URL:

http://www.brusheezy.com

What is Brusheezy?

Brusheezy is a gallery of community submitted free Photoshop brushes.  As any Photoshop designer would know, the use of Photoshop brushes is key to many graphic designs.  Use and manipulate your images with unique Photoshop brushes and you’re quickly on your way to designing professional looking graphics.

What you may not know about Brusheezy

Brusheezy has a couple sister sites, Vectoreezy and Flasheezy that have vector graphics and flashy files also available for free download.  Just a couple more elements to add to your graphic design arsenal.

Here’s a quick video on Brusheezy:

URL:

http://www.youtube.com

What is Youtube?

YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. Three former PayPal employees created YouTube in February 2005. In November 2006, YouTube, LLC was bought by Google Inc. for US$1.65 billion, and is now operated as a subsidiary of Google. The company is based in San Bruno, California, and uses Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging and short original videos. Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by individuals, although media corporations including CBS and the BBC and other organizations offer some of their material via the site. (read more at Wikipedia)

What you may not know you can do with Youtube

If you may not know already, Youtube users are currently limited to 10 minute video uploads, but using a few Youtube techniques you can add videos longer than 10 minutes.  In short, crop you video into 10 minute segments, upload them, create a Youtube playlist of your videos, then create a custom video player which plays your playlist, embed the video to your website or blog, voila, you have a Youtube video player that plays a video larger than 10 minutes.

Here’s a video on how to do this :

URL:

http://www.befunky.com

What is BeFunky?

BeFunky is an image editing tool that has a variety of professional filters and effects that you can apply to your photos in minutes.  Simply upload a folder, select an effect, tweak it, and download the newly modified image.  This is a great tool for quick edits on the fly with no additional software to install to your computer, oh and it’s free.

What you may not know about BeFunky

BeFunky has a collection of additional tools, objects, and effects that can be applied to your photos.  Add objects such as footballs, balloons, or text bubbles to your images; create a border for your image and much more.  Watch the video below for more on how you can do some really cool things with your photos.

URL:

http://www.polldaddy.com

What is PollDaddy?

Use PollDaddy to create free surveys and polls for your website, blog and social network profiles.  Find out what your visitors are thinking today. Create your surveys and polls using the custom templates or create your own. Use the in-depth reporting engine to aggregate, print and export your results.

What you may not know about PollDaddy

You can create a conditional or dynamic survey which goes in different directions, based on previous answers.  For instance if the first question is “Do you like hockey or basketball better?”, if they choose basketball, then a list of survey questions on basketball would come up, and visa versa for hockey.  This is an excellent easy way to create advanced polls and surveys for your website or blog for free.

Here’s a quick video on PollDaddy:

URL:

http://www.problogger.net

What is Problogger?

Problogger is a blog for bloggers.  If you don’t know what blogs are, learn everything and more about blogs here.  If you’re asking the popular questions like, how to make money with a blog, what do I write about, how do I write in a blog, how to I get started writing a blog, you’ll find them at Problogger.net

What you may not know about Problogger

Scroll down the page a bit and you’ll see that Problogger has organized a collection of their popular articles for blog beginners.  So if you’re really new to blog, this is just the place to start.  Quickly become an expert at blogging with the 100’s of tips and ideas about blogs.

Here’s a quick video on Problogger:

URL:

http://www.noupe.com

What is Noupe?

NOUPE passionately delivers stylish and dynamic news for designers and web-developers on all subjects of design, ranging from; CSS, Ajax, Javascript, web design, graphics, typography, advertising & much more.

What you may not know about Noupe

Noupe has a larger category break down at the very bottom of their blog.  Furthermore, Noupe allows its readers to submit news, articles, and more.  This creates even more content to all of the readers on web design and development.  For web developers, this is a blog to follow.

Here’s a quick video on Noupe:

URL:

http://pipes.yahoo.com

What is Yahoo! Pipes?

Yahoo! Pipes is a tool to combine, filter, aggregate, and mashup content on the internet from a variety of sources.  The tool is free to use and you can see the design of anyone’s Pipe to learn how to design your own.  You can mashup RSS feeds, Yahoo Maps, and more.

What you may not know about Yahoo! Pipes

You can create a Pipe in minutes and is a great tool to aggregating content on the internet into 1 simple and easy to use RSS feed.  Providing a few RSS feeds you can join them and output just one feed for your RSS tool to read.

Here’s a quick video on Yahoo! Pipes:

URL:

http://www.dynamicdrive.com

What is DynamicDrive?

Dynamic Drive is a great tool for web developers.  You can find 1000’s of scripts to achieve many popular functions on your website.  Many of these scripts are submitted by a variety of users.  Dynamic Drive also has a large collection of CSS library tools to help you design your sites menus, layout and more.  Learn by example from these libraries of CSS tools.

What you may not know about DynamicDrive

DynamicDrive has a great collection of tools for quickly getting things done for your website.  Some popular tools is the ability to turn an image into a favicon for your website or creating a .htaccess file to password protect a directory.  These tools make these tasks quick and simple in the matter of a few clicks.
Here is a quick video on Dynamic Drive:

URL:

http://www.smashingapps.com

What is SmashingApps?

SmashingApps is a blog full of resources, tools, tutorials, examples and more for web developers and designers. Each blog post is packed with information, images, and more. Content is updated quite frequently and is definitely something to be added to your RSS feed reader, if you’re a web developer.

What you may not know about SmashingApps

On the right sidebar of the page is this thing called the Smashing Apps community which allows the community of users to share their resources, tools, and such for web developers. So now you can go beyond just reading what the SmashingApps writers share, but also what the thousands of SmashingApps readers have as well!

Here’s a short video on SmashingApps:

URL:

http://www.productplanner.com

What is ProductPlanner?

Product Planner is a tool to create user flows on your web products.  Learn how user registration or user invites work on popular sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Myspace and more.  Each step-by-step user flow shows you how you can model your user flows off of currently popular successful systems that are already working.

What you may not know about ProductPlanner

You can create your owner user flows directly by copying a current system, such as Twitter’s user sign-up and modify it to match your websites user sign-up.  This is a great way to learn how to optimize your sites user flows and increase user activity on your website.

Here’s a quick video on ProductPlanner: