You remember Uptime Robot, a free website uptime monitoring service that we launched few weeks ago.

While building it, we're looking for a free & easy way for adding SMS support to the application which would notify users when their websites were down (and back up).

There are great APIs around but they are paid & we experienced that the best way to do this is using the e-mail to SMS gateways of mobile providers.

But we needed a list of providers that had support for e-mail to SMS.

After digging, we found several lists, realized that every provider has a different format where some requires a prefix & other can require a suffix, digit requirements differ, etc.

At the end we merged lists, removed invalid entries, added new ones with the help of Uptime Robot users & created a flexible MySQL table that included this data.

Now, we're sharing it (as SQL & CSV formats) at the Uptime Robot website so you can easily add SMS support to your web applications & won't lose the time we already did.

P.S. Note that there may still be some invalid entries that we couldn't get a feedback yet. If you think there are, please share them in comments, we'll updating them & always be sharing the latest version of the data.

TinyEditor is a lightweight (8kb) JavaScript WYSIWYG editor that is free to use in both personal & commercial projects.

It is a standalone script (does not require any JS frameworks) & converts any given textarea to an editor

The can be easily customized by updating the parameters (like removing some of the controls). And it is possible to style it via CSS:

TinyEditor can be resized, a starting content can be defined, set to generate HTML or XHTML code & more..

Formwizard is a jQuery plugin which can instantly convert your standard forms into wizard-like interfaces.

Once it is applied, users will be able to fill the form step-by-step (which is nice for big forms) & it becomes possible to show different steps according to the input values.

It only requires a few markup updates like wrapping every step with elements that has id tags: "firstStep, "secondStep", etc & adding class tags: "step".

Formwizard also plays nice with the popular validation & form plugins that will help enabling client-side form validation & Ajaxed submissions.

Teambox is an open source platform that enables teams to collaborate on projects with a Twitter-like interface.

The application is built with Ruby on Rails and, besides the open source version, has a hosted version too.

Users can create an unlimited number of projects & tasks, assign them to their colleagues, share messages, files & much more.

Users can start a conversation instantly, create pages to store information & Teambox can integrate clients to the system to colaborate with them easily.

The application is multilingual, has support for mobile phones & offers a read-only API for integrations with 3rd party softwares.

52framework is a CSS framework which aims to provide an easy way to build websites using HTML5 & CSS3 while still supporting all modern browsers (including ie6).

It uses HTML5 tags like header, nav, section, article, footer or new input field types like url, email, etc. The framework also has a HTML5 compatible reset stylesheet.

52framework uses the new ::selection selector that enables you to customize the properties of selected text.

It can apply rounded corners for any block level element, text-shadow for text elements & more.

The framework also includes styles for creating grids: 16 column, 52 pixel based with 8 pixel gutter.

52framework is a user-contributed resource & you can easily send suggestions to improve it further.

gMap is a lightweight (2kb) jQuery plugin for easily integrating Google Maps into any website.

It can embed a map with a tiny function like:

$("#map").gMap();

and can be customized further with settings like:

• latitude/longitude
• default zoom level
• markers, their positions, info to display as a pop-up, custom marker images
• mapping controls on/off
• & more..

Plupload is a very flexible, feature-rich & open source file uploader that enables you to upload files using:

• HTML5 Gears
• Silverlight
• Flash
• BrowserPlus
• normal forms

It can be used via the JavaScript API or the ready-to-go jQuery plugin.

Plupload has great features like image resizing, displaying upload progress, drag'n drop, multiple file uploads, unique filename generation, max-file-size limit & more.

As expected, it has a server-side file to handle the uploads (PHP file is included with the download).

It is possible to define multiple runtimes (Flash, HTML5 Gears, etc) in the code. The uploader will check their availability in the configured order & select the most appropriate method.

The library is very well-documented & comes with various examples.

FeedBurner's popular chicklet FeedCount is the most-used way to display the number of subscribers for a feed.

Also, a similar design is used by TwitterCounter to display your Twitter followers.

We'll be creating a dynamic FeedCount-like interface that can display your website's statistics like pageviews, visits, etc. (one or all of them) using PHP.

At the end of this tutorial, we'll have 2 different counters:

• a counter that can display only one metric – basic version
• a counter that can display multiple metrics (some jQuery fun here) – advanced version

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SlickBoard is a pretty different tool, built by the developers of XML/SWF Charts, for creating:

• unlimited graphics
• attractive interface elements (buttons, menus, tabs, drawers, etc.), animated slideshows
• live dashboards (dials, gauges, ticker tapes, etc.)
• interactive presentations (drag, dock, etc.)
• dynamic web pages
• & more..

It works by describing the output with XML & passing it to the SlickBoard's SWF file, that's all.

The tool offers unlimited output variations with the flexibility & built-in features it has (like rotating/sliding/minimizing objects, form/menu/tab controls, advanced drawing capabilities, etc.).

IconDock, an icon design company, is sharing a set of 50 vector social media icons.

The set comes in EPS, PNG & GIF formats with 16px & 32px sizes (they can be resized to any custom size using the vector format).

Besides the popular social networks like Facebook, Twitter or Delicious, the set also includes icons for retweeting, Google Talk, Amazon, SlideShare & much more.