A designer can never live without a portable storage device, especially if he’s always on the move. But these days, portable storage devices, like pen drives, are not the same, plain old boring sticks we used to see 5 years back. They’re creative, even more portable and fun to use and even look at. While browsing few of the major retailer sites, like TigerDirectBlog.com, to buy a pen drive for my own, I stumbled upon some great set of drives! I though of showcasing them here. Enjoy.
1. Smart Salesman USB Drive
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Firefox is a powerful browser with plenty of additional capabilities, which help the Web Developers & Designers to ease their work a bit. A plethora of addons have been developed for the infamous browser and most of them are a designer’s dream come true. This post is dedicated to finding out such great addons. Hope you like them.
1. MeasureIT - Realtime Webpage Ruler
Measureit is a great addon, if you have to look for width of certain areas within the website and need not go into the code all the time. Just hold and select the area you want to be measured and MeasureIT will do the rest.
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Designers and artists need inspiration from every corner in their worlds. Having a workstation to work on, with a dull and drab background as it’s desktop interface, is quite a downer for most of the workaholics who design and create art. To have something bright, colorful and exciting right infront of their eyes, is quite necessary to liven up the atmosphere they work in.
I’ve rounded up a few of my favorite desktop wallpapers, which aren’t category specific. Abstract, Nature, 3D, Typographic, it’s all there. Picking them from a lot was quite difficult, since differentiating a “good” one from a “better” one is even more difficult than it seems. I hope you appreciate this collection. Enjoy.
1. Exuberant Disco Jockey – iYiblogcu
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Wordpress is one of the most loved content management systems in the web world. The versality in design and innumerable features makes the CMS extremely flexible and easy to use. But the Wordpress developers didn’t stop right there. Since Wordpress is an Open Source project, it invites developers to pitch in ideas and develop some great Plugins that improves overall performance in various aspects, be it just the design of the site or the core code of the same. Lets have a look at some interesting Wordpress plugins that you absolutely need to use.
1. Page Mash – Simple AJAX Interface to Drag & Drop Pages
If you have a site, which has innumerable amount of pages filled up, you’ll really need an external plugin to help you get them settled accordingly. Page Mash is a plugin which uses AJAX to help you order your pages, manage them and even place them accordingly on the fly, without having to reload or anything of that sort.
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If you’re a Web designer, Developer or even an Artist related to Web Technologies, submitting to just simple Digg & Stumbleupon social bookmarking websites won’t put you on the map. Many few people know about portals that are dedicated to Design niche specific articles and websites. Designers can submit or people who find stuff relevant to the same, on various such sites to promote themselves. The people who visit such kind of social bookmarking portals are bound to be interested in your specific articles, rather than just any random off-the-hook visitor who barely cares what you write about. Here’s a small, but interesting roundup of some of the social bookmarking sites out there. Enjoy
1. Designbump - Share the Best Design Articles
Designbump can conveniently be called as the ‘Digg For Designers’. This place is one of the most saught after sites after Digg & StumbleUpon for promoting your hardwork, especially in Web-Design & Development. Add a “Bump This” icon to your site!
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