Almost every e-commerce website & web application that requires a secure connection needs a SSL certificate.
You can buy certificates from the websites of the related brands, or to buy them much cheaper:
SSLmatic is a very-easy-to-use & concentrated e-store where you can buy SSL certificates of the most popular brands for far cheaper prices.
And, they are giving away 5 RapidSSL certificates/1 year ($19.99/year) to WebResourcesDepot readers. Details of the giveaway can be found at the bottom of the post.
The prices are:
An there are wildcard certificates too:
It is easy & fast:
Process of purchasing these cheap SSL certificates is very simple:
- Choose your certificate
- Complete the payment
- And get an e-mail with a special link of the related SSL brand to self-issue your SSL certificate
- This process takes only 15 minutes in most certificates
How to win the free certificates?
Commenting to this post is enough to join this giveaway & winners will be selected randomly via the query below on 14 January 2009 (8 days later).
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Good luck to all : ).
Photoshop plug-ins are the add-ons that power a Photoshop user.
They make a complicated task much easier & help creating amazing effects, designing faster & better.
There are lots of free Photoshop plug-ins which can fire your skills. This post aims to present most of them (150+) in a comprehensive way.
How to install Photoshop plug-ins?
Photoshop plug-ins are .8bf files. After downloading a plug-in, simply place it in the presets>plug-ins folder of the Photoshop’s installation folder (creating a folder with a name defining the plug-in & placing the plug-in files inside the folder will make it more organized).
Here they are:
AlphaWorks - Transparency Effects
A free Photoshop plugin for easily removing black or white values and making the region transparent.
It provides 6 different filters to match any photo type.
ColourWorks - Colour Modification
It has 20 effects to modify image colour values in several ways.
The plug-in can be used for digital-photo color correction or any other transformations.
EdgeWorks - Cool Artistic Styles
It has 20 effects to create dramatic edge and colour modifications.
This Photoshop plugin is handy for photo transformations for a highly stylized look & creating interesting texture effects
ScreenWorks
Easily create screen/mesh patterns with 30 options.
In one step, you can add small detailed and repetitive texture overlay effects to areas of your image.
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OS FLV is an open source & embeddable flv player.
The player has a large amount of options that can be set within the embed code.
It has an API, written in PHP, that enables you to control almost anything like:
- the flv file to be played
- width, height & colors
- auto-play, auto-rewind, auto-load options
- volume, loop & more..
OS FLV also has a mambot for Joomla for an easy integration.
Flapi is an open source Flash gallery for displaying Flickr photo sets/images.
It can be easily integrated into any webpage or a Flash application.
It shows you the photo sets -which you can select from- to view the images within.
Flapi is very flexible. It can be configured in many ways from a XML file, like:
- which sets to be displayed
- Random play
- Rotate period
- Show/hide navigation
- Colors, borders 6 more..
You can always personalize it more as the .fla source file can be downloaded.
Liquidicity is presenting these quality & free vector arrow icons.
There are 16 types of arrow icons (+ the rotations which equal to 64 icons).
Considering there are several types of arrows included, the set is very handy to be used in any type of design/application.
They can be downloaded as an Adobe Illustrator CS2 file or in SVG format.
AudioPlay is a simple & free Flash mp3 player with only one button.
The "play" button, once clicked, starts playing the mp3 file & turns into a "pause" button. That’s all AudioPlay does.
The images used can be easily changed by simply updating the current image files.
The settings that can be configured from a xml file:
- background color
- mp3 file name
- loop (never, x times or unlimited)
- autostart
It also supports multiple instances on the same page.
To conclude, it is an ideal player to be used as a background music player.
OpenZoom is an open source framework for creating zoomable user interfaces.
The framework is similar to Silverlight’s Deep Zoom control (see WRD post), but for Flash.
The power behind OpenZoom is Flex MultiScaleImage component, which is built on top of the OpenZoom framework.
The name is same wih the Silverlight Deep Zoom’s built-in control & the usage is similar too.
The component has built-in support for keyboard / mouse activities & supports Deep Zoom, Zoomify & OpenZoom images.
For now, OpenZoom can sound to specific, but considering its abilities & usage areas, we’ll probably be hearing more about it soon.
P.S. The framework is so fresh & still in development but it can be downloaded (& it is documented).
Agile Carousel is a feature-rich jQuery plugin for creating attractive image sliders.
With a bunch of options to customize the slider, and it can be used with or without jQuery UI for more effects, the plugin provides total control.
From a folder mentioned, it gets the images via PHP (not Ajaxed).
Some controls it has are:
- Prev-next button options
- Enable-disable slide captions
- Effects used, delays
- Use of watermarks (text)
- & many more..
A demo with all the features can be found here.
PXtoEM.com is a website that makes converting PX values to EM values easier.
Conversions are based on 16px browser default size & you simply:
- Select your body font size
- And get the conversion
- Or, manually enter PX or EM values to get custom conversions.
The CSS file of the values you’ve choosen can be get based on the typography.css portion of Blueprint CSS to setup a default typography.
Pandora FMS is an open source application that can be used to monitor anything online like:
- if a website is up or down
- if the content of a website is changed (deface control or when value of a stock changes..)
- diskspace or CPU usage of a remote server (via SNMP or TCP/IP)
- & many more..
Pandora FMS can run on any operating system, with specific agents for each platform, getting the data and sending it to a server.
You can get real-time reports for every monitor & have them sent to an e-mail adrdess.
It can also send notifications of events via e-mail, SMS or Jabber (MSN, GTalk..) to the desired users.
P.S. To mention, Pandora FMS is not a simple script to install. It is made up by several shellscript files (UNIX/Linux Agents), a Web application in PHP (Console), some code in C++ (Windows Agent), some code in PERL5 (Server) and some structure and data in SQL (Database).
