Open Source Resources for Web Application Developers

Fast Icon released many sets of quality icons. The FastIcons’s Free Icons are available for download as standard Mac or Windows icons as well as a handy PNG files for Linux, web or blogs. They are FREEWARE and property of Fasticon.com. You have to maintain an operable link to www.fasticon.com.

Requirements: Required Backlink
Demo: http://fasticon.com/freeware/
License: License Free

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Still paying for your photos and images? Forget royalty-free – try totally-FREE. Photogen stock photos are now Free for commercial and personal use. The Photogen Free stock photo gallery is constantly being updated with new photos and images. All images are checked for quality and suitability before going live on the site.

Requirements: Terms of Use
Demo: http://www.photogen.com/
License: License Free

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FoldSpy is a tool for finding out the actual dimensions of your visitor’s browser window. It gives you access to this data and presents it in completely new way, the data from FoldSpy is overlayed on your site. FoldSpy is most useful for people who need real data to make important layout decisions. It can answer questions like “where do I put this ad if I want 85% of my visitors to see it without scrolling?” Now, you can find the answer in seconds and because the FoldSpy data is displayed in-place, on your site, the answer can be viewed in a way that’s most useful.

Requirements: Modern Browsers with Javascript Enabled
Demo: http://www.foldspy.com/overview/
License: License Free

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Urban Fonts has an amazing collection of over 8,000 free fonts for you to download fonts. You can customize the look of the font previews by typing your own text in the input text field provided in all the font pages, or switch to an alphabetical view. The Names button switches your preview back to the name of the font. The colors of the text and background can be easily changed using the built in color picker. Urban Fonts also lets you choose how many fonts you’d like to have displayed in your page.

Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.urbanfonts.com/free-fonts.htm
License: License Free

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WebSnapr lets you capture screenshots/thumbnails of almost any web page. Let your visitors to instantly visualize any web page before clicking. WebSnapr also provides us the WebSnapr Preview Bubble which is a simple, unobtrusive script used to display an overlay bubble showing a hyperlink target thumbnail using WebSnapr. It’s a snap to setup which can increase site traffic, click-through rate and site stickiness.

Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.websnapr.com/previewbubble/
License: License Free

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A set of Emprise Javascript Charts ( Line, Area, Scatter, Pie, Bar and Function series ) with zooming, scaling and scrolling ablity. Built with compatibility in mind and tested on all major browsers, you can be assured your charts will function consistently for the broadest range of end users. Every aspect of the charting display can be configured and customized through well-documented properties and methods. It is free for everyone unless you want extra features.

Requirements: Safari, Camino, Firefox and Internet Explorer 6+, Opera
Demo: http://www.ejschart.com/examples/index.php
License: License Free

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Does your web application have international appeal? Do you support multiple languages? Do you need a set of Flag Icons? Icon Drawer produced more then 220 flag icons representing countries and unions all over the world in PNG format. Sizes : 16×16, 24×24, 32×32, 48×48. They look so pretty.

Icon Drawer also produced Mac OS X application icons such as Chess, GarageBand, Quick Time Player, Mail, Pages, Preview, iChat, iPhoto, iTunes, Address Book, Text Edit, iCal in black and blue colors. If you wish to all these icons on your website/web application, you need to place link Icon Drawer on your site. (Somewhere on static first level page, not in blog or news page).

Requirements: Link to Icon Drawer
Demo: http://www.icondrawer.com/free.php
License: License Free ( Required Link to Icon Drawer )

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Site Meter is a comprehensive real time website tracking and counter tools give you instant access to vital information and data about your sites audience. With the detailed reporting you’ll have a clear picture of who is visiting your site, how they found you, where they came from, what interests them and much more.

Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=samplestats&HELP=ON
License: License Free

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Now you can chat with visitors to your website instantly using text or even voice! ChatStat provides every website owner, and eCommerce store with live interaction and tracking technology, making every dialog with their prospects and customers as effective as if they walked into a storefront and were greeted by their most talented staff. ChatStat’s innovative Live Customer Interaction system applies the Web 2.0 paradigm to instant ‘live’ human interaction and web analytics. There are many exciting features e.g. Live Translation for text chat in up to 40 languages and get Website Analytics displayed using MovingGraph Technology. Proactive 2-way live chat is free for up to two operators!

Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.chatstat.com
License: License Free ( Up to 2 Operators )

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ModalBox is a JavaScript technique for creating modern (Web 2.0-style) modal dialogs or even wizards (sequences of dialogs) without using conventional popups and page reloads. It’s inspired by Mac OS X modal dialogs. ModalBox is built with pure JavaScript and is very lightweight (10kb).

Requirements: Safari, Camino, Firefox 1+ and Internet Explorer 6+, Opera 8+
Demo: http://wildbit.com/demos/modalbox/
License: License Free

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