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Archive for the ‘Web Applications’ Category

An alternative to phpMyAdmin for database management

SQL Buddy is a MySQL web based administration tool. This server-side MySQL database management tool oftentimes replaces phpMyAdmin. Although SQL Buddy’s features aren’t as in-depth as phpMyAdmin, it is definitely a power tool for helping to manage your databases. Quite literally, unpack SQL Buddy and drop the folder into a PHP enabled web directory. Login [...]

Remove clutter from webpages using Readability

The increasing use of ads, links, and other distractions on a web page can sometimes make it difficult to find the main content of a website. Readability has a simple and effective solution to this problem.
Readability offers a configurable bookmarklet to place in your web browser toolbar that will enable you to read site content [...]

Comcast offers 2GB of free backup and share

Comcast, one of the nation’s largest Internet Service Providers, is offering all high speed internet users 2GB online storage and backup space. The service is operated by Mozy, a well-trusted third party backup service. The service currently supports Windows variants listed below, but not Mac or Linux. I would not suspect that a Linux client [...]

Turn your blog into a book

There are two main tools that I have found to migrate your blog into book format.
BlogBooker
The transformation requires you export your blog as an .xml file. Wordpress already has this feature built-in. Login to the Dashboard, navigate to Tools > Export and then export your blog. Blogbooker wants this file and your web address. Processing [...]

Identify your word cloud using Wordle

Wordle is a web application and “toy” that generates word clouds from a list of words, RSS feed, or Delicious feed list. You must have a Java enabled browser for this tool to function.

Wordle creates clouds like this:

You can change the layout, font, and more. I suspect that it differs from a tag cloud in [...]

Sign and edit any PDF file using FillAnyPDF

FillAnyPDF is a web application that permits you to edit and sign any PDF document

Create and collaborate online diagrams with Cacoo

Review and thoughts on Cacoo diagram creator and collaboration tools

Donate to Concrete5 CMS so they can attend SXSW

Learn more about Concrete5 CMS and donate to them for attendance at SXSW

Migrating DotClear 2.1.6 to Wordpress 2.9

The process for migrating a DotClear 2.1.6 blog to Wordpress 2.9.

Piwik 0.5.4 open-source server-side analytics

Piwik is an open-source web analytics for your server – you are in control