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Best of Free Softwares for Web Designer and Blogger

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In this post I have put together this guide with just a few examples of some great softwares. Each example is totally free to download and install for your own personal use. Designing websites is a very difficult job and requires the right set of tools. This article may not contain everything you need, but I’m hoping to share these resources as a starting point for web designers on a budget.

Lots of freeware is available on the Internet for download. You can find programs for Linux, OSX and Windows for designing and coding websites. Unfortunately not everybody has the money for premium software or the time to learn the interfaces.

Notepad ++

I think a lot of you know about Notepad++ since it has been mentioned in so many articles. This is a fantastic piece of open source software which supports a number of programming languages. Even aside from backend web development you can build full software applications in Java or C++, the list of syntax features is enormous. This software is an excellent alternative to Dreamweaver or some other higher-end IDEs.

Smultron

The Smultron text editor is a program built for Mac OS X and mobile iOS devices. The software has syntax highlighting features which include over 90 different languages. You can also create new documents stored in your iCloud account to retrieve from any computer. This is one rich IDE to grab right off the Mac App Store and it’s great for perfect coding.

FileZilla

Web designers and Bloggers will both need to use FTP access at some point. You can’t publish a website without pushing the files onto a server. Luckily there are a couple open source FTP programs which most webmasters can follow, and FileZilla is the big choice for Windows users.

Cyberduck

On the Mac OS X Cyberduck is definitely the best free FTP software. You can grab the app right from the Mac App Store on your computer. It is also available for Windows users as well, if you feel that FileZilla just isn’t enough.

Inkscape

This is a very good graphics editors which is perfect for upcoming web designers. Inkscape is an open source project for working with vector graphics. You could think of this as the free alternative to Adobe Illustrator supported on Windows, Linux, and Mac.

GIMP

GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program. This software interface and all the typical tools involved with image editing. GIMP can do every things as like as Photoshop with out spending a panny! GIMP runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac. I personally use and recommend GIMP.

From the Editor

I am hoping this guide can offer a division for both designers and Bloggers. After all, to create any good website you will need both pieces of the puzzle. Smile :)

Tools to Optimize Images for the Web

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This time I have some tools for you to reduce your image size for the web. Since images can be pretty heavy, this is certainly an issue to keep an eye on. And this is why today we gathered some links here to show you some tools that will help you with this 'Image Size' issue. Even if you are a pro at 'saving as better quality jpg' it is always nice to check out some tools (old or new) to have you covered when it is time to optimize images.

List of Useful Tools

TinyPNG
TinyPNG uses smart lossy compression techniques to reduce the file size of your PNG files.

Smush.it
Smush.it uses loseless optimization techniques specific to image format to remove unnecessary bytes from image files.

OptiPNG
OptiPNG is a PNG optimizer that recompresses image files to a smaller size, without losing any information of file.

ImageOptim
ImageOptim optimizes images- so they take up less disk space and load faster- by finding best compression parameters and by removing unnecessary comments and color profiles. It handles PNG, JPEG and GIF animations.

Usefull Plugins

jQuery Lazyload
Lazy Load delays loading of images in long web pages. Images outside of viewport wont be loaded before user scrolls to them. This is opposite of image preloading.

Using Lazy Load on long web pages containing many large images makes the page load faster. Browser will be in ready state after loading visible images. In some cases it can also help to reduce server load.

From the Editor

I hope you like this Article and enjoyed. Now you might have some useful tools to optimize your Image and make it load faster. Smile :)

Best Finance Apps for iPad iOS

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iPad 4 is developed by Apple Inc. The fourth-generation iPad was released on November 2, 2012 It has all the same basic features like iPad 3, like Retina display, HD camera, but this new i-Pad is faster in every way.

Fourth-generation iPad ran on a new A6X chip ,which provides double speed and graphics performance of its predecessor. Apple's iPad 4 charges quicker than iPads 3. This iPad has new adapter, deliver 12 watts in comparison with previous iPad adapters supply 10 watts. These two watts will save you 30- 45 minutes the charge time, according to IGM. iPad-4 owners will use “ultrafast” Wi-Fi that doubles the speed of the previous model.

Apps in iPad 4 will help you to run your business in a convenient way. Here are some of the useful financial apps for iPad 4 to help you:

Wall Street Journal

Is a respected and widespread daily. It's no wonder Wall Street Journal's app is high-grade. Rather than being a quick text-to-screen hash job, a great deal of attention has clearly been put into turning it into an excellent iPad translation. There are many pages, with videos, slideshows and other media, which alive when you touch the screen. It will help you to keep the track of financial events.

EasyBooks (Free)

Is perfect for small companies and busy people. This useful app keeps list of your bank accounts, expenses and profits, sales and purchases, assets…You can get financial reports from your bank accounts or credit cards, such as audit report, an accounting report a balance sheet, income and losses reports…

Expensify (Free)

Is a great app. It tracks expenditure monthly from your credit card and bank accounts. Expensify classify your expenses into groups and you can get a detailed report for each of these groups. This app even give you possibility to understand how to save money.

PocketMoney

Is a personal financial manager. 'budget bar' panel will show your costs, divided into categories. Thus, you will see exactly for what and how much you have spent each month. PocketMoney help you to monitor, presenting all your financial situation- your savings, deals, accounts, operations, investments. The latest version of PocketMoney has been met with absolutely positive reviews.

Bloomberg for iPad (Free)

Is perfectly well presented. It will be useful for traders and professionals. You will keep the track of events, happening in your industry.

iCurrency Pad

Is a necessary financial tool, especially if you regularly face to foreign currencies. This app presents you beautiful graphs with trending data. Information is concise, accurate and easily used.

Time Master

Tracks the time and make out an invoice. This app is one of the most popular time managers. It is irreplaceable for businessmen. Time Master helps you to track your time despite of interruptions in working.

Numbers

Is a chart with 250 functions and 16 patterns, including issuing of an invoice and scheduling. You can see your figures in spreadsheet or export Excel chart to other people.

About the Author:
This article was written by Anna Lia. guest blogger from Chisinau, MD. She is now writing for FastLoanTree.com

Must have wordpress plugins for Bloggers.

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WordPress is currently the leading Blog publishing platform in the planet powering more than 16% of website worldwide and more than 60% market share in CMS distribution. Because WordPress is simple, easy to use and also easy to setup.

However, being “easy to use” is not enough, sometimes we need functionality more than that WordPress has by default. So, In this post, we have listed 10 must have WordPress essential plugins that you should install and activate to power up your website.

Jetpack

It is packed with a bunch of plugins you will ever need for running your WordPress-based website; Stat, Spelling and Grammar,Shortcode, Sharing, Contact etc. If you don’t need one of the functionality, you can simply deactivate it.

Revision Control

This plugin extends the built-in WordPress revision functionality. It allows us to limit the number of revisions and it also displays a finer side-by-side revision comparison.

WordPress SEO

If you concern on your website rank in search engine, especially Google, then you need to WordPress SEO. It will help us improve almost every aspect in our website to gain better rank, from the title, internal link, keyword, snippet, and many more.

W3 Total Cache

W3 Total Cache, stated as The most complete WordPress performance framework. It will improve your website performance and user experience by optimizing the page cache, database, minify CSS and JavaScript, CDN and connecting to CloudFlare.

WP-Cleanup

This plugin will cleanup your WordPress database from unused data.

Akismet

Akismet is a very effective plugin to prevent and combat comment spam.

Better WP Security

This plugin will improve your site security by hardening every aspect that WordPress lack of and patch vulnerabilities.

Backup

All websites are vulnerable to attack without exception. So you need a backup for your website, just in case some days your site will be one of the victims of the attack. This plugin, Backup, will help you to do the job easily, it allows us to backup all our website assets as well as the database to Google Drive periodically (daily, weekly or monthly).

WordPress Analytic for WordPress

This plugin, WordPress Analytic for WordPress, will help you connect your site to Google Analytic easily with some additional advanced feature to get the most of your users activity in your website.

Feedburner Stat

With this plugin, we can grab data of our subscribers see the graph right from the back-end of our website.

5 Handwritten Style Google Web Fonts for your Blog

Category: Fonts , Top List 0 Comments

A good webfont is hard to find. I’m extremely picky when it comes to this particular area of typefaces and tend to hate most of what I see. With this post, you can skip the work of sorting through the crap and cut straight to the awesome webfonts that are readable, attractive and perfect for your site.

All of the fonts are shown with a unique CSS treatment and provided with code for your instant implementation. They’re also all served up with Google Web Fonts so you’ll be up and running with a quick copy and paste, no downloads required!

Oleo Script

A nice thick script webfont with good readability and interesting letter shapes. Perfect for headlines.

Lobster Two

Lobster needs no introduction, it has become one of the most ubiquitous scripts on the planet in the last few years. Version two gives you the choice between bold and thin versions.

Berkshire Swash

I really love the ornamental nature of this typeface, the letters are big, bold and beautifully curvy. Use this if you want to convey an old world feel.

Merienda One

Merienda isn’t my favorite but it certainly has its uses. The letters have a brushed feeling with sharp directionality that conveys motion well.

Pacifico

Pacifico is just a great, round and loopy script that really has a unique feel to it. It’s hard to find a thick script with such nice curves and so much character so be sure to bookmark this one.

More Handwritten Google Webfonts

There you have it, five awesome hand written fonts served up and ready to implement. The Google Web Font library has well over a hundred of these but so many of them really aren’t worth using at all so hopefully this article will help you.

What's The Best Antivirus for Gamers in iOS?

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Internet is the vast source of information where you can get the data by the single click. But make sure that the data comes from the valid site which is free from viruses. Antivirus is a must to protect your devices from the harmful viruses such as Trojan horse, malwares and spyware that may even crash your operating system. These viruses mostly enter into your devices through downloaded files, emails or by accessing the websites.

There are many gaming antivirus software’s available in the market for iOS such as:

Netquin Antivirus

It is designed in order to protect gaming devices from viruses. It guarantees full protection against the malware and spyware. It provides safety for information restricting the access from the fraud sites. This application can not only identify the viruses but can also destroy them instantly. It can automatically identify the malicious games and provide warning messages and alerts to the gamers.

Avast mobile Antivirus

It is the top rated antivirus which can be freely downloaded to protect your devices. It gives full protection to your system as it contains different protection layers. This software is well-built which is free from security threats. This can be easily installed and this intelligent scanner can block all the harmful worms entering into the system.

K7 antivirus

This antivirus provides real-time protection. As soon as you access the games on the internet it automatically scans those sites and blocks the fraud sites. It regularly updates the security information where the gamers have full control of the device. The cost of the software’s varies from version to version. Once the program code is accessed the program cannot run on other systems. Unlike other software’s it cannot support multiple devices.

Avira

This is available in both free and paid versions that offer a better user interface. With two clicks the program can be installed which provides the same protection level as other antivirus without any difficulties. This toolbar promises the secure web search and does instant scans when required. It gives timely updates to upgrade the application for its safe functioning.

Norton

It is an efficient antivirus that keeps you safe from malware. It is the popular software which satisfied millions of users with its instant results. Apart from performing the malware test, this can even detect suspicious files from the huge database. This doesn’t occupy large memory and it does the background scans as soon as you switch on the device.

Apart from these best antivirus there are many software’s like shampoo, command, quick heal which has the same functionality of safeguarding your system. Shop intelligently to get the best package that serves your purpose.

Author Bio:
My name is Emily. I am a tech writer from UK. I am into Finance. Catch me @financeport. If you run short of money take same day cash loans that offers instant cash without any credit check.

Some awesome Icon Fonts to replace Image Icons

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An icon font is simply a font where the characters are icons instead of letters. This provides you with the benefit of resizability, and they are pretty stylish too. Icon fonts have become pretty prevalent in usage amongst web designers because:

1. They are user friendly: certain symbols and shapes can go a long way to showing a user how to use web pages.
2. They are easy to use: once you include the appropriate files in your HTML icon fonts are really easy to use. Normally you have to upload various versions of icon images, but with icon fonts it’s just as easy as typing
3. They are clean: you don’t need icon sets anymore, with CSS and an icon font you can accomplish almost anything!
4. They are smaller: pages will load faster since you’ll be using less images, especially if your website needs to be compatible with a bunch of different devices.

Example

With a regular image icon you might have a little trouble getting it to look right in smaller or bigger sizes. Using icon fonts this problem completely disappears. Ever wish that your icons were a slightly different color? Just use the CSS color property to change the color of your icons. You can even add shadows or use any other text alterations that CSS provides.

Best Icon Fonts

There are a lot of icon font sets out there now, so below I have compiled some of the best. Some of them are free, others are not, but they are usually pretty cheap anyway.

Top 4 free Antivirus Apps for Android OS

Category: Android , Top List 0 Comments

Android's increasing popularity has led to increased growth of malware and security threats. Here we are going to provide you Best 4 Free Best Antivirus for Android Phone to make your device very secure and prevent from dangerous virus attacks.

Avast Mobile Security

Avast Free Mobile Security has emerged as one of the most complete security apps for Android.This antivirus Protect personal data with automatic virus scans and infected-URL alerts. Stop hackers by adding a firewall (rooted phones). Control anti-theft features with remote SMS commands for: history wipe, phone lock, siren activation, GPS tracking, audio monitoring, and many other useful tools.

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Lookout Mobile Security & Antivirus

Lookout Security & Antivirus is the first security application for android. This mobile antivirus for android monitors all the functions and scans the data in daily/ weekly basis.

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AVG Anti-Virus

AVG Anti-Virus offers amazing features like malware protection, a real-time AV scanner, backup assistant, task killer, app locker, local device wipe and phone locator.

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Dr.Web Anti-Virus

This is the most lightweight application of the anti-virus group. It has a highly efficient virus scanner, But there are certain features like call blocking, spam protection, data backup and some other features which are missing.

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More Free Antivirus

- Zoner Antivirus
- ESET Antivirus
- NQ Mobile Security & Antivirus
- Norton Security and Antivirus

Top 10 programming languages

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What’s your favorite programming language? JavaScript? C++? Or are you aligned with the Python camp? Either way, you have a favorite language that you just prefer working in. It can have a big effect on the overall development ecosystem as more popular languages get more support from larger players like Google and Facebook. That’s why it’s super important to track programming language popularity over time.

RedMonk is one of the many analysis firms that tracks the popularity of programming languages. They look at the popularity of languages on GitHub and StackOverflow. They found that language popularity tends to correlate between the two. That still seems to be the case with both sources returning JavaScript as the victor.

Top 10 programming languages

1. JavaScript
2. Java
3. PHP
4. Python
5. Ruby
6. C#
7. C++
8. C
9. Objective-C
10. Shell

The guys at RedMonk go on to say that the top languages rarely change that much. It’s far more interesting to look at the turmoil happening in the lower rankings in the top 20. Over the past two years, many languages have dropped multiple ranks as other languages like Visual Basic 5 and ASP come into favor.

For comparison, the TIOBE Index is listing C as the most popular programming language in use at the moment. TIOBE bases their rankings off of the number of skilled engineers, courses and third party vendors that cater to a specific language.

Both rankings are a good idea of how the popularity of programming languages are evolving. RedMonk’s rankings are far more interesting, however, because they look at the popularity on GitHub.

5+ Elegant Fonts for Your Website or Blog

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Every now and then we look around, select fresh high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is massive, so the time you need to find them is usually time you should be investing in your current projects. We search for them and find them so that you don’t have to. Here are Elegant High-Quality Fonts for Your Designs.