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35 Magical Tutorials Of “How To Create Lighting Effect” On Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop is a perfect tool to add flare to images and give them some nice effects which increase the beauty of that image. One of the commonly used effects in Photoshop is the lighting effect which is mainly used for creating the feeling of creativity, technology, magic, and fantasy.

Best of the Web Icons Inspiration

The Robust Collection Of (50) Mindblowing Icon Sets For Your Next Design

Icons can be useful to furnish users with unforgettable images and examples if used properly, and this is the reason why Icon sets always come in handy. You will find the huge collection of recently released icon sets which are believed to assist you in bettering your designs on websites as well as on web applications.

Tools

Expand Your Primary Drive To Get More Space With GParted

Is your “C” drive getting a little smaller for the programs you want to install? Would you like to expand your primary drive to get more space? What you need is a good partitioning program. GParted is what you need.This nifty freeware will suit many computer users. GParted’s simple user interface makes partitioning a breeze. You select the drive from the top right corner of the program.

Freebies

Congratulations To The Winners Of Fanurio (Time Tracking And Billing For Freelancers) Giveaway

Thanks to all of the participants of contest in which you could Take A Chance To Win Fanurio (Time Tracking And Billing For Freelancers) Giveaway. We ran the MySql random query and selected these commenter to give them Fanurio.

Buttons Icons Tools

10 Best Websites To Generate Buttons Online

Are you a developer looking for a great online tool to create buttons? If yes, then I have got a great list for you. Below you will find my collection of 10 best online button creators. Buttons are an important part of our website’s interface and these tools will help you create brilliant buttons.

WWW FUN

Intelligently Played Geekiest Scrabble Game

Have you ever played scrabble? If yes, then you must know how creative it is to complete the meaningful board. But normally these types of games do not relate with tech guys who live their geeky lives like coding a site, doing a research, browsing World Wide Web and doing unlimited similar stuffs to stay away from rest of the world. On the other side when you see an image below, you will find that a geek can also do enough without his computer if he wants to do.

Browsers Tools

WWW Is Not A Child-Friendly Zone But Kido’z Makes It Safer Than Ever

Today many jobs require employees to operate computers. If you want your children to success in today’s world of extreme competition, then it is best to have them learn computer usage from an early age. Of course you will need a safe way to do this because children might delete your important files and because the internet is not exactly a child-friendly zone.

Freebies

Fanurio (Time Tracking And Billing For Freelancers) Giveaway

Fanurio is running a contest, where winners will get 10 licenses (worth $59 each) and its life time subscription. Well, you guys know what Fanurio is. Lets say it once again for n00bs.Fanurio is a time tracking and billing software application, highly appreciated by freelancers for its intuitive interface, flexible timer and ability to produce detailed invoices.

Freebies

13 Google Chrome Extensions To Simplify Web Designer’s Life

We have gathered 13 Google Chrome extensions that will enable you all to realize Chrome’s full potential if you are a web design expert.

Best of the Web Browsers Technology News

Top 20 Features Of Firefox 4 (Beta) That Make It Stand Out

The beta for Firefox version 4 was recently released and it has already created a buzz on the web. While many of its features will already demonstrated in its nightly builds, the beta more widely showcases these new features.Release notes for Firefox v4 outline all the features which web developers and ordinary internet users will find helpful. To know what exactly these features are, read on:

Point of View

Opera 10.6: 10 Strong Reasons To Switch Over To Opera

Opera has always been ahead of the browser curve. It was the first browser to introduce the startpage-like new tabs, a feature it calls Speed Dial. Despite all that Opera has to offer, it is not the first browser preference of many computer users. This is something Opera hopes to change with the release of its new version.Opera 10.6 is available for Mac, Windows, and Linux. The new version has a number of notable features which will tempt users in making Opera their default browser.

Audio Blogging Rss/feeds

BlogRadio: A Tool To Convert RSS Feeds Into Audio

RSS feeds are a great way to catch up on website updates. You can simply have the RSS feed view all the latest material on a site without having to look for it manually. However reading many RSS feeds can get a little too tiresome for the eyes because of the extensive reading. To ease your management of RSS feeds, give BlogRadio a try.

Tools

Download & Install All Your Applications In One Go

I recently reinstalled Windows Vista on my desktop machine. After Vista’s installation, I realized that the toughest part about any operating system installation is individually downloading and installation our favorite applications. The number of my most-used applications was big; therefore I ended up spending quite some time downloading and installing my applications.All that time I spent on downloading and installation, I could have saved if I had known about AllMyApps.

Business Charts Stats

PocketSmith: Online Calendar To Manage & Forecast Cash Position

People with a lot of money hire financial advisors to monitor their spending and point out the rights and wrongs in that spending. The money that is saved from correcting the wrongs is then invested into potentially profitable ventures to benefit the client.However the percentage of people who are that rich is considerably low. Most people are like me, not rich enough to hire external help. We have to manage our own finances and catch our own mistakes. Doing this single-handedly can be quite a task; an extra bit of help can end up benefiting us a lot.PocketSmith is a free web service and one of those “extra bits of help” which we can employ to manage our finances. It basically acts as a calendar which we can feed our expenses in and which can forecast our future cash positions.

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 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 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.