Online photo editor- apply 1000s of digital photo effects

FlauntR is a free online photo editor and effects software. FlauntR aims to make photo editing easy enough to be done by anyone, without having to buy expensive software, or downloading bulky applications with cumbersome installation procedures, or have to learn complex editing tools.

Get images directly from Flickr or your PC. Apply 1000s of digital photo effects to your images with just one click. Use the online photo album feature for photo storage, and access your albums online. Share your creations by email; edit pictures online for embedding on your web page and blog. With flauntR you can apply cool digital frames and effects to your photos, for communities like Facebook or MySpace.

License - free

FlauntR home page

Identify name of a color

This application will show you the name of a color created and its hex and RGB value. You can select any color rotating around the wheel or from the dropdown list of 1500+ colors.(The color names in this list were found via Wikipedia, Crayola, and Color-Name Dictionaries like Resene)

Make interactive web applications

App2you allows users to create their own, custom, hosted, interactive web applications. Unlike other products on the market, app2you requires no programming experience or knowledge of web technologies. Instead, users simply outline the pages of their application and app2you does the rest.

Sketch the pages of your application and the flow of information across pages using the intuitive, browser-based ‘JustSketch’ interface. app2you's sophisticated algorithms automatically infer the database design and logic behind the pages

Download Yahoo Messenger Skin

Skins are a simple way to change the look and feel of your Instant Messenger. If you are a fan of Yahoo Messenger, you may also likely to beautify your IM. Yahoo provides some Messenger Skins that adds color to your Messenger and IM Window. You can make it look professional with the Classic skin or a little more fun with Indigo or Maverick Blue.
In addition, to enhance your chatting experience, there are several other items like sound, buzz system, etc available for the application
Download it from Yahoo

Compress your CSS to increase loading speed

CSS Drive is a free utility to compress your CSS to increase loading speed of your web page and save on bandwidth as well.

You can choose from three levels of compression like Light, Normal and Super Compact, 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.

Largest collection public-domain photos on the internet

Public-domain-photos is one of the of largest collection photos on the internet. Over 5000 free photos for personal or commercial use are available from this site.
All photos on this web site are public domain. You may use these images for any purpose, including commercial. But if some photo contains logos and products you need to be careful. Using someone else's trademark commercially can get you sued

Get Your YouTube Desktop

YouTube Desktop is a web based technology which is able to replace the main page of YouTube. This cool web application allows you searching, watching and downloading videos from the richest online video sharing site YouTube. It bring normal desktop application experience to the browser by supporting drag and drop, large thumbnails, standard menus and other elements.

With YouTube Desktop you can - watch multiple video at the same time, download Videos as avi, mp4 , mov, 3gp , wmv, flv, exe (built in standalone player) , create and save any video to watch later or share it with friends, share videos with friends by sending URL’s and recommending videos to friends through e-mail, and more.

Remember that, to use YouTube Desktop you required invitation from the registered member or invitation from YouTube Desktop as a beta tester. YouTube Desktop works well with latest browsers like Firefox, IE7, Opera and Safari.

For full details and invitation visit YouTube Desktop

Free SEO Tool- Website Grader

Website Grader is a free SEO tool that provides an SEO score for your website with custom search engine optimization and marketing advice for your website.

Enter your website, your keyword phrases and your competitors to receive a report about the marketing effectiveness of your website.

View all installed/connected USB devices on your system

It may be very helpful to know what device we previously or currently connected to an USB port of our computer. USBDeview is a little software utility that lists all USB devices that are currently connected or previously used to your computer. For each USB device, extended information is displayed, like Device name/description, device type, serial number (for mass storage devices), and the date/time that device was added, VendorID, ProductID, and more...

The software also allows you to uninstall USB devices that you previously used, and disconnect USB devices that are currently connected to the computer.

You can also use USBDeview on a remote computer, as long as you login to that computer with admin user.

USBDeview is a very small utility, just 40kb in size and require no installation. Just copy the executable file to any folder you like, and run it. The main window of USBDeview will display all USB devices installed on your computer. You can select one or more items, and then disconnect them, uninstall them, or just save the information into text/xml/html file.

License: free, file size: 40Kb.

For full information and download

View and edit CSS code live in both IE and Firefox

CSSVista is a free Windows application for web developers which lets you edit your CSS code live in both Internet Explorer and Firefox simultaneously. It is compatible with Windows XP and Vista. The software is from Litmus - a tool which lets you see your site in different web browsers.

License: Free

File size: 8.9Mb (V0.15) to download

Shared Stuff - new technology from Google

Google recently introduced a new technology called Shared Stuff which allows you to share any web page, email or links with friends. Shared Stuff saves your shared page in a separate page similar to your profile page which is publicly visible or not on the web according to your settings.

‘A Shared Stuff page is a collection of all the links that you want to share online with friends’.

You can bookmark the Shared Stuff button in your browser for easy access. Whenever you see the Google sharing button, on the sites, click it to share the current webpage in whatever way you prefer

This widget offers following three main ways to share content with your friends and family. 1. Add the item to your Google Shared Stuff page, 2. Email the page, with a custom message and 3. Posting the page to some related social bookmarking sites

Lotus Symphony - Free Office from IBM

IBM has released a free office suite - Lotus Symphony - a free software tools for creating and sharing documents, spreadsheets and presentations. IBM Lotus Symphony is available for both Windows and Linux platforms. Support for Apple Macintosh planned for the future.

Lotus Symphony is based on the Open Document Format (ODF) standard which helps provide interoperability and flexibility. You can import, edit and save a variety of file formats including Microsoft Office files. You can even export your documents to PDF.

There are three main applications in Lotus Symphony - Lotus Symphony Documents, Spreadsheets and Presentations. All these applications are for creating, editing, and sharing word processing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. It designed to handle the majority of tasks that end users perform, and supports the ODF giving organizations the ability to access, use, and maintain their documents over the long term without concern about end of life uncertainties or ongoing software licensing and royalty fees.

Download a free copy of Lotus Symphony

Search and download quality documents

With Docstoc you can find a vast quantity of quality legal documents in different category like business, technology, educational, and creative for free. Docstoc is a user generated community for sharing professional documents and allows users to upload their documents for the entire world to share.

You can search for documents by category or keyword. Search checks against the title, tags, and text of the docs. Then filter your results by the links below or refine your search.

In addition, users can download or store their documents in their own personal online folders for anytime, anywhere access.

List of free quality Website Templates

There are thousands of free web design templates available on the net which makes your life easy. But finding a reliable and appropriate one is a tedious job. Some web-sites offer high quality templates for free. Here is a list of selected sites which offers free and complete web design templates.

1. Freecsstemplates - Templates are free for any type of personal or commercial use. Released for free under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license

2. Open web design - It is a community of designers and site owners sharing free web design templates as well as web design information.

3. Master Templates - provides professionally designed website layouts for free.

4. Opensourcetemplates - the best free CSS and XHTML open source template design showcase.

5. Layout 4 free - the biggest template site on the net with thousands of free web layouts and logos.

6. Free-Flash-Template - offers web templates and intros with tons of special features. You don't need any flash knowledge to build.

7. Templatebox - Collection of website templates, flash templates, logo templates, etc.

8. Templatemonster - Template provide free for your education and personal use.

9. Steves-template - Collection of templates –Required link back to his site

10. Themebot - Many Wordpress layouts and HTML templates for download.

11. Paintedpixel - Free web page templates for non-commercial websites-Link back required.

12. Capmex - A collection of free templates.

13. Snakeyewebtemplates - Free Dream weaver Web Page Templates and Web Site Templates.

14. Dotcomwebdesign - You are free to download and use the templates but you required link back.

15. EffexMedia – Lots of website templates free to download.

16. Free website Templates- Largest collection of templates. No link back is required.

17. TemplateNavigator - the largest on the net catalogue of free website templates and free flash templates.

18. Freelayouts – Collection of free HTML and FLASH templates, MySpace and Xanga Layouts, WordPress Themes, Blogger and Joomla Templates.

19. FlashVillage - Beautiful flash templates all are free to download.

20. Interspire - dozens of web site templates, website layouts, newsletter templates and logo templates, that you can download free of charge.

Download free Desktop wallpapers

Graphics enthusiast and digital artist Vlad Gerasimov creates a set of wallpaper which can be downloaded from his site. His work is marvelous and available in different category and resolution.

XHTML based Photo Morpher

Photo Morpher is an image gallery based on XHTML. You can blend and morph/fades between images that are defined in a standard list in the page for easy modification and good backwards compatibility.

All photos and captions are stored in a standard

list in the document, for excellent compatibility with old browsers. The script dynamically rotates through them with customizable controls including auto play functionality.

Drive targeted readers to your blog

BlogRush is a free service that can drive more targeted readers to your blog. By adding the BlogRush Widget to a blog, a blogger can get instant distribution for their latest blog post titles across a network of related blogs with the widget on the same category.

It was designed to be incredibly viral and to provide its users with tremendous distribution leverage to receive exposure for their blog content.

Firefox add-on – Calculator

Calculator is an extension for Firefox browser. It has an interface similar to Microsoft Powertoy Calculator and is an open source replacement to the calculator included in Windows accessories. It has many features like conversions, print calculations, history and many functions like trig and log. You can convert in to mass, time, length, pressure, temperature etc easily with this tool.

Launch this extension with Alt+C or from the tool menu-Tools/Calculator. It supports Firefox 1.5 – 3.0a

Logoeasy - Free logo design tool

A logo should be a unique representation of your business or product. People should look at your logo design and see what your company stands for. You can design business grade logos with Logoeasy. This tool is highly flexible and can create good logos using number of cool images.

There is also an option to ask friends about the logo designed which helps the designer to make the right choice when it comes to the overall appeal of the logo.

Visual search Assistant

OSkope is a search assistant with a highly intuitive visual interface. OSkope lets you browse quickly through a large number of images and video and preview information with minimal paging. Selected items can be saved by registered users.

This visual search is a free online service developed by oSkope media gmbh in Zurich and Berlin. At present it lets you search on web services like Amazon, Ebay, YouTube or Flickr

Speed up Your system performance

The functioning of a half empty system’s hard disk at slow pace, even after you run defrag, is annoying. The fragmentation of saved files by Windows XP throughout the complete disk memory is directly proportional to the space occupied in the hard disk.

You can easily optimize your system by defragging almost all fragmented files for quick access using XP’s defrag tool, but not the page file and registry. The reason is that Windows XP does not provide access these files while operating.

Paging and Registry file fragmentation can be one of the leading causes of performance degradation. The page files and registry files can easily be optimized for quick access using the ‘page defrag’ tool.

You can download it from Microsoft .File size is only 70kb. Unzip the archive in to any directory. Start the file ‘pagedfrg.exe’ and activate ‘Defragment at next boot’. The tool latches itself at the next boot before the operating system starts and defrags the system files.

Windows then boots and the hard disk then start functioning with its usual speed again.

KidVideos - YouTube for Kids

KidVideos is a video sharing site just like YouTube which provides only kids related contents like cartoon and educational videos. KidVideos presented with many features, where kids and parents can watch, create, and share their movies and videos and allows commenting and rating.

The important thing about KidVideos is that it allows only kid-safe, kid-friendly videos to upload.

The site describes “KidVideos is an online video streaming platform, devoted to providing a kid-safe, kid-friendly, and kid-unique environment, where kids and parents can watch, create, and share their movies and videos. We are able to ensure such an environment by following the FTC's COPPA guidelines, reviewing all uploaded material with the intentions of filtering out all potentially harmful and unsuitable content, monitoring the website's activity, which includes reviewing posted comments, and continuing to make the functions and features of the site fun and easy to use”.

Free high resolution digital stock photographs

Morguefile - contains free high resolution digital stock photographs for either corporate or public use. The purpose of this site is to provide free image reference material for use in all creative pursuits. Thousands of photographs are available for download in different category.

The site Morguefile is designed from a term used by traditional artist and publishers as a place to keep reference material. You can upload or download photos here. All images are free and they can be used in your commercial projects without permission or credit from the photographer. (Although selling prints, selling the images directly or claiming the photo is yours is prohibited).

Website Ribbon Generator

Ribbon banner on a web site catches visitor’s attention easily. If you want to support a cause online or give your site a cool look, you can add ribbon banner on your site.
Website Ribbon Generator provides an easiest way to add ribbon banner on your site.
Select a ribbon banner, font and its color and click on ‘generate’, a JavaScript code will be displayed.
Simply copy & paste that code in your page's source code and you're technically done. You may also paste it anywhere on the page, and this won't affect its actual corner placement

Scan and fix CSS Vulnerabilities

Many web sites are vulnerable to cross-site scripting (CSS) - allows an attacker to embed malicious JavaScript, VBScript, ActiveX, HTML, or Flash into a vulnerable dynamic page to fool the user, executing the script on his machine. Hackers are manipulating these vulnerabilities to steal sensitive data.
How can you see and stop this?
Acunetix has recently released a free edition of Acunetix WVS software which can be used to scan your site for CSS vulnerabilities. The software is surely very useful for web designers to protect their works.This edition allows you to scan any web site, operated by you, for Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities, their location and techniques to fix them.

As per Acunetix “Out of the 100,000 websites scanned by Acunetix WVS, 42% were found to be vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting. XSS is extremely dangerous and the number of the attacks is on the rise”.

Exploited Cross Site Scripting is commonly used to achieve the following malicious results:

- Identity theft

- Accessing sensitive or restricted information

- Gaining free access to otherwise paid for content

- Spying on user’s web browsing habits

- Altering browser functionality

- Public defamation of an individual or corporation

- Web application defacement

- Denial of Service attacks.

License - free (registration required)

After registration you will get full documentation in pdf and a link to download

Create and edit screenshots of web pages

Normally, most of us takes screenshot of a web page by using ‘Print screen’ key of the keyboard (may be different with keyboards). But its functionality is limited. We can’t take a full web page screenshot or can’t highlight a particular area in screenshots.

FireShot is a Firefox extension that creates and edits screenshots of web pages. It integrates with Firefox and provides capturing both entire web page and only currently visible area.

Unlike other extensions, this plug-in provides a set of editing and annotation tools, which let users quickly, modify captures and insert text and graphical annotations. Such functionality will be especially useful for web designers, testers and content reviewers.

Screenshots can be saved to disk (PNG, JPEG, and BMP), copied to clipboard, e-mailed and sent to external editor like MS Paint for further processing.

To capture a web page, note a tool button located at the top-right corner of Firefox browser. Simply press it when you want to capture the contents of your currently opened web page. Select ‘entire page’ or ‘visible area’ before capture. You may also right-click the contents of the web page and use "Take Screenshot of this Page" menu item for taking web page captures.

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A list of Free Web2 Logo and Badge Generators

Logos and badges are immediately attracting visitor's attention; it's most over-used trendy little design technique in our days. They might have various round or square corners and eye-catchy colors. Here is a list of free online Logo and Badge generators.

1. Web 2.0 Badges and Badge Generator - A set of web2 badges and badge generator. More options like color, font, etc.

2. Badged.net - Easily Add Social Networking Badges to Any Web Page or blog. No option

3. Fresh badge - create a trendy sticker type badge for your blog. More options like color, font, etc.

4. Cool Text - Logo generator for web pages and anywhere else you need an impressive logo without a lot of design work. Many options to select.

5. Simwebsol – Free web2 logo generator. Many options for your choice.

6. Web2.0Stylr – Many options

7. My cool button – Make cool web2 buttons

8. Strip generator – Lot of options for your taste

9. Creatr.cc – Web2 logo creator. Many of options

SeoQuake - for Search Engine Optimization

Seoquake is a Firefox and Internet Explorer add on which helps web masters who deal with search engine optimization and internet promotion of web sites.

Seoquake allows obtaining and investigating many important SEO parameters of the internet project under study on the fly, compare them with the results, save them for future work, obtained for other, competitive, projects.

Beginner web masters will find SeoQuake useful for estimating effectiveness and competitive ability of their SEO efforts. In the hands of professional SeoQuake will become a powerful and indispensable tool for analyzing optimization and promotion level of internet web-projects.

SeoQuake consists of two functional parts. The first one is SeoBar. The second part is the computation of the parameters for search results and its inclusion into search engine

For full details visit here | here

For Firefox installation click here

Reflex - Add Cover flow effect on your Web page

Reflex.js 1.1, designed by Christian Effenberger, allows you to add a Cover Flow effect (including reflection) to images on your web pages. (Cover Flow is a trademark of Apple Inc). This is achieved by JavaScript.

Why use JavaScript Reflex Image?

It is fast and easy to implement. Just add class="reflex" to the image and your good to go. Don’t need to spend time in an image editor creating a Cover Flow image effect.

It works in all the major browsers - Firefox 1.5+, Opera 9+, Safari and IE6+. On older browsers, it'll degrade and your visitors won't notice a thing.

License - free

Download reflex.js and include it into your web page.

His similar project - Edge.js

Kestrel – new browser from Opera

Opera released a new browser codenamed Kestrel (opera 9.5 alpha). I think this is the first time Opera accepted a new name for its browser?

>>With Kestrel, Opera added another powerful feature ‘Synchronize’, features sneak preview with support for bookmarks, Speed Dial and personal bar synchronization between desktop versions of Opera.

>>Opera's excellent zoom function and the bandwidth saving control of images are now made easily available on the Status bar.

>>Kestrel adds support for Apple's screen reader "VoiceOver" found in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. This allows visually impaired Opera users to more easily use all of the features in the browser

Following are some enhancements include in the new release -

- Faster and less-memory intensive ECMA script engine

- A greatly improved layout algorithm

- The font-rendering speed is improved significantly, along with the tiling of bitmaps

- More responsive user interface

Internal benchmarks show up to 50 percent increase in speed compared to the previous core version in Opera 8. But, performance is more than just showing Web pages faster. Performance is about making your browsing experience more enjoyable and productive.

Fore more details visit Opera

Online Graph Paper / Grid Paper generator

At Incompetech you can create your own free graph paper or grid paper in different sizes and color. These can be downloaded as a PDF file and is printable.
It is useful if you need a specific number of squares on a sheet in different line thickness or color.

MooPix for Flickr API

Flickr allows programmers to access certain functionality from outside. That is, by creating an Application Programming Interface (API), Flickr has enabled all kinds of cool-kid; buzzword-compliant ways to show photos without actually going to Flickr.

Most of the Flickr API Kits is that they require you to have your own server running such as PHP, Ruby, Java, or Cold Fusion or a copy of Flash.

With MooPix you can build a simple DHTML page without server dependencies. Instead of server-side code, MooPix uses JavaScript to talk to Flickr in the language of JSON (JavaScript Object Notation). MooPix itself basically just formats your request creates the request, and then it's up to you to decide what to do with the response.

Requirement - Mootools 1.1+

Run - an easy way to animate web content

Run (Universal animation framework) is a JavaScript based animation framework that is working in any current browser.

In opposite to other frameworks, Run is the easy and basic way to animate web content.

Following are some facts which make it standing out from other frameworks - Easy and intelligent CSS support, Event listeners, Easy syntax, Well-documented, Compatible to all current browsers (Firefox 1+, Opera 8+, Internet Explorer 5.5+, Safari 2+ and Konqueror).

Download free toolbar icons

Jonas Rask released a set of free icons for developers and private individuals alike. These 32x32 pixel toolbar icons include ICNS, PNG, TIFF, Mac Icons and Pixadex iContainer versions.
License - free

Fisheye – Magnifying the icon

Fisheyes improves usability and reinforces to the user that, this is an interactive component which is ready to respond to the user's action.

The idea behind a fisheye control is a strip of icons, being vertical or horizontally laid out that reacts to the user's mouse as it approaches the icon. This control was made popular by Mac OSX ‘Dock’.

It uses prototype and harnesses the DOM Extension methods to enhance performance and reliability across the browser board. It also uses event style architecture to allow for convenience of attaching methods to a particular item being clicked etc.

PeekYou - a new kind of online white pages

A PeekYou profile helps other people find your websites, social-networking pages, photos, or anything else about you online.
You can also create a profile for friends or relatives to ensure that they may also be easily found online.

You can also register to become a full Contributor which allows you to track your edits to PeekYou and gives you other benefits as well.

Backgrounds Archive – download free tileable and desktop wallpapers

On Backgrounds Archive you can find a variety of tileable images and desktop images in different category, which you can use as wallpaper on your computer or for your Myspace profile. All images are totally free and available in widescreen and regular resolutions.

If you want, you can also share your own images on the community. Direct linking to images is also possible from the site to your site or blog, etc.

Website Accessibility Testing Tool

Relying on colors to determine a web page visibility and contrast can be misleading. Converting the colors to their grayscale equivalents is a more reliable method for choosing a color scheme for a page. By removing color’s influence, you’ll better find true visual contrast.

GrayBit is an online accessibility testing tool designed to visually convert a full-color web page into a grayscale rendition for the purpose of visually testing the page’s perceived contrast. So that a web page designer can choose an appropriate color scheme for his design.

Currently the tool works best on websites that make use of CSS and a standardized markup. Sites that use style information within tables or use frames may not be properly converted. Moreover, certain site Java Scripts may not function as expected. This would include imagery as found in remotely generated ads.

License - free