Chrome - New Web Browser From Google

I guess the world was awaiting for it and Google was just thinking of it at the same time… Wow here is all new web browser from Google - new eyes to see the World Wide Web and I can’t believe it how cool it looks and I am truly amazed to see that they have done a great job, its simple yet sophisticated.  I got the first hands on the browser - Chrome, yes Google named its new web browser as Chrome. 

I love to browse on Chrome, its clean, simple and fast.. and I mean it. It has tabs and Chrome makes sure things happening on a tab doesn’t interrupt the things happening on the other tab. Chrome is new to the world, so its really pre-mature to talk more on it, but we shouldn’t forget that Google might have done great amount of testing to launch this amazingly cool browser.

Chrome is built on the components from Apple’s WebKit and Mozilla’s Firefox. All new browser is available as an open source code allowing other developers to enrich the creation. And I think this is the coolest part.

Beta version of Chrome is currently available for Windows and very soon there will be a release for Mac and Linux, though a specific date is not mentioned. 

Please follow the below web URL to have a thorough look at the features of Chrome.

http://tools.google.com/chrome/intl/en-US/features.html 

Link below explains why and how the Google Chrome was built, simple illustrations help you understand why there was a need to build altogether a new browser for the world. 

http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/ 

Finally… I hope you will love this web browser from the gaint Search Engine Google. Please follow the link to download the Google Chrome…

http://tools.google.com/chrome/

Web Resizer!

Hi friends, here is a website that graphic artists, website designers will love. Hmmm, this website allows you to reduce the image size, sharpen, resize, crop, rotate and many more..

Yes, I have checked out this site and is a very good one. You can choose the new size, sharpen the image, set contrast, brightness, above all choose the quality of the image. Best thing is it allows you to compare the original and optimized files. You might wonder that any graphic tool will allow you to do these all and maybe many more things. But this tool is online and for sure absolutely free!!

http://www.webresizer.com/

Give it a try folks!

Browsers may go through following link to find another web tool for images...

http://what2search.blogspot.com/2007/11/reshade.html

Iconfinder - Search for Icons Contd...

I would like to thank Martin Leblanc for referring yet another beautiful website for Icons. Yes friends, here is www.iconfinder.net that allows us to search for icons. Trying words like home, settings, search will fetch us a list of available icons.

These icons may be used in your projects, however I recommend you all to go through the licenses given to each icon before start using them. Above all a very useful and important website for web designers.

Bloggers can also refer one of my post for icons

http://what2search.blogspot.com/2007/11/iconlet-search-for-icons.html

Best

SplashUp

Hi friends,

If I have provided you all with a website that has an open source tool to create vector graphics. Let me introduce you all to yet another interesting portal, that application, which can be used to edit images, create, work with brushes, layers, text and a lot more.

If you are wondering how does it different from Photoshop or anyother application on your computer? Then I would really feel happy to tell you that this application I was talking about from SplashUp is online, yes, its a web application, the only solution if you are away from your computer and are online somewhere and want to make some changes to your blog photo!

Please don't forget to check out the tool available, its amazing! I love it! You?

http://www.splashup.com/

:)

Inkscape

Hi Friends!

Here is yet another important post for webdesigners, I talked about free clip art, now is a web portal, that provides an open source vector graphic editor as similar to Illustrator or CorelDraw.

Just log on, download and start creating beautiful vector images for your blog, website! You can also visit 'Gallery' section where there are graphics available created by users of Inkscape! And for sure even you can go ahead upload files if you wish!

http://inkscape.org/

:)

Open Clip Art Library!

Hi Friends!

Here is good news for folks who are on the hunt for clipart, that can be used freely. OpenClipArt has a huge collection of cliparts contributed by users. They are all available under different tags. Also you can browse them under a users list, who has submitted the clipart.

So, friends browse for cliparts and if you have created anything that you want to contribute, you may do it here..!

www.openclipart.org/

:)

Glassy Buttons!

One of my previous post was about free web 2.0 logo generator and here is another free web tool that helps you in creating glassy buttons!

Yeah, its very interesting and above all its free! You can create buttons in very few minutes with various options for choosing colors, text font...

Recent buttons section will show you the buttons created by users in the past, to get an idea and if you like them, you can start editing them and create new ones.

Have fun folks!

Happy Buttons :)

Web 2.0 Logo Generator!

Here is another websource which web 2.0 freaks might be interested ( and is open for others too ;)

You may always want to create a Web 2.0 logo for your website, here is a website that offers you the same and guess what! At absolutely no charge! You may choose colors for the font, reflection, add symbols like beta, a globe and etc.

Thats cool for me! You?

Hahahaha ! Do check it out folks!

http://www.simwebsol.com/ImageTool/Default.aspx

IconLet - Search for Icons!

Hi Friends!

I hope everyone is fine and doing well. Here is a weblink for users who want to search for free icons and images. Oh yes! Thats right! Very handy for webdesigners!

Here you can even browse through icons and images based on size, format! And 'Free' section allow us to have freebies! Its cool!

Check it out folks!

www.iconlet.com

Obsidian Dawn

I am truly impressed by Stephanie Shimerdla, if you are wondering who she is? You will have to pay a visit to her website. Her website has a great and neverending ( seems to me! ) list of Photoshop brushes, patterns and tutorials.

Brushes section of the website is too good, with lots of categories like Design, Fantasy, Nature, Objects, People, Themes, Textures, oh and lot... the brushes are too creative and inspire you to do more. I am in love with her work!

http://www.obsidiandawn.com/

I am sure will not miss this one!

:)

Nikki Brion

Hi Friends!

Earlier I posted an article about Veerle' Blog! Its getting too creative. I have now Nikki Brion to present. She too is a web designer and some of creativity is out there to be witnessed. Yes, she is creative and very artistic.

Her portfolio has illustrations and webdesigns. Check them out! Don't forget to check out Poor Princess, this is a blog, she is owning and I am impressed that she has designed entirely a new layout from scratch on Blogger!

http://nb.bottledsky.com/

10 Color Contrast Checking Tools

The more and more I look out for web-designing related articles on internet. Iam exposed to a whole lot of websites. Following is one of them and is a must for any web designer. This article helps the designer in working with colors. Yes, these are 10 colour contrast checking tools to improve the accessibility of your design.

Go ahead and find more about this article by following the URL..

Friends, I am using tinyurl.com to get decrease the url length. This post is one of the articles on www.456bereastreet.com

http://tinyurl.com/2ets5g/

World Of Tutorials!

Hi Friends!

Following are a few websites which I frequently visit to get help regarding php, html, css, photoshop, webdesigning, layout and many more..

Here they are...

http://www.tutorialized.com/ ( extensive tutorials from other tutorial sites )
http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/
http://www.academictutorials.com/ ( extensive tutorials on various topics, incluing management, personality development, etc )
http://www.echoecho.com/
http://www.phpfreaks.com/
http://www.sourcecodesworld.com
www.php.net/
www.webdesign.org/
www.learnphp.org/
www.dhtmlgoodies.com/
http://www.styleignite.com/ ( tutorial for css )
http://exploding-boy.com/ ( css stuff )
http://www.tutsbuzz.com/ ( tutorial for video, audio editing, 3d graphics and effects )

I hope you find these websites helpful. The list is going to increase, this is just to begin with guys. :)

Veerle's Blog!!

Hey Friends!

Veerle's Blog! I found this from one of the tutorial sites. The best thing about this website is the layout and design. I am too impressed with the layout, design, color schemes and the way information is presented.

She has blogs under various categories like music, apple, css, design, photoshop, list goes on...

She has been working since long time in the web-design industry and her work is on the site, don't forget to checkout!

I hope you enjoy this site.

http://veerle.duoh.com/index.php