Whether you’re a current project manager seeking to validate the skills and knowledge acquired through years of practical experience or a newcomer to the PM field looking to strengthen your resume, the PMP certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI) provides you with the means to do so. This updated edition of the best-selling PMP: Project Management Professional Study Guide was developed to help you prepare for this challenging exam, and includes additional study tools designed to reinforce understanding of critical subject areas.
Key Topics Include:

• Project Initiation. Determining project goals, identifying constraints and assumptions, defining strategies, producing documentation.
• Project Planning. Refining a project, creating a WBS, developing a resource management plan, establishing controls, obtaining approval.
• Project Execution. Committing and implementing resources, managing and communicating progress, implementing quality assurance procedures.
• Project Control. Measuring Performance, taking corrective action, ensuring compliance, reassessing control plans, responding to risk event triggers.
• Project Closing. Documenting lessons learned, facilitating closure, preserving records and tools, releasing resources.
• Professional Responsibility. Ensuring integrity, contributing to knowledge base, balancing stakeholder interests, respecting differences.

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Instant Color Picker collect colors from your screen.

Instant Color Picker enables you to collect colors from anywhere on your screen and store them in a palette from where you can export them to a variety of color codes (RGB, HSL, HTML Hex, ActionScript, Delphi , VC++ and VB) or a color swatch bitmap. The eye dropper includes a zoom feature for detail selection as well as support for pixel averages and keyboard shortcuts.

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Create your own “snapshots” of images and texts from opened documents, pictures, file menus, Web pages, presentations, or PDF files with just several clicks.

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Bag & Box Icons
70 ICO PNG | 20 Mb

This pack contains 70 icons makes for bagg and box

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Constructr is a fresh open source CMS application built with PHP & MySQL.

With an Ajaxed backend, this CMS application uses TinyMCE for content editing & supports clean URLs via mod_rewrite.

The admin interface has:

• Backend user & right management
• Asset center for uploads
• Integrated search engine for asset
• Automatic sync after FTP-uploads
• Automatic thumb´s for image-uploads
• Integrated shadowbox-viewer for assets
• Customizable backend language (Available: DE, EN, US, CH, AU)
• Live preview  for hidden pages and content

For the frontend:

• Cache system
• File based templates
• Multilingual frontend support
• Use a frontent that fits your special needs (pure PHP and MySQL, Smarty, Flash …)
• Individual 404 error page
• Automatic RSS 2.0-Feed for every single content

Like mentioned, this free content management system is still fresh but frequently updated & looks promising.

Liferay, with 60 tools and a selection of today’s most innovative technologies, enables you to do everything like:

• Creating websites.
• Building intranets.
• Simply getting the right documents and applications to the right people.

Liferay inlcudes web publishing, content management, collaboration and social networking.

With the role-based authorization, admins & users can define which information can be viewed by which users.

A strong set of community features help creating communities, user groups & they can have their own mini-portals.

Some other included features are: wikis, forums, instant messenger, calendar, webmail, blogs & more.

And, any other applications like accounting, sales can be integrated with its open architecture.

The application is “giant” with the features it offers & hard to describe its capabilities completely. Users interested in creating an enterprise portal should definitely check it.

Concrete5 is a very powerful & open source content management application which has a different approach in how it works.

It enables users to manage websites while browsing it by simply switching to the edit mode (an overlayed screen). This makes anyone who can use a text editing application administer their websites.

The application uses PHP / MySQL & built with OOP.

With a very easy to use interface, new pages can added, updated or deleted.

A simple yet effective user permission/role feature helps creating admins, editors & other types of users.

There is a built-in versioning system which simply saves the old versions of a page & who created/updated it.

The application supports templates / plugins & there is a community getting more active everyday to get support.

To see the beauty of the application, check this demo.

Seadragon is a technology, by Microsoft, for deeply zooming images of any size. It provides almost perfect transitions independent from the sizes of the images.

Seadragon Ajax is an interface for using/embedding this technology to any website.

Seadragon can be used in 2 ways:

• By uploading images to Photozoom & use Embed Builder
• Compose a deep zoom image with Deep Zoom Composer & upload the images to your website

Developers can customize viewers & controls with the Seadragon Ajax Library. It is also available at the Silverlight platform.

Server2Go is a portable web server environment built to be used in CD-ROMS, memory sticks & similar portable media.

It has almost everything you need to run a web application:

• Apache 1.3.x, 2.0.x and 2.2.x
• PHP 5.2.x with a lot of extensions. Downgrade packages to 4.4.x and 5.0.x available)
• MySQL 5 support
• Perl 5.8 with many CPAN modules integrated

Server2Go auto-configures all the settings that may vary in every environment like ports & proxy settings.

It starts the server environment at the background when the CD-ROM is run & closes it automatically when the browser is closed.