Today I heard about the major conspiracy about the file uploading server that is called MEGAUPLOAD. So it is observed that Megaupload is down from 2 days.Eight people we charged with criminal copyright infringement charges, and all files hosted on the site were pulled offline. And also heard that they hired top attorney Robert Bennett [...]
Another marvelous and magnificent collection of Photoshop brushes and this time we present free and high quality floral Photoshop brushes. Every designer even the novices know that floral brushes have ultimately become an easy technique that they can use to bring the magnificence and beauty of nature into their projects.
Flowers are the symbol of beauty and they bring attractions no matter where they are placed. In addition, they also denote love and affection and therefore used widely in most special occasion apart from parks, offices and any other establishments. With floral brushes, you can beautify your designs as well as can also express the feelings of love and affection.
We are pleased to share with you this amazing and beautiful collection of free floral brushes from talented designers. Enjoy!
Fantasy Floral Photoshop Brushes
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In this collection, you will see some of the best jQuery Calendar Date Picker Plugins that will allow you output planners and calendars even more easily. Majority of these plugins are built on jQuery and jQuery UI (User Interface). With this collection, we tend to help those who need frameworks with great functionality.
You can directly incorporate these plugins into your website as they only require minor modifications and styling. These qualities make them extraordinarily acceptable because every project requires its own design and therefore you should modify style of calendar plugin as well.
Date Range Picker using jQuery and CSS Framework
BlueShoes JS DatePicker Component
AJAX Booking Calendar Pro (jQuery Calendar Plugin)
wdCalendar – jQuery Based Google Calendar Clone
Sexy jQuery Multiday Calendar Datepicker Plugin – jCal
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Website testing and validation are the must to conduct processes before making any website live. By Validation, we mean the process of checking out the website data against a standard or requirement. It has become extremely important to verify the quality and correctness of web page code. These are the necessary and fundamental process and one should never overlook to check and test the web pages in order to make sure that they are working fine with great look.
Therefore, we compiled an excellent collection of some of the best online tools for website validation and testing. We hope that these highly useful online tools for website validation and testing will make your life easier. Enjoy!
This validator checks the markup validity of Web documents in HTML, XHTML, SMIL, MathML, etc.
WAVE is a free web accessibility evaluation tool provided by WebAIM. It is used to aid humans in the web accessibility evaluation process. Rather than providing a complex technical report, WAVE shows the original web page with embedded icons and indicators that reveal the accessibility of that page.
This is the W3C Feed Validation Service, a free service that checks the syntax of Atom or RSS feeds.
Use this tool to evaluate the functional accessibility of a single web page.
Use this tool for testing your site on all browsers on most operating systems.
With this tool you can Analyze your website speed and breaking down the way elements are loaded.
This tool analyzes anchors (hyperlinks) in a HTML/XHTML document. It is very useful to find broken links.
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Here is yet another exciting collection of high quality Free Icon PSD files for the designers that they can easily modify according to their needs and requirements. We all know very well how precious high quality PSD files are for the designers especially when they are running out of the time. Therefore, even the most experienced and qualified designers are persistently look forward to new and fresh PSD files that they can add to their toolboxes with the intention that they will be armed and ready for whatsoever their next client or project has to throw at them.
In this sum-up, we are presenting a compilation of more than 40 high quality icon sets that are available in PSD formats in order that you can amend them at your ease. Enjoy the resources
Note: All PSD icon sets are free. Kindly read the license agreements carefully prior to using the PSD’s for business use, the license can change from time to time.
Free web development icons psd
iPhone app icon templates
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There are many tools out there for internet users, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. That is why I am sharing Three Useful Web Applications For Designers And Alike. Read each entry in the list and see which one suits your needs best.
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BrandMyMail is a service that stands between you and your recipients: mails that you send pass through our servers, where your templates are applied, and are then sent along to their final destination. Currently, this is working with Gmail.
To recolor sites, templates, and generally any web-related stuff, you can use this web app. It does the job automatically in seconds or minutes instead of hours or days of manual work.
Makeuptor is a new incredibly simple tool for adding custom graphics to your website as easy as possible.
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Thanks to all of the participants of contest in which DesignModo’s Futurico UI Pro (The World’s Biggest User Interface Elements Pack) were givingaway. We ran the MySQL random query and selected these comments to give them DesignModo’s Futurico UI Pro.
Winners of DesignModo’s Futurico UI Pro
Futurico UI Pro is the world’s biggest user interface elements pack. It contains more than 200 web design elements that can be used in any project no matter the style or the concept. The pack contains a set of elements added in one extraordinary collection and the good thing is that you can use them for any design or application.
All the elements from this pack are editable and available in PSD (fully layered), hence they can be easily integrated in any concept or design. This archive provides 3 sets of elements in different colors and 2 examples of web design where they have been used. You will get a better idea on how a single UI Kit can help you create plenty of different designs.
DesignModo is a great resource of informative material for designers, web developers, graphic artists or just curious folks looking for inspiration. They provide design, web development and art-oriented articles and we promote the works of talented artists from all over the world.
Thanks to DesignModo for sponsoring this wonderful contest at Smashing Apps.
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At times it appears that Tumblr is most frequently ignored blogging platform out there. The reason behind this ignorance is that many people are unaware of what they can make of it from. This is because Tumblr is not a regular blogging platform like Blogger or WordPress and it is either not like a microblogging platform yet it holds great potential to get your message out there.
Since, many people do not even know what does Tumblr means, designing Tumblr themes can be like a daunting task for the designers as they need to figure out how they can develop themes for Tumblr taking into consideration that there are seven or you can say eight post types if you count photo slideshow posts as separate from regular photo posts.
So, here we compiled a collection of some beautifully designed Tumblr themes for you to get some inspiration as well as to beautify your Tumblr posts.
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Now that the iPhone 4S’s Siri has been cracked, the rest of the smart phone world can indulge in their fetish for barking commands at their favorite Mobile piece of plastic.
For those wondering what a Siri is, it’s Apple answer to the Personal Assistant of the future. Like a human PA, Siri can help with daily time management, scheduling meetings, correspondence, note taking, answering questions, and perform actions by sending requests to an expanding set of online services.
Some claim It even delves into the realms of Spooky AI because the application, by default, can make recommendations; and over time (assuming you’re one of those lucky people who actually can stick to a schedule fed into your phone/PDS) Siri can even go to extent of making dinner reservations or hiring a taxi cab.
Much as we were excited, however we at Smashingapps took a step back and asked ourselves “Do we really *HAVE* to wait for a hacked iPhone app to fulfill our Intelligent Knight Rider like needs ?” For all those Android(ers) out there, who crave to have something as cool as the ‘Siri’, we roll in a list of some of the best alternatives to make your Android handset look as smart as the Apple’s iPhone.
Tagged as the best voice-powered Virtual Assistant on Android, Vlingo presents the perfect Siri-like functionality. Loaded with a great User Interface, your Personal Assistant (Vlingo) is always by your side to help you when sending messages, calling someone, opening Android apps, finding restaurants and businesses or performing a certain search. In addition, Android handset owners can use the app to update on social networks, including Twitter and Facebook.
A simple tap on “Speak It” would start the app’s listening process and rest you can leave on Vlingo to perform. Whereas, Voice recognition is termed as one of the toughest technology to master on, we were very impressed with Vlingo’s perfomance.
Furthermore, the app has the ability to read incoming text messages and emails while you drive via SafeReader component. The voice clarity is way above other apps, even when compared to Google’s very own “Voice Actions” as it speaks with perfect punctuation. In a recent update, Vlingo InCar feature has been added to allow users to make hands-free call, send, reply to and receive text messages and email as well as search the web without the need to touch the phone.
Whereas Android phones come pre-loaded with some impressive voice command tools, for all those looking forward on taking this feature to the next level, Edwin helps you super charge your voice commands by giving verbal responses to your queries.
Power up Edwin from your home screen or using a hot key and get ready to have your queries answered. Get to know the outside temperature, premiere of a movie happening or a nearby theater, on-going promotions on the local store or identifying your location, Edwin is the perfect companion to help you on this.
Questions asked are responded out loud and in easily parsed text instead of long search results for you to filter.
In the early days there used to be planners, sticky notes, and various gadgets to keep up the daily appointments. With fast development in the mobile phone world, a great change has been witnessed. Your smart phone is now your handheld computer, a notepad, a GPS guide, a music library and much more, that too in a sleek device which fits your pocket.
Whereas your handset can perform on all these things, it lacked the feature to directly interact and follow your commands. Voice Actions for Android is the ultimate solution to control your Android handset using your voice. Call, text, email, search the web or complete certain tasks, all that can be done by just speaking into your phone.
One of the best thing I experienced while testing out the app, it helps you call a particular business, even when you have no information on it. Example, you need a cake for your manager’s birthday and that too from a particular bakery. Instead of looking for contact information, all you do is “SAY IT” and it simply Google’s the information and makes the desired call.
Every now and then, you would have found yourself messaging your friends and family while driving. Whereas this diverts your attention from the road, we have found the perfect app for safe driving as your texts are sent.
Sonalight’s Text By Voice app is the perfect solution compared to others which require attention from your eyes and fingers while driving. Launch the app and simply shout, “Text By Voice”, which will launch the feature and all you need to do is to follow the spoken voice cues to respond or compose texts.
One of the best thing I discovered while testing out the app, Text By Voice is always listening even when your phone is sleeping which means you can send out texts without the need to unlock your phone.
Yet another possible Siri alternative for Android, called Speaktoit Assistant. Having to test it out, the Android based app worked pretty much the same as the popular iPhone Siri.
Speaktoit Assistant for Android will launch apps, answer questions and connect with social networks including Facebook, Foursquare and Twitter. And this is not all it does, you can browser maps, search for news and images, weather updates, send emails, and much more.
The app presents an avatar allowing you to change his/her look to something like a street guy to an Asian girl.
This might be the 6th app I have tried out during my search for a ‘Siri’ alternative for android. Upon launching the app, you would be welcomed by a collection of buttons you can use to explore questions and tasks you can have Skyvi to perform.
Skyvi has the knowledge on almost everything from Local Businesses to a healthy meal. The app talks back to you with various jokes and remarks. Users can access and update Facebook and Twitter using voice instructions.
Might call this as the perfect ‘Siri’ alternative with ability to find and call places, load directions, define words, look for weather updates, search local businesses, access social networks and much more.
On lookout for Siri like apps for Android, bumped into ‘Iris’ with tech geeks calling it “Sort Of Siri for Android”. This app allows you to search on various subjects including art, biology, history and more. Just ask on almost anything and it would reply with a paragraph from Wikipedia.
The app was completely designed in 8 hours by Android dev Narayan Babu and his team. Whereas designed in a record time, the questions you ask by voice are answered back in a smart voice. Although not as accurate as Siri, the results are surely amazing.
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