Color Cop - Useful tool for web designers and programmers

If you are a web designer or often work with graphic elements, it is certain that you need to know what the exact hex or RGB values of a color.
To simplify your work, a few months back we presented some simple tools such as Instant-Eyedropper, Pixeur and Anry Color Mixer, here is another very simple (66Kb) tool, but with more options – Color Cop.
Color Cop is a multi-purpose color picker that features an eyedropper, magnifier, variable magnification levels, 3 by 3 and 5 by 5 average sampling, snap to websafe, color history, and a complementary color palette. Color Cop will convert RGB decimal values to Hexadecimal color codes. It has color code support for HTML Hex, Delphi Hex, PowerBuilder, Visual Basic Hex, Visual C++ Hex, RGB int, and RGB float.
Features:

• Convert RGB Decimal values to HTML Hexadecimal
• Custom Color Picker
• Eyedropper
• Persistent settings
• Convert Hexadecimal to RGB Decimal values
• Random Color Generator
• Reverse Color Option
• Magnifier with 1x-16x zoom
• 3 by 3 and 5 by 5 average sampling
• Snap to WebSafe
• Detect WebSafe color
• HTML, Delphi, Visual Basic, Visual C++ and Powerbuilder Hex color support
• Mouse wheel support
• Upper and Lower case Hex
• Collapseable dialog
• Color History
• Complementary Color Palette
• Relative position measurements

Color Cop is absolutely free and runs on Windows 98, Me, 2000, NT, XP and Vista (source)
File size: 66Kb / License: Free
Download / Homepage

Free 6 month Registration key and Download for Agilent Technologies Network Analysis Software

Agilent Technologies Network Analysis Software gives Powerful LAN Troubleshooting at your Laptop or Desktop. You don't have to be a troubleshooting or protocol expert! With this FREE network analysis software you can turn your PC into a network tester that solves even the most complex problems on your network.
The Network Analyzer software is a protocol analysis tool used to monitor network performance, capture and decode network traffic, and gather statistical data such as utilization, error activity, protocol and traffic distributions, and other important network information.

• Quickly determine who is on your network, who is using bandwidth, where errors may be occurring on the network
• Identify problems - before they become serious issues that impact productivity and performance
• Use expert analysis tools to solve network problems quickly and effectively by reducing thousands of IP and Novell frames into a handful of significant events
• Capture and analyze network traffic in real-time using your PCs local NDIS adapter
• Analyze data offline at your convenience and quickly pinpoint problems on your network

To get a free 6month license key just enter here / here and provide your valid email address and postal /Zip code and click next. On the next page provide your necessary details and select ‘Network analyzer standard edition’ from the drop down menu and submit. On the next page you should see the download link to the software and you should get a registration key and installation details on your email.

Get a Free Genuine License key and Download for Web Easy 7 Express

With Web Easy 7 Express, you can easily create web sites without any knowledge of HTML programming. Web Easy gives you full WYSIWYG control over the content and layout of each page of your document. Even beginners can easily create web sites - both regular HTML web sites and dynamic DHTML sites. More advanced users can add advanced features such as animated GIF images and three-dimensional VRML components.
With Web Easy, you can make web sites with buttons, links, embedded sound and video, and more, Create dynamic web sites with special effects such as moving text, page transitions, roll-over images, animation and more. On-screen presentations and slide shows., create your own website from easy to use templates, no programming or technical skills required, supports all popular browsers. Advanced features:

• Animated GIF images - Animated GIF images are animated images, which you can create and embed in your web site.
• Image components - Export part of your Web site as an image and use it again in your site.
• Scenes- Make your Web Site pages with different appearance when presented to the user on Internet.
• E-commerce- Make a business on Internet by selling your products using secure and safe e-commerce solutions.

[Web Easy 7 Express is a light version. Some features only available in Web Easy pro version.]
To get a FREE license key and download link for Web Easy 7 Express just enter here and register your name and email address.
File size:24Mb

Get a FREE License key and Download for Wise-FTP 3.1.2

WISE-FTP is an FTP client - software which enables users to connect to any FTP server for the upload and download of files. Using WISE-FTP, file management is quick and easy, and no knowledge on how the FTP protocol works is required. This makes WISE-FTP an ideal tool for webmasters who update their sites regularly.
WISE-FTP can connect to any valid site without being bound to a specific server operating system. A broad spectrum of operating systems is supported, e. g. Windows, OS/2, and UNIX standards.
The basic features of WISE-FTP includes - Connecting to any FTP server, Searching through files and/or directories on the remote system, as well as on your local system, Moving or copying files or directories from your local system to the remote server, and vice versa, Saving connection settings, so that frequently used FTP servers are accessible with just one mouse click, Synchronizing content of directories on your local and remote system, so that, for example, your website is always up-to-date without having to copy individual files.Features of Wise-FTP 3.1

• Secure authentification and file transfer (SFTP)
• SOCKS proxy support
• Clipboard monitoring
• Configuration wizard that opens at first program start
• Assignable short-cuts for actions
• Change the size of icons in toolbar
• Improvement of local explorer
• Improvement of remote files editing
• HTML Editor
• Improvement of text editor
• Export of server list to a csv file
• Unidirectional folder synchronization: automatic alignment of source system and target system
• Improved Scheduler: wildcards such as “*txt” can be used for up- and download
• The date and time of a session is saved in the FTP log file
• Several bug fixes

To get a FREE serial key, after installation run the program and click on ‘Activate now’ button and give your details like name, email etc and click on 'Get serial key' button. A valid product key will be sent to your mailbox.
Supports - Windows 2000/ XP/ Vista
File sise: 6.5MB / Download / Download
(Via – vnunet)

Free, Fast and Easy to use PowerPoint to Flash Converter

Want to create web friendly Flash movies from your PowerPoint presentations keeping all its visual parameters and animation effects? iSpring free may be the best choice.
iSpring Free converts your PowerPoint presentation with all external resources into one solid Flash movie. Generated Flash presentation will look as if it has always been a Flash movie.
With this application you can generate .html code ready to place a .swf file on your web page or blog. iSpring wraps Flash slideshows in the attractive Player for effective navigation.Features includes:

• PowerPoint 2000/XP/2003/2007
• Hyperlinks and action buttons
• Animations and hyperlinks on Slide Masters
• 180+ PowerPoint animation effects
• All PowerPoint slide transitions
• One click conversion
• Embedded music and audio narrations
• Synchronization of animations and sounds
• Embedded video clips and Flash movies
• Flash based Player

File size:7 Mb/ License: FREE / Download

Endeavors Offers FREE Desktop Virtualization and Streaming Application

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)

Asirra - A different form of Captcha

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.
>>More details and download

Mango – Software to convert Web applications into Desktop application

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

FREE Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit for download

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

Google Analytics Manager

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,

Which is the fastest loading website?

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]
Download

Webshare, file explorer in AJAX and PHP for your FTP server

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.

[Source]

Ampache - Web-based Audio file manager

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

Make Any Website Mobile Friendly with Google Mobilizer

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

Make stunning web contents (flash) in minutes with Wix

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

Include a chart as shown in your webpage using Google API

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

Rating Star system for prototype

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.

Create your own loader icon and add to your blog

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

Real-time status for your servers, websites and web applications

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

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