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Ajax & HTML 5

Crocodoc

W-L-M - Open source
A replacement to Flash in HTML 5: embedding PDF or Word documents into a Web page to display them along the content of the page.

Chat

W-L-M - Open source
Ajax source code for a chat service.

Ajax frameworks

W-L-M - Open source
Client-side and server-side libraries.
See also: JavaScript libraries. Specialized librairies to extend the language and add widgets.

Firebug

W-L-M - Open source
Plugin for Firefox that may help to debug Ajax application. Displays content of XHR exchanges between browser and server.

XBug

Windows
Cross-browser JavaScript debugger. It traces or steps through the scripts while running and displays contents of variables.

Best programming tools

NetBeans

All system - Open source
IDE destined to Java, PHP and C++. The design is nearest that of Visual Studio than that rather intricate of Eclipse. Two servers are integrated, Apache and Glassfish, to execute locally web scripts.
Written in Java.

Eclipse

Java - Open source
IDE platform for integrating tools. You can add tools to the interface. IDEs are available for C++, PHP and other languages. Plug-ins for XUL design.
Some tutorials are available on this site.

Inno Setup

Windows - Open source
Full installer generator, makes compact archives. Pascal sources provided.

Doxygen

Free
Generates docs from comments in sources.

UPX

Open source
Reduces size of binary executable up to 30% of the original size.

Wotsit

Formats of files.

Code Project

Windows
Articles with sources for common programming languages.

XML and XUL

Xin

Windows - Open source
A simple XML editor. Indent, validate. See also PSPad, a universal editor or the XML Notepad from Microsoft.

Tools for webmasters

Ara RSS Editor

Open source
Online, easy to use, RSS editor for generating the feed of your website with selected articles.
See also Bioloide on the same site.

Check Page

Check the HTML code of a web page.

Check Site

Checks your home page under each Linux browser, and displays it for some times.

Web Developer

Toolbar for Webmaster, plugin to Firefox with a lot of useful functions.

Xenu's link

Link checker, detect broken links in pages of a website.

See also the command line link checker. The last version offers a HTML 5 graphical interface.

List of HTML editors

Open source
Best WYSIWYG tools to make Web pages with CSS. Some can edit XML and other formats too.

Internet

Firefox

Open source
Secured, cross-platform web browser.

Filezilla

Open source
Manager for file transfer on the Web. See also PHP FTP Synchronizer, a command-line tool.

Thunderbird

Open source
E-mails manager.

Spybot

Windows - Free
Remove spy programs from you computer, these things install themselves in background and slow down connections..

Free Download Manager

Windows - Free
Improve downloading.

Hoax Killer

Database about false info around the web.

Converting formats

Without installing any software, converts files, even old ones, from a format to another, in the text, image, audio, video categories.

Graphics and video

XnView

Free
Pictures and movies viewer, for a lot of formats. But memory is quickly full.

Paint.net

Windows - Freeware
Drawing tools that resembles gradually to Gimp while retaining the simplicity of Photoshop. Supports layers, many filters, and the main image formats.
The function to draw arrows on a graph is a model of ergonomics.

Inkscape

Open source
Vector-based graphic editor using the SVG (Scalable vector graphic) format.
You can load SVG file in Gimp too.

Virtual Dub

Open source
Video maker for AVI, Mpeg, Divx...

MSU Cartoonizer

windows - Free
Plugin for Virtual Dub that transforms photos into paintings and movies into cartoons. Download the examples.

MW Snap

Windows - Free
Screen capture tool for the whole screen, a windows, or a selected part of the screen.

XBMC

Open source
Open source media center for all systems. Allows you to watch videos, listen to music and manage a repository over several storage units. More usable than the Windows Media Center.
See also Firefogg.

Miro Video Converter

Open source
Aimed at mobiles, converts videos from these formats: H264, WMV, MOV, THEORA, XVID to MP4 or THEORA. The WebM and VP8 codec has just been added.
See also TmpGenc (AVI to Mpeg.)

Sweet Home 3D

Windows - Open source
Home editor. Designed to build house from outline, and add pieces of furnitures, a library being provided for that along with the software.
A 3D view is obtained with just one command as well as the virtual visit.
10 minutes are sufficient to master the software and build its own house.
Since version 3.4 multiple floors are allowed.

Terragen

Windows - Freeware
Landscape generator. Using fractals, makes trees, seas, mounts, etc...

Slate

Windows - Freeware
Free video editor by Xtranormal.com. Videos are built by picking characters and moving them on the scene.
Add text then, to build a true movie with comic style design.

Advanced Graphics

OpenFX

Windows - Open source
3D graphical editor, allow to draw images and design animations.

POV

Open source
3D scripting tool to build images by ray-tracing.

 Utilities

Security Essentials

Windows
Free antivirus from Microsoft. Protect your computer against spy scripts and viruses.

IZarc

Windows
Archive manager, can create ZIP, BZ2, TAR, GZ archive. Can unpack CAB, RAR, ARJ, RPM.
Info-Zip est supported by all systems.

Advanced Explorer

Java - Open source
Universal file and zip manager. Can test CD, synchronize directories.

CD Burner XP

Windows XP - Free

CD-Rom and DVD burner. See at the list of supported hardware on the site. Try a rewritable disc first.

DVD Shrink

Windows - Free
Save 7 gigas DVD in 2 or 3 gigas files.

DriveImage XML Private Edition

Windows - Free
Creates an image of your hard disk which allows to restore it in the event of data loss. To be used before a risky operation.

HWInfo32 - System Information for Windows

Windows - Free

Offered as freeware, provides essential information on the hardware and system software on your computer and makes benchmarks.

See also Speccy.

Win2-7 Pack

Linux - Free

For the Gnome desktop, this theme makes Linux looks just like Windows 7 and ease to switch from Windows to Linux without trouble.

PC Inspector

Windows - Free
Undelete files or directories, into another disk.

Unix Tools

Open source

Windows versions of command line tools from Unix.

GOW is another similar tool.

See also:

Documents

LibreOffice

Open source
LibreOffice (OpenOffice.org) is a free office suite that includes an HTML Wysiwyg editor. It is a word processor, a database manager, spreadsheet, and drawing tool.
Can save documents as PDF or in lightweight HTML files. Compatible with Word and MS office.
The last 3.5.4 version improved the speed dramatically.

Games

OpenGameArt

All - Freeware
Deposition of art, provides developers with all the free graphics to make games. The site with Mozilla organizes the Liberated Pixel Cup, a competition to achieve the best free game with these graphics objects.

My Play City

Freeware - W
Free games with pretty graphics.

Take The Block

Free - W
Both game and game editor, offers to build a new level.

means for: Windows & Linux


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