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Application Jukebox is Endeavors Technology’s patented application streaming and virtualization technology. Now they offer Application Jukebox Lite, a FREE, fully functional version of Application Jukebox, but are limited to use on a single server.
Application Jukebox Lite allows administrators to publish and stream their own Windows-based applications or choose from a selection of already published applications to stream on-demand.
The Application Jukebox family of products contains three key components. Application Jukebox Player sits on the client to create the virtual application environment and provides user authentication and application license enforcement. Application Jukebox Server controls and delivers applications, provides usage monitoring and logging, plus group, user and application level administration.
Application Jukebox Studio allows ISVs and IT administrators to create a streamable, virtualized “appset” from standard, Windows-based applications that is then published to the server.
Application Jukebox Lite is available at the TryItNow site, which also includes streamable applications, community forums, FAQs and other information to get you started. (source)
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Web services are often protected with a challenge that's supposed to be easy for people to solve, but difficult for computers. Such a challenge is often called a CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) or HIP (Human Interactive Proof).
It is used for many purposes, such as to reduce email and blog spam and prevent brute-force attacks on web site passwords.
Today, the most common HIPs ask users to identify text that has been distorted or obscured, such challenges can be difficult and frustrating for people, yet are often easily solved by computers.
Asirra (Animal Species Image Recognition for Restricting Access) is a HIP that works by asking users to identify photographs of cats and dogs. This task is difficult for computers, but people can accomplish it quickly and accurately.
It's easy to add an Asirra HIP to your web site. Microsoft Research is providing it as a FREE web service.
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Mango is an interesting application that can be used to convert any web application or simply any website, for example Gmail, YouTube or my blog Techtrends, in to an executable desktop application.
We can run these application or web site from our desktop; neither had we required a browser or even Mango.Interesting thing is that, you can convert your favorite sites into an exe file, carry them on your pen drive and access them from any computer with an internet connection.
You can also add your own icons or a splash screen to the file and even create customizable menus.However the application lacks some basic features. For instance, there is no back button or address bar. If you click on a page there is no way of returning back to the previous page unless there is a link on the site like Home or previous etc. [source]
To run this software .net framework 2 installed on your computer.
File size: 500Kb /License: Free/ Download / Home page
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Yahoo Design Stencil Kit is a package of design samples which is useful when designing user interface for your website or web application.Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit version 1.0 is available in OmniGraffle, Visio (XML), Adobe Illustrator (PDF and SVG), and Adobe Photoshop (PNG), and covers the topics such as Ad Units, Calendars, Carousels, Charts and Tables, UI Controls, Form Elements, Grids, Menus and Buttons, Mobile – General, Mobile – iPhone, Navigation and Pagination, OS Elements, Placeholder Text, Screen Resolutions, Tabs, Windows and Containers.[source]
License:GPL / Download
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Google Analytics Manager is complete site metrics package, that measures and tracks site activity and provides easy-to-understand metrics on site performance and how visitors interact with your site pages, and best of all its FREE for all sites.It will add Google's tracking code to every page of each site in no time. With this small tool you can track and update the web pages instantly.
Following are some key features:

• Ideal for the busy developer, SEO or on-line business owner, Pluginlab's Google Analytics Manager gets your sites hooked up faster.
• This simple tool efficiently adds Google's tracking code to each page of each site with just a couple of clicks. No hand coding required to add the tracking code to each site.
• Google Analytics Manager tracks each Google code number for each site under your management.
• Simply paste the Google tracking code into Pluginlab's Analytics Manager and update every page of every site in just seconds.

Windows all,
Macromedia Extensions Manager 1.6,
Macromedia CS3, 8, MX 2004, or MX 6,

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Webpage loading time is one of the most important parts of a website that directly influence its success. If your web page doesn’t load with in a specific time, precisely saying with in 8 seconds, users are likely to lose interest and navigate away.Web page rendering time is different in different browsers and there are many aspects determining the minimal time needed by web browsers to render a certain web page
To measure and optimize your web pages loading speed, there is an add-on for Firefox from Yahoo! – YSlow. It analyzes web pages and tells you why they're slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. It works integrated with Firebug a popular web development tool for Firefox.
YSlow's web page analysis is based on 13 identified basic rules that affect web page performance like the number of HTTP requests, list of components in the page, expire header, GZip components, the position of style sheets and scripts relative to the top or bottom of the web page, CSS expressions, internal or external scripts and more. Full details
YSlow helps you to optimize your website in order to have faster loading web pages by 25-50% with 13 rules described.[source]
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WebShare is a web2.0 open source project written in Ajax/PHP, designed to handle files and folders hosted on a distant FTP server through web-based interface.With a simple browser, you can view, copy, edit or save your Web documents as easily as they were on your own computer. But especially, you can access and share it from anywhere. The administrator can create many accounts or share points with precise restrictions and keep control on all the users and documents.
This is a very comprehensive tool, some of the features that have are:

• Different views of files, either by list, thumbnails, details, etc.
• Editing HTML and TXT files from the same browser interface.
• Navigation advanced image galleries, either print or slide.
• Playing MP3 files from the same interface.
• Access to the server in a public or authentication.
• Basic functions of a scanner, create, delete, move, copy files and directories.

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Ampache is a Web-based Audio file manager that allows you to view, edit, and play your audio files via the web. Ampache is implemented with MySQL, and PHP and has support for play lists, artist/album views, playback via Http/On the Fly Transcoding and Down sampling, Integrated Flash Player, as well as per user themes and song play tracking.

Full details here

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Google Mobilizer is a free tool to make any website user friendly and make it viewable on your mobile phone or PDA. Just go to Google Mobilizer and enter your URL, select images on/off, and click ‘GO’. Now it present you with a neat, add-free and stripped down version of the website. You also get a navigation menu to easily browse through website pages.

Track: Makeuseof

Google Mobilizer Official site

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Want to make flash content for your blog or web site without knowing anything about Action Script or animation? At Wix you can create stunning flash content like presentations signatures for your site.

Track: Bitperbit

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The Google Chart API lets you dynamically generate charts. It returns a PNG-format image in response to a URL.

Several types of image can be generated: line, bar, and pie charts for example. For each image type you can specify attributes such as size, colors, and labels.

You can include a Chart API image in a webpage by embedding a URL within an<img> tag. When the webpage is displayed in a browser the Chart API renders the image within the page.

Visit from here at Google chart API

License: Free

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Starbox allows you to easily create all kinds of rating boxes using just one PNG image. The library is build on top of the Prototype JavaScript framework. For some extra effects you can add Scriptaculous as well.

Latest version released on December 11 - 2007 and it adds a lot of new features to the library:

1. Rating allows you to adjust your previous rating.

2. You can easily save your rating with Ajax using the build in callback.

3. Improvements to the CSS model, allowing you to style the Starbox based on status (hover, rated and locked).

4. Better separation of JavaScript, CSS and images.

5. A ghosting bar that tracks your average.

6. Custom event 'starbox: rated’ is fired when your rate.

7. Batched building of Starboxes based on cached overlay images.

License: Free

Details like how to include in your web page etc are available here.

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Image loader is useful in many application and website. For example to load a big image on web site take some times, especially in a dial-up connection, there you can add this to show the image is loading.

If you like to add such an image loader on your blog, here is a simple solution. Go to Ajaxload where you can select different types of image loader and download it. You are allowed to select any color from the color picker for your image loader that matches you.

The process is simple - Select the type of indicator you want - Enter the background color you want (Tick "Transparent background" if you do not want one) - Enter the foreground color you want then press "Generate it” and download it.

To add in blogger (classic/xml), just upload the loader image, for example, to Google Pages and add the following code on your style sheet (css).

img {background: transparent url (http://example.googlepages.com/ajax-loader.gif) no-repeat center; }

source - blogandweb
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The WebSitePulse Current Status is an extension for Firefox is a real time monitoring tool for your web site.
This extension provides you the status of your servers, websites and web applications. Remember that it works when you are using the WebSitePulse monitoring service.
The extension comes with two components: the Sidebar, which displays all targets with their real time current status, and the Status bar, which indicates if all targets are OK or if there is an issue with any of them.
License: Free
Requirements: Registration with WebSitePulse
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CSS scroll bar color changer is an online tool that lets you to customize the colors of the scroll bar on your blog or web site. Working is simple enter your colors in hex format, (e.g. FF0033) or click the color chip for a popup color picker. Copyand add the resulted code CSS between the body tags.(Support only Internet Explorer)

License: Free
Requirement: Internet Explorer
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MRI is a free cross browser tool like X-Ray that lets you test selectors with any web page. Selectors, particularly complex ones can be difficult to get exactly right - MRI lets you experiment with them on any web page - static or dynamic.

Just bookmark the tool. Load a web page fully, then load MRI and enter a selector (e.g. li a) to test.

MRI currently works with Safari 2/3 on Mac OS, Mozilla browsers (Firefox/Camino) on Windows and Mac and Internet Explorer 6+.

Related story: Take X-Ray of a web page

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Testing a new Web site in many browsers and Operating system can be quite time-consuming and not everybody has a farm of legacy machines with older OSes and browsers.

Browsershots is a free, open-source online service that makes screen shots of your web design in different browsers and Operating systems. When you submit your web address, it will be added to the queue for process. Later you can access the page (after 10 minutes or so) with many screen shots. You can bookmark the page for later access.

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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)

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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
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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.

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