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60+ Essential Web Apps for Freelancer Web Designers

RSSFeed — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:23:00 +0000

For one reason or another, a lot of freelancers use Web based Applications. As a full-time freelancer and part-time geek, I really like to manage my activities with applications on web too. Web based applications have many advantages over software that you have to download and install it on your computer. First, you don’t need to install or update anything on your PC. Also, you can use the application from any PC or mobile device. You don’t need to worry about backups because your data is safely stored on a server.

Nowadays, there are over hundred thousands of resources available on the web. Instead of spending time on researching for the ones you needed, we pick the top and intelligent ones for you. Below, you’ll find a collection of Essential Web Apps for Freelancer Web Designers by which you can increase your productivity.

In software engineering, a web application or webapp is an application that is accessed via a web browser over a network such as the Internet or an intranet. Web applications are popular due to the ubiquity of web browsers, and the convenience of using a web browser as a client, sometimes called a thin client. The ability to update and maintain web applications without distributing and installing software on potentially thousands of client computers is a key reason for their popularity, as is the inherent support for cross-platform compatibility. Common web applications include webmail, online retail sales, online auctions, wikis and many other functions.

Essential Web Apps for Freelancer Web Designers

Realizing the increasing demand of useful apps across the web, we regularly feature commercial and free software on instantShift, so decided it was time to bring a roundup of highly essential web applications to your attention. Just keep in mind that this list isn’t a ranking list of web apps. So, Let’s start with this compilation that every web developer, designer and freelancer should consider.

Project/Task Management Applications

Calendars and Time Tracking Applications

Invoicing Applications

Financial/Accounting Applications

Payment Applications

PayPal
Google Checkout

Document Storage and File Management Applications

Social Networking Applications

e-Mail Marketing Applications

Communication Applications

Client Contact and Feedback Applications

Web Analytics Applications

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Applications

Security and Privacy Applications

Online Portfolio and Resume Applications

Hard Drive Backup Applicationss

Mozy
iDrive

Project/Task Management Applications

Basecamp

Basecamp is online project management software. People can create, manage and communicate tasks, files and to-do lists. Basecamp offers a way to improve project communication. Use it to keep your teammates and clients informed about what’s going on with your projects. With a focus on simplicity and communication, it’s an enjoyable tool to use. Basecamp is not the most extended project management tools but it is one of the easiest to use. Which is important because you’re clients might be first-time users.

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Project2Manage

This online project management system that allows you to stay up-to-date on task and connect with your team. It provides with a huge list of features including messages, to-do lists, reminders, file management, iCal support etc. It enables you to add unlimited clients and users to each project. You can also create documents using its Spot2Jot feature and then share it with all your connections.

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Smartsheet

Smartsheet allows you to track and manage work in familiar smartsheet and calendar views. You can also upload files, track discussions, and share online with co-workers, clients, contractors, vendors etc. Using smartsheet you can set reminders and receive notifications when things change, generate filtered reports across all the work you manage and instantly find anything you’re tracking using search.

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Staction

Staction is a simple, but advanced way for groups of people to keep eachother up to date on the work they’re doing. How can you talk about project management without mentioning Basecamp? It’s really set a standard, and a high bar. Staction isn’t a me-too app. It’s not fixing what’s broken with Basecamp, -it’s a different way of looking at how groups get work done. Basecamp is about the project, and about the granular nugget of information. Staction is about the aerial view. With Basecamp you’re in the trenches. With Staction, you’re in the clouds. Of course we think it’s better, -or we wouldn’t have bothered to build it.

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Remember the Milk

Managing tasks is generally not a fun way to spend your time. Remember The Milk helps you so that you no longer have to write your to-do lists on sticky notes, whiteboards, random scraps of paper, or the back of your hand. Remember The Milk makes managing tasks an enjoyable experience. Remember the Milk has more features and looks nicer than most of its competitors. The many features of the service makes it also a bit more complicated than for example ta-da list.

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5pm

5pm is an entirely web based project management solution that is designed to effortlessly manage projects of varying complexities. 5pm displays an intuitive approach to the complicated task of project management, allowing its users to seamlessly handle users and groups across projects with minimum effort. It boasts of an interface that can be easily customized and has a stylish timeline view.

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Huddle

Huddle is a network of Online workspaces that brings project management software, online collaboration and document sharing together. Huddle gives you simple, secure online workspaces containing powerful project and collaboration tools. Huddle is hosted, there’s no software to download and it’s free to get started.

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Action Method

There are too many ideas in the world, and not enough action. Without organization and productivity, brilliant ideas never happen. Action Method Online is a radically different approach to productivity, designed to simplify project management and life.

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Subernova

Subernova makes you more productive by taking the stress out of remembering important details of your projects, lets you track your time, collaborate with team mates or clients and keeps your business smooth by keeping tabs on your invoices, deadlines and more.

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Task.fm

Task.fm is a really simple reminder and task management tool. Use task.fm to create reminders that can be delivered via sms, email or voice call. Task.fm is smart enough to understand your natural language so you don’t need to bother entering dates or times manually. Instead, just type something like “meeting with bob next Tuesday at noon” and we will pick out the date, time and event automatically. You can create reminders on the task.fm site, through email or Twitter.

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Calendars and Time Tracking Applications

Backpack

Backpack is an easy intranet for your business. Very easy to setup and use service that integrates to-do lists, notes, files, images, and a calendar with reminders that can be sent to your email or cell. Safe and secure. The main difference between Backpack and other competing applications, such as Google Apps, is the lack of functionality available with the free version. Backpack isn’t quite as generous when it comes to free functionality so, unless you are willing to hand over your credit card information, you won’t be experiencing the full features. The free features that are available, such as the calender and writeboard functions, do work well, but they are the very least of what could be expected from such a product and nothing worth writing home about.

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Google Calendar

It’s a free online calendar powered by Google, it’s easy to keep track of life’s important events all in one place. It helps you to organize your schedule and share events with friends, so you’ll always know exactly what you need to be working on.

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Harvest

Harvest lets you and your staff track time, log expenses, and create invoices in one simple, integrated workflow. Set yourself or your team up on Harvest in just a few minutes, and instantly start tracking time and expenses. Use the Harvest graphical reports to see the distribution of your company’s resources in a visual, intuitive way. Quickly create an invoice, and with just a single click, bill your client. You’ll see your revenue come in faster with Harvest. Give Harvest a try and improve your business today.

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Ta-da List

Ta-da List is the web’s easiest to-do list tool. Make lists for yourself or share them with others. It couldn’t be simpler. When you’re busy with lots of projects, it can be hard to keep track of what you’ve accomplished. Make web-based ta-da lists for yourself or other people, then share them and check items off as you go.

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RescueTime

RescueTime is a web-based time management and analytics tool for knowledge workers who want to be more efficient and productive. The best way to get a sense of how it works for you or your team is to sign up (for free!). You’ll be up and running in a minute or two. Not yet ready to give it a try? View one of the tour videos or scroll down for some feature screenshots.

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Tickspot

Tick is a simple and friendly time tracking application focused on helping you hit your budgets. In the service industry your hours are your inventory. Lose track of them—they spoil. Hit your budgets—move more inventory. Tick gives you the information you need, when you need it.

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Freckle

Freckle is a time tracking application. It is designed for real people who do real work. Freckle helps you see the big picture: which days have you been working? How much, and on what? Is all that time billable time? What are your teammates and employees doing?

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Invoicing Applications

The Invoice Machine

The Invoice Machine takes a new clever approach to online invoicing. It’s beautiful and simple-to-use interface makes producing professional looking invoices a very pleasant experience.

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Freshbooks

Very popular and first choice. freshbooks deliver fast and simple invoicing and time tracking services that help you manage your business. freshbooks believes running a business is hard enough. We believe financial record keeping should be easy, fast, (and perhaps even fun), but still detailed enough to satisfy your accountant.

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Blinksale

Blinksale is perfect for anyone who needs to invoice clients for services or products sold. Blinksale is an excellent choice for attorneys, accountants, designers, IT professionals, software developers, journalists, contractors, engineers, architects, videographers, and more. Basically, if you need to send invoices, Blinksale can work for you.

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Intuit Billing Manager

Intuit Billing Manager is the fast, easy, FREE way to manage your invoicing online. Use the Billing Manager web site to create customized, professional invoices, send them by email and track payment history and status — all on one place. Spend less time on your paperwork and more time on your customers.

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Ballpark

Using Ballpark is going to be your daily bottom of the ninth, full count, walk-off home run moment of invoice zen. It makes it easier than ever to collaboratively send invoices and estimates, keep track of current and future projects, and compress all those email threads into one coherent conversation. Equally useful for teams of one, ten, or one hundred, it’s built for everyone from freelancers to glossy agencies. You’ll feel more organized from start to finish.

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Zoho Invoice

Zoho Invoice has gained the loyalty and trust of companies and the individuals around the world by providing a feature-rich and user friendly interface. Quickly, easily send elegantly formatted invoices and quotes to your clients. Track invoices, send reminders, accept payments online and acknowledge receipts.

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SimplyInvoices

If you’re looking for a quick and easy way to invoice your Basecamp time, Simply Invoices is worth a look.

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Financial/Accounting Applications

LessAccounting

LessAccounting is a small business accounting software. After logging into Less Accounting, the dashboard is your home page. From the dashboard you can see an expense overview, chart cash flow, see which invoices haven’t been paid and see what expenses need to be paid. Allows you to track expenses and send Invoices & Proposals (html and pdf, download pdfs). Tracking expenses is easy with nightly bank data aggregation. Includes iPhone application and integration to a wide range of popular business applications.

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Mint

Mint does what most people hate to do manage their money intelligently and that too free of cost. It saves people from spending hundreds of dollars on hiring finance professionals to understand where they spent their money and the hours one spends wondering where all the hard-earned money disappeared. Once a person sets up his or her Mint account, the site collates their bank account data and credit card data, processes it, and displays the financial state in an intuitive and easy-to-understand manner. What’s more is that Mint does not just provide the user with the vanilla savings and spending balance sheet; it gives them excellent insights on how to manage their money.

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Wesabe

Wesabe is part money management tool, part community. Wesabe gives you the tools and the insights to take control of your finances. See all your bank and credit card balances in one place and learn ways to get ahead.

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QuickBooks

QuickBooks Online is your source for online accounting software that is more than accounting software! It’s an easy- to-use, online version of America’s most popular accounting software. And your accounting is free with our free trial of QuickBooks Online; it’s a great way to manage the online accounting of a new business. And our accounting versions are so feature-rich they’re an excellent way to take care of all your accounting online, without the need to install accounting software on your computer.

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Xero

Xero is an online accounting system designed for small businesses and their advisors.
It’s simple, smart and secure. It really is one of the best ways to keep all of your finance and invoicing in check.

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Pulse

Pulse is the easy way to manage your cash flow online, allowing you to quickly manage and evaluate your income and expenses. Pulse empowers you to make decisions. While other accounting tools let you track your financials, they don’t give you the ability to make the tough day to day decisions that happen when running a small business.

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Work etc.

Worketc run your entire business originally came from a small, but rapidly expanding web design business. As business owners, worketc quickly realized how challenging growth is and set about putting in place the systems and processes that would allow our little business to become a big business.

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Geezeo

Geezeo is a leading software services provider for banks and credit unions. We help organizations engage their base, reach new markets, and increase wallet share. Their primary focus is to provide services and technologies that enable the clients to activate their target audiences—to participate in sound financial decision making, engage in community discussions, take advantage of relevant products and services, and create a more valuable customer experience.

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Payment Applications

PayPal

PayPal allows any business or consumer with an email address to securely, conveniently and cost-effectively send and receive payments online. PayPal is an e-commerce business allowing payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet. PayPal serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods such as cheques and money orders. A PayPal account can be funded with an electronic debit from a bank account or by a credit card. The recipient of a PayPal transfer can either request a check from PayPal, establish their own PayPal deposit account or request a transfer to their bank account. PayPal is an example of a payment intermediary service that facilitates worldwide e-commerce.

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Google Checkout

Google Checkout is an online payment processing service provided by Google aimed at simplifying the process of paying for online purchases. Users store their credit or debit card and shipping information in their Google Account, so that they can purchase at participating stores at the click of a button. Google Checkout also offers fraud protection, as well a unified page for tracking purchases and their status.

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Document Storage and File Management Applications

Box.net

Box.net is a better solution for file transfer than FTP because it allows your business to quickly and easily transfer files to clients, host files for work group collaboration, or simply act as a secondary backup space for important files. There are no set up costs, no equipment to manage, no software: just instant, secure file management.

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Dropbox

Dropbox is the easiest way to store, sync, and, share files online. There’s no complicated interface to learn. Dropbox works seamlessly with your operating system and automatically makes sure your files are up-to-date. Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

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Google Docs

Google Docs is Google’s online office suite application. It allows you to read and write documents, spreadsheets and presentations. In this review we will be concentrating on the word processing functions. Google’s aim is to use their online Docs applications to compete with computer based office suites. An online environment can offer certain advantages in this respect. When using an online application, your files are all automatically stored to Google’s web servers and automatically saved at regular intervals. This means that if your own computer’s hard drive crashes, you will still have your files available online.

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Zoho Writer

Zoho Writer easily share your documents online, with friends on an individual basis and in group. Collaborate on them in real time. It allows you to access and edit existing documents even without an internet connection. Offline document edits will be synchronized when you are online. It provides a nice way of sharing documents with the whole world. Make use of Zoho Writer’s feature rich WYSIWYG editor for publishing your documents to blog.

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Drop.io

Drop.io is an easy to use, online collaboration and file sharing service that provides users with a simple, real time and private way to chat and share images, video, audio, documents and other digital content through unique, user-created and controlled sharing points called ‘drops’.

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Upload Robots

Upload Robots is just like a thumb drive, but it’s on the internet so you’ll never misplace or damage your files. In seconds you can upload, store, download, share and access all of your files online. It is free, simple to use, easy to understand, quick and incredibly useful way to upload a file from your computer and share it with your friends and colleagues.

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Social Networking Applications

Twitter

Twitter is a free social networking and micro blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author’s profile page and delivered to the author’s subscribers who are known as followers. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow open access. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) or external applications.

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LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site. Founded in December 2002 and launched in May 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking. LinkedIn has more than 50 million users worldwide, of which approximately half are in the United States. 11 million are from Europe. With 3 million users, India is the fastest-growing country as of 2009. The purpose of the site is to allow registered users to maintain a list of contact details of people they know and trust in business. The people in the list are called Connections. Users can invite anyone (whether a site user or not) to become a connection.

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Facebook

Facebook is a social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Users can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks organized by city, workplace, and school or college. The website’s name stems from the colloquial name of books given at the start of the academic year by university administrations with the intention of helping students to get to know each other better.

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Campfire

Campfire is like instant messaging, but designed exclusively for groups. Share text, files, and code in real time. Save transcripts so you don’t forget. Campfire is a web-based group chat tool that lets you set up password-protected chat rooms in just seconds. Invite a client, colleague, or vendor to chat, collaborate, and make decisions. Link to a room on your intranet for internal communications.

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Co-op

Co-op makes it easy to stay connected with your co-workers without disrupting them. Your team can use it to post updates, ask questions, share links, and track time. Quickly share your daily agenda with your co-workers. Quickly scan your co-workers’ agendas. Then cancel your daily status meetings!

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Elance

Elance, where companies find, hire, manage and pay contractors online, is transforming the way businesses get work done. On Elance, companies gain instant access to 100,000 rated and tested professionals who offer technical, marketing and business expertise. With well over $200m in earnings to date, independent professionals use Elance to meet clients and get paid for delivering great results.

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e-Mail Marketing Applications

MailChimp

MailChimp is a web-based email marketing software that is extremely easy to use, customizable and easily integrates with Twitter and Facebook, Wordpress, Salesforce and even PayPal. MailChimp was also recently named one of the top-rated eMail marketing tools by Mashable and has an impressive list of heavyweight clients including Canon, Business Week, Firefox and the Make-a-Wish Foundation.

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CampaignMonitor

Campaign Monitor is a Web-based email marketing program aimed specifically at Web designers and agencies which makes subscriber management and mail delivery incredibly easy and also providing valuable reports on every aspect of the campaign.

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iContact

iContact is a leading provider of web-based software that improves the efficiency of marketing communication for businesses and organizations. Its a permission-based email marketing service that allows businesses to easily create, send, and track permission-based email newsletters and surveys.

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Communication Applications

Skype

Skype is a software application that allows users to make voice calls over the Internet. Calls to other users of the service and, in some countries, to free-of-charge numbers, are free, while calls to other landlines and mobile phones can be made for a fee. Additional features include instant messaging, file transfer and video conferencing.

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Vonage

Vonage phone service offers unlimited local, long distance and amazingly low rates to call worldwide, over a clear, reliable connection. Vonage VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) is so easy to use and inexpensive, even the tech-nervous can handle the switch.

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Gizmo5

Gizmo5 has been recently acquired by Google. Gizmo5 provides Internet-based calling software for mobile phones and computers.

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Jott

Jott.com is a voice to text service that allows users to send emails and text messages, set reminders, organize lists and post to web services with their voice. Once an account has been set up, users access the service by calling an easy-to-remember toll-free number. The speech to text technology being used by Jott is without equal, allowing them to offer a number of capabilities that have never been possible before. The site has 3 membership levels, with the Basic level being free and ad-supported. Registration is required to use the site.

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Jajah

Jajah is an innovative and customer-friendly VoIP service that facilitates its users to make long distance calls at the cheapest rates, without necessitating them to buy any headphones, microphones or installing any software. The application allows its users to connect two standard traditional phones, and both local as well as international calls can be set up through it. To access this application, users need nothing except a standard website connection. In order to avail its services, users are required to simply plug-in their phone numbers along with the numbers they wish to dial, and get connected within seconds.

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VOIPStunt

VoipStunt is a free program that uses the latest technology to bring free and high-quality voice communications to people all over the world. When you use the free VoipStunt software, you can call regular phones in various popular destinations for free or call at an incredible low rate to any other phone on the planet.

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RingCentral

Get your toll free number from the Industry leader in hosted phone services. Virtual PBX, hosted voice mail, internet fax features included!

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Meebo

Meebo lets you use multiple instant messaging platforms from an online application. This means you can use your favorite instant messaging program from a public computer or on a mobile phone. Meebo has all the features you would expect but on top of that they have one unique function. Meebo automatically saves all your message history. So when you log in after a week you can still check your old conversations. This really sets it apart from the other applications.

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Client Contact and Feedback Applications

Wufoo

Wufoo is an internet based application which makes it really simple to create stunning and fully functional online web based forms. Wufoo takes care of everything when you’re building forms. It creates the database, and all of the scripts that are required to collect the information from your users. Wufoo hosts all the forms which means it’s really easy to collect information; you don’t need to know anything complicated or even upload the form to your website. This means that it takes a matter of minutes to complete your forms. Wufoo not only makes it easy to create forms, but it also has some great reporting features.

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PollDaddy

With polldaddy you can start creating surveys in minutes. Survey your users, customers or staff to find out what they think about your services and products and get a quick feedback via polls. Our survey product provides a suite of powerful tools to help you dig deep into the data you collect.

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Concept Feedback

Conceptfeedback.com is a site that allows users to post a concept (new or redesigned website, logo, advertising campaign, etc.) and obtain feedback from other professionals in the design and marketing industries. In order to use the service for free, users must review 5 concepts posted by others before they may post their own concept. This provides incentive for users to provide feedback. Users have a Reputation on the site, which is based on their amount of participation.

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GetSatisfaction

GetSatisfaction is a new type of customer service where customers can discuss problems between themselves and also get them solved by company employees. It’s a great solution for the difficult problem solving activities that many businesses face, and can even be used to build relationships with your customers. One of the best things about get satisfaction is that even though it attracts some very big names like Apple it’s still completely free to use, it’s free to ask, and free to answer both for businesses and individuals.

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SurveyMonkey

SurveyMonkey is a tool which can be used to build online surveys with ease. Building and compiling a survey can be quite complicated, especially if you want the results to be collected over the internet. However thanks to SurveyMonkey this is now really easy. SurveyMonkey makes it really easy for you to design your survey and you can collect responses using a number of different types of questions, including drop down answers, and tick boxes among others.

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Web Analytics Applications

Google Analytics

Google Analytics (abbreviated GA) is a free service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about the visitors to a website. Google Analytics makes it easy to improve your results online. Write better ads, strengthen your marketing initiatives, and create higher-converting websites. Google Analytics is free to all advertisers, publishers, and site owners.

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Clicky

Clicky is a popular web service that is capable of monitoring the traffic that visits and leaves your website. It is so popular because it can also track Ajax and Flash events. The sites services can be compared to Google Analytics, and it’s very simple to install. JavaScript simply needs to be embedded into your site; many of the common CMS and blog platforms include instructions showing you exactly what to do.

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StatCounter

A free yet reliable invisible web tracker, highly configurable hit counter and real-time detailed web stats. Insert a simple piece of our code on your web page or blog and you will be able to analyse and monitor all the visitors to your website in real-time!

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Woopra

Woopra is the world’s most comprehensive, information rich, easy to use, real-time Web tracking and analysis application. We deliver the richest library of visitor statistics in the industry through our innovative desktop application. But Woopra is more than simply statistics.

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Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Applications

Highrise

Highrise CRM helps you manage your contacts, keep track of who said what when, schedule follow-ups, set reminders, and convert leads into done deals.

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Gist

Gist is an online service that helps you build stronger relationships. By connecting your inbox to the web, you get business-critical information about key people and companies.

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SugarCRM

SourceForge.net has a wide range of Open Source projects that are intended for enterprise use. This month’s Project of the Month, SugarCRM, is a powerful application positioned to be on the front lines of business. CRM, Customer Relationship Management, software powers the sales team of an organization, the people who drive the revenue for any business. It allows members of the sales team to track leads, new customers, current customers, sales issues, sales projections, and marketing campaigns.

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Bidsketch

Bidsketch is an application that lets you create, track, customize, and design beautiful proposals. Multiple ways to present your proposals ensure clients get what they want. You can export to PDF or share online. Every client gets a portal that lets them view and comment on their proposals.

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Security and Privacy Applications

AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition

Protect your business files with a good antivirus program. AVG Anti-Virus offers a free solution for protecting your computer from viruses.

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SpamSieve

SpamSieve gives you back your inbox by bringing powerful Bayesian spam filtering to Mac e-mail clients. It’s quick and easy to control SpamSieve from within your mail client, and you can customize how it interacts with the rest of your message sorting rules. Other spam filters get worse over time as spammers adapt to their rules; SpamSieve actually gets better over time as it adapts to your mail.

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Escrow

Internet fraud costs victims millions of dollars each year. Protect yourself with Escrow.com! We protect both the buyer and seller with a simple, 5-step trust process.

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Cloudmark

Cloudmark provides comprehensive messaging security solutions that protect subscribers and messaging infrastructure from spam, phishing, viruses and other harmful content. Founded by pioneers in messaging anti-abuse, Cloudmark’s solutions were architected from the ground up to stop current and emerging threat vectors with high efficiency and scalability.

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Online Portfolio and Resume Applications

Behance

Creative thinkers – the people with the most ideas – often struggle the most with organization and productivity. Behance aims to change that. So they design products & services that organize the creative world.

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Carbonmade

With Carbonmade, you can manage your online portfolio with a variety of tools that allow you to change how you display your work. The core idea behind the design of Carbonmade is to keep your images or video at the forefront. For a better idea on what Carbonmade can do for you.

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Raveal

Raveal allows you to perfect your message: define your professional profile with a resume, portfolio, and social voice. It also allows you to perfect your message: define your professional profile with a resume, portfolio, and social voice. Raveal gives you exposure by indexing your profile with major search engines. Raveal also provides a custom-built, visual search engine for employers and potential clients to search and find you.

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deviantART

DeviantArt (commonly abbreviated as dA) is a Worldwide online community with worldwide appeal showcasing various forms of user-made artwork. DeviantArt aims to provide a place for any artist to exhibit and discuss works. Works are organized in a comprehensive category structure, including photography, digital art, traditional art, literature, Flash, filmmaking, skins for applications and others, along with extensive downloadable resources such as tutorials and stock photography.

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Qfolio

Qfolio offers the complete online visual portfolio solution for Designers, Architects, Artisans, Artists or anyone with a visual portfolio to present. We build it, host it, help you promote it and make it easy for you to keep it up to date. Your Qfolio is your stand-alone visual portfolio website. It contains images of your work as well as the text documents of your choosing organized to your liking.

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Hard Drive Backup Applications

Mozy

Computers are prone to several kinds of risks, which may include hard drive crashes, natural disasters, virus-attacks, and thefts. The occurrence of any of the above accidents can lead to data loss which can pose serious problems for the user. Therefore, to avoid any havoc situation, back up is required. Mozy is a highly reliable on line back-up providing system, which helps in keeping the important stuff on one’s computer safe. A copy of important data is stored remotely, at a secured location, so that in the event of disaster it is still retrievable. With Mozy, online storage becomes very easy and affordable. One can access his/her backed-up files from just about anywhere.

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iDrive

Get 2 GB of full featured Online Backup for free. Features include Automatic Backup, True Archiving, Versioning, Continuous Backup, Mapped Drive Backup and more.

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WordPress Plugin For E-Commerce: GetShopped

RSSFeed — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:22:46 +0000

GetShopped is a free WordPress plugin for adding e-commerce capabilities into WordPress-powered websites.

It is a very easy-to-setup plugin which can work with any standards compliant WordPress theme (and WordPress MU).

The plugin offers a flexible pricing structure for products with features like:

flexible coupon/discount pricing rules
product specific sales
quantity discounts
free shipping options
multi-tier pricing for quantity discounts

and supports multiple payment providers like Google Checkout, Paypal & Payment Express.

GetShopped makes it possible to complete the shopping process quickly with a one-page-checkout & optionally, guest checkouts is supported.

It is easy to manage orders with the help of a powerful admin interface, print invoices, packing slips & more.

The plugin also offers lots of other features from comments to new/featured product widgets.

Special Downloads:
Ajaxed Add-To-Basket Scenarios With jQuery And PHP
Free Admin Template For Web Applications
jQuery Dynamic Drag’n Drop
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WordPress Tip: Remove nofollow Attributes from Post Content

RSSFeed — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:22:43 +0000

If you have posts that include the nofollow attribute on links, you may at some point decide to remove them. By default, WordPress doesn’t insert nofollow attributes in post content, but there are a variety of plugins that will insert nofollow into all links in post content. Or perhaps you have been manually adding nofollow tags to your post links for SEO purposes. Regardless of how they got there, it’s very easy to clean things up and remove all nofollow attributes from post content.

Remove `nofollow` attributes from post content

To clean up your post content, simply add the following code to your active theme’s functions.php file:

function remove_nofollow($string) {
	$string = str_ireplace(' rel="nofollow"', '', $string);
	return $string;
}
add_filter('the_content', 'remove_nofollow');

That’s all there is to it — no further editing required. Once in place, this function will filter all post content and remove any instances of rel="nofollow". Note that if you have some posts about nofollow, this function will remove rel="nofollow" from your code examples as well.

Remove `nofollow` attributes from post content and comment text

It’s just as easy to remove nofollow tags from comment text by including another add_filter function:

function remove_nofollow($string) {
	$string = str_ireplace(' rel="nofollow"', '', $string);
	return $string;
}
add_filter('the_content', 'remove_nofollow');
add_filter('comment_text', 'remove_nofollow');

With the additional add_filter, this code will eliminate all instances of rel="nofollow" that would have otherwise appeared in your post content and comment text.

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Find Differences In 2 PSD Files: ComparePSD

RSSFeed — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:15:17 +0000

Sometimes we work on a PSD file, duplicate it and work more on it when creating a new version.

And one day, we need a layer or effect that only exists in only one of these files, search for it which can become complicated (what we’re looking can be invisible as well).

ComparePSD is a free Windows software that helps finding the differences between 2 PSD files in such situations to save you time.

The software enables you to select the files to be compared from Windows Explorer.

When it is started, the files are compared layer-by-layer including layers styles (effects), styles attributes, layers visibility flags and highlights the differences.

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How to remove “private” and “protected” from the post title

RSSFeed — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:13:47 +0000

The only thing you have to do is to paste the following piece of code in your functions.php file. Once you’ll save the file, the hack will be applied to your your posts.

function the_title_trim($title) {
	$title = attribute_escape($title);
	$findthese = array(
		'#Protected:#',
		'#Private:#'
	);
	$replacewith = array(
		'', // What to replace "Protected:" with
		'' // What to replace "Private:" with
	);
	$title = preg_replace($findthese, $replacewith, $title);
	return $title;
}
add_filter('the_title', 'the_title_trim');

Credits goes to Chris Coyier for this awesome piece of code. Have you checked out the book Chris wrote with Jeff Starr? It’s called Digging into WordPress and it is a must-have for all WordPress fans!

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35 Latest High-Quality Free Fonts for Professional Designers

RSSFeed — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:12:27 +0000

It’s essential for Designers to have a good understanding of typography and selection as the importance of typography in design can’t be neglected. The proper selection of typography can convert your normal design into attractive piece of art.

Among other things, effective typography manages to achieve three necessary objectives of web designing are Look, Appearance and Outcome which helps you to keep apart from normal wave.

Display typography is a potent element in graphic design, where there is less concern for readability and more potential for using type in an artistic manner. Below you’ll find Collection of Excellent Fresh Free Fonts To Enhance Your Designs by which you can save money and focus on making great applications.

The basic purpose behind this post is to show you Popular, Artistic and most importantly Free Downloadable font types to save your time searching them online. Direct download link available for the entire fonts.

You can also find some related free references at the end of the post. Just make sure to read the license agreements carefully as they can change from time to time.

High-Quality Free Fonts for Professional Designers

We know that typography can be used as a way of mutual understanding between you and your users. To communicate effectively, typography requires appropriate typefaces as there are a lot of unsung fonts out there that have really inspired us. Color and size of type elements are much more prevalent than in text typography. Most display typography exploits type at larger sizes, where the details of letter design are magnified. Color is used for its emotional effect in conveying the tone and nature of subject matter.

References For Free Fonts

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Stop Spammers and Other Scumbags with a Custom Blacklist

RSSFeed — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:11:09 +0000

I usually reserve most of my blacklisting content for Perishable Press, but after posting about using WordPress’ built-in tools to stop comment spam, several DiW readers have asked about a good custom blacklist that may be used for the “Comment Moderation” and/or “Comment Blacklist” features in the WordPress “Discussion Settings” screen. Over the years, I have built up an extensive custom blacklist of terms that has proven quite effective at keeping spam and other garbage out of the comments section, even without using any anti-spam plugins such as Akismet. It’s strictly plug-n-play, and should help protect your site (and reputation) against all sorts of malicious nonsense. So without further ado..

(Caution: the blacklist contains several instances of profanity in order to keep vile language out of your comments.)

Custom WordPress Comment Moderation Blacklist

The idea is simple: copy and paste this custom blacklist into the Comment Moderation field in your WordPress Admin area, which will look something like this:

The ‘Comment Moderation’ field in the WordPress ‘Discussion Settings’ Area

Here is the list, in all of its offensive pharmaceutical, gambling, sex-industry glory (see notes afterward for more information on usage and functionality):

д
и
ж
Ч
Б
. ,
? ,
thx
sex
byob
nude
loan
debt
poze
bdsm
soma
visa
hotel
paxil
anime
naked
poker
coolhu
cialis
incest
casino
dating
payday
rental
ambien
holdem
cialis
adipex
booker
youtube
myspace
advicer
flowers
finance
freenet
-online
shemale
meridia
cumshot
trading
adderall
gambling
roulette
top-site
mortgage
pharmacy
dutyfree
ownsthis
duty-free
insurance
ringtones
insurance
blackjack
hair-loss
bllogspot
baccarrat
thorcarlson
jrcreations
credit card
macinstruct
hydrocodone
leading-site
slot-machine
carisoprodol
ottawavalleyag
cyclobenzaprine
discreetordering
aceteminophen
augmentation
enhancement
phentermine
doxycycline
citalopram
cephalaxin
vicoprofen
lorazepam
oxycontin
oxycodone
percocet
propecia
tramadol
propecia
percocet
cymbalta
lunestra
fioricet
lesbian
lexapro
valtrex
titties
xenical
meridia
levitra
vicodin
ephedra
lipitor
breast
cyclen
viagra
valium
hqtube
ultram
clomid
cyclen
vioxx
zolus
pussy
porno
xanax
bitch
penis
pills
male
porn
dick
cock
tits
fuck
shit
gay
ass
gdf
gds

As mentioned, to use this list, just copy/paste into your Comment Moderation field and you’re done. Along the way, you may find that additional terms are needed, or that certain terms need removed. Feel free to tweak according to the specific needs of your site. It’s all good :)

A couple of notes about this blacklist:

The first five or so characters are effective at blocking 99% of nonsensical Russian spam.
The period/comma entries block a recent rash of spam that included these particular strings.
Most of the terms are highly specific to spam comments and should keep false positives at a minimum.
Even so, it is recommended that this custom blacklist be used as a “Comment Moderation” list and not as a “Comment Blacklist” in order to retain your ability to screen for false positives.
Additional terms are easily added by appending the list with the character string on its own line.
It would be great to build this blacklist up a little further. If you have your own distinct collection of terms, let me know and I will add them to the list.

Any questions/comments/concerns welcome in the comments area.

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Freebies – 15 High-Res Grungy Texturing Photoshop Brushes

RSSFeed — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:40:38 +0000

Today I’ve got some ‘Grungy Texturing’ Photoshop Brushes for yall. They are 15 high-quality grungy brushes great for texturing backgrounds, text, etc. While I know the ‘full blown’ grunge designs are dying down somewhat in popularity, these types of brushes and textures can be used on non-grunge related designs, to add subtle textures to backgrounds, give pieces a worn/old look, etc. So I’m hoping you can get a lot of use out of them! I’m attaching a preview of a few of the brushes below, but there are 15 total in the pack, with just about everyone being 2500px.

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How to display custom post types on your WordPress blog homepage

RSSFeed — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:38:41 +0000

The following code have to be pasted in your functions.php file. Once the file will be saved, it will work.
As you can see in the code, the post, page, album, movie, quote, and attachment types will be displayed. Modify that line to fit your own needs.

add_filter( 'pre_get_posts', 'my_get_posts' );

function my_get_posts( $query ) {
	if ( is_home() )
		$query->set( 'post_type',
        array( 'post', 'page', 'album',
        'movie', 'quote', 'attachment' ) );

	return $query;
}

Please note that custom post types are not available by default on WordPress 2.9. You could have a look there if you’re looking to implement that functionnality right now.

Credits goes to Justin Tadlock for this handy recipe!

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60+ Latest High-Quality Free WordPress Themes

RSSFeed — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 09:20:34 +0000

WordPress! is an award-winning CMS, which enables you to build Blogs, Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made WordPress the most popular blog software available. Best of all, WordPress is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.

There are hundreds of WordPress themes online waiting to be paid for. Some of them are worth it, some are not. Just because many of our followers decided to stay with Premium themes, that doesn’t mean Free Themes are ugly, cluttered, and boring.

In this showcase below, you’ll find a Excellent Collection of Fresh High-Quality Free WordPress Themes Around because We all know that we’re going to use our blog as a tool to promote our business, so we need to have a clean, professional, corporate look.

Please Notice that these themes is not arranged in any particular order so just scroll down and find your inspiration.

Also, Please visit their authors’ sites, available at the “Features” Link, to learn more about each of these themes in terms of various features including good usability, organization, attractive use of graphics, cross-genre appropriateness and even search engine optimization.

Latest High-Quality Free WordPress Themes Around

This is not the traditional long list with all the available WordPress themes on the internet but its an refined collection of best handpicked fresh free WordPress themes which was created with the online professional in mind as we also know that Personal blogs reflects the identity of each of us on the Internet. So, Let’s start with this compilation that every web developer, designer and freelancer should consider. Just make sure to read the license agreements and installation instruction carefully as they can change from time to time.