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.

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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

Installing Wordpress on local

An essential for any aspiring theme developer is a local install of WordPress. There are plenty of benefits to doing so and
there are also pitfalls if you don’t. I will tell you about the pitfalls in a second, but before that, I want to tell you 5 great
reasons why you should use a local install as your sandbox as opposed to installing a live version on some subdomain of
yours:

1. Works exactly like the real deal; plugins and all
2. No need to mess with FTP programs
3. Develop anywhere (no connection needed)
4. Make sure your theme is compatible with latest version of WordPress
5. Code in secret, then release with a bang

I can personally attest that the last reason is a good one. While working on the current theme for this website, I accidentally pinged Technorati, which notified a bunch of people of my latest work. When this site finally got released, it was more of a  fizzle instead of a bang. Anyhow, let’s get on to the tutorial.

1.Install WordPress Locally

Download and Extract XAMPP Lite
1. Go to http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html#646
2. Download XAMPP Lite.exe (the .exe is a smaller, faster download)
3. Move the download to the root of your C drive C:\
4. Run the .exe and the directory will be installed

Startup Apache and MySQL
1. Open the xampplite folder
2. Double click setup_xampp.bat
3. After the program tells you to have fun, press any key on your keyboard
4. Now double click on xampp-control.exe
5. Now start the Apache and MySQL services

6.If everything worked, you will Running next to those 2 services

2.  Create a New Database

1. In your browser of choice, navigate to http://localhost/xampp/splash.php
2. Click on your language
3. On the left hand side, under Tools, click phpMyAdmin
4. On that page, you will see the MySQL heading, like in the screenshot below

5. Call the database wordpress and select utf8 unicode ci from the drop down menu
6. Click Create

3.  Install WordPress

1. Download and extract WordPress to your desktop
2. In the extracted folder, open the file wp-config-sample.php in a text editor
Edit the file to look like this:

define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress'); // The name of the database
define('DB_USER', 'root'); // Your MySQL username
define('DB_PASSWORD', ''); // ...and password
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost'); // 99% chance you won't need to change this value &s

3.  Save the file as wp-config.php 
4. Now open up the Xammplite folder on your C drive and then open the htdocs folder 
5. Copy the whole Wordpress folder here 
6. Finally, use your browser and navigate to http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php

ENJOY YOUR LOCAL WORDPRESS INSTALL

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Ping Your Blog

What is the  Blog  Pinging Service

The  Blog  Pinging Service is a way to inform Blog Search of weblog updates. These updates are then published and shared with other search engines to allow them to discover the changes to your weblogs.

Many people are confused about what exactly pinging is in regards to weblogging. I'll try to explain what's going on here.

First, go check out a few weblog tracking places where you can see recently updated lists:
(1)Blo.gs (2) Weblogs.com 

(3)Blogrolling

 

 

 

The main way these sites learn that a weblog has been updated, is for the weblog software to 'ping' the weblog trackers.

Here's How it works: {Logic behind}

After careful thought, you post something new on your weblog.
The new stuff is excellent, but nobody knows you've updated your site.

 
  Sending out a ping is like raising the red flag on the mailbox to tell the mailman you have new mail to be sent.  In this case, you are telling the weblog tracking sites that your site has been updated.

Configuring Movable Type to do this is simple.  I use MT, so I don't have any good instructions for people that use another weblogging tool.

{Technology Behind}

In blogging, ping is an XML-RPC-based push mechanism by which a weblog notifies a server that its content has been updated.

An XML-RPC signal is sent to one or more "ping servers," which can then generate a list of blogs that have new material.

XML-RPC is a Remote Procedure Calling protocol that works over the Internet.

An XML-RPC message is an HTTP-POST request. The body of the request is in XML. A procedure executes on the server and the value it returns is also formatted in XML.

 

How Can I Do That :

There are two ways you can do this.

{1}Manual Ping

The manual method of pinging Google is to simply go to http://blogsearch.google.com/ping and enter your blogs URL every time your blog is updated. This is the straight forward method but many will prefer the Automatic Ping method  below.

after manually pinging google blog search, the URL returned - which appears in the navigation toolbar - can be bookmarked and reused.

{2}Automatic Ping

If you want Wordpress to automatically ping Google every time you update your blog, then you will need to add http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 to your Update Services box in your Wordpress admin area. This is found in the options/writing section of the admin area and by default Pingomatic (http://rpc.pingomatic.com) will already be in the text box.

While Pingomatic already pings a number of services for you, by adding Google’s ping url to the Update Services list you are sure to increase your blogs exposure on the net. For more information on ping lists and a comprehensive list of update services see the Wordpress Compressed All Inclusive Ping List .

 

Here some url  ping Automatic you have copy & past your  tool option call pinging server

http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/ping
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping?loudit=Official+Google+Blog&http://www.loudit.blogspot.com=http%3A%2F
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://www.kping.com/blogping/
http://rpc.weblogs.com/pingSiteForm?loudit=InfraBlog&http://www.loudit.blogspot.com=http%3A%2F%2Finfrablog.verisignlabs.com

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Feed your Blog with VeriSign Feed manger

looking for Increase visibility !! reach & make money !!!

{Manage } {Measure} { Monetize}

Getting Started

You do not have to be a technical wizard to use Feed Manager. Getting started is simple. If you already have an account simply enter your login details to access your feed information. If you are new to the service, sign up for a new account. Once your account is created you can add your existing feeds and immediately start to enjoy the valuable services that Feed Manager has to offer.

 

 

WHY FEED MANAGER?

Feed Manager, a comprehensive service from VeriSign, allows you to:

• Monetize your content and blog feeds
• Manage and configure your feeds for greater flexibility and improved customer experience. Functions include the ability to rename your feed, truncate headlines and administer and apply a consistent style across multiple feeds.
• Measure traffic generated by your content and blog feeds.

Because Feed Manager gives you a 360 degree view of the traffic generated by your feeds you have a strong foundation from which you can actively drive increased usage and visibility in order to make more money. This completeness of service gives you the confidence that your feeds are working in the smartest, most beneficial way possible.

sign up here

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jQuery

jQuery is a fast and lightweight JavaScript that is also CSS3 compliant. It was introduced by John Resig on January 2006. jQuery is free and open source software.

In the jQuery official website, jQuery is expressed as jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.

jQuery emphasizes on the interaction between JavaScript and HTML. JavaScript is a language whereas jQuery is a library written using JavaScript.jQuery resides as a single JavaScript file, containing all the common DOM, Event, Effects, and Ajax functions.

It is compatible with many browsers. The jQuery framework is capable to be extended and very adequately handles DOM (Document Object Model) manipulations, CSS, AJAX, Events and Animations.

Both Microsoft and Nokia have announced plans to bundle jQuery on their platforms, Microsoft will be partnering with the jQuery team and shipping jQuery with Visual Studio in future. Also, jQuery intelligence annotation support will be available as a free web-download. At the same time Nokia will incorporate it into their Web Run-Time platform.

For more information

http://docs.jquery.com/Main_Page

Another Add revenue from Chitika for Blogger

If you haven’t heard about Chitika yet or if you have not tried it on your blog then you should read this and apply for Chitika program.

Chitika target users from US and Canada only otherwise it will be invisible for users from other countries.

Chitika is one of the good revenue generating program for blogger which you can use along with Google adsense.

Why would I want to run both AdSense and Chitika | Premium together?

There are three main reasons:

• Increased Revenue – Google AdSense revenue + Chitika revenue is generally much greater than AdSense revenue alone. You can see real publishers’ examples of this here and here.
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• Flexible Integration – If we don’t have a super-targeted ad to show, then we don’t show anything. Yeah, we collapse and the ad disappears (not leaving any blank space). This allows for creative integration on your pages (like between content). This is not something you can do with any other ad units.
• User Experience – The Chitika | Premium ads do look a lot different from AdSense, and are super-targeted to the exact keywords that the user is searching for. Users love targeted ads.

People who have used Chitika, I have got only positive reviews from them because according to them

Chitika have following advantages :

# High CTR

# Can be use with Adsense

# Target only US/CA users

# High eCPMs

# Chitika targets your Organic traffic.

Since it does not interfere with any of my current monetizing program I will highly recommend Chitika for people who have not used it.

Increase your revenue here http://chitika.com

optimize the Ad senses

Google ad sense is undoubtedly the best advertisement program and there so many guidelines which needed to be followed when you use Google adsense advertisement program on your website.

First and most important among them is number of maximum ad units you can use on your website:

According to the official Google blog: the maximum number of ad unit that anyone can display on there website are:

1. One
   - video unit (currently only available in specific countries and languages, though we’re working to expand video units to additional publishers soon)
2. Two
   - Ad Sense for search boxes
3. Three
   - standard Ad Sense for content ad units, and
   - 3 link units

Though there are so many options available but I will highly suggest use minimum of ad units or utilize adverts only at the bottom or at the sidebar.

Though right now I’m experimenting with the google adsense and any idea or suggestion regarding the same would be appreciated. Specially with the best ad placement guide.

Social Bookmarking & Search Engines

Ever heard of social bookmarking?. One of the most important being Backlinks. Potential websites are Digg, Reddit, Mixx ,   Stumbleupon and many more.

There are so many benefits to social bookmarking. Indeed, one of the biggest benefits is traffic. When you create back links from social bookmarking sites, Google gives you what’s called “authority”. It helps differentiate yourself from the others.

Needless to say, this makes your site look important in the eyes of Google and your website is rewarded accordingly. Save some time and use something to automate the process because linking for hours and hours isn’t profitable?

Most people are stingy with their time and would rather use it for other purposes. The only way to really be effective is to submit as many sites as possible.

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Shortcuts For IE7

General shortcuts   Turn Full Screen Mode on or off F11 Cycle through the Address Bar, Refresh button, Search Box, and items on a web page TAB Find a word or phrase on a page CTRL+F Open the current webpage in a new window CTRL+N Print the page CTRL+P Select all items on the page CTRL+A Zoom in CTRL+PLUS Zoom out CTRL+MINUS Zoom to 100% CTRL+0

Navigation Shortcuts Go to home page ALT+HOME Go backward ALT+LEFT Go forward ALT+RIGHT Refresh page F5 Refresh page and the cache CTRL+F5 Stop downloading page ESC

Favorite center Shortcuts Open Favorites CTRL+I Open Favorites in pinned mode CTRL+SHIFT+I Organize Favorites CTRL+B Add current page to Favorites CTRL+D Open Feeds CTRL+J Open Feeds in pinned mode CTRL+SHIFT+J Open History CTRL+H Open History in pinned mode CTRL+SHIFT+H

 

Tab shortcuts Open link in new background tab Middle mouse button or CTRL+left mouse button Open link in new foreground tab CTRL+SHIFT+left mouse button or CTRL+SHIFT+middle mouse button Close tab (closes window if only one tab is open) Middle mouse button on the tab or CTRL+W Open Quick Tab view CTRL+Q Open new tab CTRL+T View list of open tabs CTRL+SHIFT+Q Switch to next tab CTRL+TAB Switch to previous tab CTRL+SHIFT+TAB

Address Bar Shortcuts select the Address Bar ALT+D Add "http://www." to the beginning and ".com" to the end of text in Address Bar CTRL+ENTER Add "http://www." to the beginning and the website address suffix you have specified to the end of text in the Address Bar* CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER Open the website address that is typed in the Address Bar in new tab ALT+ENTER View list of previously typed addresses F4 Instant Search Box Select the Instant Search Box CTRL+E View list of search providers CTRL+DOWN Open search results in new tab ALT+ENTER

To do this	Do this
Disable all add-ons	Windows logo key + R > iexplore.exe –extoff
Turn on AutoComplete so that website addresses will be automatically filled in for you if you begin to type them again	Tools > Internet Options > Advanced > Use inline AutoComplete
Change how tabs work in Internet Explorer	Tools > Internet Options > on the General tab, under Tabs, click Settings
Display the Menu Bar at the top of the screen	To display temporarily: press the ALT key To display permanently: Tools > Menu Bar
Delete cookies, passwords, form data, history, and temporary Internet files	Tools > Delete Browsing History
Find and install add-ons	Tools > Manage Add-ons > Find More Add-ons
Print part of page	Select part of the page you want to print, press CTRL+P, click Selection, and then click Print
Change website address suffix*	Tools > Internet Options > Languages

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How to call c# function from the jQuery function

There are remarkable amount of ways to call a c# function from the jQuery Function.

But I like to share the way, which I have known before few days for my project. It is really so simple than my expectation.

There is something referred as jQuery.ajax() request in the Ajax API in the jQuery. This request Load a remote page using an HTTP request and returns the XMLHttpRequest that it creates.

The request implementation is in the following code snippet.

$.ajax({

type: "POST",

url:"MyPage.aspx/MyFunction",

cache: false,

data: "{'arg':'" +12 + "'}",

contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",

dataType: "json",

success: function(msg) { alert(“success”);

}

});

The type, url, cache and so on referred as “options”. To more options and more explanations, follow the link.

http://docs.jquery.com/Ajax/jQuery.ajax#options

Here, the given url “MyPage.aspx/MyFunction” means the “MyFunction” Web Method in the “MyPage.aspx” web page.

[WebMethod]

public static void MyFunction(int arg)

{

//Put your code here

}

Here, I have not used any Web Services. I just used a c# Web Method Which is in the

web page. For this kind of Page Web Method implementation, static methods should be

used.