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:
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.
Special 50% Discount to WebResourcesDepot Readers:
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)
One Navicat Premium License Giveaway (How To Win It?)
To get a chance to win a free license ($369 value) of this beautiful application, simply comment to this post with your thoughts. The winner will be selected randomly on 10 July 2009 (1 week later) randomly via the query below:
SELECT * FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_post_id=1028 AND comment_approved=1 AND comment_type='' GROUP BY comment_author_email ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1
Good luck.
Compatibility: Windows and Mac OS X
Pictaculous is a free web-based service which generates the color palette of an image you upload.
And, it provides color palette suggestions from Adobe Kuler & Colourlovers which can be used with the image.
Once the color palette is created, it can be downloaded as an Adobe Swatch file.
Pictaculous also enables you to send the image & get results via e-mail (which is nice for using the service in phones).
Icons are great design resources which help improving the interfaces we create as they can define "what words may not".
The talented team at Iconshock, a professional icon design company, will be creating small (~5 items) but focused icon sets exclusively for WebResourcesDepot readers every month.
And, to decide which icon set to be created first, the best idea is: asking WRD readers to choose it.
Update: The poll is closed on 16 June 2009 and with a major difference, it seems that our first icon set will be e -commerce icons.
Last week, a post on WebResourcesDepot had announced the giveaway of free credits ($225 worth) by FlashMint, a very popular flash templates provider, to WRD readers.
Winners are announced at the bottom of the post, but before that, to remember:
FlashMint is offering a variety of products from high quality Flash Intros, Flash CMS Templates, premium Wordpress Themes to Joomla Layouts & superior osCommerce / Swish Templates.
Besides these templates offered, FlashMint has a wide collection of Flash components that can be easily used to improve any website.
The winners of the giveaway:
Winners are selected randomly from users who tweeted the message: "Want to win $100 credit for Flash Designs from http://www.flashmint.com/ ? Check the details and join the contest at: http://tr.im/nfy8" in Twitter. And here they are:
Congratulations to the winners & thanks to everyone for contributing.
UI Pattern Factory is both an user interface design pattern library and UI gallery where it is possible to find the best practices, get inspired, and share your solutions with others.
The website is mostly focused on web-based business applications & shares patterns like:
UI Pattern Library is also a place where you can ask & vote for new pattern ideas in their forum or add new images to the currently published ones via Flickr.
Cloud hosting, storage & content delivery networks (CDNs) are very popular services for the last few years, which is very normal, as they offer a series of advantages in running + serving web applications.
An application hosted in the cloud will:
- easily scale (with instantly deployable & API controlled instances, unlimited diskspaces, etc..)
- serve files faster with content delivery network (CDN) support
- have a better availability (with strong SLAs)
With the increasing number of providers & tools created, cloud hosting is getting simpler & simpler everyday.
Getting in the cloud, in most cases, will save so much time & resources when running a growing web application. You won’t need to think of the hardware, better react to the system resources & bandwidth usage fluctuations, pay exactly for what you use & much more.
Here is a collection of popular options & tools that can help you in hosting your applications in the cloud:
Cloud Hosting & Storage Options
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) - (hosting)
Amazon EC2 is a web service that provides you the environment to instantly launch (or remove) new servers (instances) with the OS & configuration you need which makes scaling of a web application much easier.
This functionality can be controlled via the web service APIs or tools to be mentioned in this post.
You are charged with the resources consumed like hours your servers (instances) work or the bandwidth used.
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HTML entities (character references) which are used to define reserved characters or to express characters that cannot easily be entered with the keyboard are generally hard to remember.
EntityCode is a website that lists HTML entities in an easy-to-find format. Rather than a long list of entities, they are simply grouped like currency, math, direction, etc.
A must-bookmark for every web designer & developer.
ColoRotate is a free web-based service that helps to work with colors in 3D, in real time & offers an unique experience.
Using the application, you can quickly see the multidimensional nature of colors and the relationships between colors.
With ColoRotate, you can create color palettes & save them. Its quick drag-and-drop interface to adjust hue, brightness & saturation helps you customize the colors with ease.
And, palettes created can be imported & exported in Adobe Swatch Exchange (ASE).
ColoRotate is also a color community where it is possible to browse & search themes created by other users.
P.S. You may also want to check "Learn About Color" menu of ColoRotate where it is possible to find valuable information on color like:
Requirements: No Requirements
Web Do’s & Don’ts (WebD&D) is a fresh website that presents links to tips, tricks & best practices for web designers/developers.
The website comes with an easy-to-read interface where you can find the do’s on one side & don’ts on the other.
Links are categorized as levels (beginner, intermediate & advanced) & users can vote on the tips. Also, anyone can submit new links.
Considering new links are added frequently, WebD&D will be a handy resource-link pool for web designers/developers.
Well-categorized design patterns are great resources for inspiration. You can easily see how "others" found a succesful way for common design problems.
UI Patterns is an online library which shares design patterns in various categories like:
- image zoom
- input feedback
- password strength meter & many more.
There are 3 main categories in the website:
Also, you can easily contribute to the content & check out the UI Patterns blog which has informative posts.
