480+ Open Source Applications

March 10, 2009 4 comments

Article by Daksh Sharma
Source : Mashable

Accounting

Adaptive Planning Express – An open source solution enabling medium sized companies to automate budgeting and forecasting by moving beyond traditional applications like Excel.
Buddi – A simple budgeting program for users with no financial background.
CheckItOut – A Ruby on Rails application to manage personal money accounts.
FrontAccounting – A professional web-based [...]

8 Tips for Surviving PC Failure

March 9, 2009 No comments yet

Article by Craig Buckler
Source : SitePoint
Losing a computer can be traumatic. We store our lives on them: contact details, financial accounts, family photographs, music collections, videos and more. Here are 8 tips that could help you survive a PC meltdown…
1. BACK UP
If you have never backed up your data, stop everything and do it now! [...]

How Google Translation And Gmail help people Communicate

March 5, 2009 No comments yet

Article by T.V. Raman
Source : GoogleBlog
Language barriers can be a primary source of accessibility problems on the web, and automatic translation, though not perfect, provides a useful solution.
We recently made our machine translation technology accessible from within Gmail and Google Talk, which gives mail and IM users instant access to translation capabilities at the point [...]

10 Tools to Get the Most Out of GTalk

March 2, 2009 No comments yet

Article by Palin Ningthoujam
Source : Mashable

For those of us who are active Google Talk (GTalk) users, sometimes chatting is not enough. Luckily, there are tools to make your GTalk experience more interesting like VOIP, translations, and more. Here are 10 third party tools and special features that will help you get the most out of [...]

5 Great Instant Messenger Aggregators Across Multiple Platforms

March 2, 2009 No comments yet

Article by Hillel Fuld
Source : Mashable
Since the proliferation of the Internet, instant messaging (IMing from here on in) has become a very popular means of communicating on the Web. Even with the rapid growth of Twitter, many people still communicate using IM. Now, there is no shortage of IM protocols out there; these [...]

Top 10 Free Tools for Monitoring Your Brand’s Reputation

March 2, 2009 No comments yet

Article by Dan Schawbel
Source : Mashable
Brand monitoring has become an essential task for any individual or corporation. Years ago, when people talked about our brands, it was behind our backs and we almost never found out about it. Today, most of these dialogues are right in front of our own eyes and the number of [...]

25+ Tools For Accounting and Budgeting

March 2, 2009 No comments yet

Article by Sean P.Aune
Source: Mashable
There are a growing number of online services dedicated to helping users manage their finances. There are many benefits to using these accounting applications, they can simplify the process as well as help you find ways to save money. Here are 25+ tools for accounting and budgeting both personal and [...]

Great Instant Messenger Startups

March 2, 2009 No comments yet

Article by Stan Schroeder
Source : Mashable

Meebo & Meebo Rooms

Meebo is a very popular web based IM client, and with its latest release, Meebo Rooms, it’s destined to become even bigger. It’s a completely web based chat space with embedded video and plenty of options, including bold and italic fonts and different typefaces. Most importantly, just [...]

200+ Tools for Surviving the Economic Crisis

March 2, 2009 No comments yet

Article by Sean P.Aune
Source : Mashable
With Wall Street’s recent decline and the economy in such an uncertain place, many people are fearful of losing their jobs and lifelong investments. There are countless simple online services and tools dedicated to helping you take control of these elements. We’ve put together a list of over 200 to [...]

Finally: Gmail Lets You Multi-Select Attachments

March 2, 2009 No comments yet

Article by Adam Ostrow
Source : Mashable

This has probably been my #1 Gmail pet peeve since I started using the service 4 or 5 years ago, and now it has finally been addressed: the ability to upload multiple attachments at once, rather than one-by-one. Additionally, when you attach files, you’ll now get a progress bar indicating [...]

The PHP Toolbox: Great PHP Resources

March 2, 2009 No comments yet

Article by Sean P.Aune
Source : Mashable

c.anvas.es – A PHP framework for PHP5 with a focus on ease of use.

CakePHP.org – A PHP framework meant to work like Ruby on Rails smf take some of the heavy lifting off the developer.

CodeIgniter.com – An open source PHP framework with an eye towards sites hosted on shared servers.

Coders4Fun.com [...]

JAVASCRIPT TOOLBOX: 25+ Tools & Tutorials For JavaScript

March 2, 2009 No comments yet

Article by Sean P.Aune
Source : Mashable

JavaScript is one of the most often used languages on the web, and it seems to be gaining in popularity each day. We’ve gathered 25+ tools and tutorials which will be useful to any JavaScript programmer – novice or pro.

ActiveWidgets.com – A component library that gives you AJAX-style fuctions with [...]