Open Source Resources for Web Application Developers

Yes, it is true that dfGallery is one of the best Galleries currently on the web! It is a Flash Gallery with a lot of great features. It allows integration of most popular photo sharing sites like Flickr , Picasa , Photo Bucket and Fotki along with background music. It also supports both RSS and Custom Images. You can easily set the language for the dfGallery by setting values for a few xml nodes in the gallery.xml file. User can also swicth to full screen mode to view the gallery as well. dfGallery is easy to customised, for exmaple, Time duration of the slideshow, Pause slideshow, Link Images, Hide Menu System and Scale the images from RSS feeds.

This gallery fulfills all the needs of even a professional photographer or even a freelance artist. dfGallery is still in Alpha stage because there will be a lot more feature additions. This is really similar to the Gallery at Slideshowpro.net for which they charge $25 but here is the Gallery for FREE.

Requirements: PHP version 5+ and Flash player 7+
Demo: http://www.dezinerfolio.com/2007/06/07/dfgallery/
License: License Free

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Deziner Folio found an Flash XML Gallery from one of his old download collections. It looks very nice and east to use. You can create different albums within the gallery. It allows One-Click integration with Flickr and Picasa. All pictures are stored in the XML and the Folders. Simply place the Thumbnails under /images/thumbs and the Actual Images under /images.

Requirements: Modern Browsers with Flash
Demo: http://www.dezinerfolio.com/works
License: License Free

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MochiBot is a Flash traffic monitoring tool that tracks the performance of individual Flash content files (SWFs) no matter where they end up on the web. If your SWF is on 5 different servers, then MochiBot will count the number of views that SWF got for all 5 servers. You simply copy and paste a few lines of ActionScript from MochiBot into your Flash file (FLA), and publish the SWF. Every time your Flash content is played, MochiBot sends a signal to our servers indicating where it is and that it’s being played.

Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.mochibot.com/my/dashboard.html
License: License Free

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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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