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On-Demand Image Generator – EasyImg

Umut M. — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:39:54 +0000

EasyImg, to mention at first, is a very different kind of web service which can be very powerful under the creative hands.

It is a highly customizable web-based graphics engine that enables anyone to insert "instantly created custom images" to their websites.

How it works?

EasyImg works by sending a formatted query to the service as the source of an image. An example will describe it better:

will return:

where:

fd592fce = is the token for my account
h-60 = height is 60px
w-480 = width is 480px
bw-2 = border width is 2px
and you can possibly guess the rest easily..

Besides the standard image properties, it is possible to use various fonts, rotate the final image, add gradients & more.

And, as it doesn’t use any JavaScript or CSS hack, it is totally compatible with any browser.

EasyImg can be set to re-create the image every time it is called or use caching for faster usage.

Also, it is not a must to host every image generated at the system. They can be downloaded as a single ZIP file anytime.

Where can I use it?

Primarily, it is a great fit to be used in websites where images must/can be customized like:

users customizing the look & feel of their accounts (you may need to create rounded corners with different colors)
usage of rotation
usage of custom fonts
no image editing software (ideal for customers who are not into webdesign but want to update the look of websites – can be integrated into CMSs)

And, it is a perfect fit for special cases like dynamic barcode generation (just use the barcode font).

EasyImg comes with different plans where a free one exists as well.

You can see how powerful it can be with the options it offers & from the samples. Or, you can play with the online canvas.

P.S. This post is a sponsored review.

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Paymo: Full-Featured Time Tracking & Invoicing (20 Lifetime Invoice Accounts Giveaway)

Umut M. — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:01:28 +0000

Paymo, a multilanguage & web-based time-tracking / invoicing application is giving away "20 Lifetime Invoice Accounts" (normally $9.99/month) to WebResourcesDepot users. Before any more details on that:

What is Paymo?

Paymo is a very functional application for anyone (whether you're a "one-man-army" or a "team that works on same/different projects") for tracking the time that is worked on projects>tasks, analyze that time & bill your clients accordingly.

How does it work?

Users:

First thing to do is creating users (the application is totally free for up to 3 users). Considering every user may have different conditions, it is possible to set variables like workday length, timezone, week start day, etc for every user.

Clients:

It is necessary to define clients (this can be yourself for your own projects) in order to create the projects. This info is also used in the invoices.

Projects > Tasks:

That's the heart of the application, yet very simple to define & use.

Projects can be created by defining the details like: the client, budget hours, price per hour & users that will work in the project. After that, tasks can be created which are the main things that the application tracks the time of.

Tracking the time:

Time can be tracked in 3 ways:

web-based pop-up
desktop client/widget (Windows, Mac & Linux supported)
mobile time tracking using Paymo2Go

By simply start-stopping the tracker, the time worked on the selected tasks are added automatically. The tracker can also work offline if Google Gears is installed.

It is always possible to manually add/edit/delete the time worked on.

Invoicing:

The invoices can be created instantly by using the time that is worked on a project & that projects's hourly rate.

It is also possible to manually add entries that doesn't exist in the timesheets which makes Paymo an independent billing app. as well.

In order to keep record of the invoices, every payment made can be added to the system & the balances of every invoice can be seen with a click.

Reporting & analysis:

The application has a powerful reporting module that makes it possible to generate ready-to-use or custom reports. The data can also be exported as PDF or CSV files for future analysis.

API

For anyone willing to integrate Paymo into any other application, that's pretty easy with a complete API that supports almost every feature of the application.

Conclusion

The best thing about Paymo is the simplicity it offers. On every step, it takes no more than a few seconds to complete a task (add an entry, get a report, etc.).

Another one is the application supporting multi-platform (Win, Mac, Linux) & multilanguage that makes it suitable for teams that are distributed around the world.

Also, it has a free version that works up to 3 users & 3 invoices/month which can be ideal for many freelancers or small businesses.

Have any questions to Paymo?

Besides reaching them using the standard ways, the friendly team at Paymo is ready to answer your questions via their Twitter account:@paymo.

How to win the "Lifetime Invoice Accounts"?

Paymo is ~~giving away 20 "Lifetime Invoice Accounts"~~ which enables you to generate unlimited invoices & normally worth $9.99/month.

***UPDATE – 1*** (October 8th)
As the 20 lifetime accounts have just been requested, Paymo is giving away an extra 50 "3-months-free Invoice Accounts".

***UPDATE – 2*** (October 9th)
Paymo mentioned that the upgrades to the accounts will be activated today .

***UPDATE – 3*** (October 9th)
There are still 20 "3-free-month invoice accounts" that are not requested yet. Just comment with your subdomains to get them.

***UPDATE – 4*** (October 23th)
The giveaway is officially over with all the accounts being requested.

In order to win these upgrades:

Sign-up for a free account
Mention your subdomains as a comment to this post besides any other comment you may have (comment format such as "subdomain=xyz.paymo.biz" will make things much easier)
And, first 20 commenters with their subdomains mentioned get the lifetime account upgrades and the next 50 commenters with their subdomains mentioned get the 3-month account upgrades

Good luck to everyone.

P.S. Comments are moderated & may not appear instantly.

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Easy Web-Based Time Tracking – LogMyTask

Umut M. — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:22:41 +0000

Normally, we cannot schedule everything we’re going to do & at the end of the day we end up asking: "where did my time go?".

LogMyTask is a web-based time tracking application which is totally focused to finding that out with no extras that makes it easier to adapt & use.

It can be used by only one user or collaboratively with a group of users & even different teams.

The usage of the application is very straightforward:

admin user creates teams
invites users to the teams by simply providing their e-mails
users can start creating their tasks

The application works in almost real-time with very few refreshes. When a user adds/updates a task, the other users instantly see them.

With just a click, it is possible to see "what, when & how long every user worked on" in a calendar view. And, if needed, edit the past data.

Conclusion:

The application is so easy to use (like the Twitter for time tracking) & very functional for individuals to teams who want to get the most out of their time.

LogMyTask is currently in beta status & totally free to use. After the beta, there will still be a free plan offered.

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Fanurio Time Tracking & Billing Software Giveaway – Winners Announced

Umut M. — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:01:32 +0000

Last week, a post at WRD was announcing the giveaway of 5 Fanurio time tracking & billing software licenses ($59 value / license). The winners are selected & can be found at the bottom of the post. But before that, to remind:

What is Fanurio?

Fanurio is a beautiful software with an intuitive interface for easily tracking time that is spent on projects & billing them accordingly.

It is possible to define projects & sub-tasks. Then, the time worked on the projects can be tracked manually or with the help of a timer.

For teams, everyone can install Fanurio to their computers, track the time and export/import reports easily.

Create the invoices

From the moment you get a new contract until you are paid in full, Fanurio offers you the right tools to manage and bill all your work down to the penny.

It covers almost any billing feature you may need like rounding time "up, down or to the nearest specified interval" or applying discounts & more.

Analyze the performance

Fanurio helps analyzing the perfomance with the reports it generates:

payments: see all your open, un-paid invoices
timesheet: time recorded on a certain period, by project or client
project reports: howmuch money you made, howmuch money is unpaid, etc.

Also, reports can be exported to CSV or Excel for further analysis.

Fanurio works on Windows, Mac or Linux & doesn’t require purchasing new licenses when switching OSs.

And, the winners:

Here they are:

Matt (comment #75715)
Pritish Nandi (comment #75810)
christian (comment #77066)
GeeniUss (comment #75715)
paul rostorp (comment #76381)

Congratulations to the winners and thanks to everyone for joining this giveaway.

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Fanurio Time Tracking & Billing Software – 5 Licenses Giveaway

Umut M. — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:13:10 +0000

Fanurio, a flexible time tracking & billing software which is specially built for freelancers in mind, is giving away 5 licenses ($59 value / license) to WebResourcesDepot readers.

Details on "how to winning them" can be found at the bottom of the post. But before that:

What is Fanurio?

It is a well-thought software, with an intuitive interface, which can track the time that is worked on a project & help billing that job with almost no effort.

Track your time

The software enables you to define projects & sub-tasks. Then, the time worked on the projects can be tracked manually or with the help of a timer which also has a few reminders to help you start, resume or stop it automatically.

For teams, everyone can install Fanurio to their computers, track the time and export/import reports easily.

Create the invoices

From the moment you get a new contract until you are paid in full, Fanurio offers you the right tools to manage and bill all your work down to the penny.

It covers almost any billing feature you may need like:

when billing by the hour, you can round time "up, down or to the nearest specified interval"
apply discounts as a percentage or as a fixed value
price and units can be entered using two or three decimals for a better accuracy
for working with foreign clients, it can handle multiple currencies

If you are subcontracting some of your work or if you are reselling some goods, you can also enter the purchase cost to know exactly how much you are making. Also, any other item like expenses for a project can be mentioned as well.

Unlimited number of taxes can be defined & certain clients can be marked as tax exempt.

You can see a snapshot of the invoices (which ones are paid, unpaid or overdue) instantly. For unpaid invoices, you can see how much was paid and the remaining balance.

Any type of custom invoice designs can be created & if desired, it can auto-number the invoices when creating them.

Analyze the performance

Fanurio helps analyzing the perfomance with the reports it generates:

timesheet: time recorded on a certain period, by project or client
project reports: howmuch money you made, howmuch money is unpaid, etc.

Also, reports can be exported to CSV or Excel for further analysis.

Fanurio works on Windows, Mac or Linux & doesn’t require purchasing new licenses when switching OSs.

How to win the licenses?

Commenting to this post is enough to join the giveaway & winners will be selected randomly via the query below on 23 September 2009 (1 week later).

SELECT * FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_post_id=1166 AND comment_approved=1 AND comment_type='' GROUP BY comment_author_email ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 5

Good luck to all : ).

P.S. You can evaluate the product by downloading the trial version.

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Powerful CMS For ASP.NET: Kentico CMS

Umut M. — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:10:35 +0000

Kentico CMS is a powerful, flexible & complete content management system that is built with ASP.NET.

It has various modules that make building any type of website possible from blogs to e-commerce or wikis to social networking.

The application comes with an easy-to-use WYSIWYG editor for creating/editing the content.

One of the unique features Kentico offers is the worklow management. It allows you to control the process of content creation & modifications by creating custom approval steps (like proofreading, editing, approval, etc.).

Kentico is multilingual & can manage multiple websites from the same administrator panel.

It has an API that allows you to script any Kentico CMS operation (like creating a new document, user or even the whole web site) which is great for integrations with any 3rd party software. On the other hand, with the modules integrated, there is almost no extra function needed. Here are all the modules it offers:

Blogs
Booking system
Content Rating
Content Staging
E-commerce
Event calendar
Forums
Friends
Geomapping
Groups
Image Gallery
Media Library
Message Boards
Messaging
Newsletter
On-line Forms
Polls
Reporting
Taxonomy
Wiki
Web Farm Support
Web Analytics

which simply show what the application is capable of.

And, these are not all it has. Kentico generates SEO-friendly URLs, has full-text search support, a powerful role-based security system & much more..

Besides the paid versions, it offers a limited free version which is ideal for smaller websites. The free edition have no time limitation & can be used even for commercial purposes with no additional cost. It can be downloaded from here.

Kentico CMS is reliable and stable product & I didn’t came to any bug. But if that occurs, the company promises to fix it within 7 working days, furthermore they plant a tree in the name of the client who finds the bug. You can read more about this interesting initiative here.

The product can be evaluated by downloading the TRIAL or FREE editions. Other way is to use the Virtual Lab service which allows you to test-drive Kentico CMS on-line, without installing anything on your local PC.

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1000th Post Giveaway – Winners Announced

Umut M. — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:45:57 +0000

Last week, the 1000th post of WRD was announcing a huge giveaway of products/services that web designers & developers would love.

One week later, today, the winners are selected and they are announced at the bottom of the post.

But before that, lets remember the products/services which made this huge giveaway (32 products) possible (listed alphabetically):

activeCollab is an amazing project management & collaboration tool that you can set up on your own server or local network.

Work with your team, clients and contractors in an easy to use environment, while keeping full control over your data.

Giving Away: 1 Small Biz ($249) & 1 Corporate ($449) license.

CAZE is a provider of high quality & creative iPhone CAZEs which has a beautiful collection from leather to metalic ones.

Considering there are lot of iPhone users between WRD readers, these CAZEs are the right stuff to add a twist to your mobile phones.

Giving Away: 4 CAZES – (1 De Luxe/Metallic, 1 Love Pair/Metallic – $24.90 , 1 D Stripe/Leather – $29.90, 1 Silver Tone/Metallic – $29.90)

CometChat is a Facebook-like chat script which allows your users to chat with their friends/online users and in-exchange keep them on your site.

It is built with PHP/MySQL & besides the standalone one, it has vBulletin & JomSocial versions.

Giving Away: 1 license ($49 – the winner can choose any edition).

Flowplayer is the ultimate video player for websites which can be highly customized to fit any need.

It can stream video from different sources & using the JavaScript API, all aspects of it can be controlled.

Giving Away: 1 commercial license ($95).

MachForm is an impressive application for creating beautiful forms & collecting the results.

It comes with all the PHP source code, has spam protection & an easy-to-use administrator interface where everything is handled via Ajax + drag’n drops.

Giving Away: 3 single site licenses ($39/each).

MailChimp is a great service for designing/sending email newsletters to your customers, managing your subscriber lists, and tracking campaign performance.

The service is integrated with most of the popular softwares/services and makes it possible to integrate your own with its API.

Giving Away: $500 of e-mail credits.

Monoslideshow is a Flash® slideshow to view your images and videos in a web page. It can be placed on every website, in whatever size you want and filled with whatever content you like.

It’s designed for maximum flexibility, whether you want to have a professional looking portfolio, or a simple image rotator on your website.

Giving Away: 3 licenses €25/each.

Navicat offers feature-rich & user-friendly database administration tools for MySQL, PostgreSQL & Oracle.

It can connect to databases even if they are "local only" by HTTP tunneling, enables scheduling of db related tasks & offers a powerful import/export feature. The tool runs on Windows, Linux & Mac.

Giving Away: 3 Standard licenses $129/each (winner can choose from any of the Windows, Linux & Mac versions).

Pingdom is a very functional web-based service that tracks your website’s uptime and performance.

It has multiple check types like HTTP(S), TCP port, Ping, DNS, UDP, SMTP, POP3 & IMAP. Also, different intervals can be selected & alerts can be received via e-mail or SMS.

Giving Away: 5 yearly Basic accounts ($119.4/each) & 1 yearly Business account ($479.4/year).

PointBanner is a banner design service that creates the chic banners you need for your brands & products.

Besides every standard banner size, they support custom sizes too and offer various packages for making you ready to a campaign.

Giving Away: Five $25 coupons.

SSLmatic offers the certificates of the most popular SSL brands for much cheaper prices with a non-complicated process.

They provide the SSL certificates of RapidSSL, Geotrust, Verisign & besides the standard ones wildcard certificates can be purchased too.

Giving Away: 3 RapidSSL certificates ($19.99/each – original price: $79/each).

And, The Winners:

Sech D (comment #73328) – activeCollab Small Biz
JP Bourbon (comment #74261) – activeCollab Corporate
mondo (comment #73030) – CAZE De Luxe/Metallic
Pritish Nandi (comment #73743) – CAZE Love Pair/Metalli
Ahmad Alfy (comment #72729) – CAZE D Stripe/Leather
Matt (comment #72664) – CAZE Silver Tone/Metallic
magesh (comment #74248) – CometChat
joerg (comment #72854) – Flowplayer Commercial License
Tuan (comment #73151) – MachForm Single Site License
Ivan (comment #73401) – MachForm Single Site License
Federica Colas (comment #73154) – MachForm Single Site License
Simon (comment #73223) -MailChimp $500 of e-mail credits.
Yoosuf (comment #73077) – Monoslideshow
ZSK (comment #74092) – Monoslideshow
TaTaC (comment #73209) – Monoslideshow
AJ Sedlak (comment #72752) – Navicat Standard License
Ted Carew (comment #74309) – Navicat Standard License
Issam (comment #72974) – Navicat Standard License
Richard S (comment #72743) – Pingdom Yearly Basic Account
Mircea Gindulescu (comment #72624) – Pingdom Yearly Basic Account
Danie (comment #72835) – Pingdom Yearly Basic Account
Hani AbuGhazaleh (comment #72912) – Pingdom Yearly Basic Account
Dave Marks (comment #72682) – Pingdom Yearly Basic Account
Getox (comment #73540) – Pingdom Yearly Business Account
JC (comment #72818) – PointBanner $25 Coupon
Joseph Levin (comment #72846) – PointBanner $25 Coupon
sauzer (comment #72868) – PointBanner $25 Coupon
Hassan (comment #72795) – PointBanner $25 Coupon
Endijs Lisovskis (comment #72654) – PointBanner $25 Coupon
Steve Hansen (comment #73032) – SSLmatic RapidSSL SSL Certificate
Iniwoo (comment #74269) – SSLmatic RapidSSL SSL Certificate
James Ison-Stierer (comment #72633) – SSLmatic RapidSSL SSL Certificate

Congratulations to all the winners & thanks very much to everyone for joining the giveaway.

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Flexible, Feature-Rich & Instant E-Commerce Websites: BigCommerce

Umut M. — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 09:01:27 +0000

BigCommerce is an easy-to-use hosted e-commerce software which makes your store up & running so quickly.

It can be totally customized as you have full access to HTML/CSS via FTP & there are 50+ ready-to-use store designs that can be applied with few clicks.

BigCommerce is integrated with almost every payment, shipping & accounting system you can think of. Optionally, it offers its own merchant account system with under-the-market rates.

The software is fully optimized for SEO from valid W3C templates to automatically generated sitemap XML file & SEO-firendly links.

Besides the products, it is possible to create & share any content (like return policies, promotion details) with its CMS functionality.

The software offers a quality usability experience to customers with features like:

one-click adding to cart
ability to compare products
tracking orders
wishlists (public & private)
single page & guest checkout
powerful search system (suggestions, filtering by price/availability, etc.)
& many more

It has everything to market the products easily like

trackable coupon codes
bulk discounts per product
ability to create custom discount rules
free shipping for purchases over $x
affiliate system
& more..

As BigCommerce is a hosted software, it comes with an included premium hosting with daily offsite backups, unlimited e-mails & top-notch security.

To sum up, the software offers more than anything a store owner can expect. It is a great choice for anyone who wants to run their stores without any technical hassle & get official support.

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1000th Post, A Big Thank You & Huge Giveaway

Umut M. — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:34:00 +0000

Well, yes. After the first post published at WebResourcesDepot, at least one new resource is shared everyday with no exceptions and here is the 1000th post.

Although there are more to share in our bookmarks & your suggestions eases finding new ones, it is a good idea to give a small break and celebrate this with a huge giveaway.

Before introducing the details of the giveaway, a big thanks to everyone who follow WebResourcesDepot via:

or any other media and contributes with their comments that help us all to learn more & improve ourselves.

Also, thanks very much to all the advertisers who support WRD.

The Huge Giveaway:

Here are the products/services which make this huge giveaway (32 products) possible (listed alphabetically):