Open Source Living

As a windows user, you may think that is it possible to depend completely on Open Source Software? The answer is - absolutely! But how? Well, to find out how it is possible, check this site - www.osliving.com. This site is an excellent archive of open source resources both for window & linux users. It listed all necessary softwares that we need for everyday living.Here are all categories found in this site. Click any link to view open source softwares:

• Web++ » web browsers, RSS readers, email Clients, operating systems
  
• Graphics & Photo » photo editing, vector graphics, 3D modeling
• Video » media players, video editing, screencasts, DVD ripping & burning
• Audio » audio players, podcasting, recording, MP3 & audio tools
• Documents » word & office suites, note taking, personal finance
• Content Management » blogging, portals, forums, wiki, e-learning
• File Transfer » peer to peer, IRC, chat clients , file sharing & hosting
  
• Web Dev » MySQL & PHP, web dev references, Source code editors , flash
• Entertainment » games, screensavers, stars and planetarium software
• Miscellaneous » archiving, security, map tools, graph plotter, tracker

Don't click it

Tired by clicking with mouse? Let me introduce a new idea - Dontclick.it. Yes, you don't need to click anything in that site but only once to view its actions. The interesting thing is you will now find any button in this interface. Just move your mouse pointer over a link to view its action. But if you click anything then you will show you an error message:

The site is designed with Flash & very much attractive to browse with an on-screen hand. While browsing a popup message will appear and ask you "Do you miss the click?". Move your pointer over Yes or No and submit your vote.

At the top of the site you will find four menu items - Understand, Learn, Explore & Communicate.

1. Understand Menu
• The Story - In this section you will find information about why this new interface is invented.
• The Mousewrap - It is will be very hard to quite mouse click habit. In this section you will find a solution to leave this habit with mousewrap :D
• The Statistics - Here you will find statistics about how much vote is placed and number of visitors site visitors.
2. Learn
• The Click History - Here you will find a timeline view of history of computers & clicks.
• The Click Ergonomy - You will learn here why your body is involved in this interface.
• The Commercial Clicks - Here you will learn how people become richer by clicking an ad.
3. Explore
• The Button Lab - In this section you will explore their experiments replacing the clicks with different mechanism. Here you will also find out the benefits and drawbacks that come along with these techniques.
• The Autopilot - This section is interesting. Here you will show animations about how other visitors interact with this interface.
• The Mousecamp - Here you can improve your without click habit by three level exercising.
  
4. Communicate
• The Crowdshout - Leave your message about the interface here.
• The Links - Links of websites and portals that helped in developing this project.
• The Contact - You can contact with them from here.

Funny Flash Clock

StumbleUpon is amazing. It gives me all great sites of my interest. While surfing net with StumbleUpon toolbar I've just got this clock. I never viewed this type of funny thing before, lol. Definitely you will like it. Click this link and check by yourself. The clock is created with flash and all images are taken from this link.

Pro-Developer - Web Development Help

Last week I have created another blog for those who want to become a professional web developer. Here is the site: Pro-Developer. In this site I will post all types of articles, tutorials, tips & tricks of web development. I will try to help beginners to become a successful & professional freelancer web developers. I will post tips & tricks in my point of view.
Topics I will cover here are:

• Beginner's Help
• Freelancer Guide
• Developer's Tools
• Hacking Blogger
• PHP & MySQL
• CSS Tips & Tricks
• Javascript Tutorial
• My Developments
• and more

It the site become popular then my next plan is to create a reader's forum where you can discuss with each other to get more help. Hope you will enjoy it. So keep in touch, lots of posts & new topics are coming shortly.

mEgo - Interactive Portable Online Profile

While surfing net I just got this exiting tool - mEgo. It is a next generation portable online profile. With this online tool you can create personal avatar to share your online existence from a single place. You can create an animated widget profile and can integrate your photo, video, feed, etc. into this profile with few clicks. Then can publish it into MySpace, Friendster, Facebook, Orkut, Tagged, Blogger, Hi5, TypePad, iGoogle, PageFlakes and more. When you update your profile on mEgo it updates your avatar profile on all these online profiles. It is very simple to create a profile - Create Your Looks, Add Content, Add Feed & Share Your mEgo. Here are few screenshots and instructions about how to create profile into mEgo:

mEgo Home Page


Select A Body


Select Hair Style


Select Background


Select Animation


Enter About Yourself

Here is my mEgo Profile. Place your mouse pointer over the following widget and click icons to view more:

Blender - Revolution in 3d industry

When the first time I met with Blender I was amazed. It is a tiny little open source 3d content creation suite. Relative to its size, its power of creating 3d animation is unbelievable. The windows installer is just about 8MB. You can run this software even very low power computer. But you can't believe what type of animation you can create using it. Watch the following short film Elephants Dream created using blender:

The most exciting thing about the blender is - 3d movies created using this software is called "Open Movie". That means you can use all production files from the creators. Here is what the Elephants Dream website says:

Elephants Dream is the world’s first open movie, made entirely with open source graphics software such as Blender, and with all production files freely available to use however you please, under a Creative Commons license.

The short film was created by the Orange Open Movie Project studio in Amsterdam during 2005/2006, bringing together a diverse team of artists and developers from all over the world. More about the project...

There is another open movie Peach coming in this April. You can pre-order the DVD from here. I am very much excited to view this movie.