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21 Inspiring iPhone App Websites iPhone App websites are always a good source of inspiration. They are, most of the time, beautifully designed and showcase some really interesting apps. It’s nice to pay attention to the ‘design aesthetics’ of Apple related things, it seems that all designers get inspired and create clean and beautiful stuff. So today, to give you a good dose of inspiration, we gathered some great sites that vary from weather apps to photo apps, video apps and much more. Interactive Pen Displays & Digital Drawing Tablets Cintiq Companion+ Corel Painterbundle offer The new CintiqCompanion.Make the worldyour studio
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10 Completely Free Wireframing and Mockup Tools The wireframing process is the straight-to-the-point and completely non-tech stage of any web project. It only requires that you define a skeletal outline of essential page elements such as headers, footers, navigation and content area and should illustrate how to cater and respond to any possible interaction from a user. It is the most important, yet underused, stage of any web or apps development. There are several avenues you could take for sketching a wireframe, most notably pen and paper (the easiest and most cost effective way), but for the sake of this article we have focused on apps that are not only highly effective and easy to use, they are also completely free. We have covered free wireframe apps before (here), but a year is a long time in web development – some of the apps we had previously covered are either no longer completely free or are no longer available. Please note that all of these apps have been confirmed as completely free on this articles publishing date.