So here are the requirements to win one. You must provide me with a link to a portfolio of your work. It must contain more than 3 pieces of completely different work. I will give them away and announce the winners within the next month or two (depending on how many people apply within that period). So post a comment and you may win a dribbble invite!

Best of luck to all.

edit:

We’ve had 3 winners!

https://dribbble.com/Aarthi
https://dribbble.com/kolopach
https://dribbble.com/teddypixel

Chrome

Open your developer tools by either key combination of Command + Alt + J or from here

Once open you need to click the settings button on very bottom right then check the box that says “Disable cache (while DevTools is open) from the top left.

Please keep in mind that you need the DevTools to be open for this to work.

Firefox

In Firefox we will need to do slightly different magic all together. First open Firefox and navigate the url bar to “about:config“. Once inside search for property

network.http.use-cache

and turn it to false. Keep in mind this is a permanent solution… so if you use it as your daily browser things may be just a second slower.

Internet Explorer (most)

The trick here is again to open the developer tools with F12 or

Now click on the cache menu from the bar and select “Always refresh from server”

Also here is a short link that you may remember: ena.vu/we

You’ll need 3 things: HTML, CSS, and some JS. That’s it. Let’s do it.

<header>
    logo
</header>
<div id="sub_header">
    some sub header
</div>

Simple, just a header and sub header.

The CSS:

body { height:2000px; }
    header { height:52px; border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding:10px 0; }
    #sub_header { height:18px; border-bottom:1px solid #ccc; padding:5px 0; }
    #sub_header.sticky { position:fixed; top:0px; left:0px; right:0px; z-index:99999; }

Notice most of the fluff above is just for making it easier to see what’s happening, only interesting part is the #sub_header.active. It is responsible for making our sub header sticky once the jQuery tells it to (adds appropriate class).

And for the fun stuff:

$(function(){
    $(window).scroll(function(){
        // make sure you change 52 to your headers height plus your padding
        if ($(window).scrollTop() > 72) {
            $("#sub_header").addClass("sticky");
        } else {
            $("#sub_header").removeClass("sticky");
        }
    });
});

That’s about it. Here is example http://jsfiddle.net/HbVte/1/embedded/result/ scroll down to see the effect take place! Haven’t tested this on many browsers, but nothing in the css is that tricky, so I wouldn’t be surprised if this works all the way down to IE6.

Currently the set includes jSlider, jTabs, jPaginate, jSpotlight, jTip, jPlaceholder, and jCollapse. And if you look at our repository on Google we have quite a few more on their way. One of the most important things you should keep in mind is that even though some of our plugins may be already done around the web, we have made them only if they are less lines of code or if they offer more functionality!

We hope you give Vanity Toolset a try!

The Enavu Team

1. Google Docs – link

The Google document suite is just irreplaceable in our office, from sharing documents quickly and efficiently to editing them at the same time. This tool single handedly replaced Microsoft Office overnight for us, and besides the financial savings, it yields many other benefits that my company couldn’t live without.

2. Google Reader – link

The web is changing so fast, in the industry of web development there are new and important news every single day and you don’t want to be out of the loop. When a blog is posted and you are not subscribed to its RSS does that blog article still help you… no it doesn’t. So if you are not using RSS yet go ahead start, it will allow you to quickly skim through all the latest in any industry you want. Just go to your favorite websites and find their little RSS link. Google reader is honestly the best RSS reader by far, it allows you to keep track of everything, share with friends, and it just works.

3. Freedcamp – link

Project Management is an essential part of any business, keeping track of what’s happening and keeping everyone informed is a must. Freedcamp offers all of that for free in a beautiful package that anyone can start using today.

4. Wordpress – link

Whether you want to keep your customers informed or you want to make a simple website for your product with WordPress you can be up and running in hours (for beginners) or minutes (for experts). It has a theme/plugin that is right for you to help you do anything you may want to do!

5. Pandora – link

I know people may complain about adding a music streaming service in this list, but I can’t lie, I use Pandora 24/7 in the office and in my car and at home. It makes it easier to work, it makes everyone else happy… it’s a win win!

6. Alexa – link

There is no feeling like that of waking up and seeing that your Alexa world ranking dropped 10k overnight. Alexa does a terrific job of monitoring the internet and keeping records of which websites are doing good and which are not. It’s especially important for you as a web user or possibly a site owner to check your Alexa ranking once in a while.

7. WaveAccounting – link

WaveAccount is a beautiful FreshBooks replacement that like Freedcamp is absolutely free and awesome. WaveAccount will help you manage all those annoying things that accountants usually have to do for a bunch of money. It’s an amazing application, and its price tag is along enough to make you check it out right now.

8. Google Analytics – link

Knowing your audience is pretty much the first advice you will ever get from anyone in the Business industry. I have read countless books that start with some variation of “Know your audience”. With google analytics you can do just that by tracking the visitors of your website and seeing how your traffic is doing.

9. Beanstalkapp – link

You may have never heard of SVN, GIT, or Mercurial… that’s okay. What all of these Versioning systems allow you to do is keep a complete back up of your code/designs and so forth. You can see every step that was taking in modifying the Code and so forth. I promise you once in a while this is a Life Saver! Or if you just want to know who to blame for something that’s wrong with the code.

10. Gmail – link

The ultimate business user tool since 2005 (or at least that’s when i joined). Emailing has never been so powerful, fast, and free! We have thrown out Outlook a long time ago now, and haven’t missed it since.

We hope this list has been informative and helpful! Feel free to post comments with the applications you simply can’t live without!

Thanks

First of all let’s start by explaining what our criteria for a project management application are. The application needs to have a sleek and smooth interface that is easy for the user to navigate and use. The application must have a reasonable price tag, or be offered free. To make it in the top 10 the application needs to run fast and allow you to quickly do all your tasks. We have tried all of these applications so we are not just reading their press releases and feeding you with their bs marketing language.

Let’s get started!

• Freedcamp

  

  Freedcamp offers one of the cleanest interfaces and smoothest interactions (only competitors in that area goes to ApolloHQ who also have a very visually pleasing interface and very good interactions smoothness). The application offers the regular tools like To-Do’s, Discussions, Milestones, Files, Time Tracking, and Invoices. Where it really stands out is its Basecamp Import and the Meebo Chat bar which enables you to chat with all your existing messengers with your colleagues who may use Gtalk, ICQ, Facebook Chat, and many more. The application is young but it has a rapid growing feature list. The very best thing actually is not the features, or the beautiful interface, it’s the applications’ price tag… FREE! That’s right, this application launched a little over a month ago and has announced that it will remain completely free forever with unlimited users and projects! Something the rest of this list won’t offer.

• BasecampHQ

  

  Basecamp is the oldest and most trustworthy in this list. They have been around for a long time and have proven to maintain their application as simple as possible. Some find this quite annoying as they want a lot more functionality out of the system, others find it pleasing as it never gets too complicated. I will remain impartial to this, but will say that I think there are ways to add more features without burdening the users. The application has a very primitive design, same argument stays. So if you are ready to spend a whopping $20-$150 a month for a project management application this should be your first choice.

• ApolloHQ

  

  Apollo is a rather new project management application but it has quickly gained our respect with a decent set of features and a great interface. The biggest issue is they have blatantly offering the application for free, to soon release a set of payment plans that may kick their users out… who knows. Otherwise the application is worth a check, but personally i would wait until they annonce their plans. For a company to take months before releasing a price tag, it’s just scary to start using it.

• GoPlanApp

  

  GoPlan is a nice simple application with a nice interface. Their pricing is pretty fair, seems like the only draw back is the simplicity of the app which actually has offers less than BasecampHQ. But the application is definitely worth a mention.

• Huddle

  

  This application also holds a very special place in the PM world, I for one still find it hard to see the appeal. Especially at a price of $15/user/month, i find it almost slightly repulsive (not the website, but the actual application). It has some customization options that I can see are nicely setting them apart. But otherwise the time it takes you to learn to use this software is a cost i find much more gruesome than the $15 for every team member that joins.

Central Desktop



This application is scary familiar from BasecampHQ. What is worst is the price plan… that’s right i said price plan because it’s only one and it’s $99… that is quite confusing to me, but i’m sure they have some reason behind it. Other than that the design is much less appealing that most other apps on this list (except write… which is just awful). The main benefit of this application is the vast amount of features it has, so if you are looking to get a bunch of features into one application without a choice of having them or not this may be a great choice.

• Wrike

  

  I have tried using this application on multiple occasions and it makes no sense to me. The design is poor, the workflow seems confusing, and overall i’m really not sure how this is rated as one of the better project management applications. The only reason I have included this is because it holds a great respect in the pm world. I will continue trying to use it to find that WOW factor some are finding!

• 5pmweb

  

  This application reminds me of the Python programming languages. I have heard that you either love it or you hate it and no middle ground. And from my experience with it that is a correct statement. Personally i find it rather confusing, and overwhelming. And again there are a lot of people who find this application extremely useful and it works for them. The interface is so bold and in your face that i am a little worried to break something. The demo page took 4 minutes to load, and after a few refreshes it actually started working… so that wasn’t a great third experience withe app. But where this app really meets the rest is its pricing sheet which is no smaller than that of Basecamp or other competitors. Overall this may be the choice for you (if you like Python).

• TeamWorkPM

  

  This one is a little less known application, but not completely unknown. It has very similiar features and interface to that of Basecamp (just like a lot of the other apps on this list). It’s bold and in your face, but not in a good way. It works, but with that price tag you are better of wasting your money with basecamp. But overall it’s not an awful application or anything I just don’t see the wow factor.

Teamly



I hope no one gets mad about including this one. I personally don’t agree that this is a project management application… but they seem to say they are. At any rate, this overly simple application offers a very funky version of Task management. As far as i can tell they are free… but so are most other task applications around the web… at any rate i thought there may be people interested so i shared.

I would like to say that these are solely my views on these applications and if you disagree than that is your view and you are more than welcome to post them in the comments. Also feel free to suggest any other apps you think were worth making it in this list.

On January 31, 2011, free project management was released to the world. We had an amazing kick-off and greatly appreciate each and every person involved in helping us grow. We are very pleased to see all the feedback, it’s quite amazing to hear so many positive things! We are working hard to satisfy our users so please don’t hesitate to contact us—even if you would like to chat!

Please continue to help spread the word about us. Free project management is the future!

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