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115+ Famous Resources for Promote your Design Articles/News

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:25:48 +0000

Everyone want more visitors on your website is a very multifaceted process with a lot of variations, there is many ways as examples: SEO, valuable content, link exchange and advertising on different resources. As per today need of most design and technology based bloggers who want to promote design or tech related news and want to get more traffic we presenting most active resources where you can submit your news, articles, design posts and technology news for get valuable visitors.

We just need your response on this valuable list which is verified and you may get help for more traffic, if there is another resource you should leave as comment.

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70 Exceptional Creative Typography Desktop Wallpapers

Vidiya — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:49:50 +0000

We always present quality stuff for you respected visitors and readers, today we have some modern and latest typography wallpapers, we simply presenting beautiful and inspiring to look at I think, typography art to desktop wallpapers seams to be quite common and it gives us a good opportunity to have a source of stunning typography inspiration in a place where we wont forget to look at it.

We select some beautiful typography desktop wallpapers most of them will part of your desktop long time because you may never seen this listing before as we struggle to find that amazing roundup with full of creativity and writing art.

we offering Conspicuous typography wallpapers for your beautiful typography desktop, you may get idea about graphic designing, inspirational idea, creativity, abstract art and text effects, we hope you will share your ideas and comment that will entertain in our next edition.

Think Again by mushir

About

Desktop Battle with SELECT

Colors Typography Wallpaper by littleboxofideas

Typography wallpaper pack by carlnewton

i did ir for love

We love typography

Down the hills by dsdesign

The Hidden Identity byEIII

no type, no life

Deviantart Typography by imran-ryo

you need this by sepiavision

MyApple Wallpaper Pack by kano89

Designed by Ben Cardy

Alexander – typography by MoomBax

freedom-ness by softmeanie

Krump It – Wallpaper by An1ken

Designed by Vlad

Typography Wallpaper

I LOVE TYPOGRAPHY

Designers are meant to be loved not to be understood

Accolades

Typography by kinol

set in FF Meta Serif

Designed by Hamish

Typography is Sexy

Spring is when life’s alive in everything

Helvetica Wallpaper

010_002 by zakzak008

Designed by Julia

Helvetica

Devnagri by freakyframes

Designed by Patrick

GorgeousOrGeorgeous – Special by giorgos93

so kiss again by softmeanie

Crumpled Typography Wallpaper by littleboxofideas

Mio by sepiavision

Watercolour Wallpaper by rellik1990

Lektro by Mast1

Scattery World by choppre

3d wallpaper by Breaking-Points

“i love typography” Designed by Antonio

Celebration by xLackadaisicalx

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Too Lazy For Shit

Typography

Designers love Typography

Theory Typography

I get distracted

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35 Ultimate Useful Android Applications

admin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:54:27 +0000

Andriod (Google mobile operating system) market is growing day by day as this OS giving lot of user friendly applications, some of those listing today as our visitors and readers demand. Android on its way to bringing flashier features to Android phones.

Android is a software platform for mobile devices, powered by the Linux kernel, initially developed by Google and later the Open Handset Alliance. Please feel free to leave comments for other useful Android Applications worth our time.

cab4me

Utilizing Android’s Google Maps application, cab4me lets users call a cab to their location with a single click. By using GPS capabilities to locate not only the user’s current location, but also the location of the nearest cab company, theapplication can initiate a call to the cab company with a mere click on the map. The application was developed by Konrad Huebner and Henning Boerger.

AndroidScan

Scan is an Android application that finds pricing and metadata for anything with a barcode.

Advanced Task Killer Free

Advanced Task Killer Free is just what the name states, its a task manager for Android. It gives you the power to easily kill applications with one click, that run in the background, stealing bandwidth or battery time. It has the following features besides the application settings menu:

Click to select or unselect the app
Long press to activate pop-up menu
Menu>Settings>Notification bar icon, AutoStart, Ignore

ASTRO File Manager

ASTRO File Manager is a very powerful file manager for Android. It really is a must on your Android device when it comes to managing files on your sdcard. It’s packed with features, and here’s some of them:

Download any file with browser
Browse / create / extract zip files
Back up and restore public applications to the SD card
Create shortcuts
Send files as attachments
Thumbnails
Multiselect
Search
Image, Text, HTML Viewers

Phonebook

Phonebook has a cool user interface for viewing and managing your contacts. It displays your contacts with pictures and contextual information such as coming birthdays, missed calls and unread text messages. Phonebook comes with a nice landscape view, a dialer and a quick access to your favorites and most called contacts.

Locale

Brilliant and simple program to handle profiles automatically. Locale is a scriptable, location-aware settings manager. A wide range of triggering events are available like battery level, dates, times, GPS coordinates and calls from specific people can all be used. Some third-party programs even integrate with Locale, increasing the available options…

BreadCrumbz

BreadCrumbz’ unique approach to navigation enables a new kind of user-created geo-content. Our aim is to develop a platform and a community where people create, store and share geo-content that is meaningful to them with their friends (“find my house”, “where I left my car at the airport”) or with the world (“best mountainbiking route in the area”, “find my cool shop”, “to your hospital’s department of suregery”, etc.).

Commandro

Commandro shows where are your friends REALLY are and what are they’re doing at the moment. We use GPS location information in order to make sure that you and your friends have actually reached the planned destinations, and, hence, will display 100% true real-life event and location information with regards to your and your friends.

Facebook for Android

Pretty decent way to read and post status updates. Update your status, post pictures, check out your friends profiles, make comments all from the comfort of your device. This is a must have if you have a Facebook account.

ASTRO File Manager

Download any file with browser
Browse / create / extract zip files
Back up and restore public applications to the SD card
Create shortcuts
Send files as attachments
Thumbnails
Multiselect
Search
Image, Text, HTML Viewers

Opera Mini

Opera Mini is an Android app that serves as an alternative to Android’s default web browser. It is a extremely lightweight. Opera Mini loads most websites much faster than Android’s Browser loads the full HTML site. Extra speed is also accomplished by Opera compressing and routing the page through their own servers.

Cooking Capsules

Cooking Capsules is the first smart phone utility of it’s kind. Cooking Capsules are for anyone who wants to simplify the process of cooking. Simply “watch” a very short cooking show, “shop” with the grocery list, and “make” using the handy step-by-step recipe directions.

PicSay

PicSay is a small app that lets you edit and modify photos on your phone. You can add speech balloons, any of a range of text styles, and images like hearts and stars to your photos. Or if you’re feeling less whimsical, you can modify the picture’s contrast, tint, hue and saturation levels; flip and rotate your image; and do other basic editing tasks.

Live Chat

Chat, flirt and discuss with other users in this Live Chat application. You can create your own chat groups and create a profile with photo.

Twidroid

This Android based Twitter app is available in a free and a pro version. Both of Twidroid’s offerings provide most every Twitter function you might need, from the basic viewing and sending tweets, following and unfollowing users, viewing profiles to the more advanced: saved searches, URL shortening, photo posting, and geo-location support.

aTrackDog (SD)

aTrackDog keeps track on what applications you have installed and/or backed-up on your SD-card and notifies you in case a newer version is available. Manually checking the applications you have installed for a new version would be a pain, and here’s a easy solution. If you go to their website you can also see a overview over the 100 most popular programs installed by its users, which is a really cool feature. The program also has some exciting features such as:

Track new version for backed-up apps
Install, delete backed-up apps
Export app list for sharing
Browse top 100 popular apps (already mentioned)

Moov for Android

It calls itself a mobile interface, but in reality Moov is a launcher. From the dashboard view, slide open the keyboard and begin typing the first few letters of your MP3,application , address book contact, and so on to get a list of search suggestions popping up on a separate screen. Moov even helps you out by offering tabs that let you search your term in the publisher’s other apps: Fbook, Quickpedia, Local (Yelp), and Dial Zero.

iSkoot

iSkoot is a free app for Android phones that puts Skype on your mobile. Click to call or chat with your Skype buddies! Make inexpensive international calls with iSkoot, as well, through SkypeOut. This is similar to iSkoot app for iPhone.

ShopSavvy

ShopSavvy is all about the deals. Enter a product name or barcode (using the keypad or the camera), and ShopSavvy identifies the product, searches the Web and local chain stores for the best prices, and collects reviews of the item.

Barcode Scanner

This is a really fun and nice to have application, many android applications around the web are publish with a barcode image, I’m guessing most of you have seen these floating around. And in case you didn’t understand what exactly it was, here’s the answer. Scan barcodes on CDs, books, and other products, then look up prices and reviews, or search for a word in a book and find where it occurs. You can also scan QR Codes containing URLs, contact info, calendar events, and more.

Easily scan barcodes
Look prices and reviews for the scanned items
Lots of future potential
User friendly

Searchify

Searchify lets you perform translations, calculations, unit conversions, wikipedia searches, calendar entry and more just by typing in searches into the main search box on Android (1.6 or higher).

You can use Searchify just by hitting the search button and typing – you don’t need to open an app at all. So it can replace your wikipedia app, your calculator, unit convertor, and it’s the fastest way to do all these things.

BeamReader

I’ve tried many different PDF readers, and none suited my needs or was easy enough to use. Then a friend tipped me about this application and it was exactly what I was looking for. View PDF files and e-mail attachments in their desktop quality. Documents are rendered locally on device.

Fast full fidelity rendering
Intuitive granular zoom and navigation
Text wrap view
Encrypted and password protected PDFs
Text search
Bookmarks
Embedded links

Dolphin Browser

Now here’s a nice and feature rich browser. In my eyes it’s the best browser out there for Android. It sure beats the standard browser that’s for sure, and it really improves the mobile surfing experience. It’s fast, lightweight, supports tabs and lots more. Here are some of the features:

Gesture
Sync G.bookmark
DL YouTube video
Multi touch 4 Droid & Hero& cyanogen
Save cache 2 SD
Tabs view
Theme pack support

Ringdroid

Ringdroid app for Android lets you create free ringtones from your favorite songs. Just load a song onto your SD card, select start and end points, and save it as a ringtone, alert or notification. You can even record your own ringtones with Ringdroid.

Google Voice

Google Voice is a new service from Google that gives the user his own personal phone number. You then can use your Google Voice number to make phone calls or send SMS messages from the web. And the Android app lets users do the same from their Android device. This means users can make and receive calls and text messages on your Google Voice number through your phone. Google Voice also archives all voice mails and SMS messages online, so you will never lose that important message.

ActionComplete

ActionComplete is a high-tech to-do list for your Droid phone. It makes it easy to organize your tasks and appointments. You can even set reminders that will pop up based on where you are, allowing you to remind yourself of certain tasks at the office, others at the home, and so on.

Robo Defense

It starts like your normal tower defense game. You build mazes using several upgradable towers to try to prevent the enemies from moving from one side of the room to the other. That’s where normal ends with this game.

eBuddy IM

Many want to stay connected on MSN or Facebook chat while they are on the move, well now they can. With this eBuddy Android client one can stay online on MSN, Facebook, Yahoo, AIM, ICQ, GTalk & MySpace accounts while on the move. The chat function is very organized and easy to keep track of. Personally i like this IM much more than Meebo because I haven’t had any problems with it (yet). And with Meebo i had connectivity problems all the time. Anyway, its features:

Fast and reliable messenger
Chat with multiple MSN, Facebook, Yahoo, AIM, ICQ, GTalk & MySpace accounts
All IM friends in one buddy list
Run in background
Messages sent as data, not SMS/Text

One Nightstand Pro

One Nightstand is your new favorite bedside clock, but it’s so much more than that. One Nightstand features the usual time and date functions, but also includes current weather, upcoming calendar events, alarm, and the great “Let Me Sleep” function that lets you set a sleep timer that shuts off noises from your phone (all configurable) for a certain amount of time. In the free version, you can set the 1 hour “Nap” timer, and in the full version you can set from 1 to 12 hours of peace and quiet.

NetCounter

NewsRob is a RSS/Atom reader that syncs with Google Reader. If you’re like me and make use of public transportation to get to school or work and would like to keep updated with news from your favourite sites, this is the perfect thing. Like I mentioned it syncs with Google Reader and we all know how we love Google services. Some cool features are:

Two-way background sync
Download full & partial feeds including the web pages and images
Offline capable (You can download your feeds via WiFi then read them when not connected to the web
Share link by email/twitter/delicious
Share article in Reader
Star articles
Locale Integration
Hide and Auto-delete read articles
Supports your Google Reader categories and labels
Save fetched feeds and web pages on your SD card

WaveSecure – Mobile Security

WaveSecure is the complete mobile security service that lets users protect mobile data, ensures privacy in the event of theft and enhances the possibility of recovering the phone. Track SIM changes, lock, backup, wipe & restore your data.

Puzzle Blox Arcade!

Puzzle Blox is a casual game with a lot of puzzling and fun for your mobile. It is inspired by games like Tetris, Bubble Breaker and Bejeweled with a different twist. Literally! Clear the levels just by tapping, twisting and tilting your phone.

Unique touch & tilt game play
Colorful graphics, beautiful themes
Unlimited Arcade! game mode
Features a demo of 2 more game modes
Global high score leader board
HD graphic mode for Motorola Droid and other WVGA devices
Simply addicting

Places Directory

Yet another Google Labs product for Android. As the name implies, Places Directory allows you to browse nearby places in categories like Restaurants, Movie Theaters, Hotels and Banks. You’ll see distance and directions to the destination, and if you tap on the listing, it’ll show ratings and photos. You can also call the business or view its location on Google Maps.

Mini-Map
Location Picker
My Favorites
Photo Gallery
Compass Direction
Keyword Search

Ringdroid

This application is actually really cool. It lets you manipulate song tracks, so that you can use songs from your music library as ring-tones. Whats great about that? Well say you want the ring-tone to start 1min 30secs into the song, and last for 20 seconds (chorus maybe?), this application makes life easy for you.

Supports MP3, WAV, AAC, MP4, 3GPP and AMR files.
Song editing
Creating ring-tones (duh..)

Spotify

You guessed it, its the official Spotify client which enables you to listen to your Spotify playlists wherever you go. You need to be a Premium subscriber to use this application, but I’d say its definitely worth it. You don’t know what Spotify is? Then it’s time you came out of your cave and check out their website. The client has all the features the computer client does (i think), and as long as you’ve either downloaded playlists to be available offline, or have a 3G connection you should be ready to go.

Stream your favourite music
Store your offline playlists
Share your favourite tracks with friends
A pretty decent Home widget

Phonebook

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40 Free Professional Useful Icon Sets for Web Designers

Vidiya — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:34:05 +0000

Most of the websites in this era have really graphical and illustrator based icons which using in software applications as well, the demand for well-designed icons are too much in these days also some companies specially hiring icon designers.

We are with free professional icon sets where you seen an beautiful variety of icons, we listing most useful icons they belong to different platforms as you know windows, MAC OS X, mobile phones, gadgets and iPhone icons also listing for design inspirations.

You can use icon sets in Web applications, website designs and on your desktop, If well designed, they make a great impression on others, hope you all really like these and leave you comments.

Yoritsuki icons

Cute Critters Free Icon Pack

Birdies by `arrioch

Mixed Icons Pack by simiographics

Container Icon Pack

Free Mobile Berries Icon Set by templay-team

Umbrella by kyo-tux

Zosha iPhone Theme by iPhaze

Social Networking Icons by deleket

FontLab Studio Icons OS X by Daoud1

Free Icon Pack: Web Injection

Function Icon Set

Onebit free icon set#2

Archigraphs Pink Dock Icons by Cyberella74

Lego Heads – EP by articZ3R0

WP WooThemes Ultimate Icon Set

MinIcons by kyo-tux

Free Icons: Grunge Peeling Stickers Social Media Icons

Onebit free icon set

Touchscreen Icons by Guifx

Mac Folders by deleket

Basic set

August Iconset by austintheheller

Photoshop Icon by Robsonbillponte666

Archigraphs Griots Dock Icons by Cyberella74

Archigraphs Porcelain Icons by Cyberella74

Browser Icons

icon for transformers by ypf

Zosha Preview 2 coming soon by iPhaze

Curl Finder icon by MDGraphs

Market Place icons by i0d

rounder_png by vicing

eico 1 year by Rokey

Wifun Icons by Rokey

Nes Icons Pack by Ahuri

HELP ICONS…not by me by babysnoop03

LT700 by jixi2000

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30+ Enormously Useful Adobe Air Applications

Anupama Rao — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:38:42 +0000

Today we presenting some most useful Adobe Air Applications, one of the most appreciated application platform, it has become a very much popular platform for internet-enabled desktop applications.

This application (Adobe Air) with rich features helping for web designers and developers too, even web developers are able to build application using HTML, Ajax, JavaScript, Flex and famous tool Adobe Flash.

AOL Top 100 Videos

Everyone likes listening to music. This Adobe AIR desktop widget offers a simple to use way to watch music videos through AOL. The videos are categorized by ranking and genre.

GeeMail

GeeMail is an Adobe AIR desktop widget that connects to GMail. Configuring POP or IMAP is not necessary to get online. And if you send an e-mail without being connected to the web, GeeMail will automatically send it after an Internet connection is detected.

Color Browser

Store and manage sets of color palettes with colorbrowser. Open or drag and drop ASE files from Kuler or ColourLovers into colorbrowser to add the color palettes to your collection.

Wikipedia Desktop Widget

ReadAir

AlertThingy

AlertThingy is an Adobe AIR widget that can send Tweets and update Facebook statuses. AlertThingy can also upload pictures to Flickr and update Tumblr blogs. If you use business social tools such as Yammer, Basecamp, or Huddle, AlertThingy will also work for you. AlertThingy also works as an RSS reader.

Flickr Desktop Search

Flickr Desktop Search is an Adobe AIR based utility which helps you to search Flickr images right from your desktop. The application is very easy and simple to use and basically has three tabs, one is for photo search, second one for groups and the last one for people. All you need is to enter the keyword and select the appropriate tab and click the search button.

DiggTop

DiggTop is an application for Windows and MacOSX that lets you view a blended list of your favourite Digg topic or keyword feeds. In addition to the full Digg submission information, it will also display a slideshow of images it can scrape from the linked article.

View video submissions from your favourite Digg video categories, and preview some videos right in the application. You can also set up keyword and Digg count filters that will notify you with a sound and icon when new stories match your criteria.

Spreadtweet

So, you work at a big corporate, huh?
And you’re not allowed to use Twitter…
Wouldn’t it be awesome if there were a Twitter tool that looked just like Excel?
Welcome to Spreadtweet.

NASDAQ Market Replay

NASDAQ Market Replay is a powerful replay and analysis tool of consolidated order book and trade data for NASDAQ-, NYSE- and Amex-listed securities.

kuler desktop

New! Import kuler themes directly into Creative Suite 3 Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop. Select Save Theme menu to learn more. Color inspiration. Browse and search color themes from kuler (kuler.adobe.com), an online application to create and share color harmonies.

View RSS feeds of Highest Rated, Most Popular, Newest, and Randomly Selected themes. Drag and drop themes as transparent “tear offs,” to scale and view over any application.

Random Patter

Easy app that renders paterns based on given parameters. Rendered image can be used as a base of a mosaic. Preset parameters can be saved and loaded (in xml file format) and output image can be saved as SVG document.

Contrast-A

Contrast-A allows users to interact with a 3-dimensional RGB color space, experiment with color combinations, check the contrast according to both WCAG 2.0 and 1.0 and see the results for different types of color deficiency. Custom color palettes can be created, printed and saved as Pdf to the user’s desktop.

DeskTube

DeskTube is an Adobe AIR application that is conducive for using YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook. DeskTube has 4 way video chat, playlist editing, the ability to search/view/upload videos, and post/view comments.

DeskTube also allows you to update tweets and Facebook statuses. Video recording is compatible with DeskTube.

EarthBrowser

EarthBrowser is an innovative earth simulation that combines an easy to navigate 3 dimensional globe with real-time weather conditions and 7 day forecasts for thousands of locations. Live earthquakes, satellites, webcams, volcanoes and current cloud animations are also featured. Great educational tool, a must have for avid weather watchers!

TweetDeck

TweetDeck is your personal browser for staying in touch with what’s happening now, connecting you with your contacts across Twitter, Facebook and more.

TweetDeck shows you everything you want to see at once, so you can stay organised and up to date.

Flickr Flipper

Flickr Flipper allows you to search for Flickr photos and also search for photos from specific Flickr users. It uses Papervision to display the photos one at a time and even allows you to download the photo to your computer. Currently it only returns up to 100 photos of your search.

Chalkboard

This is an easy and fun to use sketching tool with a chalkboard interface. Pick up chalk from the tray, press and drag on the board to draw. Line thickness and transparency are set with the controls in the lower left corner of the board.

Board can be stretched by grabbing and dragging the frame corners. It can also be “maximized” to fill your computer screen, giving you lots of room to draw.

StudioCloud 3.0 – Free Business Software

StudioCloud is free business management software that provides an integrated system including Client Management, Scheduling, Point-of-Sale, Bookkeeping, Reporting, Marketing Campaigns, Project/Event Management and much more!

Font Picker

BetaDesigns Caliper

The Calilper floats above other applications on screen and can be used to measure anything on your monitor.
Possible Usages

* Web Designers : Layout Measurements.
* Graphic Designers : Photo and Illustration Measurements.
* CAD Engineers : Measuring Architectural Drawings.

ImageSizer

ImageSizer is an application built to resize, rotate, optimize and rename a batch of images, outputting them as a single compressed zip file – perfect if you want to e-mail a load of images off your digital camera, or a folder of images – just drag, drop, fiddle with settings and press ‘Compress your images’.

Once the files are processed, you can simply drag and drop again to export all of your images as a compressed zip archive or a folder on your hard drive.

JustResizeIt!

JustResizeIt! introduces a brand new way of resizing images – just drag and drop them!

1. Drag and drop one or more images,
2. wait a few seconds, and
3. drag and drop resized images into an e-mail, an office document, or a folder

You can create widgets that define how the images will be resized (for sending in e-mail, using in a document, upload into a web gallery) Also, you can have a customized JustResizeIt! to your company’s Corporate Identity and redistribute it – a great advertisement!

PhotoTable

What if there’s a nice picture on a website you passing by? Save it, go to the folder, watch it and then close and hope you’ll find it again? There’s a better way to look at your favorite pics every time as long as you become sick of it
Just drag the image out of every browser to the PhotoTable Icon and it shows up on your screen, always in top, on- and offline. You can collect them on your screen, drag them, show/hide all at once and of course delete them one by one or even all at once. Bring them to front or back, change your PhotoTable Icon or copy the link of the picture was assigned to. You also can drag files from your os to the screen by dragging them to the PhotoTable Icon without losing the original image when deleting them from screen. Available languages are english and german. Have fun!

Icon Generator

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Xe-IMG Image Editor V3

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Splashup Light is an image editor tailored for those that want to enhance, beautify, or merely play with their photos. Effects include Levels, Contrast/Brightness, Hue Saturation, Text Editing and Shapes and much more. Splashup Light is ideal for those using Tablet PCs and other Portable Computers, but many find it just as suitable for everyday use on their desktops.

Google Calendar Invoice Creator

This application reads an RSS feed from your Google Calendar in which every created appointment the number of hours worked for a project represents. Based on the title it filters the appointments, calculates the total of hours and creates your invoice in html or text version. Obviously you need a Google account to use this application.

jigsawlite

Jigsawlite enables you to make your own digital photo into your original jigsaw puzzle game easily-playable on your desktop, by only a single file-drag-and-drop action.

Ora Time and Expense

Ora Time and Expense is a small easy-to-use application for tracking and generating timesheets, expense reports, and invoices. Use the task timer for tracking time sheet activities. Use your webcam to scan expense receipts, which automatically attach to expense reports. Customizable report templates generate time sheets, expense reports, and invoices for you to submit in HTML, Excel, CSV, or XML. Adobe® AIR™ Developer Derby Best Business HTML Application winner. Updated to AIR 1.5.1

designview

Provides basic functionality of the Flex Builder Design View.

Livebrush

Livebrush is a unique motion-based drawing tool. Use the power of motion to toss graphics around the screen or elegantly swing the brush around your cursor. Over 100 styles and decorations.
Export lines you draw as vector files for use in other graphics applications.
Easily modify or create your styles while learning each setting using the convenient style preview.
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36 Awesome Film Noir Movie Posters

admin — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 07:45:47 +0000

Film noir is a cinematic genre characterized by stylish Hollywood dramas that deal with the big issues of sex, violence and money. The noir world is full of morally dubious crooks, corrupt cops, insurance scams, gambling, drinking, false accusations, fast talking broads, dangerously attractive femme fatales, and murder.

The movies were made by some of the most important movie makers of the 20th Century including Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles; it was also a genre that attracted some of the best talent in poster designers. Film noir posters mirrored the strong design aesthetic of the movies themselves.

This post brings together 36 classic designs, laid out in chronological order, from the 1940s and 50s, the golden era of film noir.

They Drive by Night (1940)

In They Drive by Night, George Raft and Humphrey Bogart play brothers struggling as independent truckers in the Great Depression. Ann Sheridan plays a waitress serving up truck-stop specials and cheeky banter, while Ida Lupino is an executive with a taste for business and murder. The high point of the film is a courtroom scene with Lupino’s femme fatale disintegrating into eye-popping madness.

Rebecca (1940)

Hitchcock’s film adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier’s novel tells the tale of a naïve young woman marrying a wealthy widower and moving into his grand mansion. Her husband and his servants seem gripped by the memory of his dead wife. Hitchcock coaxed a convincingly uneasy performance from Joan Fontaine by persuading her that the entire cast and crew despised her.

Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)

Stranger on the Third Floor is a classic example of noir, with its unsettling urbanism, diagonal compositions, low-camera angles and multi-storey staircases; these elements are reflected in the film’s poster. The story follows an innocent protagonist falsely accused of murder and his desperate quest to clear his name.

The Maltese Falcon (1941)

In this detective story, Humphrey Bogart plays a private eye involved with eccentric criminals and their search for a precious statue, the Maltese Falcon.

Casablanca (1942)

Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman star in this noir romance, a film that frequently tops lists of the greatest movies of all time. An American expatriate living in Casablanca meets an old flame in the early days of World War Two, a meeting that leaves him torn between love and virtue.

The Glass Key (1942)

This noir thriller sees a crooked politician, Paul Madvig, trying to clean up his past in a bid for re-election. When his rival’s son is murdered Madvig is in the frame and forced to prove his innocence.

This Gun for Hire (1942)

Alan Ladd plays a contract killer with a conscience opposite Veronica Lake as a beautiful entertainer. Their relationship develops from murder and potential victim to an unlikely alliance against a common enemy.

Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

Hitchcock’s crime thriller tells the story of a young woman discovering that her visiting ‘Uncle Charlie’ isn’t the man he appears to be.

Double Indemnity (1944)

In Billy Wilder’s noir drama, an insurance rep allows himself to become embroiled in a murder insurance scam. As to be expected, the scheme doesn’t go quite to plan.

The Lodger (1944)

The Lodger is a British noir about Jack the Ripper set in Victorian London.

Detour (1945)

The plot of Detour finds hitchhiker Al Roberts trapped by chance events and a spiralling mess of noir trouble.

Mildred Pierce (1945)

Joan Crawford plays Mildred Pierce, the story of a hard-working and long-suffering mother and her spoilt, unloving daughter, a murder mystery told in flashback.

The Big Sleep (1946)

This classic noir follow events when a wealthy family hires Humphrey Bogart’s hardboiled detective Philip Marlowe. In the course of the case, Marlowe experiences murder, blackmail and a little bit of love.

The Killers (1946)

Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner star in Ernest Hemingway’s noir tale in which an insurance investigator uncovers a web of treachery and crime linked to the seductive, deadly femme fatale Kitty Collins.

Born to Kill (1947)

Set in Reno, Born to Kill follows a killer’s unhealthy involvement with his wife’s foster-sister.

Kiss of Death (1947)

This thriller follows an ex-convict and his family attempting to make a fresh start and a lead a crime-free life. A character from his criminal past has different ideas.

Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948)

‘Stage Mentalist’ John Triton is a nightclub fortune teller whose fake stage show suddenly becomes real when he starts seeing terrifying visions of the future.

Criss Cross (1949)

Obsessive, romantic Steve Thompson is drawn into the double-crossing underworld of LA gangsters in a dangerous bid to win back his ex-wife.

The Third Man (1949)

Written by Graham Greene, directed by Carol Reed and starring Orson Welles, The Third Man is an absolute classic of film noir, an atmospheric thriller set in post-war Vienna.

The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

The Asphalt Jungle is a crime caper about a gang of thieves planning a jewel robbery. The film featured an ensemble cast including a small part for a then-unknown Marilyn Monroe, whose name doesn’t appear on the film’s posters.

Panic in the Streets (1950)

This is a Spanish poster for Panic in the Streets, a noir tale of a policeman and a doctor who have 48 hours to track down a killer infected with the pneumonic plague. The film was shot entirely on location in the streets of New Orleans.

His Kind of Woman 1951)

Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell star in this drama about a deported gangster’s efforts to re-enter the USA. Mitchum’s ‘honest’ gambler Dan Milner is bribed into taking a trip to a Mexican resort to help the deportee’s return. Along the way he meets chanteuse Lenore Brent, who turns out to be his kind of woman.

The Man with My Face 1951)

The Man with My Face is a story of identity theft of a particularly horrific nature. The implausible yet absorbing action takes place in Puerto Rico.

Strangers on a Train (1951)

In Hitchcock’s thriller, a psychopathic socialite meets a tennis star on the train and proposes the idea that perfect strangers can commit perfect murders, an idea he intends to test in reality.

The Las Vegas Story (1952)

Wealthy investment broker Lloyd Rollins and his lounge singer wife Linda roll into Las Vegas for some high-stakes gambling. Their visit leads to murder, and the cop on this complex case turns out to be Linda’s old flame, police lieutenant Dave Andrews.

City That Never Sleeps (1953)

Unhappy at work and in his marriage, Chicago cop Johnny Kelly wants to run away with Angel Face, his stripper lover. During one crowded night, Kelly finds himself drawn into crime.

The Hitch-Hiker (1953)

Two friends on a fishing trip perform an act of kindness when they pick up a hitchhiker. It quickly turns out to be a mistake, when the psychotic hitcher tells the pair of his intentions to kill them both at the end of the ride.

Naked Alibi (1954)

A police chief is sacked after he accuses a respected community man of the murder of fellow police officers. A deadly game of cat and mouse entails, the action ends with a rooftop chase scene.

The Night of the Hunter (1955)

Robert Mitchum stars as the religious fanatic who marries a naïve widow and starts asking questions about where the previous husband hid his stash of $10,000 taken in a robbery.

Kiss Me Deadly (1955)

Private detective Mike Hammer is out on a late-night ride in LA when he nearly runs down a young woman. The woman, Christina, desperately begs for a lift, unlocking a series of tragic events.

While the City Sleeps (1956)

After the death of media magnate Amos Kyne, reporter Edward Mobley is left juggling an impossible set of problems. He must prevent the media empire from falling into the wrong hands, rescue his romantic relationship, and stop a serial killer who is preying on the women of New York.

Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

Powerful New York columnist JJ Hunsecker is willing to use any means possible to prevent his sister from marrying jazz musician Steve Dallas. To this end, he secretly employs sleazy press agent Sidney Falco to break up the affair. The film, starring Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis, received indifferent reviews upon its release, but has since been recognized as an all-time classic.

Nightfall (1957)

Nightfall features a typically noir tale of a commercial artist on the run from police for a murder he didn’t commit, while simultaneously being pursued by criminals for cash he doesn’t have.

Touch of Evil (1958)

Orson Welles wrote, directed and co-starred in Touch of Evil, a dark tale of kidnap, murder and police corruption set in a Mexican border town.

Vertigo (1958)

This poster employs a simply sublime design aesthetic for Hitchcock’s psychological thriller exploring identity and dangerous obsession.

The Beat Generation (1959)

The Beat Generation is widely thought of as one of the last true film noirs. The story is set in a bohemian coffee house where members of the beatnik generation gather to recite poetry and sing songs, and follows the efforts of a police detective’s attempts to track down an arrogant and wealthy rapist. When the serial offender discovers that the cop is on his tail, he decides to target the law enforcer’s wife.

About The Author

Tom is a designer and writer who works with a specialist in Epson inks, paper and printing supplies based in Manchester, England. You can read more of his writing on their blog, CreativeCloud, where he blogs and modern art and print design.

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85 Photo Montages with Distinctive Surrealism by Ben Goossens

Vidiya — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:53:47 +0000

Hope you will like these inspiring photographs where you have seen many new techniques of photo manipulations and other creative effects, conceptual photography most use in news paper and television ads, this is an modern trend to market your brands, so that’s why i think we sharing really helping stuff to all graphic designers and media artists, we like to introduce the personality who did great job as you seen listed Montages.

Ben Goossens worked for 35 years in his native Belgium as an ad agency art director. After retiring, Goossen’s turned to creating photo montages with a distinctive Surrealism style reminiscent of his fellow countryman, Rene Magritte.

Goossens’ images have received awards in a number of prestigious international photography competitions including Gold and Silver medals at the Trierenberg Super Circuit, the world’s largest annual photography salon. Goossens has also seen his work widely published, including an in-depth 10 page exposition in the March 2007 edition of Photo Art International. His composite photos are remarkable for their seamless yet painterly renderings of Surrealism dreamscapes.

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25 Ultimate Useful Form Tutorials Using CSS and Javascript

Denbagus — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:17:37 +0000

In this article I just featured many good looking contact forms, so you should know how the contact form is good looking. Now let’s take a look how to create outstanding and beautifully designed form element from scratch ourselves. Things can get tricky even if you are experienced designer.

Although It Is hard to attract visitors attention, but this article should help to stand out and create semantically correct, good looking and accessible web forms, radio buttons, buttons, checkboxes, field sets and everything that come to your mind when you are creating contact or login page!

1. Simple Form Example

This tutorial will explain you the crucial point you should give attention to.

2. Good Looking Form Without Table

This tutorial will explain how to design good form using clean CSS design with only label and input tags to simulate an HTML table structure. You can use all CSS/HTML elements to design your custom contact form for your web projects.

3. Prettier Accessible Forms

Just visit to get tutorial to make accessible form

4. NiceForms

Niceforms is a script that will replace all the most commonly use form elements with custom designed ones. You may either to use the default theme that is provided or you can even develop your own look with minimal effort.

5. Adding Style with CSS: A Beautiful Form

Forms don not have to be ugly and boring, and certainly don not have to be inside tables to look nice and aligned. This form will make real of it.

6. Turn postcard photo into a stunning comment form using CSS

This tutorial will guide you how to make stunning comment form using old postcard photo.

7. Enhance your input fields with simple CSS tricks

The example you’re going to see is something that you use every day such as blog comment form.

8.Forms markup and CSS – Revisited

Just visit him and you will get form that look like this.

9. Fun with forms – customized input elements

Ever eager to match the look of your HTML forms with the rest of your website? This article will demonstrate how to apply customized backgrounds to HTML forms, while preserving stucturally clean markup and accesibility.

10. Semantic horizontal Forms

Semantically correct web forms with fieldsets, labels, legends and some CSS style. It has been tested in FF1.x, IE6 and Opera8. (but looks a little quirky in IE5.x although still usable).

11. Style:Phreak’s Standard Form Layout Revisited

How to make standard form layout

12. Tableless forms

Create beautiful web forms with CSS, what a good tutorial it is.

13. A form with style

With seven different style examples, where you can learn to code and create good looking forms.

14. A Simple Tableless Form

Use CSS to build your form and free from tables. Code examples are written in good-old-fashioned HTML instead of ASP.NET and do not contain validation, ID’s, etc. You will get the Continue with second part on their website, to learn how to send and receive that data – Staying in Touch – How to Build a Contact Form.

15. Make your forms beautiful with CSS

You will learn how to take a standard form and then make it special with some simple CSS tricks and techniques in this tutorial. You’ll improve the usability, aesthetics and layout, while picking the design cues up from the existing design elements.

16. Fancy Form Design Using CSS

How to make a fancy form design using CSS

17. How to create perfect form markup and style it with CSS

In this post you will be explained the choices when marking up the forms, and the CSS styling involved to making them cross-browser compatible.

18. Formy – CSS Form Framework

This is universal CSS forms who’ll interact in the simple natural way with HTML form and even without CSS HTML form will work decently well.

19. Background Images into Form Fields with CSS

Add some expressive background images to your HTML form which can be considered sometimes as a relevant point. with pure CSS, This can be done easily.

20. Changing Form Input Styles on Focus with jQuery

There are many forms which can be boring and plain, do not let yours blend in. This tutorial will teach you how to spice up with CSS classes and default values which change according to that form item is selected. Whole with just a splash of jQuery.

21. Improve form usability with auto messages

to improve FORM usability, you can use Animated auto. Then Scriptaculous is a great framework to use in this case.

22. Form field hints with CSS and JavaScript

It Is a basic example of how helpful a little JavaScript and CSS can be in a form only. Instead of the input hints always showing and potentionally cluttering a very simple form, only one of the hint for the currently focused input will show. This article will show you way to do this.

23. Nice & Clean Sliding Login Panel built with jQuery

This tutorial will guide you how to create sliding panel form using jQuery

24. Uni-Form

Uni-Form is an project to standardize form markup (xhtml) and CSS, “modularize” it, so even people with only basic knowledge of these technologies can get nice looking, well structured, highly customizable, accessible, semantic and usable forms.

25. “Select” Something New

With some creative CSS and little DOM scripting, you will be able to make your