6 Free Softwares For Designers That Are Absolutely Useful

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. Don’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.SynfigSynfigSynfig 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.
35+ Colorful And Inspiring Examples Of High Definition Wallpapers

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 CrayonsUsed Crayons

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. Don’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 SkypeYou 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.
Eight Most Useful And Robust Twitter 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, It’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.TweetDeckTweetDeckTweetDeck 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.
13 Most Useful Free Scripts That You Should Know

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 osTicketosTicket 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.
17 Adobe AIR Apps That Can Save Your Time

17 Adobe AIR Apps That Can Save Your Time

Adobe AIR is a cross-platform runtime environment for building rich Internet applications using Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, HTML, or Ajax. It's popularity is increasing every day and getting more lovers who are using tools developed on Adobe AIR for diversified purposes. Designers are the top on the list in those lovers and this list is specially for designers who can save their time and complete their task in the less time using these little but simple AIR apps. But you probably will like this if you are developer, office worker, manager, supervisor, student, home user, etc. Because 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. The best thing about these apps that they are cross-platform using Adobe's AIR technology. Just take a look at them and share your thought here.ImageSizer imagesizerImageSizer is an application built to resize, optimize and rename a batch of jpg images producing a zip file containing the images. ImageSizer also allows users to resize images that are greater than 2880px by 2800px, however the resized images cannot be greater than this size. As often as you want to resize images, you find you also want to cut just that little bit off the image. Well now you can do, with the built-in Crop tool.
43 Really Useful Photoshop Tutorials For Excellent 3d Effects

43 Really Useful Photoshop Tutorials For Excellent 3d Effects

Designers love all of those tutorials that can help them to learn more and more everyday and give them direction to design more beautiful and attractive creative works. 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 43 Brilliant Photoshop Tutorials For Excellent 3d Effects. We hope you all will like this collection.Create A Shiny 3D Snooker Ball In PhotoshopCreate a Shiny 3D Snooker Ball in Photoshop
Free And Easy-To-Use Accounting And Business Management Software

Free And Easy-To-Use Accounting And Business Management Software

Ubikwiti's Online Software is an easy to use application. You do not need any accounting knowledge nor technical programming skills are required to setup, use and customize the software.UbikwitiThis is easy-to-use on demand business accounting and management software that enables you to quickly and easily select a business template that broadly matches your business needs, use DIY-Configuration and DIY-GUI tools to customize a close fit and modify/add business functionality to meet changing business needs, any time, on-the-fly, with no down time.
25 Excellent And Useful Adobe AIR Tutorials & Resources

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 AirIntroduction to Adobe AirThis 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.
11 Free And Useful Open-Source Alternatives For Designers

11 Free And Useful Open-Source Alternatives For Designers

We have lots of commercial software available to use on different platform to complete our different work, but they are not free and sometime we do not able to purchase. Don't worry about it, today we are listing here 11 Free And Useful Open-Source Alternatives 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 similar and useful alternative. You might 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.BlenderBlenderAlternative: Autodesk 3ds MaxBlender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems. It includes tools for modeling - fast subdivision surface and polygon tools, multi-resolution mesh sculpting, metaballs, NURBS, vector fonts, and curves; uv mapping; shaders and texturing - both paint based and node based; ik and fk animation tools with rigging, constraints, skinning, morph targets, drivers, deformers, and modifiers; simulation tools including hard bodies, soft body, cloth, and fluids; and particle systems including hair. Blender has integrated rendering with both its native renderer and the raytracer Yafray as well supporting many external renderers; and python based scripting.
13 Free Web Apps To Simplify Designer’s Work Life

13 Free Web Apps To Simplify Designer’s Work Life

I think designers do not search design tutorials and resources only. They also would like to have those web applications that can make their life easier. And If they found those web apps simple in use so they keep them using a lot and bookmarked for future 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 have a new post that has simplest free web apps that can really simplify your worklife. 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.Are My Sites Up?Are My Sites Up?Are My Sites Up is a very simple service to help you keep an eye on your sites and warn you if they go down.
21 Free Apps For Mac OS X That Are Absolutely Useful

21 Free Apps For Mac OS X That Are Absolutely Useful

This is the post where we are listing out few great free tools for Mac Operating System, this is an exclusive post for our those readers who are the Mac users. But our other readers will also enjoy this post. Don'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 are on your Mac system. This is absolutely a great list of 21 Free Apps For Mac OS X That Are Absolutely Useful.Name Mangler Name ManglerName Mangler is a batch file renamer that supports all common renaming tasks: Find and Replace (including support for regular expressions); Number Sequentially; Change Case; Set Extension; Add Prefix/Suffix; Remove/Insert Characters.
21 Amazing Firefox Ad-Ons That You Must-Have In 2009

21 Amazing Firefox Ad-Ons That You Must-Have In 2009

Firefox was the fastest growing popular web browser in 2008 and its chances are bright to be fastest growing web browser. There are lots of ease provided by the firefox and this is the main reason for its popularity. There are lots of free download able extensions and add-ons available on the internet for firefox, we also featured them before and there demands are increasing every day. In this post, I am listing down 21 Amazing Firefox Ad-Ons That You Must-Have In 2009.Xoopit XoopitGet Xoopit to Upgrade Gmail to search, browse & share files, photos & videos. Use Google Search while composing mail in Gmail. Get information about people in a Gmail conversation. Xoopit works for Gmail, Google Mail and Google Apps users.
13 Most Essential Open Source Apps That You Probably Like To Say Thank You

13 Most Essential Open Source Apps That You Probably Like To Say Thank You

Today, we are going to say big Thank You to everyone who supports us, appreciate us, love us and always be there for us when we need them. So, how can we forget those that makes our online life easier and did the tremendous work for us. They delivered us those applications/software that help us to get the routine work done for our daily use. There are many that we can not count and list exactly but we are trying to make a list of 13 Most Essential Open Source Apps That You Probably Like To Say Thank You. And Yes! Happy Thanksgiving...WordPress As An Open Source Fastest Growing And Damanding Blogging System WordpressWordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.
11 Useful Open-Source Apps You Should Know About

11 Useful Open-Source Apps You Should Know About

Today, we are listing another collection of open-source applications that you probably want to know to use in your daily life or did not know before. Today, we are listing another collection of open-source applications that you probably want to know to use in your daily life or did not know before. You may not find them between the top of the list projects and many of projects are not listed here but over all the list has variety of projects for every one to run their business process in a much cost effective way. This is the list of 11 Useful Open-Source Apps You Should Know About.OrangeHRMOrangeHRMFree and open source human resource management software with rich features and easy to use interface. It provides a perfect platform for re-engineering and aligning your HR processes along with the organizational goals.
15 Free Tools For Mac OS X You Should Bookmark

15 Free Tools For Mac OS X You Should Bookmark

Today, we are going to write first post of its kind at SmashingApps. This is the post where we are listing out few great free tools for Mac Operating System, this is an exclusive post for our those readers who are the Mac users. But our other readers will also enjoy this post. Don'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 are on your Mac system. This is absolutely a great list of 15 Free Tools For Mac OS X You Should Bookmark.Xe-IMG Image Editor Xe-IMG Image EditorXe-IMG Image Editor is a standalone image editor for your Mac. It supports the following images formtats: PNG, JPG, BMP, GIF and SWF. Xe-IMG Image Editor allows yoy to edit photos, add effects, ,filters mask and after you’re finished you can save files as JPG, PNG, BMP etc.
Thank You Our Valued Sponsors To Be With Us In The Month Of October

Thank You Our Valued Sponsors To Be With Us In The Month Of October

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. But how can we forget to say a Great Thank You to our valued sponsors who help us to make this blog possible in reach of everyone in the month of october as well.

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