Top 20 iPhone Apps for Bloggers, Designers & Freelancers
This week I’d like to share with you 20 iPhone apps you might find interesting if you are a designer, blogger & freelancer.
Some apps seems odd at first, but works surprisingly well once you get going. So below you will find some useful organizational tools, others we thought might help inspire or motivate creativity, while the rest we have included simply because they will keep you connected with your team or your clients effectively while you are on the go.
Posted in: Tools
60 Most Wanted Photoshop Tutorials, Brushes, .PSDs and Resources
For months, we have been bookmarking interesting, useful and creative Adobe Photoshop tutorials and Resources, so you can now rest assured that you will have the necessary tools to get the job done.
Due to this phenomenally vast amount of textures, brushes, patterns available, you can now add dirt, rust, floral effect, swirls, mold, oil stains in your artworks and photos to give them an aged, damaged, dreamy or any look you want.
So in today’s post, you’ll find an assortment of top-notch tutorials, brushes, patterns, textures, actions and .PSD downloadable files that others have freely contributed to the design community for making your next photoshop effect.
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Posted in: photoshop
Announcing The Freebies Day
Happy New Year Eve all Designers out there!
I would like to start this year with a new event i am planning to hold every month “The Freebies Day”. This is going to be a huge contest with lots of prizes, it will be held in the middle of every month, where our great sponsors will giveaway some of their Top-Notch products or services for FREE to our lucky readers.
Want to Participate..
in our new contest and have a nice prize that you want to giveaway, please send an email at (info[AT] noupe.com) — we want you and we would really be happy to have you as one of our great sponsors.
Don’t Forget to…
subscribe to our RSS-Feed and visit my twitter page : nourayehia if you want to stay updated about when will the contest starts and have an idea about new sponsors as well.
This post will be updated with information about new sponsors and prizes as well.
Posted in: Contest
Uncoverr Site Launch
Lachy Groom has just launched Uncoverr, a great resource which enables the user to quickly and easily find books, reviews and interviews with authors.
These books though are only on web related topics, like CSS, HTML, Design, Usability, Marketing, Blogging, the list goes on!
Posted in: spotlight
30+ Incredibly Beautiful Custom Designer Toys
Only talented designers have the ability to create incredibly detailed works of art to represent the heart and soul of their creativity. Today i wanted to showcase something different and unrelated to web design, may be that’s because i am in a good mood for the holidays. So today i wanted to showcase some of the best Custom Vinyl toys to highlight designer’s creativity in using both design and color.
In this post we are presenting over 30 beautiful and impressive Vinyl Toys. Hopefully everybody will find some inspiration at least in some of the works showcased below.
Posted in: Funny Stuff
2008 Most Popular Design posts, Tutorials and Resources
2008 was a busy year, we have been watching great news, articles, tutorials, scripts, tips and lot of inspiration for web designers popping around everyday. Today we thought it would be a great idea to wrap all those resources in one package where you can check to fuel your energy for creativity. Hopefully you will find some creative ideas that you can develop further in your future projects.
In the showcase below, you’ll find a variety of articles and posts from the most interesting web-design/development-related web-sites published in 2008.
Posted in: Best-Of
Mastering Your WordPress 2.7 Theme & Admin Area: Tips and Tricks
Lot of news flying around about the release of WordPress 2.7, featuring new Administration Panel interface to make WordPress more usable and accessible. Significant features and redesigns was added to WordPress 2.7 to make blogging on the new Dashboard Panel more valuable than ever.
You may find your Themes no longer work the way you are used to. It could be that they might be broken, because something in WordPress that was fundamental to them changed, but it’s also possible that you can get them working again by updating some settings, or maybe just a small edit.
This post will highlight WordPress 2.7 HOW-TO get your theme working again by updating some settings and represent some of the best and significant features added to your Administration Panel.
So let’s get started and don’t forget to subscribe to our RSS-Feed and visit my twitter page : nourayehia if you want to follow to keep track on our next post.
Posted in: Wordpress
Templatica Site Launch
Alen Grakalic from CSS Globe has launched Templatica. Templatica is a membership based template club where you get full access to all templates in the css template gallery for a single and very affordable annual fee of $24!
Read the rest of this entry »Posted in: spotlight
50 Most Beautiful Icon Sets Created in 2008
Icons is everywhere on the web. In most modern designs it is used to not only complete our design but also to attract the user’s eye. Designers use Icons to create breath-taking designs and decorate their desktop as well. Today we’re going to take a look at 50 most beautiful icon sets we’ve found over the year 2008.
Some amazing Icon Sets are missing? Let us know!
So let’s get started and don’t forget to subscribe to our RSS-Feed and visit my twitter page : nourayehia if you want to follow to keep track on our next post.
Posted in: Icons
20 Incredibly Useful Themes and Plugins to Boost your Admin Area
Sometimes we just want to get our WordPress Admin area to look neat and professional just to add a bit more functionality and enhance the way we use it. In this case, WordPress Admin themes and plugins come to the rescue. Here are 20 WordPress Admin themes and plug-ins that expand the functionality of the admin area specially if design isn’t your primary skill set.
Of course WordPress 2.7 comes with a huge number of changes, a good chunk of them making some older plugins redundant. However some of us might need time to upgrade, until the vital plugins that we depend on gets upgraded too to be compatible with the new release.
If you need to create your own Admin WordPress theme you might find this post useful.
This post was the first request we receive regarding a post idea one of great readers wanted us to work on. We are looking for creative ideas - e.g. designs trends etc. Any suggestion is always welcomed.
So let’s get started and don’t forget to subscribe to our RSS-Feed and visit my twitter page : nourayehia if you want to follow to keep track on our last post in this series.
Posted in: Wordpress
6th Jan | ILoveGraphics
There are plenty of factors to think about when designing a logo, from color scheme to brand image. So design prowess aside, here are the basic pointers that will help you along the way of your logo design journey.
6th Jan | Merewald
Free social icon set in PNG format.
6th Jan | Brian Hoff
33 logo design inspirational websites, galleries and resources about logos to fulfill your every logo desire and addiction!
6th Jan | styletime
Last year at the start of my Twitter career I posted the Top 8 Friendliest Designers on Twitter and was recently asked for a remake so…
I’ve decided to limit it to 10 more to give some focus so here are the Top 18 Friendliest designer’s on Twitter.
6th Jan | Antonio Lupetti
This post suggests how to transform WordPress in a social community or an e-commerce store, how to display your social feeds in your page (something like aFriendFeed clone…) and how to improve your comments section using threaded comments.
6th Jan | Eric Shafer
This is an incredible list of 39 amazing Wordpress themes that stand out. If you’re starting a blog, consider using one of these.
6th Jan | Alen
Easy Slider enables images or any other content to slide horizontally or vertically on click. It is configurable with css alone.
6th Jan | Lee Munroe
Check out this showcase for inspiration from the best.
6th Jan | virgil
Hide browser referer information with this piece of PHP code sparkled with little javascript to fix IE back button and learn how to implement it on your web site.
6th Jan | Peter Steen Høgenhaug
Some Wordpress users encounter an error where blank lines are inserted before the DOCTYPE declaration, causing the feed to be invalid. Here’s the fix!
6th Jan | Julia Agnes
Don’t miss your chance to download this professional vector illustration free of charge! 
6th Jan | Guga Fiel
“History of the Internet” is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to file-sharing, from Arpanet to Internet.
6th Jan | Akhtar Sheikha
The showcase forty five inspirational creative e-commerce websites that we found. Enjoy!
6th Jan | Grant Friedman
Comment to win a free copy of this amazing Photoshop plug-in.
6th Jan | Zinni
A roundup of the best web designs from December 2008 hand selected for your enjoyment.
6th Jan | Webdesigner Depot
Liveblogging for dummies
6th Jan | CSSCount
Collection of 15 Abstract Designs and Photograph from Graphic Designers and Photographer in no particular order.
5th Jan | Steven Snell
A collection of tutorials for creating realistic illustrations from scratch and for editing photographs in a realistic way.
5th Jan | Steven Snell
This is a roundup of useful Photoshop actions that can help designers and photographers save time and create better results when touching-up and enhancing photos.
5th Jan | Rob
Another Dead Wings Designs freebie. A Kaleidoscope vector pack, released as a crossover with Arbenting.
5th Jan | Angie Bowen
A pack of 10 high resolution kaleidoscope photoshop brushes free for both personal and commercial use.
5th Jan | Antonio Lupetti
This tutorial illustrates how to install Google Friend Connect on a Blogger template.
5th Jan | Eric Shafer
This week, we have some of the best Wordpress themes, some great Photoshop tutorials as usual, and links to several great year-end roundups.
5th Jan | ILoveGraphics
So much can be done in the name of saving our planet.
Some with an obvious message while others simply speak to the nature of nature. These next 12 designs are absolutely “Go Green” worthy in our book.
5th Jan | Brian
Learn how to design the PSD Tuts website design from scratch in Photoshop.
5th Jan | Mason Hipp
Freelancing can be an up-or-down business. Some people do really well from the start, while others struggle to stay in business. What’s the difference between the successful freelancers and the unsuccessful ones? What makes one business work while another can’t keep up?
5th Jan | Design Shard
It’s time to get creativite
5th Jan | Antonio Lupetti
In this post I want to suggest you some free online services which help you to bring more value to your blog, adding valuable content in your posts such as documents preview, live presentations (PowerPoint-like) and screencasts.
5th Jan | Jackson Brown
Great list of Ajax resources at:
http://www.ajaxbasics.com
5th Jan | Peter Steen Høgenhaug
When making websites, it’s often hard to remember the codes for special characters. Therefore, I made a PDF containing them all - it’s ready to print out to always have by your side.
5th Jan | Chris Spooner
Design process for a recent business card project. Check out the walkthrough of laying out the business card design into a print-ready file.
5th Jan | Bogdan
Holidays are over so the CSS and Flash inspiration articles are back with great designs. 30 sites are here waving to come and gaze at them.
5th Jan | Umut
There are lots of free Photoshop plug-ins which can fire your skills. This post aims to present most of them (150+) in a comprehensive way.
5th Jan | WPCount
Showcase of 20 Amazing Free Premium WordPress Themes for Instant Download in no particular order.
5th Jan | kailoon
Chinese New Year is coming next 2 weeks. It is Cow year for year 2009 in Chinese zodiac. So, I do a tutorial on how to create a cow in Illustrator.
5th Jan | Steven Snell
A tutorial for styling post content in WordPress according to the post category.
5th Jan | brainpicker
Flying cars, exploding brains and how the creative process comes to life: A wonderful, inspiring animated short.
5th Jan | Mirko
Presentation of Steve Krug’s best seller on usability.
5th Jan | Thomas
Jasper Tandy from echohelloworld.com is answering 15 questions about his life and work in this Braintalk.
5th Jan | Nick
Antonio Lupetti of Woork has released a free eBook that contains articles with code sections, images, illustrations and links to original contents on woork!
