Reviews and Ratings
I've recently switched to Adium and managed to consolidate all of my different IM accounts and contacts (MSN, GoogleTalk, AIM) under a single client with the same "look and feel". This alone makes this piece of software a blessing.
Now if only some sort of basic skype support was added.
This is possibly the most popular request in Adium's issue tracker -- the infamous ticket #247 if you want to check it out.
Web Developer is my favourite Firefox extension and an indispensable tool for developers of web applications.
Whether you need to edit and preview changes to a stylesheet, test HTML forms, check HTTP responses or information stored in cookies (just to mention a few features), this addon is likely to provide you with all the tools you may need for real-time testing and debugging. It's free, GPL-licensed and actively maintained with many releases per year.
I have been looking for a while for a lightweight PHP/MySQL package to run my photography portfolio. I've been using Flickr to share some of my works, so I was not interested in fancy features such as comments, tags, EXIF parsing, rating etc. I just needed a solid photo portfolio package to do its job. I posted a request in a forum with the following wishlist:
- actively maintained package (or at least well coded/documented)
- out-of-the-box Lightbox JS support would be a plus
- output easy to style via CSS
- the possibility to create albums or categories. Not necessarily a hierarchy, just a simple way of grouping pics together.
- Some on-the-fly image resizing/thumbnail generation via GD libraries might be useful.
- GPL-licensed or similar
Then someone pointed to Zenphoto and to my surprise it answered to all of my wishes. It's a nice and powerful engine, with a flexible templating system and Wordpress-like theme support. It has a very lively community of users and contributors, which is definitely a plus when it comes to opensource development. End user documentation could be improved though, and tutorials to help developers familiarize with the API would be a nice addition. My only hope is that the project sticks to its modular vision and doesn't get bloated with tons of useless features to become yet another dumb photo gallery project.
Keep up the good work!
The popular definition "what Spotlight should have looked like" is nicely understated, if not outright false. QS is much more than a tool to index content: it turns complex productivity routines into simple motor patterns. I could hardly imagine working without QuickSilver and I learn every day new ways of adapting it to my needs. I am just so grateful I came across this piece of software. The source code is released under the Apache License since Nov 2007, which is yet another reason to love this tool.
