Open Source Resources for Web Application Developers

PicMarkr lets you to add custom watermark (image or text) to your images online and free. It is useful when you need to protect your copyrights or if you want to add comments to your photos. It is easy to use with minimum settings, no need to download or install anything. You simply need to upload files from computer or grab them from your Flickr account. It also allows batch image processing, it can saves you a lot of time when you are adding watermark to many images.

Requirements: -
Demo: http://picmarkr.com
License: License Free

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3d package is a 3d-box graphic generator. 3d package lets you instantly create 3d-box images online for free. Just upload pictures for cover and sides and then get 3d-box in you favorite image format (JPG, GIF, PNG supported). You can use it anywhere you like, I think it would be useful when you would like a 3d-box image for your web applications.

P.S. You can also create CD-box and DVD-box easily as well.

Requirements: -
Demo: http://3d-pack.com/
License: License Free

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Open Flash Chart is a charting component made by Flash. Open Flash Chart, is open source. It is free to use and you get the source code to fiddle with. You can create some really nice looking Bar Charts, Pie Charts, Area Charts and etc… easily. To use it, you simply need to include the Open Flash Chart in your HTML, and provide the data file on the server. The data file is either a text file, or a .php, Perl, Python, Java (or another flavour of dynamic) page.

Requirements: Flash 8+
Demo: http://teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart/
License: GPL License

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TextureKing lets you find a growing repository of high quality texture photos that are free for personal and professional use. You can find different kinds of textures, e.g. concrete, fabric, glass, grunge, wood and etc… I think they can be really useful for designing websites.

Requirements: -
Demo: http://www.textureking.com/
License: License Free

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There are more than 1 billion keywords searched every month by users around the world. Finding the correct ones for your website is not an easy task. Hundreds of hours must be spent in searching for the right keywords for one ad campaign.

Your competitors know best, why not let them do all the hard work by spending time and money on keywords you in turn will use for your ad campaign. With just a few clicks you can create a large targeted keyword campaign. Only use keywords that are proven to generate sales and save money.

Companies with a much larger list of keywords drive more traffic to their sites compared to those who have less. KeywordSpy helps drive traffic from competing sites to your own instantly, resulting in optimum exposure at the least amount of time and costs.

4 Simple Steps

• Type in a keyword or domain
• View your competitor’s keywords
• Import keywords for your own ad campaign
• Watch your revenue grow

Requirements: -
Demo: http://www.keywordspy.com/
License: License Free

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Nick La from WebDesignerWall shows us how to slice up the menu design (step by step) and put them together with CSS. Most of you probably know how to code a horizontal or vertical CSS list menu. Now let’s take it to the next level — code an advanced list menu utilizing the CSS position property. You can view the working example here.

Note: there is an IE6 bug where the <span> hover effect doesn’t display properly. To fix that, you can use Javascript to specify the <span> to display block on mouseover.

Requirements: -
Demo: http://www.webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/advanced-css-menu/
License: License Free

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flickrshow provides you with the simplest way of displaying your Flickr photosets on your own website. It is simple to install, completely free and doesn’t require Flash or any server side programming knowledge. It is free to use flickrshow, however flickrshow is not available for people to download and use on their own servers at the moment. It has the following main features.

• Unobtrusive and compatible: they built flickrshow on top of Prototype so it will work with all modern browsers and won’t interfere with any other Javascript on your page.
• Themeable to match your site: You can alter the colour of flickrshow to match your site.
• Can be used multiple times: it caused a number of headaches, but you can run as many slideshows on your site as you want, as long as your viewers can handle the loading times.

Requirements: -
Demo: http://www.flickrshow.com
License: License Free

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The voting in the first ever Open Web Awards is over and Vizu has validated the results. The Open Web Awards live event will be held on January 10th at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. Thank you for everyone who nominated and voted – in excess of 250,000 votes and nominations were cast. You can view 13 winners in each respective category of the People’s Choice component of the awards. And the sites were chosen from the nominees list by top bloggers from more than 30 of our partner blogs.

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Digistore Ecommerce is a fully featured store based on the popular osCommerce engine. Boasting improvements both to the administration and the end user experience – Digistore has quickly become a popular choice for people wishing to market products online.

Digistore allows users to be ‘live’ and selling only minutes after installation is complete. Digistore is a full content management system that requires no HTML or programming knowledge to operate. Now available for download completely free of charge under the General Public License Agreement.

You can see Digistore Demo Shop from the screenshot above. It works like otherEcommerce software solutions. Add items to cart and then checkout, you can also view your cart items on the left hand side any time.

Digistore Admin Area above is clean and easy to use. Digistore has the following Exclusive Features as well.

• HTMLarea ( WYSIWYG editor) help
• Advanced template colour and layout control help
• Instore advertisement manager help
• Thumbnail and large product images
• Express checkout option
• Secure administration login and access control

You can view all features and requirements here.

Requirements: PHP Server with MySQL
Demo: http://digistore.co.nz/
License: GPL License

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Nowadays everybody knows that javascript can be used to validate input data in HTML forms before sending off the content to a server. Despite of that, when there are many fields in the form, the JavaScript validation becomes too complex and boring to code. That’s why fValidator exists, with it form validations are many times easier. fValidator is compatible and tested in Internet Explorer, Firefox (and its mozilla friends), Opera and Safari.

*** It works perfect with iMask as it’s complement.

Requirements: Any Modern Browsers
Demo: http://zend.lojcomm.com.br/fvalidator/exampleB.asp
License: MIT License

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