Layout-o-Matic a tool  which allows to select a layout type, width, and other options to the left, and then click Download or View and pick up your multi-column CSS layout starter kit (turning it into something unique and beautiful not included). You’re welcome to use the resulting generated layouts for any purpose, personal or commercial.

CSS Creator creates a fluid or fixed width floated column layout, with up to 3 columns and with header and footer. Values can be specified in either pixels, ems or percentages.

CSS HTML PHP Website Template Maker is a PHP/HTML/CSS template generator  that creates a two column layout with both a header and a footer. This PHP / CSS Style Sheet template generator outputs full featured tableless code i.e. tables are NOT used for the template with the column layout. The resulting template is  a combination of several files i.e. this is a true PHP, html, CSS template that makes it easy to control multiply pages at a web site.

CSS Rounded Box Generator is a tool to generate HTML and CSS for rounded corner boxes.

Firdamatic is an online tableless layout generator that allows you to create and customize layouts easily only by completing forms, making creating skins for your Firdamatic-based layout a breeze. This tool is available for free for personal/non-commercial use only .

Free CSS Template Code Generator yields a three column layout without using any Tables. This HTML & CSS Style Sheet template generator outputs a full featured 3 column template. Resulting in an instant web page with a customized template that can be used to control the look of an entire site.

Page Maker – The Generator Form v2.90 CSS Source Ordered Variable Border 1-3 Columned Page Maker

QrONE CSS Designer online CSS style editor.

Forms

JotForm is a great Web based WYSIWYG form builder. You can select a form type(Contact Us, Satisfaction Survey, Job Application, Suggest Website , Membership Registration, Party RSVP , Wedding Attendance, Reservation, Submit Product, and others). Your new form will be created with the default fields on the selected form.

Accessible Form Builder makes it possible to generate XHTML-compliant accessible forms quicky and easily. Including the option of selecting what type of input you need.

CSS Form Code Maker is a HTML/CSS form generator  that creates a nice looking layout for forms. Add a ‘little color’ to the forms.

Fonts

Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. Its’ primary role is to make web designer’s life easier. As the new fonts are bundled into operating systems, the list of the common fonts will be updated. Typetester’s code structure is XHTML, styled with the finest CSS and driven by the JavaScript for manipulating DOM structures. Typetester will not work without JavaScript enabled.

CSS Font and Text Style Wizard is brought to you due to the popularity of the HTML and CSS Table Border Style Wizard. Use this wizard to experiment with font and text styles and generate sample CSS style source code. This wizard uses dynamic HTML to change the style of the table in-situ, without loading another page. It is cross-browser compatible with Firefox, Netscape, Internet Explorer, and other modern browsers.

Em Calculator is a small JavaScript tool which helps making scalable and accessible CSS design. It converts size in pixels to relative em units, which are based on a text size.

korhoen typeviewer – a css typeviewer. Choose font size, font family, font weight, font style, font variant, text transform, text-align, line-height word-spacing letter-spacing.

Navigation

CSS Tab Designer is a unique and easy to use software to help you design CSS-based lists and tabs visually and without any programming knowledge required. With the CSS Tab Designer, you can quickly design your list visually, choose from a variety of styles/colors (60+ different designs/colors supported), generate strict XHTML compliant code.

Colly’s CSS rollover generator allows to create two distinct styles of rollover button, using CSS and just one image. You can optionally allow some background space above your image in which to place CSS- controlled rollover text.

CSS Menu Generator generates both the CSS and the HTML code required to produce a text-based yet appealing set of navigation buttons. As text links are fast becoming preferred over images where search engine optimization is needed, a CSS menu can give the effectiveness of text links with a better look than standard text links. For an example of a CSS menu, look at our navigation on the left.

List-O-Matic generates CSS-styled navigation menus based on list items.

List-O-Rama! allows you to generate nice CSS inline menus in seconds. Just walk through the wizard and insert the text of the links, choose the vertical or horizontal menu, pick the design and click on finish. The code is automatically generated and inserted in your page.

Formatters and Optimizers

CSS Tweak enables you to optimize your CSS from your Mac’s desktop. The widget accepts CSS files dropped onto it. Once you drop a CSS file in, you are presented with tweaking options. You can choose to enable or disable any of the options, just the same as on the CSS Tweak website. Once you hit tweak, the CSS file is sent to the CSS Tweak server, tweaked, and then sent back and saved in the same location as your original file.

CSS Compressor is an utility to compress your CSS to increase loading speed and save on bandwidth as well. You can choose from three levels of compression, depending on how legible you want the compressed CSS to be versus degree of compression. The “Normal” mode should work well in most cases, creating a good balance between the two.

CSSTidy is an opensource CSS parser and optimiser. It is available as executeable file (available for Windows, Linux and OSX) which can be controlled per command line and as PHP script (both with almost the same functionality). In opposite to most other CSS parsers, no regular expressions are used and thus CSSTidy has full CSS2 support and a higher reliability.

Tabifier is a tool to properly indent computer code. The style it produces is a mix of my personal preferences for indentation plus what I could manage to make a program produce from dirty source. The tabifier currently supports CSS, HTML, and C Style code; the latter being anything that uses curly braces to start and end blocks, and semicolons to terminate statements. JavaScript and PHP both fall into that latter category.

CSS Beautifier offers a variety of options, among them – Style Rule Settings, Style Property Settings, Alphabetizing Feature and De-Capitalization Feature.

CSS Formatierer und Optimierer is based on csstidy 1.3dev. The service is available in 4 languages : English, Deutsch, French, Chinese. It provides different compression layouts; you can sort selectors, properties, regroup selectors, optimize shorthands, compress colors, compress font-weight, discard invalid properties and add timestamps. It also allows to create a custom template the system will use to format the code. Note that your code should be well-formed. This is not a validator which points out errors in your CSS code.

Clean CSS is a tool to optimize and format your CSS. Note that your code should be well-formed. This isn’t a validator which points out errors in your CSS code.

Format CSS Online automatically formats your CSS (cascading style sheets) so they are easy to read and edit.

Online CSS Optimizer is a web tool for reducing the file size of cascading style sheets. In order to save more space optimized files would be messy even so you may output it as a file. Non-valid or hacked (for certain browsers) CSS files may result in error.

Online CSS Optimiser/Optimizer is a tools which takes in a CSS file, and parses and outputs a leaner version, removing any redundancies and attributes which are not needed. It removes comments, white space (such as excess spaces); converts RGB values to Hex, converts Hex values in the format #RRBBGG to #RGB; changes zero values with a size specified to 0, changes values such as border: 1px 2px 1px 2px; to border: 1px 2px; and more.

Color Tools

I Like Your Colors! is a tool to extract the colors from the HTML and CSS of any web site. Compare the colors easily using hue groups.

CSS Color Chart This page contains a neutral colors chart and a general-purpose color chart. You can use the colors in the palettes with either HTML or CSS. Click on the color code to select it, then you can copy and paste it. Click on the Toggle button to convert from Hex to RGB and back. The charts are printed in tabular fashion so you can narrow your browser window with the palette and compare the colors to your design side-by-side.

Online CSS Scrollbar Color Changer allows to change the color of your HTML scrollbars for Internet Explorer. Enter your colors in hex format, e.g. “FF0033″ or click the color chip for a popup color picker. The CSS for the scrollbars that you create is displayed automatically below. Copy it into your HTML page to easily change the scrollbars for your website.

Desktop Manager – Virtual desktop manager for the Mac OS X. You can have any number of named virtual ’screens’ (up to available memory) to arrange your programs on. It is a small, unobtrusive application – can be made to be totally invisible if you want. Designed to act like a part of the OS. You can move windows between desktops easily via status-bar menu or Exposé-like ‘Operations Menu’, move windows around in desktops via a desktop-based ‘pager’. Active edge support – switch desktop when the mouse moves past the edge of the screen.

VLC Media Player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

UNO is a theme that brings the sunken unified toolbar/titlebar look & feel to every single window on your system (metal or aqua, and already unified windows as well). A full support for iTunes 7.3.1 (UNO Blue; UNO Graphite; UNO Shade Blue; UNO Shade Graphite and LCD fix), keeping support for iTunes 6 (6.0.2 or later).

No longer changes iTunes if its version is unknown (no more “blank music panel”).

The oldest of the UNO’s bugs (not working on japanese environments) is now fixed.

iGetter is a full featured download manager and accelerator. You can get the most out of your Internet connection (dial-up, wireless, cable, DSL, T1 etc.) with iGetter.

iGetter can improve greatly the speed of your downloads using segmented downloading. In addition it allows auto resume on broken downloads, queue filtering by various criteria, scheduling downloads for low traffic periods, auto redial on broken connection, auto hang-up and shut down on completion, and much more. iGetter lets you use a virus scanner program that you have on your computer to auto-scan downloaded files.

This app includes a history list for all finished downloads.

With iGetter you can easily control every download job. You can start, pause or let iGetter automatically download your files.

ClamXav is a free virus checker for Mac OS X. It uses the tried, tested and very popular ClamAV open source antivirus engine as a back end. Other features include logging results to a file, placing infected files into quarantine, monitoring folders for changes to their contents and a Finder Contextual Menu Item.

ImageWell is a small, but powerful, image editing application that lets you quickly resize, crop, watermark, edit your images, take screenshots and then upload them to the web, save to your computer or email them to a friend. ImageWell also lets

you annotate your images with text, shapes, arrows and lines, quickly and easily. And it doesn’t stop there – add a drop shadow, a shaped border, flip or rotate your image, plus so much more.

Namely is possibly one of the fastest way to open applications. Unlike some other launchers, it doesn’t require any learning.

You simply activate it using your preferred keyboard shortcut, start typing part of an application’s name and see a list of matches as you type. Most of the time, one or two letters are enough. In fact, Namely learns your habits and makes your most-used apps even quicker to access over time.

Unarchiver is a much more capable replacement for “BOMArchiveHelper.app”, the built-in archive unpacker program in Mac OS X. The Unarchiver is designed to handle many more formats than BOMArchiveHelper, and to better fit in with the design of the Finder. It can also handle filenames in foreign character sets, created with non-English versions of other operating systems. It is useful for opening Japanese archives, but it should handle many other languages just as well.

The Unarchiver is very simple to use and install.

Yahoo Messenger – The ONLY Mac messenger at the time of writing that can consistently do video chats with people who aren’t using Macs. iChat and AIM seems to be very fickle with cams. Plus, since YIM and MSN now interact happily, it’s easy to cam for anyone on your MSN or YIM lists.

Cyberduck FTP is an open source FTP and SFTP (SSH Secure File Transfer) browser licensed under the GPL. It has an easy to use interface, integration with external editors and support for many Mac OS X system technologies such as Spotlight, Bonjour, the Keychain and AppleScript.

Carbon Copy Cloner – In its simplest form, CCC will clone one hard drive to another, copying every single block or file to create an exact replica of your source hard drive. This is very useful if, for example, your laptop is damaged and you must send it in for repair. CCC can also be used to perform regular backups of your data.

Among the new features are:

Support for block-level disk-to-disk clones.

Support for backing up across the network.

The ability to drill down into folders to select exactly what gets copied and what doesn’t

A more responsive interface and the ability to stop the clone.

More accurate feedback during the clone.

The ability to pick up where a previously aborted backup task left off.

More information about your disks are available within the CCC interface.

Advanced scheduling capabilities — choose what days to run your backups and how frequently they should run.

Allows to create a scheduled task that backs up your data whenever you attach a specific hard drive or iPod.

System Requirements: Mac OS 10.2 (or later) with the BSD subsystem installed (which is installed by default)

Apple Boot Camp is a new technology that lets you install and run Windows on your Mac. If you have an Intel-based Mac computer and would like to try Boot Camp, you can download the public beta today.

It lets you install Windows without moving your Mac data, though you will need to bring your own copy to the table, as Apple does not sell or support Microsoft Windows (you’ll need XP Home or Professional with Service Pack 2, WIndows Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, or Ultimate. ) Boot Camp will burn a CD with all the required drivers for Windows so you don’t have to scrounge around the Internet looking for them.

AppleJack is a user friendly troubleshooting assistant for Mac OS X. With it you can troubleshoot a computer even if you can’t load the GUI, or don’t have a startup CD handy. AppleJack runs in Single User Mode and is menu-based for ease of use.

You can repair your disk, repair permissions, validate the system’s preference files, and get rid of possibly corrupted cache files. In most cases, these operations can help get your machine back on track. The important thing is that you don’t need another startup disk with you. All you need to do is restart in Single User Mode (SUM), by holding down the command and s keys at startup, and then typing applejack, or applejack auto (which will run through all the tasks automatically), or applejack auto restart (which will also restart the computer automatically at the end of the process).

Burn is an application to burn most common disks:

- five kinds of data disks : Mac (HFS+), PC (Joliet), DVD (UDF), Mac + PC, DVD-Video

- two kinds of audio disks can be burned: audio CD, MP3 Disk

- four kinds of video disks VCD, SVCD, DVD, DivX.

- three kinds of image disks can be burned. Normal images (with the extensions: img, dmg, cdr, toast and iso), Cue/bin, Toc (only mode 1 toc images are supported).

- It can also scan for disks and use them as images to burn.

Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.

PowerPC or Intel Mac

Butler makes it easier for you to perform different potentially recurring tasks. Butler lets you arrange these tasks in its fully customizable configuration. You can assign one or more triggers to a task:

Due to its unique variety of triggers and tasks, Butler is a very flexible productivity tool .

Butler is compiled as a universal binary. This means that Butler runs natively on both Intel and PowerPC based Macs.

Chicken of the VNC – a fast, lightweight VNC client for Mac OS X. A VNC client allows one to display and interact with a remote computer screen. In other words, you can use Chicken of the VNC to interact with a remote computer as though it’s right next to you.

Chicken features:

automatic server discovery via Rendezvous

an auto-scrolling full-screen mode

keychain integration

CPU performance throttling

smart unicode keybindings

mouse button emulation and native multibutton support

tons of supported transfer encodings including Tight and ZLib

customizable connection profiles

FinderPop – a classic Mac utility, now a preference pane for OS X. FinderPop is a Universal Preference pane that extends OS X’s contextual menus using a FinderPop Items folder much as the Apple Menu Items folder used to do for the Apple menu.

iWebMore – this lets you easily and quickly add features to sites created in iWeb that would be difficult to add without this utility. This is the dig for the iWeb developer. Embed HTML in your iWeb pages and finally have those flash animations, applets and google ads on the website.

iWillQuit – a simple mean to save electricity.

If you are going to downloading a big file, but you don’t want to let your Mac on all night long, you want to save energy, iWillQuit will help you do this. Use iWillQuit to put to sleep, shut down, restart, or log out your Mac in XX hours and XX minutes. Made with AppleScript Studio.

Linotype FontExplorer X sets a new standard for font management software. With the new FontExplorer X, font management, font sorting, font shopping and font discovery are simple and fun! It’s easy to use and is elegant in style. Supported languages are currently English and German.

MainMenu runs all the various tools and scripts to keep your Mac running smoothly, it makes these tasks quick and easy, right from your menu bar. Rebuilding your Spotlight library for faster searching, repairing permissions, cleaning caches to improve application performance, and even more advanced settings – such as enabling and disabling the Dashboard – are no more than two clicks away.

MainMenu is full of powerful maintenance tools to keep your Mac running like new, within a slick, simple interface.

Besides, German, French, Japanese, Korean, and Traditional Chinese localizations added, Portuguese is coming soon.

Max is an application for creating high-quality audio files in various formats, from compact discs or files.

When extracting audio from compact discs, Max offers the maximum in flexibility to ensure the true sound of your CD is faithfully extracted. For damaged discs, Max can either use its built-in comparison ripper (for drives that cache audio) or the error-correcting power of cdparanoia.

Once the audio is extracted, Max can generate audio in over 20 compressed and uncompressed formats including MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, Apple Lossless, Monkey’s Audio, WavPack, Speex, AIFF, and WAVE.

If you would like to convert your audio from one format to another, Max can read and write audio files in over 20 compressed and uncompressed formats at almost all sample rates and and in most sample sizes.

Max allows full control over where output files are placed and what they are named. If desired, Max will even add the encoded files to your iTunes library in a playlist of your choice.

For advanced users, Max allows control over how many threads are used for encoding, what type of error correction is used for audio extraction, and what parameters are used for each of the various encoders.

MenuMeters is a set of CPU, memory, disk, and network monitoring tools for MacOS X.

The MenuMeters monitors are true SystemUIServer plugins (also known as Menu Extras). They can be reordered using command-drag and remember their positions in the menubar across logins and restarts.

The CPU Meter can display system load both as a total percentage, or broken out as user and system time. It can also graph user and system load and display the load as a “thermometer”. The menu for the CPU Meter contains several pieces of information I like to have a single click away (uptime, load average, open Process Viewer, open Console).

The Memory Meter can display current memory usage as either a pie chart, thermometer, history graph, or as used/free totals. The Memory Meter menu shows a breakdown of current memory usage and VM statistics. The Memory Meter can optionally display a paging indicator light.

The Net Meter can display network throughput as arrows, bytes per second, and/or as a graph. Both the arrows and the graph are scaled using a user-selected scaling factor and calculation. Scaling can be done on the basis of actual link speed reported by the network interface or peak traffic and can use one of several scaling calculations. The Net Meter menu shows current interfaces and their status. Interface information is gathered from the SystemConfiguraton framework and thus is MacOS X network location aware.

OnyX allows you to run misc tasks of system maintenance, to configure some hidden parameters of the Finder, Dock, Dashboard, Exposé, Safari, Login window and of some of Apple’s own applications, to delete caches, to remove a certain number of files and folders that may become cumbersome, to see the detailed info of your configuration, to preview various logs and CrashReporter-reports, to check the Preferences files and more.

Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats.

Perian enables QuickTime application support for additional Media Types:

- AVI, FLV, and MKV file formats

- MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2, DivX, 3ivX, H.264, FLV1, FSV1, VP6, H263I, VP3, HuffYUV, FFVHuff, MPEG1 & MPEG2 -Video, Fraps, Windows Media Audio v1 & v2, Flash ADPCM, Xiph Vorbis (in Matroska), MPEG Layer II Audio

-AVI support for: AAC, AC3 Audio, H.264, MPEG4, and VBR MP3

- Subtitle support for SSA and SRT

PTHPasteboard is a multiple pasteboard program for OS X.

How often have you copied something only to find that you need it a few minutes later but you’ve already copied another item? PTHPasteboard watches you while you work and keeps a copy of any items that you have copied to your pasteboard.

PTHPasteboard has a number of exciting features:

Access information on Pasteboard items by right/control clicking on any item

Paste formatted text as unformatted by middle/command clicking on any item

Vastly improved HotKeys support

Fully integrated Mac OS X Help

Ability to choose menu bar icons for Custom Pasteboard windows

Service Scrubber – Wouldn’t the services menu be much more useful if it weren’t overcrowded by services you never even thought of using? With Service Scrubber, you can restructure the services menu, change service keyboard shortcuts or disable services. It also lets you deactivate, activate, reorder, rename and redefine the keyboard shortcuts for all the entries in the services menu. It does this in a way that is pretty much foolproof so you can always revert.

Service Scrubber is compiled as a universal binary. This means that Service Scrubber runs natively on both Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs.

SharePoints is an application or a preference pane that makes it easy to add and delete share points like in the old Finder. In Mac OS X, by default, you are limited to sharing only what is in your public folder in your home directory. This program makes it easy to share any folder. In addition SharePoints also brings back users and groups management to Mac OS X as well as easy configuration of AppleFileServer (AFS) and Samba (SMB) Server properties.

Sizzling Keys allows you to control iTunes with keyboard shortcuts from any application. It allows to pause, adjust the volume or skip a track or rate a song without leaving the current application. You can do all that and more with simple customizable keystrokes. Far more efficient than using iTunes itself. As well, one is generally using a lot more keyboard shortcuts when on the go anyhow. It is easy to install and, in the unlikely case that you don’t like it, uninstall.

Skim is a PDF reader and note-taker for OS X. It is specially designed to help you read and annotate scientific papers in PDF, but is also great for viewing any PDF file.

With skim you can add and edit notes, highlighting important text, making “snapshots” for easy reference, view all your notes and highlights, read conveniently in full screen. It can interact with with LaTeX and PDFSync, it has support for Apple Remote Control. This application is highly customizable.

SlimBatteryMonitor – this application is excellent! It cuts the menubar space by half and is easily customizable. For example, you can easily change the color of the icon outline from black to blue. It is suggested to move the application from the desktop into the Applications folder before installing.

SMARTReporter is an application that can warn you of some hard disk drive failures before they actually happen! It does so by periodically polling the S.M.A.R.T. status of your hard disk drive. S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a technology built into most modern hard disks that acts as an “early warning system” for pending hard disk drive problems. Because SMARTReporter relies on the S.M.A.R.T. implementation of Mac OS X, it only supports ATA, SATA or eSATA hard disk drives, if you want S.M.A.R.T. support for your FireWire hard disk drive, send feedback to Apple.

SMARTReporter can notify you of impending hard disk drive failures by sending e-mails, displaying a warning dialog or executing an application. The current status of your hard disk drives is always displayed through the customizable menu item.

smcFanControl lets the user set the minimum speed of the build in fans. So you can increase your minimum fan speed to make your Intel Mac run cooler. However in order not to damage your machines smcFanControl doesn’t let you set a minimum speed to a value below Apple’s defaults. This is an recommended update to everyone to avoid heavy memory usage of smcFanControl, when its running for a long time.

Springy (StuffIt replacement) – simple and elegant, but powerful archiving utility that will make your everyday archiving activities much more pleasurable. Written specifically for Mac OS X, Springy integrates seamlessly with it and includes features you would expect from a proper Mac OS X application. If you can find your way through bunch of files in Finder, you would do so in Springy in matter of seconds.

SuperDuper! is a program that makes recovery painless, because it makes creating a fully bootable backup painless. Its incredibly clear, friendly interface is understandable, easy to use, and SuperDuper’s built-in scheduler makes it trivial to back up automatically. And it runs beautifully on both Intel and Power PC Macs!

SuperDuper’s interface confirms all your actions in simple, clear language to ensure that the end result is exactly what you intended.

TextWrangler2 is the powerful general purpose text editor, and Unix and server administrator’s tool. It is a text editor for light-duty composition, data-file editing (where the data files consist of plain ), and manipulation of text-oriented data. TextWrangler supports working with both plain-text and Unicode files (with the exception of files written using right-to-left writing systems, such as Hebrew or Arabic). TextWrangler also features an integrated spelling checker, as well as integration with Word Services-aware spelling and grammar checkers. At its most basic, a text editor is a tool for simply editing text. You can use a text editor for a wide variety of tasks from cleaning up data, to editing configuration files on your Mac or server, to writing HTML or coding.

TinkerTool is an application that gives you access to additional preference settings Apple has built into Mac OS X. This allows to activate hidden features in the operating system and in some of the applications delivered with the system.

The tool makes sure that preference changes can only affect the current user. You don’t need administrative privileges to use the tool. With this design, it is no problem to use TinkerTool in professional networks where users have restricted permissions. The program will never change any component of the operating system, so the integrity of your system is not put at risk, and there will be no negative effect on system updates.

Transmission been built from the ground up to be a lightweight, yet powerful BitTorrent client. Its simple, intuitive interface is designed to integrate tightly with whatever computing environment you choose to use. Transmission strikes a balance between providing useful functionality without feature bloat. Furthermore, it is free for anyone to use or modify.

Vienna is a freeware, open source RSS/Atom newsreader for the Mac OS X operating system. It provides features comparable to commercial newsreaders, but both it and the source code are freely available for download. It has a simple and intuitive interface. Vienna provides a built-in web browser based on the Safari web engine. You can create folders whose contents are dynamically determined by criteria that you specify. The built-in web browser has been enhanced in Vienna 2.1 to include back and forward buttons, a refresh button and an address bar. A new Open Web Location command on the File menu makes it easy to quickly open the built-in web browser to any URL you wish.

WhatRoute – this is a free scriptable application based on the UNIX traceroute command. Using AppleScript, you can query, ping or trace IP addresses or domain names, using a simple command such as ‘trace http://www.macsurfer.com.’

WhatRoute is designed to find the names of all the routers an IP packet passes through on its way from your Macintosh to a destination host. It also measures the round-trip time from your Mac to the router, thus enabling you to determine slow links or hops in the Internet. WhatRoute can also find dead links, such as routers that don’t respond.

Smorty pays you for writing your opinion about peoples products, services and websites on your blog. Get paid weekly. No advertising, just write your opinions. You are free to select the subjects that interest you. You can post in multiple blogs to earn more.

PayPerPost pays for blogging. With PayPerPost advertisers are willing to pay you for your opinion on various topics. Make a blog posting, get your content approved, and get paid.

Blogsvertise’s advertisers want you to mention and talk about their websites, products and services in your blogs and journals. They want the publicity, the exposure, the Buzz! that online bloggers and internet journals can generate for their web site products and services. In exchange blogsvertise pays you in paypal per task/blog entry, for writing / talking about / mentioning their website in your blog.

Review Me pays to review products and services on your site. You control what you review.  Submit your site for inclusion into our ReviewMe publisher network. Begin by creating a free account. If approved, your site will enter our ReviewMe marketplace and clients will purchase reviews from you. You decide to accept the review or not. You will be paid $20.00 to $200.00 for each completed review that you post on your site.

Weblogs, Inc. offers you to apply to blog for one of 90 fine blogs — or suggest a blog topic and maybe we’ll start a new blog! WIN bloggers are paid to blog as little or as much as they like, are unfiltered, and can shift from blog to blog within the network. The only requirements are that you be totally honest with your audience and passionate about the subjects you cover.

LoudLaunch provides you with a matched list of relevant advertisers that are seeking influencers such as yourself to help create a buzz. If your blog and interests are aligned with an advertiser’s campaign then you can do your own research and write about them in exchange for pay—not in exchange for a pre-determined outcome but for a fair assessment.

Blogitive provides access to opportunities from companies to post about their news releases. You are paid per posting. All bloggers are paid weekly via Paypal.

BloggerWave is one of many places where you can make/ host a blog and it’s for free. Now you’re ready to air your opinions on the net. And to make money! Your opinions could quickly turn into gold.

InBlogAds system pays for each post request you fulfill. You can choose a post request to your liking. 

BlogToProfit connects bloggers with advertisers who want to sponsor your blog. Since its ads are in your posts, the program does not interfere with space you set aside for other ad programs! You have an endless amount of space for posts.

Creative Weblogging is one of the largest blog networks, with over 135 blogs in five languages.

451 Press is always looking for bright, talented writers who want to have their voices heard. It is looking for writers with unique voices to contribute to the growing network of blogs. If you have a passion for a subject then 451 Press just might have a place for you.

Digital Journal is one of the most active news sites on the Internet! Share your thoughts, vote on newsworthy articles, engage in debates and even get paid to report news as a citizen journalist.

BlogBurner was designed to allow you to write content which BlogBurner will market.

Squidoo – Earn money by writing your new blog, or choose to donate your earnings to charity.

About.com is the Web’s leading provider of practical solutions to everyday problems.  If you’re the passionate expert that other people turn to for advice, and you wouldn’t have it any other way. You enjoy telling people what computer to buy, explaining how to fix a broken ceiling fan, giving out cheesecake recipes, or helping total strangers plan their vacations, you can become About.com’s writer.

DayTipper If you have a tip that is insightful, helpful, and original, DayTipper will publish it and pay you $3 (US). You write the content. It shares it with the world.

Helium is a community of writers who are revolutionizing publishing. It is a vast resource of experience-based knowledge, wisdom and creativity. We welcome a variety of voices and opinions. If you want to break into freelancing but don’t have a body of clips to show yet, Helium’s Marketplace is for you.

CreamAid is a service that lets you meet other bloggers with similar interests, and make money while doing it.  Anyone can start using CREAMaid by inserting a CREAMaid Conversation widget inside her post. Your post will most likely be selected as long as you abide by the rules. Once selected, your post will be syndicated to all the participating posts through their embedded Conversation widgets.When your post is selected, you will be able to instantly collect a royalty
for your contribution.

Mashable is always searching for writers passionate about new media, Web 2.0 and social sites. Many freelance positions are available, and you can devote as much time as you have available.

Advertising Programs

Google Adsense lets you earn money from relevant ads on your website. It matches ads to your site’s content, and you earn money whenever your visitors click on them.

Text-Link-Ads – Sell simple, relevant text ads on your website. Retain full editorial control over the advertisers that appear on your website.  You can choose to be emailed every time a new ad is sold so you can approve it or deny it from being published. Text-Link-Ads uses its own pricing algorithm that factors in: the traffic of your website, theme of your website, and link popularity of your website.

BlogAds – The average blogger makes anywhere from $50 to $5000 dollars a month selling blog ads.  To participate in this program you will need to get sponsored by someone in their network.

LinkWorth is constantly increasing its staff to help keep up with our increased business. Its products consist of text link ads, paid blog reviews, in-text links, in-content pay per click ads, rotating text ads, hosted content pages, article submission, directory submission and many more.

CrispAds provides the most suitable model for blog advertising. The CrispAds team believes that blog advertising is a unique issue that requires a solution that addresses the needs of both Advertisers and blog Authors.

Chitika is the “blog dollars” company, creator of the leading blogger-driven merchandising/ shopping network on the Web today. Chitika provides bloggers the opportunity to harness their independent original content and opinions to monetize the traffic to their site.

AzoogleAds lets you maximize revenue from your traffic by promoting offers from our vast network of quality Advertisers. is a performance-based online advertising network that delivers both amazing results for its Advertisers and easy to manage and highly profitable revenue stream for its Publishers. It delivers targeted and untargeted customers from a variety of websites, search portals, newsletters and contextual Publishers. AzoogleAds manages this marketplace of online Publishers eager to generate revenue by promoting products and Advertisers wishing to acquire new customers.

Vibrant In-Text Advertising campaigns will increase your advertising revenue without adding more clutter, allowing you to expand advertising real estate with relevant in-text placements.

MediaFed specialises in a range of products to publish, measure, read and generate revenue from RSS feeds.

Q-Ads is a unique way for you to embed ads anywhere you can place a picture – in your blog post, on your website, in your RSS feed. Because you choose the keywords for your post, you are in control of the ad your website visitors see – it is no longer bound to the content, but to your knowledge of your readers and what you are writing.

PeakClick If you are a webmaster, you can install PeakClick’s code into your pages. Every time your visitors load your pages, PeakClick’s search results appear. Your site visitors click on the PeakClick links. Your PeakClick account is credited and your accumulated balance is paid out to you every 15 days. Webmasters get paid 70% of all sales generated by their traffic. There is no minimum on the amount of traffic you can send. In addition, webmasters get paid bonuses whenever they refer any other qualifying webmasters to PeakClick (equal to 5% of the income of each new affiliate you refer, plus 2% of the income of the new affiliates they refer, and 1% of the income of new affiliates those new affiliates refer – month after month!). PeakClick pays in Euros! Dollar instability may hurt you. If you’d like to be paid in dollars, PeakClick allows you to choose that currency.

DoubleClick is a provider of digital marketing technology and services.

Tribal Fusion  If you want to be Tribal Fusion’s publisher you must have a minimum of 2,000 unique users per day, highly targeted, relevant and regularly updated content, professional site design, and an active user base.

AdBrite enables you to approve or reject any ads purchased for your site. Never worry again about inappropriate content or competitor ads appearing on your ad placements.

ThankYouPages uses a revenue share model to compensate its affiliates. For all paid advertising options, each affiliate will earn a percentage of the revenue from the ThankYouPages system attributable to the affiliate’s users.

Clicksor’s contextual advertising technology allows online visitors to enjoy the content of the Web site and bring generous earnings to webmasters at the same time. Clicksor will pay webmasters up to 60% of the advertising revenue to place contextual ads on their Web sites or blogs. It can also offer the best rates compared to any network with our ClicksorControl feature. Payments are based on a net 15-term on a bi-weekly schedule. Webmasters can select from a wide range of media, such as text banners, graphical banners, pop-under advertisements, search boxes, contextual inline links, layer ads and XML feed to host on their Web sites or blogs.

TargetPoint’s Adpoint and Imagepoint are an optimal solution for displaying targeted textual and graphic ads for website publishers both large and small. Targetpoint delivers ads relevant to the content of your site and to your visitors’ interests, enabling you to both enhance your site, and capitalize on your valuable traffic.

IndustryBrains is successful in creating additional revenue streams for publishers. Our technology enables vertically-focused publishers to monetize their Web sites and deliver relevant contextual text listings and graphical ads.

BulletAds offers attractive benefits for its affiliates and rewards those who show promising results. BulletAds prioritize on the interest of its affiliates with the aim of maximizing your revenue.

ROIRocket is a unique pay-per-action network that connects the top advertisers on the Internet with publishers willing to promote their offers based on a pre-determined commission-able amount.

AdKnowledge provides the easiest way to monetize your existing inventory. Receive industry-leading eCPM´s by outsourcing your ad inventory, either in part or in its entirety. Its technologies work with email, web and search engine inventory.

Yes Advertising accepts and pays traffic from all countries. It offers bi-weekly payment via check or paypal. No volume contracts. High quality and innovative ads.

RevenuePilot provides you the way to monetize your traffic. The Pay For Performance (PFP) and the Pay Per Click (PPC) markets have created ample opportunity for the web publishing community to turn its traffic into pure profits. RevenuePilot offers its affiliates seamless entrance into this highly profitable arena through its Premiere Pay Per Click Network.

Bidvertiser pays for every visitor that clicks on an ad. Its goal is to enable you to make as much as possible from your advertising space, by letting advertisers bid on your ad space. It pays monthly, either by check, or instantly through PayPal with a minimum of only $10

Pheedo advertising platform converts your RSS feeds into rich, dynamically updating advertising that engages your audience. Leverage your existing RSS assets to extend your brand, drive traffic, and acquire new feed subscribers.

ValueClick media is an advertising network partner for publishers. It helps you earn the maximum yield for your display and registration path inventory by giving you expert tools to earn the highest payouts and effective CPMs possible.

OneMonkey  gives any web site web ad hosting capabilities.”Ad Server” is a web-native, ad-server and payment-processing system that allows webmasters to easily outsource their text-based advertising needs. Using OneMonkey.com, webmasters can offer their advertisers the same advantages as sites like Google.com offer their advertisers.

Yahoo Publisher Network use Yahoo to display ads that are relevant to the content of your site and earn money from qualified clicks. No investment is required and setup is quick and easy.

Affiliate Networks and Programs

Amazon Associates By linking to Amazon products and services you can add compelling content for your site visitors enjoyment and receive up to 10% in referral fees for doing so.

ClickBank is the Internet’s largest digital marketplace, where thousands of the web’s most popular products are sold every day. Whether you’re looking to buy, sell, or promote digital products, ClickBank is for you.

Commission Junction maximizes your revenue opportunities by developing sustainable relationships with top-tier advertisers. Perform and get paid for every sale and lead you generate. For qualifying publishers, take your program to the next level with our industry exclusive solution for top-performers.

LinkShare’s technology is not cookie-based, so it avoids the risks of tracking discrepancies that can result from cookies. It gives you the ability to use individual product links on your site and generate revenue from sales.

Affiliate Fuel is one of the world’s largest affiliate networks, with a record for performance and service second to none. It helps advertisers and publishers work together to create promotions that are exciting, enticing, well-managed, fair, and profitable for everyone involved.

LinkConnector marketing is an excellent way for affiliates to earn money with minimal start up costs. It gives website owners the opportunity to generate revenue by placing merchant promotions on their websites, in their email campaigns, on their blogs, or in search engine listings.

Forex-Affiliate is a world leading and highly paying Forex affiliate program. The Forex industry is the biggest market on earth today, with a daily turnover of 3 trillion dollars. Anyone today can trade Forex online. The participants in this market include central banks, organizations, commercial banks, institutional traders, and private individuals throughout the globe. This is a highly exciting market, though risky! Affiliating in the Forex market offers you a great earning potential, with online access to your traffic performance and your commission. The affiliates are provided with online support, marketing creatives and professional tools – free of charge.

IncentaClick Affiliate Network is a leader in performance based online marketing featuring CPA advertising (Cost Per Action). IncentaClick brings to the table the highest level of online marketing ethics coupled with aggressive execution. Our team of seasoned media veterans will take your online marketing initiatives to the next level. Whether you are looking for Sales, Lead Generation or Brand Development, through our various properties and media avenues we guarantee the largest reach and fastest ROI in the industry.

AdPlosion offers online marketers all they need in order to fully bask in the glow of success. Quality affiliate partners for our advertisers and exclusive offers for our publishers are just a few things we bring to the marketing table for you to feast on. You can earn revenue by selling leads, clicks and products from their advertisers.  Also runs an incentive points program in addition to your commissions.

AffiliateFuture -If you are responsible for a website and want to increase its earning potential, join AffiliateFuture’s network to earn more revenue from your visitors. It works by allowing Merchants to advertise on your site, and AffiliateFuture pays you monthly when these adverts generate visits, leads or sales.

ClixGalore is an affiliate network consisting of 7500+ advertisers for you to choose from.

ThinkAction focuses is on maximizing revenue for each and every one of our partners through top offers and exclusive programs. It claims to have the top payouts and the possibility of earning over $100,000 dollars per month.

RocketProfit is an affiliate network, pays via check after your commissions reach $25 dollars.

With CafePress you can earn affiliate commissions by selling your personally branded merchandise.
 

Paid Social Media Programs

Dada.net is a social site with a revenue sharing program that pays you for referring friends and driving traffic.

Jyve is an online knowledge exchange where users worldwide share experience and expertise. A place for people to meet and professionals to market, Jyve is the place to go when you know–or need to know–right now. It pays you for answers, advice and peer support to people in need of some help.

Cruxy provides powerful marketing, monetization and performance tools for digital creators, whether filmmakers, musicians or artists of any kind. Cruxy’s tools give artists the power to share their work on Cruxy or across the web using the Cruxy Social Player. Cruxy also gives creators the ability to sell their work as digital downloads. Artists can sell just about any type of media file at the price they choose. It just takes a small fee (10% + $.15 per transaction) with the rest going to the creator. Fans can buy content using PayPal, Google Checkout or any major credit card.

BitWine pays for giving advice and answering questions for people, on subjects of your interests and choice. You just need to sign up for a BitWine Advisor account, downloading the BitWine Taskbar, and set up a payment method for your Clients.

Ether allows you to earn money. If you are a computer expert, a blogger, or a good gossiper, you can earn money selling what you say to others over the phone or through email. You set your rates and call availability.

JustAnswer If  you are an expert in your field and you want to share your knowledge with others, just look through the question list, and find yourself answering the questions with ease, put your skills to work by applying to become a Just Answer expert.

MetaCafe is one of the world’s largest video sites, attracting more than 25 million unique viewers each month. You can upload your videos and earn money based on the number of views you receive.

ChaCha is the first search engine that uses the brainpower of really smart people to find anything you want on the Internet. If you are a motivated self-starter that shares our commitment to building a world-class organization, you might be the right person for ChaCha.

AssociatedContent is a platform that enables everyone to publish their content in any format on any topic and then distributes that content to engaged audiences through its website and content partners. Those who contribute to Associated Content’s ad-supported collection of original text, video, audio and images gain exposure and often earn cash for their participation.

myLot is a growing community of individuals from around the world who enjoy sharing information, meeting new people, and helping each other out. It pays you for posting, commenting and using their social network.

KnowBrainers Questions are asked by members of our community in a wide range of subject areas including entertainment, history, science, pet care, parenting, automotive, home contracting, computer help, health, and law. It pays you to get involved with the community and answer questions.

First Step
1. Insert your DVD.
2. Launch DVD Decrypter.
3. Choose IFO in the Mode menu.

4. In Tools menu choose Settings, then select IFO Mode tab.

5. Click the File Splitting field in the Options section. Set it to None.

6. Click the Stream Processing tab (it is in the right section of the interface). Check “Enable Stream Processing”.

7. Then mark first video and audio items. Everything else should remain unchecked.

8. In Destination section which is at the left side, click the folder where you will place your files. We recommend to place it in your Movies folder.

9. Click Decrypt.
10. This procedure requires about 20 minutes. So be patient and prepare to wait.
Step Two requires Videora iPod Converter
1. Launch Videora Converter.

2. On the first screen you see, click “Convert” button , which is in main menu. You will be taken to Convert Section. Ypu’ll see Video File and Online Video. Click the Video File.

3. There is an option to choose from two modes of video converting – Normal Mode and Power Mode. Normal Mode can be used with internet connection. This node is intended for inexperienced users who need the easiest way to convert their videos. Power Mode is used when both offline or online. This mode is for power users who understand technical jargon, and have a precise idea of terms such as MPEG-4, QVGA, H.264, VGA, and so on. Choose the Normal Mode.

4. Select the Video File you want to convert.

5. Select Output Folder location, click “Next”.

6. Choose your video title, click “Next”.

7. Select Video Conversion Settings. You can change each setting as you want. Remebber that video quality, final size, and conversion speed will depend upon the setting you’ll choose. Once you’ve done, click “Next”.

8. Click “Start Converting”.

9. You can even monitor the progress of your file being converted. Just click “View Conversion Progress”.

Final Step
At the final step it remains to launch iTunes. Copy the movie from your Movies folder to your iPod. That’s all!

O&O DiskRecovery – functionality begins where other programs leave off. This software combs every sector of a hard disk, memory card, or digital camera to find lost files. Even when files systems are formatted or destroyed, it is possible to reconstruct once deleted data. Over 350 file types can be recognized and restored, including Word documents, Excel workbooks, Access databases, and virtually every sort of commonly used graphics, photo, movie, and music formats.

Free Data Recovery Tools

GParted Live CD aims to be fast, small in size (~50mb), and use minimal resources to get that disk partitioned the way you want it. GParted Live CD is based on Gentoo-catalyst, and uses Xorg, the lightweight Fluxbox window manager, and the latest 2.6 Linux Kernel. The CD also offers the following programs: parted and fdisk vi, ntfs-3g, partimage, testdisk, Terminal and Midnight Commander. GParted is written in C++ and uses gtkmm for its Graphical User Interface (GUI). The general approach is to keep the Graphical User Interface as simple as possible.

KNOPPIX is a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals. It can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system, or adapted and used as a platform for commercial software product demos. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk. Due to on-the-fly decompression, the CD can have up to 2 GB of executable software installed on it.

System Information for Windows (SIW) is a tool that gathers detailed information about your system properties and settings and displays it in an extremely comprehensible manner. It can create a report file (CSV, HTML, TXT or XML), and is able to run in batch mode (for Asset Inventory Tracking, Software and Hardware Inventory, PC Audit, Software Audit, Software License Compliance Management). SIW is a standalone utility that does not require installation (Portable Freeware) – one less installed program on your PC as well the fact that you can run the program directly from an USB flash drive, from a floppy, from a network drive or from a domain login script.

The Ultimate Boot CD will be of great help if you want to run floppy-based diagnostic tools from CDROM drives, consolidate as many diagnostic tools as possible into one bootable CD. Avoid digging into the dusty box to look for the right floppy disk, but simply run them all from a single CD.

Undelete Plus is a quick and effective way to retrieve accidentally deleted files, files removed from the Recycle Bin, in a DOS window, from a network drive, from Windows Explorer with the SHIFT key held down.
It works under Win 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista operating systems. The program supports all Windows file systems for hard and floppy drives.

The Magical Jelly Bean Key Finder is a freeware utility that retrieves your Product Key (cd key) used to install windows from your registry. It has the options to copy the key to clipboard, save it to a text file, or print it for safekeeping. It works on Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Windows Vista, Office 97, Office XP, and Office 2003.

Ghost for Linux is a hard disk and partition imaging and cloning tool similar to Norton Ghost. The created images are optionally compressed and transferred to an FTP server instead of cloning locally.

USB PC Repair Kit is a list of programs. The programs are loaded onto a USB Pen Drive to help fix your computer. The Kit contains the programs that can tell you if you really need to reboot after installing a program or permanently erase sensitive data from your hard drive that may still exist after using the windows delete feature.

TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery software. It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting your Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy.

FSBackup is a shell script that automates the execution of backups using the tar archiving utility. It is designed for use by technically knowledgeable users (programmers, system administrators, or other power users), for backing up a small network or individual computers.

SuperDuper is a program that makes recovery painless, because it makes creating a fully bootable backup painless. Its incredibly clear, friendly interface is understandable, easy to use, and SuperDuper’s built-in scheduler makes it trivial to back up automatically. And it runs beautifully on both Intel and Power PC Macs. It is an indispensable tool, specially if your hard drive starts making that horrible clicking noise, your most important day-to-day application isn’t working with the system update you just applied, or you need to restore a stable copy of your system, but don’t want to lose what you’ve been working on, or other similar cases.

Corruption Corrector is a program designed for fixing corrupt files. It is for situations when you have (downloaded) many copies of the same file, but all of the copies are a bit corrupt. If the corruptions are in different parts of the file, it is possible to combine the good bytes from each file and get an uncorrupted copy of the file.

myrescue is a program to rescue the still-readable data from a damaged hard disk. It is similar in purpose to dd_rescue, but it tries to quickly get out of damaged areas to first handle the not yet damaged part of the disk and return later.

SystemRescueCd is a Linux system on a bootable CD-ROM for repairing your system and recovering your data after a crash. It aims to provide an easy way to carry out admin tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the partitions of the hard disk.

Relax and Recover is a highly modular disaster recovery framework for GNU/Linux based systems, but can be easily extended to other UNIX alike systems. The disaster recovery information (and maybe the backups) can be stored via the network, local on hard disks or USB devices, DVD/CD-R, tape, etc. The result is also a bootable image that is capable of booting via PXE, DVD/CD and tape (OBDR).

Cozi Central helps busy families manage schedules, appointments, shopping and communications from wherever you are — the kitchen, car, office or even the grocery store. Cozi Central is available as a software download and in a Web version. You can view or edit your busy family’s schedules in a central location. Keep track of items to be purchased and tasks that need to be done. Send quick messages to other family members, individually or all at once via phone or email. Enjoy all your digital photos with automatically generated collages that you can easily share with friends and family.

Famundo for Families is your family hub, making your family’s schedule manageable and giving you control over your daily life. It offers Family Calendar, Address Book, Message Board and Family Library. If your school, church, and scout troop are using Famundo for Organizations, you can simply visit their site, select the calendar you are interested in and subscribe. You can even designate which family member these events belong to.

Stixy is an online bulletin board. You can create as many Stixyboards as you like, one for each project. UseStixy to easily organize and share: your family’s schedule, projects at work, an upcoming holiday, your photos, or share a file or two with a friend.

Grouptivity is a web service platform that replaces “email a friend”. Grouptivity provides web publishers visibility over the distributed web content, and monetization opportunities. It provides a significantly better experience for your web visitors to share and discuss web content.

Mecanbe lets you create, customize and share Goal-Lists to help advance in any area of life. You can rate your goal performance periodically and view charts of your ongoing progress. Share strategies for success and help empower the rest of the world.

LooseStitch lets you create and share outliner documents, brainstorm ideas, jot them down, call friends over, get feedback, and many more. Using LooseStitch is extremely easy. You start out your outlline by adding rows to it. Jot down anything relevant that crosses your mind. You can rearrange and structure your thoughts later. Or delete them if you must.

Wamily is a social collaboration application. You can use it for your group, team, family or club organization. Start a Wamily for your group, team, family, club or organization. Keep your Wamily private, make it public, or anywhere in-between.

Business Productivity

WebOffice makes working together easier. You can share documents, calendars, information, and conduct live meetings from the office or the road. WebOffice brings together powerful, professional web-based business applications specifically designed to make collaboration easy and cost-effective. Everything you need to manage your business on the web is together in an integrated, centralized place.

Zoho – offers a word processor with collaboration features, spreadsheet, presentation tool to create, edit, publish, and show presentations, wiki writer, notebook, project management, CRM solution, database creator, calendar, web conferencing, email and chat and more.

QuickBase.com is flexible online working application. With QuickBase from Intuit, your team finally has an easy way to organize, track and share information – all from a single web site. Watch productivity soar with QuickBase’s customizable online workgroup applications.

Zimbra is open source server and client software for messaging and collaboration – email, group calendaring, contacts, and web document management and authoring. The Zimbra server is available for Linux, Mac OS X, appliances, and virtualization platforms. The Zimbra Web 2.0 Ajax client runs on Firefox, Safari, and IE, and features easy integration / mash-ups of web portals, business applications, and VoIP using web services.

Joyent is run by, and for, people who love publishing on the Web. Design, develop and deploy applications using our collaboration software, data backup services and on-demand computing solutions. The ease with which Joyent solutions scale to meet increased demand allows startups and developers to focus on growing their business – instead of watching over their servers.

Confluence is an enterprise wiki that makes it easy for your team to collaborate and share knowledge. Adding, sharing and finding content has never been easier. These benefits come with all the additional features needed to make it a part of your business: enterprise security, simple installation and management, user-friendly WYSIWYG interface, powerful tools for structuring and searching your wiki, professional features such as PDF export and automated refactoring, and more.

Central Desktop is a full work suite for project teams including spreadsheets, file sharing, calendar and more. It was created for business teams, not the IT department. That is why no technical knowledge or programming experience is required.

CrossLoop is a free secure screen sharing utility designed for people of all technical skill levels. CrossLoop extends the boundaries of VNC’s traditional screen sharing by enabling non-technical users to get connected from anywhere on the Internet in seconds without changing any firewall or router settings. It only takes a few minutes to setup and no signup is required.

BlueTie.com is a free Web-based email, calendaring, and file sharing for new and growing businesses. Each account includes up to 20 users with domain name support.

Concept Share allows you to easily share designs inside Workspaces that contain designs related to a certain topic or project. It’s easy to invite people into a workspace. Invite team members, managers, clients, and consultants to add and reply to comments, chat and markup designs. People do not have to be in the workspace at the same time to contribute. Workspace members can log-in anytime to any workspace they are member. If members do happen to be in the workspace at the same time they can collaborate with real-time chat and real-time comment updates and concept updates.

Yugma is a free web collaboration service that enables people to instantly connect over the Internet to communicate and share content and ideas using any application or software. Whether you are using Windows, Mac or Linux computer, you can connect on-demand and real-time with co-workers, clients, friends and family — regardless of whether they are across the city, nation or even the globe.

Google Docs & Spreadsheets is a free web-based word processing and spreadsheet program that keeps documents current and lets the people you choose update files from their own computers. You can, for example, coordinate your student group’s homework assignments, access your family to-do list from work or home, or collaborate with remote colleagues on a new business plan. Google Docs & Spreadsheets allows you to import your existing documents and spreadsheets, or to create new ones from scratch. You can edit your documents from anywhere. Google Docs & Spreadsheets accepts most popular file formats, including DOC, XLS, ODT, ODS, RTF, CSV, etc. Besides, you can publish your documents and spreadsheets online with one click, as normal-looking web pages, without having to learn anything new.

Wrike a leader in on-demand Online Project Management. Wrike helps to save time for marketing agencies, software development teams, event organizers, publishers, financial services firms, process engineering companies and many others. Wrike is a Web application, so you do not need to download or install anything. Our patent-pending technology works with your e-mail client. So you can keep track of tasks with e-mail. Wrike can help you to turn e-mail overload into nice-looking project plans.

Vyew is a free online meeting service that brings people and content together. Use Vyew to host live conferences or collaborate over time. Vyew is safe, reliable, and you don’t need to configure anything. All you need is a web browser (IE 6+, Firefox, or Safari).

LongJump is a dynamic business applications that manage and coordinate teams and information. The LongJump Catalog provides affordable, web-based applications you can subscribe to that power your business. It makes it easy to centralize your business data to share with your team, while also automating common business processes. Customize or create your own applications that address your unique business needs without writing a single line of code.

Business IT Online offers free online small business software applications that take away the need for a costly networked IT solution. It provides the host, maintain it, upgrade it, secure it and back it up so all you need to do is use it. Among the applications are the following: calendar online, cash flow, contacts online, documents online, marketing online.

Near-Time integrates wikis, weblogs, and file-sharing to deliver the fastest ROI for your collaboration investments.

Mindquarry is an Open Source collaborative software platform for file sharing (documents, images, media files, etc.), task and project management, team collaboration and Wiki editing that meshes simplicity and functionality. As a result, knowledge workers are able to connect with team members and share information from wherever they are, effectively improving team-work and increasing productivity within the company.

Nexo is a free service that allows groups to collaborate online. Groups can share interactive calendars, pictures, videos, tasks, polls, comments, blogs, files and much more.

Handshake is the place to meet your next friend, programmer, project manager, accountant, interface designer and more. By adding someone as a contact here, you can collaborate online in 8apps. Handshake is social networking with purpose.

Copper is a web-based project management and collaboration tool used by teams to share and manage clients, projects, tasks, files, contacts and events quickly and easily.
Used by leading organizations like Apple, Cisco, Praystation, and Ogilvy One, yet affordable for all business sizes, discover how Copper can help your business by signing up for your free trial.

Thinkature is a real-time collaboration application for the web. Use it to record ideas on cards, show relations with connectors, draw diagrams to express complex ideas, add images from the web or from your own hard drive. You can separate ideas by color and more.

PlanHQ.com is an online business planning tool that takes your plan away from being a static document and turns it into a dynamic and up-to-date overview of where you’ve been, where you are and where you’re going. With PlanHQ, your business plan changes as your business changes, not just once or twice a year. Your whole team is actively involved in creating your plan and can align and prioritize all their work against goals. This means that everyone is always working to plan and ensures you achieve your goals.

OpenTeams.com is web-hosted collaborative software to foster a more innovative culture. In addition to project collaboration, blogging, social networking, community building, and knowledge management, OpenTeams is an innovative initiative development solution where employees collaboratively seed and mature new ideas for additional revenue, productivity, and cost-savings.

TeamWorkLive is an intuitive, secure, web-based project management and collaboration tool. It helps you run your projects more efficiently, promotes collaboration and accountability among team members, and makes your clients happier through increased transparency. TeamWork Live is hosted so there is no software to install or support. All you need to get started is a web browser and an Internet connection.

Foldera is a free and intuitive filing system of web-based folders that automatically organizes your work WHILE you work. Whether you work alone or in a workgroup environment, Foldera is super easy to use and makes working with multiple files and people seem practically effortless.

Huddle is a network of secure online spaces that combine powerful document, project and team tools with the simplicity of social networking site. It is ideal for brands, advertising, marketing, PR, design, legal and accountancy companies as well as freelancers and consultants. Use huddle to manage multiple projects from one interface, securely share and approve documents, deliver superior client service and add value to your existing relationships.

ProjectSpaces is a simple, secure and powerful web-based workspace to help your project teams, workgroups, committees, partners, and others quickly and easily connect, share and collaborate. ProjectSpaces is easy to use and can be set up in just a few minutes. It was created for the average computer user – not techno geeks. You can share documents with project team members regardless of geographic constraints. At one glance, view and access your most recent tasks, announcements, events and discussions on your project homepage. Participants have the ability to directly update status of their tasks and other information.

Contact Office allows to easily manage your data (emails, contacts, meetings, documents, tasks, …) in your virtual office from any computer with a Web browser and an Internet connection. Share your data and access shared data efficiently in the context of work or leisure groups. Your data are safe and available anytime on the Web, on a PDA (online or offline) or on a WAP capable cell phone.

Octopz contains a full range of powerful features to enhance effective online collaboration including: one-click participation (recipients of an email invitation simply click on a link to join the virtual Meeting Room), on-screen annotation, support for digital Media/Content,
Text Messaging/VoIP/Webcams, archiving, administrative tools, and more.

Eloops software includes project management, calendar, data backup, and social networking software.

Writewith is a web-based software application designed for anyone who needs to work on a document with anyone else. Writewith.com can be used for office memos, group projects, news stories or even drafting a letter with a friend.

Wordpress Themes – only new and fresh WordPress Themes available for free download.

Wordpress Themes - a fine compilation of appealing, elegant, and stylish WP themes under one roof.

Wordpress Themes provides an excellent collection of Free WordPress Themes that is updated regularly.

CGTextures strives to be the worlds best texture site. It is very hard to create textures without good photo materials. Making textures should be about creativity, not about spending hours looking for the right image on the Internet. By supplying good quality textures in an organized manner, your everyday work will be easier and more enjoyable.

gallerie1 offers free textures: floor, wood, stone, metal, tile, sky, fire, water, ice, and more.

TextureWarehouse offers free,high resolution textures to designers and 3D Artist. The images are licensed under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0). The textures are updated frequently.

Mayang’s Free Textures offers a great variety (more than 3000) of high quality JPEG textures. Most are 2560×1920, older ones are 1600×1200. Average size is 1.5Mb per image.

The Inspiration Gallery offers thousands of unique and original borders, backgrounds, wallpaper patterns, buttons and more. 2.050 patterns in 8 categories are currently available: Acanthus, Country Charm, Damask, Floral, Ivy and Leaves, Marble, Moiré, Mottled, Parchment, and Weave.

Afflict offers 100% free high resolution textures: metal, floors, wood, agriculture, bricks, industrial, furniture, seamless, objects, and signs.

Squidfingers is the personal portfolio of Travis Beckham, a graphic designer. Here you can find some worthy patterns.

Amazing Textures provides more than 80 royalty-free images and textures.

Absolute Cross – a texture library with a wide selection of over 500 hundred free seamless textures. A texture that is “seamless” is able to repeat infinitely without ever showing any edges. It can fill as large an area of your graphic as you like. Seamless textures are useful for quite a number of things, such as website and desktop backgrounds, texture fills in Adobe Photoshop or other graphics or photo editing programs like Corel Draw, Illustrator, Fireworks, etc. Textures are also used in 3D modeling in programs like Cinema 4D, Bryce 3D, 3DS Max, or Lightwave 3D to help add realism to 3D environments and characters. Textures are also often used in video game design.

BEN CLOWARD Feel free to use these textures for any project, personal or professional. They are my gift to the 3D community. bark, brick, cement, clouds, doors and windows, foliage, ground, leaves, metal, skin, snow, stucco, stone, water, and wood.

BackgroundCity is a good source for backgrounds, all original and absolutely free.

Image*After – free textures offers free high resolution textures of metals, floors, skin, wood, rock, walls etc. Mostly photographic textures. All textures can be freely downloaded and used in you commercial or personal works. The size of the textures range from 1600×1200 to 2560×1920. All textures are in jpg or jpeg format. These textures can be used in games but first need to be made seamless in photoshop or paintshop pro before importing them in 3D programs like 3ds max ( 3d studio max ), Maya, Softimage or lightwave.

 FreeFoto.com is a place where you will find over a three hundred pictures of various textures: bark, brick, cobbles, curves, , flame, fire, glass, light, paint, pebbles, stone, water, and wood, and more.

PlanIt 3D provides 3d models textures.

Genetica Texture Packs by Spiral are high quality collections of royalty-free seamless textures.  Textures are provided in a procedural format that can be fully edited in the powerful material studio Genetica

2D Valley Gallery provides free Photoshop resources.

TextureKing – more than 300 free textures. The files are converted from RAW and resized to 1600×1200 pixels.

Texture Library is a selection of all textures that are available on the Internet for free, for free distribution, all textures are downloadable as Save as.

Tirad You are welcome to use these textures in your works.

WebGround here you can find thousands of original background textures for your Internet Web. For free.

Ranking Tools

Google Ranking Tools

Advanced Google Search Methods – this is a tool is to search Google in many special ways. A useful resource for search engine optimization (especially keyword research) among other things.

Google Datacenter Watch Tool is a tool that lets you do a search on Google at all the different datacentres.  Note, that at this time there are 700+ known Datacenters.

Google Rank Position shows Google rank position, PR, number of entries indexed, DMOZ and Google Dir status.

Google Rankings check the ranking of a web page in Google.

Yahoo Ranking Tools

Yahoo Search Rankings is a free online SEO tool to check the position of your website in the search engine of Yahoo.

Alexa Tools

Alexa Page Ranking allows you to cut and paste a number of domains. Get the 3 month Alexa Ranking. If you want to check Alexa Ranking for a number of sites, you can browse your harddrive and provide a list of domains.

Alexa Rank Check is a tool that let you check the Alexa Rank and Google PageRank for up to 10 websites in one go – perfectly for site comparisons. Please note that the best possible Alexa Rank is 1 and the best possible Google Pagerank is 10

Alexa Ranking Find out how your web site traffic stacks up against all your competitors! This is one of the most accurate freely available tools to find out how well your site ranks up against millions of other sites on the Web.

Alexa Related Rank Check tool to check several Alexa ratings at once.  This could be useful when checking out your competition.

Page Rank Tools

Datacenter Quick Check checks all Google datacenters for BackLinks, PR and Ranking of keyword.

Future PageRank Tool will query Google’s various data centers to check for any changes in PageRank values for a given URL. Usually all data centers will output the same, but if queried during an update, you might get a glimpse of any upcoming changes in your chosen URL’s PageRank value.

Page Rank Tool will query and return the Google PageRank values for submitted URL from various Google datacenters. Usually all returned values are the same, but when there’s an update going on, you will be able to watch out your Page Ranks closely.

Compare Search Engine Ranking Tools

Dogpile Search Comparison  gives you the top results from Google, Yahoo! and MSN.

Google vs Yahoo Graph looks at the results from Yahoo and Google, finds the similarities and then gives you a graphical display of what results are in both search engines. This illustrates that optimizing your site for both engines is not a very easy thing to do, but not impossible.

Google-Yahoo-Ask Search search engines differ more than you think. Compare Google, Yahoo, and MSN with one search.

Myriad Search is a search engine that combines Google, Yahoo!, MSN, and Ask Jeeves in one screen. You can modify the individual influence of each search engine in the results.

Thumbshots Ranking is a fun way to learn about search engines and optimizing a site’s ranking.

Yahoo vs Google compares top 100 search results from Google and Yahoo!

Combo Search Engine Ranking Tools

Search Engine Placement Check  is a verification tool that checks if your site is in the top three pages of a search engine result for a specific keyword. It’s important to be in the top 3 pages of a search result because most people using search engines don’t go past the 3rd page.

Search Engine Positioning check your Search engine positioning (SERPS) on Yahoo, Google, All The Web. MSN and Hotbot. Just enter your keyword/keyword phrase into the “Keyword” submit box, then enter your URL into the field labeled “Your URL” and specify the “Page Depth” this variable tells the spider how far to go page wise before giving up trying to find your rank. If you are not in the serps within “X” specified pages then the message “There is no information for your query” will come up. It doesn’t really mean there is no information for your serps, it just means that you don’t rank for that keyword within your specified page depth.

Search Engine Ranking Report Enter your own keywords (one phrase per line) and domain to find out where your domain ranks for a set of keyword searches.

Related Page Rank Tools

Backlink Checker counts the Page Rank of your backlinks. To use it, just enter your URL and Google API Key.  If you don’t have an API Key, you can fine one at www.google.com/apis.  They are free and very easy to get.

Google PageRank Calculator – enter the “Number of Links From Each Page” that links to the page in question to get a Page Rank estimation. 

Google PageRank Prediction attempts to determine a future Google PageRank value of a particular site. The tools does several calculations to come to this figure.

Google PageRank Report checks the Google PageRank values for the list of URLs.

Multi DC PageRank Checker will query the varios Google Data Centers to check for any changes in PageRank values for a website.

PageRank Lookup allows you to check the Google PageRank values of multiple URLs at once. A time-saver for keeping tabs on you and your competitors’ PR values.

PageRank Search allows you to search Google using any keyword(s) you wish. It will then return, in order of Google relevance, the sites associated with those keywords. Each result displays a graphical bar with the PageRank of that particular site.

Keyword  Tools

Keyword Suggestion Tools

Free Meta Keywords Tool analyzes the meta keywords of your competition. Use the tool to see what keywords your competitors are embedding in their meta keywords tags and then research these keywords using other freely available tools including the Overture keyword suggestion tool, WordTracker and Keyword Discovery.

Google Adwords Keyword Tool – use it to get new keyword ideas. Pick one of the tabs below and enter keywords or URLs that are relevant to your business.

Google Keyword Suggestions helps you choose relevant and popular terms related to your selected key term. Simply enter a key term and this tool will query information from several Google searches, which it will use to determine popular and re-occurring terms used by websites in the same industry.

Google Suggest – as you type, Google will offer suggestions. Use the arrow keys to navigate the results.

Keyword Popularity Tool gives similar data, including search figures from the previous month.  It also adds statistics for average searches per hour, day, week, projected figures for the next 12 months and then also a figure to see how searches may look in 3 years from now.

Keyword Research Tool helps you research appropriate words and phrases to include in your webpage’s body text to aid in promotion. Simply enter the sort of word of phrase you wish to be found under, and the tool will suggest some additional words and phrases you can think about using.

Keyword Suggestion Tool is a handy little tool will show you the results of your query from both Wordtracker and Overture for determining which phrases are searched most often. Enter a search phrase below to see how often it’s searched for, as well as get suggestions for alternate (but similar) keywords.

Search Term Research is an invaluable research tool that will tell you what users are searching for and help you find the right keywords to target.

Website Keyword Suggestions tries to determine the theme of your website and provides keyword suggestions along with keyword traffic estimates.

Keyword Tools

GoogleDuel Original a popularity contest using the Google search engine. Enter two words, names, or phrases, and find out which one occurs on more pages on the web. For example, try cat vs dog.

Keyword Density is useful for helping webmasters and SEOs achieve their optimum keyword density for a set of key terms. It will analyze your chosen URL and return a table of keyword density values for one-, two-, or three-word key terms. In an attempt to mimic the function of search engine spiders, it will filter out common stop words (since these will probably be ignored by search engines).

Keyword Density Analyzer will crawl the given URL, extracting text as a search engine spider would. It then removes common stopwords (and calculates what percentage of the total text is stopwords) and analyzes the keyword density of the one word, two word and three word keywords the the text. This tool also calculates the noun density and the verb density, that is; the ratio of the total number of nouns or verbs on the page to the total number of words.

Keyword Density Analyzer is a keyword density and word depth calculator.

Keyword Density Analyzer is important since search engines use this information to determine the theme of your website, the perfect keyword density will help archive higher search engine positions. This tool is useful for helping webmasters achieve optimum keyword distribution.

Combined Keyword Suggestion Tools

Combine Words is a tool to create combinations of keywords for use in a Google AdWords
or Yahoo! Search Marketing Pay Per Click PPC campaign.

Domain Tools

DNS Report is a test that provides comprehensive information about the specified domain that may verify DNS ‘health’ or identify problems or issues. Common uses: find problems with a domain, verify Mail Servers, Query a specific DNS server.

Bad Neighborhood Checker checks link pages and reports if there are links to bad neighborhoods. 

Browser Screen Resolution Checker shows what your web page looks like with the viewer’s monitor set to different screen resolutions.

C Class Backlink Analyzer Tool investigates the links pointing to a website (backlinks), and groups them according to the C-Class IP addresses they come from. For example, if one backlink comes from 53.25.14.5 and another comes from 53.25.14.6, they would be grouped together. Backlinks coming from the same C-Class IP are most likely hosted by the same company, which may lower the site’s search engine ranking.

Class C Checker allows you to check if some sites are hosted on the same Class C IP Range. This Class C Checker may be used if you own several cross-linked sites – it may be more efficient (for SEO purposes) to host them on different Class C IP ranges (this is only an advice, not a must do). And if you’re going to get new links from different sites – check if they share the same class C IP range.

Domain Age Tool displays the approximate age of a website on the Internet and allows you to view how the website looked when it first started. It also helps you find out the age of your competitor’s domains, older domains may get a slight edge in Search Engine Rankings.

Domain Dossier investigates domains and IP addresses.

Domain Stats Tool helps you get all kind of statistics of your competitor’s domains. The statistics include Alexa Taffic Rank, Age of the domains, Yahoo WebRank, Dmoz listings, count of backlinks and number of pages indexed in Search Engines like Google, Yahoo, Msn etc. It will probably help you figure out why some of your competitors are ranking better than you.

HTML Header Viewer shows the exact HTTP headers that a web server is sending with a HTTP response. This can be useful if you need to know what cookies are being set or where any re-directs are going to, along with other details such as mime-type.

HTTP / HTTPS Header Check allows you to inspect the HTTP headers that the web server returns when requesting a URL. Works with HTTP and HTTPS URLs.

IP Address Report check for a duplicate Class C block or Class C subnet IP address in a list of websites, these can be either hosted affiliate and internet marketing sites or potential reciprocal link exchange partners.

Redirects And HTTP Headers Checker checks your server headers and the HTTP result codes it returns. It will follow any redirects it finds along the way, whenever possible. With this tool you can check to see how your server is redirecting and if your server is returning 404 for URLs which do not exist.

Search Engine Friendly Redirect Checker help you determine if the redirect you have created is Search Engine Friendly.

What Is My IP Address shows the IP of your computer or routers.
 

Link Tools

Exchange Link SEO Tools

Free Reciprocal Link Checker with pagerank calculation and web thumbnails. Put your website or weblog home page URL in the input box and a little spider will read the html code and check for the broken links. The spider splits links in two categories, internal, from the same host, and external, outgoing link to different domains. Once you have put your start URL the bot will visit your website and follow all links checking for their status. When finish you will see a report showing all the bad links found, not only 404 status.

One Way Link Verify generates a detailed report on many search engine-related factors for that page. Requires a Google API Key.

Online Free Reciprocal Link Checker just input the link to search for (the link towards your site), and the listing of the websites where you have done link trades. The spider will crawl one by one each of this addresses looking for links towards your website within your’s link partners html code. You must put the exact address where your link should be found. The crawler doesn’t follow links inside frames, javascript, flash or going through server script.

Site Link Analyzer analyzes a given web page and return a table of data containing columns of outbound links and their associated anchor text. If a hyperlink is represented by an image, the image’s alt attribute will be included as the anchor text.

Link Popularity Tools

Link Popularity Checker is one of the best ways to quantifiably and independently measure your website’s online awareness and overall visibility. Simply put, link popularity refers to the total number of links or “votes” that a search engine has found for your website.

Backlink Anchor Text Analyzer will help you determine the backlinks of your website and link text used by your backlinks to Link to your wesbite.

Link Appeal will calculate the desirability rating of having a link on the URL you specify. This calculation includes factors such as PageRank, number of outbound links and the overall percentage of links to html. It is intended as a guideline for evaluating whether you should ask for a link on a certain page or not.

Site Analysis Including Link Popularity generates a complete site analysis e.g. amount of backlinks, indexed sites, Google PageRank and also if your domain is listed in DMOZ and Yahoo directory.

Link Popularity Checker tells you how many websites are linking to yours. Website popularity is an important factor in your search engine ranking. The more popular your site is, the better it will be ranked on the search engines.

Link Popularity Tool checks the number of pages that link to you in AlltheWeb, AltaVista, Google, HotBot, MSN Search, and Yahoo!, as well as check for your site’s presence in DMOZ and Zeal.

Link Popularity Checker and Link Quality Assessment is a tool to find out the necessary statistics on your links and your competitor’s links.

Link Popularity Check using this script you can revise detailed statistics of backward links for one domain in the most popular directories and search engines.

Backlink Tools

Backlink Check Tool is a tool is to check your backlinks and the anchor text used in those backlinks.
 

Toolbars

Google Toolbar For Firefox add buttons to the toolbar to search your favorite sites.  Bookmark frequently visited pages and access them from anywhere. Search smarter with instant suggestions. as you type in the search box. Share web pages with friends via blog, email, or SMS. System requirements: Windows XP/2000 SP3+, Mac OS X 10.2+, or Linux, Firefox 1.5+.

Google Toolbar For IE Block annoying pop-ups. Fill out web forms with one click. Translate pages into English instantly. Check your spelling in webmail messages, and more. System requirements:  Windows Vista/2000/XP, Internet Explorer 6.0+.

Mozdev GoogleBar project was initially created to address the widespread desire in the mozilla community for the Google toolbar to support the Netscape 7, Mozilla, and Firefox web browsers. In the past, the Google toolbar was only available for IE on windows. While we are in no way affiliated with Google inc, our current release emulates all of the basic search functionality of the toolbar, allowing users to easily access almost all of Google’s specialty searches (some of which are not yet supported by the original Google toolbar!) from one convenient toolbar. However, because the developer community for Firefox is so vibrant, we have decided not to implement features found in other extensions (such as form fill) or built into Firefox (such as the popup blocker). If you are looking for AutoFill, you may find the AutoForm or AutoFill extensions useful.

PR Toolbar Widget For Macintosh requires Mac OS X 10.3 or higher. Internally it’s built with JavaScript, PHP and AppleScript. Works for HTTP sites, does not work (intentionally) for HTTPS, FTP, etc.

Search MSN Toolbar helps you  start a search from any Web page, see instant previews of maps and more from any Web page, personalize your Web experience with custom buttons. Requires Internet Explorer 6.0 or later.

Yahoo Toolbar For Firefox helps you make the Web a safer place – Pop-Up Blocker stops pop-ups in their tracks. It allows to quickly search your bookmarks, from Toolbar or Yahoo! Search. Personalized buttons get you to your most used sites in 1 click. Built in Web Search helps you find whatever you want fast. Yahoo! Mail alerts lets you know when you’ve got new mail.
 

Web Site Optimization Tools

Poodle Predictor is a tool that attempts to give you an idea of how your site will show up in the search-engine results, before it’s too late, and they have already cached it. This helps you avoid making mistakes that will either prevent your site from getting a decent listing, or will show a useless description of you site in the search-engine results.

Advanced Meta Tag Generator provides you with fields for 19 different mata tags and generates the meta code for you.

Cache.it not only searches and finds the cache pages; it also gives you a graphic view of the results over a period of time (from the first day of your research until now). Additionally, it shows you the site pagerank.

Code to Text Calculator – to avoid diluting your keyword relevancy you should design pages with as little code bloat as possible. Check the percent of your page that is comprised of text with this too.

Copyscape searches for copies of your page on the Web.

Google Banned Tool uses two methods to check to see if a URL you enter is in the Google database. Its a great way to check to see if you have been banned by Google for various reasons.  If your site is quite new, you may also not show in the Google database.  This tool is aimed towards people who think that they have been punished.

Meta Tag Generator generates a search engine friendly Head Tag for your web site. Keep your meta tags free of information that only slows down a search engine robot crawl.

Title and Meta Tag Generator Create your sites meta tags instantly to help achieve higher search engine ranking. Includes title tag, description, abstract, keyword, and robot meta tags. You can read the Meta Tag Description page for an explaination of the meta tags created by our meta tag generator.

Search Engine Spider Simulator is a tool that simulates a Search Engine by displaying the contents of a webpage exactly how a Search Engine would see it. It also displays the hyperlinks that will be followed (crawled) by a Search Engine when it visits the particular webpage.

Similar Page Checker allows you to determine the percentage of similarity between two pages. The exact percentage of similarity after with a search engine may penalize you is not known, it varies from search engine to search engine, Your aim should be to keep your page similarity as low as possible.

Web Page Analyzer will read the page you specify, and put it through a few basic tests to see if qualifies as ’search-engine-friendly’ for the phrase you specify. It then gives a report on the good, and the bad points of the page in SEO terms.
 

Code Validation

Atom & RSS Feed Validator is a validator for syndicated feeds. It works with RSS 0.90, 0.91, 0.92, 0.93, 0.94, 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0. It also validates Atom feeds. Despite its relatively simple nature, RSS is poorly implemented by many tools. This validator is an attempt to codify the specification (literally, to translate it into code) to make it easier to know when you’re producing RSS correctly, and to help you fix it when you’re not. The validator also supports the IETF standard Atom format for syndicated feeds.

W3C Markup Validation Service is a validator that checks the markup validity of Web documents in HTML, XHTML, SMIL, MathML, etc. If you wish to validate specific content such as RSS/Atom feeds or CSS stylesheets or to find broken links, there are other validators and tools available.

Wordpress Themes - a fine compilation of appealing, elegant, and stylish WP themes under one roof.

Wordpress Themes provides an excellent collection of Free WordPress Themes that is updated regularly.

Wordpress Themes – only new and fresh WordPress Themes available for free download.

Iconshock – More than 300.000 professional icons for web and software

XP iCandy 3.1: 17 icons. Free for personal use.

Vista Control Panel icons

iMac Icons from FreeIconsWeb.com

Folder Icons Pack by deleket: 50 icons for PC and MAC.

Boxes vista-like : OS by TPDKCasimir: icons are based on the new packaging for Windows Vista. 26 icons for various OS (13 icons in two categories : box with disc and without disc). Free for non-commercial use.

Toolbar Icons by Matt Ball: can be used by Mac OS X developers at no charge.

Crystal Clear icon set by Everaldo Coelho. The icons are licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). All images’ real size is 128px.

Notes Icons

VistaICO Toolbar Icon Pack contains 50 high quality (256×256 pixels) icons; PNG and ICO formats. This package includes: Copy icon, Cut icon, Edit icon, Find icon, Rename icon, Save icon, Help icon, Arrow icons, Zoom icons, Symbol icons, Alarm icon, Alert icon, Anouncement icon, Calendar icon, Login/Logout icon and more.

OpenPhone Pack contains 12 high quality (256×256, 128×128, 16×16, 32×32, 48×48 pixels) icons; PNG and ICO formats. This package includes icons inspired on the new iPhone. Pack Size: 1.38MB.

Mac OS Boxes: 6  realistic looking white boxes (Mac OS only). Free for personal use. Size: 150.10 KB

Flag Button Development Kit: sometimes you have to provide different options or features for different nationalities. Here is a development kit to create such buttons.

Social Bookmark Iconset

iPhone Icon Pack contains 5 high quality (256×256 pixels) icons; PNG and ICO formats. This package includes: iPhone Clown Fishes icon, iPhone Off icon, iPhone Wallpaper Mod icon, iPhone Apple icon and iPhone OS Interface icon.

Adobe CS 3 Icon Pack: 9 256×256 PNG icons based on the design of Adobe CS3’s applications’ boxes.

WebSiteIcons.net

Macromedia Icons Pack

mAqua ChronoSync: free for personal use only.

Dashboard Collection: 12 icons for the Mac OS X Dashboard, inspired by real car dashboards. Size: 250.71 KB.

Danish Royalty Free Icons by Jonas Rask: is an icon set of 32×32 pixel toolbar icons. You can use them in your apps, in your toolbar, on your website. A credit would be appreciated greatly, but it’s not obligatory at all. Package includes ICNS,PNG, TIFF, Mac Icons and Pixadex iContainer versions.

Feedicons is an iconset from Zeus Box Studio. You may use them to give your “subscribe to RSS-feed”-button a fresh look.

104 standard PC keyboard key icons: feel free to to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work entitled “104 Standard PC Keyboard Key’s Icon Set” for both non-commercial and commercial purposes. You are also free to make derivative works.

Globe Icons

Office Stuff Icon Set

Office Icons pack contains 8 office tools icons (carries pencil, cutter, hole punch, mail, paperclip, pen, scissors and stapler ).

Aqua Neue (Graphite): is a brand new set of system replacement icons in Aqua style. Meant to be an improvement to Aqua’s default, users will have no problem switching over to them. 86 icons. Size: 1746.91 KB.

Metal Trash: 2 trash icons for the dock or the desk ( Metal trash empty and full ).

Shopping Chart Icons

Iconshock’s Icon Sets offers 7 icon sets including Consoles Vista icons, Red Hot Chili Icons, Elm Nightmare Street Icons, NBA Web Icons, Disk Jockey Icons, Filming Vista icons and more.

Yoritsuki icons by HYBRIDWORKS: contains 35 icons that are associated with hot springs in Japan. Elaborate, detailed, unique icons drawn in 128×128-pixel format will make your desktop delightful.

Mouse Category Season 02 by denghao: all  png files are 128×128 with transparent shadow.

Pixel Press Icons (.dmg, Mac only)

Autumn Breeze Icons: icons for Linux and Windows.

300: 4 icons from the blockbuster film, 300. Size: 105.44 KB.

Pirates of the Caribbean: 4 icons inspired by the Pirates of the Caribbean. Size: 115.47 KB.

Harry Potter and Windows XP Icons

Harry Potter and the Bitten Apple

Ratatouille

Smiles

Smiley Development Kit: a development kit to create excellent smilies.

Friendly Fire pack contains 25 high quality (256×256 pixels) icons; PNG and ICO formats. This package includes: Girl smiley icon, Cocktail smiley icon, Cool smiley icon, Googles smiley icon and more.

Wordpress Themes - a fine compilation of appealing, elegant, and stylish WP themes under one roof.

Wordpress Themes provides an excellent collection of Free WordPress Themes that is updated regularly.

Wordpress Themes – only new and fresh WordPress Themes available for free download.

Open Source Templates is a free CSS and XHTML open source template design showcase where the community gets to pick the best designs to be showcased on the front page.

OSWD is a site to download free web design templates and share yours with others. It provides currently 2080 designs.

OSWT project was founded as a site for users with no design skills to quickly put up a site and showcase their content and as a way for designers to share their designs and showcase their talent.

Maxdesign offers a range of CSS page layouts, including 2 column and 3 column layouts – free to use and abuse as needed.

CSSplay provides dozens of free professional layouts. Most of my demonstrations can be used without asking for permission. However, some will require email approval first.

Mollio is a simple set of html /CSS templates. Its aim was to create a set of page templates that use CSS for layout as well as some sample basic content which has also had some CSS applied.

Six Shooter Media offers 15 Templates. The templates are just a skeleton which you can use to build your own web site, or WordPress Theme.

CSS Design Templates provides templates that you are free to use and modify for any purpose, but you must include the provided link back to this website.

CSS Intensivstation contains 15 Layouts. All templates are XHTML 1.0 and CSS2

CSSFILL is a place where you will find a selection of completely free CSS / XHTML based layouts & templates designed by Michael Strand.

CSS Frames Layouts – tableless, CSS based page templates to quickly define the skeleton of your pages.

CSS Template Gallery includes a search function, however it offers only 32 templates.

Ex-Designz offers more than 300 (X)HTML-based CSS-templates.

Jimmy Lin offers 100% valid CSS/XHTML and compatible with IE5.0+, FireFox 1.5, Opera 8.5, and Safari 2. They do not use any hacks, and can easily be modified. There are no copyright restrictions on these templates, but you can include a linkback.

Layout Gala offers 40 professional Layouts. They use valid markup and CSS, and have been tested successfully on Internet Explorer/win 5.0, 5.5, 6 and beta 2 preview of version 7; Opera 8.5, Firefox 1.5 and Safari 2.

Little Boxes contains 16 Layouts, classic.

Solucija is a free XHTML / CSS website templates available to use without any limitations. They can be used on a noncommercial site as well as on a commercial one. Keeping a small credit link in the footer is not obligatory but shows your appreciation and support.

The Layout Reservoir offers two column layouts (left and right menus) and three column layouts. Though you need not give credit to BlueRobot.com, a comment in your source code would help other developers to find this resource.

Inknoise offers Layout-o-matic – a tool which allows to select a layout type, width, and other options to the left, and then click Download or View and pick up your multi-column CSS layout starter kit (turning it into something unique and beautiful not included). You’re welcome to use the resulting generated layouts for any purpose, personal or commercial.

Code Sucks offers about 100 CSS Layouts for download. All CSS Layouts were made for 1024 x 764 screen resolution.

SSI Developer offers CSS templates that are constructed using XHTML1.0 and CSS2. Please note: these CSS templates are a learning tool and should be thoroughly tested before being used on a ‘production’ web site. The templates are valid CSS2 and XHTML1.0 Transitional and have been tested on WinXP with IE6, Opera 7.11 and Mozilla 1.5b as well as Firefox 0.8 & Netscape 7.1 (which are basically the same as Mozilla).