Ptwix is an open source web component, that is built with PHP, for displaying tweets in an Ajaxed interface.

It can be configured to show your tweets or the tweets of your friends.

Once a webpage is loaded, the latest tweets are shown & "an update button" can make an Ajax call to get the new ones.

The component comes with 3 ready-to-use themes & new ones can be created by updating the CSS + images used.

Ptwix is so easy to install & it supports caching for faster loading.

Navicat, an impressive database admin tool which has versions to manage specific databases is now offering an unique tool named Navicat Premium which can manage:

• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• Oracle

within a single application with amazing features.

Navicat Premium allows you to control these 3 database types like they are the same & saves you too much time. You can:

• drag’n drop tables from Oracle to MySQL, PostgreSQL to MySQL and vice versa
• schedule operations for different databases such as print report in MySQL, backup data in Oracle and synchronize data in PostgreSQL to run automatically

The application comes with all the nice features of the Navicat family:

• advanced import/ export wizard
• query builder
• report builder
• data synchronization
• backup
• job scheduler
• & more

For anyone who works cross-database, Navicat Premium is a must-have software that removes all the headache of working with multiple applications & compatibility problems between databases.

It is available for two platforms - Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.

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Navicat is offering a 50% discount to WRD readers for Navicat Premium. To get the discount, you need to choose the "Shareit" as the payment option and use the coupon code: webpre50.

Note: Discount will be available for 2 weeks starting today (until 17 July 2009)

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MySpace is sharing an open source project named MySpace’s Performance Tracker which is an Internet Explorer plugin for capturing and measuring possible bottlenecks on webpages.

The plugin is a great helper to developers for:

• measure the CPU hit and memory footprint of your pages
• reviewing screenshots of the page while it renders
• reviewing rendered HTML on each point of the page’s lifecycle
• viewing estimates of the time it takes to render each section of the page in different connection speeds
• validating the content of pages against a set of proven “best practice” rules of web development. 

P.S. The tool is currently in pre-alpha state.

(smt) is a free script, built with JavaScript & PHP, to create a simple mouse tracking system for webpages.

It enables you to watch how visitors interact with a webpage like:

• which areas they click
• what parts they highlight
• & more..

(smt) can work with both liquid & fixed layouts. For any user with "JavaScript disabled" it will gracefully degrade.

The script is very easy-to-install by simply uploading the project folder & including the JS files to the pages to be recorded (documentation).

With various options provided, it is possible to enable/disable viewing the mouse activity routes, distances, clicks & more.

Inside the "Let’s make the web faster" website, Google is sharing the tips & tutorials for better performing webpages.

Some of the articles are:

• HTTP caching
• PHP peformance tips
• Optimizing JavaScript code
• & much more.

Besides the articles, It is possible to reach videos of speeches by several organizations on website performance.

Also, links to various tools for the issue provided & a large community discusses the subject continiously.

When working on projects as a group of designers & developers, it sometimes requires an effort to keep all files within the project synchronized.

Jake is a free & open source software which keeps everything synchronized in a group of any number of users & does not require a central server.

Usage of the software is very easy:

• create a project
• drag’n drop the folder of the projects
• invite other people to see the project

Jake uses Jabber and open source chat server engines for the communication & users can login even with their Google username/passwords or any Jabber server.

The software is available for Windows, Mac & Linux.

Wix is a free web-based service for creating simple to advanced Flash websites.

It offers 100s of ready-to-use and well-categorized free Flash templates (like e-flyers, photographers, business & more) or everything can be created from scratch with a blank one.

Wix is very easy to use with its drag’n drop editor that enables anyone to add:

• any type of media (sound, video, images)
• shapes, cliparts, animations, effects
• advanced photo albums (slideshows, coverflow, carousel & more)
• & lots of widgets like Google Maps, RSS, contact forms

to their websites.

If you want to sell stuff, the application has a solution for that too. It offers PayPal buttons to be added & configured with ease.

Although Wix looks like a perfect fit for anyone who is not into or new to web design (considering it does not require any programming skills), it is also a solution for experienced users to create impressive websites very quickly.

Websites created by this free web design service are search engine friendly & hosted free. For anyone looking into getting more with Wix, check the premium upgrades.

P.S. This post is a sponsored review.

For every web designer & developer, refreshing the browsers to see the updates we make is a very common action.

XRefresh is a solution, specifically built for easing this process, which automatically refreshes browsers once an update to a file in our project folder is done.

It comes with 2 parts: a browser plugin (both for Firefox & IE) and an application (for Windows & Mac) which watches the changes made in the folders we mentioned.

Although it is handy for systems with one monitor, the best environment will probably be two monitors where the IDE & the browsers runs on each.

P.S. For Firefox, it requires Firebug to be installed.

KnowledgeTree is an enterprise-level open source document management application built with PHP & uses MySQL for storing the data.

It enables reaching documents via web, desktop or Microsoft Office applications (via an add-in) & sharing them become easier with integrated dicussion forums, e-mailing, tagging & more.

With a role-based permission system, every user can view the documents they are permitted to, updates on documents are tracked & every user can connect with a different language to the system which is great for virtual, multilingual offices.

KnowledgeTree accepts adding documents in bulk (zipped), has built-in support for scanners & OCR softwares. Also, with the API support, it can be integrated with 3rd party softwares.

Besides those powerful features, the application has a powerful search module which works on numerous document types (Microsoft Office, PDF, OpenOffice, XML, HTML, RTF, text) & offers solutions to improve workflows.

Opera, with version 10, is announcing a new feature named Opera Unite which converts any device running this browser into a web server.

It is an open platform where, using its API, developers can create new services/products (with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SVG and AJAX) which will be served from user’s computers.

It already comes with various ready-to-use services like:

• file sharing
• media player (reach your media from anywhere)
• web server (host websites, currently static pages but won’t be surprising to see new ones supporting PHP, ASP.NET & others)
• the lounge (for hosting a chat room)
• & more..

To read more & download Opera Unite, click here.