Gesturecons is a set of 50 vector gesture icons which is specially designed to be used with projects related to multi-touch interfaces.
However, they can also be used inside any application to demonstrate to users how to complete actions or prompt them to interact with an application when they approach it
They come with .PDF, .AI, & .EPS file types which is great for editing or creating derivatives of the icons provided.
Apostrophe is an open source CMS that enables you to manage websites while browsing them.
It has an ergonomic interface & has a minimal learning curve where anyone which is not familiar with CMS systems can easily use too.
The application can have multiple users with permission-based levels.
Images, videos & any other media can be managed quickly, new pages can be created or new “slots” can be inserted between other slots (like adding an image gallery under a paragraph).
Apostrophe can display the history (past revisions) of every content edited.
It is built with PHP (actually, it is a plugin for the Symfony framework) & requires MySQL for storing data.
Website: http://www.apostrophenow.com/
Backend Demo: http://demo.apostrophenow.com/
Backend Demo – User-Pass: User: admin – Password: demo
Download: http://trac.apostrophenow.org/wiki/ManualInstallation
NIXUS is a free icon set that has 60 high-quality icons which includes actions, charts, devices & more.
The set is suitable to be used in both web applications & designing stuff like banners or buttons considering the detail it provides.
It comes in .PNG format with 3 sizes: 32*32px, 48*48px & 64*64px.
NIXUS is totally free to be used in both free & commercial projects.
Now that Apple has officially released the iPad we want to start designing for it. While Apple’s interface builder is great, it doesn’t really allow us to create custom UI elements on the fly. That’s why Geoff Teehan created iPad GUI PSD for us.
The PSD was constructed using vectors, so it’s fully editable and scalable. You’ll notice there are a few new UI elements as compared to the iPhone interface. The workable screen design is formatted to 768—1024 so anything you design in the Photoshop file can easily be brought over to the SDK.
Download It Here!
Source: http://www.teehanlax.com/blog/2010/02/01/ipad-gui-psd/
ColorBox is a jQuery Lightbox plugin which is lightweight (9kb) & supports photos, photo groups, slideshow, ajax, inline, and iframed content.
The lightbox has a very nicely designed interface which can be improved or customized with CSS.
ColorBox is unobtrusive, every option is mentioned in the JS & requires no changes to the existing HTML.
For faster displays & slideshows, it preloads background images and, optionally, can preload upcoming images in a photo group.
The plugin comes with a bunch of settings, including transition types-speeds & opacity, for maximum customization.
Requirements: jQuery
Website: http://colorpowered.com/colorbox/
Demo: http://colorpowered.com/colorbox/core/example1/index…
PHP hide_email() is a PHP function to protect the E-mail address you publish on your website against bots or spiders that index or harvest E-mail addresses for sending you spam. It uses a substitution cipher with a different key for every page load.
PHP hide_email() encrypts your E-mail address and generates the javascript that decrypts it. Most bots and spiders can’t execute javascript and that is what makes this work. A visitor of your web page will not notice that you used this script as long as he/she has javascript enabled. The visitor will see “[javascript protected email address]” in stead of the E-mail address if he/she has javascript disabled.
You can also use the generator if you have no PHP support on your web server. Change the E-mail address into your own E-mail address and press “Generate”. Cut and paste the generated XHTML into your own web page.
Sublime Video is a HTML5 Video Player, users can play videos without the need of browser plugins or Flash dependencies enabling the viewing of videos on the iPhone.
It supports Full-window mode with sleek zoom-in/out transitions. There are more advanced controls on a draggable pane. Sublime Video will be soon released for free (at least for non-commercial use).
Requirements: Safari 4.0.4+, Google Chrome 4.0+, IE with Chrome Frame
Demo: http://jilion.com/sublime/video
GetShopped is a free WordPress plugin for adding e-commerce capabilities into WordPress-powered websites.
It is a very easy-to-setup plugin which can work with any standards compliant WordPress theme (and WordPress MU).
The plugin offers a flexible pricing structure for products with features like
- flexible coupon/discount pricing rules
- product specific sales
- quantity discounts
- free shipping options
- multi-tier pricing for quantity discounts
and supports multiple payment providers like Google Checkout, Paypal & Payment Express.
GetShopped makes it possible to complete the shopping process quickly with a one-page-checkout & optionally, guest checkouts is supported.
It is easy to manage orders with the help of a powerful admin interface, print invoices, packing slips & more.
The plugin also offers lots of other features from comments to new/featured product widgets.
LightShot is a simple & free tool which makes taking screenshots very easy.
With the click of a keyboard shortcut, a cropping interface appears where it is possible to:
- set the area of the screenshot
- make it fullscreen
- copy to clipboard
- upload to the net & get a link
- edit it on a web-based service
Most of the similar tools instantly take a screenshot of the area you selected before clicking any approve button. LightShot makes it kindly, waits for you to arrange the area, shows you the size of it & a click is required which is better to prevent wrong screenshots.
The tool can work in every computer as it comes as a Windows desktop application, a Firefox add-on & an Internet Explorer add-on.
Requirements: Windows, Firefox or Internet Explorer
Another year has come and gone, and another set of applications have made there was into my everyday work flow. This was an amazing year for applications and four new applications have made it into my top ten list, including taking the top one and two spots away from previous top applications.
- Dropbox (new for 2010) No application or program has changed the way I use my computers more then Dropbox. The days of worrying about file changes and transferring files between computers are over! Dropbox syncronizes all your files in your Dropbox folder to all your Mac, Windows and Linux computers. The synchronization is so fast both ways that most files take just seconds before the changes appear on all your computers. All files are kept locally as well so you can access all your files even when you are offline. This is the one application I believe that everybody can benefit from.
Price: FREE for 2GB, $99.95/year for 50GB
- LaunchBar 5 (new for 2010) is an application and file launcher taken to the next level. I was a little bit hesitant to try LaunchBar because I thought Spotlight did a good enough job, but when I finally took the plunge, I got hooked. LaunchBar can not only launch applications, but can access data within them, go through your contacts, add events to iCal and so much more. Any power user must check out this application.
Price: 30-Day Free Trial then $35.00 USD
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