ReminderFeed is an online service (online) free program that allows alerts to read our favorite RSS reader.

It is very simple and practical, simply access the site, fill out a form that is similar to creating an agenda in any event such as the Google Calendar. Once the alert was created, we select our hours GMT and we subscribe.

Website: http://www.reminderfeed.com

Koders.com, the leading search engine for open source and other downloadable code now contains over 1 billion lines of code within its repository. Used by tens of thousands of developers each day.

Koders is a search engine that is a must-bookmark for developers. Professionals use Koders for quickly finding open source code, methods, examples, algorithms and more.

It searches code written in 30+ languages & categorized with 28 different license types.

Koders also has pluging for Eclipse, Visual Studio & Firefox for integrated searching + it provides adding “code search” functionality to your site with a widget feature.

Features:

• Supports 30+ Languages
• 28 Different License types
• Integrated Plugin Support for Eclipse, Visual Studio, Firefox
• Widget Based Code Search Functionality

Website: http://www.koders.com/

Image optimization is an art that not many people master. There are many good image editing tools that allow us to get the best visual result for a certain file size but “under the hood” a lot more optimization can be done.

Smushit.com is a service that goes beyond the limitations of Photoshop, Fireworks & Co. It uses image format specific non-lossy image optimization tools to squeeze the last bytes out of your images – without changing their look or visual quality. You’ll get a report of how many bytes you can save by optimizing your images and all the changed images as a single zip for download.

Smush.it comes in different flavours:

• Uploading multiple images via browser
• Mentioning image URLS online
• With the help of a Firefox extension

Website: http://smushit.com/

The Web Platform Installer (Web Platform Installer), makes it easier to create a web development environment on your PC.

It provides a single, free package for installing and configuring Microsoft’s entire Web Platform, including:

• IIS7
• Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition
• SQL Server 2008 Express Edition
• .NET Framework.

You can mention whether you’re an ASP.Net developer or even choose support for specific features like ASP, SQL Server driver for PHP, etc. besides installing the complete Microsoft Web Platform

Considering the IIS version to be installed is IIS7, the installer is compatible with Vista & Microsoft Server 2008.

Compatible with: Windows Vista RTM, Windows Vista SP1, Windows Server 2008

Browse site here

GoogieSpell is a spell checker that you can use in your own web-application.

GoogieSpell features:

• Support for around 27 languages
• Well tested and works on IE 5.5, IE 6.0, IE 7, FF 1.0+, Safari, Opera etc.
• Generic, extendable and easy to install
• AJAX based (without page-reloading)
• Used over 500.000 times on Orangoo Spell
• Lightweight (around 50 KB)
• Well documented
• With GoogieSpell Multiple it’s possible to spell check multiple text fields at once

Website: http://orangoo.com/labs/Main/

Demo: http://orangoo.com/labs/GoogieSpell/

Download: http://orangoo.com/labs/GoogieSpell/Download/

Documentation: http://orangoo.com/labs/GoogieSpell/Documentation/

PXtoEM.com is px to em conversion made simple. Choose your body font size in pixels (px)and out comes a complete pixel (px) to em conversion table, making elastic web design with CSS a snap. The once daunting challenge of converting pixels (px) to the elusive em has now been reduced to a booger eating pipsqueak.

PXtoEM.com takes it a step further and gives CSS to start with! After you select your body font size, go to “Get CSS” and there you go!

Website: http://pxtoem.com/

Pandora FMS is an open source application that can be used to monitor anything online like:

• if a website is up or down
• if the content of a website is changed (deface control or when value of a stock changes..)
• diskspace or CPU usage of a remote server (via SNMP or TCP/IP)
• & many more..

Pandora FMS can run on any operating system, with specific agents for each platform, getting the data and sending it to a server.

You can get real-time reports for every monitor & have them sent to an e-mail adrdess.

It can also send notifications of events via e-mail, SMS or Jabber (MSN, GTalk..) to the desired users.

P.S. To mention, Pandora FMS is not a simple script to install. It is made up by several shellscript files (UNIX/Linux Agents), a Web application in PHP (Console), some code in C++ (Windows Agent), some code in PERL5 (Server) and some structure and data in SQL (Database).

Website: http://www.pandorafms.org/
Demo: http://pandorafms.org/index.php?sec=project&sec2=demo&lang=en
Download: http://pandorafms.org/index.php?sec=project&sec2=downloads&lang=en

Simple Directory Listing is a PHP script that works as an online file manager.

It is only one file, just upload & use, and requires PHP to run.

The script can work in read-only or full mode and can be limited to manage a folder.

Besides the functions of a standard file manager script, it also has a FTP layer that makes it possible to connect to remote hosts.

And, the script has RSS support.

Such scripts are very useful when you want to make “files of a project”  reachable by customers where FTP usage may be limited or seem advanced from the eyes of the customer.

Requirements: PHP 4+
Website: http://simpledirectorylisting.net/
Demo: http://simpledirectorylisting.net/demo

ScribeFire Blog Editor 3.1.6

ScribeFire is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog. You can drag and drop formatted text from pages you are browsing, take notes, upload images, and post to multiple blogs.

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Rank Checker

Want to know where your website ranks in the search results? This Firefox Rank Checker extension allows you to easily check your website rankings in Google (US and international), Yahoo, and Microsoft Live search.

Download

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Funeral for Mohsin Naqvi at al-Fatima Islamic Center

Imam Hashim Raza leads mourners in prayer during a funeral for Mohsin Naqvi at al-Fatima Islamic Center in Colonie, N.Y., Monday, Sept. 22, 2008. Naqvi was a Muslim, a native of Pakistan (he emigrated to the U.S. with his family when he was 8 years old and became a citizen at 16) and a U.S. Army officer. He was killed by a roadside bomb while on patrol in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

Xuecheng Martial Arts School in Zaozhuang

Students practice martial arts at Xuecheng Martial Arts School in Zaozhuang, Shandong province, China on June 11, 2008. Around 300 students from all over the nation, aged from 5 to 17 years old, receive martial arts training as well as cultural courses at this school, local media said. (REUTERS/China Daily)

China Central Television headquarters building

In this Jan. 23, 2008, the construction site of the new China Central Television headquarters building is seen in Beijing. The building’s two angled towers were connected in December to form a continuous loop of horizontal and vertical sections. The 230 meter (755 foot) building, one of Beijing’s tallest, houses more than 10,000 staff. (AP Photo/Greg Baker)

A Bull Sarcophagus

A bull sarcophagus in which a member of the Ubud royal family was cremated burns during the funeral ceremony Tuesday July 15, 2008 in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia. (AP Photo/Ed Wray)

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