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Are you tired of remembering every username and password you have? Don't you wish you could have a singular identity for every site that permits it? Then AROUNDme is for you.

AROUNDme Personal Identity is a web based personal identity service with a web site builder to hold your profile. It allows you to hold your identity details in one place. With AROUNDme, you can create an OpenID to use on other web sites that support it, like Blogger, Basecamp and Technorati. With AROUNDme, you can create and customize your very own web site. You can add a blog, guest book, a photo gallery, your favorite video and other widgets. You can also create your own social networking site if you want to.

Installing AROUNDme is easy but an understanding of FTP, changing directory privileges and web servers is required. First of all, you need to download and extract the files onto your local computer. Then you need to transfer the all the files into a single directory of your web server. After the transfer, follow the directions included in the download to complete the configuration of your AROUNDme OpenID. After the installation you can test if your OpenID is working. You will be asked to go to a web site to check if your OpenID is good to go. If you logged in successfully into the site, then you're OpenID is ready to be used.

AROUNDme Personal identity requires a web server running either Apache 1.3/2.x or IIS5/IIS6 with PHP5.x installed including Curl, BCMath and GD library.

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Do you want your members to share stuff specially images but you don't know how to implement it? Well stop fussing about it and try integrating TWG Flash Uploader to your site. TWG Flash Uploader lets your users upload files to your remote web server.

TWG Flash Uploader is a great component for your web site. It's based on Flash so you can easily incorporate it into your web page. All you need to do is to download the file from TWG's server. Then extract the file to a directory on your web server. After following the other instructions provided, the installation is complete. By default, the user is automatically logged in and you can use the TWG Flash Uploader instantly.

With TWG Flash Uploader, you can upload files by simply adding them to the upload queue and then press upload. It will let you browse the directories and files in the remote folder. You can add, delete and rename the folders and files in it as well. You can preview the images on the remote folder. If you want a larger view, click the image and a bigger sized preview will be shown. It has a build in language selector for your International users.

TWG Flash Uploader requires Flash 8 or higher plugin for your browser. As for your web server, it requires PHP 4 or higher and a GD lib 2.0 and higher if you want to use the resize and preview feature.

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Every business owner knows how hard it is to keep track of invoices. Some result into hiring accountants to do the job. Well now you can have your own personal accountant, BambooInvoice can organize your invoices and best of all its free.

BambooInvoice is free open source software for your invoicing needs. It's user friendly and navigation is a piece of cake. Its layout is easy to the eyes. It can run in a web server or in a local computer as well. This makes BambooInvoice safe from prying eyes. It's well coded using XHTML and is WAI conformant. Once you inputted the data into your database, BambooInvoice sorts the invoices and can give you a list by company. You can also easily edit invoices once they're in the system. So looking for a particular invoice will be a breeze. You can also generate PDF files of the invoices.

Installing BambooInvoice should not be a problem, but knowledge of PHP and databases is required. First you got to download the BambooInvoice files from its site. Then modify the configuration files. Afterwards you are to create the database. Then upload your files to the server. Run the installation script. Login and then delete the installation and update scripts. A more detailed guide is provided with the downloaded files.

BambooInvoice uses PHP 5 and requires a database. If you want to create PDF then you need to enable the DOM extension.

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Are you looking for a simple solution to your uploading problem? Now uploading files to your web server is made easy with ES Simple Uploader. You don't even need any other tools or databases to use it.

ES Simple Uploader is a free PHP script made to ease the task of uploading files to your remote server. It is simple and fast. You can select which folder you want to upload the files on your web server. With each folder password protected, so only authorized users can upload files to your web host, ES Simple Uploader is a secure way to upload files to your web server. Best of all, there is no database involved, making it easy for your users to upload files.

ES Simple Uploader takes only a few minutes to be installed. Firstly, download the installer folder. Then extract the files to your local computer. Open the config.php and change the upload folders and your preferred password for each folder. Then set the maximum upload file size. After the said configurations, you can now transfer config.php and index.php to your web server. Then configure the permissions. After that you can start uploading files.

ES Simple Uploader is an open sourced PHP script for your web site. Knowledge of PHP coding is required as well as access to your web server.

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When dealing with complex sites, you can easily get lost with all the files you create. Having a naming convention is well and good, but what if you decided to have one after creating initial files? Renaming the old ones manually can be quite tedious. The solution? PFrank.

PFrank which stands for Peter’s Flexible RenAmiNg Kit is a freeware tool designed to automate file renaming processes. By specifying the search patterns, you can easily find files and create a consistent naming convention for them. To start using PFrank, just download the setup file and install. Once you have started the program, it’s time to create search patterns. The search patterns follow regular expressions or regexp. No idea about regexp? The documentation for PFrank is quite extensive, covering basics for regexp among other topics. Once you have your search pattern, just proceed with Scan and all files that match your search will be displayed. You now have your choice of renaming those files with the specified replace pattern. Whether you’re a web designer who needs to rename a lot of files, or a simple blogger who wants a more organized file structure, PFrank is ready to take the job.

PFrank is a Windows application and is compatible with 98/ME/2000/XP/2003

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Organizing your schedules can be a pain at times. Nevertheless, hiring a personal secretary to do it isn't the only option. There's a free utility available for the job. Google Calendar lets you remember all the personal and business events such as anniversaries, birthdays, parties, deadlines and appointments. Try it for yourself, it will surely change your lifestyle.

Google Calendar is user friendly. If you know how to use the computer, you can use this tool. You can easily add events and invites in it. Plus, you can search the web for events that you might like and add them in your calendar. It lets you send out event invitations to your friends and track the responses. You can also share your calendar with family and friends. They can see your agenda and could easily know if you are free or not for that particular day. You can make a calendar for your design team and share it with your members. Now everyone won't forget a deadline. You can even configure it to send out reminders straight to your mobile phone.

With Google Calendar, handling your daily schedule will be a piece of cake. The site layout is simple and navigation is effortless.

Google Calendar is an online shareable calendar service offered free for those with a Google account. It runs on Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7, Microsoft IE 6.0 and Safari 2.0.3. JavaScript and cookies must be enabled in all browsers.

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Creating a web site and finding out that it wouldn't display properly on some browsers can be quite a pain. If you can relate to this, then it's time for you to check out Litmus.

Litmus is a commercial tool that generates screenshots of your web page as well as email newsletters from popular browsers and email environment, all in just a manner of seconds. To start working with Litmus, you must create an account. A special web page under Litmus will be created as well, and this is where the screenshots will go. Full page snapshots of your site on different browsers will be displayed, letting you see how your audience sees your site. You can also get a preview how your HTML emails are viewed on different platforms. However, it must be noted that there is currently no way to test Litmus if you don't have a valid credit card or PayPal account, as it requires one to sign-up even if you plan on just trying it out. Also, the email testing and web page testing services are availed separately, requiring you to shell out more if you want to use both. All in all, Litmus is a very good application, but a bit pricey for small-time web designers and bloggers.

Litmus works on most browsers.

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Web designers and even bloggers can be a picky lot when it comes to colors. The shade must be perfect, complementing the main idea behind the site. However, there will be times when the right color is found on another site and there is no way to know the exact color value. If you do find yourself in that situation, never fear, ColorPic is here.

ColorPic allows you to pick any color in your screen and save it in a custom palette. To start picking colors, just download and run the installer. Getting to use the program is as simple as choosing an empty color slot, grabbing the desired color, and it’s now part of your palette. Eight different custom made palettes are also available for those basic color needs. The information screen for ColorPic gives you details about the chosen color. The WebSnap and Hexadecimal codes are clearly shown for easy copy and pasting. If you are not satisfied with the shade, sliders for the Hue, Saturation and other options are available. With ColorPic, there is no need to grope blindly for that perfect shade.

ColorPic is compatible with Win9x/ME/2000/XP. Basic HTML knowledge is needed to apply the color values in HTML.

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Whenever designing a web site, it is important to see how it would display on different browsers. After all, no two browsers are made the same. However, manually checking every available browser how it displays your site is almost impossible. Sounds trouble? Not with BrowserShots.

BrowserShots is an Internet service that lets you view your website using different browsers available. With 21 available browsers for Linux, Windows and even the Mac, it can give you great insight on how your site looks from any angle. And what’s even better, the service is free of charge. Taking advantage of BrowserShots is very easy: just enter the URL of the site you want to test and it will be immediately added to the job queue. Once the queue reaches the limit, the URL will be opened by a certain number of distributed computers and a screenshot of the browser displaying the site will be added in the main server of BrowserShots. You can now view the screenshots and see how your site appeared in a certain browser. Despite the drawback of having to wait for quite a while for popular browsers such as the Firefox, the results are definitely worth it. If you want a painless way to check your site on 21 browsers without having to install them all, BrowserShots.org is ready to give you a hand.

BrowserShots.org works on most browsers.

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Baffled by the mystery of broken links? Then hire your own private eye to check it out. Xenu Link Sleuth is available anytime of the day and will accept any web site to investigate… for free.

Xenu Link Sleuth is a freeware application designed to check your web site for broken links. It spiders your site to create a comprehensive list of links and it alerts you if any broken ones are found. Finding where the break is also easy as you can sort the list through its multiple columns. It even provides an explanation why the link broke down. Downloaded as a setup file, just a few double clicks and you are ready to launch your private detective. Just key in your URL and wait for the process to be finished. Thanks to its multi-thread feature, the time to map the site is greatly reduced. It took the program just 4 seconds to check-out 45 URLs. The number of threads as well as what to output can be configured for greater speed and efficiency. Once you are done with the spidering, you can save the output as a text file for later evaluation. With Xenu Link Sleuth, cases of broken links are easily closed.

Xenu Link Sleuth is compatible with Win9x/2000/XP.

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