. Then they will make screenshots and upload them to the central server.

Backgrounds Best of the Web color Schemes

21 Truly Impressive And Eye-Catching Collection Of Free Textures

We 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. SmashingApps is all about to feature all those smashing stuffs that are free and useful for designers. Today, we are going to list down 21 Truly Impressive And Eye Catchy Collection Of Free Textures. We hope you all will like this collection.Apple Leaf Texture by texurestockbyhjs

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28 Beautiful And Inspiring Photographs Dedicated To Earth Day

Yes, we know that SmashingApps is dedicated to designers and developer but I think it would be good if we can be able to give some awareness and knowledge to our readers for some environmental issues. Today, Earth Day Network is celebrating a Earth Day all over the world, this is a day when they try to create awareness and educate people about keeping their environment clean and motivate them to Go Green for their sorroundings. Today, we are posting another post that probably will make you look twice. In this post we are listing 28 Beautiful And Inspiring Photographs Dedicated To Earth 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 Earth Day and motivate you to save your planet. 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.Earth from above by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

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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. Donâ€™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 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.

Best of the Web color Schemes Inspiration

21 Brilliant Photos That Look Like They’re 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 21 Brilliant Photos That Look Like They're Photoshopped But Are Not. These are not photoshopped in terms of that all the objects and their actions are real but might be editied for colors and adjustments. 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.Infinite Possibilities by Philip Perold

Business Open-Source Tools

jGnash, An Open Source And Free Personal Finance Manager

jGnash is useful for keeping track of account balances and performing reconciliation. You can print checks, run simple reports, write your own scripts, and import QIF and OFX files.

Backgrounds Best of the Web color Schemes

35+ Colorful And Inspiring Examples Of High Definition Wallpapers

Today, we are showing you 35+ Colorful And Inspiring Examples Of High Definition/Widescreen Wallpapers. These can be find in different resolution e.g. 1280x800, 1440x900, 1680x1050, 1920x1200 and 2560 x 1600 wide. I appreciate to all those talented designers who create these excellent wallpapers with their efforts, imaginations and creativity to give us a chance to use these artistic wonders on desktop and refresh ourselves. 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 download any or all for your desktop right now.Used Crayons

Best of the Web Client Softwares Contacts and Networking

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. Donâ€™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

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.

Inspiration

21 Fantastic Examples Of Brilliant Photography With Humor

Photography can become more interesting and inspiring when it has creativity and humor as well . Today, we are showing you 21 Fantastic Examples Of Creative Photography With Humor. 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.I'll never talk to you again by Adrifil

Tutorials

12 Excellent And Useful Design Process Tutorials

Designers love all of those tutorials and design processes that can help them to learn more and more everyday and give them direction to design more beautiful and attractive artworks. 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 12 Excellent And Useful Design Process Tutorials. We hope you all will like this collection.Label Package Design Creation Process

This is a beautiful label package design creation process from Start to Finish by Expert Graphic Designer, Lauren Peone of laurendesigns.

Tools

Eight Most Useful And Robust Twitter Tools

As we all know Twitter is a rapidly growing micro-blogging service in these days. No doubt, Itâ€™s a great fun to share information or talk with your friends and the powerful way to spread the word as much as possible. For this reason, there are too many free twitter tools available that are offering you hassle free and simple way to tweet. In this post, we are listing down Eight Most Useful And Robust Twitter Tools that are free and absolutely useful. Whether you are designer, developer, office worker, manager, supervisor, student, home user, etc. We have tried 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. If you like this post so please spread the word as much possible via twitter.TweetDeck

TweetDeck is an Adobe Air desktop application, currently in public beta, that looks to capture the abundance of social media and display it in a unique columned user interface. This is a realtime application that allows users to monitor that information in a single concise view. TweetDeck currently integrates services from Twitter, Twitscoop, 12seconds, Stocktwits and now Facebook.

Tools

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 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.

Charts contest

Silverlight Charts: Visifire, Giving Away 10 Developer Licenses Of Worth $99 Each

Visfire is running a contest, where winners will get 10 Developer Licenses(worth $99 each). Well, you guys know what Visifire is. Lets say it once again for n00bs.

This contest will run from April 2, 2009 to April 16, 2009 and Visifire will choose winners with best comment till April 16, 2009 . Result can be announced any day before April 30, 2009 so keep visiting here or subscribe to our rss feed to get the latest updates. To participate in the contest and win free developer license of Visifire, All you have to do is just :

Ajax Backgrounds Best of the Web

40+ Must-See Resources And Inspirational Collections For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In March

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 40+ Must-See Resources And Inspirational Collections For Designers. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.30+ Excellent & Inspirational Digital Paintings