Open Source for Windows

A great list of all many, if not all, open source projects out there. This list is a great idea that will help many, whether is be individuals or small buisness owners, who've always wanted to switch to open source and didn't know where to start.

On my part I will say that I found open source to be a worthy substitue to payware (software that you buy in order to use). On most projects the final resault is at least as good, and sometimes even better than the payware acquivalent.

I suggest you go over the list, and maybe even consider making a small donation to help keep it alive.

Wanna know how I made the Pixel buttons?

Well, I discovered http://www.pixelbutton.com/eng and the rest is history. You can customize your buttons to you likings, color, text and all that jazz.

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Dummies Book Cover generator

This cool site lets you compose your own book covers.



For more great generators, check out this blog where I found it.

The Ninja Text Generator

The Ninja Text Generator is one of those funny generators you can now find online. The final result is an animated gif with the text you inserted, as seen here in my example:



click on the picture to see it in full size.

Text-image.com

an amazing image-to-text converter. check this out:

10000011101001011000101101110101111101011100010110
10100010010010000001001000001111000110101101110101
10000000010000111000001101110000101010011001001110
00011001011110001100010011101011010100010101111010
10001110111110111000101011001110011010000001000011
10000001101110011001000011110000101110010101100110
01101001100011100011010101010101100100000010100001
11110111100111111101010100000011111010010001010010
00010100101101000100001101101110100110111001001001
11000010100010100010000001100010111010010101001100
00111101010001110011100011101111111100011111110110
11001100001011000010111000100001010011001011101111
11100011110011101101011000010100101000111000110011
11111110100011011000010000010001000101000111111111
10100011111010110101000101101000100011001000110011
00100011001100011000100001001010111011011001101001
00111000010000000000111010101001111011110100010010
11111100100101000101110101010000110001111110101010
11100111000000011100011001000110011110001010110110
01100001111010110010010000100111111101101010100100

Programming Languages

An article named "10 Programming Languages You Should Learn Right Now" by Deborah Rothberg which I've ran across is a very interesting read. It's nice to know that I'm not far from the mainstream recommendations as for programming languages.

On my personal lists are Perl, AJAX and PHP. If time will allow it, C is the next in line. Ruby on Rails was on it before Perl, but I've come to realize that you need a stronger background in programming to start using RoR, which is kinda sad (at least for me).

Maybe sometime later, after a firm grasp of Perl and PHP, I'll get around to learning Python, but that's in a while.

Programming Perl WikiBook
AjaxPatterns
AJAX at MDC
Python Documentation
Python Programming for Beginners

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To Drupal or not to Drupal?

One of the things I'm currently considering is a new CMS system. I have to pick one out for a site I have to work on and finish with a deadline of about three months from today. The obvious ones that come to mind are Joomla or Drupal. Both are free CMS's, customizable and efficient. The finer details are what set them apart, at least to my knowledge.

I am on the lookout for a good Drupal tutorial for the beginners in Drupal, or something of the sort. If you know any good ones, drop me a link in the comments.

Photoshop celebrity Stock Images

This is a cool archive of celebrity stock images, in PSD format. It has a very nice directory index layout which is very useful.

Gmail Hacks Galore

Enter the list of GMail hacks, including the GMail-Blog and Linux on GMail. An interesting read.

If you like the list, please consider donating the author. A quote from the site:
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a NICE article

This link to the Washington Post's article about a company called NICE will also describe ways of usage of digital voice recordings. Though they don't really say it, I think this can also be applied to VOIP.

Linux Shell Scripting Tutorial

Well, I think the title says it all.

Click here to enter :-).

Drupal 5.0.0 is almost ready...

Awaiting the release of the new version, it was nice to hear it's almost ready. Head over to Drupal.