This is an open source PHP application which can convert any RSS feed into a PDF newspaper.

It works flawless with fetching only the text & ,currently, has a partial support for images.

The application uses other open source codes like:

• TCPDF
• HTML Tidy
• SimplePie
• HTML Purifier
• SmartyPants
• OPML Parser

If a feed shares a part of the original content, the application has an option to fetch the complete content as well.

Although the application may not seem interesting for many developers at first, the code & the function itself is an inspiration+resource for offering more out of feeds.

This is a set of RSS icon Photoshop shapes.

Download package has 20+ shapes including a RSS sticker, speech bubble, arrow, star & more.

The set is handy for creating different icons. And, the standard icon is also in the set which enables you to create something totally new.

Gregarius is an open source web based feed reader. It is similar to Google Reader but you can install in on your servers.

It has a very simple & functional interface with a password protected administration area.

This feed reader has Ajaxed item tagging & full-text search features. It is committed to web standards: renders XHTML/CSS, supports OPML.

The application is built with PHP & uses MySQL or SQLite for storing the data.

With a getting active community, Gregarius has multiple themes & plugins.

Downtimes seem to be the nature of the hosting & internet business. But there is a limit for it which you must measure whether your website’s uptime is below or above that.

Mon.itor.us is a free site uptime monitoring service which warns you when your website is down and provides statistics of your uptime & downtime.

It monitors your website from different locations 24*7 and can send alerts via e-mail, RSS or SMS (paid).

Besides these, it has internal monitoring features like keeping an eye on computer/server memory, CPU, etc. with an installable agent. And, has visitor tracking capabilities too.

Mon.itor.us also provides an API for developers who want to embed their applications with the service.

Revolver is a fast image rotation engine built with PHP.

It is just like a slideshow application with features like:

• Play and stop controls
• No database requirement
• RSS support
• Pre-dating images for future publishing
• Produces valid XHTML code
• Different background colors for every image

Revolver is managed with uploading the image files according to the special name format and there is no need for an administraion interface.

You can use it to create a portfolio website, slideshow, sketchbook or a simple image gallery.

Sending newsletters to 1000’s of users, tracking clicks, unsubscribe links, risk of sending e-mails twice? Yes, these are some concerns of newsletter management.

phplist, an open source PHP – MySQL based newsletter management application makes sending newsletters easy, professional and managable.

Some powerful features of phplist:

• No duplicate messages. No ‘forgotten’ messages.
• View and click tracking
• Templating and multiple subscribe pages
• Dynamic subscriber columns
• User specific content like "name, e-mail"
• Lists
• RSS subscription
• Scheduling
• CVS import and export
• Bounce detection and cleaning
• Auto PDF messages
• Attachments
• Throttling to prevent server overload

This open source newsletter manager can also be integrated with the current subscriber base with the built-in import feature or some coding for syncronazing databases.

WebResourcesDepot, with an increasing number of visitors & subscribers everyday, has several advertising spots to feature your brand.

Advertising spots include banners & feed text advertising options with 4 different banner sizes:

• 468×60
• 220×100
• 100×100
• 32×32

Here are the statistics for January 2008:

Unique Visitors: 45,000+/month
Monthly Pageviews: 110,000+/month
Feed Subscribers: 500+

Alexa traffic ranks for today:

Detailed statistics & other advertising information can be found at "Advertise" page.

Claros, which is a passionate team in creating open source software, has a beautiful software named Claros inTouch.

Clasor InTouch  is an ajax communication suite with key features such as webmail, address book, post-it notes, calendar (in progress), webdisk (in progress), built-in instant messenger and RSS reader. It is the first open source web application which features built in spam protection and instant messaging capabilities together with web 2.0 technologies.

It is built with Java, utilizes JSP/Servlets with the well known J2EE technologies & uses MySQL database.

Claros inTouch is more than a free webmail software with a slick interface & usability.

It is offered under GNU which makes this communication suite software totally free.

PHP RSS Parsers are what many PHP developers looking for these days as every web application or website has some RSS input or output.

RSS parsers make the use of RSS simpler as they have overcame the known RSS parsing difficulties.

WebResourcesDepot have collected the most popular free RSS Parsers coded with PHP:

SimplePie

SimplePie is a PHP code library that makes it very easy to use RSS & Atom feeds. SimplePie is fast and standards compliant as it supports:

• RSS 0.90
• RSS 0.91 (Netscape)
• RSS 0.91 (Userland)
• RSS 0.92
• RSS 1.0
• RSS 2.0
• Atom 0.3
• Atom 1.0

This PHP RSS parser class has also plugins for favorite web services.

lastRSS

lastRSS is also a simple yet powerful PHP class for parsing RSS feeds.

• All RSS versions supported (0.9, 1.0 and 2.0)
• Transparent cache (doesn’t cache RSS file directly, neither HTML output, but serialized variable; cached data isn’t parsed every time, but you can still access individual fields)
• pubDate/lastBuildDate conversion to any date/time format
• Character encoding conversion (all encodings supported by iconv library)
• Returns an associative array with RSS fields
• Regullar expression parsing (very quick)
• Strips HTML from description (both hard-coded and entity-coded)
• Optional limit the number of returned items
• Two ways how to proceed CDATA information (get/strip CDATA content)

MagpieRSS

This PHP RSS parser class also supports well known feed formats like RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0 & Atom.

• Easy to use
• Parses most RSS formats
• Integrated Object Cache
• HTTP Conditional GETs
• Configurable
• Modular

Zend_Feed

Zend_Feed provides functionality for consuming RSS and Atom feeds. It provides a natural syntax for accessing elements of feeds, feed attributes, and entry attributes. Zend_Feed also has extensive support for modifying feed and entry structure with the same natural syntax, and turning the result back into XML. In the future, this modification support could provide support for the Atom Publishing Protocol.