PrestaShop is another robust, professional-grade e-Commerce solution that you can download, install, and use for free. On the back end, you’ll use a full-featured back-office application to manage your online business (including inventory, orders, shipping, and customers) in real-time. Your customer’s payments are sent directly to your commerical bank account using the latest security technology.

Some Features:

• Featured products on homepage
• Cross-selling (Accessories)
• Merchandise return (RMAs) & credit slips
• PDF customer invoice
• Bulk lister/import .CSV files
• Content Management System (CMS)
• Reports
• Loyal customer program

Website: http://www.prestashop.com/

Demo: http://www.prestashop.com/en/showcase_demo

Download: http://www.prestashop.com/en/downloads/

OpenLayers makes it easy to put a dynamic map in any web page. It can display map tiles and markers loaded from any source. MetaCarta developed the initial version of OpenLayers and gave it to the public to further the use of geographic information of all kinds. OpenLayers is completely free, Open Source JavaScript, released under a BSD-style License.

OpenLayers is a pure JavaScript library for displaying map data in most modern web browsers, with no server-side dependencies. OpenLayers implements a JavaScript API for building rich web-based geographic applications, similar to the Google Maps and MSN Virtual Earth APIs, with one important difference – OpenLayers is Free Software, developed for and by the Open Source software community.

As a framework, OpenLayers is intended to separate map tools from map data so that all the tools can operate on all the data sources.

Website: http://www.openlayers.org/

Download: http://www.openlayers.org/download/

WebSnapr lets you capture screenshots/thumbnails of almost any web page. Let your visitors to instantly visualize any web page before clicking. WebSnapr also provides us the WebSnapr Preview Bubble which is a simple, unobtrusive script used to display an overlay bubble showing a hyperlink target thumbnail using WebSnapr. It’s a snap to setup which can increase site traffic, click-through rate and site stickiness.

Website: http://www.websnapr.com/

Demo: http://www.websnapr.com/previewbubble/

SUMO Paint is a free professional software that lets you create and edit images right in your browser while offering powerful tools and layers support.

The application is totally free to use, it loads really fast and can be used from any operating system or browser that supports Flash. The application also supports external embedding, meaning you can access SUMO Paint for editing images from your own website by passing the image url as a GET parameter.

Features:

• Layers with blending modes
• Layer Effects
• Shape Tools, Brush, Ink, Clone Stamp, Eraser, Gradient, Custom Shape, Symmetry, Transform, Magic Wand, Lasso, Smudge, Line, Blur, Curve, Zoom Tool
• Color Picker
• Swatches
• Saving images with multiple layers
• Selection Modify

Website: http://www.sumopaint.com/web/

Demo: http://www.sumopaint.com/app/

Minify is a PHP5 app that can combine multiple CSS or Javascript files, compress their contents (i.e. removal of unnecessary whitespace/comments), and serve the results with HTTP encoding (gzip/deflate) and headers that allow optimal client-side caching.

Yahoo’s Combo Handler and Google’s AJAX Libraries API both serve content from their heavy-duty CDNs and potentially increase the chance that your visitor will already have a file in her browser cache. Neither service serves custom content that you provide. You may wish to use these services to serve popular libraries and Minify to serve your code.

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PicMarkr lets you to add custom watermark (image or text) to your images online and free. It is useful when you need to protect your copyrights or if you want to add comments to your photos. It is easy to use with minimum settings, no need to download or install anything. You simply need to upload files from computer or grab them from your Flickr account. It also allows batch image processing, it can saves you a lot of time when you are adding watermark to many images.

Website: http://picmarkr.com/

BGPatterns is a web tool for generating tiled patterns. Its intuitive (yet robust) user interface will allow you to tweak, edit, and resize a wide range of patterns.

You can design your own patterns and save them for future reference or you can download them as image for FREE.

Website: http://bgpatterns.com

Google today released a new tool that will make learning and testing code for Google’s Javascript APIs a lot easier. Google’s interactive AJAX API Playground gives developers an easy to use interface to write some basic Javascript code for Google’s eight Javascript APIs.

Google Javascript APIs:

• Maps
• Search
• Feeds
• Calendar
• Visualization
• Language
• Blogger
• Libraries
• Earth

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Make a baby without actually “making” a baby!

VW came up with a crazy idea: The Routan Babymaker 3000. Upload picture of mum and dad and look at the result.

Website: http://www.vw.com/vwhype/babymaker/en/us/

Striped Backgrounds – online tool, developed by Sam Herbert that generates striped background images based on 5 color pickers.

You can randomize colors to get a newly striped background or manually put hexa color code to create your desired background image. Created striped backgrounds can be downloaded in PNG format after you select the resolution.

Website: http://stripedbgs.com