BlogCamp-The Day1

The day1 of BlogCamp was really very interesting.There was a wonderful presentation by all the participants.I had an opportunity to meet many people working in respectful companies.Also I learnt many things,came to know several ways of blogging,podcasing.....A talk on Wordpress by Ganesh Blogger by Prasanna Wordpress Hacks by Aswin Mobile Blogging by Varun Krishnan Ajaxifying your blog by Baskar were really fantastic.

SaneBull

SaneBull provides you with live RSS feeds from MSN, Yahoo, and The Street; to give you the upper hand in the stock markets. The interface of the live stock markets and market updates provides a showcase of what is possible using AJAX frameworks. Which, besides giving the site its appearance; facilitates in minimizing, maximizing, and closing un-needed windows. The homepage flaunts live RSS feeds from MSN, Yahoo &The Street.They have also incorporated builder modules in multiple places to provide browser interoperability; they proudly claim to support all of them!It’s a custom implementation of an Ajax solution with a Java powered back end. SaneBull is powered by well known javascript frameworks. using

• dtree
• prototype
• prototype windows
• script.aculo.us

Frustrated with your time tracking software????

Frustrated with your time tracking software?Then use Toogl. Toggl is online, uncluttered and team-friendly.It is online time and meeting tracking software. It provides users with a secure and convenient way to track their individual and team work hours and meetings. With Toggl, there is no limit to the number of projects or users; this basic functionality is free. Users can invite as many people to Toggl as it is absolutely free.

• First create an account.
• Then add your project name and other details.

I tried it.It is working fine.You can add n number of projects.

Personalizing yourself with a 3D ID

Wanna create a 3D ID????Just use Meez. Meez are about you expressing yourself online — and having fun doing it.

• Choose male/female.
• Select a skin tone.
• Add some hair.
• Go wild with different outfits and accessories.

Meez gives you millions of potential combinations, so you can create a look that’s unique to you. Once you’ve created your Meez, it’s time to get out there and show your digital self to the rest of the world. Use it as your personal I.D. when you’re on IM or messaging in your favorite online community. Place it in your blog. You can use your Meez on any site or program that accepts digital images. I created an account.But couldnt login later.I got fed up by clicking the login button 100 times.I tried in firefox,IE6.0.But all in vain.Hope the next time meez will allow me to create a 3D ID.

Preloadr

Do you have Flickr account???Then you can make use of Preloadr also . Preloadr is a free service providing image manipulation functions linked with your Flickr account. It is designed to pre-process photos uploaded to Flickr.No special installation and no additional registration is needed. Using Preloadr is absolutely free. You will be redirected to log into your account at Flickr.com and then sent back to this platform where you can access all your images and upload new photos. Before sending the images to Flickr, you can modify them with several tools like cropping, sharpening, color correction and much more. Once you've optimized your photo you can specify details about the image and set tags, as you're used to do at Flickr. If you're a Flickr Pro user, you can edit an existing image and replace the current copy with the new version. I logged in using my Flickr account.I was able to upload,crop,rotate,delete...... the photos.It was really fantastic.

Google Image Labeler

Google Image Labeler is a new feature of Google Image Search that allows you to label random images to help improve the quality of Google's image search results. You'll be randomly paired with a partner who's online and using the feature. Over a 90-second period, you and your partner will be shown the same set of images and asked to provide as many labels as possible to describe each image you see. When your label matches your partner's label, you'll earn some points and move on to the next image until time runs out. After time expires, you can explore the images you've seen and the websites where those images were found. And we'll show you the points you've earned throughout the session.

Wanna chat and send message for free???

Wanna chat and send messages for free??? Then use Nimbuzz.. Nimbuzz is a little piece of software that you install on your mobile phone.This allows us to chat and send Text messages for free within the Nimbuzz community.Also we can chat with our friends from other communities like MSN and Google Talk. The Nimbuzz patented technology lets us call others simply by clicking their nickname in our Nimbuzz chat client buddy list.With this request, a local GSM connection is established with one of the company’s domestic access numbers. Then the call is converted to a VOIP connection with the other party through one of the company’s central switches located in Amsterdam, New York or Hong Kong. Nimbuzz Voice will work from mobile-to-mobile, from mobile-to-PC and from PC-to-mobile, giving users the freedom to verbally chat with buddies across the same technology platform. Initial Nimbuzz Voice introduction will service Nimbuzz Chat users, followed by Google Talk and Skype.

Spring Frame Work

Spring is an open source framework created to reduce complexity of enterprise application development. The Spring Framework provides a simple approach to develop web applications with numerous properties files and helper classes littering the codebase. Using Spring we can configure transaction management, remote access to your logic using RMI or web services, mailing facilities and various options in Storing your data to a database. Using spring Framework we can use plugable readymade functions. Spring can effectively organize your middle tier objects, whether or not you choose to use EJB. Spring can eliminate the proliferation of Singletons seen on many projects. Spring can eliminate the need to use a variety of custom properties file formats, by handling configuration in a consistent way throughout applications and projects.

Windows Live Academic Search(Beta)

Windows Live Academic Search(Beta) is a powerful research tool to help you find and sort articles from thousands of academic and research journals, including computer science, electrical engineering, physics....and more.

Velocity

Velocity is a open source tool for web applications which allows as to easily create and render documents that format and present your data. It focuses on two Main areas: Servlet-based WWW development. General application use. Velocity provides a Class called VelocityServlet by which the developer can use it as a super class for the servlets in his web applications which provides additional support and offer a utility class to help with application development. Primarily used to develop dynamic, servlet-based Websites, Velocity's clean separation of template and Java code makes it ideal for Model 2-style Model-View-Controller (MVC) Web development. As a general template engine, Velocity suits many other purposes, such as code generation, XML generation and transformation, and textual stream processing. Velocity is useful in any Java application area that requires data formatting and presentation. You should use Velocity for the following reasons: It adapts to many application areas. It offers a simple, clear syntax for the template designer. It offers a simple programming model for the developer. Because templates and code are separate, you can develop and maintain them independently. The Velocity engine easily integrates into any Java application environment, especially servlets. Velocity enables templates to access any public method of data objects in the context. Velocity can be used with Servlet based technologies such as servlet,jsp for manipulate and presents the data to the end user effectively. Velocity lets us to write the code and design the template in parallel. The designer integrates the data into the nondata presentation content (like images, text, and so on) in the template. Velocity has built-in mathematical functions that can be used in templates with the set directive. Velocity Features: It's easy to use, both for designers and programmers . It separates your presentation formatting from your code. It lets you use your existing classes as they are. It's portable and works in any Java application. It's free and the source code. Represent the same data with different Template(Views).

Hibernate

Hibernate is a popular open source object relational mapping tool for Java platform. It provides powerful, ultra-high performance object/relational persistence and query service for Java. Hibernate lets you develop persistent classes following common Java idiom - including association, inheritance, polymorphism, composition and the Java collections framework. The Hibernate Query Language, designed as a "minimal" object-oriented extension to SQL, provides an elegant bridge between the object and relational worlds. * Hibernate can be used to develop/package and distribute the applications for free. * Hibernate is Scalable. * Less Development Time: It greatly reduces the development time. * Generate Keys Automatically: Hibernate Generates keys Automatically for the primary key fields in the relational database.