Sunday, November 04, 2007

Web Enable your Industry with Google Services

Here are Links to Google Resources, for a Firm or eShop to Web-Enable their Trade or Manufacturing Firm.

"By bringing offline content online, Google Base is more accessible and useful. Even online content becomes more 'discoverable' when users are able to refine their search results based on attributes.... "

Google Base Store Connector

Your products at eBay, Yahoo, or osCommerce can be available in Google Search Results by using the Google Base Store Connector, a free download.

ConTEXT Programmers Editor

ConTEXT Programmers Editor - home

ConTEXT is a small, fast and powerful freeware text editor, developed mainly to serve as secondary tool for software developers. Supports
English, German, French, Croatian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Esperanto, Spanish, Galego, Italian, Hungarian, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Slovakian, Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Slovenian, Turkish. etc languages.

  • unlimited open files
  • unlimited editing file size, 4kB line length
  • powerful syntax highlighting for:
  • multilanguage support
  • project workspaces support
  • unicode UTF8 support
  • code templates
  • customizable help files for each file type
  • file explorer with favorites list

TopStyle Lite CSS Editor

TopStyle Lite CSS Editor

TopStyle Lite is a free version of TopStyle that contains an extremely small subset of the features found in the Pro version of TopStyle. Most importantly, TopStyle Lite is strictly a simple CSS editor, whereas TopStyle Pro is a full-blown XHTML, HTML and CSS editor. However, if all you want is a very basic CSS editor, TopStyle Lite will serve you very well.

TopStyle Lite is a simplified version of its bigger brother, TopStyle. Although it provides a smaller selection of features, it's still a powerful style sheet editor that enables you to confidently and accurately create cascading style sheets, which can then be implemented into your website.

Saturday, November 03, 2007

cPick Color Picker - Sam Francke

This is one of the best tools for picking colors from a photo, wallpaper or desktop. A Click and Drag button can zoom and capture any color from anywhere.

cPick Color Picker - Sam Francke

The regular slide potentiometers also are there for creating a new shade. The color code HTML for webmasters or RGB code for programmers, is generated. The best part is you can save the colors you want in many palettes which are text files. The text files can be backed up so that your color combinations are never lost.

cPick Color Picker - Sam Francke

HTML Kit for more than editing HTML

HTML Kit is a full-featured free editor for HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and other text file types. Over 400 plugins are also available, including HTML Tidy for creating standards-compliant HTML/XHTML pages.

HTML Kit for more than editing HTML

HTML-Kit is a highly customizable development environment that can be used to create, edit, preview, validate and publish web pages and text files. Multi-purpose tool that has support for several scripting and programming languages.

Plugins Over 400 free plugins are available for customizing and extending HTML-Kit to fit the way you work. Categories include ASP, CF, C#, iHTML, Java, JavaScript, JSP, Perl, PHP, Python, SQL and more.

Gary M's drawing of his concept HTML-Kit desktop. Take a closer look at the details in the larger version, including the page turner (hint: think versions) and the layered cards.

HTML Kit for more than editing HTML

HTML-Kit Tools is the new version of HTML-Kit, following HTML-Kit 292. Light enough to take on a portable USB drive and heavy enough to manage multiple sites, HTML-Kit Tools was designed to meet today's demands.

HTML-Kit Tools

From - Chami.com.

FavIcon from Pics favicon.ico for your website

FavIcon from Pics, the first web tool for creating still / animated favicons from regular images.

Feedreader - Free RSS reader RSS platform

Feedreader - Free RSS reader RSS platform

Feedreader is the most robust, highly-functional personal aggregation solution on the market today. It dynamically reads, collects, and organizes syndicated Web content, and seamlessly delivers it directly to user desktops. With Feedreader, you have instant, convenient access to the up-to-the-minute news you need, without information overload.

Perfomance improvements

  • Better handling of large number of feeds
  • Faster startup and shutdown times
  • Smart feed updates - unique algorithm that learns the update frequency of feeds and triggers the updates only when needed

(one of the first steps to move to web 2.0 is to have a web feed for your content, services like Blogger and flickr generate feeds for every blog. CMS like Drupal and Wordpress may generate feeds for site, sections and comments too. You need a News Reader to read these feeds Feedreader.com is one of them which is very good.).

Netscape Navigator Web Browser

Netscape Navigator Web Browser

"....we feel it's the right time to end development of Netscape branded software. Read the history page ..."

Discover all the ways a browser can make the Web better for you. Firefox is the safest and most enjoyable way to surf the Web. Get Firefox!

Get the acclaimed Email client from Mozilla. Import your existing mail and enjoy powerful spam protection. Thunderbird

The award-winning Flock browser has all of the advantages of Firefox, with your favorite friends, photos and videos along for the ride, get Flock!

Download our latest all-in-one Internet software to help make your online life organized -- putting the Web, email, instant messaging and search within easy reach. Get AOL now.

Friday, November 02, 2007

Openads adserver software

Openads.org - adserver software - phpAdsNew is now named Openads

Openads 2.0 is an ad server written in PHP that allows you to place banners on your website and lets you manage your banners in a professional way. Openads is open-source which means you have access to the source code, licensed under the General Public License.

Openads is a hugely popular ad server. Openads 2.4 gives you more control over your ad space, has a simple upgrade process and can serve billions of ads each month.

The developers behind Openads are the same people who brought you phpAdsNew, phpPgAds and Max Media Manager products.

Openads History

In 1998 Tobias Ratschiller created phpMyAdmin, a tool to administer MySQL databases, written in PHP. After the launch of phpwizard.net, the home of the phpMyAdmin project, more projects were added, like phpIRC, phpChat, phpPolls and phpAds.

Openads adserver software now OpenX

Openads becomes OpenX - Openads rebrands as OpenX

Thursday, November 01, 2007

Numerit and the GNU Scientific Library

Numerit and the GNU Scientific Library

The GNU Scientific Library (GSL) is a numerical library that provides a wide range of mathematical routines and includes over 1000 functions in total. It is free under the GNU General Public License.

An interface module with more than 1400 Numerit declarations of GSL functions and more than 100 Numerit declarations of GSL variables that give you instant access to GSL from Numerit. The declarations are divided into categories according to the GSL Reference Manual. ......

Web Applications Framework

  • Adobe - Flex 2 - Application Development - Adobe Flex is an IDE for building custom web application development and rich internet applications.
  • Google Web Toolkit - Build AJAX apps in Java -Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers.
  • PageKit - PageKit is a mod_perl based application framework that uses a Template system and XML to separate the presentation, content and code.
  • Seaside - Seaside provides a layered set of abstractions over HTTP and HTML that let you build highly interactive web applications quickly, reusably and maintainably. IT is based on Smalltalk.
  • Fusebox - The most popular framework for building ColdFusion and PHP web applications. Coding and encapsulating entire ColdFusion application.
  • CodeIgniter - A powerful PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications.
  • Helma - Written in Java and employs Javascript for its server-side scripting environment, removing the need for compilation cycles and reducing development costs while giving you instant access to leverage the whole wealth of Java libraries out there.
  • Jitsu user interfaces for web applications - Jitsu contains an integrated set of tools to enable developers to build and deploy sophisticated user interfaces for web applications.

List of web application frameworks -

Web application framework is a software framework that is designed to support the development of dynamic websites, Web applications and Web services. The framework aims to alleviate the overhead associated with common activities used in Web development. For example, many frameworks provide libraries for database access, templating frameworks and session management, and often promote code reuse.

phplist - open-source newsletter manager

phplist - open-source newsletter manager

phplist is an open-source newsletter manager. phplist is free to download, install and use, and is easy to integrate with any website. phplist is downloaded more than 10 000 times per month and is listed in the top open source projects for vitality score on Freshmeat. phplist is sponsored by tincan.

PhpList

  • phplist is a one-way email announcement delivery system. It is great for newsletters, publicity lists, notifications, and many other uses. (It is different from group mailing list systems like mailman.)
  • phplist keeps sending messages from your web server, even after you shut down your computer.
  • Click Tracking tracks links and URLs. Statistics can be viewed by message, URL or subscriber.
  • HTML email messages. Subscribers can be given the choice between text or html email messages. You decide whether subscribers can choose, what the default choice is, and what format a message is sent in: text only, html only, or both!
  • RSS feeds can be automatically sent to a mailing list weekly, daily, or monthly......

Celestia - The free space simulation

Celestia - The free space simulation

The free space simulation that lets you expscreenshotlore our universe in three dimensions. Celestia runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.

Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia doesn't confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy.

All movement in Celestia is seamless; the exponential zoom feature lets you explore space across a huge range of scales, from galaxy clusters down to spacecraft only a few meters across. A 'point-and-goto' interface makes it simple to navigate through the universe to the object you want to visit. screenshot

Celestia is expandable. Celestia comes with a large catalog of stars, galaxies, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and spacecraft. If that's not enough, you can download dozens of easy to install add-ons with more objects.


  • Jack's Celestia Add-ons
    Jack is a prolific creator of add-ons for Celestia. He has produced models and trajectories for many famous (and not-so-famous) space missions.
  • Selden's List of Resources for Celestia
    Selden is one of the most active members of the Celestia community and compiled a large catalog of notes, documents, and add-ons for Celestia. His collection is of particular interest to more technical and scientific-minded users.