Silverlight Charts: Visifire, Giving Away 10 Developer Licenses Of Worth $99 Each

Visfire is running a contest, where winners will get 10 Developer Licenses(worth $99 each). Well, you guys know what Visifire is. Lets say it once again for n00bs.

This contest will run from April 2, 2009 to April 16, 2009 and Visifire will choose winners with best comment till April 16, 2009 . Result can be announced any day before April 30, 2009 so keep visiting here or subscribe to our rss feed to get the latest updates. To participate in the contest and win free developer license of Visifire, All you have to do is just :

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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

ImageSizer 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.

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31 Masterpieces Of Creative And Clever Advertising Concepts

I believe that strong advertisement is a fastest way to convey the message to the audience and if they are attractive as become inspiration for others so itâ€™s more useful. Sometimes they are just an advertisement but some companies works very hard to make their promotional / advertisement campaign very unique, striking and successful. There must be innovation and creativity involve in any successful creative advertisement campaign. Today, I am sharing another post of Extremely Creative Advertisements I have Ever Seen in which I have collected 31 Masterpieces Of Creative And Clever Advertising Concepts. Maybe most of you guys already had a look at some of these but we tried to make this compilation very inspiring, interesting and entertaining for everyone and specially for our exclusive readers. Just take a look at them.Greenpeace

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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'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.

Business Tools Web Applications

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.

This 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.

Freebies

43 Creative Examples Of High Quality Free Icon Sets

This is the post dedicated to the creative examples of high quality free icon sets. In this post, we will give you an idea in one place to see an incredible collection of icon sets to get viewers attention. We are listing 43 Creative Examples Of High Quality Free Icon Sets. It will help you to boost up your creative men who are willing to create the new icon set or specially willing to have his new icon design for the client or himself. The usage of color scheme, illustration and look and feel of all of these icons are really cool and impressive. These icons are also available to use anywhere you want but we suggest that donâ€™t forget to read the license detail before using anyone below. This list is not long in numbers, but I promise you that when you start watching them it will must inspire you as amazingly designed icons. Pioneer Camp

Tutorials

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

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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How To Split Your Monitor(s) Into Regions

MaxTo is a small Windows program that divides your monitors into regions. When you maximize a window, it will no longer fit the entire screen, but only the region it was maximized into. Your windows are neatly organized into the grid you have defined when they are maximized. MaxTo has been described as a tiling window manager.

Tools

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.Blender

Alternative: 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.

Inspiration Tools Web Design

Make Your Own Handwriting Fonts For Free

YourFonts is a Free online font generator that allows you to create your own OpenType fonts within a couple of minutes. Go make your own handwriting as a font.

Tools

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 is a very simple service to help you keep an eye on your sites and warn you if they go down.

Best of the Web Blogging Wordpress

17 Really Useful WordPress Plugins That Probably Are Essential

As we have already published a post few days ago about wordpress themes and plugins. This is an another post about wordpress plugins. There are hundreds of wordpress plugins available on the internet. Some of them are very useful and some of them are only for sake of existence. But it's totally up to you that how you can make your wordpress blog more strong and powerful using different plugins to give your blog readers an amazing and wonderful experience.In this post, I tried to list down 17 Really Useful Wordpress Plugins That Probably Are Essential for any blog. This list has few of the unlimited wordpress plugins introduction. I hope you will enjoy the post.cforms

cforms is a highly customizable, flexible and powerful form builder plugin, covering a variety of use cases and features from attachments to multi form management, you can even have multiple forms on the same page.

Tools

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 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.

Image Tools Tools Web Applications

Easy Photo Editing And Free Photo Effects With Pizap

Pizap is a fun free photo editor that lets people easily create wacky images with their digital pictures. PiZap was created as a tool primarily for social networking users who want to post their images to their favorite social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, Hi5, Orkut, Friendster, Bebo, miGente, Windows Live Spaces, Blogger, Tagged, and many more.

Best of the Web Blogging Browsers

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

WordPress 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.

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FeCoding Is Giving Away 5 PSD to XHTML Conversion Service – Just Comment Now And Win

FeCoding is giving away 5 PSD to XHTML conversion service ($139 per PSD to XHTML) to SmashingApps exclusive readers.FeCoding offers client side programming. That means they code in XHTML, CSS & JavaScript. If you want so they can also write AJAX requests, using JSON or not. Additionally, FeCoding can use existing open source solutions and integrate them into your design. It can be existing JavaScript libraries like Mootools or jQuery, APIs like Google Maps, or existing solutions that they modify to your needs (like jsCalendar).