WPG2 embeds the Gallery2 Application within the WordPress Application, allowing WordPress Authors to share photos uploaded into Gallery2 seamlessly into the WordPress Blog and Sidebar content.

KQF adds feeds to posts, pages and much more. KQF allows you to customize the look and behavior of feeds the way you like.

KIN is just a simple notepad for jotting down notes and ideas.

Post Terms List outputs the most frequent terms of a post.

Tracer is a tracking image that allows you to monitor traffic for individual blog posts. It also works in your web feeds. This plugin adds an ‘Insert Tracer’ button to the WP editor.

CaptchaThis! is an attempt to further the fight against comment spam. The idea is asking the user (or robot, for that matter) to ‘recognize the meaning of a question and answer it. The plugin has two modes: “Click The Image” and “Answer The Question”.

SEO Siloing WordPress plugin allows bloggers to configure blogs that follow the “SEO siloing” technique where posts are grouped by category and cross-category links are only made to special category landing pages.

wp-ajax-newsletter is a WordPress plugin that allows users to subscribe and receive a newsletter containing the blog latest posts.

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Although the formal formal announcement (can you tell that Adobe is trying to build some buzz around this thing?) is not happening until later today, Adobe officially announced CS3 early this morning. The apps that make up the entire CS3 product line include:

• Photoshop CS3
• Photoshop CS3 Extended
• InDesign CS3
• Illustrator CS3
• Flash CS3 Professional
• Dreamweaver CS3
• After Effects CS3
• Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional
• Adobe Contribute CS3
• Adobe Fireworks CS3
• Adobe Premiere Pro CS3
• Adobe Soundbooth CS3
• Adobe Encore CS3

There are also the same six packages:

• Adobe Creative Suite Design Standard and Premium
• Adobe Creative Suite Web Standard and Premium
• Adobe Creative Suite Production Premium
• Adobe Creative Suite Master Suite

(Each package that has both standard and premium count as two packages.) All of the above listed packages will be shipping in April 2007, save the Production Premium and Master Suite which will be shipping in the third quarter of 2007.
This is the first release from Adobe that has incorporated the portfolio acquired from Macromedia, and Adobe describes it as their “largest release in Adobe’s history.” For anyone who’s still dying to check out the launch event in New York City, feel free to check out the invite and/or the live webcast at 3:30pm ET.

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Source of PDF files, e-text, of articles, papers, reports, books, etc..

• MathThinking – Free Computer Books, Tutorials & Lecture Notes …
• complore – A free online library of papers,lectures and articles on all the subjects. Can even tag and bookmark it.
• Bruce Eckel’s Free ElectronicBooks – C++, C#, Java and Patterns.
• Free E-Books Online – List of books available in electronic form for free online … you will also find links to video lectures there …
• Web-based Programming – You will find over 40 (1100+ pages) programming language tutorials, lessons, and how-to’s. You can surf through our collection of free online tutorials or read postings in one of our forums. Just choose the language you are interested in learning, find a lesson and enjoy!
• Free Computer Books – Free Computer Books
• Tech Books For Free – At site it is claimed that the books are for free. There are Microsoft VB, ADO.NET and .NET, Java, Linux, Pyhton, Networking. Hope you enjoy.
• O’Reilly’s OpenBook Project – O’Reilly has published a number of Open Books, books with various forms of
  “open” copyright over the years …
• Apress Books – Free Programming e-books …
• Computer-Books.us – Highest quality computer books for free download …
• IBM Redbooks & Redpapers – A list of recently published IBM Redbooks Redpapers (technical docs addressing specific topic). Most of these redbooks/papers are available in Adobe PDF format and may be viewed online or downloaded for offline viewing and printing …
• University of Virginia free E-book Library – Over 2,100 publicly-available ebooks from the University of Virginia Library’s Etext Center, including classic British and American fiction, major authors, and much more …
• IDRC – International Development Research Center – IDRC Books is the publishing arm of Canada’s International Development Research Centre. As a specialist in development literature, IDRC Books contributes to the body of knowledge on these issues to further the causes of global understanding, equity, and well-being …
• Infosyssec – The Security Portal for Information System Security Professionals – There are approximately 1500 complete or partial books listed in this listing. 80% of these links lead to the complete book and about 20% lead to partial versions or sample chapters …
• TLDP – The Linux Documentation Project – The Linux Documentation Project (TLDP) is working on developing good, reliable documentation for the Linux operating system …
• MCP Library Collection – Macmillan Computer Publishing …
• Russia Online Computer Books -Russian Site with several good free titles … from Webdesign, Java or Unix to Networks and Databases …
• Project Gutenburg – Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or ebooks.
• Free Robotics Tech Materials – autokinematics aims to give you the best free technical materials in industrial automation and robotics.

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If you’ve used them once you’ll never be able to work without them. Bookmarklets (or Favelets) are tiny Javascript-Snippets, which are stored within a bookmark and add particular functionalities to the browser you’re using. It doesn’t matter whether you browse, bookmark, look up, search, design or program – depending on your interests, bookmarklets can significantly enhance your efficiency and productivity. However, if you take a look around, you’ll find hundreds of sites, which offer favelets of any possible kinds. Indeed, you’ll find thousands of bookmarklets, many of which you aren’t really interested in. What you eventually are interested in, is a hand-picked choice of the most useful snippets you can directly copy and use from one single page.

We’ve chosen some of the most useful bookmarklets, written new ones and listed them below. You’ll find the source, from which a bookmarklet is copied or modified, or a detailed description of the snippets, in the brackets.

To install the bookmarket just drag’n’drop the JavaScript-Code from the link to the toolbar of your browser. To use the bookmarklet select the text on a page or an address of a web-page and click on the bookmarklet. If you don’t select any text or url and click on the snippet, you’ll get a JavaScript window, in which you can input text manually.

If you use many favelets, you might be willing to check out the Blummy Bookmarklet (The Bookmarklet Management Bookmarklet), a free tool for quick access to your favorite web services via your bookmark toolbar.

Looking up

• Acronym & Abbreviation Finder to look up unknown abbreviations and acronyms.
• Amazon.com, Ebay.com enable to search for products with one click.
• Google Search Bookmarklet [sf], del.icio.us, Wikipedia.com can be used to look up for any information you might ever be interested in.
• Cddb.com, Discogs.com and Last.FM to look up CDs information, popular tracks bands, music styles etc.
• Internet Movie DataBase (IMDB), EPGuides.com deliver information about movies and TV-series.
• Google Translate [sf] translates from 5 languages to English (the language will be detected automatically).
• Oxford English Dictionary [kp] and Merriam-Webster Word Lookup (with audio samples) [XHTMLed] explains English words and terms.
• myBookmarklets is a collection of useful Bookmarklets you can use every day. You’ll find there all Google-Search-Bookmarks, Look-up-Bookmarklets in different encyclopedias and so called “Multi-Bookmarklets”, which enables you to retrieve the information you’re looking for from many sources – simultaneously and automatically.

Social Networks, Web 2.0, Online-Services

• BugMeNot delivers Login- and Password-data for services which require user registration and authentification.
• Check PageRank returns the PageRank of the page, you are visiting.
• Delicious: Super Fast Bookmarklet, Lazy Sheep For Del.icio.us and posticious let your store your bookmarks in del.icio.us instantly.
• Filext.com informs you about unknown data types and file extensions [wb].
• Flickr.com: instant search in Flickr.
• Microformats Bookmarklet helps to extract existing hCards and hCalendars and can show and store contacts and events on a given page.
• MultiSubmit bookmarks one page in 19 social networks – of course, if you are registered in them.
• Send To Flickr [vh]: to submit an image from a page to your personal Flickr-Fotostream, just select the image, click on the snippet and confirm your submission.
• Similicious lists similar pages to the page you are currently on.
• Technorati lets you explore what other users write or talk about in the blogosphere.
• TinyURL shortens your web address URL. [el]
• Video Bookmarklets lets you download YouTube- and Google-Video-files automatically.

Web-Design, Web-Development

• computed_styles lists the computed styles of an element and of its ancestors. [sf]
• list_classes lists classes used in the document. [sf]
• show_blocks draws borders to show tables (colors indicate nesting), paragraphs, and divs. [sf].
• test_styles type in CSS rules to experiment or to create a temporary user style sheet. [sf]. Alternative: edit_styles experiment with changes to the page’s style sheet. [sf].

• Color List Favelet creates a color palette which is used on a given page.
• Elements inspector offers the same functionality as Aardvark Firefox Extension; it shows the information about Div-Containers, Headers, Paragraphs etc. [Favlets.com]
• Favelet Suite is a package of 16 Bookmarklets, which can be used in web-development. Document Tree Chart, Javascript Object Tree, Mouseover DOM Inspector, Ruler, Style Sheet Viewer etc.
• Layout Grid Bookmarklet creates a Grid-Overlay of the page; useful, i.e. if you want to calculate the layout size.
• SEO Bookmarklets is a collectino of 22 Favelets for SEO-analysis. It uses search engines, social networks and further services.
• Web Developer Favelets: 9 simple Favelets a web-developer will use on a daily basis.
• string2html converts strings to HTML-Entities [wzb].

Links Functionality

• Finds and follows a link to a “print-friendly” version of a page [sf]
• click2zap removes elements from the page for printing (remove text/images to save paper/ink) or reading comfort purposes. [s. click2zap]
• Set Target-attribute of all links at “new” (open in new window) [Bookmarklets.com]
• Set Target-attribute of all links at “self” (open in current window) [Bookmarklets.com]
• Show all mailto-Links [bookmarklets.com]
• Hide visited Links [sf]
• Add sorting functionality to a table [sf]
• Search on a page for a keyword and highlight it [sf]; alternative: Highlighter.
• Show the data stored in the password fields [sf]
• To mark the links of a page and Create a pop-up-windows, which lists all links on a page [stichpunkt].
• Show all links as footnotes in printed version [askmefi].

Better Navigation

• Jump to the parent-page (abc.com/archive/2006/ -> abc.com/archive) [sf]
• Jump to the top-level-page (abc.com/archive/2006 -> abc.com) [sf]

Tools for Bloggers

• Show the last archive copy of the current web-site [sf]
• Create HTML-Code with a link to the current page [sf]
• Send a link to the current web-page [wb]
• Send highlighted information from a web-site via e-mail – automatically [wb]
• Quote from a Blog copies selected text and pastes it automatically with via-Links in a pre-defined HTML-Code-Template. [b101]
• Creates the XHTML code to include the current image. [sf]

Useful Tools

• Bookmarklet Crunchinator minimizes the size of bookmarklets and creates Oneline-Links, which are typical for Favelets.
• Bookmarklets Builder simplifies the writing of Javascript-Snippets with an integrated Formatter and DOM Browser.
• The Bookmarklet management bookmarklet (The Bookmarklet Management Bookmarklet), a free tool for quick access to your favorite web services via your bookmark toolbar.

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1. Bitstream Vera Fonts (freeware): Description, Download

2. Legendum (freeware, OpenType): Description, Download

3. Garogier (freeware, OpenType): Description, Download

4. JUnicode (free for personal use only): Description, Download

5. Computer Modern Unicode Bright (freeware, GNU GPL, X11): Description, Download

6. Computer Modern Unicode Serif (freeware, GNU GPL, X11): Description, Download

7. Computer Modern Unicode Sans Serif (freeware, GNU GPL, X11): Description, Download

8. mgOpen Cosmetica (freeware): Description, Download

9. mgOpen Moderna (freeware): Description, Download

10. jGaramond (freeware): Description, Download

11. Chrysanthi Unicode (freeware): Description, Download

12. Linux Libertine (freeware): Description, Download

13. Andron Scriptor: Description (visit the site to download the font)

14. Porson (freeware): Description, Download

15. Teamouse (freeware): Description, Download

16. Fontshop Freefont: FF Milo Regular: Description & Download

17. Vollkorn (freeware): Description, Download

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They are free and yet have a lot to offer…

Zamzar

zamzar is free and all-inclusive(video, music, images, documents) file conversion service. In 4 quick steps you can convert almost anything to anything else;

• simply enter a file you want to convert by pointing to its location on your local drive or address on the web(ex; youtube video)
• select output format(eg. PDF, doc, 3GP mobile, iPod, PSP…)
• enter email address where it should send converted file and
• convert it.

Special features;

• supports all popular video, music, image and document formats.
• provides browser bookmarklet (Firefox, IE) which lets you convert and save files from any webpage.
• convert and save any video while you are watching it(supports Youtube, GoogleVideo, Myspace, Revver, PutFile, Break.com, Apple, Trailers,
  Dailymotion, Metacafe, iFilm, Grouper, Blip.tv)
• file size can’t exceed 1 MB

Media-Convert

media-convert also lets you convert all types of files, i.e. video, music, images, docs and archives. It’s also free and supports almost all conceivable file formats. Procedure is pretty much the same; select file, specify output format and let it do the rest. Once it’s done with a file, it will provide you with a link from where it can be downloaded.

Special features;

• each converted file remains accessible for 6 more days, so if you want to share it with friends you can forward them a link to download page.
• input file format auto-detection(no need to specify input format)
• additional option to adjust conversion settings(like fps, bitrate, codec, audio rate, etc..)
• download file directly to your mobile via WAP or GPRS.
• file size can’t exceed 150 MB

Mux

mux lets you convert youtube and googlevideo videos to following formats; mpeg-4, Quicktime, iPod(m4v), flash video, windows media, mpeg-1/2, windows avi, 3gb mobile and OGG Theora. It’s not as powerful as above mentioned zamzar or media-convert however it has some handy features that you won’t find with others(see below).

Special features;

• for more demanding users there is a power mux which allows users set additional settings on output file(bitrate, fps, file length…etc).
• there is also a mux mobile which lets you convert web-videos to mobile format(3GP, AMR) and instantly forward them to any mobile for free.

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I came across this post on Weblog Tools Collection. This plugin is a snap to install and it really works!

Plugin Page:
http://www.zirona.com/software/wordpress-instant-upgrade

Description:
The InstantUpgrade plugin provides is a easy and safe way to upgrade your WordPress automatically with a single click (Almost!)
You can upgrade to the latest WordPress version, or you can upgrade to a version of your choice.

How it Works:
The InstantUpgrade plugin downloads the latest WordPress version from the WordPress server and unpacks it at your server.
In the next step, it deletes all of your old WordPress files (except wp-content/ and wp-config.php and language packs) and puts the new files into your WordPress directory.
At last, it runs the upgrade script contained it the new WordPress version.

Installation and Usage:
Installation and usage of this plugin requires a bit more work from a user point of view because of various permissions that need to be set.

You download the plugin and upload it in your plugins folder and activate it.

You need to chmod your WordPress base folder, wp-admin and wp-includes and their subdirectores (except wp-config) to 777. You also need to do the same to the work folder in the plugin directory. These permissions would not have to be set if you have phpsuexec or similar installed where your scripts run as your user id.

Future Plans:
- plugin’s self upgrade
- some sort of dry-run mode for the scared
- support other WP editions (e.g. that of the German WP community)
- Allow defining files to preserve (even though this is discouraged)
- if WP officially introduces and maintains incremental upgrades, support them, too
- Auto take care of the file permissions possibly via FTP

Review:
Recently, WordPress releases have become rather frequent, with a release almost every month. While several users like me prefer using shell to speed up upgrades, most normal users are stuck with the normal lengthy routine of doing so, which can become quite a pain in the neck if you have several blogs to upgrade.
InstantUpgrade bids a happy farewell to that procedure.

Installing the plugin is easy, but using it requires a bit more work. You have to remember to backup all your files and the database before running the plugin. At this point the plugin will not automate this. You also need to set write permissions before running the plugin and remove them after running (for best security).

One thing I like about the plugin is the ability to upgrade your blog to the latest WordPress version as well as any version that you choose, which means that users running 2.0.x version can also use this plugin.

Only thing I don’t recommend is to do major upgrades using this plugin. When I say major upgrade, I mean something like a jump from 2.0 to 2.1 and 2.1 to 2.2 in about two weeks time.

The reason is that WordPress includes major changes in the core during these version changes. The InstantUpgrade plugin doesn’t disable all your plugins. With major changes, there is a good possibility that many plugins may not work and could really mess up your blog!

However, for minor version changes, this is one of the best solutions we have today to upgrade our WordPress blogs.

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WP Ajax Edit Comments allows users and admins alike to edit comments on a post. User’s can edit their own comments for a period specified by the admin, and admins can edit all post comments.

Preview Post Navigation restores the “preview” and “edit” links that were removed from the WordPress 2.1x series back into the editor.

CSS Hijack Prevention filters out CSS code in your comments to protect your blog from being hijacked using CSS.

IP 2 Nation Longitude and Latitude Update implements 2 new functions to obtain the Longitude and Latitude of the Country.

Sticky Post shows the designated post on the top of every post without modifying your current theme.

Yearly Repeater plugin is a boon when you need to repeat the a single post every year on a particular day. You can achieve this by editing timestamp manually, but using this plugin you can automate this task.

Comments Preview allows visitors to preview their comment before submitting.

New Plugin Thingy allows you to create a plugin right from within WordPress Admin menu itself.

Website Optimizer For WordPress allows you to integrate Google Website Optimizer into WordPress blog posts and pages.

WordPress Navigation Tool is a tool designed to provide you with complete control over the contents of your navigation links. The plugin gives you the ability to create navigation lists and arrange the items within the list in any order required.

Private Post is a full featured private post management interface. It allows you to manage all private post’s publishing status via the Manage admin menu.

WordPress Directory Listing is a very simple plugin usable for showing the files within a directory (a bit like the Index generated by Apache). It’s easy to extend to add more functionality like image icons for file types.

Google Sitemap Parser will generate the output from sitemap.xml to the sitemap page.

WP-Enhanced Management enhances user experience with managing posts/pages/categories.

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The Idea:

TagACloud is a very unique idea for a website, thus it will take a little explaining to understand all the facets. To take full advantage of the site, you must be the owner or have control over your own website. The idea is to create a tag that represents your website. A tag is a descriptive phrase or a creative tagline describing your site. Once you have added your tag, it gets added to the Tag Cloud. This is where all the fun begins.

The Goal:

The goal is simple. Become the biggest freakin’ tag on the TagACloud website. The bigger the tag, the more hits it gets. It is that simple.

How Your Tag Gets Bigger:

Your tag gets bigger every time it levels up! And the only way to get your tag to level up is by accumulating points. Points can be acquired in many different ways, but the two primary ways to acquire points are as follows:

1. Get Clicked: your tag gets 1 point for every click that your tag receives.
2. Incoming Hits: your tag gets 2 points for every hit you send to your tag on TagACloud.com. You can get tag specific code via your “Get Tag Code” page.

How Your Tag Gets Hits

They provide visitors several ways to find your tag:

1. The Home Page: The home page features 200 random tags in random order.
2. Popular Tags: If your tag is one of the 200 most popular today, the last 7 days, last month, or of all time; it will be featured in order of popularity on the applicable page.
3. Keywords: Keywords are essential for any tag that wants to generate hits. Keywords are like user defined categories. They combine the tags that share common keywords. For example, google.com, yahoo.com, and vanillasasquatch.com would all share the keyword, SearchEngine. Each tag can have up to 3 keywords associated with it.
4. The Randomizer: The title says it all. A user can view a random tag’s website, or view a random keyword.

Statistics

There are 3 big addictions on the web. Without sharing the top 2, they will let you know #3, is statistics. People love to view the stats on anything and everything. At TagACloud, they will make sure not to disappoint. You will be able to view statistics for every little thing, to ensure that you always know the current state of your tag. You will also find the website itself is littered with stats. Just keep your eyes open.

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