PayPal alone blocks access from over 60 countries, and many credit card companies have similar restrictions. Some are blocked for political reasons, some because of higher fraud rates, and some for other financial reasons. Due to this reason, WordPress has recently accept Bitcoin as one of the payment methods.
Bitcoin is a digital currency that enables instant payments over the internet. Unlike credit cards and PayPal, Bitcoin has no central authority and no way to lock entire countries out of the network. Merchants who accept Bitcoin payments can do business with anyone. Bitcoin is open-source. Nobody owns it; the most popular client is maintained by a community of open-source developers.
Bitcoin verifies transactions with the same state-of-the-art encryption that is used in military and government applications. Using the Bitcoin network is free, except for a voluntary fee you can use to speed up transaction processing.
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Download Link: http://www.weusecoins.com/
License: MIT License
Edge Inspect is an application for web developers and designers who are working on mobile web projects. Edge Inspect enables you to work more efficiently by providing synchronous browsing, remote inspection and the ability to take screenshots of your mobile web content from connected devices.
Web developers and designers struggling with how to preview mobile web content. Edge Inspect enables you to work faster and more efficiently by streamlining the preview and inspection of websites for mobile devices. It also allows you to easily pair multiple smartphones and tablets with your computer and customize designs for different form-factors in real time.
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Download Link: http://html.adobe.com/edge/inspect/
License: License Free
Nitro is the best way to organize with it’s speed, simplicity and power. With innovative features such as smart lists and magic sort, you can keep your life organized and focus on what needs doing. It’s also totally free.
Nitro can sync with Dropbox or Ubuntu One. You can easily access your tasks from any computer and you’ll never get a conflicted copy. Nitro also creates a todo.txt file so you can see or embed your tasks in plain text. Nitro is available for a variety of platforms, includes Mac, Chrome, and Linux. Nitro is free open source software under the BSD License. You can get it on Github.
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Download Link: http://nitrotasks.com/
License: BSD License
Uptime is a simple remote monitoring utility using Node.js and MongoDB. You can monitor thousands of websites at the same time. You can tweak frequency of monitoring on a per-check basis, up to the millisecond. You will receive instant web alerts on every page when a check goes down.
You can monitor availability, responsiveness, average response time , and total uptime/downtime. You can get details about failed checks, Group checks by tags and get reports by tag. There is complete API for integration with third-party monitoring services. And it’s easy to install with zero administration.
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Download Link: http://fzaninotto.github.com/uptime/
License: License Free
TinyPNG uses smart lossy compression techniques to reduce the file size of your PNG files. By selectively decreasing the number of colours in the image, fewer bytes are required to store the data. The effect is nearly invisible but it makes a very large difference in file size!
PNG is useful on the web because it’s the only widely supported format that can store partially transparent images. The format uses compression, but the resulting files can still be large. Use TinyPNG to shrink images for your website. It will use less bandwidth and load faster.
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Download Link: http://tinypng.org/
License: License Free
Cedvel is an application for designing grid systems. Cedvel aims to ease the grid design process and help you explore more alternatives.
Rectangles are building blocks of grids in Cedvel. Use the rectange tool draw an arbitrary rectangle on the canvas and then modify its exact dimensions and margins from the properties panel. Rectangles can have baseline, image and rectangle grids.
Once you are satisfied with the size and position of your container rectangle, divide it into rows and columns and set gutter widths and heights. Grids can be exported as PNG files ideal for screen use or SVG files for printing.
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Download Link: http://app.cedvel.com/
License: License Free
Turn.js is a JavaScript library that will make your content look like a real book or magazine using all the advantages of HTML5. The web is getting beautiful with new user interfaces based in HTML5; turn.js is the best fit for a magazine, book or catalog based in HTML5. It works on most browsers and devices, and lightweight with only 10k.
The turn.js API was conveniently built as an UI plugin for jQuery, it provides access to a set of features and allows you to define the user interaction. It is released under a noncommercial BSD license and it’s available on GitHub. However, this license doesn’t include features of the 4th release.
Requirements: HTML5 and CSS3 Support
Download Link: http://www.turnjs.com/
License: Noncommercial BSD License
Opal is a ruby to javascript compiler. Opal includes a compiler which can be run in any browser, a corelib and runtime implementation. The corelib/runtime is also very small with the size of 10.8kb gzipped. Opal-jquery provides DOM access to opal by wrapping jQuery (or zepto) and providing a nice ruby syntax for dealing with jQuery instances as well.
Opal is a source-to-source compiler, so there is no VM as such and the compiled code aims to be as fast and efficient as possible, mapping directly to underlying javascript features and objects where possible. Opal is hosted on github and free for download.
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Demo: http://opalrb.org/
License: License Free
Viewport resizer is a browser-based tool to test any website’s responsiveness. Just save the bookmarklet, go to the page you want to test, click on your created bookmarklet and check all kinds of screen resolutions of the page.
The smartest way to share your defined environment of devices and breakpoints directly with your team and client. However, this bookmarklet should not replace a real device simulation. It rather helps you, your team and client testing statuses, transitions, text length etc. throughout different device types.
Requirements: JavaScript Enabled
Demo: http://lab.maltewassermann.com/viewport-resizer/
License: License Free
Selfstarter is an open source starting point for building your own ad-hoc crowdfunding site. Selftstarter is a starting point for you to build your own solution. It is set up to collect reservations using Amazon Payments, but you can choose you own provider too.
They have kept Selfstarter really simple, but that also means that you should beef it up with your own authentication, administration and product management code. Most of what you need to get started is in the Readme. Selfstarter is based on Ruby on Rails, and they have tried to break up all of the different parts in a sensible fashion.
Requirements: Ruby on Rails
Demo: http://selfstarter.us/
License: MIT License
