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World Cup 2010 Inspired Artworks

Editor — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 17:38:37 +0000

Finally FIFA World Cup 2010 has come. This may be the biggest event in sports entertainment. Every designer should celebrate this time by theming their dextop and twitter profile with the brand new World Cup wallpaper. We have managed some great list of World Cup inspired wallpaper, background and data chart that will help you enjoy this season more greatly.

Google Chrome Extension for all purpose

Editor — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 07:46:19 +0000

Google Chrome plugin for all purpose

Google chrome was immediately acquired 1% of visitor when it was first introduced in September, 2008. Now it’s dealing with 9.5% of web surfers. The reasons behind this popularity are the choice of theme and have a vast of extension available. If you are thinking about to switch chrome from IE or Firefox for its simplicity and fast browsing, we recommend to use the following extension according to your need. We have managed to showcase the most popular Chrome extension according to your need e.g. Web Developer, Home Browser, Security etc.

For Web Developers:

Web Developer

The Web Developer extension adds a toolbar button to the browser with various web developer tools. This is the official port of the popular Web Developer extension for Firefox written by Chris Pedrick.

Chrome SEO

The Google Chrome SEO Extension provides easy access to Search Engine Optimization Tools that can help you with Competitive Analysis, Keyword Research, Backlink Checks, PageRank Checks and other daily SEO tasks.

IE Tab

Use Internet Explorer to display web pages in a Chrome tab. Some sites can only be displayed using IE, and with this extension you can now see those sites without leaving Chrome. Great for web developers who want to test the IE rendering engine, users who use sites with ActiveX controls, and users who want to use the explorer view for local files (i.e. file:// URLs).

Color Pick

This is a simple color picker tool that pick the color from a website and give you the HEX value and RGB value of the selected color.

BuiltWith Technology Profiler

BuiltWith is a web site profiler tool. Upon looking up a page, BuiltWith returns all the technologies it can find on the page. BuiltWith’s goal is to help developers, researchers and designers find out what technologies pages are using which may help them to decide what technologies to implement themselves.

L(ink)y URL Shortener

It is a simple URL shortener based on http://bit.ly (http://j.mp). Just one click! The short link is ready for sharing.

L(ink)y URL Shortener

Aviary Screen Capture

Take a screenshot of any webpage and edit it directly in your browser with Aviary.com applications. Plus convenient access to the Aviary website and tools.

This quick screen capture addon is a must-have for bloggers and designers alike! It will perform a screen capture of the visible portion of any webpage and then open the capture INSTANTLY in a basic image editor where you can do markup (draw arrows and rectangles), edit (crop, rotate and resize) and get the exact pixel colors of the image. A perfect companion tool for designers and bloggers!

For Home Users:

AdBlock

AdBlock for Chrome! Blocks ads all over the web. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars by our users!

Google Mail Checker

Displays the number of unread messages in your Google Mail inbox. You can also click the button to open your inbox.

Google Translate

This extension adds a button to your browser toolbar. Click the translate icon whenever you want to translate the page you’re visiting.

The extension also automatically detects if the language of a page you’re on is different from the language you’re using for your Google Chrome interface. If it is, a banner appears at the top of the page. Click the Translate button in the banner to have all the text on the page appear in the new language.

StumbleUpon

StumbleUpon helps you discover great websites that match your interests. Simply click the Stumble button and see the best websites. There are over 500 topics to choose from, and, the more you use it, the better your recommendations beco

TooManyTabs for Chrome

TooManyTabs is a must-have extension that manages your tabs, reduces your tab overflow, and saves your sanity!

For security:

WOT

Web of Trust is a safe browsing tool, which warns you about risky sites that cheat customers, deliver malware or send spam.

LastPass

LastPass is a free online password manager and Form Filler that makes your web browsing easier and more secure.

Proxy Switchy!

Proxy Switchy! is an advanced proxy manager for Google Chrome, it allows users to manage and switch between multiple proxy profiles quickly and easily.

Click&Clean

Deletes your browsing history, typed URLs, Flash cookies, all traces of your online activity to protect your privacy.

Autocomplete = on

Changes ‘autocomplete=off’ to ‘autocomplete=on’ in web pages, so your passwords will be remembered.

50+ iPad wallpapers to personalize your iPad

Editor — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:44:57 +0000

50+ iPad wallpapers to personalize your iPad

More than 600K iPads sold till now. Everyone is very eager to get the latest little magic from apple. If you already owner of one now, so it’s the time to personalize your iPad with wallpapers and application. When we were browse for wallpaper, we found most of them as a crop version some dextop wallpaper. We have managed to showcase 50+ iPad best wallpapers available to express your creativity through the iPad.

1. Orange Metal – Modern iPad Wallpaper

Orange Metal – Modern iPad Wallpaper

2. Electro Blue – iPad Wallpaper

Electro Blue – iPad Wallpaper

3. Wood iPad Wallpaper

Wood iPad Wallpaper

4. iPad Nature Wallpaper

iPad Nature Wallpaper

5. Fantasticus Apple Wallpaper

Fantasticus Apple Wallpaper

6. Fire Apple ipad Wallpaper

Fire Apple ipad Wallpaper

7. Colorful Apple Logo Wallpaper

Colorful Apple Logo Wallpaper

8. Colors Apple Logo Wallpaper

Colors Apple Logo Wallpaper

9. iPad official wallpaper

iPad official wallpaper

10. Broken screen

Broken screen

11. Apple Splash

Apple Splash

12. Dark Blue

Dark Blue

13. Colored Smoke

Colored Smoke

14. Planetrise

Planetrise

15. Colored Circles

Colored Circles

16. Galactic

Galactic

17. Pump up the volume

Pump up the volume

18. Wings iPad

Wings iPad

19. Miniature chairs

Miniature chairs

20. Heavenly clouds

Heavenly clouds

21. Colorful space

Colorful space

22. Apple leather

Apple leather

23. Apple retro wallpaper

Apple retro wallpaper

24. Apple Leather

Apple Leather

25. iPad Electric

iPad Electric

26. iPad Ink

iPad Ink

27. iPad Vertigo

iPad Vertigo

28. iPad Paint

iPad Paint

29. Spectrum for iPad

Spectrum for iPad

30. Bluestream Three for iPad

Bluestream Three for iPad

31. Ice Tracks for iPad

Ice Tracks for iPad

32. Color background

Color background

33. Star Wallpaper

Star Wallpaper

34. Ocean of spot lights

Ocean of spot lights

35. Water optic

Water optic

36. iPad Wallpaper Wooden Style

iPad Wallpaper Wooden Style

37. Dawn Tree

Dawn Tree

38. Bamboo iPad Wallpaper

Bamboo iPad Wallpaper

39. Retro Futuristic Wallpaper 3

Retro Futuristic Wallpaper 3

40. wall 50

wall 50

41. Green Lizard

Green Lizard

42. The firm

The firm

43. The Road

The Road

44. Dandelion

Dandelion

45. Farmers Field

Farmers Field

46. Grassy Field

Grassy Field

47. Grand Canyon

Grand Canyon

48. Paradise

Paradise

49. Grassy Field II

Grassy Field II

50. Nature Salsa

Nature Salsa

25 WordPress Plugin You Should Use in Your Blog

Editor — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:53:09 +0000

25 WordPress Plugin You Should Use in Your Blog

If you are not literally living in a den, you must here about the wordpress blogging system. It’s the most widely used blogging platform available in the industry. The reason behind this popularity is extensive list of plugin and themes available. Let’s take a look on the 25 wordpress plugin that you should use in your blog to start your blog with a bang.

1. Akismet

Akismet

Akismet is a popular spam-fighting service that is different from other spam filter. It checks the content of the comment anonymously with an online server, to determine whether it is spam or not and it pretty good at separating spam and reliable comments.

WordPress Location: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/akismet

Plugin Site: http://akismet.com

2. Google XML Sitemaps

This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog. With such a sitemap, it’s much easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently. The plugin supports all kinds of WordPress generated pages as well as custom URLs. Additionally it notifies all major search engines every time you create a post about the new content.

Google XML Sitemaps

WordPress Location: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator

Plugin Site: http://www.arnebrachhold.de/redir/sitemap-home

3. Google Analytics for WordPress

The Google Analytics for WordPress plugin automatically tracks and segments all outbound links from within posts, comment author links, links within comments, blogroll links and downloads. It also allows you to track AdSense clicks, add extra search engines, track image search queries and it will even work together with Urchin.

Google Analytics for WordPress

WordPress Location: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-analytics-for-wordpress

Plugin Site: http://yoast.com/wordpress/analytics

4. WP Super Cache

This plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After a html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts.

WordPress Location: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache

Plugin Site: http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-super-cache

5. Sociable

The Sociable plugin is packed full of social bookmarking sites, allowing you to instantly add various buttons through one simple plugin file.

Sociable

WordPress Location: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sociable

Plugin Site: http://blogplay.com/plugin

6. cForms II

cforms is a feature rich plugin for WordPress, offering convenient deployment of multiple Ajax driven contact forms throughout your blog or even on the same page. It’s versatile and can be customized to your preferred design and feel.

cForms II

WordPress Location: http://www.deliciousdays.com/cforms-plugin

7. WP Cumulus

WP-Cumulus allows you to display your site’s tags, categories or both using a Flash movie that rotates them in 3D. It works just like a regular tags cloud, but is more visually exciting. Clicking the tags can be a little hard (depending on your speed setting) but does take you to the appropriate page.

WP Cumulus

WordPress Location: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-cumulus

Plugin Site: http://www.roytanck.com/2008/03/15/wp-cumulus-released

8. All In One SEO Pack

Optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization).

All In One SEO Pack

WordPress Location: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack

Plugin Site: http://semperfiwebdesign.com

9. WP PageNavi

WP-PageNavi adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress site.

WP PageNavi

WordPress Location: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-pagenavi

10. FeedBurner FeedSmith

This plugin will detect all ways to access your feed (e.g. http://www.yoursite.com/feed/ or http://www.yoursite.com/wp-rss2.php, etc.), and redirect them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber. It will forward for your main posts feed and optionally, your main comments feed as well.

FeedBurner FeedSmith

Plugin Site: http://feedburner.google.com/fb/static/feedburner_feedsmith_plugin_2.3.zip

11. WordPress Automatic upgrade

WordPress Automatic Upgrade allows a user to automatically upgrade the WordPress installation to the latest one provided by WordPress.org using the 5 steps provided in the WordPress upgrade instructions. It automatically does the backups and provides links for downloading.

WordPress Automatic upgrade

WordPress Location: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade

Plugin Site: http://techie-buzz.com/wordpress-plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade-12-release.html

12. WP-DB-Backup

WP-DB-Backup allows you easily to backup your core WordPress database tables. You may also backup other tables in the same database.

WP-DB-Backup

WordPress Location: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-db-backup

Plugin Site: http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/wp-db-backup

13. Simple Tags

Simple Tags is the perfect tool to manage perfectly your WordPress tags.

Simple Tags

WordPress Location: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-tags

Plugin Site: http://redmine.beapi.fr/projects/show/simple-tags

14. WP Poll

WP-Poll is extremely customizable via templates and css styles and there are tons of options for you to choose to ensure that WP-Polls run the way you wanted. It now also supports multiple selections of answers.

WP Poll

WordPress Location: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-polls

Plugin Site: http://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php

15. WPtouch iPhone Theme

A plugin which formats your site with a mobile theme for the Apple iPhone / iPod touch, Google Android, Palm Pre and other touch-based smartphones.

WPtouch iPhone Theme

WordPress Location: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wptouch

Plugin Site: http://bravenewcode.com/products/wptouch

16. TweetMeme Retweet Button

Adds a button which easily lets you retweet your blog posts.

TweetMeme Retweet Button

WordPress Location: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweetmeme

Plugin Site: http://tweetmeme.com/about/plugins

17. Smart Youtube

Smart Youtube is a WordPress Youtube plugin that allows you to easily insert Youtube videos/playlists into your post, comments and in your RSS feed. The plugin is designed to be small and fast and not use any external resources.

Smart Youtube

WordPress Location: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/smart-youtube

Plugin Site: http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/wordpress-plugins/smart-youtube

18. SexyBookmarks

SexyBookmarks adds a (X)HTML compliant list of social bookmarking icons to each of your posts.

SexyBookmarks

WordPress Location: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sexybookmarks

Plugin Site: http://shareaholic.com/sexybookmarks

19. Twitter Follow Me Box

This plugin will generate a follow me box of the twitter in your site.

Twitter Follow Me Box

WordPress Location: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-follow-me-box

Plugin Site: http://www.geniusdeveloper.com.br/plugins-2/twitter-follow-me-box/?lang=en

20. Advertising Manager

This plugin will manage and rotate your Google Adsense and other ads on your WordPress blog. It automatically recognises many ad networks including Google Adsense, AdBrite, Adify, AdGridWork, Adpinion, Adroll, Chitika, Commission Junction, CrispAds, OpenX, ShoppingAds, Yahoo!PN, and WidgetBucks. Other ad networks can be used as well.

Advertising Manager

WordPress Location: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advertising-manager

Plugin Site: http://code.openx.org/projects/show/advertising-manager

21. Advanced User Agent Displayer

This wordpress plugin adds user agent information to your blog comments by adding browser and platform icons and lets visitors know the user agent of every one who comment on your blog. You can also view the user agent of the commenters in the admin’s comment page. Settings can be customized within the admin menu.

Advanced User Agent Displayer

WordPress Location: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-user-agent-displayer

Plugin Site: http://www.moallemi.ir/en/blog/2009/09/20/advanced-user-agent-displayer

22. Global Translator

Automatically translates a blog in 48 different languages by wrapping four different online translation engines (Google Translation Engine, Babelfish Translation Engine, FreeTranslations.com, Promt).

WordPress Location: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/global-translator

Plugin Site: http://www.n2h.it/wp-plugins/wordpress-global-translator-plugin

23. Separate Comments & Pings

Removes all pings & trackbacks from comments and puts them into $pings.

Plugin Site: http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/separate-comment-pings

24. Smilies Themer

Smilies Themer allows you to use smilies (emoticons) themes (or packs) to replace the wordpress default ones.

Smilies Themer

WordPress Location: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/smilies-themer

Plugin Site: http://rick.jinlabs.com/code/smilies-themer

25. jQuery Comment Preview

jQuery Comment Preview WordPress Plugin allows the live comment preview without page reboot. It works on jQuery.

WordPress Location: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jquery-comment-preview

Plugin Site: http://articlesss.com/jquery-comment-preview-wordpress-plugin

Freebie: DVD and Business Card PSD File

Editor — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:09:42 +0000

I have created a Windows 7 DVD label and a freelancer’s business card design for the readers of metamags.com. I have included the PSD file for your modification. You can download it from deviantart.com and also checkout our official deviantart profile at www.metamag.deviantart.com. I also requested to submit their art to www.metamags.deviantart.com (Our official deviantart group) which they are wanted to share with metamags.com readers.

1. Windows 7 DVD Cover PSD

Windows 7 DVD Cover PSD

2. Business Card PSD Template

Business Card PSD Template

Hope you will enjoy with these files

40+ Firefox Plugin for Designers and Developers

Editor — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:35:45 +0000

40 + firefox plugin for designers and devolopers

Mozilla Firefox is a very popular browser, especially among web designers and developers. These days, with such a crowded field, staying at the top of the browser heap takes a lot of work. One of the factors that make Firefox so well-liked is the huge library of great extensions that enhance your browsing experience. Among the massive list of add-ons, many are vital to web designers and developers. If used, it will make your workflow quicker and more productive.

1. CSSViewer 1.0.3 (Compatible with Firefox 3.0, Not with 3.6) (Rate: 5/5)

CSSViewer

A simple CSS property viewer.

2. CSS validator 3.0.0 (Compatible with Firefox 3.6) (Rate: 3/5)

Validates a page using the W3C CSS Validator. Adds an option to the right-click context menu and to the Tools menu to allow for easy validation of the CSS of the current page. Opens the results in a new tab. Will only work on pages that have a CSS file associated. For example it will work with http://www.w3.org/ as the URL has a CSS file.

3. ColorZilla 2.0.2 (Compatible with Firefox 3.6) (Rate: 5/5)

ColorZilla

Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other colorful goodies.
With ColorZilla you can get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this color and paste it into another program. You can Zoom the page you are viewing and measure distances between any two points on the page. The built-in palette browser allows choosing colors from pre-defined color sets and saving the most used colors in custom palettes. DOM spying features allow getting various information about DOM elements quickly and easily. And there’s more…

4. Web Developer (Compatible with Firefox 3.6) (Rate: 5/5)

Web Developer

The Web Developer add-on extends Mozilla Firefox by adding a toolbar with various options for working with web pages. For example, it has an option to inspect CSS styles of page elements that will tell you what CSS attributes they have, and which styles affect them.

5. Html Validator 0.8.6.1 (Compatible with Firefox 3.6) (Rate: 5/5)

Html Validator

HTML Validator is a Mozilla extension that adds HTML validation inside Firefox and Mozilla. The number of errors of a HTML page is seen on the form of an icon in the status bar when browsing.

6. Greasemonkey 0.8.20091209.0 (Compatible with Firefox 3.6) (Rate: 5/5)

Allows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript. …

7. Firebug 1.5.0 (Compatible with Firefox 3.6) (Rate: 5/5)

Firebug

Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page…

8. FoxyProxy 2.18.1 (Compatible with Firefox 3.7alpha) (Rate: 5/5)

FoxyProxy is an advanced proxy management tool that completely replaces Firefox’s limited proxying capabilities. It offers more features than SwitchProxy, ProxyButton, QuickProxy, xyzproxy, ProxyTex, TorButton, etc.

9. Screengrab! 0.96.2 (Compatible with Firefox 3.6) (Rate: 5/5)

Screengrab!

Screengrab! saves webpages as images…
It will capture what you can see in the window, the entire page, just a selection, a particular frame… basically it saves webpages as images – either to a file, or to the clipboard.

10. YSlow 2.0.6 (Compatible with Firefox 3.6) (Rate: 4/5)

YSlow

YSlow analyzes web pages and why they’re slow based on Yahoo!’s rules for high performance web sites.

11. MeasureIt 0.3.92 (Compatible with Firefox 3.6) (Rate: 5/5)

MeasureIt

Draw out a ruler to get the pixel width and height of any elements on a webpage.

12. IE Tab 1.5.20090525 (Compatible with Firefox 3.6) (Rate: 5/5)

IE Tab

This is a great tool for web developers, since you can easily see how your web page displayed in IE with just one click and then switch back to Firefox.

13. NoScript 1.9.9.45 (Compatible with Firefox 3.7alpha) (Rate: 5/5)

The best security you can get in a web browser!
Allow active content to run only from sites you trust, and protect yourself against XSS and Clickjacking attacks.

14. OperaView 0.7 (Compatible with Firefox 3.5) (Rate: 4/5)

Open pages in Opera from Firefox and Mozilla context menus. Very useful for web developers.

15. Window Resizer 1.0 (Compatible with Firefox 3.5) (Rate: 4/5)

Window Resizer

The Browser Window Resizer is useful for testing different screen sizes. It accurately resizes your browser so you can test to see what a web page looks like in all of the standard resolution sizes.
Supports the 640×480, 800×600, 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1600×1200 resolutions.
Resize the current page via the Context menu, Tool menu or Toolbar button.

16. Fireshot 0.80 (Compatible with Firefox 3.7alpha) (Rate: 5/5)

Fireshot

FireShot is a Firefox extension that creates screenshots of web pages (entirely or just visible part). Unlike other extensions, this plugin provides a set of editing and annotation tools, which let users quickly modify web captures and insert text annotations and graphical annotations.

17. FireRainbow1.1 (Compatible with Firefox 3.7alpha) (Rate: 5/5)

FireRainbow

FireRainbow is a Javascript syntax highlighting for Firebug 1.3+. It requires Firebug 1.3 or higher.

18. Tamper Data 11.0.1 (Compatible with Firefox 3.6) (Rate: 5/5)

Tamper Data

Use tamperdata to view and modify HTTP/HTTPS headers and post parameters. Trace and time http response/requests.

19. Firefinder for Firebug 1.0.1 (Compatible with Firefox 3.6) (Rate: 5/5)

Firefinder for Firebug

Firefinder is an add-on to Firebug, to help find HTML elements matching chosen CSS selector(s) or XPath expression. Type in desired filter and view the results.

20. JSONView (Compatible with Firefox 3.7alpha) (Rate: 5/5)

JSONView

With the JSONView extension, JSON documents are shown in the browser similar to how XML documents are shown. The document is formatted, highlighted, and arrays and objects can be collapsed.

21. FireFTP1.0.7 (Compatible with Firefox 3.6) (Rate: 5/5)

FireFTP

FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers.

22. HTTPFox (Compatible with Firefox 3.7alpha) (Rate: 5/5)

HTTPFox

HttpFox monitors and analyzes all incoming and outgoing HTTP traffic between the browser and the web servers. It aims to bring the functionality known from tools like HttpWatch or IEInspector to the Firefox browser.

23. Firecookie (Compatible with Firefox 3.7alpha) (Rate: 5/5)

Firecookie

Firecookie is an extension for Firebug that makes possible to view and manage cookies in your browser. Firebug has to be installed in order to use this extension.

24. Dummy Lipsum 3.0 (Compatible with Firefox 3.6) (Rate: 5/5)

Dummy Lipsum

Generate “Lorem Ipsum” dummy text (from http://www.lipsum.com). Minimum text length: 5 words. Context menu option on form inputs (“Insert Dummy Lipsum”). This option fills automatically the selected field.

25. Pixel Perfect 1.5.6 (Compatible with Firefox 3.6) (Rate: 5/5)

Pixel Perfect

Pixel Perfect is a Firefox/Firebug extension that allows web developers and designers to easily overlay a web composition over top of the developed HTML.

26. FirePHP 0.4.3 (Compatible with Firefox 3.6) (Rate: 5/5)

FirePHP

FirePHP enables you to log to your Firebug Console using a simple PHP method call.

27. DOM Inspector 2.0.4 (Compatible with Firefox 3.7alpha) (Rate: 5/5)

DOM Inspector

DOM Inspector is a tool that can be used to inspect and edit the live DOM of any web document or XUL application. The DOM can be navigated using a two-paned window displaying a variety of different views on the document and all nodes within.

28. CodeBurner for Firebug 1.5 (Compatible with Firefox 3.6) (Rate: 5/5)

CodeBurner for Firebug

CodeBurner is a Firefox add-on that integrates with Firebug, to extend it with reference material for HTML and CSS.

29. GridFox 1.2

GridFox

GridFox is a Firefox extension that overlays a grid on any website. If you can open it in Firefox, you can put a grid on top of it. It’s easy to customize, allowing you to create the exact grid you designed your layout around.

30. SeoQuake 2.5.9 (Compatible with Firefox 3.6) (Rate: 4/5)

SeoQuake

Seoquake is a Mozilla Firefox SEO extension aimed primarily at helping web masters who deal with search engine optimization(SEO) and internet promotion of web sites. Seoquake allows to obtain and investigate many important SEO parameters of the internet.

31. Font Finder 0.5e (Compatible with Firefox 3.6) (Rate: 5/5)

Font Finder

With this add-on, you can highlight any text on a page to find out CSS styling information about that highlighted block of text.

32. Total Validator 6.2.0 (Compatible with Firefox 3.6) (Rate: 4/5)

Total Validator

This extension is an all-in-one validation tool that will check HTML, links, take screenshots and do a lot more. It also performs accessibility validation (WCAG, US-508), broken link checking, spell checking (in five different languages), and take screen captures via different web browsers and operating systems to see how your web pages look.

33. Page Diff 1.5 (Compatible with Firefox 3.6) (Rate: 5/5)

Page Diff

Page Diff is an add-on that helps web developers and designers see HTML source code differences between web pages. This is helpful for finding code irregularities or differences that will enable you to debug rendering issues.

34. Aardvark 3.0 (Compatible with Firefox 3.6) (Rate: 5/5)

Aardvark

Aardvark, aimed at front-end web developers, let’s you select web page elements and gives you several options for them, such as removing them from the web page (great for screen shots) or modifying their colors (helpful when printing web pages).

35. Codetech 0.4.3 (Compatible with Firefox 3.6) (Rate: 4/5)

Codetech

Get the feel of Dreamweaver in a Firefox extension. Edit your documents right next to your web pages as you surf.

36. Style Sheet Chooser II (Compatible with Firefox 3.0) (Rate: 2/5)

Style Sheet Chooser II

Style Sheet Chooser II allows you to choose author-provided alternate style sheets for a web site, and have those choices be persisted for all pages on the same site. Style Sheet Chooser II replaces Firefox’s built-in style sheet switcher – its functionality is available via the [View]->[Page Style] menu item, one-click stylesheet rotating Toolbar icon and Statusbar icon. Icons can be switched on/off via Extension Preferences.

37. Console² (Compatible with Firefox 3.7alpha) (Rate: 5/5)

Console²

Console² (pronounced Console Squared or Console Two) replaces the JavaScript Console with what could be the next generation Error Console. From v0.5 includes the Console Filter extension previously available separately from the Console² website.

38. IE NetRenderer 0.9.5 (Compatible with Firefox 3.7alpha) (Rate: 4/5)

IE NetRenderer

If you are like me and design your sites for Firefox then this is a great tool for you. IE NetRenderer will create you an image of how the website looks in IE 5.5, 6, 7 and Beta 8 so you can get an idea of whether or not it looks right in IE.

39. Image Zoom (Compatible with Firefox 3.6) (Rate: 5/5)

Image Zoom

40. CS Lite 0.4.4 (Compatible with Firefox 3.6) (Rate: 5/5)

CS Lite

Adds zoom and rotation functionality for images.

65+ Smashing PSD Files on DeviantArt

Editor — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:49:00 +0000

If you are beginner in photoshop^®, you will surely need some inspiration to create a new work. But you will also need some cool photoshop^® elements to integrate them to your design. They are very time saver and also make your design out of the world. DeviantArt is one of the cool design sites where artist submit their cool work and source files. We have handpicked 65+ PSD (Photoshop Document) files from DeviantArt which will surely give a bump to your work. At the same time to all those talented Photoshop Designers who designed and share their Creative design stuffs with their efforts, so that others can learn and get inspiration from their works.

Complementary Colour Swatches by DigitalPhenom

Complementary Colour Swatches

DVD Case+Art – PSD file by manicho

DVD Case+Art - PSD file

Peter’s DeivantART ID Ver1.3 by ~petercui

Peter’s DeivantART ID Ver1.3

DVD Plastic Case – PSD file by `manicho

DVD Plastic Case – PSD file

Cassette – PSD File by `manicho

Cassette – PSD File

NEW skateboard template by ~Nunosk8

NEW skateboard template

WEB UI Treasure Chest v 1.0 by *LazyCrazy

WEB UI Treasure Chest v 1.0 by

Free Film Frame by *Bobbyperux

Free Film Frame

Old Paper Art by =villa-arts

Old Paper Art

Angelswings 2 – PSD Stock by ~nightgraue

Angelswings 2 - PSD Stock

Photoshop 3D Cube by ~thedevstudio

Photoshop 3D Cube

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Battery .PSD

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deviant_ID Card Template

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Old Paper PSD

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PLASMA TV

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DVD Label - PSD Template

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iphone 3g PSD HD

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DVD Case Inlay - PSD Template

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Globe Resource v.2

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RIM Blackberry PSD

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Vista Themed Template

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Paperbag .PSD

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32 Photoshop styles

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XBOX 360

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Gimp and PS Soda Can Template

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full pin stock

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Smartphone

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Apple .PSD

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50+ Logos Created With Brilliant Logic

Editor — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:10:17 +0000

50+ Logos Created With Brilliant Logic

Logo is not a mark. It’s an aspect of a company’s commercial brand. It helps users to reorganize immediately your website or product. Logo should be unique from others by its typography, design, colors, shapes, images. It expresses your company’s economic and academic conditions. So your company’s logo will go a long way toward defining your brand, so the process to create it shouldn’t be entered into lightly. Not only logos are used only in websites but also in banners, business cards, products, magazines and many where.

There are something major rules before you are creating your business logos:

Scalable
Memorable
Unique
Effective without color
Reproducible

Example (I will like to specially thank davidairey blog for providing us the image)

Now, you have managed to know some basic criteria for creating a logo. If you’re thinking about creating your company’s brand stack, we have showcased some logo who have used some great convenient names and match the logo design with the names brilliantly. Hope you will like them.