The 8 Types Of Bad Creative Critics (Comic)

Asking for suggestions and critics on your work are always a good idea. Specially when the criticisms are creative, but sometimes people just try to kick in their bad ideas. This comic perfectly sketches this type of people.

Best of the Web Browsers Image Tools

Absolutely Useful (Yet Free) Web Apps To Make Designers Lives Easier

This is one of the very best list of its kind where you can find incredibly amazing and Absolutely Useful (Yet Free) Web Apps To Make Designers Lives Easier. These would be great enough to bookmark or just for get in your knowledge. I hope everyone of you will like this list. This is absolutely helpful for designers, web designers, developers etc. Just take a look at them and share your thought’s here.

Extras Tools

Full Licensed (Mac And Windows) DVD Ripper Available For Free To Download

I found something interesting on the internet which you may also be interested in. It is a giveaway of MacX DVD Ripper Pro for both Windows and Mac users. Its paid product, but now is being given away from Oct 12 to Oct 28, 2010. During this period, You can get this full licensed software for free without any functional limitations.

Best of the Web Freebies Mobile Apps

10 Totally Awesome iPhone Apps That Are Fun And Free of Cost

No matter how many applications you have installed on your iOS device, you are always on the lookout for the next free and fun iOS app. Thanks to countless iOS developers you have a plethora of such apps to choose from. To save your time that would otherwise be spent on searching for these apps, we present a wonderful list of 10 such free and fun iOS applications.

Infographics

Interesting Facts You Might Not know About SPAM [Infographic]

E-mail spam, known as unsolicited bulk Email (UBE), junk mail, or unsolicited commercial email (UCE), is the practice of sending unwanted e-mail messages, frequently with commercial content, in large quantities to an indiscriminate set of recipients. Spam in e-mail started to become a problem when the Internet was opened up to the general public in the mid-1990s. It grew exponentially over the following years, and today composes some 80 to 85% of all the email in the world, by a "conservative estimate". I have recently came across to really interesting infographic about “Spam” and I want to give 5 stars to Infographic World who created this.

Blogging Codes and Scripts Tips and Tricks

WP-Snippets Helps You Get Code Snippets To Facilitate WordPress Theme Development

WordPress is a highly popular blogging platform. Over the years the platform has seen countless improvements and today, it continues to improve the user experience it offers. Apart from being reliable and secure, WordPress offers great visual appeal through its countless themes.

Best of the Web Tutorials Web Design

40 Robust Tutorials Of “How To Create Planet And Space Art” On Photoshop

Photoshop is a state-of-the-art software with which you can create what you have imagined if you have command over its tools. You can create stunning space and 3D planets scenes too. Although it might be difficult to create space formulations, stars, and planets using Photoshop, but a little hard work can let you accomplish this difficult feat.

Best of the Web Inspiration

The Most Amazing Examples Of Vexel Artworks (AWESOME PICS)

The word Vexel is derived from two words: ‘Vector’ and ‘Pixel’ and it is the new emerging form of digital art which is totally based on pixel. Vexel art can be done in Photoshop but it is not limited to it necessarily as it can also be done with any image editing software. The only requirement is that software must has a very good pen tool.

Best of the Web Browsers

Excellent Chrome Extensions (For Fun & Gaming) That Can Make Your Daily Browsing More Enjoyable

You might have been using Chrome for a quite some time now but there is a good chance you are not taking its full advantage. Chrome’s maximum potential lies in the power of its extensions. Below We have gathered 6 Chrome extensions That Can Make Your Daily Browsing More Enjoyable. You will not find these extensions in similar lists on other websites; I hope you find them to be much enjoyable.

Freebies

PrintRunner Giveaway (Win A Set Of 250 Color Business Cards Of Your Choice)

PrintRunner.com is running a contest, where 13 winners will get the sets of business cards and each set being with 250 color cards of user choice. Well, you guys know what PrintRunner.com is. Lets say it once again for n00bs.Note : This contest is open to legal residents of U.S., Please read the rules below for further details.PrintRunner.com is a full service high quality printing company located in Chatsworth, California. It was established with little more than a small press and a dream. 10 years later PrintRunner.com is one of the foremost quality printers in Southern California. Whatever your promotional needs, from business card printing to full color brochure printing to postcard printing services and beyond, they have a solution.

Best of the Web color Schemes Inspiration

Mindblowing Assortment Of Black And White Photography With Partial Colors

Colors play an important role in making any photograph worth watching if used properly. No doubt colorful photos are very attractive and catchy but nowadays partially colored photos are getting very trendy. Partial photos are created by converting photos into black and white with the exemption of only one entity which is made colorful to be noticeable. This is why it is sometime called as Black and White with Partial Color.

Best of the Web Open-Source Operating System

The 5 Useful And Unknown Operating Systems You Probably Never Heard Of

This is one of the very best list of its kind where you can find out of the box operating systems that you probably never heard of and these would be great enough to bookmark or just for knowledge. I hope everyone of you will like this list, you can try these whether you are an office worker, a manager, a supervisor, a student, a home user, etc. These are really amazing in respect to their features. This is the list of Five Operating Systems You Probably Never Heard Of. Just take a look at them and share your thought’s here.

Announcement contest

Congratulations To The Winners Of BundleHunt 2 ($2000 Worth Of Designer Goodies)

Thanks to all of the participants of contest in which you could win BundleHunt 2. We ran the MySql random query and selected these commenter to give them BundleHunt 2.BundleHunt is a premium resource pack aimed to empower the creative community with more than $1400 worth of outstanding apps, templates, icons, ebooks, hosting plans & premium memberships for less than 50$. This time Bundle Hunt team announced the release of BundleHunt 2, the big brother of BundleHunt, their original package of essential applications for developers. Packed with even more applications at discounts much higher than before, the idea for this release is to put together a complete designer's resource pack for web developers across the board for the smallest price in history.

Best of the Web color Schemes Inspiration

50 Best Designed Logos With Punctuation Marks

A properly designed logo will help you establishing brand name and defining the nature of a corporation. This is the reason why designers are very much keen in experimenting with the new and interesting designs of logo just like here; in this post we are showcasing some very inspirational punctuation based logos.

Freebies

BundleHunt 2 Giveaway (Take A Chance To Win $2000 Worth Of Designer Goodies)

BundleHunt 2 is running a contest, where 5 winners will get the largest design resources bundle (originally $2000 worth of Designer Goodies for $49). Well, you guys know what BundleHunt is. Lets say it once again for n00bs.Note : This contest will run only for 3 days so do not wait to participate and take a chance to win.BundleHunt is a premium resource pack aimed to empower the creative community with more than $1400 worth of outstanding apps, templates, icons, ebooks, hosting plans & premium memberships for less than 50$. This time Bundle Hunt team announced the release of BundleHunt 2, the big brother of BundleHunt, their original package of essential applications for developers. Packed with even more applications at discounts much higher than before, the idea for this release is to put together a complete designer's resource pack for web developers across the board for the smallest price in history.

Tools

Siri Helps You Like A Personal Assistant To You On Your iPhone

Siri is like a real assistant to you, Siri understands what you say, it accomplishes the task for you and choose your preference over time. Siri helps you find and plan things like finding a romantic place for dinner, famous burger place around, booking a table at hotel, booking a Taxi, nearest gas station, who is playing at Madison Square Garden, what’s playing at a local jazz club or get tickets to a movie for Saturday night.

Announcement contest

Congratulations To The Winners Of PpcSoft iKnow

Thanks to all of the participants of contest in which you could win PpcSoft iKnow. We ran the MySql random query and selected these commenter to give them PpcSoft iKnow.PpcSoft iKnow is an easy, fast, efficient tool for knowledge workers using MS Windows. PpcSoft iKnow is optimized for text, and more focused on personal knowledge management than simple note-taking (not only storing notes, but automatically linking notes to quickly find related information similar to (but easier than) Wikipedia).

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Thank You Our Valued Sponsors For Being With Us In The Month Of September

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 Thanks to our valued sponsors who helped us to make this blog possible in reach of everyone in the month of September, 2010 as well.Our valued sponsors were: