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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. Donâ€™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

You 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.

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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

osTicket 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.

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40+ Must-See Resources And Inspirational Collections 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 40+ Must-See Resources And Inspirational Collections For Designers. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.30+ Excellent & Inspirational Digital Paintings

30+ Excellent & Inspirational Digital Paintings

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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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11 Great Resources And Inspirations Of Current Design Trends

Getting an idea and inspiration is sometimes really hard and when you are planning to start your new web design project and you are curiously finding for a mind blowing web design inspiration so you don't want to spend too much time and want to get start something as soon as you can. But most of the time, your mouse is not moving around as you want or your hand is not in your creative control or maybe when you are just tired and do not have creative mood to work. So if you want to get fresh your creative man or come up with some creative web design ideas or just need to motivate and inspire yourself with current design trends, we are today listing down 11 Great Resources And Inspirations Of Current Design Trends. This list is not long in numbers but I promise you that when you start browsing them in details it will must boost your creative design ideas professionally and motivate you for to design your project in such a way that people will never forget that you have made it!Web Design Trends For 2009

In this post, you will find Web design trends for 2009 like recent developments, new design elements and new graphic approaches.

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5 Useful And Free Photo Viewers For Your Mac OS X

This is not the first post in which 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. Donâ€™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 1Freeware Image Viewers For Your Mac OS X You Should Bookmark.Xee

Xee is a lightweight, fast and convenient image viewer and browser. It is designed to be a serious tool for image viewing and management, with a sleek and powerful interface. It is very fast, and uses less memory than most other image viewing tools. It also uses OpenGL to display and scroll images much more smoothly than other viewers. Its interface is highly streamlined and has easily configurable keyboard shortcuts.

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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 Photoshop

Create a Shiny 3D Snooker Ball in Photoshop

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50 Stunning Examples Of Architecture Photography

We are showing you 50 Stunning Examples Of Architecture Photography. The credit goes to all those talented photographers who taken these excellent photos

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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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13 Simplest Free Web Tools That Are Absolutely Useful

Today, we are publishing another list of 13 online free web based 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 register with them to use the service. 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.imgur

imgur.com is the simple image sharer. It's the best way to host your image, and is always completely free. Sharing your images has never been easier.

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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.

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8 Excellent Free Websites To Enjoy Your Weekend Or Just For Fun

What do you do normally on weekends? Find a way to get busy in something to refresh your minds? This post will make you busy on your weekends to spend your time in more interesting way. Here we are listing down few of the unique free websites that are fun to use for everyone of you. This is the post in which you will know about 8 Excellent Free Websites To Enjoy Your Weekend Or Just For Fun.Hollywood Hair Makeover

With Hollywood Hair Makeover, you can try on your favorite star styles and colors before you make a trip to the salon. Just upload your photo or choose a model and let the transformations begin. Print your favorite looks and e-mail them to friends.

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33 Nicely Designed And Well-Colored But Simple Web Designs

Where do you go normally when you are planning to start your new web design project and you are curiously finding for a mind blowing web design inspiration or just want yourself to bring up with some amazing creative ideas which can help you to create your web design project like it will make a trend or inspiration for others. But sometimes, your mouse is not moving around as you want or your hand is not in your creative control or maybe when you are just tired and do not have creative mood to work. So if you want to get fresh your creative man or come up with some creative web design ideas or just need to motivate and inspire yourself, we are today listing down 33 Nicely Designed And Well-Colored But Simple Web Designs. This list is not long in numbers but I promise you that when you start browsing them in details it will must boost your creative web design ideas professionally and motivate you for design your web design something which people will never forget that you have made it!FrancescoMugnai

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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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43 Incredibly Useful Collection of Tutorials, Resources, Inspirations etc To Discover The Best Of The Web In February

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 43 Incredibly Useful Collection of Tutorials, Resources, Inspirations etc. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.40 Incredible Digital Painting Portraits

40 Incredible Digital Painting Portraits

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13 Most Desirable Collection Of Free Resources For Every Designer

In the search of free resources, We always work really hard to bring all those stuffs that could help others. We mainly focuses that all the resource should be attractive and useful for everyone in anyway. There are countless free stuffs available for designers which everyone should check at least once. In this post, I have collected 13 Most Desirable Collection Of Free Resources For Every Designer.50 Free High-Quality Icon Sets

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15 Beautiful Web Designs Empowered With Ajax Techniques

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, 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. In this post, we are listing down 15 Beautiful Web Designs Empowered With Ajax Techniques for your inspiration.BBC