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Yioop! is an awesome free search engine product. Yioop is open source and its a search engine built with PHP and MySQL.
Yioop has many amazing algorhythms and it can even be set to crawl at any rate or page. Additionally, Yioop can be used in a similar way to Google Custom Search and only run with certain URLs.
A standard setup can crawl and index millions of pages per day and this number can be increased by running more crawlers. Index also supports many files types including HTML, PNG, DOC and more.
Paper.js is a great free open source vector graphics scripting framework. Paper.js has a lot of great features including nested layers, groups, paths and more (its not just awrapper for the canvas).
All of the items are drawn autmatically so you can focus on styling and modification.
Sprite Cow is a great new open source CSS sprite generator. Sprite Cow amazing automatically recognises different elements within single images. Sprite Cow allows you to simply upload your sprite image and it works out the exact CSS rules.
The application can select items in any size and also gives you the option of changing the background color.
Oracle has just announced that they intend to move OpenOffice.org to a purely community based open source project and no longer offer a commercial version.
“Given the breadth of interest in free personal productivity applications and the rapid evolution of personal computing technologies, we believe the OpenOffice.org project would be best managed by an organization focused on serving that broad constituency on a non-commercial basis,” said Edward Screven, Oracle’s Chief Corporate Architect. ”We intend to begin working immediately with community members to further the continued success of Open Office. Oracle will continue to strongly support the adoption of open standards-based document formats, such as the Open Document Format (ODF).”
Oracle has been a very closed company for some time, but they have also invested heavily in Linux and MySQL. It will be interesting to see if the community really jumps onto the OpenOffice bandwagon.
Shopping online is the easiest way to shop all your favorite products today. May it be a pair of new jeans, shoes, laptops, mobile phones, crockery or home decors, people love to shop online. Simply select your products from the display and add them to your shopping cart to pay and purchase. However, e-business with this ease and safety could not have been possible without the magic of Magento.
Magento offers you ultimate ideas for easy management of all your online stores. Easy navigability, effectual ROI and usability are the basic needs for any e-commerce website. As a result, most e-commerce based companies prefer using Magento as their ideal business platform. Apart from these basic factors, Magento also offers several other advantages mentioned below.
- Free Open Source platform: Magento is a free open source platform and is made available to every person interested in owning an online property. Install the system to earn benefits from your online store.
- SEO friendly: Surviving the market with SEO is not possible today. It is the key ingredient to your online success. Magento has certain built-in characteristics that allow you to generate page titles and meta tags for your web pages.
- Multi-tasking: Magento has multitasking features that helps you manage multiple online stores at the same time hassle free. You can run 20 stores together using the same administrator panel of your Magento platform.
- Currency updater: All online e-businesses are based on international currency. Hence, with the constantly changing currency rates, shopping online becomes a dilemma for buyers. Magento solves this problem easily with its live currency updater that holds a direct link to the WebServiceX that provides you automatic currency rate updates.
- Shopping cart checkout option: Checking out the shopping cart is a must when you purchase online. However, getting yourself registered to have a look at your cart products is not a feasible option. As a result, Magento provides you a smart button to checkout and browse the store easily without wasting time. This feature greatly facilitates users and makes them come back to your online store, thus boosting your business outcome.
- Business extension features: Expanding your business is never a problem with Magento. You can easily add more products to your store without the slightest problem.
- Social shopping: Reading reviews of other customers and checking out the latest trends is a part of shopping today. Knowing this, Magento allows you to socialize on online stores while buying your favorite products.
- Product details import: Managing details of all your products is a very tedious task. This gets more intricate with the addition of new products or while opening a new store. Magento helps you import your previous product sheet into your Magento system thus making the procedure uncomplicated.
- Magento SOS: Magento is one of the highest used open source platforms on the web. Hence, several professional developers and designers have created a helpline and community for taking this management service to an advanced level.
Only few simple advantages have been described here. Looking at the potential Magento has in this ever growing web world, you will always be glad to pick this CMS platform for your online profile.
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Clipperz is a great free open source password manager. Users can either sign up for an account on Clipperz or they can download and host the client themselves.
Clipperz can store any of your sensitive data, such as passwords, notes, etc. Clipperz takes care of all the security and encryption to make sure that all your sensitive information is safe.
Take a look at Clipperz here.
AwesomeChartJS ios a brand new open source Javascript library for creating beautiful HTML5 charts. AwesomeChartJS is a standalone library and is very easy to use.
Chart types:
- vertical and horizontal bar charts
- pareto bar charts
- pie charts (whole or part)
- exploded pie charts
- ring/doughnut charts
AwesomeChartJS is all about simplicity and this means it doesnt have many customisation options.
Double Commander is a cross platform open source file manager that everyone should be using.
Here are some key features of Double Commander:
- Unicode support
- All operations working in background
- Multi-rename tool
- Tabbed interface
- Custom columns
- Internal text editor (F4) with syntax hightlighting
- Built in file viewer (F3) to view files of in hex, binary or text format
- Archives are handled like subdirectories. You can easily copy files to and from archives. Supported archive types: ZIP, TAR GZ, TGZ, LZMA and also BZ2, RPM, CPIO, DEB, RAR.
- Extended search function with full text search in any files
- Configurable button bar to start external programs or internal menu commands
- Total Commander WCX, WDX and WLX plug-ins support
- File operations logging
Install Double Commander in Ubuntu 10.10/10.04 (Lucid)
Open the terminal and run the following commands
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:alexx2000/doublecmd
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install doublecmd-gtk
LeanBack it’s an open source project for a HTML5 video player which you can use, completely free of course, in any of your websites and with the characteristic that supports subtitles.
This is definitely not the first open source project for HTML5, but is the first which includes the support for subtitles in their videos. This is a nice feature for HTML5 videos, which are taking large steps to replace Adobe Flash as the preferred platform in websites.
LeanBack has several interesting features as weel, take a look:
- Supports widely used desktop browsers and mobile devices
- Supports also Microsoft Internet Explorer (≤8) and Safari (without Quicktime on Windows) by fallback to flash
- Ability to handle more than one HTML5 video element on a single page
- Javascript library independent
- 100% skinnable using CSS; consistent look between browsers
- Multi-language support
- Browser fullscreen mode; window fullscreen mode
- Volume controls
- Keyboard shortcuts on focused video (desktop browsers)
- Different playback rates (currently in desktop browsers Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer 9 beta)
- Supports subtitles through HTML5 track element; language-selection by label attribute of track
- Supports preload attribute in desktop browsers to save traffic (using a fix)
Akregator is a news feed reader available for Linux, where we can access our common feeds from a KDE desktop. Even though it was designed for KDE, Akregator is also available from Ubuntu download center making it possible using in Gnome.
If you usually access and use RSS to get the latest news from sites and blogs, you should know that the way we are retrieving the information is crucial for not missing anything important. If we don’t have a simple GUI in the application we are using, probably we just won’t read anything.
Akregator’s simplicity brings the simple features we may need in a RSS reader: organizing feeds in folders, quick preview, full search possibilities, etc.
You can download Akregator using this link.
