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Picnik – edit photos the easy way, in your browser

July 10, 2008 No Comments

Picnik is photo editing online, in your browser. It gives real people photo editing superpowers. It’s fast, easy, and offers tons of powerful tools, artistic effects, stickers, frames, touch-ups, scrapbooking tools and more. And that’s all for free. There’s even more available for Picnik Premium members: More tools, advanced effects, seasonal content all year long and more! Picnik launched in September 2007 and in the past few years has amassed millions of happy fans on the site, through Facebook, embedded in Flickr, Picasa, Yahoo! Mail, and dozens of our other API partners.

Features

  • Fix your photos in just one click
  • Use advanced controls to fine-tune your results
  • Crop, resize, and rotate in real-time
  • Tons of special effects, from artsy to fun
  • Astoundingly fast, right in your browser
  • Awesome fonts and top-quality type tool
  • Basketfuls of shapes from hand-picked designers
  • Works on Mac, Windows, and Linux
  • No download required, nothing to install
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Vista-like Ajax Calendar with Mootools

July 6, 2008 4 Comments

The Vista-like Ajax Calendar (vlaCalendar) is a unobtrusive web version of the slick and profound Windows Vista taskbar calendar, by using the Mootools Javascript Framework, AJAX, XHTML, CSS and PHP.

Key Features

  • Authentic Vista look-and-feel
  • Quick navigation by jumping back and forth between months, years and decades without drop-down boxes
  • Smooth transition animations
  • Customizable features
  • Lightweight
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pChart – a PHP class to build charts

July 3, 2008 2 Comments

pChart is a PHP class oriented framework designed to create aliased charts. Most of today’s chart libraries have a cost, our project is intended to be free. Data can be retrieved from SQL queries, CSV files, or manually provided.

Focus has been put on rendering quality introducing an aliasing algorithm to draw eye candy graphics. In fact, quality is slowing down the renderer engine… this is one of our way of improvement!

The first purpose of pChart was to provide an easy interface for drawing anti-aliased pictures using the GD library. Then alpha-transparency and shadow supports have been integrated in addition to all the primitive functions to draw basic shapes. pChart can be used as a high level drawing library if you only need to create shapes & text composed pictures.

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TipJoy – New service to leave tips for content!

June 30, 2008 1 Comment

TipJoy is a new service that allows users to leave small tips for content that they love. Once you have signed up for TipJoy you can leave a $0.10 tip with a single click and never leave the site!

Update:

This site is no longer in service. It seemed to be a good idea but maybe it was just bad timing. Read my article on why some start-ups fail.

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SPAW – GPL Web Based WYSIWYG Editor Control

June 15, 2008 1 Comment

SPAW Editor is a web based in-browser WYSIWYG HTML editor control. It is a replacement for standard HTML textarea fields for rich text content editing. Version 2 builds on great widely acclaimed features of the first version and includes lots of exciting new features and improvements. The following are some major features that are built into the editor.

Tabbed Multi-document Interface

Version 2 introduces new industry unique tabbed multi-document interface feature. Now you can edit virtually unlimited number of HTML snippets in a single WYSIWYG instance. This can save a lot of screen space, unnecessary scrolling and loading time compared to other solutions where you have to load as many WYSIWYG instances as HTML snippets you want to edit.

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Hello, my name is Richard Castera. I have more than 12 years of experience architecting, implementing, leading and launching large scale, high performance software products in a fast-paced agile environment.

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