Mind mapping is an effective way to add structure to brainstorming sessions, organize our thoughts, and visualize our ideas. This method requires you to draw your mind or ideas as a map, exploring your brain for more ideas. While you can conduct mind mapping by using pen and paper, it will be easy and interesting if you are using some online tools with no download and installation required. Well, here’s a list of 34 best mind mapping applications, both free and paid that can help you brainstorm effectively. Give them a try and share your opinions in the comments section below.

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Flash is considered as one of the best ways to create dynamic, animated and interactive websites. It enabled web designers and developers to deliver rich content over the browsers, creating motion, interactivity and enjoyable visual experience. Generally, Flash websites can be divided into two groups: 2D and 3D. In the previous post, we’ve showcased 60 creative and interactive Flash websites which consist of both 2D and 3D design elements.

Today we would like to give 3D Flash websites a focus as we’ve found many such sites that worth your attention. Without further ado, here’s a showcase of 50 really stunning, beautiful and colorful 3D Flash websites that can blow your mind! These masterpieces really stood out from crowd and received tremendous attention. Some of them even awarded as “site of the day” on FWA (Favourite Website Awards). Enjoy! Read more…

How to be successful and productive on Twitter? If you are Twitter user who wants to make full use of the social media, you must check statistics of your Twitter account and analyze it. We all know that Twitter doesn’t provide detailed stats for analysis, but the good news is you can get those by using some tools which are available on the web. Here we’ve found 13 most-used Twitter statistics and analytics tools for you to get most out of the social networking site. You can analyze and visualize your tweets, the people in your network, the tweets from your followers and other activities on Twitter.

Just give the following tools a try and share your thought with us. If you come across any Twitter analytics tools which you think are worth sharing with our wider community, please let us know in the comments section below. Read more…

Hand art is the application of make-up or paint to a hand to make it appear like an animal or other object. Some hand artists, like Guido Daniele, produce images that are trompe l’oeil representations of wild animals painted on people’s hands. Here’s a showcase of 40 incredibly amazing hand painting of animals you can’t afford to miss! These artworks are all painted by Guido Daniele, and some of them look exactly like the real animals. Seeing is believing, check out these great artworks now!

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Previously we’ve showcased a series of inspiring Facebook Timeline covers for you to get some ideas on how creative a “Cover Photo” can be. Now you might have a brilliant idea but lack of tools to get started. No worries, following are 8 great services that let you design and customize your Facebook Timeline cover for your profile. They are all free and easy to use, some of them even provide you a channel for sharing and discovering Facebook covers on the web. So let’s take this opportunity to unleash your creativity and show your personalized Facebook Timeline cover to your friends and fans!

If you don’t have the time to design your own, consider our recommended 13 free services that offer free cover photos you can easily upload to your Facebook profile. We hope you’ll find this post useful. Any comments and thought, please share it in the comments section below. Read more…

Whenever we want to share something appears on the desktop, we’ll normally use “Print Screen” function to capture the screen and paste it in the graphic program like Microsoft Paint for editing. However this function is pretty limited and it might not be able to fulfil what you need. If that’s the case, you are probably looking for a more advanced screen capturing utility programs.

Here’s a list of 35 most commonly used screen capture tools making your screen capturing and sharing experience more interesting and easy. With these tools, you can include text and sketches, upload images online, perform dimension-specific capturing and much more. Read more…

YouTube is the most popular and most visited video sharing website on which users can upload and share videos. Here we would like to share with you some of the best tools to enhance your YouTube experience. There are many other free services for YouTube available on the net. If you know of any tools, apps or plugins worth sharing, please let us know in the comments section below.

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These days, we’ve seen many multimedia applications on the web are built with HTML5, even online games are not exceptional. HTML5 has many great features such as video, audio, header and canvas elements, as well as the integration of scalable vector graphics (SVG) content. These features are designed to make it easy to include and handle multimedia and graphical content on the web without having to resort to proprietary plugins and APIs.

Today, with this post, we would like to show you 40 very popular and interesting web games that are built with HTML5! Why don’t you take a break to have fun with them and experience the gaming potential of HTML5? Read more…

Every web developer and blogger must use at least one web statistic service to keep track and monitor web traffic. This is important to collect some valuable data about your site’s audience such as total unique visitors, pageviews, entry and exit pages, giving you rich insights into your website traffic and marketing effectiveness. With web statistic tool, you can analyze your traffic data to write better-targeted ads, and create higher converting websites.

There are tones of free web traffic checkers out there, which is the best to use? To answer the question, today we would like to recommend you 18 free and most used web statistics and traffic analysis tools available on the net. Just choose one or two tools that match your requirement the most. Read more…

We all know that most of the web hosting providers allow us to use their web-based solution for uploading files. Although they work well for basic purposes, but they tend to be slow and the features are limited. That’s where third-party and free FTP clients come in place. What’s FTP client? It’s basically a program that lets you connect to the web server in order to upload and download files. If you’ve ever transferred a huge directory of files, you will know how important FTP client is.

Here are some of the best free FTP clients available on the web. They are all for free and very easy to use. If you know of any other free FTP clients, please let us know in the comment section below. Read more…

In the past few years, infographic designs have grown as one of the most effective tools to deliver information and statistics in the form of art. They’re easy to understand, interesting and able to quickly engage their viewers on social media. Many infographic designers devote countless hours to coming up with new ways to make their infographics memorable.

In this collection, you’ll find 40 most creative and educational infographic designs we found across the web in all different industries. They are absolutely worth to be saved as the source of your inspiration and knowledge. Read more…

What’s the point of having few copies of the same files on your computer? These duplicate files are wasting spaces and they can be confusing. Some of you might think that hard drive’s space is not your concern as it’s getting cheaper per Gigabyte, but don’t you think that it’s good for us to clean up redundancies making our computer perform faster and better? For those who agree with me, below I’ve listed 10 really effective duplicate file detectors to trace for file duplication and list them out. They are all free for download and use, so just try one of them to get rid of your duplicate files now!

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If you are looking for the perfect font to match your sketchy web design, hand drawn fonts, without a doubt are your best choice. Although these fonts looked less serious, they tend to make your web design unique and deliver strong artistic touch. That’s the reason why many bloggers apply them for personalizing their blogs. Here, we’ve collected 50 most popular hand-illustrated fonts to make your web designs stand out from others. They are all free to download and use in your projects. However, make sure to check details before using them for commercial purposes.

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Audio editor, a sound editing software that’s commonly used to record music, process and edit audio files, mix sound tracks, and apply sound effects. They can also be used to remove unwanted sounds like clicks and pops and convert between audio formats. If you happen to be a multimedia creator or music lover, then today’s post is specially written for you. Below you’ll find 24 free digital audio editors we found from the net. Some of these software programs even offer sophisticated audio features and support many advanced operations with audio data. So why don’t you give them a try before you decide to purchase a license for Adobe Audition, Soundforge or Cool Edit?

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Which are the best website resources to check and collect Internet usage statistics? Nowadays, Internet is the largest and the best information source for the people. You can find everything you want while surfing the web. It is also one of the most effective and efficient ways to communicate, whether it is through Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, or another website.

Now, if your reason for being here is collecting some Internet usage statistics for your market research, homework, or may be it’s just out of curiosity, surely there are sites to satisfy you. Today, with this post, I’ve put some of the best websites that provide a variety of Internet usage statistics including top websites, browser market share, screen resolution statistics and more. I hope you will find this post helpful! Read more…