Andriod (Google mobile operating system) market is growing day by day as this OS giving lot of user friendly applications, some of those listing today as our visitors and readers demand. Android on its way to bringing flashier features to Android phones.

Android is a software platform for mobile devices, powered by the Linux kernel, initially developed by Google and later the Open Handset Alliance. Please feel free to leave comments for other useful Android Applications worth our time.

cab4me

Utilizing Android’s Google Maps application, cab4me lets users call a cab to their location with a single click. By using GPS capabilities to locate not only the user’s current location, but also the location of the nearest cab company, theapplication can initiate a call to the cab company with a mere click on the map. The application was developed by Konrad Huebner and Henning Boerger.

AndroidScan

Scan is an Android application that finds pricing and metadata for anything with a barcode.

Advanced Task Killer Free

Advanced Task Killer Free is just what the name states, its a task manager for Android. It gives you the power to easily kill applications with one click, that run in the background, stealing bandwidth or battery time. It has the following features besides the application settings menu:

• Click to select or unselect the app
• Long press to activate pop-up menu
• Menu>Settings>Notification bar icon, AutoStart, Ignore

ASTRO File Manager

ASTRO File Manager is a very powerful file manager for Android. It really is a must on your Android device when it comes to managing files on your sdcard. It’s packed with features, and here’s some of them:

• Download any file with browser
• Browse / create / extract zip files
• Back up and restore public applications to the SD card
• Create shortcuts
• Send files as attachments
• Thumbnails
• Multiselect
• Search
• Image, Text, HTML Viewers

Phonebook

Phonebook has a cool user interface for viewing and managing your contacts. It displays your contacts with pictures and contextual information such as coming birthdays, missed calls and unread text messages. Phonebook comes with a nice landscape view, a dialer and a quick access to your favorites and most called contacts.

Locale

Brilliant and simple program to handle profiles automatically. Locale is a scriptable, location-aware settings manager. A wide range of triggering events are available like battery level, dates, times, GPS coordinates and calls from specific people can all be used. Some third-party programs even integrate with Locale, increasing the available options…

BreadCrumbz

BreadCrumbz’ unique approach to navigation enables a new kind of user-created geo-content. Our aim is to develop a platform and a community where people create, store and share geo-content that is meaningful to them with their friends (“find my house”, “where I left my car at the airport”) or with the world (“best mountainbiking route in the area”, “find my cool shop”, “to your hospital’s department of suregery”, etc.).

Commandro

Commandro shows where are your friends REALLY are and what are they’re doing at the moment. We use GPS location information in order to make sure that you and your friends have actually reached the planned destinations, and, hence, will display 100% true real-life event and location information with regards to your and your friends.

Facebook for Android

Pretty decent way to read and post status updates. Update your status, post pictures, check out your friends profiles, make comments all from the comfort of your device. This is a must have if you have a Facebook account.

ASTRO File Manager

ASTRO File Manager is a very powerful file manager for Android. It really is a must on your Android device when it comes to managing files on your sdcard. It’s packed with features, and here’s some of them:

• Download any file with browser
• Browse / create / extract zip files
• Back up and restore public applications to the SD card
• Create shortcuts
• Send files as attachments
• Thumbnails
• Multiselect
• Search
• Image, Text, HTML Viewers

Opera Mini

Opera Mini is an Android app that serves as an alternative to Android’s default web browser. It is a extremely lightweight. Opera Mini loads most websites much faster than Android’s Browser loads the full HTML site. Extra speed is also accomplished by Opera compressing and routing the page through their own servers.

Cooking Capsules

Cooking Capsules is the first smart phone utility of it’s kind. Cooking Capsules are for anyone who wants to simplify the process of cooking. Simply “watch” a very short cooking show, “shop” with the grocery list, and “make” using the handy step-by-step recipe directions.

PicSay

PicSay is a small app that lets you edit and modify photos on your phone. You can add speech balloons, any of a range of text styles, and images like hearts and stars to your photos. Or if you’re feeling less whimsical, you can modify the picture’s contrast, tint, hue and saturation levels; flip and rotate your image; and do other basic editing tasks.

Live Chat

Chat, flirt and discuss with other users in this Live Chat application. You can create your own chat groups and create a profile with photo.

Twidroid

This Android based Twitter app is available in a free and a pro version. Both of Twidroid’s offerings provide most every Twitter function you might need, from the basic viewing and sending tweets, following and unfollowing users, viewing profiles to the more advanced: saved searches, URL shortening, photo posting, and geo-location support.

aTrackDog (SD)

aTrackDog keeps track on what applications you have installed and/or backed-up on your SD-card and notifies you in case a newer version is available. Manually checking the applications you have installed for a new version would be a pain, and here’s a easy solution. If you go to their website you can also see a overview over the 100 most popular programs installed by its users, which is a really cool feature. The program also has some exciting features such as:

• Track new version for backed-up apps
• Install, delete backed-up apps
• Export app list for sharing
• Browse top 100 popular apps (already mentioned)

Moov for Android

It calls itself a mobile interface, but in reality Moov is a launcher. From the dashboard view, slide open the keyboard and begin typing the first few letters of your MP3,application , address book contact, and so on to get a list of search suggestions popping up on a separate screen. Moov even helps you out by offering tabs that let you search your term in the publisher’s other apps: Fbook, Quickpedia, Local (Yelp), and Dial Zero.

iSkoot

iSkoot is a free app for Android phones that puts Skype on your mobile. Click to call or chat with your Skype buddies! Make inexpensive international calls with iSkoot, as well, through SkypeOut. This is similar to iSkoot app for iPhone.

ShopSavvy

ShopSavvy is all about the deals. Enter a product name or barcode (using the keypad or the camera), and ShopSavvy identifies the product, searches the Web and local chain stores for the best prices, and collects reviews of the item.

Barcode Scanner

This is a really fun and nice to have application, many android applications around the web are publish with a barcode image, I’m guessing most of you have seen these floating around. And in case you didn’t understand what exactly it was, here’s the answer. Scan barcodes on CDs, books, and other products, then look up prices and reviews, or search for a word in a book and find where it occurs. You can also scan QR Codes containing URLs, contact info, calendar events, and more.

• Easily scan barcodes
• Look prices and reviews for the scanned items
• Lots of future potential
• User friendly

Searchify

Searchify lets you perform translations, calculations, unit conversions, wikipedia searches, calendar entry and more just by typing in searches into the main search box on Android (1.6 or higher).

You can use Searchify just by hitting the search button and typing – you don’t need to open an app at all.  So it can replace your wikipedia app, your calculator, unit convertor, and it’s the fastest way to do all these things.

BeamReader

I’ve tried many different PDF readers, and none suited my needs or was easy enough to use. Then a friend tipped me about this application and it was exactly what I was looking for. View PDF files and e-mail attachments in their desktop quality. Documents are rendered locally on device.

• Fast full fidelity rendering
• Intuitive granular zoom and navigation
• Text wrap view
• Encrypted and password protected PDFs
• Text search
• Bookmarks
• Embedded links

Dolphin Browser

Now here’s a nice and feature rich browser. In my eyes it’s the best browser out there for Android. It sure beats the standard browser that’s for sure, and it really improves the mobile surfing experience. It’s fast, lightweight, supports tabs and lots more. Here are some of the features:

• Gesture
• Sync G.bookmark
• DL YouTube video
• Multi touch 4 Droid & Hero& cyanogen
• Save cache 2 SD
• Tabs view
• Theme pack support

Ringdroid

Ringdroid app for Android lets you create free ringtones from your favorite songs. Just load a song onto your SD card, select start and end points, and save it as a ringtone, alert or notification. You can even record your own ringtones with Ringdroid.

Google Voice

Google Voice is a new service from Google that gives the user his own personal phone number. You then can use your Google Voice number to make phone calls or send SMS messages from the web. And the Android app lets users do the same from their Android device. This means users can make and receive calls and text messages on your Google Voice number through your phone. Google Voice also archives all voice mails and SMS messages online, so you will never lose that important message.

ActionComplete

ActionComplete is a high-tech to-do list for your Droid phone. It makes it easy to organize your tasks and appointments. You can even set reminders that will pop up based on where you are, allowing you to remind yourself of certain tasks at the office, others at the home, and so on.

Robo Defense

It starts like your normal tower defense game. You build mazes using several upgradable towers to try to prevent the enemies from moving from one side of the room to the other. That’s where normal ends with this game.

eBuddy IM

Many want to stay connected on MSN or Facebook chat while they are on the move, well now they can. With this eBuddy Android client one can stay online on MSN, Facebook, Yahoo, AIM, ICQ, GTalk & MySpace accounts while on the move. The chat function is very organized and easy to keep track of.  Personally i like this IM much more than Meebo because I haven’t had any problems with it (yet). And with Meebo i had connectivity problems all the time. Anyway, its features:

• Fast and reliable messenger
• Chat with multiple MSN, Facebook, Yahoo, AIM, ICQ, GTalk & MySpace accounts
• All IM friends in one buddy list
• Run in background
• Messages sent as data, not SMS/Text

One Nightstand Pro

One Nightstand is your new favorite bedside clock, but it’s so much more than that.  One Nightstand features the usual time and date functions, but also includes current weather, upcoming calendar events, alarm, and the great “Let Me Sleep” function that lets you set a sleep timer that shuts off noises from your phone (all configurable) for a certain amount of time.  In the free version, you can set the 1 hour “Nap” timer, and in the full version you can set from 1 to 12 hours of peace and quiet.

NetCounter

NewsRob is a RSS/Atom reader that syncs with Google Reader. If you’re like me and make use of public transportation to get to school or work and would like to keep updated with news from your favourite sites, this is the perfect thing. Like I mentioned it syncs with Google Reader and we all know how we love Google services. Some cool features are:

• Two-way background sync
• Download full & partial feeds including the web pages and images
• Offline capable (You can download your feeds via WiFi then read them when not connected to the web
• Share link by email/twitter/delicious
• Share article in Reader
• Star articles
• Locale Integration
• Hide and Auto-delete read articles
• Supports your Google Reader categories and labels
• Save fetched feeds and web pages on your SD card

WaveSecure – Mobile Security

WaveSecure is the complete mobile security service that lets users protect mobile data, ensures privacy in the event of theft and enhances the possibility of recovering the phone. Track SIM changes, lock, backup, wipe & restore your data.

Puzzle Blox Arcade!

Puzzle Blox is a casual game with a lot of puzzling and fun for your mobile. It is inspired by games like Tetris, Bubble Breaker and Bejeweled with a different twist. Literally! Clear the levels just by tapping, twisting and tilting your phone.

• Unique touch & tilt game play
• Colorful graphics, beautiful themes
• Unlimited Arcade! game mode
• Features a demo of 2 more game modes
• Global high score leader board
• HD graphic mode for Motorola Droid and other WVGA devices
• Simply addicting

Places Directory

Yet another Google Labs product for Android. As the name implies, Places Directory allows you to browse nearby places in categories like Restaurants, Movie Theaters, Hotels and Banks. You’ll see distance and directions to the destination, and if you tap on the listing, it’ll show ratings and photos. You can also call the business or view its location on Google Maps.

• Mini-Map
• Location Picker
• My Favorites
• Photo Gallery
• Compass Direction
• Keyword Search

Ringdroid

This application is actually really cool. It lets you manipulate song tracks, so that you can use songs from your music library as ring-tones. Whats great about that? Well say you want the ring-tone to start 1min 30secs into the song, and last for 20 seconds (chorus maybe?), this application makes life easy for you.

• Supports MP3, WAV, AAC, MP4, 3GPP and AMR files.
• Song editing
• Creating ring-tones (duh..)

Spotify

You guessed it, its the official Spotify client which enables you to listen to your Spotify playlists wherever you go. You need to be a Premium subscriber to use this application, but I’d say its definitely worth it. You don’t know what Spotify is? Then it’s time you came out of your cave and check out their website. The client has all the features the computer client does (i think), and as long as you’ve either downloaded playlists to be available offline, or have a 3G connection you should be ready to go.

• Stream your favourite music
• Store your offline playlists
• Share your favourite tracks with friends
• A pretty decent Home widget

Abstract

Texture

waterdrops and net

Bubble

Abstract Photo

Abstract Photo

Cold Drink

Animal

Goldfish #5

Goldfish #1

Deer #4

Deer #2

Dog

Ducks

Prairie Dog

Peacock

Monkey

Blue Lizard

Parrots

Flamingo

Architecture

Green Place

Petronas Twin Towers

Golden Gate Bridge

Building Photo

Building

Airport

Flower

Chrysanthemum

Cherry Flower

Orchid

Butterfly and Flower

Flower Photo

Flower

Food

Fruit-shape dessert #9

Fruit-shape dessert #6

Fruit-shape dessert #1

Coffee Cup #1

Coffee Cup #4

Ice Cream #1

Milk Tea

Rice and curry

Soy Duck with Rice

Shitake Mushroom

Insect

Butterfly

insect

making love

Butterfly

Bees and Lotus

Sunset #9

Sunset #1

Mountain

Singapore

Singapore 2

Bangkok View

Objects

Coins

Color pencil

binder clips

watch

Kettle and Cup

Statue

Waterwork

Bird House

Transportation

Old Train

Sky Train

Speed Boat

Religious

Buddhist Mala (Rosary)

Mary and Infant Jesus

Ancient Pagoda

Jesus

Technology

Circuit

RCA Audio/Video Cable

People

Escalator

Discussion

Depression

Texture / Background

Carton Paper Texture

Jeans Texture

Grunge Texture

Crackle Texture

Texture

Wood Texture

Brick

Bamboo

Tree Bark Texture

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 each time someone asks for a page that’s simply not available on your website, Seeing things from a visitor’s point of view, when a hyperlink is clicked, it’s expected to return results of related information.

The page can serve to educate, encourage visitor to find exact search result, you may get related information visitor might be interested or even redirecting them back to home page. These of all listed “50+ Most Creative and unusual 404 error Pages” for your better inspirations which will help you to built your own results as per your requirements, if you know about any other creative error 404 page can share with us.

bluedaniel

iStockphoto

HomeStar Runner

Fry wiles

patterntap

Wefollow

Openendedadventure

fluther

southparkstudios

The north face

Gog

nickciske

Mixx

Product planner

Rocket theme

PEN-and-PAPER

Spore

Ferdaze

planetgeek

Psicobyte

Digital Mash

Just Creative Design

Martinkorner

jhuskisson

Acromediainc

Jackfig

Inverseparadox

Meroigo

aviationreviews

twitter

Woo Themes

cuoma

Reddit

clearspring

thewebmotel

fuelly

Soocial

Slonky

LookItsMe

suspendedanimations

Retardzone

Lightpostcreative

Wufoo

Deviantart

Coldink

DigWP

WP beginner

Mozilla

Habrahabr

YourWebJob

brightkite

Youcastr

Its not easy to find quality work of graphic designers, but one of our team membar find some famous graphic designers work as “45+ Corporate Design Examples from Famous Designers Gallery” there is really creative awesome print designs.

We have to choose some selective designs which belong to famous graphic designers gallery where many corporate identity campaigns, brand marketing campaigns, brand brochures and amazing art work in print designs.

Saman Taraz Gil Catalog by ~Sepidehgraphic

Star Grid Posters

valens Energy Drink Identity

Modern Style-T shirt

Corporate and brand identity Amova

Corporate and brand identity Ethnique

My businesscard by ~Sepidehgraphic

armo payam project by ~E30X

Poster BOMB THE SHOP

MKTG DSGN business card by =blueslaad

axis sport cafe by ~zkzook

The Islands of the bahamas

Sundance Gourmet Coffee Co.

Diandra Asbaty Identity by =Chubby-Cherry

One Degree

Missile Energy Drink Identity

Corporate and brand identity Vivia

Cocoa Stuff Identity

Brand-amp Packaging Development LCNR

Codeex cards by ~SERZHant

5 sense_tarjetas by ~islasmowin

Corporate – Cagdas by ~kejdi

Stream Line by ~genbo

A4 Envelope concepts by ~Roofizone

Packaging Development Nupo

Brand identity and Web Site Roger Oddone

Brand Identity KAnig Architektur

Velocity 2010 by ~Naasim

Pocket Product Catalogues by *matieregrise

COLORFUL SHADOWS by ~sarakhanoom

xWare Corporate Identity

Brand Identity Embassy

Hindukusch Identity

Muscat Festival I by ~nasmat4desn

Black Shop boutique by ~MehdGraph

Veris Company by ~PuchkinDesign

YOC BOX Reinvent Yourself everyday

Brooklyn Fare

M-Graphics Letterhead by ~darkevil2

Midad Stationery Gude by *Nihadov

Identity Design-Brochure by *Masca-Ridens

NEW STYLE TO FLY

St thermohus Corporate brand identity

I got one fresh, small project, where I needed small portfolio site for a friend. It got me thinking and lead to research what WordPress can offer to me, with its great CMS platform. I was a little bit surprised, because I got even better results than I expected- theres was a plenty of interesting portfolio, photo gallery themes, where homepage was static, but still you can tie together static with dynamic content and add blog as well. Maybe it’s nothing new or signifunt for most of you, but I wasn’t aware there is possible to get such theme so easily, where of course my friend could manually change it’s content without touching or learning any code knowledge.

It was commercial theme I tested, but since most of people look just for free stuff, I gave it a try and searched for free Portfolio, photo gallery type themes. Maybe results aren’t too bright, but those themes are completely free for using. Don’t worry, if you are searching for more quality and wider sortiment, I will follow up with Commercial Portfolio and Photo Gallery WordPress Theme article in next few days!

1. ViewPort

Viewport, a free WordPress theme created by Paul Bennett is focused around a clean and simple, content based layout. The aim is to grab the user’s attention and draw them straight into the content.

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2. WordPress The Unstandard

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3. Gallery 1.2

Gallery is a beautiful, free, gallery-style Thematic child theme for WordPress, designed by Christopher Wallace especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers. It is extremely flexible and can be used as a starting point for design galleries and portfolios.

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4. wpFolio – Free CMS / Portfolio WordPress Theme

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5. Blue Bubble

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6. Creative by Nature

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7. Linquist

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8. Work-a-holic

Work-a-holic is a free minimalistic two and three column WordPress theme that focuses mainly on showcasing portfolios for artists, web designers, photographers and illustrators. Work-a-holic separates your portfolio from your blog, enabling easy navigation for clients in a clean, intuitive fashion. It also has a separate sidebar for portfolio (shows recent projects) and a separate widgetized sidebar for the blog and pages.

9. Fotofolio WordPress Theme

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10. Portfolio WordPress Theme

“Portfolio WordPress Theme” is a wordpress theme designed for web portfolios and (for now) just for web portfolios. It is coming with an Administrative Panel from where you can edit the head quote text, you can edit all theme colors, font families, font sizes and you can fill a curriculum vitae and display it into a special page.

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11. Irresistable

Use as a standard blog or use the customized homepage layout, as shown in our demo, that you can activate via our options panel

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12. Sharpfolio: WordPress Portfolio Theme

Sharpfolio is a WordPress theme designed to enable Web Designers, Graphic Designers, Photographers, Motion Designers, Artists or any creative professional to showcase their work in a simple, clean, beautiful portfolio. Sharpfolio aims to focus primarily on your work, because after all, this is what’s most important.

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13. Portfolio Press

This is a dark-colored theme suitable for anyone who wants to create a quick portfolio or wants to showcase his work through WordPress. The theme is fully CSS/XHTML validated, WordPress 2.6+ ready and comes with easy to modify code.

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14. Desk Space

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15. Snapshot

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16. WP Coda

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17. Infinity

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18. AutoFocus

AutoFocus is a WordPress theme specifically for photographers looking for a simple and elegant way to display their work online.

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19. FotoLog

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20. Free Photo Gallery

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21. Grace Photoblog

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22. Vivee WordPress Theme

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23. Nishita – Free Photo Blog WordPress Theme

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24. Fhi-Zin

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Contact Form is one of the most important page for all websites. If you are running an e-commerce website, you need a contact form so that your potential buyers can reach you to get more information. Even if you run a personal blog, you will also need a contact form so that bloggers from same niche or advertisers can contact you easily.

There are some great online form providers such as Wufoo and FormSpring. These services allow you to create contact forms, survey forms and registrations form easily without knowing much about web programming languages.

If you are using WordPress, then you can use WordPress plugins to build your contact form easily. However, there are a lot of Contact Form Plugins in WordPress Plugin Repository. Some of the plugins are rather too old, not able to support the latest version of WordPress or just having too little features.

So, we decided to gather 18 Best WordPress Contact Form Plugins that will suit everyone needs. These plugins are tested by us and support WordPress 2.9.1.

1. cformsII

cforms is a highly customizable Ajax driven contact form plugin. It lets you to create multi page forms or multiple forms on one page easily. They are few more cool features such as Role Manager support, Tell-A-Friend, Fully localization, Backup and Restore. Antispam is also supported by using CAPTCHA or Q&A.

2. Contact Form 7

Another highly customizable form plugin. You can add fields and alter the look and feel of your contact form through CSS. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.

3. Clean Contact

Clean Contact is a simple contact form for WordPress. It requires less to no configuration and able to run out of the box upon installation. You can specify the Thank You Message and also Thank You Url, which is the URL that users would be redirect to after the form is being sent.

4. Dagon Design Form Mailer

This plugin also known as Secure Form Mailer, offers a lot of features such as multiple forms, multiple recipients, auto reply, multiple attachments, message template system and also numerous security features.

5. MM Forms

MM Forms is an easy form build for WordPress, but it has a lot of features. With this plugin, you are able to create multiple contact forms for your site, spam filter with Akismet, protection by CAPTCHA, Ajax submission with jQuery and also custom fields. Some of the special features that offered by this plugin include saving form submission to database, export to CSV and even has a RSS feed for form submission.

6. WP Contact Form

Simple Contact Form plugin for WordPress. You can use this plugin to add contact form for both a post or page.

7. SimpleModal Contact Form (SMCF)

This WordPress plugin utilize both jQuery and its plugin SimpleModal for the modal dialog box. You can even insert the contact form to your template files. So, it is suitable for theme developer who want to include contact form in the template files.

8. Tiny Contact Form

A very simple contact form, without fancy features but you are allow to add contact form through sidebar widget or template files by calling the correct function name.

9. Scaleable Contact Form

With Scaleable Contact Form, you can have either Ajax or non-Ajax version contact form at no time. Extra fields can be added and set to both required or non-required. Able to add contact form to your template files too.

10. Visitor Contact Forms

To use this plugin, you need to create a contact form at http://www.visitorcontact.com/. After that, just fill in your form ID to the plugin page and you are done. There are a lot of cool features, such as Geocoding, Captcha Spam Protection, Contact Manager, Skype Status and much more.

11. Fast and Secure Contact Form

This plugin allows optional extra fields of any type: text, textarea, checkbox, radio, select. It doesn’t require Javascript and has very tight security features.

12. ONW Simple Contact Form

ONW Simple Contact Form is a small WordPress plugin that allows WordPress users to add contact form to any page or post through WordPress short code. However, users are not allowed to add fields to the form.

More WordPress Contact Form Plugins

Besides the 12 WordPress Contact Forms, here we list 6 more WordPress Plugin to build your own contact forms. They might not be as powerful as the 12 plugins listed above, but it is good that we keep them in the list so that you can have them as your reference in future.

• WP Flex Contact Form
• WP Simple Contact Form With CAPTCHA
• Enhanced WordPress contact form plugin
• Contact Form 8
• Spam-Free Contact Form
• Constant contact

Bird on a branch
Available in various widescreen, fullscreen, HDTV and dualscreen resolutions.

Patrick Gunderson’s abstract artworks
Available in 1920×1080.

Unbrella Sky
1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900

Glacier Sunrise
Available in various full screen and wide screen resolutions – 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050 and 1920×1200.

The Dancing Nebula
1920×1200px.

Colors and An Animal
Available in various fullscreen resolutions.

Guara
Available in 1920×1200, 2560×1600

Strukt
Available in 1024×640, 2560×1600

Serenity
Available in 1440×900.

De La Haut
Available in various fullscreen resolutions.

Creamy Sky
Available in various widescreen, fullscreen, HDTV and dualscreen resolutions.

Chameleon
Available in various widescreen and fullscreen resolutions.

something like an astronomer

MacBook Pro
Available in various widescreen, fullscreen, HDTV and dualscreen resolutions.

Bello Nebula
Available in the resolution 1920×1200.

La Solitudine
Available in the resolution 1680×1050.

Super Silo
Available in various resolutions – widescreen, fullscreen and iPhone.

For A Thousand Years
Available in 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050.

Dreamer
A beautiful wallpaper created by Henrik Newstream, available in various full screen resolutions.

Equidistant
Available in the resolutions 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1900×1200 and in the iPhone-version.

Nova
Available in the resolution 1920×1200.

Eifel Tower
Available in the resolution 1600×1200.

Ee Venn’s wallpaper
Available in various resolutions – widescreen, fullscreen and iPhone.

Bokeh
Available in Dual & Single Display Screens (Wide/Full Screen)

Vladstudio’s wallpapers
Available in various fullscreen resolutions – 1280×1024, 1400×1050, 1600×1200.

Cosmic Apple
Available in various wide screen resolutions – 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050 and 1920×1200.

Let if fly
Available in various full screen and wide screen resolutions – 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050 and 1920×1200.

Swan
Available resolutions: 1440×900, 1680×1050 and 1920×1200.

Phalanx
Available in various full screen and wide screen resolutions – 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050 and 1920×1200.

Autumn
Available in various full screen and wide screen resolutions – 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050 and 1920×1200.

Chasing Dreams
Available in 1920×1080.

It’s Magic
Available in 1440×900, 1600×1200, 1680×1050 and 1920×1200.

Influx
Available in resolutions 1280×1024, 1920×1200 and 2560×1600.

All Falls Down
Available in resolutions 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050 and 1920×1200.

Distorted 7 HD Wallpaper
Available in 1680×1050

Rooster’s Ranch
Available in 1440×900, designed by Andrea Andrade.

Electricmanja
Available in the resolutions 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200 and in the iPhone version.

Photons
Available in various themes in resolutions 1280×1024, 1600×1200, 1920×1200.

Korean Star Paper
Available in the resolution 1920×1200.

a flower
Available in various resolutions 1600×1200 and 1920×1200.

The End, The Tsunami
Available in 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200

depthCore Heist
Available in various resolutions – widescreen, fullscreen and iPhone.

Girl
Available in 1680×1050.

Mac Universe
Available in 1680×1050.

Twizted
Available in the resolution 2560×1600.

In a Whisper
Available in 1280×800

Fritrix
Available in 1280×1224, 1680×1050, 2600×1300

Gone Clubbing
Available in various resolutions: 1920×1200, 1680×1050, 1440×900, 1280×800, but also fullscreen, HDTV and Mobile versions are available.

Route 66
1920×1200

The Dope Show
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You might also want to take a look at our previous selections:

• 83 Beautiful WordPress Themes
  An overview of beautiful, but rather unknown themes you might have missed.
• 21 Fresh, Usable and Elegant Themes
  A quite pretty selection of elegant yet well thought-out themes.
• 10 Fresh and Clean Themes
  The beauty of these themes lies in their clean look supported by a legible content presentation.
• 13 WordPress Magazin-Themes
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1. Vibrant WordPress Themes

FFF Lemon Twist (Demo and Download)

Several3 [ Demo ]

Adreu r2 [ Demo ]

Blogging Pro Theme [ Demo ]

DM-Bloodless [ Demo]

Illacrimo [ Demo ]

Elixir

Insense [ Demo ]

Zeke 1.0 [ Demo ]

jsTheme
Comes with a number of themes.

Smashing Theme [ Demo ]

DarkRed [ Demo ]

Gossip City [ Demo ]

Resurrection

Blue Steel

River Run

Yoghourt

Midsight Red & Brown[ Demo ]
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Fluid Yellow Black

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Red Stamp [ Demo ]

Dilectio [ Demo ]

Fauna

dfMarine [ Demo ]

Curved WordPress Theme [ Demo ]

Accord WordPress Theme [ Demo ]

2. Simple, Minimalistic Themes

iA

Modicus 0.2

Modern [ Demo ]

Documentation [ Demo ]

Jentri [ Demo ]

miniBits [ Demo ]

GIMP Style

Dayvan Theme [ Demo ]

Tree Theme [Demo ]

DePo Clean WordPress Theme [ Demo ]

BlueBird 1.0

Balance

Paisley [ Demo ]

Autumn

Brilliance [ Demo ]

Pixelate

Pockett [ Demo ]

Artuell [ Demo ]

Plane Jane

Briny

Elite

Blue Moon

3. Magazine Style WordPress Themes

WP Premium [ Demo ]

Modicus Remix

Morning After

Futurosity Magazine [ Demo ]

Structure WordPress Theme [ Demo ]

Visionary WordPress Theme [ Demo ]

WP Polaroid [ Demo ]

Overstand Theme

Jello Wala Mello WordPress Theme

4. Grid-Based WordPress Themes

Gridline Lite [ Demo ]

Refreshed: Grid Focus

5. Calm, Clean and Legible Themes

Sharpfolio

Coldblue

Cubismo [ Demo ]

Yomel [ Demo ]

Lust WordPress Theme

Abstractia [ Demo ]

HemingwayEx [ Demo ]

Blubbr

Ayumi [ Demo ]

Greenway 3C

K2-U3 [ Demo ]

OldLamp [ Demo ]

Prima [ Demo ]

ProSense

Insan [ Demo ]

Sakeena [ Demo ]

Margot

The Azure Hut

Livegreen [ Demo ]

Simpress [ Demo ]

Glued Ideas: Subtle [ Demo ]

Gluttony [ Demo ]

6. Advanced WordPress Themes

ExtJS WordPress Theme

Lounge2

Prebuilt

Neoclassical
A 3-column template system with rotating header images.

7. Experimental Themes

Bonsai

Trevilian Way

BrainTied 1.0 [ Demo ]
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Tropical Grunge [ Demo ]

Aspire

Isolated Theme [ Demo ]

Supermini

Fontella
The front page features only the main/recent post of the weblog.

ASCII Themes

Retro Mac OS X [ Demo ]

8. Photoblog & Videoblog Themes

Tumblelog For WordPress [ Demo ]

Nautilus

Nishita [ Demo ]

9. Sources and Further Resources

• WordPress Themes That Don’t Suck
• BlogPerfume WordPress Themes
• 48 SEO WordPress Themes
• Skinpress.com
• WPDesigner.com
• Clazh.com
• Best WordPress Magazine Themes
• ScribbleScratch.com
• Photoblog Themes

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One year ago we’ve presented a hand-picked collection of Photoshop tutorials. Now it’s time for a fresh portion of healthy Photoshop learning material. This article provides professional Adobe Photoshop tutorials which can enrich your design skills and improve the quality of your works. Although the authors of the tutorials rarely provide the information about the used version, we tried to pick only those tutorials that can be used with both CS 3 and older versions of Adobe Photoshop.

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Photo- and Picture Editing and Processing

• MP3 Player Design
  In this tutorial you will learn how to design a product in Photoshop. The product is a RCA Lyra X3030 portable media player. Although the chances are, you are thinking “why would I need to make it?”, the reason for this tutorial is to teach people the techniques used for mocking up a product design.
• Magic Lighting Effect
  How to create a nice light and magic effect.
• Beautiful Lady Effect
  Learn how to combine some brushes and color adjustment to make a beautiful lady effect.
• Selecting & Extracting Hair – Masking Tutorial – Extraction Tips
  One of the most challenging montage or masking jobs in the profession of post-production editing is the hair lift. When the model has long flowing hair and the subject needs to change location many post-production artists call in sick.
• Add a Dreamy or Misty Effect To Your Photos
  This quick tutorial will show how to add a really cool dreamy or misty effect to your photos. This tutorial works best with nature related images.
• Improving the Quality of Photos
  Improve the look of your photos by playing with some simple Photoshop techniques.
• Fake Model Photography
  With a very little effort, you can take existing photographs of everyday scenes and make it look like they’re actually of miniature models.
• Displacement Water
  Creating a realistic water surface in Photoshop is quite a challenge because it is the distorted reflection of the surroundings that makes the water look liquid. The displace filter is an excellent tool for making this distortion.
• Making Skin Beautiful
  Not everyone has a beautiful skin. This tutorial will help the photographer put their models in the best light so to speak.
• Photoshop tutorial and Post-producted glasses
  To save your time think to photo retouch especially frosted glasses.
• Professional “glamour style” photo retouch
  This is the first chapter of a main tutorial divided in six parts. In this one you will learn how to photo retouch the skin of a model in a few steps. Better results can be obtained by using a graphic tablet instead of a mouse.
• iMouse — creating Apple mouse
  Simple and elegant. Apple mouse. Is there anyone, who doesn’t want graphic like that? Let’s have a look at creating this mouse in Adobe Photoshop. 3 pages.
• Give Your Photos a Retro Comic Book Effect
  How about a fun effect for your incredibly boring photo albums? Creating a old comic book effect for your photos is easy and the results are visually appealing. More fun is achieved when adding captions to your photos using comic book fonts and design elements.
• Space and Planet Tutorial
  The techniques below will show you how to create an image similar to the final result I have obtained below although the image below took 3 hours to paint with alot of fine detail work, you will still get the idea.
• Faking HDR in Adobe Photoshop
  This HDR tutorial shows quite easy way to fake HDR foto in Photoshop. You don’t need to shoot into RAW or take photos with different exposure – one JPEG is enough. If you can work with masks in Photoshop, you have an advantage. Part of tutorial is HDR action for download.
• 11 Super Awesome Photoshop Movie Effects
  11 most-favorite movie-effect tutorials. From Scarface to Sin City to Pirates of the Carribean to 300, we’ve got 11 great ways to go Hollywood on your photos.
• A movie-effect with Photoshop
  This tutorial explains how to turn your photo into the movie-like image using Adobe Photoshop.
• Visual effects in the style of 300
  Here’s a little Photoshop guide to mimic the 300 style. The effects could also be applied to video in After Effects with a similar setup.
• Reflective Bubbles
  For my most recent work I wanted to create bubbles that would reflect my subject in a believable yet magical way.
• Bringing a Stone Statue to Life
  Learn how to take a stone statue and alter it to look life-like.
• 4 Easy Photoshop Techniques to Make Your Pictures Pop
  “In this tutorial I will be demonstrating some quick, easy methods for adding drama and/or interest to your shots. As far as I know, these methods should work for both Photoshop and Photoshop Elements.”
• Devil’s Eye
  Some eyes are just too pretty, but I bet some of you would change that if you could. I am going to try to explain how to make eyes look more sinister, And remember this is coming from a begginer,so bare with me. Photoshop CS2.
• Beautiful lighting FX effect in Photoshop
  This tutorial will show you how to make a beautiful lighting effect on scatters by using Photoshop. Keep in mind that I only provide the basic guidelines to creating this type of effect. There are tons of possibilities if you spend time to play with the settings and keep your creativity wide open.
• Water Drops
  So simple, and realistic, these water drops (and optional ice drops) are also simple to do anywhere, anytime.
• Creating a glass ball
  In this tutorial you will learn how to create a glass ball in photoshop using some simple tools and techniques. Any version of photoshop can be used.
• 3D Ice Cube
  In this tutorial we’ll try to build a realistic 3D ice cube. Usually this kind of stuff is done with the help of some 3D software like Maya or 3DMax, still we’ll try to use Photoshop tools to do the work.
• Alienize: Transform a person into an alien
  In this tutorial is written how to create a very cool looking alien using Adobe Photoshop. Grab a picture of someone and get ready to alienize it.
• Water Spirit – Drawing Fire
  This tutorial will show You how to place a fire on someone’s hands.
• Creating a 3D effect with image editing software
  Here’s how to make a neat effect to make it look like the subject of a photo is popping out of the background. This can be done with GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) or Photoshop.
• How to use Photoshop to create Product Box?
  How many times you wanted to create cool product box for some of your products? Sure, there are many ways, and with new Photoshop you have even more options to create boxes.
• Super Fly Box Maker
  These boxes can be used to advertise almost anything (not just software). This is great if you want to catch a viewers attention, and it also gives your product display a more professional look and feel.
• Flaming Hair
  Tutorial with some simple brushing techniques, and a bit of color tweaking, you can spice up your photo.
• Create a Realistic Torn Paper Effect
  Torn paper is one of the key elements to achieving the distressed / collage look. This tutorial covers a few simple steps in Adobe Photoshop to create a realistic looking torn paper effect taking you on your way to Destroying the Web 2.0 Look.
• Creating a Mac-Type Background in Photoshop
  This tutorial is about making a “mac” style background. You can use these in all sorts of situations, including the obvious – your desktop as well as part of your designs or for corporate work (powerpoint presentations, flash work etc). Naturally you wouldn’t want to use this exact set of steps, but following them will give you a good idea of the technique. Good luck!

Drawings, Paintings, Cartoons

• Sexy Girl Comic With Photoshop
  This tutorial describes a way to create a sexy comic girl from a paper sketch.
• Skin Painting Tutorial
  Learn how to paint a realistically looking skin with Photoshop.
• Making of The Blues Singer Leaves Town
  This picture was done in a hot summer day, in the memory of an old anime series I used to watch as a kid, about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Historically, it’s off from that period, but it’s the feeling of summer, childhood fascination and nature that I wanted to re-create. It’s also a tribute to music. 4 pages.
• Fox Fire Tutorial
  Converting from hand-sketched picture to a digital masterpiece.
• Easy Watercolor Painting Effect
  In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, we’re going to learn how to easily make a photo look more like a watercolor painting. This photo effect works best on images where maintaining rich colors and strong contrast is more important than keeping any fine details, since you’ll be losing a lot of detail with this effect.
• Soft Cell Shading
  Learn how to paint softlry, as a variation of cell shading, eventually going through a total of seven stages.
• Sketch to Paint
  Digital artist David Cousens reveals how to develop a sci-fi art sketch in Adobe Photoshop using the airbrush and a few nifty tricks.
• Portrait Painting
  Learn how to draw a portrait from a hand-drawn sketch.
• Drawing a Cute Boy
• Drawing from a reference photo
  The original photo: I locate it on the bottom layer to use for some initial tracing, primarily to save time and get the perspective correct. Some people prefer not to trace.
• Comic art style
  This is a method that you can use to produce abstract art using Adobe Photoshop. Randomness, detail, colors and contrast plays of course important roles now.

Texteffects

• 3D typographic effects
  Photoshop is an astounding post-production tool – and here Nik Ainley of Shiny Binary shows you how to add the wow factor to 3D text using Photoshop’s art tools.
• Slow shutter text effect
  Learn how to create this stunning slow shutter text effect using just Photoshop.
• Create a Spectacular Flaming Meteor Effect on Text
  Take typography one step further by having text falling from the sky in a burning inferno. Yes, this is the text-on-fire tutorial to end all tutorials. It uses a little Illustrator for the text and a lot of Photoshop to burn up the screen!
• Smooth Glass Type
  Here’s a quick way to create some nice looking translucent glass type that’ll work great on any background, made completely with layer styles.
• Recreate the ‘Bee Movie’ Text Effect
  In this quick Photoshop tutorial we’ll be recreating the ‘Bee movie’ text effect, you know, the one you’ve seen all over the place over the last few months?
• Plastic Jelly Style
  In this tutorial we’ll be using layer styles to make a plastic-gel type style that you can easily apply to text and shapes. You can download the PSD file from the link at the bottom of the tutorial to just copy+paste the styles.
• Combine 2 text layer styles
  Learn how to apply a combination of multiple text effects.

Buttons, Logos & Menus

• Create A Leopard ‘X’ in Photoshop
  With the recent release of Mac OS X Leopard, I’ve decided to create a tutorial where you can create your own ‘X’. This tutorial is a great exercise in using the dodge and burn tool as well as working with selections.
• Orb Button Effect
  This set of tutorial will show on how to create a very basic mouse over effect in html/css. Therefore this tutorial will spilt into 2 parts:
• Interface Orbs
  Shiny glass orbs have been popular fixtures for web interfaces and application skins for quite some time. In this tutorial, we will be going over a technique for making a standard interface orb.
• Creating Logos on Glass Surfaces
  In this mini tutorial you will learn how to create a convincing logo that is embossed in the surface of a beer glass.
• Photoshop Button Maker
  In this simple tutorial we’re going to create a clever little way of making little buttons using a couple of layers and one interchangeable image layer. As always you can download the sample PSD at the bottom of the tutorial to follow along and copy layer styles out of.
• Design Watercolor Effect Menu
  This is a two-part tutorial on how to create an artistic and un-typical CSS list menu as seen on Web Designer Wall.
• 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed Seal/Badge Photoshop Tutorial
  In this quick Photoshop tutorial I’m going to show you how to design a sweet-lookin’ a golden badge, pretty much like this one I’ve designed below. For this tutorial I’ve used the example ‘100% satisfaction guaranteed seal/badge.
• A Little Window…
• Glossy-Style Carbon Fibre Navigation Set
  This is a kind of glossy, carbon fiber navigation set.
• How to Design Mini Icons
  Numbers of people have asked me how to design my popular Mini Pixel Icon pack. In fact, they are relatively easy. All you need is just some basic Photoshop skills.
• Designing a Safety Icon
• Eye-Popping Banner Ad Tutorial
  Nobody clicks on them, but they still exist. This tutorials shows how you can create iPod nano Ads with Photoshop.

Adobe Photoshop Techniques

• Color adjustment tutorial
  This tutorial shows how to get more mood into your pictures via Adjustment Layers and some other effects.
• Vector Polishing Techniques
  This tutorial includes 9 Photoshop techniques that will show you how to add more depth, color, contrast, and texture into your vector art.
• Advanced Black and White Conversion
  In this tutorial, we will convert an RGB image to Black and White using Photoshop CS3’s new improved Black and White features.
• Actions Tutorial
  Toning With Duotones, Tritones And Quadtones
• 101 Hidden Tips & Secrets
  An overview of professional suggestions, tips and tricks for Adobe Photoshop users.
• Using Actions to Automate Tasks
  While Adobe Photoshop has a host of automation tools, one of the most versatile and powerful of them is called an action. In fact, some of the other automation commands, such as batches and droplets, derive their functionality from actions.

Further Resources

You can find even more Adobe Photoshop tutorials in the articles and resouces we’ve listed below.

• 1000+ Free High Resolution Photoshop Brush Sets
• Photoshop at Dr. Web Magazin (Deutsch)
• PSDTuts
• 51 Text Effect Tutorials Every Designer Should See
• Photoshop Buttons Tutorials
• 2 Minute Photoshop Tricks
• Top 5 Photoshop Tutorials
• The Best 80 Photoshop Text Effects on the Web
• Top Best 55 Photoshop Tutorials For Professional Photographers

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