phpSysInfo is a free PHP script that displays detailed information about the host it is placed.

It can show data like the CPU, Ram, OS, "since when it is up", installed devices, etc.

Also, phpSysInfo can collect the information required to analyze the server load which can effect website performances like the available Ram or network usage.

The script works on every PHP-enabled website & can display static information, generate XML outputs (which is nice for automated checks) or dynamically update itself.

It is multilingual & includes various ready-to-use themes for customization.

Microsoft has announced the "Preview Release" of Internet Explorer 9 which seems to be a milestone for the IE family considering it gets closer to the standards.

The IE9 has a new JavaScript engine which performs much better than IE8 & some other browsers.

Another good news is, it supports HTML5, CSS3 & SVG almost completely.

The website includes speed, HTML5 & graphics demos besides the comparisons of the features with other browsers.

This new release requires Windows Vista SP2 or Windows 7 which hopefully changes with the stable release (otherwise, IE may continue to be a barrier on new standards as XP will probably live long).

AnalyzePal is a free Adobe-AIR application that provides an easy way to measure your PayPal sales, performance & customer tracking.

It doesn't require any PayPal username-pass or API information as AnalyzePal works in an offline way with the transaction logs that can be downloaded from PayPal.

The application displays a snapshot of your last 3 months activities with charts or you can view the revenue for any given period.

AnalyzePal is also great for browsing past transactions quickly as it works offline.

Besides the free version, it has paid & more-featured versions that can filter data by customers, countries, etc.

LiveUI is a powerful, flexible & open source rich internet application framework for .NET.

It has a modular system which allows sharing .ascx user controls & resources between ASP.NET web applications.

Working with JavaScript from ASP.NET applications becomes simple as the framework includes tools for JavaScript generation, caching, dependency management & more.

LiveUI has an Extjs.Controls module which includes ASP.NET wrappers for all ExtJS components making usage of them so easy inside ASP.NET pages.

Also, there is a built-in solution for URL parsing & generation which means creating user friendly URLs is not a problem with the framework.

Alloy UI is a JavaScript UI library, a CSS framework, a set of HTML recipes and a taglib library, all combined to empower developers across multi-skilled teams deliver rich and dynamic applications.

It is built by the developers of Liferay, has a lot of ready-to-use components & requires Yahoo! User Interface Library to run.

The components include:

• auto-complete
• charts
• color picker
• calendar
• tooltips
• forms
• treeview
• image gallery
• & much more..

The framework comes with full set of demos & not documented yet (currently in a preview release).

Fluidium, similar to Adobe AIR but open source, is a platform for developing Rich Internet Applications that run as native Mac OS X desktop apps.

Although there are many new applications that are built as web apps., native Cocoa applications still provide the best user experience on Mac OS X.

Fluidium can wrap your existing web app in a pure, native Mac application shell to provide the best of both worlds to your demanding user base.

It is based on the same open source technology that powers the popular Mac OS X Site Specific Browser: Fluid (which was discussed here).

MonoDevelop is a free & advanced IDE that is mainly built for C# & other .NET languages.

It works in Linux, Windows & Mac OSX which is great, specially for developers who use multiple platforms but still want to work from the same interface.

MonoDevelop comes with advanced text editing features like code completion support for C# 3, code templates & code folding.

It also has an integrated debugger, web server (for instantly testing ASP.NET applications) & a GTK# visual designer.

The software also offers much more features like source control, makefile integration, unit testing, packaging & deployment, localization & more.

Using JavaScript, it is possible to load HTML, XML or JSON data with XMLHttpRequest.

However cross-domain JavaScript requests (reaching remote pages) are not possible due to browser security limitations except JSONP-formatted JSON data.

Simple PHP Proxy is a PHP script which aims to fill this gap by creating a layer between your JavaScript code and the remote domain to get data in HTML, XML or JSON formats.

Some features of Simple PHP Proxy:

• requested URLs can be white-listed & validated against a regex.
• optionally forward client cookies / SID to the remote server.
• optionally forward configurable User Agent to the remote server.
• requests can use either GET or POST request methods.
• remote data can be delivered as-is with all remote headers intact.
• remote data can be wrapped in a JSON/P structure that includes status codes & remote headers.
• if using JSON/P & remote data is valid JSON, it will be merged into the resulting data object.

There is also a demo which you can request any URL.

Brosho is a jQuery plugin which helps you to minimize the editor-browser switching while creating/editing websites.

It enables you to select elements in a webpage, edit the CSS properties with an in-browser editor & see the outputs instantly (similar to editing with Firebug).

Once you are satisfied with the changes implemented, copy-pasting the new code to the CSS file is enough.

The editor has few functions that makes the usage easy like:

• setting the position (top-bottom-left-right)
• enable/disable element highlighting
• one-click CSS code generation

It may be a good idea to disable links while using Brosho as a selected element can forward you to a new page & selections can become useless. There are code examples for this in the comments of the resource.

Uptime is a pretty important factor for the success of a website which directly effects the number of visitors, visitor loyalty, search engine positions & more.

Here is a lovely free service which is created by me & Daniel Rimille of SSLmatic to minimize downtime.

Uptime Robot is a totally free service which monitors your websites every 5 minutes & alerts you if they go down.

It allows you to monitor up to 50 websites & alerts can be received via e-mail or SMS (Twitter & RSS coming soon).

You can add multiple alert contacts to notify multiple users in case of a downtime.

It is possible to monitor both http & https addresses which is pretty important to check if the SSL certificate installed functions correctly.

The service has a simple & fully Ajaxed interface for a faster usage.

P.S. Uptime Robot will hopefully get mature within a short time. But during that period, if you're looking for a more professional service, you may want to check paid ones like Pingdom, SiteUptime, AreMySitesUp…

Upcoming features

• RSS & Twitter alerts
• keyword checking in websites monitored (testing)
• mobile version
• monitoring from multiple locations (we may need your help, will be sharing more details later)

Follow at Twitter for updates, support..

We'll be updating you via @uptimerobot Twitter user for new features, improvements, etc. Also, feel free to contact us from there for support, feature requests, etc.

A little story of Uptime Robot:

I'm sharing a little office with Daniel Rimille of SSLmatic which we're building a complicated web application for a while.

The application is something totally different from Uptime Robot but it needed to monitor websites/IPs it worked with & we created a module for this which worked awesome.

It was my idea to convert this module into a website uptime monitoring service.

Daniel was a little uncommitted as he thought this would take much time & we would be missing our schedule for the application we're building. I thought this was an opportunity to see how it would scale, help us improve ourselves in means of usability, handling support requests, etc.

And I claimed to build it in only 2 days, had a bet (lost a dinner), but completed in 4 days. It took 8 extra days for us both to polish it & here it is.

We loved what we created & will be updating/improving Uptime Robot frequently as there are so many similarities with what we're already building.