Free Website Tools
Free Website Tools

If you regularly work with different programming languages, you might like using the free open source Komodo Edit; it supports PHP, Python, Ruby, Perl and Tcl, plus JavaScript, CSS, HTML and template languages like RHTML, Template-Toolkit, HTML-Smarty and Django. It features autocomplete and calltips, multi-language file support, syntax coloring and syntax checking, Vi emulation, Emacs key bindings. Additionally, Komodo is available for Linux, Windows, Mac.

Create a forum on your website with free open source software phpBB. According to the site, “phpBB™ has become the most widely used Open Source forum solution. Like its predecessors, phpBB™ 3.0 “Olympus” has an easy to use administration panel and a user friendly installation process, which allows you to have a forum set up in minutes. With a large and highly customisable set of key features coupled with a standards compliant interface, phpBB™ will grow with, and complement your website. With millions of installations worldwide, it is no wonder phpBB™ is one of the most popular ways to create and support a community.”

Can your site handle a large increase in traffic? Pylot is a free open source tool for testing performance and scalability of web services. It runs HTTP load tests, which are useful for capacity planning, benchmarking, analysis, and system tuning.

Batch processing of images and manually renaming Exifs (Exchangeable Image File format is an image file format used by digital cameras) is a very time consuming task. Phatch is a free tool for processing batches of images and renaming Exifs. It’s open source and works on Linux, Mac Os X and Windows for all popular image formats. Phatch can batch resize, rotate, apply shadows, perspective, rounded corners in minutes instead of hours or days if you do it manually.

If you’d like to run your own personal URL shortener script, try BrainCray’s free PHP URL shortener script. Some of the proclaimed URL shortener script’s features are:

- Can shorten over 42 billion unique URLs in 6 or less characters (it can do more than 12,000,000 in only 4!)
- Includes an API so you can create your own short URLs on the fly
- Only uses alphanumeric characters so all browsers can interpret the URL
- Secure: several data filters in place to prevent SQL injection hacks
- Option to check if the URL is real (doesn’t respond with a 404) before shortening
- Option to change the characters allowed in a shortened url

There are many useful open source applications out there and Help Center Live’s Live Chat application is one of them. “Help Center Live is an open-source, community driven live chat & support system. You may easily provide live support on your website just like large companies do with very little work. With Help Center Live, you can provide a real-time, live support or sales person experience.”

This site offers free web services access to their data through remote access API. ‘The API strives to be simple to use in both on-line and desktop applications. It is based on standard HTTP queries and XML based responses.’ If you’re working on a book related project, this site offers vast data resources from libraries across the world. Of course, this is also a valuable book research (and shopping) site.

Open source system to help track and recover your laptop. Will also take picture of thief if you have an Apple laptop with iSight.

Create your own social networking site or content with open source content management software with social media features.

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We love this one: open source and free, this HD video player from Miro supports any file format and even lets you download most videos to your computer.