Free and Private Web Analytics

If you love Google Analytics but don’t like the idea that Google has all your data, Piwik is a great alternative. Install it on your site and Piwik will give you all the customized reports you could want and will keep it private.

Piwik is modular and fully customizable so you can add or remove plugins as you need them. Try the online demo or visit the site.

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Browser Resizer

Test or check your design in various browser sizes. Pick a size, a URL and this online tool will show you what you’d see in your browser at that resolution
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Jpeg Snoop

This free software (sorry, windows only) gives you lots of information about Jpeg, Mov, PDF files and more. Want to know if an image has been edited or modified? What was it’s compression setting? This and much much more can be discovered by Jpeg Snoop (the features list alone would fill 10 posts)

File types supported:

• .JPG - JPEG Still Photo
• .THM - Thumbnail for RAW Photo / Movie Files
• .AVI* - AVI Movies
• .DNG - Digital Negative RAW Photo
• .CRW, .CR2, .NEF, .ORF, .PEF - RAW Photo
• .MOV* - QuickTime Movies, QTVR (Virtual Reality / 360 Panoramic)
• .PDF - Adobe PDF Documents

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P.S. Memories Recovered.

While writing Jpeg Snoop, the author learnt how to repair seemingly fatally corrupt Jpeg images. Though he no longer offers this as a service, he does share a fair amount of tips on how you might go about doing this yourself if you are technically inclined you can read about it here: fix a corrupt Jpeg

A heart-warming happy ending from the JpegSnoop site comments:

Hi Calvin: While at Disney I accidently deleted my sd card. I used several recovery programs and got most pictures back but one very important picture was corrupted only 1/3rd of picture showing and rest was grey. I had all but given up hope of recovering it until by chance (thanks Google) I happened upon your site and your utility JPEGsnoop. The abilities and information provided are way beyond my understanding however when I opened the image and clicked Image search fwd the entire image appeared…I thank you from the bottom of my heart because I broke a 12 year old girls heart when I deleted it. I will be sending you a token of my gratitude and sincere thanks.

TinyTable Javascript

Tiny indeed! This 2.5kb JavaScript tabke sorter is packed with features including column highlighting, optional pagination, support for links, and date/link parsing.

Other features (from the site)

• alternate row highlighting
• header class toggling
• auto data type recognition
• selective column sorting.

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Quick Who Is Lookup

If you need to know who owns a website where it’s registered, when it was registered, etc. here’s a quick whois lookup site that avoids the usual captcha step to get you the info you need with minimal fuss.
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Easy to Use News Management System

Cute News is an easy to use News Management system for running news updates, info bulletins etc. It supports commenting, archives, search function, file upload management, backup & restore, IP banning, flood protection and much more with no need for MySQL databases. The free version says “Powered by CuteNews…” in your news.

Some of the features, from the site:

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Less Annoying Captcha

Perhaps not the most secure way on earth to ensure that the visitor is human and not a bot, but it’s clever and easy enough to use that you are much less likely to irritate your web visitors off your site. Full instructions on installation are all on the site
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SEO Data Finder

URLinfo gives you access to an enormous amount of info about a website via a tabbed panel of tools. It’s really an online interface that accesses dozens of useful online databases from one place.
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