RainLoop is a Free, modern & fast web-based email client. With modest system requirements, decent performance, simple installation and upgrade, no database required – all these make RainLoop Webmail a perfect choice for your email solution.
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Demo: http://rainloop.net/
License: Creative Commons License
Freecns Cumulus includes over 100 weather specific icons which are shipped as PNG, PDF, EPS and SVG. In addition the pack comes along with grey, black and colored icons. The best of it: It is completely free.
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Demo: http://freecns.yanlu.de/cumulus/
License: License Free
This bundle is called “Zero Bundle“, and it’s called zero simply because that’s what it costs zero. We all love cheap resources, but free is always better, isn’t it? it’s an awesome bundle of free design goodies, with icons, textures, PSDs and much more.
The bundle will remain active for only 30 days, so download yours today so you don’t miss out on this great opportunity for accessing hundreds of beautiful icons. All icons can be used for personal and commercial uses but cannot be redistributed.
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Demo: http://www.zerobundle.com/
License: License Free
CSS has been lacking proper layout mechanisms for far too long. Transitions, animations, filters, all of these are great and useful additions to the language, but they don’t address the major problems that Web developers have been complaining about for what seems like an eternity.
Flexbox is not another CSS framework. Instead, its purpose is to showcase problems once hard or impossible to solve with CSS alone, now made trivially easy with Flexbox. View the styles in the Web inspector or dive into the source to see just how easy CSS layout will become.
Requirements: CSS Framework
Demo: http://philipwalton.github.io/solved-by-flexbox/
License: MIT, GPL License
It doesn’t matter how brilliant your work is if people can’t see it. Now everything you create is accessible on any screen – desktop, tablet or mobile – without compatibility issues.
Google Web Designer brings ideas to life across screens. You can create engaging, interactive HTML5-based designs and motion graphics that can run on any device. If you’re feeling more hands-on, all the code behind your designs is hand-editable, so you’re never locked out of your own work. Your ideas are now amplified by code – not restricted by it.
While a visual tool is helpful, it can never represent your creativity, imagination and vision in full. That’s why you can flip back and forth between Design View and Code View as you work, immediately seeing any changes made to code reflected back in your designs.
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Demo: https://www.google.com/webdesigner/
License: License Free
Raw is an open web app to create custom vector-based visualizations on top of the amazing D3.js library through a simple interface. Even though Raw is a web app, the data you upload will be processed only by the web browser. No server-side operations or storages are performed, no one will see, touch or copy your data.
Raw works with delimiter-separated values (i.e. csv and tsv files) as well as with copied-and-pasted texts from other applications (e.g. Microsoft Excel, TextWrangler, TextEdit. Based on the svg format, visualizations can be easily edited with vector graphics applications for further refinements, or directly embedded into web pages.
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Demo: http://raw.densitydesign.org/
License: LGPL License
Harp is a zero-configuration static web server with built in pre-processing. It supports Jade, Markdown, EJS, LESS, Stylus, and CoffeeScript. Harp is great for rapidly building front-end web applications, documentation, and blogs.
Harp intelligently compiles assets as the browser needs them, so it’s insanely fast. All you have to do is Save and Refresh. You can keep your code clean and organized: reuse common elements with partials, and maintain a consistent site design with layouts. Whether you’re making a GitHub project page, or a mobile application using Apache Cordova/PhoneGap, you can easily compile your code to HTML, CSS & JavaScript and host it anywhere.
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Demo: http://harpjs.com/
License: License Free
Flatic is a large user interface kit containing hundreds of web elements, which will help you design whole websites in Photoshop with ease. Sets of icons, and actions have been included in the kit. The package Includes more than 100 elements. You can check out the full preview here.
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Full Preview: http://www.webappers.com/img/2013/10/Flatic…
License: License Free
Audio looping seems like a basic feature that you’ve probably come to expect from your favorite media player. Web Audio API is an API designed to manipulate and play audio assets on a Web page or application. It is an amazing foundation for games, synthesizers, audio players, trackers and more. All within the comfort of your browser. Support is excellent with Chrome, Opera, Safari and Firefox* all on board.
It probably took more JavaScript than you thought to make simple loops but with just a bit more work you can really kick things up a notch. Visualizers, volume control, special effects and so much more.
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Demo: http://forestmist.org/share/web-audio-api-demo/
License: License Free
The Web began as markup only, and then some script and styling. For many developers, especially us veterans, it’s hard to imagine a Web without plug-ins. Since the earliest days, browser plug-ins like Flash and ActiveX have been the main way to create rich online experiences for more sophisticated Web experiences.
And yet through the efforts of the industry and community, we have returned to a plug-in free Web once again. Much Web browsing today occurs on smart phones and tablets have limited or no support plug-in. Modern browsers like Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer 10/9 have embraced and implemented Web standards like HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript which, in most cases, now reach feature parity with plug-ins (more on those differences later) and are more interoperable across browsers. With more than 75% of all browsers in North America now compatible with HTML5, market researcher Forrester recently said it’s time to say “so long” to plug-in. “The tide,” pronounced Forrester analyst Peter Sheldon, “is turning.”
How the heck did we get here? And, more importantly, where are — where should — we be going?
In this six-part series, we’ll take a hands-on look at the evolution of the Web to what many (including me) see as a shift toward plug-in free. I’ll focus on common Web experiences that have already been written with a plug-in and show you how to convert, and enhance them with HTML5. Read the rest of this entry »
