Open Source Tool to Create Personal Information Dashboard


Picok stands for Personal Information Cockpit. It’s an open source tool, aimed at enableing users to build their personal information dashboards. User content is loaded into small and handy draggable boxes, called portlets, and layed out in a tabbed column-based interface.

There are a quite few standard portlets shipped with Picok, but since it is an open source system, maintainers of picok installations can easily create portlets of their own.

open-source-tool-to-create-personal-information-dashboard

Picok is written using PHP 5 and using Yahoo User Interface Library and Zend Framework Components. It supports MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server and IBM Lotus Notes. Its very easy to integrate into  your corporate intranet, website or community platform.

Read the rest of this entry
Posted on: August 11, 2009 as Extras, Open Source, PHP, Scripts, Software, Tools, Web Application
No Comments

Free Teaching and Learning Software for Teachers – iTALC


iTALC is a Free Teaching and Learning Software for Teachers. This Free Software is use-friendly and powerful dedicated tool for teachers. It lets you view and control other computers in your network in several ways.

iTALC is specially designed for schools and offers great features and functionality for teachers.

Read the rest of this entry
Posted on: August 7, 2009 as Extras, Open Source, Software, Tools, Web Application
No Comments

Open Source E-Commerce Shopping Cart Package- Ubercart


Ubercart is an open source e-commerce shopping cart package that fully integrates your online store with Drupal, the leading open source content management system. This is a killer combination for anyone looking to build a community around a product, sell access to premium content, offer paid file downloads, and much much more!

Open Source E-Commerce Shopping Cart Package- Ubercart

Ubercart leverages the advantages of Drupal’s major core and contributed systems, providing your users with shopping cart functionality that integrates with other parts of your company or community website.

Read the rest of this entry
Posted on: August 4, 2009 as Extras, Open Source, Software, Tools, Web Application
1 Comment

Popup Image, FLV, HTML, SWF & PDF with Free Lightbox Clone


Bumpbox is a Free Lightbox Clone that supports Images, FLV, HTML, SWF & PDF files to show in an overlay window (popup). So in simple words this beautiful and handy Lightbox alternative has some advantages over Lightbox that it not only supports common media types but also support PDF files.

free-popup-media-image-viewer-lightbox-alternative

Its very simple to implement on your own site. You just need to add scripts to page head section, add classes to your links that should use bumpbox, define a rel tag with the size that the bumpbox should have and you’re ready to use Free Popup Media Viewer.

Read the rest of this entry
Posted on: August 2, 2009 as Extras, Freebies, Gallery, Scripts, Tools, Web Application
2 comments

Open Source Bug Tracking Software – BugTracker.Net


BugTracker.Net is an Open Source Bug Tracking Software written using ASP.NET, C#, and Microsoft SQL Server. BugTracker.Net is also known as Customer Support Issue Tracker Software.

This free bug tracker software also has Free Screen Capture Utility, The BugTracker.NET Screen Capture Utility lets you capture a screen shot, annotate it, and post it to BugTracker.NET in just a few clicks.

Open Source Bug Tracking Software - BugTracker.Net

Read the rest of this entry
Posted on: July 31, 2009 as Extras, Open Source, Software, Tools, Web Application
No Comments

Open Source PHP Framework for Job Boards – JoobsBox


JoobsBox is an Open Source PHP Framework for job boards written with Zend Framework(PHP & MySQL). The goal is to have the JoobsBox as a framework, light and fast and let the community to expand this, limited only by their desires and imagination.

Open Source PHP Framework for Job Boards - JoobsBox

Read the rest of this entry
Posted on: July 30, 2009 as Extras, PHP, Scripts, Software, Tools, Web Application
3 comments

Open Source Drawing Software for Children – Tux Paint


Tux Paint is an Open Source Drawing Software for Children. This is free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12 (for example, preschool and K-6). It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program.

Open Source Drawing Software for Children - Tux Paint

This free computer art software for children is very useful for children learning and to provoke their creative sense.

Read the rest of this entry
Posted on: July 29, 2009 as Extras, Open Source, Software, Tools, Web Application
No Comments

Open Source e-Portfolio System – Mahara


Mahara is an open source e-portfolio system with a flexible display framework. Mahara, meaning ‘think’ or ‘thought’ in Te Reo Māori, is user centred environment with a permissions framework that enables different views of an e-portfolio to be easily managed. Mahara also features a weblog, resume builder and social networking system, connecting users and creating online learner communities.

Open Source e-Portfolio System

ePortfolios … are personal online spaces for students to access services and store work. They will become ever more useful as learners grow up and start moving between different types of learning and different institutions.

Read the rest of this entry
Posted on: July 28, 2009 as Extras, Open Source, PHP, Scripts, Software, Tools, Web Application
1 Comment

Open Source Course Management System – moodle


Moodle is an Open Source Course Management System (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It is a Free web application that educators can use to create effective online learning sites.

open-source-course-management-system

This Open Source software package for producing Internet-based courses and web sites is a global development project designed to support a social constructionist framework of education.

Read the rest of this entry
Posted on: July 25, 2009 as Extras, Open Source, PHP, Scripts, Software, Tools, Web Application
1 Comment

Open Souce Help Desk Software & Knowledge Base Software


OneOrZero provides an Open Souce Help Desk Software & Knowledge Base Software backed by a highly configurable and extensible Action & Information Management System which allows you to ‘build your own system’ on the fly.

Open Souce Help Desk Software & Knowledge Base Software

Read the rest of this entry
Posted on: July 24, 2009 as Extras, Open Source, Software, Tools, Web Application
No Comments