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Newsletter Templates and Tools

admin — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:06:01 +0000

The Cording HTML newsletter is somewaht different from the Web Site Cording.

Same as web browsers, there are many mail clients such as Outlook, Thunderbird and more.

Many people also use web mail as well something like Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, Gmail etc…

You can see the Top 10 email clients used by business recipients.

It may be time consuming task to check each clients.

Here is a list for useful Templates and Tools for Newsletter.

CSS support in email clients

You can check the CSS support each emal clients.

Newsletter Templates

Using the Newsletter Templates save your time. Also, designer can see how the other designers code HTML.

33 free HTML email templates to get you started

Newsletter Templates | cakemail.com

HTML email templates by AWeber

Mail Client Checker

Checking design for each mail clients is very time consuming task. Mail Client Checker can save your time.

Testing Software for Web Professionals – Litmus

Gallery

Newsletter design galleries inspire you!

Newsletter Archive – Help preserve the world’s email newsletters!

Newsletter Tools

You can create newsletter, manage subscriber, analize, and send mails with these tools.

HTML Email Marketing from MailChimp

Excel Data Visualization Tools and Tips

admin — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:47:04 +0000

I’m a web designer. So I don’t use an Excel so much though.

In this post you will see some tools and tips to visualize your Excel Data.

CX NOW! Powered by Crystal Xcelsius

CX Now! is the free, fun, and easy way to transform your ordinary Excel spreadsheets into persuasive presentations and dynamic business dashboards, and then share them easily via Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, or the Web.

Chart Chooser

Use the filters to find the right chart type for your needs. Then download as Excel or PowerPoint templates and insert your data.

SparkMaker 4.0 Palo Edition

A free Excel add-in provided by Jedox connects Microsoft Excel with the Palo-Server and allows to store and read Palo data in Excel. You can add a small chart in the cell.

Lightweight data exploration in Excel

The bar graphs are built using the Excel REPT function which lets you repeat text a certain number of times. REPT looks like this.

Art of Office – Excel

You can download some creative Excel Art files and templates.

Create your own font online | FontStruct

admin — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:48:43 +0000

You can build and share your own font online at “FontStruct | Build, Share, Download Fonts“.

Of course it free to register.

FontStruct | Build, Share, Download Fonts

It looks really fun and easy to create font.

Also, you can download fonts that other users created.

Let’s create your own font!

20+ Online Drawing Tools

admin — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:07:57 +0000

Drawing is fun. There are so many fun online drawing tools.

Those may be a perfect tool of killing time… Use your mouse or Pen Tablet to draw. Let’s try some!

Here is my list of Online Drawing Tools.

Mai’Nada – Comics Sketch – Social Comic Artists

This is a new enterly free site for users and guest to come a draw humor sketches and comic strips. It’s the FIRST and BEST Comic Stip Sketch-based Creator online.

ROXIK | PICTAPS

Make your drawings to dance. That’s fun!

Sketchcast.com

It’s allow you to record a drawing with or without your voice.

Яндекс.Краски. Нарисуйте свою открытку!

Russian Drawing tool. That’s really cool.

odopod

Very Cool Sketchpads.

art.com artPad

Express yourself with the artPad, where you create art as unique as you are.

WebCanvas – The World’s Largest Collaborative Painting.

WebCanvas is a world wide collaborative painting where anyone can paint and watch others paint.

SwarmSketch

Collective sketching of the collective consciousness.

Kerpoof Studio

noughts::

Queeky online drawing

Play Line Rider Online | Line Rider

In Line Rider the player draws your own landscape with a simple pencil tool creating as many ramps, hills, and jumps as you can imagine.

quikmaps.com

You can draw over the Google Maps.

sketchfu

Sketch Swap

Paint – WiiPlayable

º Flash PAINT º Online Painting Tool ©

iSketch

Scriblink – Your Online Whiteboard

Imagination Cubed

offtype.net :: create image online

WebSketch

S C R I B B L E R

Eric Deis – Beauty and Chaos – Online Drawing

Other Drawing Tools

Pencil

Pencil is an animation/drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil is free and open source.

Funky Ways to Express Yourself

BeFunky is all about expressing and representing yourself by turning images and videos into cartoons.

viscosity: create

Create modern art with viscosity.

Qbesq

Qbesq is the best arabesque drawing tool.

Have Fun!

20+ Free Online Photo Editors

admin — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:21:52 +0000

Adobe launched Photoshop Express. Have you tried that?

You can use some features include resize, tint, distort, red eye removal and 2GB of Free Storage for your photos.

However there are so many Free Online Photo Editors. Here is my list for Free Online Photo Editors you can enjoy!

flash/flex

Adobe Photoshop Express

Picnik

Picnik makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools.

Phoenix Image editor

It’s still closed β version. But it’s really high performance software.

Splashup

Splashup, formerly Fauxto, is a powerful editing tool and photo manager. It looks similar to Photoshop. So, I think Photoshop user can easily use.

Scrapblog

Scrapblog is the best place to share your digital scrapbooks with your friends, family, and the world. Enhance your photos, and express yourself through a rich multimedia experience with our online scrapbooking tools at scrapblog.com.

FotoFlexer

FotoFlexer is the most powerful online photo editor in existence. It can remove blemishes, change skin/hair color, morph photos and more! 100% free.

Graphita.com

Easy to use visual effects for digital photos�live on the web in print resolution!。

pixer.us

Need a quick fix for that photo? With pixer.us you can edit your photos online using only your browser.

flauntR

Move your photos in and out of this world from any other place on the net, and use flauntR to make them feel special. In our world, everyone gets to be a pro.

Mixbook

Mixbook software makes book creation easy and fun, it also allows groups of people to build books together.

Sprout

Sprout is a quick and easy way for beginner and pro users to create living content including websites, banners, videos, music, photos, RSS feeds, calendars and more.

rsizr

rsizr is a web application that lets you resize images.

SlideRocket

It is not launched yet… But it looks really nice! SlideRocket is a web application that provides everything you need to design professional quality presentations, manage and share libraries of slides and assets, and to deliver presentations in person or remotely over the web.

Ajax

Snipshot

You can easily crop images online with SnipShot.

pikifx.com

Pikifx allows you to upload a photo and make it look professional. Add borders, effects and cool text with a click of a button

Wiredness

Quick and easy browser based online image manipulation and photo editing.

pic resize

Resize, shrink, and crop your pictures online for free at PicResize.com. Resize photos before posting them on your MySpace, Xanga, Facebook, and blog!

Pixenate

Pixenate is the photo editor of choice for photo printing and photo sharing businesses.
Click here to find out how Pixenate can enhance your photo website.

Pikipimp

Pikipimp allows you top upload your photo and add some bling

LunaPic

Free Online Photo Editor. Photo and paint effects.

Phixr

It’s a simple Online Photo Editor

mypictr

Resize your pictures for social networks online, such as myspace, digg, youtube, last.fm, openbc and other. mypictr makes your profile picture!

Java

Onlinephototool.com

Edit your photos online on Onlinephototool.com: resize, filters, sepia, black/white, crop, rotate and flip, online photo editing, photo editing, photo tool.

Free Online PDF Tools

admin — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:39:16 +0000

I still hesitate to buy an Adobe Acrobat…

The reason why I hesitate to buy it is simply expensive!

My trial version is of course already expired.

But sometimes I need to edit a PDF file…

Here are 15 online PDF tools you don’t need to pay, download, and install.

PDFescape

PDFescape is a new way to open PDF files. It allows you to open your PDF files right here on the web without downloading or installing any software.

PDF Hammer

PDF Hammer is a website that allows you to edit your PDF files online for free. You don’t need to install any additional software, you can edit PDF documents right now inside your browser.

On-line PDF form Filler

PDFfiller lets you fill PDF Forms on-line.

htm2pdf

Convert your webpages to PDF

RSS 2 PDF

Free Online RSS, Atom or OPML to PDF Generator

PDFTextOnline

Free PDF text (and metadata) content extraction tool.

Vector Magic

It converts bitmap images to vector images with a few simple clicks. You can save the file as PDF.

The Rasterbator

The Rasterbator creates huge, rasterized images from any picture. Upload an image, print the resulting multi-page pdf file and assemble the pages into extremely cool looking poster up to 20 meters in size.

Zamzar

Free online file conversion.

youconvertit

Convert any media file format (Documents, Images, Audio, Video & Archives) without buying or installing anything on your PC

PDF to Word Converter

Convert PDF to Word (doc) or Excel (xls) document, extract Images from PDF

Online PDF Converter

Convert MS Office, Images, Web Pages, Vector Graphic Formats files to PDF

Doc2PDF Online

Free PDF Online Coversion

Neevia Document Converter eXpress

Neevia Document Converter eXpress makes it possible for anyone to instantly convert files to PDF or Image without the need of installing special software.

ExpressPDF

Convert your Word document to PDF.

I didn’t know that iTuens can organize PDF files. That’s cool.

Geek to Live: Organize your PDF library with iTunes

Top 10 Web Sites You can Enjoy Free HD video

admin — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:28:32 +0000

Since I bought a 24 inch iMac, I really enjoy my Mac Life.

Especially, watching online video on my Mac is already part of my life.

Unfortunately, stage6 is gone. But there are still so many sites you can enjoy high quality videos.

HD (High-Definition) is the higher resolution than traditional Standard Definition.

Even though it may take more loading time to watch… However it deserves!

Here is the list of sites you can enjoy free HD video over the web.

Some sites may be limited U.S. user only… sorry.

1. Vuze – Open Entertainment Platform

A file sharing application by Azureus. Allows downloading of high definition TV, movies and videos from BBC Worldwide, National Geographic, …

2. The Vimeo HD Channel on Vimeo

Vimeo is user-generated video site, is set to start offering videos in 1280×720 pixel format, making it the first site …

3. ABC.com Full Episode Player

ABC.com presents full episodes of Lost Season 4, Lost Season 4 in HD Streaming and more.

4. hulu: HD Gallery

Hulu is committed to the High Definition revolution online.

5. HD Web

There are many conflicting definitions as to what constitutes HD video online. Akamai has published a definition of HD video that parallels the industry standard broadcast definition of HDTV.

6. NASA High Definition Video

You can enjoy NASA High Definition Videos such as Endeavour Launches!

7. Apple – Movie Trailers

Apple’s official Quicktime Movie Trailer page.

8. Apple – QuickTime – HD Gallery

This page is also from apple. Check out this gallery of amazing high-definition video

9. Adobe – Flash HD Gallery

High-definition video powered by Adobe Flash for your viewing pleasure.

10. WMV HD Content Showcase

Windows Media Audio and Video 9 Series is a breakthrough set of codecs that enables multichannel audio and high definition (HD) video at resolutions up to 1080p.

Let’s enjoy HD video online!

10+ Fun Adobe AIR Apps

admin — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:51:53 +0000

Have you already installed Adobe AIR yet?

Here is my list of Adobe AIR Apps.

Google Analytics AIR beta

The Google Analytics Reporting suite is an Adobe AIR application that brings Google Analytics to the desktop. It uses it’s own custom API to interact with Google and nearly implements all features of Analytics. See the feature list for more info.

Snitter

An Adobe AIR-powered application for twittering.

twhirl

twhirl is a desktop twitter client, based on the Adobe AIR platform.

Pownce

You can send and receive notes either on the website or using a really handy program on your computer. It works in both Windows and on Mac OS X

AOL Music – Top 100 Videos

The latest desktop widget from AOL Music featuring the top 100 hottest music videos, related artist videos and special features.

Finetune Desktop

With this application, you can listen to user created playlists as well as dynamic playlists dedicated to artists and tags.

RichFLV

You can read, edit and modify FLV.

Admetus

Admetus is an application for easy hi-res image downloading from Flickr.

Password Manager Suite

Password Manger

Klok

Klok is a tool intended to be used by individuals, like myself, who have a need to track the time they spend on projects, tasks or anything else for that matter.

colorbrowser

This application is a simple way to create and organize your favorite color palettes.

eBay Desktop

Recent item cache, outbid alerts, and no need to refresh.

Adobe AIR: Showcase applications

Adobe Air Showcase applications.

14 Firefox add-ons for Images

admin — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:18:06 +0000

I want to list some useful firefox add-ons for images.

Some of them are really useful for web designers.. And some of them may be more fun tools..

Here is 14 Firefox add-ons for Images.

1. PicLens | Immersive Slideshows Across the Web

PicLens instantly transforms your browser into a full-screen, 3D experience for viewing images on the web.

2. Picnik

Add a menu options and a toolbar icon to make importing images into Picnik easier.

3. Gspace

Gspace turns the 2GB of your Gmail account into free online storage.

4. BatchDownload

Download all the images in current page fast and easy!

5. Screengrab!

It will save what you can see in the window, the entire page, just a selection, a particular frame.

6. Pearl Crescent Page Saver

Pearl Crescent Page Saver is an extension for Mozilla Firefox that lets you capture images of web pages.

7. Backgroundimage Saver

A quite simple extension that allow you save and view backgroud image.

8. Image Toolbar

Single-click access to common actions for images (e.g. saving, copying, printing).

9. Save Image in Folder

Easily save images in personally customized folders.

10. PictureThis

A word is worth a thousand images as you will see when you highlight a word or words on a page then use PictureThis to see what Google Images sees.

11. FxIF

View EXIF data in image properties. Just right click an image and select “Properties” to view EXIF data if available for that image.

12.AutoSlideshow – Slideshow Extension for Firefox

AutoSlideshow is a free extension for the Firefox internet browser.

13. Image Zoom

Easily zoom in, zoom out, fit image to screen or set custom zoom on individual images within a web page.

14. Google Images Re-Linker

This will let you click the thumbnail images on images.google.com, skip the referred framed page, and jump straight to the full-size image.

20+ Free Applications for Mac

admin — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:47:56 +0000

Finally I bought an iMac 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo!!

I was using a PowerBook G4… That was really slow to use current applications..

Anyway.. Last weekend I setup my iMac.

Here is my list of free Mac apps that I installed.