The recent purchase of Instagram by Facebook demonstrates that the popular mobile photography app is more than just a fad. Of all the many iOS apps to gain prominence in the post-PC era, Instagram is easily one of the most recognizable. The platform has gotten so popular that it has even spawned third-party services to manage functionality and improve performance. As with Twitter, we can expect to see more and more “helper” apps that piggyback on top of the primary service. One such tool is Instarchive, a helpful management utility for users who want download all their Instagram photos in one convenient zip file.  (more…)

 Microsoft is understandably worried about competition from the likes of Google and Apple, due to their dominance of the web and mobile markets. What they should really be concerned about, however, is the slew of open source programs that threaten their monopoly of the office software sphere. In many ways, Open Office is just as full-featured and capable as Microsoft Office. Likewise, Microsoft Visio has a direct and potent competitor in the form of Dia from GNOME, a powerful vector graphics editor designed from the ground up for crafting stellar diagrams and flowcharts. Dia is free, open source and have small footprint in memory.  (more…)

It’s been said that the iPad is better-suited for consuming media than creating it. That doesn’t have to be the case, and full-featured graphic design apps are the way to change the status quo. That means that a full-featured and comprehensive sketch program should emulate the experience of working with pen and paper as closely as possible. The perfect sketch app should also stay out of the way of the user by delivering an experience that’s gesture-based and doesn’t rely on buttons that break up work flow. As it turns out, such an app already exists.  (more…)

An increasing amount of e-commerce is moving from the laptop to the mobile phone. We all know that having a dedicated mobile website optimized for smart devices is a must, but many neglect to tune their e-commerce stores for mobile as well. Mobile commerce or m-commerce is just anther way to facilitate buying and selling online. People will go out of their way to buy from Amazon, but a lack of an m-commerce portal for mobile users can be a deal breaker for smaller shops. MobiCart is an easy way to create mobile stores quickly for free.  (more…)

Android market place is stuffed with thousands of Collage Maker Apps, with help of these wonderful apps you can make collage right from your favorite Droid within minutes. You can even give different styles to your collages and share it with your friends.

So if you are a photography enthusiast or an avid photo-sharer, try out following 5+ Best Free Collage Maker Apps :-  (more…)

If you’re great fan of Bing.com images, here’s a simple way to set them as your desktop wallpaper automatically. Bing.com homepage may not be known as the leading search engine but it’s definitely home to some of coolest images on the planet. I visit bing just to get a glimpse of those images. And I believe many of you are also fans of those mesmerizing sights the search engine hosts. There is now official software utility called “Bing Desktop” from Microsoft by which you can automatically set those images as your desktop wallpaper.  (more…)

Whether it’s Windows’ Snipping Tool or just the PrintScreen key and copying and pasting it into paintshop, some people seem content using the old fashioned screen capturing tools that come built into Windows when they want to create a screenshot of what’s on their screen. But these built-in Windows apps are very limited for those who expect more options. If you’re looking for a good free app with extra features that gives you the versatility and options needed to make quality screenshots, Shotty is definitely a must-have screen capture tool in your Windows arsenal.   (more…)

Roboto is a font that was created in-house at Google, to be specifically used for their Android operating system. It was introduced in the 4th release of the OS, which is codenamed “Ice Cream Sandwich.” The designer of Roboto is Christian Robertson, one of Google’s interface designers. It serves as the default font of Android and comes with every 4.0 device, but now it can also be freely downloaded and installed on your computer, as of January 12, 2012. Also the app developers for Android can use Roboto to give their apps native look. As far as fonts go, Roboto is very reminiscent of the beloved Helvetica typeface, but it has some of its own charm that comes from the small differences between the two. Google has called the font “modern, yet approachable” and “emotional.”  (more…)

The hot new trend in digital scrap-booking is undoubtedly the Facebook Photo Collage, which is an easy way to bring all your memories together in one visual tableau for all your friends to see. While you could slap one together manually using an image editing program like Adobe Photoshop, that approach isn’t as full-featured and flexible as some would like it to be. A better option would be to use a dedicated application like Loupe to do the heavy lifting for you. With Loupe, you can easily compile a timeless collage online that will stand out. (more…)

Firefox remains top choice for any web designer and that is because of its vast range of addons available. These addons give you amazing functionality, you as web designer can virtually design anything on Firefox. All what you will need is a bunch of Firefox addons.

You will find millions of Firefox addons  on internet and believe me it can be quite a tiresome task to choose among them. However to make your task easy, in this article I am going to share with you the best 5 Firefox Addons that all web designer would love to have. (more…)