13-most essential open source apps that you probably like to say thank you

Today, we are going to say big Thank You to everyone who supports us, appreciate us, love us and always be there for us when we need them. So, how can we forget those that makes our online life easier and did the tremendous work for us. They delivered us those applications/software that help us to get the routine work done for our daily use. There are many that we can not count and list exactly but we are trying to make a list of 13 Most Essential Open Source Apps That You Probably Like To Say Thank You. And Yes! Happy Thanksgiving…

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Downloadable Web-Based Applications

WordPress As An Open Source Fastest Growing And Damanding Blogging System

WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.

phpBB™ As The Most Widely Used Open Source Forum Solution

With a large and highly customisable set of key features coupled with a standards compliant interface, phpBB™ will grow with, and complement your website. With millions of installations worldwide, it is no wonder phpBB™ is one of the most popular ways to create and support a community.

Drupal As An Powerful And Open Source Content Management Platform

Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations are using Drupal to power scores of different web sites from personal weblogs to large community-driven websites.

Mindquarry DO As A Free And Open Source Application  for Team Collaboration

Mindquarry DO is an Open Source collaborative software platform for file sharing, task management, team collaboration and Wiki editing that is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Mindquarry runs as a web application with an optional desktop client for Windows, Linux and Mac OS that allows for desktop synchronization and offline work. As a result, you are able to connect with team members and share information from wherever you are, effectively improving team-work and increasing productivity within your team.

PrestaShop™ As An Open Source Professional e-Commerce Shopping Cart Software

The PrestaShop e-Commerce Solution was built to take advantage of essential Web 2.0 innovations such as dynamic AJAX-powered features and next-generation ergonomy. PrestaShop guides users through your product catalog intelligently and effortlessly, turning intrigued visitors into paying customers.

jobberBase As The Simple, Free And Open Source Job Board Software

jobberBase is a great open source job board software for anyone. You can get online your job posting website with jobberBase. It’s easy to install and configure to start your job board.

ModSecurity As An Open Source Web Application Firewall

ModSecurity is a web application firewall that can work either embedded or as a reverse proxy. It provides protection from a range of attacks against web applications and allows for HTTP traffic monitoring, logging and real-time analysis. It is also an open source project that aims to make the web application firewall technology available to everyone.

Downloadable Desktop Applications

OpenOffice As The Free and Open Office Productivity Suite

OpenOffice is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.

Mozilla Firefox As An Open Source Faster, Safer And Smarter Web Browser

Mozilla Firefox is a fast and powerful web browser designed to run on both Linux and Windows. There are far fewer issues with spyware, adware, and pop ups making it far more secure than Internet Explorer.

Amaya

Alternative:Â Adobe Dreamweaver

Firefox 3 sets the pace with dozens of new features, including the smart location bar, one-click bookmarking and blindingly fast performance. Avoid online scams, unsafe transactions and forgeries with simple site identity. View Web pages faster, using less of your computer’s memory.

ClamWin As An Open Source Antivirus program for Microsoft Platform

ClamWin Free Antivirus comes with an easy installer and open source code. You may download and use it absolutely free of charge. It has High detection rates for viruses and spyware, Scanning Scheduler, Automatic downloads of regularly updated Virus Database etc

Gimp As An Image Manipulation Program

GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

Ubuntu As A Community Developed, Linux-Based Operating System

Ubuntu is a community developed, Linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It contains all the applications you need - a web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging and much more.

Wine As An Open Source Virtual PC 

Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL, and Unix. Think of Wine as a compatibility layer for running Windows programs. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely free alternative implementation of the Windows API consisting of 100% non-Microsoft code, however Wine can optionally use native Windows DLLs if they are available.

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All About GOOGLE Search

Here Videos talk about how we can use Google more efficiency,customize,friendly & its features

Spelling Improvements

talks about new ways in which we try to save you time with spelling corrections.

Google Squared

demonstrates Google Squared, a new experimental search tool that lets you customize your search results in a table.

Maps in Search Results

shows you the convenience of maps when you need them on Google Search Results Pages.

International Results

talks about internationalization of Google Search result pages around the world.

User Experience

User Experience Researcher, Melanie talks about the process and research to build Google's Search Options Panel

Wonder Wheel

talks about everything you can do with Google's Wonder Wheel, a tool in the Search Options Panel.

Search Options Panel

talks about his work on Google's Search Options Panel, one of Google's web search functionalities.

Product "Plus Box"

shows a neat feature on some of our Sponsored Links that gives you additional information about their products.

Personalized Suggestions

talk about the addition of personalized suggestions as you type your searches into the Google Search box.

Search Freshness

talks about a working on indexing recent content as it comes up around the web for Google news.

Spelling Corrections

shows you how misspellings are corrected on Google Search.

Sitelinks

talks about his project that shows you shortcuts to go specific pages of sites as part of the search results.

Longer Snippets

Ken talks about showing you longer snippets when you enter a longer query


Video source : http://www.youtube.com/user/Google

FIREFOX WALLPAPERS

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Mozilla Firefox wallpaper collection

Google Search Tips

Basic Examples

This Search Finds Pages Containing...

(1) biking Italy - the words biking and Italy

(2) recycle steel OR iron -  information on recycling steel or recycling iron

(3) "I have a dream" - the exact phrase I have a dream

(4) salsa –dance - the word salsa but NOT the word dance

(5) Louis +I France - information about Louis the First (I), weeding out other kings of France

(6) castle ~glossary - glossaries about castles, as well as dictonaries, lists of terms, terminology, etc.

(7)  fortune-telling - all forms of the term, whether spelled as a single word, a phrase, or hyphenated

(8) define:imbroglio - definitions of the word imbroglio from the Web

 

Calculator

Operators Meaning Type Into Search Box (& Results)

(1)  + – * /  basic arithmetic       12 + 34 - 56 * 7 / 8

(2)  % of   percentage of                45% of 39

(3) ^ or **  raise to a power   2^5 or 2**5

(4) old units in new units  convert units

               300 Euros in USD130lbs    in kg, or 31 in hex

 

Restrict Search

(1) city1 city2       Book flights.          

sfo bos  (Book flights from San Francisco (SFO)  to Boston (BOS).

(2) site:           Search only one website or domain. Halloween site:www.census.gov
(Search for information on Halloween gathered by the US Census Bureau.)

(3) [#]..[#]       Search within a range of numbers.
Dave Barry pirate 2002..2006
(Search for Dave Barry articles mentioning pirates written in these years.)

(4) filetype:   (or ext:)     Find documents of the specified type.
Form 1098-T IRS filetype:pdf
(Find the US tax form 1098-T in PDF format.)

(5)  link:   Find linked pages, i.e., show pages that point to the URL.
link:warriorlibrarian.com
(Find pages that link to Warrior Librarian's website.)

 

Specialized Information Queries

(1) book  (or books)   Search full-text of books.
book Ender's Game
(Show book-related information. Note: No colon needed after book.)

(2) define, what is, what are  Show a definition for a word or phrase.
define monopsony, what is podcast
(Show a definition for the words monopsony and podcast. Note: No colon after define, what is, or what are.)

(3) define:  Provide definitions for words, phrases, and acronyms from the Web.
define:kerning
(Find definitions for kerning from the Web.)

(4) phonebook:   Show all phonebook listings.
phonebook: Disney CA
(Search for Disney's phone numbers in California - CA.)

(5) rphonebook:   Show residential phonebook listings.
rphonebook: bill jones NY
(Search for the phone number of every Bill Jones in New York State - NY.)

(6) movie:  Find reviews and showtimes.
movie: traffic
(Search for information about this movie, including reviews, showtimes, etc.)

(7) stocks:  Given ticker symbols, show stock information
stocks: goog
(Find Google's current stock price.)

(8) weather  Given a location (US zip code or city), show the weather
weather Seattle WA, weather 81612
(Show the current weather and forecast. Note: No colon after weather.)

 

Alternative Query Types

(1) cache:  Display Google's cached version of a web page.
cache:www.irs.gov
(Show Google's cached version of the US Internal Revenue Service home page.)

(2) info: (or id:)  Find info about a page.
info:www.theonion.com
(Find information about The Onion website.)

(3) related:  List web pages that are similar or related to the URL.
related:www.healthfinder.gov
(Find websites related to the Healthfinder website.)

 

Restrict Search to Sites where Query Words Appear

(1) allinanchor:
All query words must appear in anchor text of links to the page.
allinanchor:useful parenting sites
(Search for pages that are called useful parenting sites by others.)

(2) inanchor:  Terms must appear in anchor text of links to the page.
restaurants Portland inanchor:kid-friendly
(Search for pages on Portland restaurants for which links to the page say they are "kid friendly.")

(3) allintext:  All query words must appear in the text of the page.
allintext:ingredients cilantro chicken lime
(Search for recipes with these three ingredients.)

(4) intext: The terms must appear in the text of the page.
Dan Shugar intext:Powerlight
(Find pages mentioning Dan Shugar where his company, Powerlight, is included in the text of the page, i.e., less likely to be from the corporate website.)

(5) allintitle: All query words must appear in the title of the page.
allintitle: Google Advanced Operators
(Search for pages with titles containing "Google," "Advanced,", and "Operators".)

(6) intitle: The terms must appear in the title of the page.
movies comedy intitle:top ten
(Search for pages with the words movie and comedy that include top ten in the title of the page.)

(7) allinurl:  All query words must appear in the URL.
allinurl:pez faq
(Search for pages containing the words pez & faq in the URL.)

(8) inurl:  The terms must appear in the URL of the page.
pharmaceutical inurl:investor
(Search for pages in which the URL contains the word investor.)

 

Restrict Search to Google Groups

(1) author:  Find Groups messages from the specified author.
flying author:Hamish author:Reid
(Search for Hamish Reid's articles on flying.)

(2) group:  Find Groups messages from the specified newsgroup.
ivan doig group:rec.arts.books
(Search for postings about Ivan Doig in the group rec.arts.books.)

(3) insubject:  Find Groups messages containing crazy quilts in the subject.
insubject:"crazy quilts"
(Find articles containing crazy quilts in the subject line.)

 

Restrict Search to Google News

(1) location:
Find News articles from sources located in the specified location.
queen location:uk
(Find British news articles on the Queen.)

(2) source: Find News articles from specified sources.
peace source:ha_aretz
(Show articles on peace from the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz.)

 

Restrict Search to Froogle

(1) store:
Find Froogle products from the specified store.
jeans store:gap
(Find Gap jeans.) 

 

Thanks  www.GoogleGuide.com

Create Your Own Torrent

Torrents are great, they are the best way to share large files with your friends, or even with people you don’t know at all. But surprisingly enough, not many people create torrents when they need to share something. I have “a lot of” friends who know how to download torrents, but when they need to send me their latest 200MB vacation picture collection, they ask me to “get on msn”.

It’s not that I have anything against msn (although the file transfer sucks), but why don’t just use BitTorrent? Especially if you want to send something to more than one person, or if you want to share high quality HDTV files, because then you can share the bandwidth.

So how do you do this? Well it’s very simple. Open your favorite BitTorrent client and do the magic trick:

file > create torrent

That’s all? Well almost. All you need to do now is put in the tracker info and tick some boxes. This can differ somewhat from client to client but it all comes down to the same thing.

1. File > Create new Torrent (or CTRL + N)
2. Select the files and or directories

3. Trackers: This is probably the hard part for most people. But it’s pretty easy, just put in one of the popular public trackers. You can use one or more trackers, but in general one is enough.

Here are some good trackers you can use:

http://open.tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce
http://www.torrent-downloads.to:2710/announce
http://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce
udp://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce
http://www.sumotracker.com/announce

Put one of these in the tracker box

4. Do NOT tick the private torrent box (unless you’re using a private tracker)

5. Save the torrent and send it to your friends

1. File > Create Torrent (or CTRL + M)

2. Select the files and or directories

3. Select “enable public DHT network” from the dropdown box
This way you can be your own tracker if the public tracker goes down.

4. Tracker server and DHT node list
Again, This is probably the hard part for most people. But it’s pretty easy, just put in one of the popular public trackers. You can use one or more trackers, but in general one is enough.

Here are some of the most popular trackers at the moment:

http://open.tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce
http://www.torrent-downloads.to:2710/announce
http://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce
udp://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce
http://www.sumotracker.com/announce

Put one of these in the tracker box

5. Save the torrent and send it to your friends

1. File > New Torrent (or CTRL + N)

2. Tick “use an external tracker”.
And again, This is probably the hard part for most people. But it’s pretty easy, just put in one of the popular public trackers.

Here are some of the most popular trackers at the moment:

http://tracker.prq.to/announce
http://inferno.demonoid.com:3389/announce
http://tracker.bt-chat.com/announce
http://tracker.zerotracker.com:2710/announce

Put one of these in the tracker box

3. Select single file or dicectory, click NEXT and point to the file or directory you want to share, and click NEXT

4. Do NOT tick “private torrent”

5. Do tick “allow decentralized tracking”

6. Save the torrent and send it to your friends

Happy sharing. Note that you don’t need to upload the torrent to a website or a tracker. This means you control who gets the file and who doesn’t, and it won’t be visible to others!.

Online YouTube Downloaders

YouTube has now become one of the most viewed websites online as it features a 24/7 broadcast of videos and shows. However unless you have a very fast DSL or Cable connection you are likely to encounter some streaming lag which ruins the taste of watching videos.

Here is an alternative for you. I have compiled a list of the most used Online Youtube Downloaders on the web which let you download YouTube videos instantly. All are free and require no sign up. Just shoot, download and watch. Enjoy.

Best Online YouTube Downloaders:

1. JaviMoya is one of the oldest and most used YouTube Downloaders found on the web. Also offers a firefox extension to download YouTube videos on the fly.
2. Video YouTube is an online YouTube service brought to you by Sizlopedia. Instantly download your YouTube videos and enjoy technology articles on the blog.
3. YouTubeX lets you Download as well as Share YouTube videos easily Online. You can also find the popular YouTube videos on this site.
4. YouTubeVideosDownload features a simple layout and easy to use interface. Just enter your YouTube video link and get download url.
5. VideoDownloader has got a clean interface. Fetches download url using ajax just in seconds.
6. KeepVid is one of the most popular Video downloading sites. Allows you to download Video from a lot of sites including YouTube.
7. DownloadYouTubeVideos does not only allow you to download YouTube videos but also tell you about the Most Downloaded YouTube videos.
8. TechCrunch is the biggest Tech blog on planet. Even it has a YouTube Downloader.
9. KissYouTube is a YouTube Video Downloading service that brings innovation. Just add 'Kiss' before your Video Url and Fly away.
10. TopYouTubeVideos is another easy to use YouTube Video Downloader. Insert your video URL and just download the video to your PC.
11. Qooqle Video Download is another ajax based YouTube video Downloader that makes it easy for you to download YouTube Videos.
12. Oyoom YouTube is a not so old but very creative site that offers YouTube Video Downloading Service for free.
13. Easy YouTube Video Download is one of the most used YouTube Video Downloading Services Online.
14. VidsPedia offers another YouTube Video Downloading Tool For You. Also you can browse the most popular celebrity videos according to tags.
15. SaveTube Intends to make your YouTube Video Downloading Experience easy and Fast.
16. VideoDL helps you Download videos from YouTube as well Google Video on the go.
17. Vixy allows you to download YouTube videos to your PC as well to your iPOD or PSP thus giving you an enriched experience.
18. DownloadandSaveYoutubeVideos is a new but promising online service which features YouTube Video Downloading Service.
19. Zamzar stands out in the list as it is the only unique service to allow YouTube Video File Conversion Online.Media Convert is another service which is similar to Zamzar

Well thats the whole list I could render for you. Will be adding more as soon as I find. Keep Enjoying and Happy YouTub'ing.