This is a really cool tutorial showing you how to create some smooth animated menus using the JQuery library.

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How you showcase your portfolio is very important for any freelancer or design company. It reflects the way you do business, your attention to details and gives an overall feel of professional work. It can mean the difference from getting or losing clients.

To enrich your portfolio showcase you can use Javascripts based on the Prototype or Moo.Fx libraries, scripts such as Litebox, LightBox 2, Highslide JS, ThickBox & many others. These all work just fine, but are a bit too common these days. If you want something special, you have to go the extra distance, XML Flash based gallery scripts.

Here are some resources you can try. They all use XML and ActionScript and are fully customizable.

3D XML Flash Thumbnail Box

3D XML Flash Curve Wall

Spiral Carousel XML Flash script

3D XML Flash Cylinder Box

Firefox is a fastest growing popular web browser. There are lots of ease provided by the firefox and this is the main reason for its popularity. There are lots of free download able extensions and add-ons available on the internet for firefox and there demands are increasing every day. In this post, I am listing down 9 Amazing Firefox Add-Ons That Will Save Your Time.

Read It Later

It lets you save articles and webpages so you can read them later, even when you’re offline. Now the internet is your bitch. Firefox add-on

Chunkit

This add-on is so badass, that if search engines made a superhero movie, this would be the Batman. Basically, you get to search any website with sonar vision and see through all the links at once. Firefox add-on

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Thumbizy is a powerful & free instant website thumbnail generator that can help you to take snapshot of any website. You will just need to give the url of the website and select the thumbnail size. This is an ajax based web service that will instantly provide you screenshot of your given website.

When switching from Windows to a more secured Linux operating system, you may come up with many difficulties. Like for example you might not find the applications you needed for doing your daily work. Although you can find any and all the replacements of a Windows application on Linux, there is a way through which you can run your favorite Windows application on your Linux operating system. Here we have compiled a list of 6 free tools that will help you run your favorite Windows application on a Linux system or help you to run virtual PC on any Operating System.

XEN

The Xen® hypervisor, the powerful open source industry standard for virtualization, offers a powerful, efficient, and secure feature set for virtualization of x86, x86_64, IA64, PowerPC, and other CPU architectures. It supports a wide range of guest operating systems including Windows®, Linux®, Solaris®, and various versions of the BSD operating systems. The Xen hypervisor is a unique open source technology, developed collaboratively by the Xen community and engineers at over 20 of the most innovative data center solution vendors, including AMD, Cisco, Dell, HP, IBM, Intel, Mellanox, Network Appliance, Novell, Red Hat, SGI, Sun, Unisys, Veritas, Voltaire, and Citrix. Xen is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL2) and is available at no charge in both source and object format. Xen is, and always will be, open sourced, uniting the industry and the Xen ecosystem to speed the adoption of virtualization in the enterprise.

rdesktop

rdesktop is an open source client for Windows Terminal Services, capable of natively speaking Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in order to present the user’s Windows desktop. Supported servers include Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows NT Server 4.0. Rdesktop currently runs on most UNIX based platforms with the X Window System, and other ports should be fairly straightforward.

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Plugoo Widget enables your website visitors (blog, social network profile, online shop…) to get in touch with you in real time, directly on your Instant Messenger (MSN Messenger, GoogleTalk, Yahoo! Messenger, AOL AIM, ICQ, Jabber…). If your messenger status is online, visitors can send you an instant message through the Plugoo Buddy in your messenger buddy list. You can thus chat with them, answer their questions or comments Live!

Your visitors don’t need neither to download a software nor to create an account before they can contact you. They never have access to your instant messaging information (username). And conversation between a visitor and you is strictly private – other simultaneous visitors on the website don’t see the conversation. You don’t have to change your habits, you keep using your favorite messenger on your desktop or from your mobile phone. Start using plugoo and chat with any visitor of your website absolutely free!

The PHP Web Stat offers you a highly configurable web tracker and detailed real-time web stat script. You will be able to analyze and monitor all visitors of your website. Our script is totally FREE and licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

General characteristics

• requires no database connectivity
• separate counter for your website
• easy administration console
• configuration of the modules: turn on/off, count entries,
  percentage view, etc.
• exclude own visits by cookies
• ip recount time can be adjusted
• exclude fixed ip-addresses
• analysis of any time interval possible/saveable
• password protection
• update notifier
• changeable style with CSS-editor
• easy installation manual
• compressed cached logfile
• different languages

This is the wonderful list of 17 free and online web based tools for designers and developers which may be very helpful for you as well when you are at work. Designers and Developers will must like this list but you can also use them and will love whether you are office worker, manager, supervisor, student, home user, etc. Most of them are not very well-known but, they are really amazing in respect to their features. Just take a look at them and share your thought’s here.

FontStruct

FontStruct is a free font-building tool lets you quickly and easily create fonts constructed out of geometrical shapes, which are arranged in a grid pattern, like tiles or bricks. Once you’re done building, FontStruct generates high-quality TrueType fonts, ready to use in any Mac or Windows application.

Whats its color

Whats its color is an image-color processing utility that will evaluate an image and give you the image’s primary and complementary dominant colors of an image, how many visually unique colors are in an image, and the top ten visually unique colors in an image.

DamnIT

DamnIT is a free service that emails you when a user encounters a JavaScript error in your webpages. You’ll receive detailed automated error information instead of vague bug descriptions.

Scrumy

Scrumy is a simple and intuitive way to do Scrum project management. At its core, Scrumy is a virtual taskboard, and is free. Scrumy Pro has more Scrum-specific features like multiple sprints, burndown charts, and daily snapshots.

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Deadline is the simplest calendar ever made. You write in plain English, and it will set up a reminder for you. Once your appointments have been entered, you can quickly search through them based on words or dates.

You can also talk Talk to Deadline through IM, Email events to Deadline, Subscribe to your Deadline feed in a newsreader.

Use Jumpchart to quickly plan out the navigation of your site by adding pages, and sub-pages. If you change your mind, easily drag pages to new spots within the site hierarchy.

You can use simple Textile formatting to add text, files, special formatting, and even forms to the pages of your wireframe.

Wireframes are great, but Jumpcharts are better. A Jumpchart is shareable, exportable as clean CSS, and automatically generates its own sitemap.