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It’s time for an awesome giveaway for flash developers. We are giving away one FlashMoto CMS License (worth $199) to one of our readers. FlashMoto is a fantastic Flash CMS which gives you the ability to fantastic flash websites without any hassle.
It’s WYSIWYG Editor (Drap and Drop) is simply great which easily lets you add texts, shapes, wigets and plugins to your site. Embedding pictures and videos can also done in no time.
Main Features Include:
- Ability to add unlimited number of pages.
- Any flash website can be managed.
- Advanced WYSIWYG page and Pop-up editor.
- The richest media library.
- Infomodule, video & Image Gallery components.
Another worth mentioning feature is that there is No Flash IDE required. All you need is a web browser through which you can make all necessary alterations and is compatible with all major browsers.
To enter the giveaway, all you need to do is;
1 Random winner will be announced on February 15th (Monday). Also make sure to enter a valid email address where we can contact.
Since macromedia flash came out, I became a big fan. Although, I wasn’t that good at it, was below average but I always loved the Animations, basically in form of flash websites. Today, the bars have been raised and the animators are doing extra-ordinary work. Presenting a list of 12 awesome animations that you’ll adore for sure.
1- BeerRun
2- Aladdin 3150
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Having free space lets us work more efficiently. The absence of clutter gives off a neat look which results in us working better. This simple fact is not restricted to our physical work; it also applies to our computer and internet experience. Having more space to work with is just better.
Firefox users can now improve their browser based on the abovementioned fact by using a great Firefox add-on titled Compact Toolbar Buttons. This little add-on decreases the in-between spaces of your toolbar buttons. Here by toolbar buttons, we mean the back, forward, stop, refresh, and home buttons.
Here is how the buttons on our Firefox looked prior to using the add-on:
Now have a look at the effect Compact Toolbar Buttons had:
The difference is quite noticeable.
If you want the buttons to occupy even lesser space, you can right click on the main toolbar, and enter customize:
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With an increasing number of people already shifting to Windows 7, numerous bug fixes, tips, tools, and utilities are being found/made. Today, we are going to go over some utilities which work with Windows 7 as well as Windows Vista. Readers who use either system will surely benefit from all of these. Also take a look at some Useful Windows 7 Applications which we posted in the past.
1- Fix Internet Explorer
This utility is fixes the crashes of Internet Explorer and ensures smooth browsing operations. The utility comes compressed in a small ZIP archive of which the contents you can simply extract and use. Make sure to close all open Internet Explorer windows before running the utility.
Fix IE Utility can be downloaded from here and has been tested on Internet Explorer versions 7 and 8.
2- Prevent Deletion Of Important Files
Novice users have more than once deleted important system files. The deletion of these files corrupts the operating system and the only viable solution to solve the corruption is the reinstallation of the operating system. Of course the best cure is prevention, hence this utility. Prevent (version 1.0) is a freeware application which runs on all Windows.
This freeware prevents cutting, pasting, copying, deleting, copy to, move to, send to, and renaming functions. Installing Prevent on your system means that your files will never be tampered with, especially not your system files.
Prevent can be enable/disabled by assigning it hotkeys which smoothens functionality.
3- Ultimate Windows Tweaker
Ultimate Windows Tweaker is an unbelievably small (~345 KB) utility which does not require any installation whatsoever. Despite its minuscule size, it has over 150 tweaks i.e. ways to enhance the performance of your Windows.
The Windows Tweaker can be downloaded directly from here. Any Windows user will surely find this utility to be extremely beneficial; the improved system performance will be clearly noticeable.
4- Windows Access Panel
Windows Access Panel is your one stop to access all important aspects of your Windows. Here is how the panel looks like:
To access the objects/utilities listed in the panel, one would need to access the Control Panel first and then be able to adjust/modify the settings. However, with the help of the Access Panel, all you do is click on the relevant icon to be taken directly to the settings you want to change.
The icons listed in the screenshot of Access Panel pasted above show only few of the 48 programs of which the shortcuts are available on the panel. Displaying them makes access all the more easier for the user.
Windows 7, something which is way better than Vista (I hate Vista) – speedwise and supports almost every thing. Most of the users (like myself) have shifted or are being shifted to Windows 7 gradually. There are many awesome windows 7 applications, almost all the major ones already have their own versions which are for windows 7 only. I’ve compiled here a small list of Windows 7 applications that you will definitely like, some of these applications are new and are in beta phase (which you can also participate in the testing and development), rest have their final versions, so on and so forth.
1- Windows 7 Application Launcher (7APL)
7APL is an application launcher made with Windows 7 in mind. You can launch single applications or group of applications with a single hot key or by using the newest features of Microsoft’s latest OS — JumpLists and interactive thumbnails which are well-integrated into the application. This gives you 3 easy ways to launch applications:
- Right click access to profiles through JumpLists (whether the app is opened or closed)
- Customizable hot keys for each individual profile
- Interactive thumbnail to view/launch profiles (hover over 7APL icon in taskbar)
Features Include:
- Profiles – Group applications into profiles to launch them simultaneously.
- Profile pictures – Associate pictures with profiles to easily identify between them.
- Hotkeys – Specify hotkeys on a per-profile basis to launch your applications
- Interactive thumbnail – Launch profiles directly from the taskbar
- Jumplist support – Launch profiles or tasks directly using jumplists
- Toggle Mode – Toggle mode allows you to close the apps you launched (on a per-profile basis)
- Exceptions – Pesky applications that won’t close can be added as an exception
- Pinning – The application pins just fine for those who want it constantly running
- Options – Run 7APL at system boot, minimize on startup, and minimize on close ensures you can keep the launcher running at all times if desired
Download Here (Beta Version)
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AltPE (Alternative Picture Editor) is a freeware application alternative to your usual image editor. To retouch and edit images, and add basic effects on your photos, there is no need to hack the latest version of Adobe Photoshop.
AltPE works with most popular image formats: PNG, BMP, GIF, TIF, PPM, PGM, PNM, JPEG (compression adjustable) and JPEG2000. And it supports RAW through DCRaw. You can add text on the design, size and shape rotate as desired. Adjust color, light and contrast of the image. Remove annoying red eye effect on pictures. And, among many other functions, supports the TWAIN standard to also use a scanner.
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Usually, people like me (when searching for a particular thing), have to open different links simultaneously to get what we need, so we have to go for the basic process which includes opening them individually. Here’s a firefox addon that saves you some time in doing so. It’s call “Multi Links”, a nifty addon which lets you open, copy or bookmark multiple links at the same time.
All you need to do is, simple right click & hold to drag a box around your required links, when you release, it will automatically open (in a new tab), copy and bookmark those links which is the default option and you can change it to your requirements. You can also fully customize the look of these links through colours, border styles etc.
You can select groups of links in different areas of the page by using the shift or ctrl keyboard keys. This comes in handy if you want to open #1,2,3,4 and 7,8,9,10 in Google missing out #5 & 6 for example. You can either drag a box around them all and then use shift or ctrl to deselect #5 & 6 or select #1,2,3 & 4 and then hold shift or ctrl and draw another box around #7,8,9 & 10.
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Just confronted a great online tool and thought I got to share this. It’s called Savor Chat. What it does is, allows Twitter friends to sign in with OAuth, Facebook friends to use Facebook Connect, create a chat room and let that selected bunch chat with each other. It basically is a very simple FREE group chat application for Facebook and Twitter users which can be used for Online networking meetings, Collaborative project discussions, Complement conference calls, Live discussions with friends about a game and much more.
With Savor chat you can,
- Create and host your own chat room
- Make your chat room public or private with password protection
- Send direct messages to 1 or more users within a room
- Schedule when your room is open
- Invite your Facebook friends
Check it out here.
Complement conference calls
Live discussions with friends about a game
Debate politics
Being secure, on the web specially is something we all need. There are thousands of risks roaming and getting evolved in shape of different malwares, viruses, file & more. Since these things come via your browser and majority of us use firefox, here are some of the best and useful plugins/add-ons which can help you be safe on the internet.
1- Request Policy
RequestPolicy is an extension for Mozilla browsers that improves the privacy and security of your browsing by giving you control over when cross-site requests are allowed by webpages you visit. It is the first comprehensive client-side protection against CSRF attacks and the first tool to enable the use of modern browsers without cross-site information leakage.
It is compatible with Firefox 3+, SeaMonkey 2.0, Flock 2.0, Songbird 1.0, and Fennec 1.0. It works wherever these browsers do (Linux, BSD, Mac, Windows, etc.).
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Apple does bring the best out of lots of things but since I’m a guy who doesn’t want to bore people up with long descriptions etc, I’ll skip that. Bottom line, have gathered a great list of softwares for Mac (design) users, most of these are free, some offer trial periods and vice versa. I hope you’ll enjoy and find something that can be helpful to you in any manners.
1- Just Looking (Photo Viewer) – Free
JustLooking, an image viewing program for Mac OS X. JustLooking is designed to be used instead of the “Preview” application on your computer for browsing most image file formats. In particular, it has the following differences:
It focuses on files and directories instead of lists of files. Thus, once you load a file, you can easily navigate through all other files in the same directory.
It displays images at their native resolution instead of interpreting DPI information stored in the image meta-data. While images are printed at the maximum resolution possible, on screen they are displayed pixel-by-pixel.
Being designed more for viewing of Images, it properly shows animated GIF files.
The entire program can easily be manipulated and powered by simple keystrokes for a quick and pleasant viewing experience.
There is support for printing, image resizing, saving to a few key image formats, and displaying of all image info.
JustLooking is an free image viewing program for Mac OS X which is designed to be used instead of the “Preview” application on your computer for browsing most image file formats. It focuses on files and directories instead of lists of files. All you have to do is, load a file and you can easily navigate through all other files in the same directory. It displays images at their native resolution instead of interpreting DPI information stored in the image meta-data. While images are printed at the maximum resolution possible, on screen they are displayed pixel-by-pixel. Being designed more for viewing of Images, it properly shows animated GIF files. The entire program can easily be manipulated and powered by simple keystrokes for a quick and pleasant viewing experience. There is support for printing, image resizing, saving to a few key image formats, and displaying of all image info.
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