MobileESP is an open source project for easily detecting users browsing the web pages with a mobile browser.
It has server-side versions for PHP, ASP.NET, Java, Ruby and a client-side JavaScript version with light features.
There are methods provided for detecting a specific device (iPhone, Android, WebOS, etc.) or a wider selection if it is a smartphone, tablet, game console, etc.
The project has support for most of the well-known devices and can even identify their capabilities.
Last week, a post at WRD was announcing the giveaway of 5 x "5 user licenses" for FileVista; a powerful web-based file manager application.
The winners are selected today and announced at the bottom of this post. But before that, let's remember:
It is a multi-user file manager application that is built with ASP.NET and can be installed on your website.
The application offers a desktop-like experience and supports actions like create, delete, rename, copy, move, zip and unzip files + folders with a totally Ajaxed interface.
With the help of a permission-based access system, groups + users can be created and they can be locked into folders with any defined permissions.
The most frequently used feature of the application, uploading files, works very smooth even for multiple and large files (can resume connections as well).
Also, it is multilingual and comes with 9 ready-to-use languages.
Here are the 5 lucky winners for the 5 User License of FileVista:
Congratulations to the winners and thanks to everyone for joining
FileVista, an impressive file manager application that can be installed on your websites, is giving away 5 x "5 Users License" ($199/each) to WRD readers.
Details on joining the giveaway is mentioned at the bottom of the post. But before that:
It is a feature-rich file manager application that works on your browser and offers a desktop-like working experience (even more) for your web files.
The application is built with ASP.NET (works on Windows servers), has a free "single user" version and more users require a license.
FileVista supports every action that can be expected from a file manager like create, delete, rename, copy, move, zip and unzip files + folders.
Actions can be accomplished very quickly as the interface is completely Ajaxed and a context menu (right-click) has shortcuts to everything.
It has a very powerful, permission-based access control system which gives the administrator full control over the contents with features like:
Using the application, you can also create custom links to files, set them to be temporary and even password-protected (every file can have its own password).
The file uploader is so nice. It handles multiple file uploads, displays a real-time progress bar and can resume interrupted downloads (handy for large files).
FileVista is multilingual (supports 9 languages) and it is definitely a very useful resource for collaboratively managing + sharing files (a very good fit for interactive agencies).
It is pretty easy, simply comment to this post and/or tweet this article with hashtag #wrdfilevista (click to tweet easily). You can do both to increase the chances.
Winners will be selected randomly on 9 February 2011 (1 week later).
Good luck to everyone.
Composite is a free and open source content management system based on the Microsoft .NET 4 platform.
It has all the standard features that can be expected from a CMS and has much more like a SEO assistant or built-in image editor.
The application can be controlled by users from every level as it is possible to set a different "publication workflow" for different user roles.
The CMS is pretty careful on creating W3C-compliant web-pages as there is a XHTML validation-when-editing feature included.
For a faster usage, it is possible to edit pages while browsing them.
As a last handy feature, Composite supports creating multilanguage websites and helps you focus on the content rather than the layout during that process.
TeamLab is a collaboration platform that is built with enterprises in mind but fits to any small-to-bigger teams too.
The platform enables users to create teams, manage projects with setting milestones and creating tasks which can be assigned per user.
By simply scheduling tasks and with the help of e-mail notifications, it is hard to miss a deadline and you always stay informed about the overall of a project.
Using a built-in IM, it is possible to communicate each other. Also, integrated blogging, forum and wiki capabilities makes sharing of information very easy.
TeamLab can also help the members of a team to keep up with the support for managing events, news, polls, photos and bookmarks.
WebMatrix is a free kit by Microsoft which includes everything you need for creating websites on Windows.
The application itself enables you to control almost everything from a single interface like the code and database editor, web site and server management, search optimization, FTP publishing, and more.
and with just a click, you can install open source applications like WordPress, Drupal, DotNetNuke, etc.
WebMatrix has also some nice features like the ability to run a SEO report or monitor real-time Web requests and responses to track down problems right at the source.
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.
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.
Today, e-mails are one of the most important parts of a web application as the app. may need to:
MailBee.NET Objects is a set of powerful & flexible .NET components for accomplishing any e-mail related task easily.
There are 6 components provided: SMTP, POP3, IMAP, Security, AntiSpam & Outlook where each of them can be bought seperately or as a bundle with serious discounts (upto 66%).
It is the component for composing & sending e-mails with just a line of code.
E-mails can be sent with/without (can perform DNS MX lookups) a relay server & it supports every authentication type.
SMTP component can also send bulk mail + do mail merge over database, track accepted/refused recipients & much more.
It downloads mail from POP3 servers, parses them & prepares for display.
If wanted, the component can download only the headers & get "already downloaded messages" (great for broken connections).
It also has support for secure TLS/SSL connections out-of-box (supports Gmail, etc.) which is generally a headache without such a component.
It is the POP3 component + download/manage folders, search, flag, upload, move, copy messages, download message envelopes or any specific parts or attributes of messages, etc.
This is for enabling MailBee.NET objects to communicate with TLS/SSL enabled mail servers & use S/MIME for e-mail encryption.
It can sign e-mails with a digital signature, DomainKeys and/or DKIM signature.
Using the AntiSpam component, it is possible to analyze messages using the Bayesian filters, return a spam score & take action (if necessary).
The best part is, it offers an auto-learning feature that will help keeping the spam database up-to-date.
It simply makes converting e-mails from .MSG format into .EML format & vice versa possible with a single line of code.
To sum up, MailBee.NET Objects offer every feature that can be expected from e-mail components. And, they go few steps further & enable processing server-side tasks like DNS MX lookups or antispam.
Also, the components are very well documented with samples & supported by a professional company + an active community.
P.S. This post is a sponsored review.
IZWebFileManager is a powerful open source file manager control for ASP.NET 2.
It works very similar to Windows Explorer & can copy/move/rename/delete (multiple) files and folders.
IZWebFileManager has a multilingual interface & offers a permission control where any feature can be disabled.
