Getting a little bored how your photos are presented online? How about injecting some fun and humour into it. You don’t really need to be Photoshop literate to edit and add effects into your photos. There’re some really great sites out there that allows you to add effects to your photo by using their existing effect-templates.

The best part is - most of them are free and output is shown immediately on the fly. Here’s a collection of 25 Sites To Have Fun With Your Photoswe’ve come to know. You know they don’t really have to be your photos :-)

We’ll start with 10 of our favorites, followed by the rest. Full list after jump.

Our Top 10 Picks

PhotoFunia

One of the hottest site with tons of creative backgrounds to play around with. Now comes in 9 different languages.

Fun Photo Box

If you don’t get what you want from PhotoFunia, you reallly need to check out this site.

Picartia

Create a photo mosaic of your choice for free online.

Hairmixer

Choose a photo for the left and right side and start mixing their hairs up.

Photo505

We’d say, with Photo505, Photofunia and Fun Photo Box, you’ll be buzy for days.

Yearbook Yourself

Turn your face photo into yearbook alike black & white old school photo. The service is paused and will be back this Summer.

Loonapic

Make funny photos by embedding your face from the photo to the various templates.

Magmypic

Create different fake magazine covers from your photos.

Your own Wired Cover

Powered by Xerox, this service allows you to create your own Wired magazine cover. Customized everything from titles, colors to photos.

Hollywood Hair Makeover

Love those celebrities’ hair? Wear them instantly and see how you look.

More Ways To Have Fun

Write On It

Easily create your fake pictures, captions and fake magazines and other funny jokes for you and your friends.

Dumpr

Create multiple interesting effects from your normal photos.

Anymaking

Allows you to upload any photo and create "old photo", "wanted" and "puzzle" effects out of it.

Montagraph

PiZap

My Heritage

Making use of their face recognition technology, this site offers several fun effects you can play with your photos. Included are Celebrity Morph, Look-alike Meter, Celebrity Collage and Tag Photos.

Letter James

Letter James has nothing to do with photo effects, but instead you allows you to blend texts and words of your choice into their existing templates.

Imagechef

Lots of ways for you to customize your photos and express them wherever you want.

Funny Photos

Similar to Fun Photo Box and Photofunia, just different effects.

Frontpage

Make yourself frontpage in 136 different magazine covers.

Fake Magazine Cover

Personalized money

Get your head into that dollar bill.

Faceinhole

Create HDR

One of the simplest way to create HDR photos online.

Blingee

Add Glitter, Graphics, and Comments to personalize your images, then share with your friends!

If you have problems downloading the templates here, follow these instructions:

1. Download the XML file of the template that you want.
2. Open the XML file in a text editor, like WordPad or Notepad++.
   
3. Using the editor search function, find the text 'widget id'.
4. All the widget id texts have lines that look like this: '<b:widget id="'example1'...'
5. Change all the numbers to double digit numbers. E.g., change 'example1' to 'example11', 'example2' to 'example 22', and so on.
6. Once you're done changing all the numbers in the widget id lines, save the template.
7. Then upload the template into your blog from the Layout > Edit HTML > Upload button.
8. You're done. Hopefully this works.

The idea is by changing the numbers to bigger numbers, you'll avoid having the widget numbers conflicted with the existing widgets with the same number.

We tried it ourselves and it worked! Good luck.

If it doesn't work, see this instructions.

Retro and vintage web designs have become increasingly popular. Ironically, the more and more the web progresses, the more designers start to revert back to old retro styles. For your design inspiration, here are 40 beautifully-designed websites that revert back in time to retro and vintage styles.

If you liked this collection, please consider also reading 20 Beautiful Vintage Photoshop Brush Sets.

1. Level 2 Design

2. Custom Design

3. Klassiker in Acryl

4. Kritevia

5. Target Scope

6. DeVotchKa

7. Big Rig Design

8. Thunder Fuel

9. Small Stone Recordings

10. The Lippincott

11. Thrush

12. FortySeven Media

13. Cottonseed Oil Comeback Tour

14. Jeffery Sarmiento

15. mediaBOOM

16. Carrozzeria Verga

17. Slabovia

18. The New York Mooon

19. Five Cent Stand

20. Tennesse Vacation

21. Lataka

22. Blue Moon

23. Rocket Club

24. The Blizzards

25. AdaptD

26. Gary Nock

27. Drink ZZZ

28. Ali Felski

29. TangleDecals

30. Jared Cambell

31. Von Dutch

32. Dollar Dreadful

33. Phizz

34. The First Twenty

35. Jamie’s Italian

36. MacTarnahan’s Brewing Company

37. Style 4 You

38. CSS Tinderbox

39. MISTER-AERO

40. Team Mongolmania

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About the Author

Matt Cronin is a freelance web and graphic designer as well as developer. He is the author and owner of Spoonfed Design, a design blog with great tips, how-to, inspiration, tutorials, and more. Spoonfed Design is part of the VAEOU Creative Network, a new startup in progress with new services coming soon. Follow Matt Cronin on Twitter.

Adobe Illustrator is a versatile vector illustration application that’s preferred by many professional artists and designers. Its robust and powerful set of tools coupled with its intuitive interface makes it the go-to app for vector work. Illustrator excels in allowing designers to craft stunning and realistic-looking 3D artwork.

In this collection, you will find 40 useful and informative tutorials and techniques on creating three-dimensional artworks in Adobe Illustrator.

1. Create an Open Book with Illustrator’s 3D Extrude & Bevel Tool

Learn a technique for illustrating a three-dimensional book by reading through this Adobe Illustrator tutorial.

2. Use the power of Illustrator to create cool 3D infographics

Learn a process for creating an infographic piece from conceptualization to finalization using a variety of Illustrator tools and techniques such as the Gradient Mesh Tool.

3. Create a Can of Beans by Mapping Vectors to a 3D Object

Craft a tin can (perfect for product design models) using a host of Illustrator tools and techniques such as the Extrude Tool and Image Mapping techniques.

4. Design Gift Boxes Using Illustrator’s 3D Tools

Discover a method for creating 3D gift boxes in Illustrator which can later be adopted for designing packaging and software boxes mockups.

5. Fun with AI’s 3D tool

Explore the tools, options, and techniques available to you for making 3D objects in Illustrator.

6. Let’s Make a Playful yet Robust 3D Letter Design

Investigate a way for composing a three-dimensional letter art piece by reading through this tutorial on VECTORTUTS.

7. 3D Blue LCD Alarm Clock

Illustrate an LCD alarm clock using an assortment of Illustrator tools such as the Rounded Rectangle Tool, gradients, and the Blend Tool.

8. 3D Objects and Transparencies to Make a Vector Cola Bottle Design

Create a realistic-looking Cola bottle design by skillfully using 3D objects and transparency options in Adobe Illustrator.

9. Creating Omspace 3D cylinder graphic in Illustrator

This tutorial shows you how to create cylindrical shapes using the Extrude & Bevel Tool with Map Art options.

10. Create an Animated 3D Poker Chip and Part II

This two-part series on AiBURN shows you how to render a poker chip in 3D using the 3D Exclude and Bevel Tool in Illustrator.

11. How to Make 3D Vector Vintage Stars

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create 3D vector stars in Illustrator.

12. 2D Spark Plug Diagram from 3D Components in Illustrator

Diagramming is one of Illustrator’s strong suits – learn a method for creating three-dimensional diagrams (i.e. for instructional brochures) in this tutorial.

13. 3D Effects in Illustrator CS

This tutorial series explores your 3D options in Illustrator: Part 1 discusses Extrusion & Bevel basics, Part 2 covers custom bevel creation, Part 3 talks about the Revolve Tool, and Part 4 discusses lighting and transparencies.

14. 3D Charts in Adobe Illustrator CS

Create professional charts in Illustrator that will impress: learn how in this tutorial that utilizes the Pie Graph Tool.

15. Design a Business Report Cover

Design a professional and captivating business report cover that has 3D buildings as a graphics component.

16. Create a Rotatable Globe in Adobe Illustrator

This tutorial gives you a quick walkthrough on creating a 3D globe using some stock vector files and the 3D Revolve Tool.

17. 3D Bowl

See how to construct a realistic 3D fruit bowl in Adobe Illustrator in this tutorial that walks you through the entire process.

18. How to Map Artwork onto 3D Objects with Illustrator

Learn the concepts behind mapping images onto 3D objects in this insightful tutorial.

19. Create a Checkered 3D Chess Figure Scene

Construct a 3D chess scene using gradient meshes and the 3D Revolve Tool.

20. 3D Isometric Vector Icon Tutorial

Create a simple and beautiful 3D icon using a variety of Illustrator tools such as the 3D Rotate Tool.

21. Create a 3D Push Pin and a Paper Note in Illustrator

In this simple tutorial aimed at beginners, you’ll witness a method for composing a 3D push pin and paper note illustration.

22. 3D Graphs

Learn another technique on how to use Illustrator to generate impressive but quick-and-simple 3D graphs.

23. Making of an Abstract Artwork

See the process of an Illustrator artist’s method for composing this abstract and three-dimensional work of art.

24. 3D Chess Board, King, and Pawn

Create three-dimensional chess pieces by reading through this step-by-step Illustrator tutorial.

25. Make a 3d Red Blood Cell Button

This Illustrator tutorial walks you through the process of crafting three-dimensional blood cells.

26. Halloween Pumpkin

Read this tutorial to discover a method for illustrating a realistic-looking Halloween pumpkin.

27. 3D Flower Pot

Learn about a quick-and-simple way of rendering a three-dimensional flower pot; as a finishing touch, use the Symbols Library to add some flowers in the composition.

28. 3D Dice

In this short, 7-step tutorial, you’ll learn how to compose a 3D die using the Map Art option in the Extrude & Bevel Tool.

29. 3D Hammer using Illustrator

Craft a three-dimensional hammer using a variety of Illustrator tools and options by following along this helpful tutorial.

30. Drawing a Vase in Illustrator

Here is a method for creating a set of realistic-looking 3D vases using Adobe Illustrator.

31. Make 3D Yet Flat Looking Shopping Basket Icons

In this creative take on three-dimensional objects, you’ll see a method for creating a 3D/2D hybrid shopping basket icon.

32. 3D Logo Tutorial

Craft a beautiful 3D logo in this simple but informative Adobe Illustrator logo design tutorial.

33. Disco Ball

This short but helpful Adobe Illustrator tutorial, you’ll learn a process of constructing a disco ball.

34. Cool 3D logo

This tutorial shares another method for creating a 3D logo using Illustrator.

35. Gradient Meshes Introduction

To create 3D objects with accurate shading, you’ll need to understand the Gradient Mesh Tool; this tutorial gives you a perceptive look into gradient meshes.

36. Translucent IM Style Illustrator Icon Tutorial

Recreate the MSN icon in Illustrator by following along this Illustrator tutorial that utilizes the Gradient Mesh Tool.

37. 3D Vector Calendar Icon

Create this beautiful 3D Vector Calendar icon in Illustrator by reading through this step-by-step tutorial.

Illustrator and…

Here are a few tutorials that use Illustrator in combination with other tools.

38. Colourful 3D Text Explosion Using Illustrator and Photoshop

Combine Illustrator and Photoshop to create this stunning art piece.

39. Merge 3D with Illustrator and Photoshop

Use Illustrator and Photoshop to merge compose a futuristic art piece.

40. Using Swift as a Powerful 3D Illustration Tool

Use Illustrator and Swift3D (a modeling and animation software) to create 3D illustrations.

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If you’ve just got yourself a new Mac and totally clueless what to install, this article is for you. If you are looking for alternatives for some applications you are currently using in your Mac, the following list might come in handy too. This week, we’d like to showcase you a list of useful yet free applications you can install for your Mac. Full list after jump.

Productivity

Anxiety

Provides a streamlined, easily accessible interface to add and check off your tasks, while remaining poised to melt into the background at a moments notice.

Appointments

Keep record of customers, contact persons and important events related to them.

BackBoard

A Mac app to collect notes and tasks.

Camouflage

Hides all the icons and leaves nothing but the pure wallpaper

Evernote

Easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable at any time, from anywhere.

EventSync

Allows you to sync your Facebook events with iCal.

HimmelBar

HimmelBar provides an icon in the menu bar to quickly access your installed applications by scanning standard locations such as local, user, network and developer applications.

iClockr

Simple way to track your time.

MindNode

Simple-to-use mindmapping applications for the Macintosh that help to visually collect, classify and structure ideas as well as organize, study and solve problems.

NameChanger

Designed for the sole purpose of renaming a list of files.

Namely

Fast way to open applications.

Punakea

Allows you to tag your files and bookmarks, freeing you of the strict hierarchy of the Finder’s folder structure.

Quicksilver

A unified, extensible interface for working with applications, contacts, music, and other data.

SketchBox

Sticky Notes Manager for your Mac Desktop.

Slife

Time and activity analytics application that automatically keeps track of where you spend your time on your computer.

SyncMate

Help you keep all your documents, text messages, contacts, calendar entries and events and other stuff well organized.

TaskMate

Simple Mac to-do list application.

Think

Helps you to concentrate on your current task and activity.

Todos

Todos shows you all your applications in a complete dock.

Tools and Utilities

AppFresh

Helps you to keep all applications, widgets, preference panes and application plugins installed on your Mac up to date.

Burn

Mac’s application to burn discs, with a lot of advanced options.

Font Explorer X

Font management tool.

Garagebuy

Help you find and purchase items on eBay.

Set Icon

Small application that lets you quickly and easily set a custom icon for one your drives either from an ICNS file or any old image file that Mac OS supports.

TextWrangler

Powerful general purpose text editor, and Unix and server administrator’s tool.

NeoOffice

Full-featured set of office applications (including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, and database programs) for Mac OS X.

Emacs

An Editor for Text, HTML, LaTeX, C++, Java, Python, Perl, Ruby, PHP, and more…

Readers

Adobe Reader

Read PDF files with this Adobe Acrobat reader.

NetNewsWire

RSS reader for Mac by NewsGator

NewsFire

A great RSS reader for Mac whom recently made free.

ThunderBird

Powerful email application from Mozilla.

System

AppCleaner

AppCleaner is a small application which allows you to thoroughly uninstall unwanted apps.

Caffeine

Caffeine is a tiny program that puts an icon in the right side of your menu bar. Click it to prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers. Click it again to go back. Hold down the Command key while clicking to show the menu.

Carbon Copy Cloner

Clone, synchronize, backup. Schedule and forget it.

Deeper

Allows you to enable and disable the hidden functions of Finder, Dock, Dashboard, Exposé, Safari, Login window and many Apple’s applications.

EverSave

Allows you to save all of your documents in a specific time interval or by changing the frontmost application.

Growl

Growl lets Mac OS X applications unintrusively tell you when things happen.

iStat pro

Highly configurable widget that lets you monitor every aspect of your Mac, including CPU, memory, disks, network, battery, temperatures, fans, load & uptime and processes.

Loginox

Easily customize your Mac’s login screen.

MacLoc

After clicking on MacLoc, it will appear that you’ve logged out, however upon entering your username and password, all open documents and applications will be right where you left them.

Mactracker

Provides detailed information on every Apple Macintosh computer ever made, including items such as processor speed, memory, optical drives, graphic cards, supported Mac OS versions, and expansion options.

OnyX

Allows you to verify the Startup Disk and the structure of its System files, run miscellaneous tasks of system maintenance, configure some hidden parameters of the Finder, Dock, Dashboard, Exposé, Safari, Login window.

Monolingual

A program for removing unnecessary language resources from Mac OS X, in order to reclaim several hundred megabytes of disk space.

PresentYourApps

Lets you hide the Dock and menu bar for every Cocoa application you choose.

SMARTReporter

Application that can warn you of some hard disk drive failures before they actually happen.

SuperDocker

Tweak your Mac’s dock.

Chat Clients

Adium

Free instant messaging application for Mac OS X that can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, and more.

Colloquy

Advanced IRC, SILC & ICB client.

Gabtastik

Gabtastik lets you keep chat sessions open on your OS X desktop outside of your regular web browser, using minimal screen real estate and system memory.

Messenger

Think of it as Mac’s MSN Messenger.

Skype

Skype for Mac.

Stay tuned for Part II

Be sure to keep an eye on next week’s Part II where we’ll cover more free Mac applications categories of:

• Internet & Network Utilities
• Audio and Video
• Imaging
• More tools

We’ve missed out something or you’ve got some Mac applications to suggest? Feel free to contact us.

Just in case you weren’t aware, there’s a huge pool of free design magazines on the net; we meant those softcopy magazines you can either browse online or download (.PDF, .SWF) for offline viewing. Not only they have high quality content, each issue released is also free. We thought that’s generous of these folks. Today we want to present you with N Free Magazines for Designers. Even if you are looking for something to kill the spare time, we think these mags will help too. Full list after jump.

More? If you happen to know some good free magazines that we’ve missed. Feel free to leave a comment or contact us. We add it in.

Our Top Picks

GizMag

Weekly web magazine full of neat stuff. Every 3 months a free PDF is published with some of the past subjects, including interviews and artwork.

A List Apart

It’s not really a ‘magazine’ since it don’t come in .PDF or any downloable format. But it’s certainly a must-read for any web designers.

Bak Magazine

Artzmania

Veer Catalog

PDF Mags

Nothing but lots of PDF magazines, for free.

Destructed Magazine

Art- and Designmagzine in .PDF format released quaterly with each issue deals with a unique topic.

Magwerk

Love Pics

Komma

Delve Magazine

Delve was created to explore visual culture through experimentation in design, photography, illustration, and other related visual arts.

Kino Mag

CRU A Magazine

CRU A is a digital magazine about arts and culture.

Root Magazine

More Free Magazines

RevolutionArt Magazine

REVOLUTIONART international magazine is a publication delivered in pdf format as a collective sample of the best of the graphics arts, modeling, music, and world tendences. Deliver every 2 months.

Castle Magazine

Castlemagazine is a pdf online mag which consists of the work of free Illustrators, Artists or other creative nerds.

ANTI

NTI Magazine aims to showcase outstanding visual content as an online magazine and also through future exhibitions all around the world.

Blanket Magazine

Free PDF art + design + photography magazine that is released bi-monthly.

bitFUUL Magazine

Breed Magazine

BREED Magazine covers art, fashion, music and ideas quarterly for free subscription.

Bloodwars Magazine

Wag

True Eye

Royal Magazine

Private journal of The KDU (Keystone Design Union), a Global Fraternal Creative Collective dedicated to creating and managing innovative design centric objects, brands and experiences.

Ruby Mag

Sphere Magazine

Phase Collective

NLF Magazine

Noname Magazine

Multilink Magazine

Kromag

TXTnein

Free pdf magazine made with submissions of graphic designers, photographers and artists over the world

Etel Magazine

We thought this is a good magazine, but too bad the English version is currently not available.

Proteus Mag

Online art and design magazine.

{ths} Beast Magazine

The bible of inspiration.

Bedifferent

CODE Magazine

Daheim Magazine

Design And Life

The minizine gathers information including design, lifestyle, fashion, trend and creative news from all over the world.

File Magazine

Publish images that treat subjects in unexpected ways.

Made in Street

2nddesign Magazine

Textures in a web design have become a popular trend, replacing the sleek, glossy, and shiny effects that we commonly refer to as the "Web 2.0" design trend. Working with textures is difficult, but talented designers worldwide choose this route to add a depth in their designs and to exemplify their creative skills.

In this collection, you’ll find 30 gorgeous web designs that employ textures as a design component. Hopefully, you’ll become inspired to explore this design trend and apply it into your own designs.

1. WallSwaps

2. Agami Creative

3. bridge55

4. The Seen®

5. Design Jobs on the Wall

6. Carbonica

7. Pikaboo

8. Edgepoint Church

9. Jay Hafling

10. MacTarnahan’s Brewing Company

11. Helmy Bern

12. The Brown Corporation

13. Viget Advance

14. The Ernest Hemingway Collection

15. Pain is Good

16. Bart-Jan Verhoef

17. Miles Dowsett

18. iamtodd.com

19. Rockatee Home

20. The Albion Group

21. Jeffrey Sarmiento

22. Slabovia

23. Jamie’s Italian

24. Lanikai Properties

25. Sundance Documentary Film Program

26. St. Gregory’s

27. Coalmarch Productions

28. toby-powell.co.uk

29. Michela Chiucini

30. KAYINTVEEN

Got any to share?

Know if a site that has excellent use of textures? Why don’t you contribute to the discussion in the comments!

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In this texture pack, you will find 7 large-scale, high resolution (1448 x 972 pixels) textures that are available to you for free for any personal or commercial purpose, distributed under the GNU General Public License. The only thing you may not do is to distribute and sell them without prior permission.

Preview

Clicking on each image will direct you to their Flickr download page where you can get them in various sizes. Alternatively, please feel free to browse the Six Revisions Wood Textures set on Flickr or download the whole set (link at the bottom of this page).

Wood Texture 01 (file name: sr_wood_texture_01.jpg)

Wood Texture 02 (file name: sr_wood_texture_02.jpg)

Wood Texture 03 (file name: sr_wood_texture_03.jpg)

Wood Texture 04 (file name: sr_wood_texture_04.jpg)

Wood Texture 05 (file name: sr_wood_texture_05.jpg)

Wood Texture 06 (file name: sr_wood_texture_06.jpg)

Wood Texture 07 (file name: sr_wood_texture_07.jpg)

Got Suggestions?

If you have suggestions with regards to freebies that you’d like to see, drop a comment and share your thoughts with us.

Download the whole set

• sr_wood_textures.zip (ZIP file, 8.5 MB)

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Today, 3D models are used in a wide variety of industries. The movie industry uses them as characters and objects for animated and real-life motion pictures. The video game industry uses them as assets for computer and video games.The architecture industry uses them to demonstrate proposed buildings and landscapes through Software Architectural Models. The medical industry uses detailed models of organs.

We understand how useful a 3D model could be. Thus, we’ve crawled into Internet and search for free 3D models which are available for download. Here are as much as 60 websites to download Free 3D Models. Full list after jump!

Note: Some of these 3D models have limited rights. That means they are not allowed for commercial usage. We urge that you check the rights before using them for business purposes.

More: You might also be interested in 25 (Free) 3D Modeling Applications You Should Not Miss

1. 3D Total

   3D Total provides free stuff on 3D model in categories of human characters, household, body parts, vehicles, weapons, alien characters, architecture, medieval, cartoon, star wars, scenes, animals, sci-fi, low-polu and mechaniods.

   Model formats: Max, 3ds, dxf, lwo, mb

   

2. TurboSquid

   TurboSquid is the largest library of 3D products in the world. They offers over 300 free 3D models for download.

   Model formats: Max, 3ds, oth, obj, lwo, mb

   

3. Great Buildings

   The models range in detail from very simple formal massing models of just a few blocks, through basic interior/exterior spatial walkthrough models, up to detailed interior/exterior models complete with furnishings and landscaping.

   Model formats: 3dmf

   

4. Archive3D.net

   Free 15000+ 3D models for download without registration required.

   Model formats: gms, 3ds

   

5. Google 3D Warehouse

   The Google 3D Warehouse is a online repository of 3D models. Anyone can search for and download models, but to publish your own, you’ll need to sign in using your Google account.

   Model formats: skp

   

6. 3DModelFree

   Free 3D models download.

   Model formats: 3ds

   

7. 3DXtras

   Download High Quality 3D Models for 3DSMAX, Maya, Softimage, Lightwave. (3D Cars, 3D People, 3D Furnitures, etc). For use in all your 3D Animation and multimedia works.

   Model formats: Max, 3ds, c4d, dwg, obj, mb

   

8. DLegend

   A collection of 3ds ,max ,prj and obj files for you to use in diffrent applications of 3d programs.

   Model formats: 3ds ,max ,prj, obj, mb

   

9. Artist-3D

   Artist-3d.com is a free exchange directory of royalty free 3d models, 3ds studio max & similar type models. 3D artists and graphic designers can freely submit 3d models or download ones for personal and non-commercial use.

   Model formats: 3ds, obj, pz3, pp2, max, mb

   

10. NASA 3D Model

    3D resources for free 3D models which provided by NASA.

    Model formats: 3ds

    

11. 3dm3

    You would certainly find 3DMS something interesting and useful, receive answers to most of yourquestions, to download 3D models which you need in one of the biggest Models Bank on-line.

    Model formats: max, 3ds, obj, mb

    

12. Amazing3D

    You may use these models (meshes) royalty-free in your own work to create 2D images, animations, print graphics or web graphics. You may also include them as part of your software package in a proprietary format with credits and written permission from Amazing 3D Graphics, Inc.

    Model formats: Max, 3ds

    

13. 3D Download Blog

    Free download for materials, mdels, textures, shaders.

    Model formats: Max, 3ds, mb

    

14. Dewantoro Network

    The purpose of this blog is, to collect tutorial, free stuff like 3d object, photoshop brush, filters, free software, templates and many more.

    Model formats: Max, 3ds

    

15. CGI

    All 3d models are free for any type of use (c/p). The version one is collection of very useful and handy 3d models in .3ds format.

    Model formats: 3ds

    

16. DD-Freebies

    Model formats: Obj

    

17. Exchange 3D

    Model formats: blend, max, 3ds,

    

18. Corporate Media News

    Need a 3D model? Here is a collection of styles, sizes, themes and formats.

    Model formats: Max, 3ds, wrl, lwo

    

19. WireCase

    Download 3D models from a catalog of the highest quality online.

    Model formats: Max, 3ds, dxf, lwo, blend, obj, fbx

    

20. Adobe-Tools

    Enchance the new 3d features of Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended version! Download free 3d models from Adobe-Tools.

    Model formats: Max, 3ds

    

21. Mr Furniture

    Over 5000 free 3D models for furniture, textures, CAD in .3ds, .max and .dxf.

    Model formats: Max, 3ds, dxf

    

22. 3D Plants

    Each month a different model from the 3dplants.com CDs and downloadable products will be offered as a free sample.

    Model formats: obj, 3ds, dxf, lwo

    

23. ShareCG

    Model formats: Max, 3ds, car, wire, jas, c4d, daz, dwg

    

24. 3Delicious

    Only delicious free 3d models.

    Model formats: Max, 3ds, gsm, lwo

    

25. Archibase

    Download Free 3D CAD models.

    Model formats: 3ds, dxf, max, dwg

    

26. Top 3D Models

    Model formats: Max, 3ds, obj

    

27. CG-Files

    Model formats: Max, 3ds, pz2, pp2, obj

    

28. Top3D

    Free download for 3D animation and 3D models.

    Model formats: Max, c4d, 3ds

    

29. Oyonale

    The objects are freely usable for your personal or commercial 3D art and animations. The 3D models are available in POV-Ray, Cinema 4D and/or Wavefront OBJ formats.

    Model formats: POV-Ray, C4D, Obj

    

30. DMI Car 3D Models

    Free 3D models for vehicles.

    Model formats: lwo, max, 3ds, dxf, obj, gsm

    

31. Creative-3D

    This collection of 104 royalty free 3D objects is available for download. Perfect for furnishing your interior design spaces and architectural renderings.

    Model formats: 3ds

    

32. Infinitee-Designs

    Free 3D Models for Autodesk Maya, 3D Studio Max and other 3D programs - Free models for beginners to advanced users of Autodesk Maya 3D animation and special effects software program.

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Tips submitted by: Dan.

One common obstacle on any attempt to create a IM group chat is the incompatibility of chat client used among our peers/friends; majority might be using MSN, but some have only Yahoo IM or Gtalk installed. Although there are workaround for this, but inconsistency and connectivity has always been a problem.

Here’s a web chatroom service that solves the problem - TinyChat. The typical IM chatroom requires you and your friends to share the same IM client, but with Tinychat you just need a browser - IE, Safari, Firefox or even Opera. We played with TinyChat for a while and we thought creating a group chat couldn’t get any simpler.

How TinyChat Works

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• Twitter tweets supported
• Chat log saving
• Able chat to website
• Supports basic emoticons

Visit TinyChat.