Appcelerator Titanium is an open source platform that enables you to create rich desktop applications with web technologies like HTML, CSS, Javascript as well as Flash and Silverlight.

Appcelerator SDK is used to create applications or any third-party Ajax library / framework can be used too.

Tip: To make it clear, it is very similar to Adobe AIR but open source.

Titanium also comes with a simple command-line interface (CLI) for creating projects and packaging them into an executable.

The platform has a built-in database, direct file system access, desktop notifications & more.

Titanium apps. currently work in Microsoft Windows and Mac OSX.  Linux support is in the roadmap.

SproutCore is a framework for building applications in JavaScript with remarkably little amounts of code.

It can help you build full “thick” client applications in the web browser that can create and modify data, often completely independent of your web server, communicating with your server via Ajax only when they need to save or load data.

Like other JavaScript frameworks, SproutCore has ready to use visual widgets like list views, button views, and forms. But it also has other functions such as an in-memory database (that can integrate with client-side offline storage), bindings, property observing, and controllers.

SproutCore uses Ruby to generate static HTML and JavaScript files, you are not tied to Ruby or Rails in production. SproutCore runs in the browser, your production system can use whatever backend you want

Remote desktop sharing applications are the ones which sometimes save the day of a developer (specially the freelancers) or anyone who works with computers.

• Working as a distributed team and need desktop collaboration?
• Supporting a remote web application that you had built?
• Need to manage the work computer from home?

There are great free remote desktop applications which helps to build this remote connection.

Do you think these applications may save your day, don’t forget to bookmark this post (del.icio.us link).

I have collected the best ones I know & experienced. Here they are:

LogMeIn

Free version works like a charm, you can manage multiple remote computers. This is a web-based application and you only have to install clients to the PCs to be managed. Downside of the free version is you can not transfer files.

TeamViewer

TeamViewer is a software and both PCs need to install applications. You can control remote PCs (unlimited) with the free version. You can transfer files, chat, establish a VPN connection & more.

Yuuguu

This is a very different one. Besides controlling remote computers, Yuuguu enables a team of up to 30 people to share their desktops and chat.

DimDim

Dimdim is a free web conferencing service where you can share your desktop, show slides, collaborate, chat, talk and broadcast via webcam with absolutely no download required for attendees. It also has an opensource version.

Mikogo

With Mikogo, users can host smooth-running screen sharing sessions and invite up to 10 participants simultaneously to any one Mikogo meeting. It is genuine freeware with no costs and there are no installations on the participants’ side (thanks Andrew for the suggestion).

TightVNC

TightVNC is a very famous open source remote desktop management application. It is lightweight and has versions for both Windows and Unix.

Conclusion

All the applications are very easy to use and has lots of users. Except TightVNC, all of them are firewall friendly, which will probably not cause any problems while connecting. But only TightVNC is a standalone product that does not require any registration or depend on any web-based service (and DimDim opensource).

If there are any other free remote desktop sharing solutions that you know, please share them to make the list better.

Mindquarry is a brilliant open source application to organize teams in means of documents, ideas and tasks. Shortly, their collaboration.

This team collaboration application can be reached both from the browsers and from a desktop application.

Document Management

The strongest part of the application is document management.  It uses Subversion for document versioning and backup, supports file syncronization, collaborative editing and has notification system for the updates made within the documents.

Wiki

You can create wikis, assigns them to teams or tasks to manage the ideas and information. Updates made to the wiki content can be viewed within the activity timeline, pdf output can be generated and more.

Team Management

Teams are holding the user groups together. They can be assigned to tasks, have their own wikis and permission groups on documents, tasks..

Task Management

Mindquarry has a handy task management module where tasks can be created, assigned to users, priority levels and their status can be set.

To mention, this is not a project management module and does not have milestones, resources, costs or chart features. It simply allows users to assign and control tasks (for a chance to win a great project management software license check the OneProject Project 8 giveaway).

Conclusion

If you are working in teams, need to share and work on documents together I believe Mindquarry can be a perfect fit as you will be able to:

• Work on the same docs, have them versionned and backed up.
• Create your own information or idea libraries with the wiki feature.
• Assign tasks to each other.

Application requires Apache, Java and Subversion to be installed. Desktop application has Windows, Mac and Linux versions which makes everything much better.

Tip: Mindquarry has a XAMPP download in the downloads section that automatically installs Apache, Subversion and Perl to prepare the application environment.

OnePoint Software is giving away 3 OnePoint Project 8 licenses (€399.00 value/each) to WebResourcesDepot readers. You can find the details for how to winning them below the post.

What is OnePoint Project?

OnePoint Project is an amazing project management software which does not require you to compromise between ease-of-use and functionality and offers you both.

Onepoint Project integrates project planning, project controlling, monitoring and reporting into a single and easy to use project leadership solution providing you with all relevant information when and where you need it.

Some nice features of the software:

• Work Breakdown Structure which helps you to focus to the project.
• An editable cost baseline.
• Milestone Trend Analysis (which tasks will be delayed and which won’t in unexpected circumstances).
• Project Pipeline (a summary of all your ongoing projects).
• Powerful document and link management.
• Colored GANTT chart to improve the view of your schedule.
• Planned & actual situation comparisons.
• Easy to access resource utilization.
• Tasks & comments.
• Project templates for creating faster "new projects" inside the software.

Onepoint’s different editions scale with your needs and the size any business. The version in the giveaway is the Professional version which is a desktop application for 1 user (perfect for a freelancer) that has Windows,Mac & Linux versions.

Other editions are:

• Network edition (for small teams up to 10 members – installable web-based)
• Enterprise edition (for medium to large sized companies – installable web-based)
• Check product editions for further details

How to win the OnePoint Project Professional licenses?

Just comment to this post with at least "I want the license!" text in the comment with your valid e-mails.

Winners will be picked randomly with the query below at 05.07.2008 (1 week later).

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Woopra is a feature-rich free web-tracking and analytics tool that analyzes your website in real time.

Using Woopra, you can view visitor activity in detail, tag visitors to realize them in their next visits, instant-chat with visitors and even get notified from the site activities that you set.

For developers, Woopra provides a full featured API that allows extracting a website’s data into several common web 2.0 formats, making it useful for use within your own application.

This free desktop site analysis tool is definitely worth to try.

As there are very nice flash & ajax image galleries, this flash gallery application is a bit different from the others as the galleries are created from a desktop application and then uploaded to your website.

Slideroll Gallery AV (formerly Picklish), is a flash image & video gallery tool that lets you create your galleries from a simple drag and drop interface. PC users can also record their own narration with their galleries.

Snarf photos feature of Slideroll Gallery AV lets you to download any images from a website or a rss feed directly into your gallery.

Look and feel of the galleries can be customized and after uploading the image & video gallery to your website, html editing is possible for any tweakings needed.