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Saturday, October 25, 2008

Friday, October 24, 2008

Saturday, October 18, 2008

12:36 AM

Open Source Enterprise Portal: Liferay

Liferay, with 60 tools and a selection of today’s most innovative technologies, enables you to do everything like:
  • Creating websites.
  • Building intranets.
  • Simply getting the right documents and applications to the right people.


Liferay inlcudes web publishing, content management, collaboration and social networking.
With the role-based authorization, admins & users can define which information can be viewed by which users.
A strong set of community features help creating communities, user groups & they can have their own mini-portals.
Some other included features are: wikis, forums, instant messenger, calendar, webmail, blogs & more.
And, any other applications like accounting, sales can be integrated with its open architecture.
The application is "giant" with the features it offers & hard to describe its capabilities completely. Users interested in creating an enterprise portal should definitely check it.

Requirements: Supports multiple OSs, applications servers & databases.
Website: http://www.liferay.com/
Demo: http://demo.liferay.net/
Download: http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/products/portal/get...

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

4:00 PM

Open Source Enterprise CMS: Alfresco

Alfresco is an open source enterprise level CMS application.
It provides document management, collaboration (in beta), records management, knowledge management, web content management and imaging.




Alfresco is built with Java & can be installed in both Window & Linux environments via "all-in-one installers".

Some features of Alfresco:

  • Web Content Management
    • Web content authors can access and contribute content
    • Simply preview in-context changes to any web page or web application
    • Reduce the risk of error with simple a virtualization of changes against a live site
    • Use your tool of choice, such as Dreamweaver, for web interface development
    • The ability to preview in-context changes to any web application, including PHP, Ruby, JSF, Tiles, Struts, Groovy and .NET
  • Document Management
    • All content is available via a shared drive interface
    • All content is available from within MS Office
    • Work in an MS Office environment for authoring and viewing
    • Save, version, share, search and audit
    • & many more..
This application is great for any company who wants to manage all the information from one central including websites, documents & knowledge.
1:30 PM

Free Flash Media Player: Flowplayer

Flowplayer is a free Flash media player that can configured & styled to fit your needs.
It supports multiple media types: FLV, H.264 coded MP4, JPG, PNG & MP3.



Some features of Flowplayer:

  • Full screen mode
  • Progressive download
  • Ability to play multiple files in 1 stream & ability to include images
  • Streaming support: Flash Media Server, Wowza & Red5
  • Quick access to specific chapters via thumbnails
  • Protection against hotlinking to media files
  • Embed links
This Flash media player can also be controlled with JavaScript & from other Flash movies.
Besides the free GPL license, there are several other paid licenses. So, make sure you check the licensing before using it.
P.S. This is not a very fresh resource but realized that it was missing in WRD & here it is.

Requirements: No Requirements
Website: http://www.flowplayer.org/
Download: http://www.flowplayer.org/download.html
12:08 AM

Easy Image Optimization With Smush.it

Image optimization is an important process when designing websites & producing content.



Smushit.com, an image optimization service, 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.

Smush.it comes in different flavours:

  • Uploading multiple images via browser
  • Mentioning image URLS online
  • With the help of a Firefox extension
Also, a report is provided on "how many bytes can be sav
ed" and all the changed images can be downloaded as a zip file.
Requirements: No Requirements
Website: http://smushit.com/
Via: http://ajaxian.com/archives/smushitcom-makes-image-o...