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In Review, Upcoming and a CodeCanyon Contest
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19 Jan 2010Generally when we do a giveaway, the winners are announced the following week. Last week’s Myows giveaway was so popular we had to close the comments in just 24 hours! In addition to that, Myows generously gave away 100 paid accounts, which would’ve made for an interesting giveaway announcement (that’s a lot of names!). So, to cap off this week, I’ll be doing something a little different.
While pondering ideas to cap off the week, I thought it would be a good chance to take a look back at the popular posts over the last couple weeks as well as some of the upcoming posts and contests. Also, I would never leave you guys without a tasty morsel of contesty-goodness if I could help it — so read on to see what goodies you can grab from CodeCanyon.
In Review
Now that I’ve picked up the reigns here, I’m gaining speed and planning some great stuff for later. So far though, these are a few of the posts that have been most popular.
Myows
Instant Copyright Protection with Myows
As a digital media author and HTML/CSS template reviewer at ThemeForest.net, I know first hand how frustrating copyright can be — especially for those who pay their bills with the works they create. It’s difficult, at best, to keep an eye out for people infringing on your works let alone attempting to do something about it. Even worse, authors can be accused of copyright infringement by those who may know nothing about it, causing serious problems for (an often innocent) author.
Setup Your Personalized Google Apps Suite
Setup Your Personalized Google Apps Suite
Google provides a powerful suite of web applications ranging from email and calendar to documents, chat and sites [and so much more]. For web professionals, the typical “@gmail.com” just won’t do. Thankfully, Google offers a professional version (called Google Apps) for professionals, educators, non-profits and government.
5 Great IDEs to Start Coding in the Cloud
5 Great IDEs to Start Coding in the Cloud
Cloud computing has started proceeding beyond the hype stage and into the beginning of mainstream adoption. Gartner had included cloud computing in their list of Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2009. They also reported that worldwide cloud services revenue is on pace to surpass $56.3 billion in 2009.
Getting Things Done with Google Calendar
Getting Things Done with Google Calendar
It’s 2010 and it’s time to get things done! Okay, 2010 or not, many of us are always looking for a better way to manage our tasks, events and goals. The truth of task management is that there’s no single best way to tackle it for everyone. It will depend on your style of management, your interaction preferences and how the solution integrates into your current workflow.
Upcoming
Transitioning into 2010 I took a moment to list some of the planned improvements for this year. Those are still on the way! While I can’t give too many secrets away too far in advance, here’s a few sneak peaks of upcoming posts.
FormSpring
FormSpring
Next week we’ll be reviewing FormSpring and some of its awesome capabilities and uses. FormSpring will also be giving away a couple paid accounts. That giveaway will accompany the review!
Twitter Customizations
Twitter Customization
There are some great apps for customizing your Twitter page as well as using Twitter in other places. We’ll take a look at a few of those apps and services as well as show how to use a few of them.
Threadsy
Threadsy
You may have heard of Threadsy, a really exciting, upcoming web app. We’ll be reviewing Threadsy and to cap off the week (next week), Threadsy will be giving away a ton of invites for Web.AppStorm readers!
CodeCanyon Contest!
As a web developer, I’m always watching for new files at ThemeForest and CodeCanyon. The CodeCanyon marketplace has lots of great web application elements and even some full blown web applications. These are some great items to include at Web.AppStorm occasionally, even if they are a little more developer-centric.
CodeCanyon Contest
For contest entry you’ll need to complete the following.
- Browse the CodeCanyon marketplace and select an item you would purchase and use.
- Tweet @WebAppStorm with how you would use the item.
- Leave a comment below, letting us know how you would use the item, also include your Twitter username.
- Make sure you’re following @WebAppStorm to find out who the winners are!
Three winners will be chosen at random at the end of Sunday night, Pacific Time. Each winner will receive the CodeCanyon item they chose. Winners will be announced via Twitter Monday morning.
Please Note: Envato staff are ineligible to enter.
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Winners: The winners have been randomly selected and contacted. Thanks @AlexDenning, @webbografico and @zarathos!
Thanks for participating everyone!
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8 Responses to In Review, Upcoming and a CodeCanyon Contest
liberal italienne™ v1.02
January 27th, 2010 at 9:41 pm
1st answerer nailed it—the NFL frowns on infringement–just like Disney.
Cister
March 16th, 2010 at 8:59 pm
go to (www.foodnetwork.com)–or–(www.acooksware.com)
Rodney W
March 17th, 2010 at 6:11 am
Today the standard Tool of Choice for web developers and professionals is Dreamweaver from Macromedia (now Adobe) . While there are other tools, the reality is this is the defacto standard and just about all professionals on the MAC or PC use Dreamweaver CS and the Adobe Creative Suite which also includes Flash and Graphics editing tools.. You can find ot more here and try the trial versions ..
Scarzii
March 18th, 2010 at 12:45 pm
If you have forgotten your password, go onto the homepage and click the sign in drop down button. There will be a link saying 'Forgotten your password?'. Click it and type in your email address or username and they will send you instructions to get your password via email.
If for some reason you do not want to/can not do this then if you can remember your twitter username, you can type in http://www.twitter.com/your username] and that will be your page. If not you may have to make another twitter account with a different email (which can be easily made on http://www.msn.com) and then search for your old account on there using the 'Find People' button.
fjpoblam
March 19th, 2010 at 10:46 am
The first rule for a "successful" web designer is to determine the market audient of your client's website. Ask the client, a very simple question: Who's your Net audience? Are they "dial-up" or "DSL" subscribers? Once you determine the audience, then recommend the design authoring tool. For example, for "dial-up" subscribers, stick with HTML-based website. For "DSL" subscribers, go with Flash. Again, DO NOT recommend an authoring tool which fails to meet the client's audience because should the client later find out that you took the initiative [on your own choice] and created a complete Flash website [without his permission]; you may be in store for possible legal action against your choice of authoring tool.
The second rule for "successful" is to make sure that you have a clause in your web designer agreement which holds you harmless for any "merchantability" or "marketability" issues surrounding any of your website creations. Thus, no matter what happens down the road and the clients claims that he was sold an "unmarketable" or "undiscoverable" website [say, on major search engines]; you have a written disclaimer from the client that you are merely a "graphic web designer," not providing "any" SEO services; and you are held harmless from any suit for damages, directly or indirectly.
Good luck!
texas_tears2000
March 24th, 2010 at 8:45 am
yes
Tinkerbell eats Yahoo!
March 25th, 2010 at 3:48 am
twitter has a video about the site. you should definitely check it out.
lola
March 27th, 2010 at 8:46 pm
do a 'dry run' and time yourself, then decide to hire the maid for two hours and complete the cleaning yourself if need be.