VectorMagic is a free online application that takes your randy little raster images and converts them into amazingly accurate vector EPS or SVG file. Comparing it to the Adobe and Corel products is unfair, but I do it anyway.

Looking at the images side-by-side, VectorMagic does what I’d expect and want a vectorizer to do: take a big-picture view of our messy, aliased (that stair step, building-block appearance) artwork and churn out something appropriate.

The other applications seem to be taking a pixel-by-pixel approach which probably accounts for the additional colors and the unusual corners. It looks as though the big boys (Adobe and Corel) have some catching up to do. Kudos to James Diebel and Jacob Norda, the Stanford University Artificial Intelligence Laboratory research project developers, for their work.

All that’s required to run it is a modern browser, a Flash player, and an image to vectorize. There are already a couple of photos in their examples that look quite stunning as well.

In my opinion its not as good as the old trusty trace it your self method but it sure does require a whole lot less time and its a great start to go back in and clean up.

Below are 1 image I vectorized using VectorMagic. Have a look for yourself.

Original

Vectorized

Despite of the fact that there are increasing number of spam on the internet, we need some tools to defend it.

Psyrens has created an Ajax CAPTCHA which allow us to validate the CAPTCHA field in real time. It is very simple but extremely useful -> for me or maybe I’ve luck  

Demo & Downlad Ajax Captcha

Sometimes, designing pretty forms with high usability is really hard even with lots of tutorials about how to design forms with CSS. Now, there is a very beautiful forms for you to download and use. You can also design your own theme for it if you do not like the default theme.

Niceforms is a script that will replace the most commonly used form elements with custom designed ones.

Demo Niceforms

Download Niceforms v.1.1 

Niceforms optimisation and new features v.1.1
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Niceforms v.1.0
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