This is a tool which helps you find available domain names. There are still chances to come up with a great name. Registering a new domain name is often cheaper than buying one from domain brokers. By combining your keywords with our group of common words it’s easy to get a new domain name. The tool checks the domain name availability for all the suggestions.

Website: http://www.domainexposer.com

OpenLayers makes it easy to put a dynamic map in any web page. It can display map tiles and markers loaded from any source. MetaCarta developed the initial version of OpenLayers and gave it to the public to further the use of geographic information of all kinds. OpenLayers is completely free, Open Source JavaScript, released under a BSD-style License.

OpenLayers is a pure JavaScript library for displaying map data in most modern web browsers, with no server-side dependencies. OpenLayers implements a JavaScript API for building rich web-based geographic applications, similar to the Google Maps and MSN Virtual Earth APIs, with one important difference – OpenLayers is Free Software, developed for and by the Open Source software community.

As a framework, OpenLayers is intended to separate map tools from map data so that all the tools can operate on all the data sources.

Website: http://www.openlayers.org/

Download: http://www.openlayers.org/download/

Using the Ribbit Voice Platform, voice is now a programmable feature that is free from the traditional device. Going way beyond the call, Ribbit is an open platform for multi-protocol communication, empowering a new market of voiceware applications and services.

It can go anywhere… on a phone, on a webpage, inside email, and in an existing app. Voice can now live inside any environment including online communities or stores, CRM systems, call center applications, media properties – you name it. It can be captured, stored and sent in traditional and non-traditional ways…it is totally free for your innovation across any industry.

Website: http://developer.ribbit.com

Product Planner was born out of the need to help people understand and create user flows for their web products. The idea is that by looking at examples of other successful web products, you can get a better idea of how to create your own.

Product Planner is actually useful for creating a demo tour for web applications too. You can create a work flow for performing a specific task with your web application. So that user can understand how to use your web application easily by reading the work flow step by step with screenshots.

Website: http://productplanner.com/

Make a baby without actually “making” a baby!

VW came up with a crazy idea: The Routan Babymaker 3000. Upload picture of mum and dad and look at the result.

Website: http://www.vw.com/vwhype/babymaker/en/us/

Calling all WordPress Themers! Do you ever wish that you could easily preview your wordpress themes while working in Dreamweaver? Well wish no more! The other day i came across an awesome Dreamweaver Extension called ThemeDreamer.

This amazing extension enables you to unlock Dreamweavers potential and turns Adobes’ Dreamweaver into a faster design environment for wordpress themes. ThemeDreamer provides a WYSIWYG feedback within Dreamweaver’s design view editor in real time. This means you do not need to deal with a server to view your CSS and template changes! Alterations are immediately reflected in Dreamweavers Design View.

Well before you have a complete design orgasm take a quick look at some of its features as stated by the website:

Real Time Design View

• Enables instantaneous WYSIWYG feedback on common CSS and WordPress Template Tags.
• Automatically combines theme file dependencies, eliminating the need to combine and splice header.php, index.php, footer.php, search.php, sidebar.php, etc.
• Supports both function-style and query-string-style Template Tag parameters.

Code View Hints

• Provides WordPress Template Tags, Include Tags, and Conditional Tags at your finger tips.
• Hints reveal syntax, parameter defaults, and common enumerated optional values.

Graphic Designer and Application Developer Benefits

• Offline theme development - There is no need for a server connection or a need to install WordPress locally to view most common style edits.
• Accelerate theme development time by reducing hassels with server round trips (’download-edit-upload-view’).

Website: http://www.themedreamer.com

Striped Backgrounds – online tool, developed by Sam Herbert that generates striped background images based on 5 color pickers.

You can randomize colors to get a newly striped background or manually put hexa color code to create your desired background image. Created striped backgrounds can be downloaded in PNG format after you select the resolution.

Website: http://stripedbgs.com

The Web Development Project Estimator is a simple tool that allows web designers and site developers to quickly and thoroughly estimate the time and materials required for a proposed web project.

When finished, you can view your finalized estimate in a print-ready format in case you’d like to save a PDF or print a copy for your records.

The tool does not offer any benefit over a Google spreadsheet, but there’s a lot of freelance web designers/developers who don’t have an estimating process at all and it was created for them.

Website: http://estimator.astuteo.com

Woopra is the world’s most comprehensive, information rich, easy to use, real-time Web tracking and analysis application. It is mainly targeted for small to medium websites ranging from few hundreds up to tens of thousands of daily page views. Essentially, it is targeted for blogs interested in the most minuscule details of every single action.

In addition, Woopra provides a precise real-time streaming of every single activity on the website. Woopra also features a clean interface, including many graphical visualization components, such as charts, maps, panels… Along with many other clean and advanced options that make Woopra an ideal solution for webmasters who desire to discern all the aspects of their website.

Features:

• Live Tracking and Web Statistics
• Rich User Interface
• Real-time Analytics
• Manage Multiple Blogs and Websites
• Deep Analytic and Search Capabilities
• Click-to-Chat
• Visitor and Member Tagging
• Real Time Notifications
• Easy Installation and Update Notification
• Developer Tools

Website: http://www.woopra.com

Download: http://www.woopra.com/download/

DIY Map is a zooming & clickable map, built with Flash, that can be colored with data from a text file. Using an external data helps using the same Flash file for representing different information.

When a point is clicked & zoomed, any information can be displayed like a link or an address. List of maps that can be downloaded are world map, USA map, Europe map & few other countries.

The application is free for personal & educational use and requires a licence for commercial use.

Website: http://www.backspace.com/mapapp/