Adrian Apan

Wordpress Plugin: Drag to Share

Adrian Apan — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:51:51 +0000

As always, I’m short on time but between all my projects I made some time to develop a new WordPress plugin. It’s called “Drag to Share“. I`m sure that a lot of people waited for a this kind of plugin just like me. It’s a plugin similar to the script offered by Meebo.com, and used by big player on the web like Mashable for example. The idea behind this plugin…

Campware – Open source softwares for a free press

Adrian Apan — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:51:46 +0000

Campware is dedicated to developing, distributing, supporting and implementing useful tools for independent news media in emerging democracies. All Campware software is released as open source and under the GNU General Public License. The campware group of softwares are focused on 4 classes, embedded into 4 platforms:

CAMPSITE - Publish

Campsite is a free and open multilingual web publishing tool for news sites. It provides a robust, stable, and journalist-friendly solution for online magazines and…

Lockerz.com

Adrian Apan — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:44:18 +0000

I just found a couple of weeks ago an interesting website which in my personal opinion could be a great success if it’s not just a huge scam. What is Lockerz about? Well on their official page we have just a brief introduction about the services but in general lines the website is based on a simple idea: invite and activate on the website to gain credits (PTZ) which can be…

Wordpress Plugin: Expose It

Adrian Apan — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:26:55 +0000

It been a while since I have not posted anything new but here I am now with some interesting stuff for WordPress users. It’s my first plugin called “Expose It”.

It’s a simple yet attractive plugin which will spice up every design so don’t hesitate to use it. This plugin practically adds a highlight/expose effect around any DIV with defined class=”expose”. The script behind this plugin is the Expose jQuery from FlowPlayer.org

For…

Bye Bye TinyURL, Hello SU.pr

Adrian Apan — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:38:29 +0000

Let’s all say a warm HELLO to Su.pr an extremely powerful shortening URL service offered by StumbleUpon. This service is currently in a BETA run but already has amazed a lot of people, including me. Let analyze a bit this excellent service. What is all about? The best keywords to describe this service would be: shorten URLs, analyzer and traffic (as described in their slogan “Drive More Traffic with your short…

Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts

Adrian Apan — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:13:56 +0000

I don’t know how much of you out there use shortcuts when you are working on your PC, but I can confidently say that I`m a big fan of shortcuts. When you get use to them you will feel a great improvement especially in work time but not only. Following, here is a comprehensive list of complete shortcut sheets (PDF files); just select your OS, the Photoshop version and enjoy.

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Monetize your tweets with TweetBucks

Adrian Apan — Thu, 28 May 2009 10:55:16 +0000

Finally I have a bit of free time for a new blog post so let’s talk about monetizing Twitter. There are a lot of possibilities through which you can earn some extra cash using Twitter (TweetAds if you like) but this is a controversial subject because this whole thing splits in 2 main categories: those one who would like these kind of 3rd party sites and those who not. In…

How famous websites looked like some years ago

Adrian Apan — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:25:00 +0000

Ever wondered how famous website looked like a few years ago? How about the Pepsi website way back in `96 or Microsoft, or even Google when it was in BETA phase. Sounds strange but when we think about this we can just image how could these website looked like. Now (with the help of Internet Archive: Wayback Machine) let’s take a look of some famous websites.

Food and Drink

Pepsi.com (Dec 19, 1996)…

Twitter Analyzer – Analyze Your Friends From Twitter

Adrian Apan — Wed, 06 May 2009 11:15:52 +0000

Just discovered an excellent Twitter web application which deserves a post. I’m talking about Twitter Analyzer, a very powerful tool through which you are able to analyze your Twitter account or why not your friends one. The idea behind this application is practically a deep analysis of a Twitter user (account if you like). No registration is required to access any information and everything is free. The reports are based…

Turn your RSS feed into JavaScript

Adrian Apan — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:30:17 +0000

What is RSS2JS? Have you ever been in the situation when you wanted to embed a site’s RSS feed to you blog or website in a cool and customizable widget? Without any fancy APIs and so on, now you have the chance to generate a this kind of widget quickly and in an easy way. Of course it’s free and gives you the possibility to customize it after you preferences…

Connect your mobile phone with your online life

Adrian Apan — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:24:08 +0000

I just found a great app for mobile phones named “ShoZu” through which you can stay connect to your favorite social websites anywhere, anytime, using your cell. Yes, there are several similar applications out there but in my humble opinion this is the best one which unite a lot of features. Now let’s analyze a bit this application.

The idea behind this app

“Upload anywhere, any time” – ShoZu means you can share…

Revolution via Twitter

Adrian Apan — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:59:13 +0000

In case you haven’t heard yet, there are some riots going on in Moldova. The reason why people are so “upset” is because of the results of the recent elections. The communist political side has won (again) but everybody has strong reasons to believe that votes has been fraudulent. Everything started yesterday as a peaceful demonstration but in short time the demonstrators, gathered in the central square of Chisinau (capital…

Twollars – The New Twitter Thank You Money

Adrian Apan — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:18:51 +0000

I found an interesting new website or Twitter tool if you like, which has a new approach regarding Twitter. The website is located at www.Twollars.com and it had a great idea to make a Twitter game through which you can reward your friends or followers with twollars for any good tweet, answer, help and so on. The money will be turned to charity organisations, according to the official website. Registration is…

597 Business Letters Library

Adrian Apan — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 23:26:55 +0000

This program contains over 597 different letters and forms for business which you can view, save and edit.

The titles of all these documents are displayed in a scrollable list seen in the Letter Library menu. You can use the slider bar at the right side of the scrollable letter selection menu to move the list of document titles up or down.

You can also Search for a specific type of letter…

Need more freelance projects?

Adrian Apan — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:13:15 +0000

Running low on freelance based projects? What you can do to attract more clients? In this article I will try to give you some advices to get more freelance projects, but one thing is important before I start, you must be able to handle these projects. Never get yourself trapped in several projects cause you will eventually get to apply outsourcing which again is a risky deal. Now let’s see…