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Technology Notes for Your Projects
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I've been reading through your projects and there are some technologies that might be helpful. There is no way for me to teach you ALL of these; however, I can try to keep a list of technologies you might find helpful. Please feel free to add to these as you come across really helpful solutions.
AIM
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Wimzi: A tool to connect your aim name to your website; Users can IM you straight from your website
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Meebo Instant Messaging for several online IM Networks (AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, Google Talk, Gmail, Myspace IM and Facebook Chat)
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Skype Telephone & Video Calls/Instant Messaging
Calendar Functions:
- Google Calendar: Easy additions, maps, and code to embed directly into your site
- Upcoming:This is a great community-oriented site, with friends and comments attached to events
- Yelp:Reviews and calendars of events
Collaborative Online Documents:
- Google Docs: Online collaberation tool for Presentations, Spreadsheets, Word Processing, and Forms.
- Ajax: Online Presentation and Word Processing collaberation and syncing.
- Dropbox: Online Storage Solution
- Abrobat Meet live over the web and share your screen with anyone
Flikr:
Free Image Editing Software
- Gimp: Free image editing software similar to photoshop, versions are available for mac and linux users.
- IrfanView: Another helpful tool to quickly edit images.
Free Screen Capture Software
Live Blogging:
- CoverItLive: Check out this live blogging platform that can be used to conduct chats (written and voice) along with integrating a variety of social media.
Virtual Notetaking:
- EverNote- Virtual notetaking and multi device syncing.
Social Networking Software:
- NING: You can check out the About section to see all the cool tools available with the software.
- Facebook: Create a group, upload videos and pictures
- Page Badge: A Facebook application that allows you to easily create a badge for a page, group, or event
Sign-Up/ListServ Groups:
Streaming Video:
Twitter:
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Buzzable: Another tool for aggregating Tweets on your site or your group.
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JustSignal: This allows you to aggregate Tweets around a topic or a people right on your site. Wicked awesome.
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WWWitter: A place where you can add a tool to your toolbar and check out who's Twittering about your website.
WordPress:
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Picture Plug-ins: Many of you are looking for ways to add pictures to your sites (from mobile uploads to Flickr sites). Check out some of these plugins.
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WordPress Mobile: Make your blog mobile friendly.
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Uploading Mobile Images: Here's a plugin to allow you to upload to a Flickr account, which you can then display on your site.
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BuddyPress.org : Here's a plugin that turns your WordPress Blog into a Social Network Platform.
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XML Google Maps: This plugin allows you to insert Google Maps to your WordPress blog.
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Events Calendar: Shows different events that you have coming up.
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Search Feature: Allows users to search exactly what they're looking for.
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WP-SpamFree: An extremely powerful anti-spam plugin that virtually eliminates comment spam.
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All in One Video Pack: This is not just another video embed tool - it includes every functionality you might need for video and rich-media, including playing, uploading and editing.
- All in One Video Pack Sidebar Widget: A sidebar widget that allows you to display the most recent posted videos and comments in your blog.
- EasyRedirect: Plugin to easliy redirect to another page with javascript
- Add To Facebook: Adds a footer link to add the current post or page to a Facebook Mini-Feed
- Sidebar Login : Adds a sidebar widget to let users login
- Sociable : Automatically add links on your posts, pages and RSS feed to your favorite social bookmarking sites.
- My Page Order : allows you to set the order of pages through a drag and drop interface.
- Ozh' Admin Tools : Admin tools for your wp-admin page.
- Riffly Video/Audio Comments: Mixed video and audio comments integrated with the standard comment system.
- Daiko's Text Widget: Post Text
- Comment License - Show license terms for your comments form.
- ShareThis - Let your visitors share a post/page with others.
- Redirectify : A plugin that redirects posts and pages that contain a certain meta tag.
- WP-reCAPTCHA : Integrates reCAPTCHA anti-spam solutions with Wordpress.
- Youtuber : Easily allows you to embed YouTube videos into your posts.
- WP Wall : Readers can add a quick comment about the blog as a whole, and the comment will appear in the sidebar immediately, without reloading the page.
- Paypal Donate : Connects to your Paypal account and allows visitors a place to donate to you
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Viper's Video Quicktags: Set a standard size and color for all embedded video, works well with youtube, metacafe, dailymotion and other sites.
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Themes:
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Linux - Wordpress Theme with two right sidebars.
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Fashion Magazine 1 - Theme wtih image gallery slide show
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Grunge Music - Theme with guitar and a right side bar
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Sliding door- Images at the top slide to link to other page with left side bar
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Azul 1.4: clean and modern theme with a techy/corporate feel.
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Yashfa: A very modern, single column theme.
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Pixeled: Sleek, Good Contrast theme.
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Noir: dropdown page menu, valid XHTML, lots of comments ,fixed width, 3 columns
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Cute Critters: Colorful illustration on top, right sidebar, rounded corners, widget ready
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Ahimsa: Customizable colours, low graphics, minimal distractions, collapsible sidebar, with rounded corners in Firefox, Safari, Chrome.
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Reckoning: Black background with grey text and blue/green accent colors. Simple and fun with left sidebar.
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WordPressThemesBase: Large collection of free to download themes for WordPress.
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