40 great sites for photoshop brushes

5 11 2009




10 links to great free fonts sites

4 11 2009

These sites are all excellent to find thousands of great looking fonts for free,  all neatly classified and downloadable.  Some of them also have fonts to buy, others have some cool stuff to explore.

They are free, but if you’re using them commercially, be careful and read the attached files. Many of the creators ask that you send compensation or link to them or in some way give them credit if you use the font on something you plan to sell.

www.1001freefonts.com

1001freefonts

www.urbanfonts.com

urbanfonts

www.fontspace.com

fontspace

www.fridayfonts.com

fridayfonts

http://fontfabric.com

fontfabric

www.searchfreefonts.com

searchfreefonts

www.acefreefonts.com

acefreefonts

http://freetypography.com/

freetypography

www.getfreefonts.info

getfreefonts

www.fontica.com/free_fonts

fontica





What the font – great free tool

4 11 2009

Seen a font in use and want to know what it is? WhatTheFont is a great tool for figuring it out quickly. Just follow their instructions precisely, and solve those typographical mysteries in minutes! You can upload scanned images of fonts to the Web site, and it displays the closest matches to your font sample. Also available as an app for iPhone.

www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/





Dafont – free fonts

4 11 2009

Based on user generated fonts, dafont brings fonts that are freeware (demo versions or public domain) or shareware. Fonts are searchable by type, size, rights, popularity, keyword, author, letter, new, and top 100. The site also allows users to enter custom text when previewing fonts, making it easy to compare and choose.

www.dafont.com





Free fonts – create your own/download for free

4 11 2009

FontStruct lets you quickly and easily create your own fonts constructed out of geometrical shapes, which are arranged in a grid pattern, like tiles or bricks. Lots of free fonts are also available for download.

www.fontstruct.fontshop.com





Post-it® Digital Notes for your desktop

28 10 2009

Post-it is the brand of those usually yellow sticky notes that you put on the fridge when you want to remember to get some milk or take the dog to the vet. Well, now, you can have digital notes flying around your desktop with important reminders.  After the application is installed, adding notes is as easy as simply clicking the new note button and writing the text that you want in it. After that, the note will just stick to your wallpaper and you can access them by double clicking an icon in your taskbar. This application also comes with an alarm feature, that allows you to set up events. Post-it digital notes can be a good way to organize yourself, but it can probably annoy you as well. The application functions as it is supposed to, but in the process, it slows down your system and adds yellow notes all over your system, which of course you can remove and leave only on the desktop…but it`s cool and an easy way to keep track of things in your busy life!

www.3m.com





Huddle – project management software

24 10 2009

Huddle is a network of online workspaces that brings project management software, online collaboration and document sharing together.

It was designed with telecommuting and multi-location working in mind, using the power of the internet to allow colleagues in different places and time zones to work together on a single project. Huddle allows you to create an online project, where you can invite colleagues and share documents online. The project manager can then assign tasks to individual users and newer versions of documents can be uploaded as the project nears completion. All previous versions of a given document are automatically archived, allowing changes to be easily tracked. Users can also subscribe to an RSS-feed, meaning they will be alerted of any important project notifications or changes in uploaded documents.

Huddle is highly recommended if you are looking for a simple online working environment for your small to medium business environment, especially if you have employees working from remote locations.

Features
  • Easy to set up, collaborative working environment.
  • RSS-feeds for instant project notifications.
  • Free and paid versions available

www.huddle.net





Dimdim – a free webinar

24 10 2009

dimdim1 DimDim can be used to make web conferencing easier than it normally is; this software allows you to hold a meeting with anyone wherever they are in the world. Nothing needs to be downloaded and installed, you can use video and audio conferencing technologies to work together along with whiteboards, the ability to show slide presentations to one another and also share your desktop (if you install a small plug-in). DimDim is open source, although there are also professional and enterprise editions of the software that can support many more people. DimDim can either be installed on your servers, or run as a hosted application depending on your preferences. DimDim cuts out a lot of the clutter that you expect with similar web applications, and with nothing to download and keep updated it’s very easy for anyone to use, this means that you save lots of time on training your employees to use this software. DimDim is available on free or paid plans; it’s also possible to sign up to a trial for the paid accounts. DimDim has a large number of uses, including e-learning, hotels, financial organizations and many other types of businesses that would benefit from the ability to hold web conferences. Many businesses enjoy using the free version of the software and progress to purchase the enterprise or professional editions.

Features:

  • Easy to use, and very affordable compared to other options
  • Ability to chat privately or publically
  • Open source code
  • Record Meetings
  • Nothing needs to be installed
  • Audio and Video conferencing

www.dimdim.com





Format factory – an all in one multimedia converter

24 10 2009

Why use separate software to convert video, audio and images when one software can take care of all your multimedia conversions? Format Factory is a powerful multimedia converter which supports a staggering number of formats and doesn’t cost a dime.

The application allows conversion of various types of media files. It has various characteristics that allow you to customize a lot of stuff like:

  • Convert video formats, audio and picture shows.
  • Repair damaged files.
  • Reduce the size of a file.
  • Supports formats iPhone, iPod.
  • Ability to edit images before converting.
  • Supports 45 languages.

Advantages:

Opportunities for conversion and extraction of:

  • Any video MP4/3GP/MPG/AVI/WMV/FLV/SWF.
  • All audio MP3/WMA/AMR/OGG/AAC/WAV.
  • Any image in JPG / BMP / PNG / TIF / ICO / GIF / TGA.
  • Extract DVD to video files.
  • Extract music CDs.
  • Support MP4 format: iPod / iPhone / PSP / BlackBerry.

Disadvantages:
You need a minimum of requirements on your system to run this application.

http://www.formatoz.com/





Create Free Flash websites with Wix

24 10 2009

This powerful and intuitive drag & drop builder helps you to easily make your own website and MySpace layouts without HTML, FTP, or any other web programming knowledge. It offers a free package to get started quickly and various upgrade packages for those who need a deeper level of control such as using their own domain, more storage and wider bandwidth.

www.wix.com