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…)

HTML5 is quickly becoming the web standard for amazing interactions on the Internet, but little has been done to bring this experience to the Windows desktop until now. Pokki is a HTML5 app that lets you interact with most of your web apps through its beautiful interface. Developers can built feature rich, connected desktop applications using HTML5 and other latest web standards. Individual services are called “Pokkis” and each Pokki is dedicated to a specific service. The program sits on your task bar where the Quick Launch bar would normally sit and functions more beautifully than any Quick Launch bar designed by Microsoft. (more…)

The Internet is a quickly changing place, with all the updates from friends and family on social media sites and RSS aggregator feeds thrown in. Most people spend a few hours a day looking at these sources individually or checking email for the latest stories, but now there’s a better way to combine all of this information together so you can get all of your updates at a glance on your desktop right away.

Retickr is a Mac OS X app that is designed to make receiving updates from Facebook, Twitter, email, and any RSS feeds you might follow a breeze. Instead of leaving tabs in your browser open, you can get the information delivered straight to your desktop in a beautifully crafted app that is a pleasure to use. (more…)

One of the greatest fears of any laptop owner is losing the laptop to theft. Important documents, family photos, and financial information can all be lost in the blink of an eye. Homeowner’s or car insurance may cover the loss of the device depending on your policy, but no amount of monetary compensation can replace your documents. Thankfully, Hidden App is designed to help you recover your MacBook no matter where it is in the world so you can worry not about replacing your laptop, but about recovering it. (more…)

Zendesk is a SaaS (Software as a Service) based help desk support company that contracts its services to any small, medium or enterprise businesses, freelancers, service providers and anybody who is in need of a help desk for efficient customer support, whether they have only one agent handling problems or a large staff. It helps agents answer questions, track issues and streamline interactions. Zendesk’s simplicity of operation, its extensibility and potential for customization and the variety of tools it offers to manage the customer relationship makes it one uniquely proportioned help desk offering in the cloud. (more…)

BugTracker is California-based development firm ZOHO Software’s web-based bug and issue management system. It seems to have been designed specifically to reduce the unproductive down-time that often seems to be part and parcel of being on the managing and coding ends of software development projects. BugTracker’s raison d’être consists in increasing productivity by easing the functional workload of bug tracking and issue management by way of implementing easy-to-use, intuitive management tools that give the whole development team a clear sense of where their project stands at any given point in time. The tools BugTracker uses were clearly designed with ease of use in mind. They work in concert to streamline the whole trajectory of a project, focusing strongly on facilitating communication between users themselves and between managers and users.

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Picasa 3.8 is an excellent photo viewing and editing software offered by Google. There are two main offerings made by Picasa. One is software and other is online photo sharing and web album service. Picasa’s latest version Picasa 3.8 offers slew of features. Though image viewing is the primary functionality as perceived by many people around the globe, if you’ve used it for photo editing, and image organization you’ll be amazed by the capabilities Picasa has. Along with these main features, Picasa 3.8 also offers video editing. The Picasa web albums helps you upload and share your photos with family and friends.  Full screen slideshow, pictures arranged on global map and video playback are some of the important features of Google Picasa.

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Is your computer slowing down and freezing often? If you have been using your computer for months or years, its performance might not be as good as it was when you first brought it home. This happened to one of my old laptops as well. Sometime it gets so sluggish that you might bang your head or pull your hair and say “How to make my computer run faster??”. You’ll find effective ways which answers that question.

After applying almost 100 tweaks and nearly destroyed my laptop, I found that these 5 tips are the easiest and most effective ways to speed up computer. It works for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. Once you apply these tips to your PC, take a look at these 5 free tools which may further help to increase  computer speed.

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Resume is a document used by individuals to present their background and skillsets [Wikipedia]. Traditionally Resumes have always been 2-3 page document explaining you to the best. But with the changing times, format of resumes also changed, initially resumes were limited to  2-3 pages printed with typewriter and now resumes are created in digital formats like .doc , .pdf etc. Your resume speaks a lot about you, not just your qualification and experience, but also about you as a person.

So if you wish to stand out of crowd, your resume must also be unique. Now a days visual resumes are gaining popularity. You can even upload your visual resume to slidshare.com and share it with everyone. So what kind of visual resume you should make? Have dilemma? Then first check out these awesome and creative visual resume samples. If you’ve got hint of what kind of cool resume you can create, then look further for step-by-step guide to creating them. (more…)

Often it is required for any professional photographers and artists to watermark their images particularly when they need to show their artworks or photos online. There are many applications available, both online and desktop to do so. These applications allow you to add logo or any text to the images, so that even if the images are downloaded, it will still carry your own mark and can’t be used as such.

Many online tools to watermark images are not secure enough to use, as your non-watermarked images are saved in their servers and they can use it as they like. So in this article I am sharing some best and free tools for watermarking images.

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