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5 Best Free Windows Password Recovery Tools

Have you ever forgotten your Windows account password? If you have then you already know how painful the password recovery process can be. There is a good chance that Windows users who are not very tech-aware fail to recover their password and end reinstalling Windows via a bootable disc.Whether you have or have not been through that situation, you do not want to be in those circumstances any time in the future. To help you out if (when) you forget your Windows password, I have gathered a list of 5 freeware programs that will help recover your Windows password.

Client Softwares Tools

Want To Make Cheap International/Local Calls And Text Messages? Use Free Google Voice In Your iPhones And Palm WebOS.

On December, 17 2009, Alex Nicolaou, who is an Engineering Manager in Google mobile, wrote in Google mobile blog about the benefits of the Iterative Web app :Feature-Rich and Fast. Presenting of Google services via mobile browsers has worked well for the Gmail team, so Gmail team decided to follow the same approach with GoogleVoice as Alex Nicolaou did with Iterative web app.On January, 26, 2010, Gmail team finally introduced the Google Voice web app for the iPhone and Palm WebOS devices. HTML5 were used to develop this application, which provides you the fast and versatile mobile experience for Google Voice. For example, AppCache which allows you to interact with web apps without an internet/network connection and local databases allows you to store data locally in your device, and that way you will not lose data even when you close the browser or connection.

Best of the Web Inspiration Stock Photos

Awesome Masterpieces Of Creatively Executed Funny Photos

These photos will prove that a photo can become more interesting and inspiring when it has creativity and humor at the same time. Today, we are showing you Awesome Masterpieces Of Creatively Executed Funny Photos. I appreciate to all those talented photographers/artist who created 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/artists.

Blogging Client Softwares content management system

Now Make Your Blogging Life Easier Than Ever With WordPress For iPad

We have got a great news for bloggers who use wordpress as their blogging platform and who do their best to keep their blog updated with latest news/happenings but they could not do the best due to functional limitation of wordpress for smartphones. Now Wordpress made it easier for you if you are planning to have your Apple's recently released iPad.When everyone is curiously watching the release of Apple's iPad, Wordpress just announced the release of their optimized version of iPhone OS to take advantage of the iPad’s new user interface. It will really make your blogging life easier than ever before. Let me tell you how...

Advertising

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

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

Browsers

View Hundreds Of Channels From Around The World In Chrome With TV Chrome

Recently I was thinking how to initiate recording a TV channel via Windows 7 Media Center. The problem was that I needed to do this remotely, in case I was not at home, remembered that a series I liked was being aired on TV, and wanted it recorded. After much extensive searching, I finally found an application called Remote Potato.Setting up Remote Potato was no child’s play and it took me quite some time. I am still not satisfied with it. When I told a fellow blogger about my predicament, he asked “But if you can access the internet while you’re away from home, why not simply use it to view television online?” I asked him what he meant and he answered “TV Chrome.”

Best of the Web Brushes Buttons

75+ Truly Useful Tutorials & Colorful Resources 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 75+ Truly Useful Tutorials & Colorful Resources For Designers. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.

Best of the Web Browsers

7 Great Chrome Extensions To Make Your Life Easier

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 I have gathered 7 Chrome extensions that will enable you all to realize Chrome’s full potential. You will not find these extensions in similar lists on other websites; I hope you find them to be useful to your computer usage.Give the list a thorough reading, try out any extension you are interested in, and let me know in the comments how they worked out for you.

contest Web Design Wordpress

Win A Copy Of WordPress Theme Or jQuery Template By FlashMint

FlashMint is running a contest, where winners will get 12 wordpress template and 4 jQuery template licenses of (worth $55 each). Well, you guys know what FlashMint do. Lets say it once again for n00bs.FlashMint is a leading and incomparable Flash Templates provider known to supply web masters with the exclusively sufficient collection of premium web layouts together with the most helpful and supportive service.

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Stats Web Applications

Woopra Is Becoming Another Feature Rich Alternative To Google Analytics

If you are a professional blogger or webmaster, there is a good change that you track your site’s traffic and analyze to learn how to better your website or blog. Such measures are an absolute must if you want your website to have a mark on the web. Most webmasters use Google Analytics for this purpose.Although Google Analytics is the most popular application for this task and does a great job at tracking traffic, Woopra proves that there are areas in which Analytics falls short.

Best of the Web Business Education and Learning

7 Situations When Designers Outsource (To Other Designers)

Have you ever missed a client deadline because you were too busy? Ever had a client request a type of design that you don't offer? One of the best kept secrets of successful designers and studios is 'designer-to-designer' outsourcing. Designer-to-designer outsourcing involves one designer (such as a web design firm or graphic design studio) using another designer (often a freelance designer or sub-contractor) to help complete designs for their own clients. While there are scores of freelancers available (probably many in your own city), there are some emerging, and very powerful, online services that are setup specifically for designers seeking to outsource client projects.

Best of the Web Tools

5 Excellent Text to Voice Free Applications

Many computer users take advantage of text-to-voice programs to make their computer tasks easier. With a voice command we can execute a task which otherwise might take a combination of keyboard-key presses and mouse clicks.For my readers who have not yet tried out text-to-voice applications or are looking for something better than what they are already using, I have gathered a list of 5 great options they can go for. Read each entry in my list, find out which one interests you, and use the comments to let me know how it went for you.

Best of the Web color Schemes

50 Absolutely Stylish Vintage and Retro Graphic Wallpapers

Here is a new addition to our wallpapers collection that is based on Retro and vintage wallpapers. These two fundamentals are becoming more and trendier and have been used in a variety of design contexts. So here we are presenting a memorable image of Retro and Vintage years that usually refers to the decades before our present day, up to the last century. Hope you’ll like this collection. Please feel free to share your opinion by dropping a line in the comment box.

Best of the Web color Schemes Inspiration

The Magnificently Captured Beautiful Places On Earth (Earth Hour Special)

Earth Hour is globally celebrated environment event organized by World Wide Fund for Nature. This is held on the last Saturday of March annually, asking households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights and other electrical appliances for one hour to raise awareness towards the need to take action on climate change. Earth hour was conceived by WWF and The Sydney Morning Herald in 2007, when 2.2 million residents of Sydney participated by turning off all non-essential lights. Following Sydney's lead, many other cities around the world adopted the event in 2008. Earth Hour 2010 will take place on March 27, 2010 from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., local time and we are trying to showcase few of the millions stunning photographs to give it a tribute and to create some awareness about this event. We would appreciate all of you who can create awareness in your circle and do whatever you can for our beautiful earth.

Open-Source Security Tools

Before You Go Live, Test Your Website Security With Websecurify

Website security is one of the major concerns of developers and webmasters because when their sites go live, these are in the eyes of several threats. Hence testers put lots of efforts in determining and maintaining website security. Among different techniques used to test the security of websites, testing tools are the most popular. These tools generate security-related test cases and produce in-depth reporting to analyze statistics of the tests performed. None of the tools is 100% perfect, they have their limitations instead.Websecurify is an automated web application security scanner that scans different security parameters of your website and generates detailed statistical analysis that helps you find security loop holes so as to keep your website safe and secure.

Browsers Rss/feeds Tips and Tricks

How To Organize/View Your Feeds In A Magazine Like Start Pages In Chrome

Recently I came across a great website titled Fav4. It provides users with a four thumbnail shortcuts to websites. The websites can be selected from a list of the most social media websites. Fav4 has an appealing look and can serve as a great clutter-free start-page for any user.But what if I need a start-page that does not only provide me a link to my most frequented sites, but also extracts the latest updates from them and shows them all to me neatly? I asked a blogger friend about this and his suggestion was more than satisfactory: Feedly.

Lifestyle Spotlight Rss/feeds Tools

Create A News Aggregation Website With PHP RSS Reader

Imagine if there was a way to provide new, relevant content from thousands of different sources every minute, automatically on your website. How much more eager would a user be to come back for more? This is exactly why PHP RSS Reader was created, to give you the opportunity to automatically provide your users with an incredible amount of information in a compelling, simplistic format and provide this new, relevant content every single minute!PHP RSS Reader is a full blown news aggregation script programmed in PHP that allows you to provide your users with fresh content 24/7.

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Best of the Web Browsers Tools

9 Insanely Useful Firefox Add-Ons That Will Save Your Time

As we all know that Firefox is the fastest growing popular web browser and its growing more and more every day. There are too many handy options provided by the firefox and this is the main reason for its popularity. You can easily find lots of free download able firefox add-ons and extensions that are available on the internet, we also featured few of them before and it’s demands are increasing. In this post, I am listing down9 Insanely Useful Firefox Add-ons That Will Save Your Time . I would love to know at least one of your most favorite firefox add-0n that saves your time and could be the part of this list.

Contacts and Networking Tools

Now Enjoy Live Meetings, Seminars And Presentations On Your IPhones And iPod Touch Using Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro

Adobe have launched the FREE Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro Mobile application, which allows you to enjoy immediate access to collaborative meetings, web seminars, training sessions and video chat anytime, anywhere.Users can watch and listen to live presentations including real-time presenter web cam video and screen sharing demonstrations. Users can also see who is present in the meeting at any given time, and collaborate with other users using live text chat. VoIP meeting audio will broadcast straight to your device over a WiFi or 3G connection, or the meeting host may give you the option to join a telephone conference call.