According to InformationWeek magazine, the US Army is launching an internal Web application development contest, Apps for the Army, that will award cash prizes to ...
March 3rd, 2010 - 11:06 pm
US Army Launches Web App Development Contest
March 2nd, 2010 - 11:07 pm
10 Free Windows Mobile Apps
1) Mobile Manager for Netflix Mobile app: Mobile Manager for Netflix Search for movies and watch trailers right from your phone. Even add or update ...
March 2nd, 2010 - 10:36 pm
10 Online Free Web Applications
Smushit Smushit is a service that goes beyond the limitations of Photoshop, Fireworks & Co. It uses image format specific non-lossy image optimization tools to squeeze ...
March 2nd, 2010 - 10:23 pm
Free Open Source Web Applications
EPIWARE – A Open Source Document Management System Epiware GPL project and document management, for those that like to be on the cutting edge of development. ...
US Army Launches Web App Development Contest
March 3rd, 2010 - 11:06 pm ≡ by admin ≡ in Web App Contest
According to InformationWeek magazine, the US Army is launching an internal Web application development contest, Apps for the Army, that will award cash prizes to soldiers and Army civilian employees who develop software that best fits the judgment criteria of the contest.
The contest, announced at the Gov 2.0 Summit in November 2009, aims to encourage collaborative, grassroots development efforts and will take place over the next two and a half months. “We’re building a culture of collaboration among our Army community to encourage smarter, better, and faster technical solutions to meet operational needs,” Army CIO Jeff Sorenson said in a statement.
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10 Free Windows Mobile Apps
March 2nd, 2010 - 11:07 pm ≡ by admin ≡ in Free Mobile Apps
Mobile app: Mobile Manager for Netflix
Search for movies and watch trailers right from your phone. Even add or update your movie queue for your Netflix account.
Save favorite sites to speed dial, sync bookmarks with your desktop, and use tabbed browsing.
Mobile app: Fusion Voicemail Plus
Doesn’t everyone just hate dialing, waiting, listening, and typing just to hear those annoying voice mails? This killer-app lets you see and manage your VMs on the screen.
4) Google Sync
If you use Google’s Gmail, contacts, or calendar, sync them with your phone.
5) PDFScanner
Use the phone’s camera to scan in or fax documents. Though free, unregistered users will see a watermark in images and faxes.
6) Skype
Are you a Skype talker? Download their app to use Skype on your mobile phone.
Convert between metric and imperial units of measure—great for projects, work, or school.
Fun and Enjoyment
Listen to music, rate songs, and bookmark your favorite artists and songs. Like on the regular site, you simply tell it a artist or song and it will play music matching your tastes. It’s beyond mundane Internet radio—you make your own “stations”.
Tired of web pages that don’t load right on mobile phones? With this they’ll appear just like they would on a PC, including Flash, Silverlight, and videos.
10) Tic Tac Toe
Looking for a simple game to pass time? Play this classic against the computer.
10 Online Free Web Applications
March 2nd, 2010 - 10:36 pm ≡ by admin ≡ in Aggregator, Free Web Apps
Smushit is a service that goes beyond the limitations of Photoshop, Fireworks & Co. It uses image format specific non-lossy image optimization tools to squeeze the last bytes out of your images – without changing their look or visual quality. You’ll get a report of how many bytes you can save by optimizing your images and all the changed images as a single zip for download.
DimDim is a free web conferencing service where you can share your desktop, show slides, collaborate, chat, talk and broadcast via webcam with absolutely no download required for attendees.
Soshiku is a simple but powerful tool that manages your high school or college assignments. Soshiku keeps track of when your assignments are due and can even notify you via email or SMS.
vi.sualize.us is a social bookmarking website for visual contents – vi.sualize.us (read visualize us) allows you to remember your favorite images around the web, and share them with everyone.
Encalc is an online scientific calculator. Its strength lies in its ability handle units and dimensional analysis, to define variables and its large database of constants. Parenthesis and scientific formulas are also supported.
Skydeck helps you keep track of your cell phone calls and text messages. Check who called you yesterday and how long it’s been since you spoke. Turn that dry list of numbers in your call log and phone bill into a map of your relationships with friends, colleagues, and customers. You’ll never forget a call again.
Enter the telephone number that came up on your caller ID and find out who called you. You can even leave a comment about the call you received for the benefit of others. EveryCall.us aims to expose and help put a stop to telemarketers and other annoying telephone calls.
This website provides you with disposable e-mail addresses which expire after 15 Minutes. You can read and reply to e-mails that are sent to the temporary e-mail address within the given time frame.
Docx-converter offers a portable solution for your compatability needs. It will convert a Microsoft Office .docx file into a simple html file. It strips out some of the formatting, but now supports bold, italic, and underlined text. Left, right, center, and justified alignment. Unicode characters. Tables. And more!
popUri.us is a tool to check at-a-glance the link popularity of any site based on its ranking. You can check Google PageRank, Alexa Rank, Technorati etc. as well as social bookmarks like del.icio.us, subscribers (Bloglines, etc) and more…
PDFescape is a new way to open PDF files and escape from the typical software requirements for using the de facto document file format. PDFescape is a new way to open PDF files and escape from the typical software requirements for using the de facto document file format.
Tatango Voice is an “on-demand” voice messaging system that combines the benefits of both SMS and voice messaging into one product. A group administrator records their voice call directly from their mobile phone, which then gets routed to all group members at the same time in the form of an SMS notifying them how to pick up that voice call.
Tizmos is a personalized homepage that allows you to see thumbnails of your favorite sites (tizmos) all in one place. You can add, edit, and delete Tizmos on your page.
Poll Everywhere replaces expensive proprietary hardware-based response systems with standard web technology. It’s the easiest way to gather live responses in any venue: conferences, presentations, classrooms, radio, tv, print – anywhere.
Free Open Source Web Applications
March 2nd, 2010 - 10:23 pm ≡ by admin ≡ in Aggregator, Free Open Source Web Applications
EPIWARE – A Open Source Document Management System
Epiware GPL project and document management, for those that like to be on the cutting edge of development. Take control of your information and content today.
WordPress – Blog Tool and Weblog Platform
WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.
ModSecurity – Open Source Web Application Firewall
ModSecurity is a web application firewall that can work either embedded or as a reverse proxy. It provides protection from a range of attacks against web applications and allows for HTTP traffic monitoring, logging and real-time analysis. It is also an open source project that aims to make the web application firewall technology available to everyone.
SteelBlue Open Source Web Application Server
SteelBlue is an open-source Web application server environment in which Web-database applications can be developed completely in an extended HTML language. Similar to ColdFusion and Story Server, session and user-associated data as well as SQL commands can be directly embedded into the HTML page. Therefore, no CGI programming experience is required to develop applications with SteelBlue, only knowledge of SQL and HTML.
Dolphin :: Smart Community Builder
YouTube, MySpace, Odeo, Flickr, Match and Facebook – all in one, customizable and under your full control. You’re limited only by your imagination – not by software. Dolphin Smart Community Builder is a universal, free, open source software that allows you to build any kind of online community. With a huge variety of features & options, you can quickly develop your very unique and successful website.
Bugzilla – Mozilla’s bug tracking system
Bugzilla is a bug tracking system designed to help teams manage software development. Hundreds of organizations across the globe are using this powerful tool to get organized and communicate effectively.
Mindquarry DO – Free Open Source Software Download for Team Collaboration
Mindquarry DO is an Open Source collaborative software platform for file sharing, task management, team collaboration and Wiki editing that is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Mindquarry runs as a web application with an optional desktop client for Windows, Linux and Mac OS that allows for desktop synchronization and offline work. As a result, you are able to connect with team members and share information from wherever you are, effectively improving team-work and increasing productivity within your team.
jobberBase – The Open Source Job Board Software
jobberBase is a great open source job board software for anyone. You can get online your job posting website with jobberBase. It’s easy to install and configure to start your job board.
Flex is a highly productive, open source framework for building and maintaining expressive web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops and operating systems.
Open source Ticket Request System
OTRS is an Open source Ticket Request System (also well known as trouble ticket system) with many features to manage customer telephone calls and e-mails. The system is built to allow your support, sales, pre-sales, billing, internal IT, helpdesk, etc. department to react quickly to inbound inquiries. Do you receive many e-mails and want to answer them with a team of agents? You’re going to love the OTRS!
Free Project Management Software & Free Time Tracking Application:Todoyu
March 2nd, 2010 - 9:56 pm ≡ by admin ≡ in Project Management
Free Project Management Software
todoyu is a web based open source task/project management, time tracking & collaboration application built with PHP
The application has a modern, Ajaxed interface where both users & clients can have roles on projects.
Using todoyu, projects can be divided into multiple milestones with sub-tasks that are assigned to users.
The time worked on every task is recorded which can be used in future analysis or billing purposes.
Optionally, todoyu can auto-generate invoices after completion of a project & export them as PDFs. The application also has a built-in calendar for managing appointments.
Requirements: PHP & MySQL
Website: http://www.todoyu.com/en/
Backend Demo: https://demo.todoyu.com/
Backend Demo – User-Pass: User: admin – Password: admin
Download: http://www.todoyu.com/en/download/
Automated News Aggregator: PHP RSS Reader
March 1st, 2010 - 9:05 am ≡ by admin ≡ in Aggregator, Uncategorized
PHP RSS Reader is an application which can crawl an unlimited number of feeds & presents them with an easy-to-use interface.
For an organized navigation, It is possible to create categories & place feeds inside them.
A handy feature is “keyword-based” categories which can auto-move items with the keywords mentioned into the related categories which is great for anyone who follows multiple feeds but hunts for specific keywords.