Lista film cinema Febbraio 2012 by Simo Blog

Small review of free/opensource scripts for web written in various languages (php, javascript, etc…) – February:

ChiliProject project management app written in Ruby + database MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite

OpenSupports PHP + MySQL script for a support system

Impact Plus PHP + MySQL blog/CMS easy to install, simple to use, flexible and support themes

Upload Script for Gallery of Images and Audio files PHP+MySQL script to create webpages with a gallery of images and audio files

AbanteCart PHP + MySQL e-commerce application

Free and opensource scripts February 2012 by Simo Blog

Krystella, inovationhtf, MonkeyMan504, Fenix-dream, RanaMaju, Tarazino @DeviantArt

Cromoart

Visual Swirl

Webgranth

Fudgegraphics

Metro Style

Paper Leaf

Smashing Magazine

Desktop wallpaper calendar February 2012 by Simo Blog

Montly post about the best web design related resources links selected by me:

Designzzz WordPress, Photoshop, web design, inspiration, resources, tutorials

Creative Design Magazine inspiration, resources, showcase

Design You Trust art, inspiration, design

Designbeep inspiration, resources, freebies, tutorials

Graphic and web design links January 2012 by Simo Blog

The links to various free/opensource programs most useful and interesting of January:

AdFender block online advertisements, many browsers supported

Anvi Smart Defender protect your pc against malware, fast and light, it has also pc care utilities for system cleaning and optimization

Color Desker set your desktop wallpaper with many images ready to use

eToolz many network utilities in a portable application

Get Linux portablle app that allows to download easily many Linux distros

Instant File Searcher Professional powerful program with many options that allows to search files in Windows

Kuvva customize your desktop wallpaper and Twitter profile with many nice wallpapers

Mask Surf Lite web browsing with total anonimity

Free and opensource soft roundup January 2012 by Simo Blog

It’s a nice pack of images (jpeg, png, psd) ready to use as “cover” in the new Facebook feature timeline.

Download of the week: Facebook Timeline Covers Pack by Simo Blog

MaMaMiya Suite 12

Simplify

I love blue VS

Arimo

Different Touch 7

PreSilver

Memolotrys

mini’em all

Selection of 8 best Windows 7 themes from DeviantArt by Simo Blog

The download of the week for RSS readers ofr my blog/Facebook fan page and Twitter profile: Free TV Radio

It’s a Windows software that allows you to access thousands of tv and radio stations for free. You can both perform a search or use the tree list and divided by category.

Download of the week: Free TV Radio by Simo Blog

In this third part of the article-guide i analyze the Tumblr service.

Once you have done the fast registration filling e-mail, password and URL (the site address) you can just start to post.

The dashboard is simple, clean and easy (pic1).
Here you can choose an avatar and set various other important options: change URL address of the site, give permission to replies, give readers to ask you questions / contribute with their own posts, enable post share on Facebook and Twitter, post via e-mail, setup options for rss, choose language and time zone, allows indexing for search engines, set the site as Not safe for work.

You can choose what to post based by the kind of content.

Tumblr has great social features:

- you can follow other blogs, their posts will appear automatically in your dashboard (pic2)
- you can “reblog” posts, for who knows Twitter it’s equal to a retweet (pic3)
- you can like the posts (heart icon)

Click on “Untitled” you can choose the content of the post: text (pic4), pic (pic5), quote (pic6), link (pic7), chat (pio8), audio (pic9), video (pic10).

Ok for example we assume to write a text post. Insert the title, then the content, optionally the tags and publish it.
Naturally you can edit/delete it everytime you want. Open the frontend address http://yourblog.tumblr.com and it looks like in the pic (pic11).

You can customize various aspects of the blog (pic12).
Here you can modify blog title instead of the anonymous “Untitled”, choose a theme: there are many, both free and premium; if you are skilled you can also make a custom theme by editing directly the HTML code.
By changing the theme it will affect on the graphic and layout.
You can make a customization of the theme by choosing the colors and fonts, images for header and background, add pages.

This is Tumblr in short, a simple and effective service to publish and share various kind of content.

In the fourth and last part i will analyze Blogger the blog service by Google.

How to open a blog for free: the complete guide Part 3 by Simo Blog

I previously listed various useful Firefox extensions, so i want update the list with these new.

These extensions allows to extend browser features and make easy browsing and interaction, improve privacy and many more.

Please verify that they are compatible with the version of Mozilla browser you actually use.

I divided them by categories.

Browser enhancements:

Session Manager saves and restores the state of all windows either when you want it or automatically at startup and after crashes. It can also automatically save the state of open windows individually

Multimedia:

Ant Video Downloader and Player this extension allows to play and download Youtube videos and the videos of many other sites

NetVideoHunter Video Downloader as above, support many sites and also social network (eg. Vkontakte)

Privacy:

Ghostery it analyzes web pages and detect/block the various trackers found

DeSopa DNS blocking for Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)

ShareMeNot prevent social share buttons from tracking you until you actually interact with them

ProxTube unblock Youtube videos with restrictions

AnonymoX various features: change IP address and country, visit blocked sites, delete cookie, show public ip address

social:

AddThis sharing and bookmaking extension. It allows to siple share on Twitter, Facebook, ect…, useful to use in sites and pages that doesn’t provide share buttons

Firefox Share it allows to easily share links

Whoislive
see who is visiting the Websites you are on and interact with them in realtime

Development and productivity:

Colorzilla it allows to pick colors of a web page and display values

Read it later allows to save web pages later and read it later, also without internet connection

ReminderFox displays and manages lists of reminders and ToDo’s

Pixlr Grabber it allows to save and share portions of web pages

Webmail Notifier it allows to easily check mail notifications of the most famous webmails (Google, Hotmail, Yahoo, etc…)

Xmarks sync bookmarks between various browsers

Various utilities:

SkipScreen skips unnecessary pages on file hosting web sites

AdBlockVideo block advertising on videos

Firefox extensions you should not miss by Simo Blog