SlimStat, created by MaxMind, is a simple and powerful web analytics program that gives you rich insights into your website traffic statistics. The new version supports iPhone-optimised interface, Ajax UI, better browser detection, drill-down and filter data, record stats via JavaScript, and XML-based API. Slim Stat was built with PHP-MySQL, can be integrated into websites with JavaScript or PHP. To install SlimStat on your web hosting, you need PHP 4.3+ and MySQL 4.0 or higher. SlimStat is free to download and is released under the GNU General Public License.

• http://slimstat.net

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Now you can use Picmeleo to let visitors easily to online photo editing without leaving your website. Picmeleo is a free online photo editor that any third-party developers can integrate to their website. Your visitors/users can upload and edit images for your service. The integration is very easy just coping a few lines of embed code and Picmeleo is working on your site. Picmeleo online image editor has all basic features like crop, rotate, autofix, scale, colors balance and contract, brightness and filters such as grayscale and sharpen, redo and undo function included. You can custom the tools of Picmeleo anytime you want on your own editor. It also has built-in multilanguage support and you can set the language in the online admin interface.

http://www.picmeleo.com

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If you are the big fans of Android and Google Chrome, don’t miss the Robot Theme. It’s an unofficial Android like Google Chrome them inspired from Android and designed by Roman Nurik. The theme has been tested on Chrome 5.0+ for Windows, Mac and Linux. For more information about this theme,head over to the Chrome extension section.

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Do you want to monitor, report and plan your PayPal account cash flows on your computer desktop? Putler is a powerful Adobe AIR personal finance app from Apps Magnet allowing you to monitoring, reporting and planning your PayPal balance. Putler shows your Paypal balance on your Windows/Mac/Linux desktop, notifies you of balance updates and lets you set a target of date and amount, shows today’s transactions and tells you how well performance are you doing against the target. Putler has a very nice trend chart of your daily balances along with a target you have set. It’s a simple and effective tool to monitor your Paypal account right from your computer. Install Adobe AIR, download Putler, and provide your Paypal API information and Putler will start monitoring your Paypal balance instantly. Once the Paypal balance changes, you will get notification with sound. You can set the refresh balance intervals and sound notification. Now you are no need to login to Paypal to check your account again. Putler is currently in Alpha 2.2 and you are free to download it instantly.

• http://www.appsmagnet.com/paypal/putler/

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Developed and maintained by web designer Joni Korpi, Less Framework is a new generation CSS framework that is built perfectly for any web browser such as Chrome, Safari 3.0+, Firefox 3.0+ and Internet Explorer 7+, and any device including the Apple iPhone and iPad. It’s a lightweight CSS framework for building flexible multi-column website layouts. LESS contains an eight-column grid optimized for a line-height of 24px, and a set of typography presets based on the golden ratio that fit into the grid’s vertical rhythm. Webpage can collapse automatically into a single column in old browsers and on small width screens. LESS CSS framework requires a single.css, multi.css, HTML5.js and switcher.js to function. Download Less Framework 1.0.

• http://lessframework.com/

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Website thumbnails (also known as thumbshots, snapshots, or previews) are screenshots of web pages that can help you quickly and easily recognize and identify certain websites. ShrinkTheWeb is a powerful and free website thumbnail generator service of any website for webmasters and bloggers, allows you to automatically created website thumbnails with 250,000 request limits or month, and also offer more limits in the paid plans. For the free plan, no customize size can be mentioned and inner page thumbnails are not supported. On the other hand, this website screenshot service can capture JavaScript and Flash elements.

Shrink The Web can also filter and find offensive, foreign, duplicated/related, and parked/broken sites. Simply enter the website’s URL and specific a thumbnail size (There are six default sizes of thumbnails you can choose from), press the “customize it!” button. And then copy/paste the image code into your webpage where you want the thumbnail to appear. If you pay for a premium account, you would have more features like specific inside page capture, full-length thumbnail, custom sized captures, refresh thumbnails anytime you want, and custom browser resolution (i.e. 800×600 or 1024×768). WordPress, vBulletin, PHPLD, Drupal and Django third party plugins are available as well.

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Web Design Blog PV.M Garage just released a new free WordPress theme Sports News PVM, a theme designed and coded by Piervincenzo Madeo. This theme has a two-columns layout with an unique soft grunge design and a featured news section, was created for sports blog and magazine websites. Sports News PVM is free to use both in private and commercial projects under GNU General Public License. You are allowed to use the free theme for all your web projects for free without any restrictions. Download Sports News PVM.

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SimpleViewer is one of the most popular Flash image gallery applications featuring smart preloading, resizable interface, thumbnail menu and optional description text, that you can easily create customizable Flash image viewing gallery. WP-SimpleViewer is a SimpleViewer WordPress plugin which allows you to add SimpleViewer Flash gallery to your posts and pages. The admin interface helps you to create the thumbs for a new gallery and change its settings.
You can also add captions for the images that shows up in the gallery as well. All plugin and gallery settings can easily be changed on the WP-SimpleViewer admin page. Galleries can be added by selecting them with the “Add media” button of the plugin or by using a shortcode after the thumbs have been created in the backend. WP-SimpleViewer Flash image gallery WordPress plugin is compatible up to 2.9.2. Take a look the demo post of SimpleViewer Flash gallery.

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Once again MediaLoot has released a new icon set: Incredibly Detailed 3D Icon Set for free to download. This freebie icon set includes 30 icons and is packaged as 128px transparent PNG with slick detailed design. MediaLoot members will have access to the layered PSD files for all of these icons. You are free to use these icons for personal or commercial projects with attribution to MediaLoot.

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Jacob Gube at SixRevisions and Garrick Cheung who is a designer-developer and a member of the official MooTools Community team, has latest released a new book MooTools 1.2 Beginner’s Guide Book published by Packt Publishing. MooTools is one of the most popular and simple-to-use Javascript frameworks on the web. If you’re looking to create dynamic, rich, responsive cross-browser web applications and user-interactive web site applications this beginner’s guide with its easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions is all you need to rapidly get to grips with MooTools. MooTools 1.2 Beginner’s Guide Book is now available as a paperback on Amazon.com. See also another MooTools official reference book: MooTools Essentials: The Official MooTools Reference for JavaScript™ and Ajax Development.

Chapter 1: MooTools and Me
Chapter 2: Writing JavaScript with MooTools
Chapter 3: Selecting DOM Elements
Chapter 4: The Core’s Useful Utility Functions
Chapter 5: Working with Events
Chapter 6: Bringing Web Pages to Life with Animation
Chapter 7: Going 2.0 with Ajax
Chapter 8: Beefing Up MooTools: Using the MooTools More Plugins
Chapter 9: Creating Your Own Plugin

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EZ-CSS is a simple, lightweight (1kb only) and flexible CSS Framework for complex table-less layouts and rapid prototyping. EZ-CSS lets you apply any width you want to containers and gutters for building any type of CSS layouts. It’s a easy-to-use CSS framework for creating browser-friendly CSS layouts for your websites. When using EZ-CSS framework, you are not bound to a grid but it allows you create multiple columns of any width, with or without gutters of any width. EZ-CSS has a very small footprint (only 915 bytes) for a fast download time, and it’s also framework agnostic that integrates well with any other style sheet. Rounding issues, rounding errors, and collapsing margin across all containers are all prevented. EZ-CSS is an open source CSS framework and available for download.

• http://www.ez-css.org/

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Sypex Dumper is a free web application to backup MySQL databases automatically and instantly. It is built with PHP with an Web 2.0 user interface with AJAX, and can also restore databases without using any third-party program, just pure PHP. Sypex Dumper was created to work with large databases ranging from a few kilobytes to thousands of megabytes. It supports common MySQL service functions such as check, optimize or repair, create/drop databases, easily viewable list of files with the possibility of removal. Sypex Dumper works on Windows and Linux server as well. Two file formats compression (Gzip and Bzip2) are supported as well as varying degrees of compression for GZip. Installation of Sypex Dumper is quite simple, you just need to upload all the files and chmod setting several files. Sypex Dumper requires PHP 4.3.1 or higher and MySQL 3.23.56 and above (up to MySQL5.1). Sypex Dumper 2 is free to download and licensed under the BSD license.

• http://sypex.net/en/

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Google Buzz, a new service launched by Goolgle recently, allows you share updates, photos, videos, and more in Gmail. You might has noticed that we have a sweet Buzz-This button which let your readers to add links of your blog posts to Google Buzz. It’s a simple WordPress plugin developed by czepol to add a Google Buzz button on your WordPress powered blogs. Once activate the plugin, go to its “Buzz” option page to configure options. The button is delivered in two appearance modes: standard and mini; and two languages: English (“buzz this”) and Polish. Just pasting the code in the source file and then you can display this Google Buzz button anywhere you want. Buzz-This WordPress plugin is compatible with WordPress 2.9.2, download Buzz This from WordPress Plugin Directory.

• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buzz-this/

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If you are looking for a reliable and affordable web shared hosting plan, take a look DreamHost! They are the top 11 web hosting company worldwide are now hosting over 950,000 web sites. Plans include PHP5, SSH and Telnet, raw log files plus analyzed access statistics, unlimited email forwarding, aliasing, auto-responding, vanity domain names, MySQL, e-commerce, plenty of disk space and transfer allowance are available for as little as $5.95/month.

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Flixtime, released by microstock photography company Fotoli, is a new mashup web application to let you create, share and download simple video slideshows with images, videos clips and music. Flixtime allows you to produce custom 60-second videos from your photos easily and quickly. And it’s absolutely free to sign-up for a account. You’ll need to upload your own photos or stock photos from Fotolia’s selection of images. You can also upload your own music, or choose from Fotolia’s stock music collection. You can add text to any slide as well. Flixtime videos are easy to produce and integrates the user’s choice of music, text, images, and videos. Once you create a video, you can share the file to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social media sites. You can also choose to download the file to your computer for further editing. All Flixtime video productions can be used both for personal or independent commercial use.

• http://flixtime.com/

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Swift Mailer is a powerful component-based library for sending emails from PHP 5 applications. Swift Mailer integrates into any web app written in PHP 5, offering a flexible and elegant object-oriented approach to sending emails with a multitude of features. It’s made up of many classes and each of these classes can be grouped into a general component group which describes the task it is designed to perform. This Free PHP Mailer Library operates on servers running PHP 5.2 or higher.

Free Feature-rich PHP Mailer:

• Send emails using SMTP, sendmail, postfix or a custom Transport implementation;
• Support servers that require authentication and/or encryption;
• Protect from header injection attacks;
• Send MIME compliant HTML/multipart emails;
• Use event-driven plugins to customize the library;
• Handle large attachments with low memory use.
• http://swiftmailer.org/

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WPQuestions is a new problem-solving community for WordPress aficionados developed by Darren Hoyt. The aim of WPQuestions is that members pay to ask any WordPress related urgent question or seek help with your WordPress doubts and issues and other members get paid for answering those questions. Users are either Askers, who offer money for emergency support, or Experts, who are established PHP coders looking to earn money and bolster credibility. Questions run in the form of a 3-day contest, but end as soon as the best answer is selected. WPQ is also great place for established WordPress designers and developers who want to help problem-solve and be paid fairly for their efforts. If you need any quick efficient help form WordPress experts, it’s the right solution you should go to. Wisely, you can earn some extra money if you are good at WordPress too. Right now the top expert is getting over $200 and WPQuestions has paid for over $1,000 to the WordPress experts. Feel interested? Join WP Questions today!

• http://www.wpquestions.com/

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gMap is a lightweight jQuery plugin that helps you easily embed Google Maps into your websites. It’s only 2KB in size and very flexible and highly customizable as well. To implement gMap to display Google Maps on any website, you need to sign up for a Google Maps API key and jQuery library at least in version 1.3. You can custom the gMap’s latitude/longitude, default zoom level, markers, info positions to display as a pop-up, custom marker images, mapping controls on/off, scrollwheel and more. Download the latest version of gMap and include the Google Maps API along with jQuery and gMap in the section of your website.

• http://gmap.nurtext.de/

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Bgrepeat is a new simple site where you can discover many of fresh, colorful and minimalism repeating backgrounds and wallpapers for websites, blogs, Twitter, computer desktop or applications. You can search all backgrounds by tags or sort them according to their popularity like most views, most recent or most downloaded. All pictures has been designed by Bgplanet and are free to use for personal or commercial projects.

• http://bgrepeat.com/

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Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. The default of Paint.NET is not compatible with Adobe Photoshop PSD files, and this Photoshop PSD plugin adds support for Adobe Photoshop psd files to Paint.NET which allows you to open and edit .PSD files, support features including layers, masks, RAW or RLE compressed files, and various of color modes. The following color modes are supported for loading an image: Gray scale, Indexed, 32 Bit-RGBA, CMYK (lossy conversation), Multichannel CMY (lossy conversation), Duotone (as gray scale), and Lab (lossy conversation). If Paint.NET is your alternative choice of image editor, this Paint.NET plugin will definitely help you introduce .PSD Adobe Photoshop images into your Paint.NET.

How to Install the Photoshop plugin in Paint.NET
Paint.NET plugins enable you to add new effects, file types, fonts, etc. to Paint.NET. Download Paint.NET PSD Plugin and simply unzip and put the .dll in the “FileTypes” folder in the directory where Paint.NET is installed. The path usually should be C:\Program Files\Paint.Net\FileTypes.

• http://psdplugin.codeplex.com/

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A stable and constant uptime API connection is very important for web developers to integrate information across websites. API-Status is a real-time website API status monitor that allows you to view and check the status of various APIs from popular services like Facebook, Google Search, Google Maps, Bing, Twitter, SalesForce, YouTube, Amazon, eBay and much more. Check on a particular API to see the average daily performance from selected countries presented by a line graph, a map showing its performance by country, and its availability over the week and over the last 24 hours. You can get a updated status of various web services’ API and have a quick review of their performance whether it’s operating normally or service disruption. So next time if your web applications get any troubleshoot related the API issue, it’s a very useful reference tool by providing daily historical status and speed results for each API.

• http://api-status.com/

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It’s a massive web UI and button set that was designed and released for free by MediaLoot Jon Phillips. This freebie is a very large web UI and button set that contains all of design elements including text boxes, control buttons, info boxes, breadcrumbs, collapsible box, search forms, radio checkboxes, loading bar, speech bubbles, login box, scrollbars and drop-down menus. The styles of these web application elements are glossy, satin/light gradient, and one-color. And the satin/light gradient set is available in seven different colors as well. The icon set is available with PNG and PSD sources, all compressed into one zip file. You are free to use this set personally or commercially, download this free web UI and button set now.

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After WordPress mobile app getting updated for BlackBerry and Android, WordPress for iPhone also just released a update to version 2.2 and now is available in iTunes App Store for download. This latest updated version was focused to improve the comment moderation system, which includes: reply to comments, edit comments, and highlighting the new items in the comment list. This will definitely make you be more enjoyable for mobile blogging. And you can also track and get involved with this Open Source development project the Making WordPress for iPhone.

• Download WordPress for iPhone 2.2

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Firebug, one of the most popular Firefox addons for web design and development tool that allowing to inspect HTML, modify CSS style and layout in real-time and more, was officially released the Google Chrome extension version Firebug Lite 1.3.0 beta recently from the Firebug Working Group. Firebug Lite provides the rich visual representation we are used to see in Firebug when it comes to HTML elements, DOM elements, and Box Model shading. It provides also some cool features like inspecting HTML elemements with your mouse, and live editing CSS properties. Anyway, it’s just a lite version of Firebug, so you are not allowed to read external resources, would not work well on pages with frames, JavaScript debugger and Net Panel are not available.

Firebug Lite features:

• Same look and feel as Firebug;
• Inspect HTML and modify style in real-time;
• Powerful console logging functions;
• Rich representation of DOM elements;
• Extend Firebug Lite and add features to make it even more powerful.
• http://getfirebug.com/releases/lite/chrome/

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SimpleFolio, designed by Slimmity, is a portfolio theme that includes a blog and a very extensive option page that allows you to exclude all your portfolio items from the blog page. It also includes a front page slider, 2 different widget areas and threaded comments, also supports paged comments and has 2 different page templates for advanced usage. The control of images is done from the post page, threw 2 fields that have the instructions on the size of the images. This portfolio is also XHTML 1.0 Transitional valid, and multi-browser compatibility on Firefox, Safari , IE7, IE8, and Chrome. Preview the live demo in action.

• Download SimpleFolio WordPress Theme

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