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28 Beautiful And Inspiring Photographs Dedicated To Earth Day 1
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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

EARTH FROM ABOVE

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12 Excellent And Useful Design Process Tutorials 3
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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

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.

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40+ Must-See Resources And Inspirational Collections For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In March 4
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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

30+ Excellent & Inspirational Digital Paintings

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11 Great Resources And Inspirations Of Current Design Trends 5
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11 Great Resources And Inspirations Of Current Design Trends

Getting an idea and inspiration is sometimes really hard and when you are planning to start your new web design project and you are curiously finding for a mind blowing web design inspiration so you don’t want to spend too much time and want to get start something as soon as you can. But most of the time, 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. So if you want to get fresh your creative man or come up with some creative web design ideas or just need to motivate and inspire yourself with current design trends, we are today listing down 11 Great Resources And Inspirations Of Current Design Trends. 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 design ideas professionally and motivate you for to design your project in such a way that people will never forget that you have made it!

Web Design Trends For 2009

Web Design Trends For 2009

In this post, you will find Web design trends for 2009 like recent developments, new design elements and new graphic approaches.

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23 Ultimate Collection Of Useful Ajax Tutorials & Resources 6
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23 Ultimate Collection Of Useful Ajax Tutorials & Resources

Ajax a short form of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML is a set of techniques used by many modern and popular web sites. This technique allows portions of a Web page to be updated without refreshing the entire page and to increase the web page’s interactivity, speed, and usability that is a significant advance in the development of websites and web-based applications. For example, a site might allow you to rate a product or item by clicking on a star image. With Ajax, your vote could be registered without having to load the entire page again. If you already know about Javascript, HTML, CSS and XML then you will need to spend your 1 hour to start with AJAX. Here is the list of 23 Ultimate Collection Of Useful Ajax Tutorials & Resources that includes some useful tutorials and few great resources like script, examples etc. We are hoping that you will learn further on Ajax after reading out this post.

Google AJAX APIs

Google AJAX APIs

Google’s AJAX APIs let you implement rich, dynamic web sites entirely in JavaScript and HTML. You can add a map to your site, a dynamic search box, or download feeds with just a few lines of JavaScript. If you want to play around with them, try using the Interactive Code Playground.

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25 Excellent And Useful Adobe AIR Tutorials & Resources 7
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25 Excellent And Useful Adobe AIR Tutorials & Resources

Adobe AIR is a cross-platform runtime environment for building rich Internet applications using Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, HTML, or Ajax, that can be deployed as a desktop application. Anyone who realize the future of Adobe AIR really want to learn it. To see the magic of Adobe AIR, we must suggest you to check out this showcase applications on Adobe’s website. Here is the list of 25 Excellent And Useful Adobe AIR Tutorials & Resources that includes some useful tutorials and few great applications that has been developed on Adobe AIR. We are hoping that you will learn further on Adobe AIR after reading out this post.

Introduction to Adobe Air

Introduction to Adobe Air

This tutorial will introduce you to Adobe Air, a framework to build rich internet applications. This first introduction will show how to create a simple application using Html/Js technologies.

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Free Online Diagramming Application To Create Professional Diagrams And Flowcharts 8
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Free Online Diagramming Application To Create Professional Diagrams And Flowcharts

Lovely Charts

Lovely Charts is an online diagramming application that allows you to create professional looking diagrams, such as flowcharts, sitemaps, organisation charts, wireframes, and many more… With Lovely Charts’s extremely simple and intuitive drag’n drop drawing mechanism, you’ll be able to focus on what really matters. You won’t have to draw boxes and arrows, you won’t have to worry about what symbol to use.

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Launch A Free And Synchronized Document Collaboration Web-Meeting With Anyone 9
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Launch A Free And Synchronized Document Collaboration Web-Meeting With Anyone

Show Document

ShowDocument is a free service for online meetings with fully synchronized co-browsing of any document. It is a quick and simple way to share a document with other people at the same time. It is a web collaboration platform that lets individuals have a free online meeting. It is an alternative to various commercial desktop sharing applications. One can easily upload any file and during the session mark it up with a pen or a highlighter tool in addition to a text box tool and eraser.

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45 Must-See Incredible Resources And Inspirational Collection To Discover The Best Of The Web In January 10
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45 Must-See Incredible Resources And Inspirational Collection To Discover The Best Of The Web In January

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 make a list of 45 Must-See Incredible Resources And Inspirational Collection. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we will try to cover as much as possible.

40 Brilliantly Photoshopped Print Ads

40 Brilliantly Photoshopped Print Ads

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11 Great Hidden Things Google Can Do That You Should Know 11
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11 Great Hidden Things Google Can Do That You Should Know

Google, A leading search engine that we use every day to search content on internet. There is no doubt that this is a damn powerful search engine but Google.com is not only for searching the stuffs. In addition to providing easy access to billions of web pages, Google.com has many amazing features to help you to find exactly what you’re looking for. Some of the most useful features that you can use in your daily life are discussing below. These are 11 Great Hidden Things Google Can Do That You Should Know, and I am sure majority of you did not aware of all the things listed below that Google can do for you.

How To Browse Any Website Via Google Cached Pages

Google automatically takes a “snapshot” of each page it crawls and archives it. This “cached” version allows a webpage to be retrieved for your end users if the original page is ever unavailable (due to temporary failure of the page’s web server). The cached page appears to users exactly as it looked when Google last crawled it, and Google display a message at the top of the page to indicate that it’s a cached version of the website. You can access the cached version by choosing the “Cached” link on the search results page.

google cache

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23 Unforgettable Resources Of 2008 You Couldn't Live Without 12
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23 Unforgettable Resources Of 2008 You Couldn’t Live Without

2008 was the wonderful year for the bloggers like me. This year, we have too much competition to come up with more great contents every day on different blogs. This is because we have lots of quality posts done by various blogs. Today, we are covering few of the exclusive posts that covered top of the collection in 2008 for useful resources like inspirations, freebies, tools, tutorials, etc. This collection is specially for designers but not only for designers and I hope everybody of you will enjoy this.

The 100 Most Popular Photoshop Tutorials 2008

The 100 Most Popular Photoshop Tutorials 2008

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37 Ultimate Resources And Inspirational Pieces For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In December 13
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37 Ultimate Resources And Inspirational Pieces For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In December

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 make a list of 37 incredible resources and inspirational pieces for designers. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we will try to cover as much as possible.

24 Stunning and Very Creative Digital Art

24 Stunning and Very Creative Digital Art

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13 Amazing Free Web Based Applications You Should Know About 15
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13 Amazing Free Web Based Applications You Should Know About

Today, we are publishing another list of 13 Online Free Web Based Applications You Should Know About that are very helpful for you to process your daily work (Part 3). 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.

moneyio

moneyio

This great little tools can help anyone to see how much money they have left over from their salary and outgoings. It will calculate your incoming and outgoing break down so anybody can plan their spending in a better way.

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31 Incredible Resources And Inspirations For Designers Like You To Discover The Best Of The Web In November 17
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31 Incredible Resources And Inspirations For Designers Like You To Discover The Best Of The Web In November

We are always in the search of great free resources, tips and tricks, etc for our readers. Every day, we works hard to find new resources and features them here for you. Today, we have another great post Discover The Best Of The Web on SmashingApps. In this, we will find and make a list of 31 Incredible Resources And Inspirations For Designers Like You To Discover The Best Of The Web In November. Maybe, we could not cover all of the best from around the web but we will try our best to cover as much as possible.

36 Beautiful Drawing Artworks – Winter Inspiration

36 Beautiful Drawing Artworks - Winter Inspiration

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