It is hard to imagine the whole effect that might occur as the result of the union two successful Google’s products – Chromium browser and Android OS. Though we have found the way to do that by showcasing the five amazing software synergies – these are Chrome extensions that would help you to create a strong connection between your browser and an Android-based mobile device. Mobile web is rapidly moving forward delivering more excellent opportunities and pushing the standards to the limits.
Most of these Chrome extensions will help you to synchronize your mobile web surfing experience with Chrome browsing and you’ll feel that there is no difference between these technically distinct processes. One of the best apps that any Android fan would love to have is the QR code generator that allows you to create the code for Android from any URL (pretty impressive, ins’t it?).
We believe that these 5 apps are only the first step in the global process of the synergy between Chrome and Android and in the nearest future we will have a chance to try out more excellent software masterpieces from the Google’s development wizards. So, let’s start our small showcase and feel free to share your own extensions that should be included into this list.
This extension lets you push links, maps, and a currently selected text and phone numbers to your Android device. Requires a mobile phone running Android 2.2 (“Froyo”) or later.
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Synchronize bookmarks between your browser and your Android phone’s bookmarks. Remember that you shoud have PhoneMarks Android application installed on your phone.
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Those of you who believe in wonders know quite well that they happen once a year on Christmas holidays. This is the time when all people are waiting for the forthcoming celebrations and start dreaming about the wonders. Even those rationalists who accept life as it is, turn into people with glowing hearts who are waiting for Christmas miracles. What can be more exciting than the festive spirit of these days? But this spirit can’t appear from nowhere, we can try our best and create it ourselves. That’s why we start preparations beforehand in order to bring this enchanting mood into our houses and hearts. Traditional holiday attributes help us to bring the Chrismas mystery into reality and that’s why we are looking for them every year. I have decided to share this wonderful Christmas mood with you and present you this magnificent collection of Christmas 3D Models. Let’s enjoy them together!
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Title: X-Mas
Author: Philipp Kratzer
Software: CINEMA 4D
Portfolio here
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Title: Christmas Present
Author: Anatole Branch
Software: 3ds max, Photoshop
Portfolio here
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The main question of every politician is how to win the attention of his or her audience. To find the answer for this question means to succeed in this sphere. Online web presence oriented at your targeted audience is one more chance to get the attention of like-minded people. Today’s Free Politics Website Template from TemplateMonster will help to keep your name or the name of your political party in mind.
Today we can notice the growing popularity of the online web presences of various political organizations. And now more than ever the attention should be given to their design concepts. Professionally done template can serve as an excellent solution for the future successful political website where everyone can discuss the latest political events from all sides. Create your online project on the base of this Free Politics Website Template and speak to your audience effectively!
This template is presented in 5 pages: Main, Biography, News, Program, Contacts. Its resolution is 1024 x 768. This one and larger resolutions are statistically in great demand among users. It can be delivered in two packages – with PSD source files included and without them. If you need PSD source files, please go to the template download page at TemplateMonster to leave the e-mail address that you want the free template ZIP package to be delivered to.
Free Politics Website Template:
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and here is 3D Model from this free website template:
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Yo-ho-ho guys! Chilly and joyful holiday spirit is in the air and it means that it is time to have fun! We’ve noticed all these madness about the Android software and if you are the lucky owner of the mobile device that runs Android OS than you are in a right place! Our team thought that it would be great to cheer you up with some Christmas goodies and what can be better than free games for your mobile phone? And here you are – a list of some extremely popular and totally free games that are worth being played this Christmas. Of course we are always glad to hear your opinion because, you know, there can never be too much of good free games! Well, take care now and Merry forthcoming X-Mas!
If you think that Christmas spirit will melt the hearts of those mighty flying animals you are wrong. Angry Birds now fly even faster and they are ready to crush their enemies till the end!
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You must help to get rid of those annoying moles by bashing them on the head with various weapons. Use your finger to control the weapon and let’s get this party started right now.
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Let’s keep up with the series of free icons that allow for broad use for design on the web. Recently we’ve composed a list of 40 Free Website Usability Icon Sets, now you can discover a brand new set that embraces a compilation of several target categories including eCommerce, sport, music, food, medicine and a number of other purposes. These free icons are a good way to enhance your web project and to create a more customized appearance within a website interface. They will get you rolling on your web design with all the necessary basics like categories, product assortment, navigation buttons, banners, ads and much more. With a vast amount of icon styles and shapes, you’re sure to find something that tickles your fancy.
eCommerce Icons
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Wish to find some decent alternative to a well-trodden Adobe Photoshop? Then try GIMP that is a completely free and very powerful program that can replace pretty much every function of Photoshop. GIMP or the GNU Image Manipulation Program is an open source digital image retouching, painting, compositing, and editing application. Now we’ve handpicked 40 useful tutorials from the Gimp community to help in your own learning of GIMP awesome facilities. But initially, head over to the official GIMP website, grab the latest version of GIMP software for free, and use it to get almost everything what can be done inside of pricey Photoshop application. You’ll be amazed at how many fascinating things can be created with ease in GIMP. Now let’s get started to pick up something new by watching through a bunch of these quality GIMP tutorials!
Photo Manipulation
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Alright now fellows, are you ready for the next portion of web design goodies that we have prepared for you? I bet you are and now it is time to talk about some extremely useful time savers. Being one of the best web browsers Google Chrome keeps moving forward by gaining more and more awesome extensions. This move can be easily accepted as a wide-front offense to the Firefox’s reserves because we all know that Firefox has gained its army of devoted fans due to the huge choice of various extensions.
Google Chrome developers have decided not to invent anything new and to build extensions that have already become extremely popular for Firefox for the Chrome users as well. We must admit that this is a very effective strategy because well-known and proven extensions don’t need any extra promotion. Of course it doesn’t mean that you won’t find anything new at the Google Chrome extensions directory – there are plenty of useful new stuff there but you’ve got to be ready to see many familiar extensions.
The Web Developer might be familiar for you because there is a similar extension for Firefox. This is a great tool that adds a toolbar button to the browser with various web developer stuff. So if you stuck to Firefox just because of this software than this is your chance for migration.
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Web developers may find really useful our next extensions that helps to search programming language and API reference documentation. If you ever faced with such kind of activity than you’ll understand all benefits of this little extension.
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For your design enhancement related needs, we’ve made a compilation of free web icon sets containing all of the basic foundation icons needed for almost any kind of professional and complete projects. Webmasters may use them for navigation, menu tabs or whatever thing they need to pop, and that could highly increase the usability of the user interface by providing important visual cues. Plus, these attractive icons, having been incorporated, can significantly improve the overall look and add a certain personality to the design. Note again that all of the featured icons are available free to grub. Right after the jump there is a full preview of some of the most beautiful icon sets that you can use while designing a website, blog or web application. You may as well suggest some other useful web icons you have found.
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Alright folks, Black Friday is here and long-awaited event that excites hearts of the shopaholics all around the USA is in a full swing right now. Cyber Monday will also be here soon and it is time to prepare your advertising tools for this great eCommerce holiday. There is no doubt that banners were and will be one of the most powerful marketing tools and if you want to deliver your message to the target audience – banners will be the right option for you.
Today we are going to share with you some tips that will help you use the power of the banners wisely and increase your ROI instantly because you should never underestimate CTR and other indexes that can correlate your marketing plan and current campaigns. So, let’s start and of course we would be really glad to hear your thoughts and essential suggestions.
- Call to Action!
We all know the importance of this tip and you should never be afraid to use it. This is an essential part of any advertising campaign and when your advertising spot calls client to make a move, to click it, to take a look or even to buy it – it means that you are moving in a right direction.
- Use Colors Wisely
As we’ve mentioned in one of our previous posts – Charmed by Colors – the eCommerce secrets – you can effectively use the color scheme of your banner to achieve positive result in your campaign.
- Animation
You should always bear in the mind that your banner is competing with other elements of the website and animation helps to make it more eye-catching and therefore attract more eyes to it, which is exactly what you want from it.
- Rich Media
This is a very controversial tip because it has both positive and negative sides. First of all, the rich media banners are more effective than simply animated banners because these banners are made up using Flash technology. Attractive and mesmerizing Flash effects are more user-friendly, so the audience likes them very much. But your big file size and particular terms of use (we mean you cannot use these banners for any advertising – there are only few areas where they’re applicable)
- Small File Size
This rule is very important for the website owner because it influences your website usability a lot so be sure that you banner size won’t exceed 25 kb but less is better.
- Simple Design
Simple design means that you have to find that perfect combination of right font, color scheme (contrast is very important – it helps to deliver the message to the client) and of course the layout. Keep it simple and original at the same time.
That’s all for now – we hope that you’ll find our tips useful for you and apply all these rules while planning your next advertising campaign or creating a new banner. Also be sure to read TemplateMonster’s main suggestions on how to make a compelling banner design. Take care now!
