Screenpresso is a free screen capture utility with more features than you could imagine. Capture windows or regions, batch resize, crop, spotlight, add comments, add effects, even capture a scrolling screen with built in image stitching!
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Sikuli, developed at MIT and available for download for free for all platforms (Mac, PC, Linux) enables you to automate any dull or repetitive task without internal API support. It requires a little bit of scripting but it’s genius is that it uses image recognition to complete most tasks. Unlike many Macro recorders that require buttons to be in the same place, Sikuli will click on any button or data entry field you want it to by looking for that button anywhere on the screen using image recognition. The demo video makes this much clearer than I have.
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Need to do some uploading or file management on your website via FTP while on the road? net2ftp is a web based FTP client that will allow you to do most of the usual FTP tasks.
If you are looking for a great FTP plugin for FireFox, look no further than the FireFTP plugin.
When working on a large project with many people involved, project management software can be very useful in keeping everyone on track as well as keeping an eye on the big picture. If you don’t want to spend the thousand dollars it costs to buy Microsoft Project, the project management software, you might consider the excellent OpenProj which is a completely free software package available on Linux, Unix, Mac or Windows.
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PhpBB is probably the most widely used Open Source forum It has an easy to use administration panel and a user friendly installation process, which allows you to have a forum set up in minutes. It has hundreds of free skins if you want to change the look to match your website.
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Fully customizable MP3 Player, built with support for multiple Artists and Albums. Everything is XML customizable, including player and images size, player colors, speed and transition effects. Using XML to configure it means you don’t have to be a designer or coder to get the look you want.
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Mondrianum is a free (Mac only) plugin that allows you to access the excellent Kuler colour palettes in most mac design apps like Photoshop, Google sketchup and more.
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Dropresize automatically resizes any images placed in it’s folder according to a predefined height or width and quality setting. Very useful for quickly and automatically resizing a batch of images to the correct size for your blog or web site.
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