Turn WordPress Into A Mobile-Ready Blog: MobilePress


MobilePress is a free WordPress plugin which turns your WordPress blog into a mobile-ready blog when viewed on a cell phone.

MobilePress comes with a number of free themes optimized for normal handsets and also an iPhone specific theme. It also allows you to create custom mobile themes for different handheld devices and mobile browsers such as the iPhone, Opera Mini and Windows Mobile.

MobilePress

Posted on: August 25, 2010 as Free License, Mobile, Plugins, Software
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jQuery-HTML5 Form Validation Plugin: html5form


HTML5 validates forms without any additional Javascript but currently, WebKit browsers (Safari & Chrome) can handle webForms 2.0 forms without any Javascript and plugin.

This HTML5 form validation plugin adds form validations to HTML5 forms for non-Webkit browsers. It gets all the information from the HTML source and runs automatically when detects Internet Explorer, Opera or Mozilla Firefox. However, you can force it to work with all browsers to get additional customization.

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You just need to create your form according the HTML5 syntax and the script will execute itself. It does not require extra classes.

Posted on: August 24, 2010 as MIT License, Open Source, Plugins
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Rich Contact Profiles On Gmail Sidebar With Rapportive


Rapportive is a free plugin for Firefox, Safari, Mailplane (a standalone Gmail application for Mac), and Chrome to replace you gmail sidebar with rich contact profiles. Rapportive shows you everything about your contacts right inside your inbox.

Replace Gmail Sidebar With Rich Contact Profiles

You can immediately see what people look like, where they’re based, and what they do. You can establish rapport by mentioning shared interests. You can grow your network by connecting on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and more. And you can record thoughts for later by leaving notes.

Posted on: August 17, 2010 as Free License, Plugins, Software
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Create, Customize & Send Newsletters With MeeNews


MeeNews is a Free Wordpress Newsletter plugin that allows you to create, customize and send your own newsletter in a second.

You can create your mailing lists, manage users and post to a mailing list. It comes with 2 different ready to use newsletter themes.

Create, Customize & Send Newsletters With MeeNews

Posted on: August 2, 2010 as Free License, Plugins, Tools
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Free Javascript Translation Widget: TranslateThis Button


TranslateThis Button is a lightweight free Javascript translation widget. It translates any page quickly using Ajax and the Google Language API.

This widget is cross browser compatible and translates your website into 52 languages; just copy and paste the TranslateThis Button anywhere on your site.

Free Javascript Translation Widget

TranslateThis Button is available as a free javascript translation widget and it also comes as a free translation plugin for Wordpress.

Posted on: July 23, 2010 as Free License, Javascript, Plugins
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Feature Rich Content Slider Wordpress Plugin: SlideDeck


Greepit previously published a Free JavaScript based Content Slider, SlideDeck. This free content slider is now released as a free Wordpress plugin.

Feature Rich Content Slider Wordpress Plugin

SlideDeck helps your to create a media and content rich slider on your WordPress powered blog or website without writing a single line of code! The SlideDeck wordpress plugin works within the easy-to-use WordPress interface and allows you to post a slider live in minutes. Insert your SlideDeck into your posts, on your pages and even in your theme!

Posted on: July 7, 2010 as GPL License, Gallery, Javascript, Plugins
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5 Google Chrome Extensions for Web Developers


Google Chrome has helped web developers because of the features available in the web browser. Google Chrome has various AWESOME extensions that save developers time by giving them ability to track bugs and performance issues for their applications.

Lets have a look at few useful extensions for web developers.

Web Developer

Web Developer extension

The Web Developer extension adds a toolbar button to the browser with various web developer tools. This is the official port of the popular Web Developer extension for Firefox written by the same person.

It comes with many options including on-screen ruler, page re-size, multiple validation options, hidden elements viewer and color picker.

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Posted on: May 31, 2010 as Free License, Information, Open Source, Plugins
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Sexy jQuery Multiday Calendar Datepicker Plugin – jCal


jCal is a an innovative and sexy jQuery datepicker plugin that offers multi-day, multi-month calender datepicker options.

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jCal allows for a sequence of months to reside side by side and for the user to select a number of consecutive days. This is great for:

  • Hotel reservation systems
  • Ticket purchasing systems
  • Examination dates selections, etc…

This free jQuery datepicker plugin is fast and lightweight that weighs in at 14KB with the uncompressed development version.

Posted on: May 3, 2010 as Javascript, MIT License, Open Source, Plugins
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10+ Website Speed & Performance Testing Tools & Plugins


A fast loading website with good images and scripts performance is the first step to a successful online presence, but in real we use many tools , plugins, widgets in our website and those tools simply cause our website to load slow. The search engine panelizes the websites and we don’t get higher rankings in the search results due to the long response time.

Here is a list of free and open source tools and plugins that can help us to test performance and speed of our websites. With their suggestions, we can improve site’s response time.

 Website speed check

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The website speed tester shows the duration of a given website. This value can be used for showing how long a website take to load and if it is better to optimize the website or change a (slow) ISP.

BrowserMob – Free Website Performance Test Tool

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Test your website performance with this free cutting edge tool. This tool accesses your website from different location and generates a website performance analysis report.

PageTest

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Pagetest allows you to provide the URL of a webpage to be tested. The test will be conducted from the location specified and you will be provided a waterfall of your page load performance as well as a comparison against an optimization checklist.

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Posted on: April 29, 2010 as Information, Open Source, Plugins, Tools, Web Application
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Advanced jQuery Date Picker and Time Picker Plugin


A ThemeRoller supported, easily customizable, advanced jQuery Date Picker and Time Picker Plugin by Any+Time™ JavaScript Library.

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This jQuery Date / Time Picker aesthetically combines the functionality of calendar and clock together.

Some Features

  • Format date as you wish to
  • Custom week starting day
  • Select your time zone
  • Theme-able with jQuery ThemeRoller
  • Ajax based validation

This free JavaScript date / time calendar works fine on all modern browsers and can be customize to use as a popup calender or always present calender.

Posted on: April 25, 2010 as CC License, Javascript, Plugins, Tools
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