Showing posts with label Free Open Source. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Free Open Source. Show all posts

Wednesday, 21 April 2010

40+ Firefox Add-ons for High Speed Blogging


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Firefox works great on its own, but it’s the thousands of extensions that make it excel. We’ve pulled together more than 40 add-ons for Firefox that provide quick access to handy blogging tools. But whatever you do, don’t install them all at once. ;) Blog Publishing
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Blogger Bar – Search Blogger, “Blog This” function for any page you’re on.
Clipmarks – Clip any portion of a website to save, email or put on your blog.
Deepest Sender – Blogblog to multiple platforms from one window.
JustBlogIt – Just right click, and you’re blogging about the page you’re viewing.
LiveJournal Addons – Notifies you of friends updates, messages and more.
LiveJournal Hook – Gives you quick access to many LiveJournal commands and tags.
MySpace Blog Editor – Post directly from Firefox, drag and drop clips from sites.
Scribefire – A blog editor that integrates with your browser and allows you to drag and drop items from a web page into a blog post.
Twitterbar – Post to Twitter directly from the address bar.
WordPress.com Sidebar – Adds a quick access sidebar to get to your WordPress.com account.
Uploading Photos and Media
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Fireflix – Sidebar extension to upload, browse, and manage your Flickr photos.
Firefox Companion for Kodak EasyShare Gallery – Upload photos directly to your Kodak EasyShare Gallery.
Firefox Universal Uploader – Universal program for uploading to sites such as Flickr, PicasaYouTube, and Facebook.
FireFTP – An integrated FTP system that syncs and checks versions.
Flickr Sidebar – View the pictures in your account in a sidebar.
Fotofox – Select, tag, and upload images to popular sites such as Flickr.
ImageBot – Lets you upload photos to ImageShack or Photobucket.
OakFlickr4PFF – Allows uploading to your Flickr account.
Blog Tools
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Adsense Notifier – Displays your current earnings from Google Adsense in the status bar.
Copy as HTML Link – Copies the address of a page to the clipboard as an HTML ready link.
Create short URLs – Right click an address, click wrapURL, and create a shortened URL for your use.
Dict – Highlight a word, right click it, select define and get a definition in a pop-up window.
DictionarySearch – Similar to Dict, but the result appears in a new tab.
FastDict – Add quick access to any number of dictionary sites to spruce up your blog entries.
ShrinkThisLink Link Shrinker – Use the ShrinkThisLink service without leaving the page.
Tiny.pl – Shortens an address via the tiny.pl service.
Blog Design, Customization and Development
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ColorZilla – Get a color reading from any spot in your browser.
DT Whois – Adds a button for Domaintools.com whois service for the site you are currently viewing.
Firebug – Look under the hood of your favorite websites and take a peak at their code.
Greasemonkey – Allows you to run small java scripts to manipulate the way a page displays to you.
HTML Validator – Checks the validity of a page’s HTML and tells you the results in simple graphics.
IE Tab – Lets you view a webpage in an Internet Explorer tab without leaving Firefox.
iWEBTOOL Webmaster’s Toolbar – Allows you quick access to services and tools from iWEBTOOL.
JavaScript Debugger – In browser Java script debugging.
KGen – Allows you to see the strongest keywords for a given site.
LinkChecker – Checks the validity of all links on a given page.
Load Time Analyzer – Allows developers to measure how long a page takes to load.
MeasureIt – Draws out a ruler to get a pixel dimension of any element on a page.
MetaTags – Checks the meta information of a site and features an automated search engine submission tool.
RankQuest SEO Toolbar – Quick access to over 30 SEO tools.
SearchStatus – Keyword density analyser and checks backlinks.
SEOHAND – Tracks a site’s standings and creates graphs over time.
SEOQuake – Ever wonder why a page gets good search ranking? This will help you figure it out.
Web Developer – A highly regarded debugging tool for designers.

Sunday, 18 April 2010

Free Open-Source Software For Windows

List of some best and free open source software for windows. These software are licensed under Free Software Licenses and Open Source Licenses. Some really great software which are absolutely free and best alternate to paid software. Feel free to download them all and also don't be afraid to share it with your friends.

Follow the link provided and downloaded the software from the page.


Browser

Mozilla Firefox: It is considered to be the best browser available and is most widely used browser after Microsoft's Internet explorer.



Google Chrome: It has been recognized as the fastest browser and it is the third most widely used browser.

Audio and Video

VLC Player: A highly portable open source multimedia player capable of playing most of the audio and video file formats.

Miro Video Player: It is a free and open source HD video player. It can play almost any video file and offers over 6000 internet shows and video podcast.


Media Player Classic: A very light weight and simple video player for windows.


Audacity: It's a free audio editor for recording, Slicing and mixing audio files.


Office Suites


Abiword: An open source word processing program.


Openoffice.org: A completely free and open-source office program, you can use this program to do all your MS Office work.


PDFforge: A free software to help you create PDF projects.


Scribus: It's a professional layout and publishing software.


File Sharing


Cabos: A great software for firewall to firewall file transfer.


DC++: An open source Peer-to-peer file sharing client.


Shareaza: A peer-to-peer file sharing program for windows.


Ares: It's a P2P file sharing program which allows you to share Music, Software, reviews and much more.


Frostwire: It's a totally free limewire alternative and you can use it for free P2P file sharing for Gnutella and BitTorrent protocols.


CD/DVD Tools


Handbrake: Free and open source DVD ripper/Converter.


InfraRecorder: A free CD/DVD burning software.


Image/Graphics Tools


GIMP: An open source Image manipulation program for windows.


Inkscape: A Vector graphics editor, similar to adobe illustrator.


Blender: An open source cross platform suite of tools for 3D creation.


Paint.net:(not open source) A free image editing software for windows.


Dia: It is a drawing software that helps you draw structured diagrams.


FTP/SFTP



FileZilla: An open source FTP client for Windows.


WinScp: A free SFTP, FTP and SCP client for windows.


Instant Messaging / IM


Pidgin: A very popular chat client, which helps you connect MSN, Google Talk, Yahoo, AIM and other chat networks at once.


Miranda IM: A portable and multiprotocol instant messaging application for windows.


Email Clients



Mozilla Thunderbird: A popular and a great alternate to Microsoft outlook. It has intelligent spam filter which filters all the trash emails and has an inbuilt RSS reader to read all you feeds at one place.


Claws Mail: An open source GTK+ based email client.


RSS Reader Software


RSSowl: A powerful application to organize, search and read all your feed at one place with a ease.


RSSbandit: Helps you read news feeds and download podcasts from your desktop only.


Security Tools



Passwordsafe: A free software to help you manage you passwords safely.


TrueCrypt: An open source disk encryption software for windows.


Eraser: A secure data removal tool for windows.


ClamWin: A very popular open-source antivirus to scan your PC for virus and also get free virus updates.


Utilities


7-Zip: A file achiver which supports ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and Tar format.


CobianBackup: A very useful backup software for windows.


DR Freeware: A great software which helps you in recovering your lost data, mail recovery, drive backup, data undelete, password reset for windows.


UltraVNC: A powerful software that helps you connect to another desktop through remote desktop connection.


PeaZip: It's a free and open-source file archive manager which helps you extract, compress, encrypt and secure deletion.


Web Related / Developers


Notepad++: A free text editor and source code editor for windows.


DotNetNuke: It's an open source platform for building website based on Microsoft .Net framework.


Xampp: A simple Apace distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl.


Firebird: A free database management system for windows.


PHPMyadmin: An application to handle the administration of MySQL.


BookmarkSync: It's a bookmarking service which allows you to access your favorite bookmarks from any computer and any browser.


WebDevloper Suite: A windows based platform for development, testing and deployment of PHP and MySQL websites and application.


Curl-loader: A simple software performance testing tool written in C language.


NVU: An alternate to Dreamweaver software.