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Thursday, February 14, 2008

Midi Jukebox Gadget

See the Midi Music Player below, You can add this to your website at Google Pages or Google Home Page or your website-blog.



When i first made a website around 1999, i wanted to add a background midi, So i made a Midi Juke box for my Tutorial. The same jukebox was made into a Gadget using a Skin modified from Freeamp..

Midi Jukebox Gadget

Get the Midi Jukebox.

 HTML Widget Snippet



Credits - 

My Midi Jukebox skin is derived from a Skin of a music player FreeAmp, that no longer exists, skin shown below.


Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Ward Cunningham and Wiki

Ward Cunningham and Wiki

A wiki is software that allows users to create, edit, and link web pages easily. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. These wiki websites are often also referred to as wikis; for example, Wikipedia is one of the best known wikis. Wikis are being installed by businesses to provide affordable and effective Intranets and for Knowledge Management. Ward Cunningham, developer of the first wiki, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as "the simplest online database that could possibly work

Wiki is in Ward's original description:

The simplest online database that could possibly work.

Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wiki supports hyperlinks and has a simple text syntax for creating new pages and crosslinks between internal pages on the fly.

Monday, February 11, 2008

Audio Music Player Gadget

Music Player Gadget, Plays small midi, mp3 and real media tunes, Three Skins, Stores 99 Tracks URL and Title, PSV PodCast, PSV Playlist.

The source code can be seen here audio-music-player

After editing a playlist make a backup and keep a copy in a plain text editor. This PSV list can be sent by you to your friends. When your friends restore the PSV Playlist in their Player, they will hear your PodCast.



This Gadget uses Cookies for Storing a PSV (pipe separated values) playlist. The format is shown below. Note that your playlist is in your own browser and visitors to your webpage having this gadget have to load their own playlist. Your friends can load the PodCast PSV you send by mail or publish in your site. If you are podcasting a Talk then make it into small mp3 or real media files and upload to your site along with a PSV playlist. Then your Friends can Hear your Speech or Music Creations.

Use Text Editors like NoteTab or TreePad for Storing, Use a Spreadsheet for Maintaining a Playlist and exporting to PSV, if you are at ease with OpenOffice. When you Press Backup, your Clipboard will have the PSV automatically, tested for FF and IE. If that does not work, Right Click on the Text and Copy, The Full PSV is copied even if you see only a part of it in the Gadget output screen.

Get Audio Music Player

Audio Music Player Gadget

HTML Widget Snippet



Components Used

Sunday, February 10, 2008

User Friendly the Comic Strip - The Daily Static

User Friendly the Comic Strip - The Daily Static

Q. When was UserFriendly born?

A. November 17th, 1997. It has been published daily ever since. No breaks, no change-ups, no guest cartoonists.

Q. Where do you get your inspiration? UF vs Productivity

A. Real life, from years of working in I.T., and from being a geek myself since as long as I could remember. The first (user-programmable) computer I ever used a Hewlett-Packard 2000 mini, with thermal-paper printouts. I continue to be inspired by geeks I hang around with, absorbing tech industry and science news, and the occasional visit to tech companies who oddly enough invite me out to observe their staff for ideas.

Q. Where else is UserFriendly published?

A. Many places in print: Linux Magazine International, Linux Journal, and many others from monthly four-colour glossies to university newspapers around the world. We stopped maintaining the public list once it grew past fifty or sixty publications. ...

User Interface Engineering - Usability Research

User Interface Engineering is a leading research, training, and consulting firm specializing in web site and product usability.

User Interface Engineering - Usability Research

Jared M. Spool founded the company back in 1988 and has built UIE into the largest organization of its kind in the world. With our in-depth research findings based on user observation, we empower development teams to create usable web sites that increase customer satisfaction and loyalty.

SMF - Simple Machines Forum Software

SMF - Simple Machines Forum Software

"Its powerful custom made template engine puts you in full control of the lay-out of your message board and with our unique SSI - or Server Side Includes - function you can let your forum and your website interact with each other.
SMF is written in the popular language PHP and uses a MySQL database. It is designed to provide you with all the features you need from a bulletin board while having an absolute minimal impact on the resources of the server. SMF is the next generation of forum software - and best of all it is and will always remain completely free! "

SMF - Simple Machines Forum Software

  • Uses PHP and MySQL.
  • Comprehensive template system.
  • Advanced permission and user management.
  • Open and well-documented source code.
  • Tracking of new and old unread topics, not just from your last visit.
  • Designed for optimal performance and scalability.
  • Multi-media output. (XHTML, XML, RSS, WAP)
and more....

Invision Power Services - IP Board

Invision Power Services - IP Board

  • Advanced moderation functions
  • Easy content sharing via RSS
  • Community-focused user profiles
  • Powerful customization options
  • Flexible permission system
  • Extensible with components
  • Comprehensive administration area

New -

  • Personal profiles
  • Buddy lists
  • Comment within profiles
  • Rate users

IP.Gallery -o- IP.Downloads

"IP.Gallery supports both GD-based image manipulation and ImageMagik. IP.Gallery allows you to completely control how your software will display the images to your users..."

phpBB 3 Olympus Open Source forum solution

phpBB 3 Olympus Open Source forum solution

"Since its creation in 2000, phpBB has become the most widely used Open Source forum solution. Like its predecessors, phpBB 3.0 "Olympus" has an easy to use administration panel and a user friendly installation process, which allows you to have a forum set up in minutes."

"Whether you want to stay in touch with a small group of friends or are looking to set up a large multi-category board for a corporate website, phpBB has the features you need built in."

New ...

  • UTF-8 Support.
  • Oracle, Firebird, SQLite.
  • CMS Software Integration.
  • XHTML Compliant.
  • Instant Messaging.
  • Manage Attachments and Settings.
  • Group-based Memberlist Display.
  • And Many more ......

Saturday, February 09, 2008

The Open Web Application Security Project

The Open Web Application Security Project

The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is an open community dedicated to enabling organizations to develop, purchase, and maintain applications that can be trusted. All of the OWASP tools, documents, forums, and chapters are free and open to anyone interested in improving application security.

Tuesday, February 05, 2008

The WebKit Open Source Project

The WebKit Open Source Project

"WebKit is an open source web browser engine. WebKit is also the name of the Mac OS X system framework version of the engine that's used by Safari, Dashboard, Mail, and many other OS X applications. WebKit's HTML and JavaScript code began as a branch of the KHTML and KJS libraries from KDE. This website is also the home of S60's S60 WebKit development."

Saturday, February 02, 2008

vBulletin - Information and Discussion Hub

vBulletin - Information and Discussion Hub

vBulletin is a professional, affordable community forum solution. Thousands of clients, including many industry leading blue chip companies, have chosen vBulletin - It's the ideal choice for any size of community. vbulletin

  • Fast and efficient database back end
  • Template driven interface
  • Powerful search engine
  • Language system
  • Custom user fields
  • Extensive admin control panel
  • Unlimited forums/posts
  • Inline moderation
  • Flexible plugin system

Leedberg.com - Software Projects

Leedberg.com - Software Projects

  • The Billy Project - The Billy Project is home to my natural language processing artifical intelligence research. The two main programs here are my well-known "chatbots", Billy and Daisy. They are computer programs you can hold a conversation with. Behind the scenes, they feature very advanced artificial intelligence.
  • Cotiro - Cotiro is a cross-platform, open source, intelligent college scheduling system. Given a set of courses, professors, and rooms, it will generate a time and room schedule for the courses. It was originally a research project into constraint satisfaction for an artificial intelligence course I took during my undergraduate studies.
  • GUSH - GUSH stands for "Greg's Unnamed Scheduling Helper". It's intended for use by students, and can help you through the (sometimes stressful) tradition of planning out your course schedule.

Moon Software Multimedia Xplorer Font Xplorer

Moon Software Multimedia Xplorer Font Xplorer

Font Xplorer 1.2.2 is now freeware.

"Do you need to find that perfect font for best friend's birthday card? Want to get a detailed overview of all the fonts installed on your system? Or, so you find that font installation in Windows is too difficult for you? Want to print professionally designed sample sheets listing all your fonts? Font Xplorer comes to the rescue! Designed for both beginners and professionals, this font tool should find a place in every computer."

http://www.moonsoftware.com/pics/fxplorer/main.gif

Filenote - Allows you to add comments to files by creating text file that has the same name as selected file and opening it for editing in text editor (Notepad or another). If such text file already exists, it will be opened for editing.
Filenote AnyFile screenshot

(This was my first desktop search indexing aid in win95 - SAN Gear)

Friday, February 01, 2008

Top Jimmy - Home of the Ultimate Ping Traceroute

Top Jimmy - Home of the Ultimate Ping Traceroute

TJPing is used around the world by tens of thousands of network experts and novices alike, and has also received the highest rating from many of the largest shareware sites. And it's FREE!

Features Very fast, Fully configurable, Multithreaded, Logging of Results, config memory.

Top Jimmy - Home of the Ultimate Ping Traceroute

2011

TJPing 3 has been entirely rewritten for Windows 7, Vista, and XP, and Internet Explorer 8. It has a brand new look and lots of new features, such as printing support, export/import of settings, a
Continuous Ping function, and allowing up to 5000 pings at a time.

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