Use a simple and familiar API (accessible in the DOM) to reach the system and native desktop UI’s. Harness the resources of the host to create capable apps that use its full potential.

TideSDK is all about discovering that you’re not just a web developer. You have the skills for desktop development without knowing it.

Develop your desktop apps quickly using HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. Extend the functionality of your app with a scripting language you are comfortable with. Choose from python over php to ruby.

TileMill is a tool for designers to design and integrate maps with custom data quickly and easily on the web. It is built on the powerful open-source map rendering library Mapnik.

TileMill can also export directly to the SQLite-based MBTiles file format for offline maps. It also gives you full control on style and layout (colors, layers, fonts etc.) to customize maps as per your requirements.

Major Features

• Access datasources on the local filesystem or through Amazon S3
• Manage map layers with file-based datasources (shapefiles, rasters)
• Preview map tiles instantly while editing stylesheets
• Inspect datasource field values and data types
• Export maps to PNG, PDF and MBTiles formats

TileMill is actually intended for cartographer but you can master it with a little effort to design simple maps for your personal usage.

Pow is a clean, self-contained server that runs as your user without root privileges. No mucking around with /etc/hosts, no compiling Apache modules, no editing configuration files or installing preference panes. A single command installs and upgrades Pow automatically and your system files are left pristine and untouched.

Running multiple apps with multiple versions of Ruby is trivial. Pow runs as your user on an unprivileged port, and includes both an HTTP and a DNS server.

To start with, try playing with colors. You can use Solarize for this purpose. Solarize is a sixteen color palette especially designed for users with terminal applications. It contains eight monotones and eight accent colors. All colors schemes are tested extensively in real world scenarios for various lighting conditions and display types.

Solarize color pallets are available for Vim, Mutt, Xresources, iTerm2, OS X, Adobe Photoshop, Apple Color Picker Palette and GIMP Palette. You can download Solarize color palettes for free to use them as they are or create your own color schemes.

The interface is easy to use (simple drag-and-drop operations) and can be accessed on Windows as well as Mac operating systems. The application supports various authentication methods for secure transfers and encryption modes for password protection.

The built-in editing options allow you to edit files in any external application to make changes on-the-fly.

The FriendFeed application is written using a web framework that looks a bit like web.py or Google’s webapp, but with additional tools and optimizations to take advantage of the underlying non-blocking infrastructure.

The framework is distinct from most mainstream web server frameworks (and certainly most Python frameworks) because it is non-blocking and reasonably fast. It can handle thousands of simultaneous standing connections, which means it is ideal for real-time web services.

Tornado has been tested on Python 2.5 and 2.6. To use all of the features of Tornado, you need to have PycURL and (for Python 2.5 only) simplejson installed.

Prey is 100% geolocation aware, it uses either the device’s GPS or the nearest WiFi hotspots to triangulate and grab a fix on its location.

It can take a picture of the thief with your laptop’s webcam so you know what he looks like. It’s lightweight, open source software, and free for anyone to use.

It comes in two editions:

• Mobile Edition
  The mobile edition of this Todo List application is built with Sencha Touch and themed to look like a native IOS application.
• Desktop Edition
  The desktop edition uses Ext JS themed to look like a native Mac OSX application.

With Sencha Animator, you can create CSS3 ads that rival rich-media ads made with traditional desktop applications. You can animate text and images with smooth transitions, design buttons with gradients, and embed analytics tracking code. All with the power of web standards.

This CSS3 alternative to Flash is free for now but it will cost on a per user basis.

Fluid lets you create a Site Specific Browser (SSB) out of any website or web application, effectively turning your favorite web apps into desktop apps.

Features

• Open Plug-in Architecture
• Built-in Userscripting
• Single-Window Browsing Mode
• BrowsaBrowsa Plug-in for Sidebars
• Twitter Timeline Plug-in
• Thumbnail Plug-in for CoverFlow