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Best Password Management Softwares for Free

Taimur Asghar — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 10:00:20 +0000

Remembering passwords, without a doubt, is one of the most difficult tasks. Passwords are the key to every valuable service you use on the web and they cannot be compromised. Forgetting your passwords result in time consuming retrieval, because you have to go through all the verification processes to get your password back. Of course, every problem has a solution. In this roundup we will share some of the best free password management software that you can use to store your passwords securely.

1. LastPass

A Quick Look:

Price: Free + Premium
Automatic Form Filling
Save Secure Notes
Available for almost every platform, browsers and mobile devices

Since 2008, LastPass have taken the process of securing and managing passwords to the next level. You just have to remember only one password (that of LastPass) and LastPass will remember all the passwords of every website or service you use. You will be provided with a LastPass Vault, in which you can store all of your passwords. Using LastPass is very simple, suppose that you want to save a new password in your vault, you don’t have to login to LastPass Vault and create a new password field, you just need to visit that specific website and login with you Username and Password, LastPass will automatically ask you whether you want to store the login information or not.

LastPass encrypts your sensitive information on your PC and only the Master Password can unlock it. LastPass has taken major steps to eliminate hacking and key logging risks with services like Automatic Password Generator, Virtual Keyboard facility and a One Click Login feature. It also supports features like sharing passwords with your friends without risk of phishing, importing/exporting your data, backing up and restoring it. You can access your data from anywhere in the world, you just need to have internet access. You get all of these features for FREE.

Moving on to LastPass Premium, one thing I love about LastPass is their very cheap and affordable Premium Plan. It costs only 1$ per month (billed annually) and you get LastPass applications for your iPhone, Blackberry, Android and all other mobile devices with a leading OS. All the features remain the same in the premium plan as they are in the free package, but you get an Ad-Free experience and an awesome application for your mobile devices. I personally use LastPass, so I strongly recommend it.

2. KeePass

A Quick Look:

No need to install
Offline password manager
Can run from USB and other portable drive
No browser integration

Keepass is a very small, free and OSI (Open Source Initiative) certified offline password manager. First thing you will need to do after the installation is to create a database and Composite Master Key (CMK), the CMK is the only password you will need to remember. However, if you forget your CMK, you can use a key file and a Windows user account to access your Keepass database. Key files can be created by Keepass and should be stored securely. If they get misplaced then the Keepass database and all the stored data will be gone. Just be careful while securing your key files.

KeePass offers a very secure Advance Encryption Standard (AES) and Twofish algorithm to encrypt it’s password database. It supports Multiple User Keys; only one master password decrypts the complete database. You can export your data to TXT, HTML, XML and CSV files and can import from many file formats. You can get these and many other small, but useful, features for free.

3. 1Password

Quick Look:

Cross Platform Browser Integration
Available for Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad and Android.
Professional Looking Interface.

1Password enables you to securely fill your username and password in a login form with only a few keystrokes and a single click. You can also create your identities, which can help you in filling web forms rapidly, for example; you can store multiple credit cards to simplify and speed up your online shopping for filling checkout forms with ease.

Mobile versions of 1Password are available for iOS and Android devices so that you can take your information with you. 1Password makes synchronization between your devices easy as you can use Dropbox for this purpose. Dropbox will create a folder on your computer; you just need to simply move your 1Password database to your Dropbox folder; which will be accessible from all the devices supporting Dropbox functionality. 1Password is free for 30 days and after that you can buy it for 29.95$.

4. RoboForm

A Quick Look:

Free and Pro Plans.
Save Passwords, Contacts, Bookmarks and Safenotes.
Cross Browser and Platform support.
Full USB portability.

RoboForm is a powerful cross-browser extension for managing your passwords and auto form filling. It is available in 30 international languages, offers full USB portability and mobile phone support. You can save your contacts, bookmarks and notes. RoboForm offers profiles which allow multiple users to use the same computer while securely keeping their RoboForm data separate.

RoboForm offers a great multiple login feature if you want to login to multiple websites at once, simple open your editor, ctrl+click on a few of your logins, then click “Batch Login” to login to all those sites simultaneously.

5. Sxipper

A Quick Look:

Firefox add-on
Form Filler
Manage OpenIDs
No account needed

Sxipper is a free Firefox add-on. It can keep track of an unlimited number of usernames and passwords, it can remember your personal data for accurate form filling and it recognizes OpenID forms and helps you manage your OpenIDs. Sxipper protects your personal data by keeping it secure on your computer system and if you want to share it online, you can easily retrieve it. No account is required, just install the plugin and it will begin to save your data automatically. It is available for Firefox only.

Which password manager do you use? Let us know! :)

50 Mind Shattering Design Agency Websites for Inspiration

Taimur Asghar — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 21:00:40 +0000

Website of a design company is most probably the top source to attract clients and customers, as first impression do count both professionally and personally. Target audience should be the focal point when you are going to design a design agencies’ website, by this you would know what kind of design your clients are expecting. Lets suppose if you are targeting corporate companies and firms then your web site should be master piece of professionalism. On the other hand, if you are going to attract any individual for personal resume or blog building then you can add some funkiness in your design. It is up to you are your intentions of what are you gonna convey to your visitors. Well today we have collected 50 design agency’s mouth-watering websites, reflecting their true passion and devotion towards what they do best, i.e. Designing.

1. 2Advanced Studios

2. 31Three

3. Addis Creson

4. AgencyNet 2.0

5. MASS APPEAL

6. Clearleft Ltd

7. Lounge Lizard

8. Target Scope

9. Teehan+Lax

10. CREAKTIF

11. Toko

12. Big Spaceship

13. pod1 Ecommerce Web Design Company

14. Uber

15. Hicksdesign

16. Art Street Design Studio

17. Thunk Incorportated

18. Marah Creative

19. Vgrafiks

20. Justalab

21. Creative Payne

22. Komrade

23. Amateur

24. Mooze Design

25. Birch Studio Ltd

26. Pixel Thread

27. Newcastle & Sydney Web Design

28. Digital Pulp

29. Reactive

30. Springfield Mo Web Design

31. GRAFIK

32. Fluffco

33. Woodpile Studios

34. Goldbach Interactive

35. Rullkötter AGD

36. Fastspot

37. Penny Lane Graphics

38. Bodhi Oser

39. fusionlab

40. Rose Design

41. Opus Creative

42. Mega pro design

43. INDEED

44. MOSAIQ MEDIA

45. Bento Box

46. Form one

47. Design Coordinators

48. Cabedge

49. Second2

50. l’ambiance design

60 Lovely & Elegant Wedding Invitations for Inspiration

Taimur Asghar — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 21:00:57 +0000

Wedding is once in a lifetime event and every couple wants to make it perfect from top to bottom. First thing the visitor will ever receive is the wedding invitation, elegantly designed wedding invitation can help your guests in experiencing the big day before it happens. Invitation card designers also try to give every thing they got to make wedding an extremely special occasion. Today we have collected 60 splendid wedding invitations for your inspiration having unique, elegant and bewitching crafting. Enjoy.

1. Wedding invitation by Aitor and Amaia

2. Wedding Invitation by Anthony Lazaro

3. Wedding invitation by Carmen Ruiz

4. Wedding Invitation by Chris Trivizas

5. Wedding Invitation by Gaius and Nadia

6. Wedding Invitation by Jose Luis Maldonado Quintero

7. Wedding invitation by Josef Heigl

8. Wedding Invitation by Leandro Bulkool

9. Wedding invitation by Maria Simova

10. Wedding Invitation by Rudi de Wet

11. Wedding Invitation by Ryan Myers

12. Wedding invitation by Samantha Wiely

13. Wedding Invitation by Sylvie Gosselin

14. Wedding invitation of Chema and Marga

15. Wedding invitation of Imanol and Arianne

16. Wedding Invitations by Adam Elwell

17. Wedding Invitations by Jeremiah Shaw

18. Wedding Invitations by Kosal Sen

19. Wedding invite by Aleksander Blücher

20. Wedding Invite by Sophia Tarasova

21. Wedding Invites by Matthew Muller

22. White rabbit

23. Yellow and black damask invite

24. Vintage ribbon

25. Vintage garden wedding invitations

26. The Perfect Match

27. Tea Towel Design

28. Tarjetas de Nuestra Boda

29. Sydney Wedding Invites

30. Steamside Wedding Invitation

31. Palais letterpress wedding invitation

32. My wedding invite by Bogdan

33. My wedding invitations by Fabiland Fabiola Ibañez

34. My wedding invitation by Branimir Sabljic

35. Modern Damask

36. Minimalistic Wedding Invitations

37. Melissa & Lance’s Invite

38. Love Sweet Love

39. Letterpress Wedding Savedate

40. Letterpress invitation

41. Leah DeAnne’s Wedding Invitations

42. Lamanda & Reva

43. Lace/Recycled Wedding Invitations

44. Kelly and Jonathan Wedding Invitations

45. Jennifer Rose

46. Invitation by Garrett Olinger

47. I Do’s Wedding Invitation

48. Green wedding invitation designs

49. Gold Wedding Invitations

50. Genna + Clark Wedding Suite

51. Garden Party

52. Dave & Rebecca’s Wedding card

53. Dancing Dots

54. Damask Wedding Suite

55. Crete

56. Courtney & Ryan’s Save-the-Date

57. Branding Wedding

58. Branding my wedding by Nestor Urdanpilleta

59. Ashley + Kevin Letterpress Wedding Invitations

60. 11 Luglio

450+ Cool Photoshop Lens Flare and Glow Brushes

Taimur Asghar — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:00:14 +0000

Lens flare and glow effects have their own significance in photo editing and designing. Every design needs some sort of light effect in one way or another whether it is sparkles, glows, glitters or lens flare . Best and time effective method to add these effects is by using Photoshop brushes. Today we have collected more than 450 brushes to add high-quality lens flare and glow effect in your photos. Happy editing!

1. 20 High Resolution Photoshop Lens Flare Brushes

(20 Brushes)

2. 25 High Resolution Photoshop Brushes

(25 Brushes)

3. Fantasy Lighting Brush

(19 Brushes)

4. Flare Brushes by LadyVictoire

(5 Brushes)

5. Flare Brushes 2 by LadyVictoire

(5 Brushes)

6. Flare Brushes 3 by LadyVictoire

(5 Brushes)

7. Flare Brushes 4 by LadyVictoire

(6 Brushes)

8. Starwalt LensFlare Brushes

(4 Brushes)

9. Flare and Stash Brushes

(28 Brushes)

10. Flare Brushes by DothackersDaichi

(9 Brushes)

11. 5 Lens Flare Brushes by LubbneLudde

(5 Brushes)

12. Lens Flare Brushes by Neonescence

(6 Brushes)

13. Lensflare Brush by artspell

(2 Brushes)

14. Galactic Brushes

(14 Brushes)

15. Lens Flare by PeterPlastic

(10 Brushes)

16. Lens Flare Brushes

(5 Brushes)

17. Lensflare BR

(9 Brushes)

18. extremelyABSTRAC

(20 Brushes)

19. Photoshop Stars and Sparkles

(14 Brushes)

20. Light Brush Set

(15 Brushes)

21. Particle Sparks Brush Pack

(16 Brushes)

22. Rise Brushes

(10 Brushes)

23. Ultimate Brush Pack No.3

(80 Brushes)

24. Life Brushes

(8 Brushes)

25. Darius Brushes

(11 Brushes)

26. Comet Brushes

(4 Brushes)

27. Resound Brushes

(8 Brushes)

28. Bluyow Brushes

(5 Brushes)

29. Refresh Brushes

(7 Brushes)

30. Unreal Brushes

(8 Brushes)

31. Brushes Pack 2 by rubina119

(18 Brushes)

32. Ryrax’s Sparkle-Shiny Brushes

(15 Brushes)

33. Abstract Brushes 2 by rubina119

(4 Brushes)

34. Abstract Glow

(5 Brushes)

35. Glow Brushes I by hawksmont

(11 Brushes)

36. Genisis Brushes

(14 Brushes)

37. Abstract Brushes Vol 3 by rubina119

(7 Brushes)

38. Quantum Brushes

(9 Brushes)

39. Redo Brushes

(8 Brushes)

40. Fly Brushes

(5 Brushes)

Get Inspired: 50 Awesome Examples of Minimal Typography

Taimur Asghar — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 10:00:57 +0000

Typography is an art, not just simple art but combination of different typefaces merged into graphics to provide a bewitching output, which is without any doubt an Art. When minimalistic designing approach is integrated with composition of type, output can be jaw-dropping. Today we are featuring 50 examples of minimalistic typography designs for inspiration, most probably they will make your jaw-drop.

1. Feelin’ It

2. Focus

3. Give Life A Chance

4. Happy Birthday

5. Make Good Typo

6. Make Clever Simple and Simple Clever

7. Love to suck

8. Johnny Kon

9. HelveticaLove

10. Hello you asshole

11. Hell Yeah!

12. Happy Birthday America

13. Remember

14. Minimo

15. More fish

16. Morrison Solid

17. Mother Nature

18. My valentines

19. Portfolio Cover

20. Pretty Sure

21. Progressive

22. Red

23. Ron Paul is Truth

24. Schleife

25. Sliyanie

26. Spam

27. Sweet nothings

28. The Dots

29. The plan

30. Type Veteran

31. TypoConcept

32. Untitled

33. USA

34. Words of love

35. 24 × 42 grid

36. A little Birdie told me.

37. Act Like Big City Kids

38. This is Art

39. Art is form and content

40. ArteMISIA

41. Cheap

42. Cleavantage

43. Computer Arts

44. Contains

45. Ding

46. Do

47. Dracula book cover

48. Driven

49. Dual

50. Everything

50 Stunning Fashion Website Designs for Inspiration

Taimur Asghar — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 21:00:52 +0000

Fashion is all about appearance, how you come out to whole world with your dressing and style. Fashion designers are always in struggle to make you look better and make you an inspiration for other people. But to do so they have to look good and be an inspiration for their customers. Nowadays they use bewitching and captivating fashion e-commerce sites to inspire and attract customers. Beautiful design and attractive photography displayed ham the sale up by large number. Today we are featuring 50 stunningly bewitching fashion design websites for your inspiration.

1. Ecko Unlimited

2. Marc Ecko

3. Rivaldi Fashion

4. ENYCE

5. Ed Hardy

6. Poppin Tags

7. Levi’s

8. Dolce&Gabbana

9. Victoria’s Secret

10. Sean John

11. Gucci

12. Calvin Klein

13. LACOSTE

14. HUGO BOSS

15. Mulberry

16. Giorgio Armani

17. PRADA

18. Wallis

19. The Vestry

20. DSW

21. ASOS

22. TOMMY HILFIGER

23. BCBGMAXAZRIA

24. Ralph Lauren

25. ShoeGuru

26. Rugby Ralph Lauren

27. Miss Selfridge

28. Jungstil

29. New York & Company

30. Myla UK

31. Burberry

32. Armani Exchange

33. Closed

34. Abercrombie & Fitch

35. Coast UK

36. Anna Scholz

37. Free People

38. Bridge55

39. Nordstrom

40. my-wardrobe.com

41. Lizclaiborne

42. Fred Perry

43. Lyle & Scott

44. Temperley London

45. Piazza Sempione

46. Whistles

47. NET-A-PORTER.COM

48. Paul Smith

49. Aquascutum

50. Mode

35+ Inspiring Websites With Vector Landscapes

Taimur Asghar — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:00:36 +0000

Using vector based illustration in web design is a thrilling way to express beauty and grace to whole layout. There are plenty of websites featuring stunning illustration because using illustrations in web designs is a trend these days. Today, we have collected those web designs who are using illustrations to spice up their sites. Let’s get started.

1. RedBrick Health

2. Studio 7

3. Blogsville

4. ‘m Yehya Hafez

5. Digital Billboards in Abilene

6. PSD to WP

7. Morphix Design Studio

8. Pralinenschachtel

9. Boagworld

10. Goin Nutty

11. ThePixel

12. Tomáš Pojeta

13. Arbel Designs

14. Twither

15. FFive

16. Forrst

17. Goralskidomek

18. Morphix Blog

19. BWM Media

20. Safe Driving Academy

21. Vimeo

22. 10 Volt Media

23. Flourish Web Design

24. BlogHelpr

25. Wasp School of Motoring

26. Gotta Get To FOWA

27. BioWind

28. Pinjata

29. Galaicofolia

30. Volll

31. IL FRUTTETO

32. Moshi Monsters

33. GlobalZoo

34. DeanOakley

35. Go Glamping

36. Ten24Media

37. Plaváček

50 Advanced HTML5 Demos to show It’s Power

Taimur Asghar — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 10:00:07 +0000

Flash vs HTML5 is one of the hottest topic today , but we are not getting in the argument of which is superior to other and which is not. Flash will always be an awesome choice for rich content web applications and games same as HTML5 in developing cool animations and simple gaming applications unless some major development to be made in future years.

Today we have collected 50 awesome HTML5 demos to show its potential.

1. Tunneler

2. JuicyDrop

3. Magnetic

4. Trail

5. Sinuous

6. DDD

7. Harmony

8. Lines go all over the place.

9. Chrome Canopy

10. Ball Pool

11. Chain Reaction

12. Entanglement

13. Blob

14. Biolab Disaster

15. Google Gravity

16. Core

17. Gartic

18. HTML5 Video Destruction

19. The tristan washing machine

20. Changing Background

21. HTML5 Drum Kit

22. Dynamic Content Injection

23. Geolocation

24. Video for Everybody!

25. Projekktor Zwei

26. ContentEditable

27. Drag and drop

28. Canvas Photo

29. 360° MP3 player

30. JaVortex

31. 3D Model Viewer

32. 3D Landscape on HTML5 canvas

33. Stalk Buttons

34. JavaScript Fireworks

35. Blob Sallad

36. SublimeVideo

37. Catch it!

38. Breakout Clone

39. Sketchpad

40. Simple Drag and Drop

41. CanvasPaint

42. Monster

43. Making waves with html5

44. Starfield

45. The mesmerizer

46. Bomomo

47. Canvas Nebula

48. Liquid Particles

49. Moving Cloth in HTML5

50. CanvasMol

30+ Fresh Icon Sets for Web Designers and Developers

Taimur Asghar — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 21:00:07 +0000

Overlooking the importance of icons in web designing is a noobish activity as they not only enhance the elegance of website but they also make it more user-friendly providing easy navigation through different content of a website. Finding free high-quality icons from sea of icon resources available is very difficult and time consuming task but don’t worry, as today we have collected 35 fresh free icon sets for designers and developers and tried to save you some time.

1. Adouble

2. Social Media Balloons

3. High-res browser logos

4. 10 Free Useful Icons for Designers

5. 20 Free Marker-Style Icons

6. Vector Social Media Icons

7. Ultimate Social Network Icons

8. Twitter Icons

9. Thinking Networks Icon 2

10. Fidelity

11. 100 free icons Weby Icon Set

12. Social Store Icon Set

13. RETRO Style Icons

14. Stock Icon Set

15. P6 Orb iconpack Black

16. Shanyin icon set

17. Icons Social snow

18. Web Cartoon

19. FREE Web Icons

20. PixelFun

21. Sketchy Icons v 1.2

22. 44 Icon for Web-Design & Software

23. Tango Icons

24. Free Web Application Icons Set

25. Dusk

26. Fugue Icons

27. Cyberpipe icons

28. Web 2.0rigami

29. Free icons 3 by Andy3ds

30. Quartz Icon Pack

31. Glyphish

32. Mate BW social icons

33. Shine

34. 15 Free Origami Icons

35. Box Icons

40 Informative Blogs For Developers and Designers

Taimur Asghar — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 10:00:56 +0000

If you are a web designer and you are looking for resources, inspirations, designing tutorials or want to keep yourself updated with the current trends in this field then you don’t need to worry because Internet is full of blogs related to web designing. You will find a huge number of blogs featuring tips, tricks and how-to’s on daily basis. Today we have collected 40 awesomely informative blogs which will bring out the best designer from you. Make sure to follow all these for updates on latest trends in designing industry.