Archive for the Toolbox Category
Posted on March 5, 2009 with 7 Comments
What is Balsamiq Mockups ?
Balsamiq Mockups is a solution for the real headache that each designers faces. It all starts when the client rejects the PSD mockup you have made with loads of effort and valuable time. Balsamiq mockups is a cross platform app which will help you to build rough sketch of the interface design project in a matter of time..
The Interface
One of the best part of the Balsamiq Mockups is its interface layout. It has a very easy, simple and usable Interface layout. Which will help its users to arrange elements by dragging it from the showcase to the workspace. Its interface elements collection can be accessed through a scrollable showcase and can be sorted using certain credentials.
Tags: AIR, App, Capsules, Design, Free, GUI, guide, interface, review, tools, UI, Web
Category: Toolbox
Posted on October 15, 2008 with No Comments
Splicd is an online app which will help you to share any YouTube videos with the online friends and contacts by assigning a custom starting. Which means the viewer will not forced to watch the whole video to see a specific part of the timeline.! You can see some goodie in the url structure itself. think about it 
Is that app helped you ?
Posted on October 12, 2008 with 4 Comments
Every designers and developers loves tools that simplifies their works. And even if you have a complicate heavy software that does the job, you will be very happy if you get a tiny fast loading alternative, what if it is cross-platform too ?! I’ve compiled a list of 12 Adobe AIR apps that can replace every designers and developers toolbox. You must have Adobe Integrated Runtime installed in your computer before you start using these apps, AIR is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux !
WebKut
WebKut is a screen capturing app with an easy to use interface and many functions like full-page screenshot, selection etc..
Shrink-O-Matic
This is a cool app lets a photo blogger or a flickr addict to resize their images in the predefined specification, just drag the Image to the app after defining the specification, its very easy !
COLOURlovers
My be you go to COLORlovers.com for color pallets, patterns and inspiration, Now you can do it directly from your desktop with this cool app. lets you search inside the whole database of COLORlovers.com
ConceptShare
ConceptShare allows you to create online workspace for sharing designs. This desktop app allows you to upload files directly from your desktop.
Ora Time & Expense
An application for tracking times worked on a project, that works with a timer and generates timesheets & expense reports.
Doomi
A simple to-do management tool, Beside simple and easy interface Doomi can alerts you about the upcoming tasks.
Snippely
A very simple yet functional & “must use” tool for developers and web designers.
Every developer has some favorite libraries, functions & other ready-to-use codes. Using Snippely, you can group, organize & store your code snippets easily.
Font Picker
Presents you all the fonts installed in your computer & makes font selection easier. Also you can supply custom text also on this web-based app.
Em Calculator
Like the name says, Em Calculator allows you to supply em values for CSS coding, along with some extra features. If you want to read more, you can read it from the download page
Klok
Klok is a desktop app to track time you spent on a project and anything related. With graphs and better organization.
Icon Generator
A Tiny app lets you to design CS3 style or Web2.0 style icons easily, Just pick desired color and type the name, You will get icons in 4 different size.
Pixus
A pixel ruler that enables you to measure the size of any screen object.. With browser skins, overlay mode you can also preview how your design will look in the real Environment.
Web & interface designers will love it.
Posted on October 6, 2008 with No Comments
Whether you are a Photographer, Designer, Blogger or nothing 
you might have to deal with thousands of images day by day. Organizing them correctly with relevant tags and placing them in appropriate category is one of the headache that you have to face.
There are many application softwares available now to minimize this problem, we are discussing here about some of them which will give you best results and saves your time, and makes you more productive.
One of the wide popular software from Apple, With many advanced functions to manage and edit photos, also it can import from cameras and publish photos online.
(Mac Only)
Another popular software to manage photos from software giant Adobe. Lightroom also has functions similar to Apple Aperture, and many other things to.
(Windows/Mac)
Yet another professional photo management tool with all tools needed to manage backup and edit photos.
(Windows Only)
Pictomio is Freeware and sets new standards for 3D accelerated browsing of your photo and video collection. Allows you to manage them tagged with an easy interface, So cool, lite and FREE
(Windows Only)
Windows Live Photo gallery is an advanced version of Windows Photogallery that comes with Windows Vitsa, Windows Live Photo gallery available for free With Live Package. This also allows basic editing, and tagging of photos for easy management
(Windows Only)
Finally if you are not ready to buy/ install any of the softwares above, there is a manual way to organize you picture / media / any files !
Yeah Create folders and keep files organized..
Posted on August 8, 2008 with 2 Comments
An icon is the first graphical portion that attracts users to an application, A user interact with an Application’s desktop icon before they experience the UI of the software, In web design icons play very important roles, Favicons are the best example for it.
Using Search Engines like Google or Yahoo for finding an icon that suits your need is very time consuming. So lets think of icon specific search engines, Made only to find the icon files from the huge internet.
Icon Finder
Iconfinder is one of the best Iconsearch engines available today. With Its Instant Suggest Feature it makes Finding Icons faster than ever, With elaborated information about the Icon License and Designer Iconfinder is one of the best.
ICONlook
Icon Look is another web 2.0 service which enables the designers to locate the icons faster, in a simple way, Icon Look lets you to search icons based on their resolution. It also provides maximum information about the specific icon you have choosed.
Icons Search
Icons Search Engine lets you to find icons for all platforms including Windows, Linux, OS x and Web. The search site also include a iframe of source site. But the interface is not so simple compared to the other services. 
Yeah Service matters
Search Icon
Search Icon is a Search tool that is still on its development phase, Most of its features are incomplete, But it provides most icons and information about each of them. This site lets you browse icons like in your desltop computer, Simply like you browsing them on the Folders.
Need Extra ?
Yes, I know you need something extra from me.. Ok Catch it..
Vista Icon Is a web site which gives you loads of well designed icons.
deviantArt is a community that every designer must be aware of.
IconBuffet is another community only for icons, Yeah the guys at iconbuffet showed me that designer can make icon collection a hobby ! (If you use iconbuffet, I love to be your friend there )
Google don’t forget a netizens good friend Google !
Posted on May 19, 2008 with 3 Comments
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