90+ Fresh Community News for Designers and Developers

. Friday, December 11, 2009
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Community Pick for Designers and Developers

Readers at tripwire magazine daily submit links and short descriptions to highly relevant and worth investigating articles. User links are normally JUST PUBLISHED articles and have gone through a check to be relevant for designers and developers. This is a round-up providing latest Community Links submitted on tripwire magazine. Get more user submitted links here


Credit Crunchmas – 12 Cheap’N’Cheerful Designer iPhone Games

A roundup of cool iPhone apps you can offer as a digital gift to your design oriented buddies, kids, bosses or – even more exciting – to yourself :-]

20 Best Upcoming Social Networks

Social networking can be defined as grouping of many individuals or even organizations into different specific kinds of groups, like some small rural communities or even a neighborhood subdivision

Top 10 Sites to Order Business Christmas Cards

Sending business Christmas cards to your clients and customers? If you do then here are the top 10 sites where you can order your business Christmas cards.

5 Simple Ways To Keep Your Code Friendly

There are thousands of blogs and tutorials websites are available on the internet but not all of the information is useful or of good quality.

Sweet Sixteen: 16 Ways of Giving Designer’s Block the Boot

Do you have designer’s block? Find out how to give it the boot!

Eye Opening Photography

Most of us simply just point and shoot photos when we see something we love, or which inspires us, or maybe even to capture a moment in time.

42 Really Funny And Creative Print Ads

Designing a print ad is very difficult, you have to convey your message using few words and single image. If your ad can make others smile they will not forget their smile and so the ad.

Design Chair

USB flash drive, they are now everywhere, slowly replacing compact disks. In this tutorial, I will show you how to draw an USB flash drive in Illustrator. Advanced Illustrator skills needed.

Free Textures – 21 High-Res Texas Snow Textures

A pack of 21 high-resoltuion Snow Texture Shots, created by ThinkDesignBlog.com.

Eight Ways to Combat the Content Crunch

Web design is an exciting field to be involved with. The downside, however, is lack of content. Organizations that haven’t had a good web site don’t have the copy needed to propel their new site.

Freelancing on the Beach: Working While on Vacation

The best thing about being a freelancer is that you can take a holiday whenever you want. Find out how to have a productive holiday.

Cardboard Textures

My sharings will be only for e-mail subscribers. Here is the first one. You can have this high quality 4752 px by 3168 px 6 cardboard texture set, only by activating your e-mail subscription.

330 Free Letter Pressed Icons

A collection of over a 100 letter pressed icons, in various letter pressed styles exclusive to Creative Nerds readers

The Morning Routine

“Freelancing is not an easy job, by any means. You work for yourself, which means there’s no safety net. If you don’t have enough self-motivation you’re basically screwed.”

Fading navigation on the Google homepage

Google is testing some new features, trying to improve the interface to a more efficient, simpler and intuitive search experience. How did they do this?

The Never Ending Photoshop Mistakes

In this post you will find 21 photoshop disasters. Just take a look and you will know what i mean.

33 Creative and Meaningful Logos For Inspiration

It was the time for the 2009 last inspirational logo post.Again i’ve collected really inspiring,meaningful and creative logo designs.

Weekly top quality Photoshop tutorials #53

Remember, remember, the 10th of December. No, it is not V for Vendetta, it is PS for Vendetta. The weekly top quality PS tuts, week 53, arrived. 20 detailed tutorials for different areas of design.

117 Beautiful Chritsmas Wallpapers for iPhone and iPod

December is a month when peoples around the world celebrates the Christmas, that’s why we share some really beautiful wallpapers for your latest gadgets like iPhone and iPod, there..

A look at some car companies logos design evolution

The evolution of big companies logos is always interesting, and I found car companies logo designs to be among the most interesting to inspect.

Transform Creative Ideas into Stunning Designs

This article provides comprehensive guidelines on how to transform creative ideas into visual masterpieces. It explains how designers can harness creative ideas effectively.

Design An Easy Colorful Star Light in Photoshop

So in this tutorial we will create a composition from scratch first in Illustrator where we will play with shapes and the Blend Tool.

35 Epic and Awesome Wallpapers

35 Epic and Awesome Wallpapers for insipration and designers

Purple Website Showcase

A showcase of the very best websites using a purple colour scheme

Meet Paul Rand

Meet the man who started the graphic design profession and view his work.

60 Iconic Album Artwork Posters

Feast your eyes on this five-decade spanning showcase of psychedelia, minimalism, pure brilliance, the bizarre and the iconic! Your imagination is the only limit for your album cover art posters.

Photography by Ronald Stoops

As Ronald Stoops was born in one of the smallest countries in the World, the Netherlands, he decided early on in life to travel extensively in order to broaden his view of the world.

Calling all Website Designers!

If you think you have an awesome new website designed in CSS, this competition just might interest you.

Christmas & New Year PSD Templates Package Download

Christmas & New Year PSD Templates Package Download All 8 Layered PSD Templates Just For $8

Create animated GIF images

In this tutorial you will learn how to animate your pictures using Photoshop CS3.

Best 26 Brilliant and Free Photoshop Brushes Resource Sites

The perfect locations where to find the perfect brushes for your Photoshop projects. No matter what you have in mind, you will find everything on these sites.

8 Tips For Promoting Your WordPress Site

This is the seventh part of An Essential Guide to WordPress SEO that focuses on techniques for promoting your site.

Designing the Browser of the Future

A post that explores various mockups about how the “Browser of the Future” could look like.

25 Ultra-Creative Packaging Designs From DeviantArt

Web designers can (and should) draw inspiration from places other than web design, so today’s article is going to showcase 25 creative packaging designs that I found on Deviantart.com

35 Dazzling Logo Design Tutorials Part-1

This article includes 35 logo design tutorials and will come with second part of this articles in upcoming days. Enjoy

Circular Social Media Icons

A pack of 36 circular social media icons free for commercial and personal use. The download includes .png files in grunge & clean versions and three sizes.

13 Magnificent Web User Interfaces and How to Create Them

Web designing is an art. It is always to learn from the best in the field especially in a dynamic world like Web Design where today’s design become anachronistic by tomorrow

Take a advantage of 10 new handy features of Google Docs

In this post post I am sharing a list of newly added features by Google Docs. In this list includes features like Bulk upload, Shared folder, Docx import, Snap to grid and much more.

Free PSD’s Give Away: High Resolution Twitter Bird Icons

Cutielicious! Free High Quality Layered PSD Files Of The Cute Twitter Birds.

3 free PDF to Excel converters

3 free PDF to Excel converters

Corporate Logo Design

Bruce loves designing modern, eye catching logo designs but most of all he loves adding an up to the minute feel to logo designs that have seen their day.

The Visual Science Blog

A Graphic Design Blog Filled with daily inspiration.

14 Best CSS Editors for Web Designers & Developers

CSS definitely provides you the ease of changing the appearance of your entire website by just modifying a single file.

Amazing Digital Portraits

Below are some great portrait examples that will leave you drooling for more and wishing there was more time in the day to actually do these yourself.

Alice in wonderland fairytale scene in Photoshop

In this Photoshop tutorials we will learn how to create fantasy scene from one of the interesting and eccentric fairytale – Alice in Wonderland.

28 Creative Tech Advertising

This showcase is an inspiration dose for creative designers and copywriters. Each advertisement is creatively molded to make an impact and also give the message is it supposed to.

From blank screen to web design in 5 easy steps

Learn a simple, five-step web design process to make sure you include the basic elements every website needs while freeing your mind to be more creative.

How to Become a Superstar Freelancer

Not every freelancer wants to be a superstar, and that’s perfectly fine. Becoming a superstar doesn’t simply mean being a talented designer, although that is certainly a huge part of the equation.

27 Clothing Retailer Logos from New York City

Let’s go shopping in New York City! We visited 27 clothing retailer websites and took a look at their logos. What messages are fashion retailers in the Big Apple looking to send with their logos?

No More Minimum Deposit for Premium Wordpress Themes

Some design news: You can now purchase themes and files from the Envato marketplaces without a minimum deposit.

40 Best Photoshop Web Page Layout Tutorials

Photoshop is the premiere app for web designers, especially when it comes to layout. The 40 examples below walk you through the sometimes difficult process of creating a website layout in Photoshop.

29 IncrEDIBLE Food Related Logos for Inspiration

Inspirational collection of food related logos

17 Awesome Free Fonts for Your Work

The type is the main concern of all designs and because of that, i´ll show you a collection of fonts that i used on my works in 2009. Its a collection of free and amazing good quality fonts.

50+ Most Creative and unusual 404 error Pages

In this new era we as designers also focus on Error 404 pages as well which mostly neglected by web developers is the proper handling of this specific errors 404, Error 404 page is displayed..

An Amazing free smoke illustrator brush pack

If you play around with the opacity, and blend modes in Illustrator you can get some really nice effects.

Simple rules to follow for good typography.

Simple rules to help improve your typography.

Exclusive Illustrator Snowflake Scatter Brushes

This new Vector Freebie is created by Grant Friedman of Colorburned. There are 50 brushes in this set. He has been cranking out all sorts of vector and other freebies on his blog.

How to make Wordpress and Blogger Post Via e-Mail

If you want to add a post to your blog without having to open the WP Admin and log in, you can set up your WordPress installation to accept posts sent via email.

25 Excellent Advertisements on Environmental Issues

This post has a collection of 25 excellent and really creative advertisements and posters on environmental issues.

7 Super Creative Portfolio Designs

When it comes to freelancing, your portfolio is at the core of it all. Take a look at these super creative portfolio designs to help you develop your own.

30 Amazingly Creative Photo Manipulated Wallpaper to Tune Up Your Desktop

In this post, I will show you 30 amazingly beautiful, ultra-creative Photo Manipulated wallpaper I collected and stored in my browser favourites.

13 Glamorous Photoshop Techniques For Extreme Facial Makeovers

So here are some extreme makeover tutorials that will allow you to create the finest photo with the human soul in it.

HTML 5: Does Flash Developers need to Worry?

Since there is a long duration for the release of new HTML and its effect on web- forums, blogs, communities and comments have started discussing opportunity and threat attributed to this new change.

The Snow Show In Your Blogs

The result is a lightweight, hassle free experience. As the snow is white, this script is only suitable on pages with a dark background.

Download a free 7-in-1 Joomla Template

A Free seven-in-one Joomla Template is now available for download. It isn’t just one page design but includes a number of different layouts which can be used to customize your site for holidays.

From blank screen to web design in 5 easy steps

From blank screen to web design in 5 easy steps

Showcase of Strange but Absolutely Beautiful Illustration Portfolios

We love illustrators as much as any design enthusiast does! In fact we love them a bit more :-]

Cute Rank Checker

Free rank checker software that checks and tracks website rankings on multiple search engines including Google, Yahoo, Bing(MSN), Ask, and AOL.

Breathtaking Digital Art by Kerem Beyit

This post has a collection of a few of the breathtaking, creative and really inspiring artwork by Turkey based digital artist Kerem Beyit.

Stunning Collection of Digital Art and Paintings of Fruits

Today I am presenting you a new style of Fruits. I was searching some stuff for designing then I saw a picture of fruits in which I saw some images related to fruits and then I found this stuff from

21 HQ Winter Style Wordpress Themes

More than 21 cool and high quality wordpress themes for the 2009 winter. Customize your Wordpress blog for winter and feel the holiday spirit.

Best collection of robots illustrations – 49 artworks

We can only imagine how they’ll look like and keep the term in the sci-fi area.Some designers did not only imagine,but made great illustrations in which these magnificent machines are involved

19 Amazingly Creative Mass Human Formations, That Will Blow You Away!

This collection will spark an interest for designers to design with more creative elements & provide the inspiration needed to be your very best.

21 Useful Typography Tutorials in Photoshop

Display typography is a potent element in graphic design, where there is less concern for readability and more potential for using type in an artistic manner.

What Is A Web Designer Responsible For?

A successful website is the result of many different parts working together toward a common goal. Of all those parts, which are the responsibility of the web designer?

30+ Amazing Examples of Famous Caricatures

One of the great things about Montreal (the city I am from) is all the activities that go on here all year long.

Education Themes

Medhley provides education related themed templates for all your education purpose.

“Digging Into Wordpress” Book by Chris Coyier and Jeff Starr

Chris and Jeff have proven till now that they are truly Wordpress masters and Digging into Wordpress Book is meant to be the best Wordpress Book ever.

19 Excellent Packs of Christmas Icons

Great packs of thoroughly selected Christmas icons. Best looking, fresh icons from all around the web.

How to Create a Vector Goldfish in Six Steps

In this tutorial It will show you the process I use for creating a vector goldfish in six easy steps. The steps are a bit condensed so Intermediate Illustrator users will benefit greatly

Maximize Prospective Client Communication

How can you make more money as a freelance designer? By maximizing your billable time. How can you maximize your billable time? Streamline the time you put into talking with prospective clients.

Create a Watercolor-Themed Website Design In Photoshop

Watercolor in graphic design has become very trendy the last couple of years, many websites and incredible designers are using this style and taking it to another level.

Introducing Freelance Review: 30 Articles You Shouldn’t Miss

A collection of 30 articles from Freelance Review

Designer Showcase – Mike Campau

A showcase of brilliant designs from the extremely talented, Mike Campau

20 Amazing Minimalist Wordpress Themes Design

We have see many designer using minimalist design style to give their wordpress themes a good look. Here I compiled some my personal favorite wordpress themes that very well using minimalist style.

10 Detailed Photoshop Tutorials Of November

Best Photoshop video tutorials produced in November. In those videos you will learn how to make exclusive dramatic portraits, create explosive color swath, some extraordinary uses of clone tool.

40 Best Ever Photoshop Tutorials of Web Layout Designs

Adobe Photoshop ever famous Designing tool and most useful for creating attract high-quality website designs, all web professional designers have been using in their practices for years..

100+ Useful Techniques and Tutorials for jQuery

jQuery provides amazing simplicity and advanced features out of the most popular JavaScript frameworks. It’s strong, powerful, and interactive.

Airopia Free Web Design Resources

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50 Helpful iPhone Apps for Web Designers and Developers

. Friday, December 04, 2009
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Author: Jarel Remick

I'm a freelance designer and web developer, an author and reviewer at ThemeForest.net, a writer for the ThemeForest blog and occasionally web.appstorm.net. When I actually manage to get away from the computer, I'm hiking, watching movies or spending time with my girlfriend in sunny Las Vegas. – View my net.tutsplus.com posts here.

cliqcliq Colors

cliqcliq Colors

With cliqcliq's Colors app, you can easily create, convert and manage colors and palettes. The app allows conversion between RGB, HSB and Grayscale. You can also extract colors and palettes from photos you've snapped or imported into your photo library.

When you're done, you can email the palettes to yourself or someone else to quickly import into Photoshop or Illustrator.

Color Expert

Color Expert

Color Expert gives you an easy to use color wheel for creating great color palettes but also lets you get colors from photos, sliders and swatches. You can easily search through Pantone, web safe or HTML colors to find just what you're looking for.

When you're done, save or send the palette as an Adobe Swatch Exchange file (ASE) for Photoshop or another Adobe app.

HEX RGB Colors Guide

HEX RGB Colors Guide

HEX RGB Colors Guide is a pretty basic app for having a RGB and HEX color code reference guide in your pocket at all times. Choose between block or list view and get quick access to the color information you need right away.

For the price vs features, this is a bit spendy but could be very handy for some designers.

HTML Colors

HTML Colors

Quickly select and preview colors for the web with HTML Colors for some fun exploring or just to make sure you have the right combination. The sample text and background color make it easy to get the right foreground and background color combination.

You can also view HTML safe colors or try your luck with the "Random" button, then save or send your palette.

WhatTheFont

WhatTheFont

You're probably familiar with MyFont's WhatTheFont service. This app connects to that service for font discovery anywhere. Take a photo of the font (magazine, book or computer screen) or use an iPhone screenshot and WhatTheFont will tell you what the font is in just a few seconds, then view the font details within the app.

You never know when you'll see a font you like or what and you it's hard to beat free!

FontShuffle

FontShuffle

Need typographic inspiration? FontShuffle might be your solution. Browse 650+ font families or shake your iPhone for FontShuffle to mix new fonts into your results. Browse by category or search for something more specific, then view up to 24 similar typefaces in a list.

Once you've found something you like, you can preview it with custom sample text. You can also check out the font's glyph set.

The Typography Manual

The Typography Manual

Interested in learning about typography? Or maybe just more about it? This is the app for that. It includes 60+ pages on the history of type, type basics, the latest info. on web typography and more. It doesn't stop there though, it also has a 100+ page glossary of type terminology and examples.

There's a lot more included in this app and it really is one of the best ways to learn typography.

Photoshop.com Mobile

Photoshop

This is the mobile companion to Photoshop.com for the iPhone which gives you access to your Photoshop.com photos for editing, uploading and sharing. Your editing capabilities are somewhat limited but considering this is on your phone, it's quite nice.

You can crop and rotate, adjust color, saturation and exposure or apply filters like Sketch or Soft Focus along with many more options. It's basic but powerful for a handheld device.

Convert ~ the unit calculator

Convert

Convert is an easy to use unit converter that even web designers and developers will want. It includes conversions all the usual stuff like volume, angles and money but also for typography, pixels, picas and a lot more.

It also includes a regular calculator though so you won't need to use the iPhone's included calculator any more.

Caliper

Caliper

Caliper is a basic but very handy app to have in your toolbox. With it you can quickly and precisely measure objects (placed on or near the screen) or images on screen in pixels, centimeters, inches and more. The measurement jaws are also multitouch for faster measuring.

Source Viewer

Source Viewer

Source Viewer does exactly what it sounds like. It lets you view the source code of websites. However, it does much more such as syntax coloring with links highlighted specially, link extraction to easily view website resources, image collection for separate viewing and much more.

You can also open resource URL's via browser or send them via email, save bookmarks and toggle source code word wrap. This is a great one for developers on the go!

Web Source Viewer

Web Source Viewer
Web Source Viewer is a much more basic than Source Viewer but it's a fast and free way to view source code of any website from your iPhone.

FTP On The Go

FTP On The Go

FTP On The Go is a fully featured FTP app for the iPhone. It lets you do just about everything your desktop application does but with the convenience of mobility. Browse, upload, download, edit and preview files on your FTP or even on your iPhone. You can even email files, view documents within the app like Word, Excel, PDF's, etc. and much more.

There are far too many features to list but this is a fantastic app for the price so check it out.

ServersMan

ServersMan

ServersMan essentially lets you use your iPhone like a wireless USB flash drive... or web server. Yeah, you can actually run a website with ServersMan. You can also store files on your iPhone via WiFi or 3G from any internet connected computer with a browser.

You'll also be able to open files like Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), iWork (Pages, Numbers, Keynote), PDF's, HTML, CSS and much more.

TouchTerm SSH

TouchTerm SSH

If you're looking for a full SSH terminal app, this is it. Access your servers via WiFi, 3G or EDGE with just about all the features you'd find in a desktop SSH terminal application. If you need a step up, there is also TouchTerm SSH Pro with some more advanced features optimizing usage on the iPhone.

With the Pro version you get features like gestures, auto-completion, graphical filesystem navigation and much, much more.

DatabaseViewer

DatabaseViewer

DatabaseViewer gives you mobile access to your databases and the tools you need to work with them. It supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS Access, MS Excel, Oracle and several more. Sync database data via 3G, EDGE or WiFi, apply SQL Select queries, filters and much more.

It's a little bit expensive, but if you need access to your databases on the go, this is a solid choice.

Are My Sites Up

Are My Sites Up

If you run or host several websites, especially for clients, it's important to keep an eye on their status. If you use the Are My Sites Up? service, this task is a breeze. This is the accompanying iPhone app for both subscription based and free versions of the service.

From the app you can manage account settings like email and SMS alerts, view your sites' status and get push alerts.

SEO IT

SEO IT

With SEO IT you can easily analyze a website's Search Engine Optimization. The application will analyze tons different parts including complete source code listing, META tags, tag counts, title contents, back links and many more parts of your website of choice.

Curious about your competition? This is a great way to check them out. ;-)

Web Tools

Web Tools

With Web Tools you can check whois information, domain availability, view server information, check response times and more. When you find information you want to keep for later or share, you can email the results.

It's a pretty basic app but very useful, especially if you're with a client who's looking for a domain.

Nomina

Nomina

Nomina does more than just check domain availability. It can pull up a lot of helpful information for building a brand such as trademark checking, common-law usage, relevance of the brand name and lots more. It'll save you tons of time when trying to build a brand for you or your client.

iStat - Sys Monitoring, Battery

iStat

iStat gives you a great set of tools to monitor iPhone resource usage (including battery) as well as resource usage on remote systems including Mac, Linux and Solaris. You also get network tools such as ping and traceroute. Unfortunately Apple requested that they remove the "Free Memory" feature, which many are not happy about.

Easily monitor your iPhone, home computers and even web servers anywhere. Great value for the price!

Ego

Ego

Ego gives you a quick overview of your web statistics from services like Google Analytics but can also check stats on services like Twitter, Vimeo, Squarespace, Mint, Feedburner and Ember. The app is clean and simple to provide a quick view of your current stats. Tapping a service rotates through additional stats.

This is a great app for developers who want to keep track of web stats as well as developing social media stats.

Analytics App

Analytics App

If you're looking for a fully featured Google Analytics app, this would be it. You'll get quick access to your Google Analytics account, including maps, and all the information you'll need. Google changed their API for Analytics so the app is being rewritten and the free update is due out this month.

You'll also be able to access all your Google Analytics information via WiFi, 3G or EDGE.

Mint Stats

Mint Stats

Mint Stats plugs into Shaun Inman's Mint analytics and provides stats for the last 24 hours. Check hourly and daily totals for views and unique visits, manage multiple sites, auto-refresh and more.

Overall, it's a pretty basic app but gives you the info. you need while you're on the go.

Web Developer Bible

Web Developer Bible

The Web Developer Bible app is a very handy reference for RGB to HEX color conversion, HTML entities and more. It's a pretty simple app but it could certainly be useful for some web developers and because it's free, it's definitely worth at least checking out.

Developer's Tool Kit

Developer's Tool Kit

Developer's Took Kit combines several helpful tools for developers and designers such as a computer science hex calculator (works with binary, octal and logic operations), color wheel and categorized ANSI UTF-8 character set. The character can be browsed by name, unicode value and symbol type.

The price seems a little much for what's included but the calculator is quite helpful and finding UTF-8 characters is a breeze.

CSS Cheat Sheet

CSS Cheat Sheet

Learning CSS? Need a refresher course or just a reference sheet for CSS? This is a great app for just that. CSS Cheat Sheet is searchable and easy to browse by category. It includes descriptions, values and examples for backgrounds, borders, classifications, fonts, margins and a whole lot more.

This is probably one of the most thorough CSS reference apps available for the iPhone.

jQuery Cheat Sheet

jQuery Cheat Sheet

jQuery Cheat Sheet is another reference app from Concentric Sky. If you just need to reference something real quick or even if you're new to jQuery, this is a great app to have handy. You can even write and test your jQuery within the app now.

It's also important to note that this app doesn't retrieve any of its information from the internet, so you can use it anytime, anywhere.

JavaScript Cheat Sheet

JavaScript Cheat Sheet

JavaScript Cheat Sheet is another reference app from Concentric Sky. It's another great app for learning JavaScript or if you would like a handy reference app for those times you just can't remember an expression or something else.

As with Concentric Sky's other apps, this one also works completely offline.

HTML Cheat Sheet

HTML Cheat Sheet

This is probably one of the more popular reference apps from Concentric Sky that also allows you to write and test HTML within the app. Reference everything from tag lists to character sets and more with this.

As with Concentric Sky's other reference apps, this is another goodie for beginners and those who would like a quick reference guide in their pocket.

PHP Cheat Sheet

PHP Cheat Sheet

If you're a developer, your cheat sheet collection wouldn't be complete without Concentric Sky's PHP cheat sheet. Again, it's great for those who would like a quick reference and for those who might be learning PHP.

WordPress

WordPress

The WordPress app gives you the power of WordPress in your pocket. Create and edit content on your sites, even if you're offline. The app supports true previews, tags, categories, iPhone photo integration and most other functions you can do in WordPress from your desktop.

The app also lets you manage multiple sites if you need.

Blog with iBlogger!

iBlogger

iBlogger is a multi-platform capable blogging app for everything from WordPress and TypePad to SquareSpace, Xanga and ExpressionEngine. You can easily manage just about any major blog installation with support for most major features like pictures, tags, links, etc.

If you run multiple blogs on multiple platforms, this is the app you'll want for easy mobile access.

1Password

1Password

If you're not using a password manager already, you might consider looking for one. 1Password is a popular choice and with iPhone integration, the choice is even easier. Store your information and passwords securely and let it automatically log you into websites with ease.

There's a lot you can do with it, especially for the price.

PassGen

PassGen

PassGen is a straight forward and basic app that generates random passwords between 4 and 16 digits that will be much more secure than the basic passwords most people use. Once you generate a password, email it to yourself for safe keeping.

Dropbox

Dropbox

As a designer and/or developer, you probably share and sync files with lots of people across many computers. The Dropbox app gives you easy access to your Dropbox.com account files for viewing, managing and sharing while you're on the go.

SugarSync

SugarSync

SugarSync is a service similar to Dropbox and provides easy file access anywhere. The same applies to the iPhone app which lets you view, manage and share your synced files anywhere, anytime. You can even stream entire music collections stored on your computer!

Discover

Discover

Discover lets you use your iPhone as a wireless mobile hard drive via WiFi. You (or others) can connect and transfer or share files. It even works iPhone to iPhone. Within the app you can also view all the major document formats including Microsoft Office, PDF's, HTML and other text based files and many more.

Air Sharing (Document Viewer, File Storage)

Air Sharing

Air Sharing gives you drag and drop access to your iPhone over WiFi when mounted as a wireless drive on Mac, Windows or Linux. You can also connect through a browser if necessary. You can view literally just about every major file format available including Microsoft Office and iWork files.

Files

Files

Store and view files on your iPhone with the Files app, again, over WiFi. You can also email and password protect your files if needed. Files also supports all major file formats such as Microsoft Office and Apple iWork. Once you've viewed files, the app can even remember the page and zoom level.

Quickoffice Files

Quickoffice Files

Quickoffice Files is part of an online service for managing your office files but the app can be used independently as well. Transfer files via WiFi, view, email and password protect files and even access your MobileMe iDisk account.

Sketches

Sketches

Sketches lets you easily jot down notes and thoughts as well as annotate your pictures and more. It's sort of a cross between a fun and creative drawing and annotation app and something that also serves its purposes for business. You can also send your creations once you're done.

iBlueSky (mindmapping)

iBlueSky

As designers and developers, we get ideas all the time–regardless of location. iBlueSky lets you ditch the paper napkin and take brainstorming and problem solving to a new level. When you're done you can send via email in Novamind, PDF, PNG, OPML and more formats.

There's many more great functions with this app as well as integration with Box.net. The price seems a bit steep but it's hard to put a price on great ideas right?

Things

Things

Things for the iPhone brings the power of Things for the desktop, to your iPhone. Wirelessly sync your lists and tasks when you're near your computer. The great thing about this app though, is you don't need the desktop application. Things for the iPhone is an independent app, thus the rather steep price.

Things simplifies task management and makes it much easier to stay productive and keep track of life anywhere you might be.

Remember The Milk

Remember The Milk

Remember The Milk (RTM) connects with the online service to sync your lists and tasks. You can also work offline and sync when the internet is available. RTM is a super simple and easy to use app and service but also provides the options and flexibility you might need.

RTM also has lots of integration with the iPhone such as detecting location for nearby tasks and much more.

MiniBooks for FreshBooks

MiniBooks for FreshBooks

MiniBooks brings the popular invoicing software, FreshBooks, to the iPhone. As far as I can tell, it's an independent application that is capable of syncing with your online FreshBooks account (if not, the price is way steep). You get all the features and power of FreshBooks while you're on the go.

There's also a lite version available which I believe requires a FreshBooks account.

Jobs - Time Sheet + Tracking

Jobs

Jobs is a simple time tracking and time sheet creation app. It's important to keep track of your time to make sure you get paid. Jobs features multiple timers, sessions, exporting, different currencies and more.

The nice thing about Jobs is that it's not bloated with extra crap you don't need. That way it's easy as pie to keep track of your time.

PayPal

PayPal

Most of you are familiar with PayPal. If you're not yet, you most likely will be soon. PayPal for the iPhone gives you quick access to your account for checking your balance, reviewing history, sending money and more. In fact, it's so fast and easy, I use it to check my account even while I'm at the computer.

BeejiveIM 3.0 with Push

BeejiveIM

Beejive is arguably the best iPhone instant messaging app around that's more capable than some desktop messaging clients. Connect to all the major services such as AIM, Windows Live, Yahoo!, GoogleTalk, Facebook, Myspace... and the list goes on. It also moves from 3G/EDGE to WiFi seamlessly and is capable of push notifications after you close the app.

I communicate with many clients via chat and this makes it easy to take my chats with me anywhere.

Prowl: Growl Client

Prowl: Growl Client

Prowl is simply a Growl client for the iPhone. Get push notifications from your Mac or Windows computer for anything you configure Growl with and would like push notifications on your iPhone. It's all highly configurable to fit your needs.

I personally use it for multiple email accounts, messaging, system alerts and a lot more.

Conclusion

Well, there you have it fellow web designers and developers. 50 fantastic iPhone apps for taking on many of our daily tasks anytime, anywhere, from the convenience of a pocket sized device. As I mentioned at the beginning, there are several other options for many of these app types. I couldn't include them all though or this list would be a mile long. These are the ones I've picked from personal experience and reviews during my own searches for apps to make my job a little easier.

As I'm sure we all are, I'm always on the lookout for fresh new apps to make my web design or development tasks easier, faster or more mobile. So, if you know of any really great apps, please share them with us in the comments below. Thanks!

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