Webmaster 9 » apps http://www.webmaster9.com Free Webmaster Resources Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:06:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Procedures to Design for iPhone apps – The clicking Technology to the finishing touch http://www.webmaster9.com/2010-09/procedures-to-design-for-iphone-apps-the-clicking-technology-to-the-finishing-touch.html http://www.webmaster9.com/2010-09/procedures-to-design-for-iphone-apps-the-clicking-technology-to-the-finishing-touch.html#comments Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:18:03 +0000 Webmaster9 http://www.webmaster9.com/2010-09/procedures-to-design-for-iphone-apps-the-clicking-technology-to-the-finishing-touch.html “I” for the i-range of apple products stands bold to empower the symbol “I” for the internet, information and ultimately the individual who beholds a global information resource on his iphone.  The interface and the background processing all play a vital role in making the iphone the great connector in the Internet-information network. And so the iphone apps are but a window to the world-galore of information interaction and info-tainment, taking you on a virtual tour, through a hand-held, mobile and versatile device.What goes into the procedures to design for iphone apps, which makes iphone the standard ‘Reach, Touch and Experience’ utility cum service?The iphone sports impeccable features such as a (3D processor, multi-touch screen, camera, accelerometer) ,which coordinate to give you a seamless internet connectivity through Wi-fi and 3G. How to design iphone apps, so that the interface and functionality is simply a summation of an excellent utility and valuable service?The procedure for designing iphone apps starts with the feasibility study of the client’s business needs. The proposal’s marketability is envisioned through the iphone apps medium, along with prospects of growth at the same time; thereby assessing the viability of the project within the technical, economical, operational and time-frame parameters.Once the project is considered feasible the next stage of procedure for designing iphone apps is that of the Apps Concept, where the developer will originate with a concept correlating it with the business requirements, the target customers and the value-additions to the client’s existing brand value; to come out with a model, which will define the specifications and the scope of the project.The concept translates into design: for the prototype and the UI(User-interface).Its well known as to how the iPhone captured the Internet fad through its interface  that made virtual reality  cater to real-time needs(be it a music store or a book store apps) rendering boundless connectivity to anything and everything, just at the touch of a fingerSo the prototype will encompass the user-experience and functionality for each screen of the apps and provide a simulation of how the apps will exactly work on the iphone.The simulation process consequently leads to the actual design and development wherein the coding for the iphone apps is done as per the framework delivered by the prototype and UI design phase. Apple’s developer tools for coding such as  X-code, Cocoa Touch, framework and Objective C, makes the best use of technology  to deliver  to the interface with features such as animation, networking, inter-operability ,and visuals.The Apps is considered ready for deployment only after it goes through the process of testing. Testing is a crucial phase in the procedure for designing iphone apps. Here the apps is checked  for its functionality and its relevance to the prototype, developing fixes, for existing bugs and proactively plug in, prospective fixes.Once the testing phase is over the apps is ready for launch where in the marketing tools and techniques are made ready, by providing the most ideal platform, and identifying the target customers and also the potential onesPost development, there should be sustained efforts towards the maintenance of the apps, with a focus on the evolving user by simplified solutions through innovative upgrades.The procedure for designing iPhone apps is an extension of the development cycle used for web-applications, with additional features, for a novel interface, a new medium rising from hi-end design tools.  And iPhone apps also anchor to the web-medium applications, as a matter of base-connectivity (for the frequent travelers, the iPhone is ‘way to stay in touch with their desk ‘). Thus, the roots of iphone apps technology traces to evolved web-application tools(right from graphical user-interface or user interface design), and strengthening the web-medium of development for wider scope for futuristic applications is web  development Company Pixint Graphics which  has  core specialization in web design and development., ecommerce portals, and web portal development. At Pixint, the service is not just of a web development company, our portfolio extends to custom web development, with greater scope for creativity, innovation to create a framework which is extensible and adaptable to growing customer requirements and the evolving technology.

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]]> http://www.webmaster9.com/2010-09/procedures-to-design-for-iphone-apps-the-clicking-technology-to-the-finishing-touch.html/feed 0 Here IS The Latest Web application and graphic designers which apps do you use? http://www.webmaster9.com/2010-07/here-is-the-latest-web-application-and-graphic-designers-which-apps-do-you-use.html http://www.webmaster9.com/2010-07/here-is-the-latest-web-application-and-graphic-designers-which-apps-do-you-use.html#comments Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:53:57 +0000 Webmaster9 http://www.webmaster9.com/2010-07/here-is-the-latest-web-application-and-graphic-designers-which-apps-do-you-use.html Adobe AIR is a great platform to build efficient and cutting edge desktop applications, that work on any operating system.

In the last few years, hundreds of very useful applications have been built on AIR for all sorts of purposes. Here we focus our attention on apps built for web and graphic designers.

This list only contains applications that have proven to be dependable and useful for designers. We’ve split it up into these sections:

1. Splashup Light:

Splashup Light is a casual desktop based image editor. It provides a lot of features to enhance, manipulate and edit your photos with minimum effort.

2. Color Lovers:

Color Lovers offers a desktop color finder for searching the ColorLovers community database. Using this app you can search from over 1 million named colors and 300,000 user created color palettes.

3. Contrast-A:

Contrast-A allows you to check for contrast, experiment with color combination and interact with a 3 dimensional RGB color space.

4. LiveBrush:

LiveBrush is a drawing app that lets you create extra-ordinary graphics by combining simple motion controls with creative brush styles.

5. Icon Generator:

Icon Generator allows you to create stylish icons with minimum drawing abilities. Just select the type of icon you want, customize the text and color and create your icon.

6. e2vector:

e2vector is an illustration tool with powerful features like layers, masks, gradients, intersection and path splicing. It also allows you to import/export SVG files.

7. ColorPicker:

Using ColorPicker you can either pick a color from a color grid or design a color using sliders to adjust the RGB values of a color. An essential tool for somebody trying to play around with colors.

8. ColorBrowser:

ColorBrowser is a simple app to organize your favorite color palettes locally. You can import color palettes that you have created elsewhere in the form of ASE files.

9. Kuler:

Kuler is probably the most popular design app for AIR. Kuler lets you generate color themes for any project and browse through thousands of themes created by the Kuler community. It lets you experiment with color variations without any hassle to design your new project.

10. Random Pattern:

A cool app that creates color patterns based on your given parameters.

There are a tonne of great apps out there for Air. We’ve compiled our favorites here, but are there any we’ve missed? Which apps do you use?

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]]> http://www.webmaster9.com/2010-07/here-is-the-latest-web-application-and-graphic-designers-which-apps-do-you-use.html/feed 0 How Apps can Help your Facebook Ad http://www.webmaster9.com/2010-07/how-apps-can-help-your-facebook-ad.html http://www.webmaster9.com/2010-07/how-apps-can-help-your-facebook-ad.html#comments Wed, 14 Jul 2010 05:54:25 +0000 Webmaster9 http://www.webmaster9.com/2010-07/how-apps-can-help-your-facebook-ad.html Applications have the ability to go viral – and Facebook is all about viral: But did you ever stop to think how much apps can help increase the effectiveness of your Facebook Ad?The beauty of Facebook apps – they’re interactive: Something your fans can click on, and get a tiny reward in the form of a result. It can be as minimal as the “Like This” link you click on ads, allowing you to express your preference… or something that provides a more tangible reward. For example, clicking on a flower to “send” it to a friend.And now that Facebook’s development platform allows anyone who’s interested to concoct their own app, it’s something you may wish to consider as a strategy to enhance your Facebook page – or ad!In case you’re breaking out in hives at the word “app”, let me ask you a question:  Have you ever created a widget? If you’re nodding in relief, and saying, “Oh yes. I’ve created lots of widgets!” you should have no problem. That’s basically what Facebook apps are; or at least, how they operate.App ExamplesIf you’re brand new to apps and are just curious what they look like… think of all those little links on your Facebook pages:- Poke- Like- Facebook WallAnd, of course, all those annoying messages your Facebook friends send you:  “Give Jane a Virtual Slap”.  So you click, and the first thing you see is the message: “Allow Access? Allowing Slap Your Friends will let it pull your profile information, photos, your friends’ info, and other content that it requires to work”. You then either click “Allow”, or the “Leave Application” link. If you click “Allow”, you’ve added the App to your Facebook account… as well as allowing it to access all your information.Apps that Catch On QuicklyIf you want your app to catch on quickly, there are certain attributes you need to make sure it contains. It’s not nuclear physics – just logical common sense:- Migrating users to your website by inserting a link- Incorporating an element of interaction- Utilizing current events (e.g. an app that allows you to vote or input on some element of upcoming “green” events)Including competition against the computer, or against your user’s “friends”- Creating an unbearably cute app with appealing graphics that hugs, sprinkles fairy dust, gives jewel to or other wise lavishes attention on your lonely Facebook friendsThis latter tactic can be especially successful in increasing your app’s popularity because when the element of competition is added, you can virtually count on users promoting the app for you by begging friends to “vote” or click – or whatever way you’ve set up for them to use it.Making Money with AppsYes. You can. But if you are using one to augment your Facebook ad, making money should be a side-effect, rather than your main tunnel-vision focus.How Do You Actually Make a Facebook App?If you are familiar with PHP and MySQL, or other coding languages, you can easily create one from the Facebook Developer page, which walks you through the process. If not, you might want to consider visiting a site such as guru.com, and hire a coder to create one for you (search, using the parameter “Facebook applications”).Whether you regard apps as the most annoying curse of the 21st century or the most exciting thing since “The Pirates of the Caribbean”, it’s a subject you shouldn’t ignore – particularly if you are considering marketing with Facebook Ads.

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]]> http://www.webmaster9.com/2010-07/how-apps-can-help-your-facebook-ad.html/feed 0 IPhone Apps Development for Social Media http://www.webmaster9.com/2010-07/iphone-apps-development-for-social-media.html http://www.webmaster9.com/2010-07/iphone-apps-development-for-social-media.html#comments Tue, 13 Jul 2010 02:54:00 +0000 Webmaster9 http://www.webmaster9.com/2010-07/iphone-apps-development-for-social-media.html Business today is not restricted regionally as it has become global now. This mode of business demands new marketing strategy and planning. Among the various tools for marketing for small firms and big enterprises social media is an effective tool. Many of the social media sites facilitate business to make advertisements, promotions, brandings, sales, campaign, product launching etc. on their sites with appropriate tools and very interactive ways.

There are numerous ways to get benefits from the Social Media platform. You can earn money through pay per click, advertisements, exciting apps, affiliate marketing and the Branding itself. From the Twitter like micro-blogging platform you can get connected with thousands of users at the same time.

Wow! Great benefits but? Yes, you have to keep logged on to the Internet constantly and therefore, you need to sit at the front of the computer or your laptop for most of your working hours.

Very tedious! No, there is a way out from this too. That is the invention of iPhone! Developed by Apple and marketed by companies like IndiaNIC, it has customized social media applications that can be developed as solution for constant, uninterrupted social media marketing.

According to Apple, its OS download has reached a whopping one billion mark that means a large numbers of people are using iPhone as a mobile Internet connected device. Business firms and marketing agencies can get benefits from such vast pools. Generally people are hooked on to the social networking sites; moreover, this is a chance to make constant presence on social media with the help of the iPhone.

Conclusively, there is a lucrative chance for companies to exploit their business market by developing social media on iphone. One more thing adds fuel in this explosion and that is the highly supportive features of iPhone developed by Apple. This multi touch device has a virtual keyboard, direct Internet connection is possible without any WiFi device help, and all these make iPhone a user-friendly gadget in itself.

Hardik mistry is iphone app developer at IndiaNIC ? a leading iphone app development firm present quality and cost effective iphone application development, iphone web apps development, iphone game and mobile application development services across the globe. For any queries related to iphone email us at enquiry@indianic.com

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The web design software below is all you need to get almost any website concept you can imagine off the drawing board and onto the web, and you won’t have to invest a single penny to use them.

1. GIMP

Possibly the leader in the new era of open source software and definitely one of the finest examples of the possible excellence of free software, GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) has been consistently sited as a worthy replacement for expensive and processor intensive image manipulation programs such as Photoshop.

Every website needs stunning graphics to stand out, and having high quality graphics and photos is a must for any online business. Therefore some image manipulation software is a requirement for everyone. While Adobe has held a well-respected monopoly on this corner of the software market many critics have now sited GIMP as a worthy competitor. While GIMP may now have the vast array of features and plug-ins for which Photoshop is known it does do all the basic functions needed by most web developers and it does them much cheaper – free in fact.

2. Amaya Web Browser and WYSIWYG HTML Editor

When you want the best go to the source. The Amaya Web Browser and WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) HTML editor is published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), who are the folks who set the standards for the web. In other words these are the folks who establish the standards by which all websites must comply (technically) and they have developed a web browser and WYSIWYG editor for you to use, for free. How could it get any better?

3. FileZilla Open Source FTP / SFTP Client

Once you’ve got your website all set to roll you still need to get it uploaded to your server, and since you haven’t paid for anything yet, why should you start now? FileZilla lets you upload and download files, resume uploads or downloads and work with firewalls – all of the usual stuff. What sets FileZilla apart from other free FTP Clients is that it also supports SFTP (Secure FTP) and SSL secured connections.

4. Joomla Web Content Management System (WCMS)

Now for this entry, we’ll have to take two steps back. If you are developing a big website with lots of frequent changes you might want to think about using a Web Content Management System, such as Joomla. What Joomla basically does is give you absolute control over your entire website through an online control panel. From your control panel you can update all pages, release a new one or even make site-wide changes with a click of a button. Web Designers favor WCMS sites as it is extremely easy to make stylistic changes that appear on every page with very little effort. While you might have to invest a little more time and effort to get yourself well-versed in the complexities of such a robust and powerful WCMS you won’t have to invest any money, as the basic Joomla installation is free.

5. Firefox Web Developer Toolbar

Just because your website is up and running doesn’t mean that your job is finished. In order to make sure every visitor to your site gets the experience you intend them to have you’ll need to check each and every page for errors and functionality. This can be a time consuming and tedious task, but luckily for you the Firefox Web Developer Toolbar can help you every step of the way by giving you easy access to all the tools necessary to put your website through it’s paces. Available as a free Firefox Web Browser Add-On, the Web Developer Toolbar will let you quickly and conveniently test the various aspects of your webpages by providing instant access to CSS editing, resolution variations, element outlines, form testing and cache disablement – just to name a few.

Michiel Van Kets writes articles for Evosite, a leading team of web designers and web developers based in Somerset, UK, delivering a comprehensive range of services from Content Management Systems and E-commerce websites to branding and print design, all at very affordable prices. They have a highly skilled and qualified team of Website Designers that also provide bespoke Search Engine Marketing to help websites and businesses succeed on the internet.

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]]> http://www.webmaster9.com/2010-07/5-free-web-design-apps-no-web-designer-should-do-without.html/feed 0 Google GPals Day for Entrepreneurs – Google Apps http://www.webmaster9.com/2010-06/google-gpals-day-for-entrepreneurs-google-apps.html http://www.webmaster9.com/2010-06/google-gpals-day-for-entrepreneurs-google-apps.html#comments Sun, 27 Jun 2010 03:02:51 +0000 Webmaster9 http://www.webmaster9.com/2010-06/google-gpals-day-for-entrepreneurs-google-apps.html
Google GPals Day for Entrepreneurs was a training held in Ramallah on March 25, 2009 which focused on Google product demonstrations for small or medium sized businesses to help spur innovation and entrepreneurship in the region. Google discussed how to create Arabic content using online tools (Blogger, Knol, Ta3reeb – Google’s transliteration tool), how to market them, how to monetize websites and applications (AdWords, Adsense, and Google Apps), and we finished by presenting cool innovative applications from around the globe and discussed business models to spur ideas in the region. See more info here: sites.google.com

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Google GPals Day for Entrepreneurs was a training held in Ramallah on March 25, 2009 which focused on Google product demonstrations for small or medium sized businesses to help spur innovation and entrepreneurship in the region. Google discussed how to create Arabic content using online tools (Blogger, Knol, Ta3reeb – Google’s transliteration tool), how to market them, how to monetize websites and applications (AdWords, Adsense, and Google Apps), and we finished by presenting cool innovative applications from around the globe and discussed business models to spur ideas in the region. See more info here: sites.google.com

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]]> http://www.webmaster9.com/2010-06/google-gpals-day-for-entrepreneurs-consumer-apps.html/feed 0 100 Incredibly Useful & Free Mac Apps http://www.webmaster9.com/2010-06/100-incredibly-useful-free-mac-apps.html http://www.webmaster9.com/2010-06/100-incredibly-useful-free-mac-apps.html#comments Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:52:50 +0000 Webmaster9 http://www.50jy.com/?p=89 Everyone loves free applications. One of the greatest things about Macs is the wealth of extremely talented developers that are willing to share their amazing creations without asking for a single cent.

We’ve compiled an enormous list of 100 amazing free Mac applications that you can download and start using today. These apps span multiple categories and offer an incredibly diverse pool of functionality so there’s definitely something here for everyone.

Music & Video

Boxee – Boxee is the best way to enjoy entertainment from the Internet and computer on your TV. Watch shows, listen to Pandora, stream Netflix and more.

Handbrake – HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows. (Translation: Rip DVDs to your Mac.)

Hulu Desktop – Hulu Desktop is a lean-back viewing experience for your personal computer. It features a sleek new look that’s optimized for use with standard Windows Media Center remote controls or Apple remote controls, allowing you to navigate Hulu’s entire library with just six buttons. For users without remotes, the application is keyboard and mouse-enabled.

MacTheRipper – MacTheRipper is a DVD ripper (extractor). It removes CSS encryption, Macrovision protection, sets the disc’s region to ‘0′ for region-free, and is capable of removing RCE region checking. It can also copy ARccOS copy-protected DVDs. This is to backup your legally-purchased DVDs onto your hard drive.

Miro – Download torrents and podcasts, play any video, and do it with style. It can play almost any video file and offers over 6,000 free internet TV shows and video podcasts. Miro has a simple, gorgeous interface designed for fullscreen HD video.

Since Miro downloads most videos, you can take your shows with you, even on an airplane. Quite simply, Miro is a better way to watch all the video you care about. Best of all, Miro is 100% free and open source, developed by a non-profit organization and volunteers around the world.

Miro Video Converter – A super simple way to convert almost any video to MP4, Ogg Theora, or a specific phone or iPod. Miro Video Converter has presets that will convert video to the correct sizes and formats for popular phones, iPods, and other media players. Just convert your video and copy it to your device.

Pandora Boy – Love Pandora.com, but tired of having to run it from a web browser? Ever wish you could control pandora without even being at your computer? Well then, look no further. PandoraBoy allows you to control your music with global hotkeys or your Apple Remote. Additionally, it supports Growl notifications so that you always know what your listening to.

SizzlingKeys – Have you ever wished you could control iTunes without leaving your current app? SizzlingKeys is an iTunes controller that lets you do just that – and more – in an intuitive and unobtrusive way.

Whether it’s to pause the player, adjust the volume, skip a track or rate a song, you can do all that and more with simple customizable keystrokes. That’s not all. You can even search your iTunes Library or Playlists with a simple keystroke, all without switching to iTunes!

VLC Media Player – VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player supporting most audio and video formats (H.264, Ogg, DivX, MKV, TS, MPEG-2, mp3, MPEG-4, aac, …) from files, physical media (DVDs, VCD, Audio-CD), TV capture cards and many network streaming protocols.

It can also convert media files, transcode and act as a streaming server over unicast or multicast and IPv4 or IPv6. It doesn’t need any external codec, program or codec pack to work.

Productivity

Anxiety – Anxiety is a super-lightweight To-do list application for Mac OS X Leopard that synchronizes with iCal and Mail. Its aim is to provide a streamlined, easily accessible interface to add and check off your tasks, while remaining poised to melt into the background at a moments notice.

Backboard – I love my Mac and my Backpack Account. Both together gives me not only the possibility to write my notes and tasks down, but more important to write them down EASILY!

Evernote – Evernote makes it easy to remember things big and small from your notable life using your computer, phone, and the web. Everything you capture is automatically processed, indexed, and made searchable. If you like, you can add tags or organize notes into different notebooks.

Lumina – Lumina is focused to show you a simple way to track your time. The concept of Lumina is based on three columns: Projects: A project is a bundle of tasks, Tasks: A tasks is a bundle of durations, Durations: A duration is the smallest brick to calculate your total time.

Pluto – Pluto menubar is an easy-to-use tool for the management of your events, tasks, projects and notes in the most effective and productive way possible. Pluto menubar is seamlessly integrated with iCal on your Mac, on MobileMe and the iPhone. Pluto menubar is placed – of course – in the menubar and designed to always run in the background and can be accessed with one click or even better – with a global hotkey.

QuickNote – QuickNote is a combined notepad and clipboard manager, useful to quickly jot down ideas and todos, store quotes, code snippets or whatever.

QuickNote is easily accessible from the menu bar, or with keyboard shortcuts: one to pop up a new note, one to edit the clipboard and one to save the clipboard without any further ado.

Snippely – Snippely is a basic text and code organizational tool. Instead of storing bits of code, quick notes, and memos in text files all over your hard drive, this application will let you save and organize “snippets” in one convenient location. A snippet is a collection of one or more pieces of code and notes. Snippets are stored in groups for organization and quick retrieval

Task Mate – The to-do list made simple again. Just click to add, remove or complete tasks. Your completed tasks are easily accessible. Export your tasks to other applications via TextEdit.

Think – Let’s limit our attention to one application—any application—at any time. Let’s make it easy to change focus when we have to. Let’s allow ourselves to bring other apps up quickly if we need them, but put them out of sight again just as quickly. Let’s rediscover how to focus, and get back to thinking.

File Sharing and Transfer

CloudApp – CloudApp allows you to share images, links, music, videos and files. Here is how it works: choose a file, drag it to the menubar and let us take care of the rest. We provide you with a short link automatically copied to your clipboard that you can use to share your upload with co-workers and friends. Additionally you can view, track and delete files right from your menubar.

CyberDuck – Cyberduck is a libre open source FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Cloud Files and Amazon S3 browser for the Mac. It features an easy to use interface with quickly accessible bookmarks. The outline view of the browser allows to browse large folder structures efficiently and you can quickly preview files with Quick Look.

To edit files, a seamless integration with any external editor application makes it easy to change content quickly. Both Amazon CloudFront and Cloud Files from Rackspace can be easily configured to distribute your content in the cloud. Many OS X core system technologies such as Spotlight, Bonjour and the Keychain are supported and 30 translations make you feel at home.

Dropbox – Dropbox is software that syncs your files online and across your computers. Put your files into your Dropbox on one computer, and they’ll be instantly available on any of your other computers that you’ve installed Dropbox on (Windows, Mac, and Linux too!) Because a copy of your files are stored on Dropbox’s secure servers, you can also access them from any computer or mobile device using the Dropbox website.

droplr – Droplr is the best way to share files from your Mac on the internet. Period. Whether you want to link to an image or embed one somewhere, Droplr makes sharing images on the web easy. Need to share a text note? Or how about a code snippet? We’ll even syntax highlight it for you.

Filezilla – FileZilla Client is a fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client with lots of useful features and an intuitive graphical user interface.

Jing – Snap a picture or take a video of your screen and share instantly over the web, IM, email.

Transmission – Transmission is a cross-platform BitTorrent client. Transmission is designed to balance power and usability. We’ve set the defaults to Just Work and it only takes a few clicks to configure advanced features like watch directories, bad peer blocklists, and the web interface. When Ubuntu chose Transmission as its default BitTorrent client, one of the most-cited reasons was its easy learning curve.

Application and File Launchers

aLaunch – It is an application launcher, and is operated via the status menu. You can chose to display icons at 16 pixels – 64 pixels. Files and folders can be registered with aLunch as well. Folders will be opened in the Finder. Different categories can be registered by using groups and separators.

Google Quick Search Box – Quick Search Box is an open source search box that allows you to search data on your computer and across the web. With Quick Search Box you can search for information from just about anywhere. You can then perform actions on the search results, such as launching applications, emailing friends, or playing a song.

Quicksilver – A unified, extensible interface for working with applications, contacts, music, and other data. Quicksilver is an application launcher on steroids. Though no longer in development, it can still provide plenty of additional functionality to your system. Read our beginner’s guide here.

Image and Text Editing

Bean – Bean is a small, easy-to-use word processor (or more precisely, a rich text editor), designed to make writing convenient, efficient and comfortable. Bean is Open Source, fully Cocoa, and is available free of charge! MS Word, OpenOffice, etc. try to be all things to all people. But sometimes you just want the right tool for the job. That is Bean’s niche.

Blender – Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License. Discover the wide toolset available in Blender, defining a complete pipeline (from modeling to sequence editing) controlled by a flexible and consistent user interface.

DrawBerry – With DrawBerry, you have all the possibilities the vectorial drawing offers you in a free, easy to use and powerful application. If you don’t need applications such Illustrator or Inkscape and you want to create some simple (or less simple) illustrations, DrawBerry is for you.

Fraise – Fraise is a free text editor for Mac OS X Leopard 10.6 which is both easy to use and powerful. It is designed to neither confuse newcomers nor disappoint advanced users. It should work perfectly for a whole variety of needs – like web programming, script editing, making a to do list and so on

Fraise has all open documents in a list with beautiful Quick Look icons to your left just like e.g. iTunes so you can easily switch between many documents – you can also choose to display them as tabs if you prefer it that way.

GIMP – GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages. Numerous digital photo imperfections can be easily compensated for using GIMP. Fix perspective distortion caused by lens tilt simply choosing the corrective mode in the transform tools. Eliminate lens’ barrel distortion and vignetting with a powerful filter but a simple interface.

Google SketchUp – Google SketchUp is software that you can use to create 3D models of anything you like. Redecorate your living room. Design a new piece of furniture. Model your city for Google Earth. Create a skatepark for your hometown, then export an animation and share it on YouTube. There’s no limit to what you can create with SketchUp.

Inkscape – An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. We also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development.

OpenOffice – OpenOffice 3 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.

Picasa – Picasa is free photo editing software from Google that makes your pictures look great. Sharing your best photos with friends and family is as easy as pressing a button!

Pixus – The AIR pixel ruler application. A handy tool for web and interface designers. Measure the screen objects in pixels using both mouse and keyboard control. Preview your design with skins and presets.

Seashore – Seashore is an open source image editor for Mac OS X’s Cocoa framework. It features gradients, textures and anti-aliasing for both text and brush strokes. It supports multiple layers and alpha channel editing.

It is based around the GIMP’s technology and uses the same native file format. However, unlike the GIMP, Seashore only aims to serve the basic image editing needs of most computer users, not to provide a replacement for professional image editing products. Seashore was created by Mark Pazolli who led the project until the end of 2009.

Scribus – Scribus is an Open Source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/UNIX, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp 4/eComStation and Windows desktops with a combination of “press-ready” output and new approaches to page layout. Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, Spot Colors, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation.

TextWrangler – A general-purpose text editor for light-duty composition, data-file editing (where the data files consist of plain [unstyled] text), and manipulation of text-oriented data. TextWrangler supports working with both plain-text and Unicode files (with the exception of files written using right-to-left writing systems, such as Hebrew or Arabic). TextWrangler also features an integrated spelling checker, as well as integration with Word Services-aware spelling and grammar checkers.

Communication

Adium – Adium is a free and open source instant messaging application for Mac OS X, written using Mac OS X’s Cocoa API, released under the GNU GPL and developed by the Adium team. Based on the libpurple protocol library, Adium can connect you to any number of messaging accounts on any combination of supported messaging services (see further down for the list) and then chat with other people using those services.

Colloquy – Traditionally, chat clients on the Mac have been anything but glamorous. Colloquy is an advanced IRC, SILC & ICB client which aims to fill this void. By adhering to Mac OS X interface conventions, Colloquy has the look and feel of a quality Mac application.

Google Notifier – The Google Notifier is an application that shows you alerts in your menu bar, so you can see when you have new Gmail messages or upcoming Google Calendar events without having to open a web browser.

ooVoo – With ooVoo, you can connect with anyone, anytime, with video calls, video messages, phone calls, text and more. Use ooVoo to get face time with people you can’t meet in person (and save travel time and money!). ooVoo makes life easier and more fun.

Skype – Skype is software that enables the world’s conversations. Millions of individuals and businesses use Skype to make free video and voice calls, send instant messages and share files with other Skype users. Everyday, people also use Skype to make low-cost calls to landlines and mobiles.

Thunderbird 3 – Thunderbird, as a messaging system, is uniquely positioned as the tool that users can use to integrate as many of their communications as they want. By combining an open architecture, a powerful extensibility and customization framework, and a person-centric perspective on communications, Thunderbird is a powerful yet enjoyable tool to help individuals manage their online interactions — whether that’s email, instant messaging, social networking messages, or other types of message.

System Utilities

AddressBookSync – AddressBookSync is a free Mac OS X application to download profile pictures and other Facebook data to Address Book cards. This is a handy tool to keep your contacts’ pictures updated if you have numerous Facebook friends in your Mac OS X Address Book.

AppCleaner – AppCleaner is a small application which allows you to thoroughly uninstall unwanted apps. Installing an application distributes many files throughout your System using space of your Hard Drive unnecessarily. AppCleaner finds all these small files and safely deletes them. Simply drop an application onto the AppCleaner window. It will find for the related files and you can delete them by clicking the delete button.

AppFresh – AppFresh helps you to keep all applications, widgets, preference panes and application plugins installed on your Mac up to date. All from one place, easy to use and fully integrated into Mac OS X. AppFresh works by checking the excellent osx.iusethis.com for new versions and lets you download and install available updates easily.

Camouflage – Do you have way too many items on your desktop? Do you hate cleaning up that mess? Camouflage is the right utility for you. It hides all the icons and leaves nothing but the pure wallpaper.

ClipMenu – ClipMenu can manage clipboard history. You can record 8 clipboard types, from plain text to image. To paste a recorded item, you just pop up menu by invoking the shortcut key, and select a menu item from the menu. You can also register texts you frequently use, like e-mail addresses, user IDs and so on, as snippets. You can paste these snippets from the menu, too.

coconutBattery – coconutBattery isn’t just a tool which shows you only the current charge of your battery – it also shows you the current maximum capacity of it in relation to the original capacity your battery had as it left the factory. You also get information about the battery-loadcycles (how often did you fully load your battery), the current charger (coconutBattery even warns you if you plugged in a wrong charger for your Notebook) and last but not least information about the age of your Mac.

Burn – There are a lot of ways to approach burning discs. Burn keeps it simple, but still offers a lot of advanced options. Keep your files safe and share them. Burn your files to a disc so you can access them later on. Choose different filesystems so you can share your files with people with different operating systems. Change advanced settings like, file permissions, the disc icon, file dates and more on the fly in Burn’s inspector.

Caffeine – Caffeine is a tiny program that puts an icon in the right side of your menu bar. Click it to prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers. Click it again to go back. Right-click (or ⌘-click) the icon to show the menu.

Carbon Copy Cloner – Spinning for years at 75MPH, your hard drive’s catastrophic crash could really hinder your productivity. Use CCC to make a bootable backup of your digital life today!

DateLine – DateLine displays a linear calendar on your Mac desktop which provides easy access to iCal and your events. The appearance of the DateLine is endlessly customizable and themeable.

Desktop Curtain – Desktop Curtain displays your favorite desktop picture just in front of your real desktop, so you won’t have to clean up each time you need to take a screenshot. And it’s really easy to control — just control- or right-click on Desktop Curtain’s desktop picture to access its settings or quit.

Dock Dodger – Sometimes, you find an application that you really, really like, but when you run it, the icon takes up valuable space in your Dock. With Dock Dodger, you can rid almost any application of its Dock icon, giving you your Dock back. With Dock Doger, removing the Dock icon is as easy as Drag and Drop. Simply drag in the application you want to Un-Dock and Dock Dodger takes care of the rest. When you re-launch that application, it will be sans Dock icon. Want the Dock icon back? Just re-drag the application into Dock Dodger and everything’s back to normal.

DockSpaces – A tiny application that allows you to have up to 10 different docks and swap anytime you want from the menu bar.

FlyGesture – FlyGesture is activated like Exposé or Dashboard, bringing up a transparent window of “guides” to move your mouse through. Moving your mouse through the guides lets FlyGesture know what action or actions you want to be performed, such as closing a window or opening an application. Not getting it? Here’s a movie that demonstrates creating and using a new gesture to open Safari.

GeekTool – GeekTool is a PrefPane (System Preferences module) for Mac OS 10.5. It let you display on your desktop different kind of informations, provided 3 default plugins: File plugin to monitor MacOS X activity with /var/log/system.log, or any file that you want to follow.Shell mode to launch custom scripts or commands like “df” to check space left on filesystems, “uptime” to monitor load of your machine… Finally, Image mode helps you monitor bandwith usage, CPU loads, memory availability of your server, via tools like MRTG or RRD.

Ghost – There are lots of files on your computer that you can’t see. Apple has conveniantly hidden many system files from you, so that your computer doesn’t look like an ugly, cluttered mess.However, they have not provided any easy way to create your own hidden files, or even to view theirs. Ghost provides a simple, user friendly way to do both of these things. Simply drag and drop a file or folder into the list, then uncheck (or check) its checkbox and the item will be instantly hidden or un-hidden.

Growl – Growl is a notification system for Mac OS X: it allows applications that support Growl to send you notifications. Notifications are a way for your applications to provide you with new information, without you having to switch from the application you’re already in.

Jumpcut – Jumpcut is an application that provides “clipboard buffering” — that is, access to text that you’ve cut or copied, even if you’ve subsequently cut or copied something else. The goal of Jumpcut’s interface is to provide quick, natural, intuitive access to your clipboard’s history.

Monolingual – Monolingual is a program for removing unnecessary language resources from Mac OS X, in order to reclaim several hundred megabytes of disk space. I don’t know about you, but I use my computer in only one (human) language — English. And I’m willing to bet that you do too, albeit perhaps not English. So why do you have a bunch of localization files for the Mac OS X operating system filling up your hard drive? Enter Monolingual — a handy utility for reclaiming your space for more useful things… like international mp3 files, email or whatever you like.

NameChanger – NameChanger Rename a list of files quickly and easily. See how the names will change as you type.

Name Mangler – The Finder is good at a lot of things, but renaming a lot of files is not one of them. Automator can help, but it can be a bit intimidating to use. Enter Name Mangler, which makes short work of all your file renaming tasks.

Paparazzi – Paparazzi! is a small utility for Mac OS X that makes screenshots of webpages. It’s written in Objective-C using the Cocoa API and the WebKit framework. It was inspired by webkit2png, a commandline tool written by Paul Hammond in pyObjC.

SaveCircle – SaveCircle is a little tool that can save in chosen time the document of the frontmost application, so that you don’t have to worry about loosing some work. This is simple, transparent and efficient and work with every applications.

Shoo Apps – Shoo Apps allows per-application granularity in hiding inactive applications to keep your workspace uncluttered.

SnapNDrag – SnapNDrag lets you take a screenshot by just clicking a button and dragging the resulting screenshot off. For example, to email a screenshot, you would drag the screenshot from SnapNDrag to the Mail application. It is that simple. No hard-to-remember key combinations, no file conversion to deal with, no file dialog boxes to navigate, no temporary files to erase later on.

Teleport – Teleport lets you use a single mouse and keyboard to control several Macs. Simply reach an edge of your screen, and your mouse teleports to your nearby Mac, which also becomes controlled by your keyboard. The pasteboard can be synchronized, and you can even drag & drop files between your Macs.

TinkerTool – TinkerTool is an application that gives you access to additional preference settings Apple has built into Mac OS X. This allows to activate hidden features in the operating system and in some of the applications delivered with the system. The tool makes sure that preference changes can only affect the current user. The program will never change any component of the operating system, so the integrity of your system is not put at risk, and there will be no negative effect on system updates.

Todos – Sometimes you just don’t want to take time going to your Applications folder or searching around your hard drive. Just click a quick hotkey (Command-Option-Control-T) and Todos will simply appear. Todos’ job is simple. Todos doesn’t do more than it says. Like its definition in Spanish, Todos will show you everything. Todos shows you all your applications in a complete dock. All of us have a plethora of programs, and the Apple dock just can’t fit them all.

Wallpaper Clocks – Vladstudio and Softshape Development proudly introduce Wallpaper Clocks – desktop wallpaper which refreshes every minute to keep your time and date precise as well as stylish in many artistic ways!

YemuZip – Drag, drop, done. Making zip files cannot be any easier. YemuZip is an easy-to-use application for making zip files. Just drag, drop, name your zip file and you’re done. The Finder’s Archive function makes zip files that contains Mac-specific information that, when extracted on a PC, looks like garbage. YemuZip lets you choose between a PC-compatible format and a Mac format that preserve all the Mac-specific metadata.

Internet and Browsers

AllBookmarks – AllBookmarks adds a new item to your Mac OS X menu bar giving you quick access to all your bookmarks. All your Safari, Firefox and Flock bookmarks are shown and can be selected. AllBookmarks also gives you access to your 1Password 1Click bookmarks so you can navigate to a page, fill the form, and submit it, all with a single click!

Aptana Studio – Aptana Studio is a complete web development environment that combines powerful authoring tools for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, along with thousands of additional plugins created by the community.

Camino – Camino is an open source web browser developed with a focus on providing the best possible experience for Mac OS X users. Built from the ground up exclusively for Mac OS X, Camino is designed to make your browsing experience better. With features like annoyance blocking, tab overview, and phishing and malware detection, Camino keeps you browsing safer and faster on the Web.

Cruz – A web browser with innovative multi-pane browsing and an integrated Twitter feed. Read our review here.

DownloadMonitor – DownloadMonitor enables your computer to automatically react to specific conditions of your downloads.
You choose how, when, and which downloads the computer ought to react to.

Flock – The award winning social browser (Twitter, Facebook and blog integration). The people here at Flock are committed to building a browser unlike anything you’ve ever experienced before – because we start by focusing on user needs. We take pride in solving for common behaviors on the Web that seem clunky today, and will seem ridiculous tomorrow. We’re taking you there.

Fluid App – Web applications like Gmail, Facebook, Campfire and Pandora are becoming more and more like desktop applications every day. Running each of these web apps in an individual tab in your browser can be a real pain. Fluid lets you create a Site Specific Browser (SSB) out of any website or web application, effectively turning your favorite web apps into desktop apps.

Mocha – Mocha is a tool that monitors your network activity and keeps a record of Ip / Mac address pairings and firewall logs. It will give a warning when it notices any suspicious activity, like any changes in Mac address or any connection attempt to the firewall.

NetNewsWire – Looking for an easy-to-use RSS and Atom reader for your Mac? You’ve found it! The Eddy award-winning NetNewsWire has a familiar three-paned interface and can fetch and display news from thousands of different websites and weblogs.

Newsfire – Simple to use and packed with features, NewsFire makes it a joy to keep atop the constant flow of information on the web. It’s easy to filter and organize your news with NewsFire’s smart groups. Build your own feeds with custom rules, or drag and drop to create groups of related content.

Opera – Surf the Web with lightning speed, using the fastest browser ever. Everything from how Web pages load to how you open tabs is optimized to happen almost instantly. You can even speed up browsing on slow connections, with Opera Turbo.

Quiet Read – Quiet Read is my new application that lets you save any link for later. Sometimes, when I am browsing the web, I want to store a link for later. There are note taking applications and everything-buckets to do that, but I wanted something light and simple. Simple as dragging a link onto a menu bar item to store it.

Shiira – Shiira is a web browser written in Cocoa. It uses the KHTML rendering engine provided by Apple’s Web Kit. Since this is the same rendering engine used by Safari, HTML content rendered by Shiira will look the same as in Apple’s own browser. All source code is publicly available under the BSD license. We hope that our code will help other developers just starting out on their own Web Kit projects.

Simple CSS – CTo help you work with CSS, we’ve created a free tool called Simple CSS, which runs on Mac OS X and Windows. Simple CSS allows you to easily create Cascading Style Sheets from scratch, and/or modify existing ones, using a familiar point-and-click interface. With Simple CSS, you can manage multiple CSS projects and import your existing style sheets. Simple CSS supports CSS2.

SiteSucker for Mac OS X – SiteSucker is a Macintosh application that automatically downloads Web sites from the Internet. It does this by asynchronously copying the site’s Web pages, images, backgrounds, movies, and other files to your local hard drive. Just enter a URL (Uniform Resource Locator), press return, and SiteSucker can download an entire Web site.

Sunrise – Sunrise is an open source web browser based on WebKit for Mac OS X. The main window of Sunrise has the browser, bookmarks, downloads, source codes and find bars. You do not need to look for the hidden panels because the one window has all of them.

Wyzo – Wyzo is an awesome new browser that optimizes your online media experience. It will accelerate your web downloads, let you download torrents with a single click, discover media in your browser and much more.

Xyle Scope – Using Xylescope it is easy to fine-tune CSS values. Simply select the desired element by clicking on the rendered page to bring up the whole cascade of rules applied to the selected element and its ancestors. Change any CSS value and hit return to see the resulting effect immediately regardless in which style sheet the altered style rule resides.

Misc

Bodega – Welcome to Bodega, the world’s most innovative way to discover and obtain the hottest and latest applications for your Mac. Bodega is like a storefront right on your Mac’s desktop, one that’s chock-full of software apps from Mac developers around the world. Just download and install the Bodega app, and you have access to an ever-growing catalog of software to meet your every computing need.

iPhoto Library Selector – Select your iPhoto library before launching!

MAMP – The abbreviation “MAMP” stands for: Macintosh, Apache, Mysql and PHP. With just a few mouse-clicks, you can install Apache, PHP and MySQL for Mac OS X! MAMP installs a local server environment in a matter of seconds on your Mac OS X computer, be it PowerBook or iMac. Like similar packages from the Windows- and Linux-world, MAMP comes free of charge. MAMP is installed in the typical Mac fashion: very easily. MAMP will not compromise any existing Apache installation already running with your OS X. You can install Apache, PHP and MySQL without starting a script or having to change any configuration files!

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]]> http://www.webmaster9.com/2010-06/100-incredibly-useful-free-mac-apps.html/feed 0 6 Apps for Collecting Digital Inspiration http://www.webmaster9.com/2010-06/6-apps-for-collecting-digital-inspiration.html http://www.webmaster9.com/2010-06/6-apps-for-collecting-digital-inspiration.html#comments Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:46:16 +0000 Webmaster9 http://www.50jy.com/?p=20 The online design community is simply overflowing with inspiration. Every day countless blog posts are being published showcasing 30-100 amazing examples of “insert item here.” Further, CSS galleries like our own contain hundreds or even thousands of great site designs.

With all this inspiration being tossed at you all the time, you need a way to catalogue and store it. Today we’ll look at a few tools out there that do exceptionally well at this very thing.

The Value of Inspiration

To cutoff anyone already forming an argument about the evils of design inspiration, here’s my preemptive rebuttal. It is without a doubt the case that galleries of inspiration serve as buffets for hack designers who simply ripoff the work of others. Further, overuse of inspiration can stifle your own creativity. However, this is a misuse of the system and does not merit eliminating inspiration altogether.

Examining good design is like ingesting nutritional content for your brain. Similar to browsing a dictionary to better your vocabulary, viewing excellent work done by others increases the breadth of your creativity. The key is to be inspired towards originality, not away from it.

When you see a horizontally scrolling website, don’t try to figure out how you can mimic it, instead consider how you can create a completely different take on the horizontal scroll. When you see a logo that uses negative space to create an arrow, don’t try to do the same thing slightly different so as not to be accused of anything, instead be inspired to think about negative space in new ways.

You simply can’t construct a logical argument against using design inspiration. Almost everything you create is somehow affected by things that you’ve seen in the past that impacted you in a certain way. You see a website that uses rounded corners, forget all about it, and six months later you’re using rounded corners on your own site. It goes the other way too. Sometimes you see ten sites in a single week that use reflections so you consciously make a decision to avoid them.

The point is, when used properly, inspiration will make you a better designer in the same way that reading great novels will make you a better writer, listening to great music will make you a better song writer and visiting the Louvre will make you a better artist. So why not be methodical about it?

The Tools

Now that my rant about inspiration is out of the way, let’s look at a few tools that I think are top-notch ways to collect inspirational design.

LittleSnapper

LittleSnapper is hands down my favorite way to collect, store and organize digital inspiration. This amazing mac application takes screenshots way beyond the default OS X functionality.

LittleSnapper allows you to create global shortcuts for screenshots just like the core OS X tool but instead of popping up on your desktop or clipboard, they are imported and stored in a library. Here you can title your snaps, organize them into folders and smart folders and tag them. Think of it as iPhoto for screenshots (you can also use iPhoto to store inspiration by the way).

You can easily snap a specific window, a certain area of the screen or the entire screen. One of the killer features is that you can snap an entire web page straight from Safari. Not just the portion visible on the screen mind you, the whole thing. You can also use the integrated browser to select certain images on a web page and LS will grab them automatically.

Little Snapper supports exporting snaps to a web service called Ember, which we’ll discuss next.

Ember

The LittleSnapper guys have also created Ember, a free browser-based tool for sharing images (LittleSnapper not required). It’s basically a social network for designers to collect and share inspiration (like Dribbble but not as exclusive).

You can upload up to 30 images per month (unlimited for $24/yr). You can follow other users as well as favorite, tag and categorize images. Ember contains over 200,000 images to browse so it’s an excellent place to get lost for an hour in great design examples.

For other sites that let you find and favorite inspiration, check out Creattica and Dribbble.

ZooTool

ZooTool is a free social bookmarking tool cool enough to make me abandon Delicious in a heartbeat (after I easily imported all my Delicious content of course).

The reason it’s so much better is that rather than keeping a simple list of bookmarks like Delicious, ZooTool takes a snapshot of the page you’re bookmarking for a visual reference. You can either grab an entire web page or just specific parts such as an image or movie.

Your bookmarks are presented in an beautiful interface that would be almost indistinguishable from that of LittleSnapper if not for some added wood texture.

As with Ember, ZooTool allows you to organize and tag your snaps as well as follow other users and favorite their images. ZooTool’s convenient bookmarklet makes it about the best tool around for quickly saving bits of inspiration while browsing the web.

Evernote

If you don’t know what Evernote is, you’ve surely been living alone in the woods with no Internet access. Evernote is the single best free way to capture random digital clutter. This includes everything from passwords to receipts.

Odds are, you haven’t just given up being a hermit and have either heard of Evernote or are among the 3 million people that already use it. However, you may not have ever considered using it to store digital inspiration. If you have Evernote installed, you can simply right-click on any image you see online and add it to Evernote. It’s that easy! You can also add entire web pages this way but the CSS tends to get screwed up in the process (“add page as PDF” is a little more reliable).

Once it’s in Evernote, you can tag and organize to your heart’s content and view all your inspiration as a page of thumbnails. You can also sync to both an online account with a web interface and to any other device where you have Evernote installed: other computers, iPhones, iPads, etc.

Snipi

Snipi is a free web service that’s a lot like ZooTool. You use a bookmarklet or Firefox plugin to collect elements as you’re browsing the web. You can grab images, videos or products and organize them in your account. You can also create “streams” of content and share them with others.

I found it to be a little clunky, but definitely worth checking out if you don’t like ZooTool for some reason.

Stixi

Stixi is an awesome web app that I stumbled upon while researching this article. With Stixi you can create digital boards of positionable content (like a bulletin board of sticky notes). You can upload images and documents, add todos, or write notes.

This would be an excellent tool for creating and maintaining moodboards for specific projects or simply organizing visual inspiration in a highly interactive manner.

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This app is great if you have a WordPress blog – if you don’t you should get one now as it is an excellent way of showcasing your work. The WordPress iPhone app lets you write posts, manage comments and upload pictures on the go. As many bloggers will know – often your best ideas for articles come whilst on the move.

Mint

Do you think it’s a hassle staying in control of the accounting? If the answer is yes you will probably like the Mint iPhone app. With this little tool you will be able to stay on top of your finances, watch your investment performance and check your credit card balances. If you are running a web design business, you’ll appreciate the flexibility this gives you.

Action Method

This app is perfect for you that need some help to stay organized. With Action Method you can organize your projects; manage deadlines, delegate necessary tasks – all via your iPhone; and all whilst you aren’t at your desk! It is a commercial project management app, but the cost is well worth the flexibility it gives you.

Tweetie

Tweetie is one of the most fantastic iPhone apps we’ve ever stumbled across. These are just a couple of the features that are included: handling of multiple twitter accounts, view replies, direct messages, favorites, post new tweets and retweets. The list can go on forever. Download this app and stay in contact with all of your web designer friends.

FileMagnet

Are you a web designer that is always on the go? Then FileMagnet is the perfect app for you. With FileMagnet you can copy files, regardless of file format, from your computer to your iPhone meaning that you will be able work wherever you are.

Sketches

Every artist should doodle every once in a while. Sketches is great iPhone app that lets you jot down all of your ideas using nothing more than your finger. This is the perfect tool for those times when you get a brilliant idea and don’t know where to write it down – or indeed when that doodling feeling comes over you.

WhatTheFont

Even seen a font and wondered what it’s called? No need to worry anymore as this app will solve the mystery. Simply take a picture of the text and let WhatTheFont analyze it. Within a matter of seconds you’ll have the result.

Bill4Time Mobile

As a web designer you are often charging your client per hour and with the Bill4Time app it is easy to keep track of how much time you’ve spent on a project.

Evernote

Evernote is another great app that helps you organize your ideas. Take snapshots, record voice memos or write a quick text note. If you for example take a photo of a white board during a meeting Evernote will recognize the text, and make it searchable for later.

SimpleMind Xpress Mind Maps

Mind maps are often part of web designer’s everyday life which makes this app a necessary one. With SimpleMind you’ll get a structured mind mapping device with features such as drag and drop, different visual styles and the possibility of sharing the mind map as a jpeg.

CSS Cheatsheet

Even the most experienced web designer need to get back to the basics once in a while. This is a very useful app that includes pretty much all of the fundamental elements of CSS

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