Archive for February, 2008

Get a Free Shoutbox Or Chat Widget From Shoutmix For Your Blog Or Website And Get Instant Comments From Your Visitors Today!

ShoutMix is a Fee shoutbox or tagboard widget. Its an easy to use messaging system that allows you to interact with others instantly.

ShoutMix

A shoutbox can be placed on your blog or website. Your visitors can then easily post comments in it. They can also use the shoutbox to chat with you and other visitors at the same time.

Shoutbox is a great interactive add-on that makes your visitors coming back for more! Here you can see some shoutbox styles for your website.

Get a free shoutbox for your blog or website and get instant comments from your visitors today! The basic version is absolutely free, however you have to pay in order to upgrade to premium version.

gOS Is Born! A Free Web Operating System For The New Generation

In the todays world everything we used to do offline is online now, even we are at home, on campus, at work or travelling foreign we have broadband internet everywhere to access our online applications for free, we use google docs to process our documents for free, we use gmail to check all our e-mails for free, we use meebo to get in touch with our friends(on gtalk, msn, aol, yahoo messenger) for free, we use flickr to manage our pictures for free, we use YouTube to watch our videos for free, we use wikipedia to access our encyclopedia & we use last.fm to listen to our music.

For the general people, who use the computer in there daily activity and don’t need a full fledged Operating System with many of pre installed applications, spend thousands of dollar on softwares, firewalls, anti virus to purchase and worry all the time about the computer crashing and loosing there data.

Now we have gOS as an operating system build for one purpose providing support and easy access to online web applications.
gOS Logo
In simple terms instead of the icons on our computer pointint to applications, in gOS we have icons pointing directly to our online web applications.

gOS - A new operating system is born!
Technically gOS is a cut down version of ubuntu 7.10 dektop, who’s focus is online applications like gmail, google news, google maps, youTube, mebo and many more.

It’s a neat Linux distribution which is made for shifting our regular desktop apps to online apps. The OS is based on linux so you can definately install desktop apps such as open office etc but its core focus is web2.0 sites and online applications. Shifting desktop to web. And best of all gOS is absolutely free for everyone! just download and install it on your computer and start using operating system for new generation.

JonDesign’s Open-Source SmoothSlideshow Javascript Gallery System Allows You To Have Simple And Smooth Image Galleries, Slideshows, Showcases And Other Cool Stuff On Your Website…

JonDesign’s SmoothSlideshow javascript gallery system allows you to have simple and smooth (cross-fading…) image galleries, slideshows, showcases and other cool stuff on your website by using mootools v1.11. This library open-source and free under GPL license. You can download it from here!

JonDesign’s SmoothSlideshow

Unlike other systems out there, JonDesign’s SmoothGallery is designed from the ground up to be standard compliant: You can feed it from any document, using custom css selectors. And even better, this solutions is very lightweight: The javascript file is only 24kb.

Using a flash based solution, search engines won’t see your content nor links. While JonDesign’s SmoothSlideshow will resolve your this problem. There are alot of reasons that you may consider it instead of flash-based solutions. Here’s is the detailed featurelist you can see or let’s see the demo.

CSS+Javascript Fancy Menu By Devthought!

With the image below our most of the readers are already aware of this and had an idea about this css+javascript fancy menu but to have this great resource in the Smashing Apps list is very necessary that is why I am adding this. This fancy menu is also great for those who do not know about this and I believe there are alot of those guys as well often visits to SmashingApps.com.

FancyMenu

In this article Guillermo Rauch’s will go through the creation of a custom navigation bar with some cute Javascript effects that will certainly impress your friends and the visitors coming to your website. This custom navigation bar needs Mootools library, this beauty is contained in 1.5kb. Not only that, but it’s also cross browser (tested on Internet Explorer 6/7, Firefox and Safari) and accessible.

Digistore Free And Open Source Ecommerce Shopping Cart Software Solution

Digistore Ecommerce is an another open-source fully featured store based on the popular osCommerce engine. Boasting improvements both to the administration and the end user experience – Digistore has quickly become a popular choice for people wishing to market products online.

Whether you are an established online retailer, or a new business venture, Digistore provides the foundation for successful online marketing. 

Digistore

Digistore is a full content management system that requires no HTML or programming knowledge to operate.  Now available for download completely free of charge under the General Public License Agreement. You can view demo of Digistore from here and download it just for free!

Digistore admin

Digistore has very easy to use front-end and admin area interface having following Exclusive Features as well.

Photos Will Be Uploaded In A Queue, Upload Them With One Click By FancyUpload Using MooTools

Swf meets Ajax for beautiful uploads. The release of the long awaited MooTools upload widget “Fancy Upload“thats allows queued multiple-file upload including progress bars. Try it out, the unobtrusive file-input replacement.

Fancy Upload

Example in the Playground which shows the full features and is good documented! The source for the example upload PHP-backend is here. Of course the script does not depend on PHP as server language, it works with every script language that can handle file uploads!

Fully compatible with all A-Grade Browsers and Flash 8+ (Internet Explorer 6+, Opera 9, Firefox 1.5+ and Safari 2+)

Features

This script is licensed under the terms of the MIT-License.

NicEdit Is A Javascript/AJAX Micro Inline WYSIWYG Content Editor To Allow Easy Editing Of Web Site Content On The Fly In The Browser

NicEdit is a Javascript/AJAX inline content editor to allow easy editing of web site content on the fly in the browser. It integrates into any site in seconds to make any element/div editable or convert standard textareas to rich text editing. You can try it right now by clicking on this!

NicEdit

In addition NicEdit instances are more flexible than some other editors and can expand to fit content added. NicEdit controls can also edit multiple divs or converted textareas on a page transparently while preserving the look and feel of the page and saving content via AJAX. Download NicEdit today and see how Rich Text editing can fit your application!

An alternative for the complexity, many files and large download size (> 200KB) of popular WYSIWYG editors such as TinyMCE and FCKEditor. It implements many of the standard rich text features like these editors but is easier to integrate without impact on download size.

“<script src=”http://js.nicedit.com/nicEdit.js” type=”text/javascript”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript”>
bkLib.onDomLoaded(nicEditors.allTextAreas);
</script>”

By using the code above visitors will recieve the latest NicEdit version properly compressed and served directly from their server. However, if you would like to download and host NicEdit yourself only 2 files are required below and a full package with source code is available.

Now Visitors Of Your Site See Helpful Content In Popup Tooltip Described Regions Of Image When Moving Mouse Over It. Or Can Browse Other Pages Linked To The Region By Click On It…

Taggify is a web widget which allows bloggers and publishers enhance their sites by adding visual tags to any site’s images. Visual tag is a clickable image region tagged with some title, description and link. When vistor moves mouse over such region Taggify shows popup tooltip with interesting content provided by the publisher.
Taggify widget

Click here to see how it looks? and best of all its absolutely free! Just signup now.

Compress Your CSS With CSS Compressor For Speed-Up Your Website And To Save Bandwidth As Well

CSS Compressor from CSS Drive is the utility to compress your CSS to increase loading speed and save on bandwidth as well. You can choose from three levels of compression, depending on how legible you want the compressed CSS to be versus degree of compression. The “Normal” mode should work well in most cases, creating a good balance between the two. It has ability to Strip ALL your comments. Just to safe-side keep your original CSS file.

OpenDNS Is A Better DNS Service. They Make Your Internet Safer, Faster, Smarter And More Reliable. It’s Absolutely Free, And There’s Nothing To Download!

Open DNS

OpenDNS protects millions of people a day across hundreds of thousands of schools, businesses and homes as they navigate the Internet. They block phishing sites and give you the power to block adult sites, proxies and individual domains.

Open DNS

They provide you with the tools to see what’s happening on your network, coupled with the tools to take action. For example, discover that myspace.com is the most frequently visited site on your network, and then block it with a single click.

Free yourself of DNS-related Internet outages with our zero-downtime global network. Eliminate DNS as a problem source on your network. Using OpenDNS means fewer support calls and headaches, letting you focus on more important issues.

All OpenDNS features are Absolutely free. No hardware to buy, no software to install or download.