Compfight is a home brewed flickr search tool specifically for the advertising / design community. The rails based ajax search bar pulls in a flickr feed at speed so that you can quickly scour the site.
You can restrict your search to the Creative Commons with “only”, and use the “commercial” setting for commercially usable assets. Blue bars indicate flickr is holding an original. Linger your cursor over the image to display dimensions. For nothing but originals switch Seek Original to “only.”
Source: http://www.compfight.com/
Tour de Flex is a desktop application for exploring Flex capabilities and resources, including the core Flex components, Adobe AIR and data integration, as well as a variety of third-party components, effects, skins, and more. Tour de Flex has three primary purposes:
- Provide non-Flex developers with a good overview of what is possible in Flex in a “look and see†environment
- Provide Flex developers with an illustrated reference tool
- Provide commercial and non-commercial Flex developers a place to showcase their work
One of the objectives of Tour de Flex is to provide a place for developers to showcase their work. They are always looking for new samples to add. You can follow the instruction and complete the sample submission form in order to submit your own Flex work.
Requirements: Flex
Demo: http://flex.org/tour
License: License Free
Ever wondered which JavaScript framework was used on a specific website but was too lazy to check the source code for the answer? Fear no more WTFramework is here.
Our WebAppers reader Oskar Krawczyk has written a pretty simple and straight–forward bookmarklet. Say you come across a website, see a few pretty cool effects and you’d like to know which of the some JavaScript frameworks (MooTools, Yahoo User Interface, jQuery, the infamous Scriptaculous, Dojo Toolkit, Mochikit, etc.) are being used to rise the magic.
Typically, you’d have to look for the script tag in the source. Well forget about it, now you have WTFramework – one click and a info pops–up informing which framework are we dealing with.
Requirements: –
Demo: http://nouincolor.com/wtframework/2.0/
License: License Free
Scroll Follow is a simple jQuery plugin that enables a DOM object to follow the page as the user scrolls. It means the plugin allows an element to animate down as the user scrolls the page. Scroll Follow has been successfully, though not extensively, tested on IE6, IE7, FF2, FF3, Safari 3, and Opera 9 all on Windows. You can also set the the duration of the sliding animation.
Requirements: jQuery framework
Demo: http://kitchen.net-perspective.com/open-source/scroll-follow/
License: MIT License
Blackbird offers a dead-simple way to log messages in JavaScript and an attractive console to view and filter them. You might never use alert() again. You can add Blackbird to your page easily, simply download the files and place them on your server or in a local directory on your computer. And then Include blackbird.js and blackbird.css in your page. Blackbird is has been smoke-tested on Internet Explorer 6+, Firefox 2+, Safari 2+, Opera 9.5.
Requirements: Internet Explorer 6+, Firefox 2+, Safari 2+, Opera 9.5
Demo: http://www.gscottolson.com/blackbirdjs/
License: MIT License
Quarkbase is a free tool to find complete information about a website. It is a mashup of over 30 data sources and many algorithms gathering information from Internet on various topics like social popularity, traffic, associated people, etc. Simple type in your webiste URL, you can get a detailed report about your website instantly.
Requirements: –
Demo: http://www.quarkbase.com
License: License Free
Typechart lets you flip through, preview and compare web typography while retrieving the CSS.
You can view different typefaces with different font sizes and emphases. One of the handy features is that you can compare Windows rendering with Apple font rendering.
You can also download the CSS code for a specific typographic style, cach style corresponds with a style ID, which allows you to annotate prototypes and retrieve the css while coding as well.
Requirements: –
Demo: http://www.typechart.com
License: License Free
Google Ad Manager is now available to all publishers across all regions. Google Ad Manager is a hosted ad management solution that can help you sell, schedule, deliver and measure all your directly sold and network-based inventory. The user interface is simple and intuitive, it decreases training time and trafficking steps with simplified tagging and inventory management. And it provides some basic tutorials as well. Now you can ensure quicker ad delivery and fewer reporting discrepancies. You always know what inventory is available to sell.
Currently, the Ad Manager product is in a Beta period and there are no fees for using it. However, they reserve the right to change this policy in the future. Ad Manager may not always be free at all volumes, for all features or add-ons or for all uses.
Have you tried Google Ad Manager yet? What do you think it? Please feel free to share your experience with us.
Source: Google Ad Manager
WebSnapshot is a simple Adobe AIR application which allows you taking snapshots for any websites easily. Enter the Url and Press Snap. Or Drag and Drop it from your browser. Click on the Thumnails to Save. With Auto Save Checked, the thumnails are immediatly saved to your ‘save’ folder. You can select the type of Snapshot you want to make: Thumbnail, Browser size, or Full Page. You can tailor the way the snapshots are take in the Preferences pane as well. Set the download folder as needed.
Requirements: –
Demo: http://myspyder.net/tools/websnapshot/
License: License Free
Some applications look great in a screenshot, but deliver disappointing results when they are actually used. The driving force behind the development of SQL Buddy was not to produce a great-looking screenshot but rather to create a product that would enable developers to enjoy their work and get more done in less time. SQL Buddy is a web based MySQL Administration Tool similar to phpMyAdmin.
It is really easy to install SQL Buddy, just unzip the files to your server and its ready to use. You can easily find the data you are looking for with columns that can be ordered and resized. And instead of reloading the entire page structure with each request, ajax is used to fetch just the content that has changed. At the same time, it still plays nice with bookmarks, the back button, etc.
Requirements: –
Demo: http://sqlbuddy.com/
License: MIT License
