Tuesday, August 10, 2010

The Great Flickr Tools Collection


Official Flickr Tools

  • Flickr Uploadr -Download an installer (.exe) that allows you to publish a batch of photos into Flickr directly from your computer. Just drag and drop in your photos and add some tags.
  • Flickr photo search – search by titles, tags and descriptions
  • Flickr Organizr – powerful tool to create sets which help you organize and display your photos.

Third Party Flickr Tools

  • Flump New- simple application that allows your to download all of the public photos for a specific Flickr account.
  • Compfight – uses Flickr’s API to search the database of photos and then feeds back the results as live clickable thumbnails.
  • Foldr Monitr – a free tool that runs in the background and watches a selected folder (and optionally subfolders) waiting for you to add photos to it. When photos appear in the folder, Foldr Monitr automatically uploads them to your Flickr account for you.
  • Phlogre – is Photo Organizer for local photos and flickr photos. Meant to replace the official Flickr Uploadr.
  • Girls of Flickr – Browse around for sexy photos on Flickr babes and Flickr girls
  • Flishr – is a primer application to Download, Upload and Search photos from one central command console on your PC.
  • PicMarkr – lets you to add custom watermark (image or text) to your images online and free.
  • Flickr Hive Mind – is a data mining tool for the Flickr photography database, allowing search by: metadata tags; Flickr photography groups; Flickr users, contacts, and favorites; text annotation; the Flickr Explore algorithm for interestingness.
  • Merkitys Meaning – application for Symbian S60 smart phones that automatically adding contextual information and allows one click publishing from your phone to your Flickr account.
  • Flickr Cover Flow – A cover flow slideshow ala iTunes for your Flickr photos.
  • nFlickrViewer – SimpleViewer with full Flickr thumbnail and full-image support
  • Flickriver – it allows viewing Flickr photos as an infinite ‘river of photos’. Also has new ways to explore and view Flickr photographs.
  • GratePic – a cross platform tool for posting, commenting and rating photos on flickr.
  • Flickr photo owner finder – Helps find who took a particular Flickr photo that you have saved.
  • FlickrSync – is a photo synchronization application for flickr users. Manage all your photos locally and FlickrSync will keep them updated in flickr.
  • Statr for Flickr – collects data through api calls and allows you to track and plot page views statistics for your Flickr account.
  • imageloopR – Get your favourite Flickr photos in your slideshow.
  • Smark – fast ajax interface for tagging pictures on Flickr.
  • rTagger – helps organize your Flickr photo collection by allowing you to modify tags offline.
  • Desktop Flickr Organizer for Gnome – The application allows online/offline mode management of your photos. You can upload, search and download photos, through the easy to use interface.
  • flickrSLiDR – allows you to easily embed the classic flickr slideshows on your website or blog.
  • Dojo/Flickr Image Gallery – an Ajax image gallery built on top of Dojo Ajax Toolkit.
  • Original Size of Flickr Photo – Insert Flickr photo ID and retrieve original size URL of image.
  • Invitr – allows you to specify one (or more) private pictures to be shown to as many/little people as you want.
  • Flickr Anywhere – allows you to put flickr in your myspace account or on any webpage with just a quick search. It takes all your public flickr photos and displays them in a compact flash player.
  • Flickr Notifier – a RSS notifier that displays images. The pictures pop up on your desktop in real time.
  • AlphaLearnr – Flickr Mashup which helps children to learn English Alphabet through photos.
  • Mosaica – is a customizable screensaver with a content generated by users of flickr.
  • Flickr4Writer – is a simple plugin for Windows Live Writer that enables a user to browse a Flickr user repository and insert an image from Flickr into a Writer post. Application of this tool in Flickr4Outlook and Flickr4Word
  • UploadrXL – is a program to upload one or more images to Flickr and add them immediately to your Sets of Groups.
  • Pictobrowser – widget to display flickr photos on your blog.
  • Flickr set manager – allows you to automatically create new sets on flickr based on various criteria such as interestingness, date posted and tags, or even from a random set of photographs.
  • The Most Interesting Pictures By – displays the most interesting pictures of a flickr user.
  • Gickr – create an animated Gif from your Flickr photos
  • GMiF – embeds a Google Maps in Flickr photo page and displays where the photo was taken on the maps, if the photo is geotagged.
  • Fireflix – a flickr uploader / manager extension for Firefox web browser.
  • FlickrStorm – a better way to search Flickr. Search for photos in Flickr by Creative Commons license, compile them in a batch and save them.
  • WorldInPictures – find pictures close to any specified location.
  • FlickrFaves – utility for downloading high-resultion versions of your Flickr favorites to your hard drive.
  • Flickr Color Selectr – Find Creative Commons licensed photographs from Flickr by their colors and rate them.
  • Flickr Panel – plugin displays images direct from flickr user’s, groups, or tags or a combination of them.
  • Localize Bookmarklet – bookmarklet that enables mapping, geocoding and geotagging directly in your Flickr photo page.
  • Preloadr – Online image processing and phot optimization of Flickr photos
  • Printr Killr – printing out instantly-designed card decks and calendars from Flickr
  • Photo Desktop for Flickr - allows you to edit images before upload. Rotate, flip, tag, name, batch resize, and then batch upload your photos from one simple application.
  • Flickstrs – All time greats are selected by factoring in the number of images users have in the flickr explore pages, number of people calling them contacts, and percentage of images that are on the explore pages.
  • Flictionary – Type your stream of guesses, Flickr will listen and help you draw new photos.
  • Flickr Finder – for Mac OS X Tiger. Easily naviagte your Flickr images.
  • GlobeFeed Maps – The geotagged photos from flickr are integrated on Google Map.
  • Flickr Flash Puzzle Zone – creates jigsaw puzzle to solve from your searched flickr images
  • FlickrViewer – allows you to view a Flickr photo set in SimpleViewer, a popular flash photo viewing tool.
  • FlickrFont – converts any text to images, fresh each time the page loads.
  • Splashr – a tool for presenting Flickr photos..
  • Flickr2Photocast – generates an iPhoto-compatible photocast feed from Flickr containing up to 500 images in their original format/resolution.
  • Travelr – lets you display your Flickr photos geographically on a world map.
  • FlickrFly – is a script that can be linked from the description or comment of a geotagged Flickr Photo to fly you that location in Google Earth.
  • phpFlickr – a PHP client for the Flickr web service. It has functions that return the responses from Flickr’s API in a meaningful way for PHP developers.
  • Bubblr – Create comic strips using photos from flickr.
  • Sprinklr – allows users to easily and quickly add their photos to various groups.
  • Favcol – the background of this page is flickr’s favourite colour
  • h4ppierphotos – helps find photos that are not already in sets and/or filter by date and then add them to a new or existing set or tag them.
  • Twaingle – a tool that allows you to search for images on flickr or yahoo and insert them directly into an application.
  • Flickr Original Viewr – view originals of all flickr images
  • Flickr Leech – loads all interestingness photos for a day on a single page. Sort by user id, photoset and group pools.
  • ZoneTag – can automatically tag your photos with the location, based on the cell tower, in which they were taken.
  • Flickr Mixr – uses RSS feeds provided by flickr and parses them to generate new images.
  • Tiltomo – play with their Visual Search code using two sample databases from flickr.
  • TagMan – a hangman game for Flickr tags.
  • John’s Background Switcher – periodically changes the background image on your computer to a photo from flickr at intervals.
  • FlickrLilli – Enables searching for Creative Commons content on Flickr.
  • RSS2PDF for Flickr – create PDF archives based on any Flickr newsfeed. The photos must be made public.
  • Flickr & Webimager – Screen capture image upload tool based on flickr API.
  • We Map Flickr – mashes up Google maps with Flickr to display a map with pictures from around the world.
  • Spahk – MobileMashup to View photographs from Flickr based on keywords (tags) or a random sampling of interesting photographs on Java-enabled phones with MIDP 2.0 support.
  • Gtalkr – intergrates google talk, gmail, flickr and you tube together.
  • Flickrball – is a six-degrees-of-separation game, using Flickr thumbnails and tags for clues.
  • Fastr – a game where you are shown a group of pictures from Flickr and have to guess the tag before other people do.
  • FlickrFling – displays the text of news feed with accompanying images from flickr.
  • Flickr Logo Maker – enter text and it generates a flickr style logo image
  • Loopy – a desktop screensaver application that loops and shows flickr pictures at random.
  • Flickr Sets RSS – Created RSS streams for sets of a user on Flickr.
  • Flapper – is a Flash 8 interface for Flickr.
  • Flickeur – retrieves random images from Flickr.com and creates a stream-of-consciousness type of video clip.
  • Findr – Find photos on flickr by browsing and refining related tags.
  • Wickr – is a widget for browsing through photos on Flickr. You can browse by supplying tags or by giving a Flickr user’s username or email.
  • Tickr - scrolls images on your desktop until flickr runs out of images to show you which match the tags you’ve specified.
  • Tagnautica – is an experimental navigation tool built to explore the space of related Flickr tags.
  • Clockr – see the current time with flickr photos.The Flickr image urls will be stored locally, refreshed every three days to save bandwidth and speed up the start-up time.
  • Retrievr – lets you search for photos on flickr by drawing sketches of them.
  • Slickr – Flickr screensaver shows images from a user, group, tags, etc. from Flickr.
  • Gnickr – manage photos on your Flickr site as if they were local files on your Gnome desktop.
  • Captioner – add comic captions for your flickr photos
  • Flapi – an open source Flash image gallery that uses Flickr to manage the images.
  • Daily Zeitgeist – displays recent photos from Flickr on your website. Built in Flash.
  • Wikinews Flickr License Searcher – searches flickr for images licensed under a specific license. Meant to help users of Wikinews find free images for use on the site.
  • Yahoo Widgets for Flickr – get flickr related widgets on your desktop after downloading the Yahoo! Widget Engine.
  • QuickrFlickr – a quicker way to generate HTML code of Flickr pictures for use in Xanga, other blogs, or any HTML Page.
  • CloudTagFlickr – This script pulls your tags from flickr, and arranges them in a number of ways according to the relative counts of the given tags.
  • FlickrBuddy – See and download the most interesting pictures of your flickr contacts.
  • Most Interesting Pictures – Enter Flickr username to see their most interesting pictures.
  • FlickrWallpaper – is a simple desktop wallpaper changer that downloads photos based on tags from flickr.
  • FlickrSavr – downloads images based on the criteria specified and creates a slideshow of images and titles.
  • Flickrmap – Put a flash based world map on your own website or blog.
  • Embedded Flickr Slideshows – All that’s needed is a bit of code to embed them within your website to give your readers something dynamic.
  • Flickr hack: All Sizes for all pics – The public API gives directions for constructing the url of any photo based on information in the HTML of every photo page.
  • Flickrfs Virtual Flickr Filesystem – Create a virtual userspace filesystem which allows easy uploading/downloading/searching of images through flickr.
  • Projects on the construction of identity and flickr – a series of three projects investigating what constitutes the self. egoshotr, fixr and mixrrr
  • WordPress Flickr Post Bar plugin – easily insert your Flickr photos into your blog posts.
  • Phlickr – is an open source PHP5 based api kit used to access the Flickr API.
  • Flickr AutoDownloadr – view Flickr photos in a fullscreen slideshow (Windows). Handy for showing off photos to a group of friends with a laptop and TV.
  • Flickratr – vote from 1-10 for different flickr images.
  • KFlickr – A standalone Flickr.com uploader for KDE
  • FAlbum – a WordPress plugin that allows you to display your Flickr photos and photosets on your site.
  • Flickr Album Maker – Make photoalbums using Flickr photos. Based on the php tools by Oberkampf.
  • flickrRSS Plugin – This plugin for WordPress allows you to display a flickr style badge (for a tag, user, user tag or group pool) on your WordPress site.
  • Flickr Greasemonkey Scripts – a huge collection of scripts that modify and enhance Flickr.
  • EgoWalk – see geographically where all your Flickr contacts live in the United States on a Yahoo! map.
  • flickrsavr.py – is a python script that automates the process of saving the URLs (of public photos), and also saves a local copy of thumbnails, and stores descriptions, dates, and tags in a database.
  • Photo Comment Tool – One-click grab and publish any Flickr photo into a Flickr photo comment stream or forum post.
  • BreadKrumbs – Build instant page to page journeys across Flickr photos. Also works as a good group promotion tool.
  • Flickr at Userscripts – More greasemonkey scripts tagged with flickr.
  • FlickrFavs – an application for downloading your favorite photos.
  • Flickr Explorer – Mass photo downloader for Flickr.
  • Flickr Importr – a tool for Windows that allows you to upload images to Flickr and automatically add them to groups and sets.
  • Flyr – search flickr for geotagged photos.
  • Steeev’s Flickr Projects – a collection of flickr greasemonkey scripts and other Flickr programming projects.
  • FlickrRandom – presents randomly-picked photos from Flickr.
  • Flickr RSS Widget – a Javascript button you can put on your website that displays thumbnails of the latest photos in any Flickr RSS feed.
  • Flickr module for CMS – allows you to integrate your photo albums at flickr.com into you CMS Made Simple based website.
  • Mobup – a small J2ME application that manage mobile photo uploads on your Flickr account
  • fd’s Flickr Toys – fun tools for Flickr image editing
  • QOOP flickr Photo Printer – online photo printing service for your Flickr photos in book form.
  • GLFlickrShow – uses OpenGL to produce fullscreen slideshows with transition effects.
  • Flickr idGettr – find your Flickr user id number. For some reason, the only way to figure it out is by looking at your RSS stream address.
  • Flickr TopToolbar – a Greasemonkey script or a Firefox extension, that insets a toolbar across the top of all Flickr pages.
  • Flickr MiniToolbar – a Greasemonkey script or a Firefox extension, that insets a small toolbar above the title of a photo on the photo page.
  • Steganography with Flickr – See how steganographied images can be shared with Flickr friends to pass on documents or other files.
  • Notifyr – subscribe to a Flickr photo page and get email notifications whenever new images are added.
  • Flidget – is a dashboard widget for tiger that allows you to upload your photos.
  • Flickr RSS Reader v2 – is an application built in Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Professional that reads RSS Feeds from Flickr.
  • FlickrDown – downloading photos from Flickr to save locally easier.
  • Flickr Album - an alternative fun way to view images at Flickr.
  • Associatr – A tool for browsing related tags on Flickr.
  • Lfvr - A light weight flickr viewer.
  • Flickr Montager – create photo mosaics using flickr tags.
  • Search Plugins:Flickr – searching flickr.
  • Glimmr – is a photo uploader for the Flickr web service.
  • Longline Tool – composes long line mosaics from the Long Line group pool over at Flickr.
  • Grabbr – is a small application to smooth the task of uploading screenshots to Flickr.
  • Flickr search plugin – for Mozilla/Firefox browser.
  • Flippr! -is a simple application that grabs pictures from Flickr and puts them on your desktop.
  • Flickr.rb – Ruby interface to the Flickr photo-sharing service.
  • Flickr People Finder – a way of finding people on the big flickr visualization.
  • FlickrJ – Java wrapper for the Flickr REST API.
  • Flickr Automator Action 0.1 – Automated uploading to Flickr.
  • Flickr .NET – A .NET wrapper around the Flickr API. Allows desktop and web applications to provide direct image upload functionality to Flickr and its services.
  • Lickr – Flickr causes delay as flash loads. Lickr strips the Flash before the user can even see it, and replaces it with an equivalent interface in pure HTML and Javascript.
  • Flickr Screensaver -Turns your computer into a slideshow of Flickr photos when you’re not using it.
  • Flickrfox -is an extension for Firefox (version 1.0) that lets you browse your Flickr photostreams in a sidebar.
  • jUploadr -is a cross-platform uploader for both linux and windows.
  • Degradr -is a Firefox Greasemonkey script to replace flash representations of photos on flicr.com with the image files embedded in those flash files.
  • FlickrExport – is a plugin for iPhoto 4 which provides a direct export interface to Flickr.com
  • Photoupload – Image uploader to flickr. Upload photos directly to photoset, Use IPTC and EXIF fields in photo description, and generate tags from IPTC keywords.
  • flickrate! – is an attempt to give flickr a rating system. Displays most aesthetic, funniest and original photos.
  • uploadr.py – Upload images to your Flickr account in Python. Once this script is running, simply drag and drop images into the specified upload folder and watch as your images appear on your flickr account.
  • Flickr Tag Related Browser -Just type a search tag and see amazing view of flickr images and browse related tags.
  • FlickrClient is a Python interface to the Flickr API.
  • FlickrUploadr – is a tool to upload your pictures to Flickr.
  • 50 people See – is a program to blend Flickr images which share the same tags. No human is involved in choosing, positioning, or blending the images.
  • Spell with Flickr -Generate one picture per letter.
  • Flickr Postcard Browser – Browse Flickr Postcards
  • Flickr Graph is an application that explores the social relationships inside flickr.com. It makes use of the classic attraction-repulsion algorithm for graphs.
  • TripperMap – automatically search your photos at Flickr for location information and plot the photos on your own Trippermap, on your own website.
  • dFlickr wraps most functions of the Flickr API and provides the necessary classes to access users/photos/photosets/groups/pools/blogs in Flickr.
  • Mappr is an interactive environment for exploring place, based on the photos people take.
  • Flickr Color Picker – Using images from the Color Fields group, just click on a color, use the slider to adjust lightness and darkness, and it will show you photos with that color.
  • 1001 – is a Mac OS X application for uploading and notifying you when new photos are added to streams you want to watch.
  • Flickr Rainbow – displays most recent images from all the users at Flickr which have been tagged with the colours of the rainbow.
  • Flickr photos on your TiVo is an application for the new TiVo HME which can display Flickr pictures on your TiVo
  • flickReplacr bookmarklet – to swap a flickr pic for that word.
  • Kubrickr is a tool that lets you replace the header of your WordPress blog with a nice photo from Flickr.
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Amazing Digg Tools Collection

Looking for Digg tools, hacks and services for� a powerful Digg experience? Diggis a technology news website that combines social bookmarking, blogging, RSS, and non-hierarchical editorial control. With digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allow an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do and thereafter Digg can act as an online traffic generator for your link.



Diggnation is a podcast hosted by Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht that serves as a week-in-review of the most popular stories on the website Digg.com. Getting a link promoted on Digg can increase site traffic quickly. I am a regular visitor to Digg, and this is an attempt to combine all Digg tools in one place.

Official Digg Tools

  • Digg Toolbar New- Displays Digg counts & comments as you browse around the web. You can also Digg and submit stories directly from the toolbar
  • Digg Pics – tracks the activity of images on the site. Images slide in from the left as people Digg and submit them.
  • Digg Arc – displays stories, topics, and containers wrapped around a sphere.
  • Digg BigSpy – places stories at the top of the screen as they are dugg. As new stories are dugg, older stories move down the list.
  • Digg Stack – shows diggs occuring in real time on up to 100 stories at once.
  • Digg Swarm – draws a circle for stories as they�re dugg. Diggers swarm around stories, and make them grow.
  • Digg Clouds – Check the digg queue in Clouds format. The more diggs a story has the larger it appears in the cloud.
  • Digg Spy v2 – autorefreshing real time view of Digg now with spying all stories, front page stories and queued stories.
  • Digg Q – Unpromoted digg stories. Similar to DiggSpy.
  • Digg the Blog – “a means to detail all digg-related news, events, upgrades, feature additions, and much more.”
  • Digg Widget – Customize and add digg news to your site.
  • Digg Top Stories – A collection of top stories by day, week, month and year.
  • Digg Search – advanced search for Digg stories.
  • Google Coop Module – See Digg articles at the top of your Google search results.
  • Google IG Module – View recent stories from Digg on your personalized Google homepage.
  • Digg Buttons & Badges – to add to your site.

Digg API Visualization Contest Finalists

  • D’Lite is an Apollo application that utilizes Digg’s API to retrieve their data, information, and processes.
  • Wheel of Upcoming – Displays recently submitted stories in a spiral pattern that a user can rotate using mouse gestures.
  • DiggMob – A mobile interface for Digg in FlashLite 2.x.
  • Mini Digg is a small Apollo Digg application that allows users to view stories and see the story activity.
  • WordWeb analyzes the relationships between popular keywords and the stories they appear within.
  • DiggCity – shows the 10 newest popular stories. The more popular the story gets, the taller the building.
  • Digg Expos� – takes snap(.com) shots of pages from Digg and displays them in a configurable view.
  • Digg Charts – Flex application that generates charts comparing popular stories.
  • DiggGraphr Desktop – is a desktop application written in Apollo that lets you browse Digg stories in treemaps.
  • Digg Watch – is a tool that lets users browse Digg and grab interesting information from stories.

Third Party Digg Tools

  • DiggSuggest New- a web-app that suggests new Digg-stories for you based on your previous interests.
  • Zubbu – allows users to check how their Digg story submissions are doing.
  • DiggView – See all latest promoted Digg stories by category on one page.
  • Rigglations – is a Yahoo! widget that shows the relationships between members of Digg.
  • Diggthis – this Drupal module adds a Digg this button to your nodes.
  • DiggAlerts – allows you to setup alerts when other Diggalerts.com members submit stories you’re interested in.
  • Digg IRC Bot – reports newly listed front page stories into IRC.
  • Digg Notify – is an application that pops up a small box in the bottom right hand side of your screen to display number of diggs on your story. It tells you when your story hits front page as well.
  • PHPDugg – Allows you to run a site on a similar system to digg.com
  • Diggitizer – analyzes the most successful Digg titles and combines this knowledge with your keywords to create the fool-proof title to drive your entry to the very top of digg.
  • diggth – is a widget set up for reading various Digg.com RSS feeds.
  • Digg Anywhere – another mobile optimized digg feed.
  • mb3Digg – see dugg articles in 3D.
  • Diggless RSS Feed – a special feed that provides a direct link to the website, bypassing Digg.
  • Digg Java Mobile – is an mobile extension of Digg. Application works on 790+ devices.
  • Digg This! – firefox extension adds Digg This! to the right-click menu, Tools menu, and optionally the toolbar.
  • DiggThumbs – firefox extension adds website screenshot thumbnails to the listings on digg.com
  • Digg Comment Spotlight – firefox extension that highlights comments over a certain threshold (20 by default) for Digg.com
  • Jedi Digg – a toolbar docked at the top of your screen which displays the digg front page stories in rotation. You can directly digg the story from this toolbar.
  • DiggThumbs – a Firefox plugin that adds website screenshot thumbnails to each and every digg listing.
  • Live Digg Buton Generator – generates the code to copy and paste into your website to make a live digg button.
  • Digg card – a way of inserting your Digg.com Profile on to you website.
  • DiggSig – create your own automatic updating Digg Signature for your website.
  • Digg Badge – a Sidebar Widgets capable WordPress plugin that displays your Digg profile information on your blog.
  • DuggMirror – automatically caches the URL of each story submitted to Digg. If a site goes down because of a server overload or for exceeding its bandwidth, you can use the Dugg link to access it.
  • DiggFiltr – create a custom digg feed in seconds
  • Diggview – offers an overview of all current popular headlines in the different categories of Digg.
  • DiggGraph – AJAX application to have a “bird’s eye” look on the digg queue stories and see rapidly which stories are getting up to the front page
  • Digg Dashboard Widget – gets the latest headlines from digg.com every 15 minutes and displays them in a pleasant interface. Compliant with Digg verson 3
  • Digg Trends – advanced ajax-refreshing Digg mirror page. Access digg trends graph and filter digg links by categories.
  • Digg SMS – Get the top 5 front page stories sent to your cell phone every few hours
  • Digg Front – View latest promoted Digg stories by category on one page.
  • Digg Notifer – notifies you the moment a new story appears on the front page of Digg.com website.
  • Diggaz With Attitude – DWA is a program that displays the latest Digg and Google News articles in your taskbar.
  • Digg Submits – View latest submitted Digg Stories by category on one page
  • Digg Marquee – generates a marquee with Digg stories to put on their websites.
  • HotDigg – Live Digg news feed screensaver.
  • DiggDesk – Read your favorite digg and reddit stories and watch youtube videos right on your desktop.
  • Digg Search Widget – Search all of Digg’s archives.
  • DiggBot – is an automated MSN robot whose sole purpose is to alert you (via an MSN instant message) whenever there is a new item posted on the front page of Digg.com.
  • Digg Friends Checker – Who’s Digg friends’ lists are you on?
  • DiggLicious – a cool blend of digg.com and del.icio.us
  • Digg Opera Widget – downloads and displays the RSS feed from Digg
  • DiggIRC – An Unofficial IRC channel on freenode with full digg rss feed syndication.
  • DiggUpdate – gives you quick access to the front page stories of Digg in your Mac OS X menu-bar.
  • Digg for PSP – view Digg stories on the PSP web-browser.
  • Digg RSS Widget – gets the current front page headlines from digg and displays them in a nice little interface.
  • Digg Sidebar v4 – enable quick navigation of digg links.
  • Desktop Digg – a Windows Desktop Application that will pull down the newest submitted stories on Digg.com.
  • Cacheout! – Firefox Extension lets you access articles crashed by digg effect through 3rd party caching services like CoralCDN.
  • Digg.com Toolbar – Firefox Extension provides toolbar with rss feed reader, digg search and ability to listen to every diggnation podcast.
  • DiggTray – is a free application which sits in the task tray and notifies you whenever there is a new article on the front page of Digg.com
  • Digg vs Dot – highlights the act of crossposting articles among digg.com and Slashdot.org.
  • DiggTree – a RSS aggregator for digg.com.
  • Digg This! – firefox extension adds ‘Digg this’ to the right-click or Tools menu to speed up the submitting stories to Digg
  • Digg Sidebar – enable quick navigation of digg links
  • Digg Submit Bookmarklet – quickly submit a link to Digg
  • PocketDigg – real time headlines from Digg formatted for mobile devices.
  • Diggnation T-Shirt – buy another Tshirt.
  • Digg Buttons – Chicklet buttons you can paste in your blog.
  • Digg Search Plugin – plug-in for firefox that lets you search digg for stories.
  • Upcomming.org Digg Group - a collaborative event calendar for Digg users.
  • Digg Digger – useful Konfabulator widget grabs all the new stories submitted to digg area queue.
  • Digg Eater – is a RSS news aggregator with some features unique to Digg.com.
  • Digg Add Mirrors – Greasemonkey script adds mirrors to Digg.
  • Digg Newstracker for Winbar. Just download and rename the extention to .trk and place in newstrackers in your winbar folder.
  • Digg Top Stories – Google Desktop Sidebar plugin which displays the ten most recent stories from Digg.com. [download here]
  • Digg News Widget – gets news via various RSS feeds from digg.com.
  • Digg Toolbar – Instant access to digg from any site on the web and get digg.com headlines automatically. [mirror]
  • DiggClone project – is an effort to reproduce the functionality of the popular social bookmarking site digg.com. [more]
  • Digg at Cafepress – Tshirts, cups, bags & thongs!
  • Diggnation – collection of the diggnation episodes.
  • Diggnation Digging Game – for Diggnation fans looking to add more fun the podcast.
  • Digg With Diggnation – gives you the latest items from a number of RSS feeds from the Digg website as well as give you the latest audio and video episodes of Diggnation.
  • Diggnation Widget – lets you know what the latest Audio and Video Diggnation releases are.
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Google Adsense Tips and Tools Collection


Google Adsense is an amazing contextual advertising program that lets you earn revenue from your site by a variety of revenue generating programs. Pay per click ads, Adsense for search, referrals for Firefox with Google toolbar, Picassa, Google Pack and the adsense program itself. This is a compilation of common Google tips and tools to make more money from Google Adsense.

Google Adsense Guidelines

Adsense Starter Demos

  • Google Adsense Tour – introducing you to the Adsense program.
  • Getting Started Demo: learn to sign in, copying and pasting your code, setting up alternate ads, and using your Competitive Ad Filter.
  • Help with Ad Code Demo: troubleshoot basic problems when implementing your code. Also covers how to implement your code using two different types of WYSIWYG software.
  • Payment Demo: learn about the AdSense payment cycle, from a click on your ads to money in the bank!
  • Optimization Demo: learn how to use ad size and placement to maximize your AdSense revenue.

Track Adsense Income, Statistics and Clicks

  • Adsense Notifier – Firefox extension that displays your Adsense earnings on the Firefox statusbar.
  • SysSense – personal desktop Google AdSense monitor. It keeps your current Google AdSense information in the Windows system tray.
  • Adsense Widget – a Mac Dashboard widget that automatically logs into your AdSense Google account and displays the last 6-days of revenue generated from your Google advertising account.
  • Google Adsense Yahoo Widget – displays the current income directly from your Google AdSense account.
  • Stats for AdSense widget – allows you to view your Google AdSense� reports directly from your Mac OS X Dashboard.
  • Adsense Status – GoogleDesktop plugin to View earnings information from your Google Adsense account in the Google Desktop sidebar. Available information: page impressions, clicks, page CTR, page eCPM, and your earnings.
  • Adsense Alert – desktop client monitors your adsense earnings.
  • Performancing Metrics – a free professional grade blog statistics service that track limited adsense click data
  • Adsense earnings RSS feed – a simple script that will create an RSS feed with your daily Adsense earnings to track via your regular feed reader.
  • Google AdSense Charts and Graphs – chart your adsense data in a multidimensional line charts.
  • AdSenseLog is a tool for checking and analyzing your Adsense ads data (Content, Search, Custom/URL channels and Referrals).

View / Test Adsense Ads

  • Google AdSense preview tool – addition to the right-click menu for Windows Internet Explorer 6.x, allowing you to preview the ads that may show on any web page.
  • Adsense Preview – Preview the Google ads that may show on any web page.
  • Google AdSense Sandbox Tool – see what sort of Google AdSense ads will appear based on content or keywords. See up to 20 sample AdSense ads for the URL or keywords.
  • Overture Keyword Tool – suggest keyword bid amount and keyword suggestions, which help you target high paying keywords.
  • Google Adwords Keyword Tool – generates potential keywords for your ad campaign and reports their Google statistics, including search performance and seasonal trends.

Google Adsense WordPress Plugins

Google Adsense Optimization Tips

Alternate Ads

  • Alternate ads – allows you to utilize your ad space in the event that Google is unable to serve targeted ads to your page.
  • Alternate Url – provides a 50/50 Revenue Share, full global coverage monthly payments automatic referral income, family safe ads, paypal supported and gives detailed stats.
  • AlterNut Ad – pays you a flat rate every month in return for you displaying thier ad rather than the PSA. Invite only.
  • Default Ads – load your affiliate or other ads into DefaultAds and generate a link to include in your Google Adsense alternate ad URL. They show their own ads 1 out of every 100 impressions for this service.

Adsense Chats and Forums

Miscellaneous

  • Google AdSense Stats Syndrome (GASS) - the compulsive need to check AdSense stats every 15 minutes or so to see how much you’ve earned since your prior login. more.
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How do I... run Linux/UNIX clients on Windows with XWin32 Live?


How XWin32 Live makes this easier is with the simple integration of PuTTY into XWin32. And it’s not just easier now — it’s also cleaner. Gone is the unsightly (and unwieldy at times) full-screen gray X Windows box that had to remain open during your session. Now everything is packed tightly into one small window.
Let’s take a look at how this is done.
Getting and installing
To get the latest XWin32 Live download, head over to the download page on StarNet and download the file that fits your version of Windows. Once the file is downloaded, install it by double-clicking the icon.

Running XWin32 Live

Now that XWin32 Live is installed, you need to first run the X-Config application from the XWin32 X.X menu on the Start menu (where X.X is the release number). When you open this window, you will be greeted by the main configuration window (Figure A) that contains everything you need to get your XWin32 instance set up.

Figure A

Here you see a session already set up (monkeypantz), which was quickly created using the Wizard.
The first thing you need to do is click on the Wizard button. This wizard will walk you through the setup of your XWin32 session. The first step in the Wizard is to select the session type and give the session a name (Figure B). Select SSH and enter a name for the session.

Figure B

In order to use the Live session type, you must have the Live server set up on your Linux machine.
Once you have completed this step, click Next.
The second step is to enter the host you will be connecting to (Figure C.) This can be either an FQDN or an IP address. Once you have completed this step, click Next to move on.

Figure C

When using SSH, the SSH daemon must be running on the host machine.
The third step is to enter the username and password you will use to connect with (Figure D). This username and password must be a valid username/password combination that exists on the host machine. Once you have completed this step, click Next.

Figure D

If you allow root ssh login, you can use the root user — but I wouldn’t suggest it.
The final step in the configuration is to select the command to run on the remote host (Figure E). Now don’t worry, you don’t have to know the actual Linux command. In fact, all you need to do is select from the list. Select Linux (unless you know you are connecting to a different type of machine that requires a different terminal listing command or the addition of X auth). Once you have completed this configuration, click Finish and you’re ready to start a session.

Figure E

As you click on each type, the command will appear in the Command line. Or you can just enter the command manually.

Starting an XWin32 Live session

Once you have finalized your configuration, you will notice the XWin32 Live Icon in the System Tray (Figure F). If you right-click on that icon, you will notice a “My Session” entry in the menu. Click on that to reveal the configured sessions you have. Select the session you want to connect to and fairly quickly that X session will connect. The only thing you will see is the equivalent of the Windows command window (Figure F) and a message window telling you the session has successfully connected (Figure G).

Figure F

This window is actually an Aterm instance running in the Windows command window.

Figure G

You can safely close this window once you have connected.
Once you are connected, you can issue the command to run the Linux application you want to run. As you can see in Figure H, I have Konqueror running in Windows XP. Konqueror runs exactly as it would in Linux (with the exception that Konqueror cannot, through XWin32, copy or move files from the host to the client).

Figure H

You can navigate around the Linux system, and you can move files from one location on the host to another (just not from host to client).
Once you close the XWin32 session and the XWin32 icon is no longer in the System Tray, you will need to go back to the Start Menu, open the X-Win X.X submenu, and select X-Win32 to place the start-up icon back in the System Tray.

Other configuration options

There are a number of other configuration options in the X-Config window. In the Security tab you will notice a section for Allow By XAuth Cookie and Allow By Address. If you choose to use Allow By XAuth Cookie, you will need to import the ~/.Xauthority binary file from the Linux host to the Windows client machine. Once using this, you will be sure that only connections to machines that match that cookie will be allowed. The same thing, in a simpler manner, is enabled when you configure XWin32 to connect to only specific hosts.

Final thoughts

StartNet has made tunneling Linux/UNIX applications onto Windows machines even easier. Gone is the clutter of the unsightly X Windows screen as well as the need for a separate SSH client. So if you have a need to run Linux/UNIX applications on your Windows machine, this is truly the best option.
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How do I... Run Linux applications in Windows XP?


Linux-to-Linux remote application viewing is simple: Use secure shell with the -X switch to tunnel X from one machine to the other. Linux to Windows isn’t as simple because, without help, Windows has no way of rendering X applications on the desktop. Fortunately, there are ways to do this.
There are many reasons why an administrator would want to be able to run Linux GUI applications from a Windows machine. Say, for example, you have a GUI-enabled Linux server that you run headless. Instead of attaching a monitor, you can just log in from your Windows machine and run the Linux application. It’s not really that difficult. Let’s see how it’s done.

What you will need

There are a couple of ways to handle this task. The first is with XWin32 and PuTTY. The second is with Xming with Portable PuTTY and PuTTY. Although PuTTY and Portable PuTTY are both free, Xming is available only via donations (you receive a log in when you donate). And XWin32 licenses are based on seats and use. The cheapest XWin32 license is a student license at $69.99. We are going to demonstrate this task with the PuTTY/XWin32 combination, because that is the most corporate-friendly method. You can, of course, download a limited demo of XWin32 that will time out at 30 minutes for each session.

Getting and configuring PuTTY

PuTTY is one of the most popular Windows SSH clients available. It’s free and just as secure as its Linux counterpart. You can get the putty.exe file from the official site download page. Once you download PuTTY, you will have an executable file (it is not an installer).
When you run PuTTY you will see a fairly simple interface. There are just a few configurations you have to take care of in order to set up your Windows system for X tunneling. The first thing you need to do is open up the PuTTY application where you will see the window opened to the Sessions portion of the configuration (Figure A).

Figure A

Remember to save your sessions or you will wind up having to reconfigure your session each time.
The first thing you need to do is enter either an IP Address or hostname in the Hostname configuration option. Once you have done that, make sure the SSH connection type is checked. Now you can either save this under Default Settings or create a new session.
If you know you are going to connect to various servers, it’s best to leave default settings alone.
Once you have given your session a name, click Save. Now, expand the SSH section in the left pane to reveal the X11 option. You need to check Enable X11 Forwarding and enter “localhost:0″ in the X Display Location section (Figure B)

Figure B

The default MIT cookie should work for most SSH sessions.
Once you have taken care of X11, go back to the sessions section and click Save again. As you can see in Figure C, I have given my session the name “monkeypantz” and saved this session.

Figure C

Now the “monkeypantz” session is saved with your configurations.
If you double-click “monkeypantz” a new command window will open, connecting to your remote SSH server. You will be prompted to accept (or reject) the SSH key from the server. You must accept that key to continue. Once the key is added, you will be prompted for a username and password. Once you enter the username and password, you will wind up at your Linux bash prompt almost ready to launch an X-tunneled application.
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NOTE: The newest version of XWin32 (called XWin32 Live) doesn’t require the additional installation of PuTTY because it has SSH built in to the system.
On top of that the new XWin32 Live doesn’t require a large X Windows instance to be open underneath your UNIX/Linux application, so the desktop has much less clutter when an X Windows application is open on your Windows desktop. Starting an X Windows instance is done in the same way as it was in earlier versions: you simply right-click the XWin32 icon in the system tray and select the session you want to start. At that point the only window that will open is a command window with your Linux bash prompt.
Editor’s Note: Jack Wallen is writing a new blog post to explain the improvements found in this new version.
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Getting and configuring XWin32

The next step is to download XWin32. You have to fill out a form after which you will be sent a download link as well as a trial license number for the software. Once you have the file downloaded, double-click to install it.
Now that XWin32 is installed, you have to do a bit of configuring. If you go into the Programs menu you will notice a new entry for XWin32. From there choose the XConfig option, which will open the configuration window. The simplest way to set up your connection is to use the Wizard button. Click the Wizard button to start the process.
The first configuration step is the Connection Method. You have three choices: rsh, rexec, and XDMCP (Figure D). The XDMCP is what you want to choose. Click XDMCP and click Next.

Figure D

XDMCP is the X Display Manager Control Protocol.
The next step is to select the XDMCP Broadcast Mode (Figure E). Here you want to select Query (since you know the host or IP address of the server.)

Figure E

If you have no idea what the host or IP address is you can select Broadcast, which will scan for available SSH servers.
The next step is to enter the host name (or IP address), as shown in Figure F.

Figure F

Either host name or IP address will do the trick.
The final step is to name the session and finish the configuration (Figure G).

Figure G

You can automatically launch the new session by checking the Launch This Session Now box and clicking Finish.

Fire it up

Now that you have both PuTTY and XWin32 configured it’s time to fire up a session. If you closed PuTTY, fire it back up and log on to your server. Now go back to the Programs menu and then to the XWin32 submenu. From the XWin32 menu select X-Win32. You will notice a small “X” now in your system tray. From that small X you can select which session you want to connect to via a right-click. Selecting the session you want will open up an X Windows session (Figure H).

Figure H

When the XWin32 window opens, it is full screen, so you have to minimize it to get it out of the way.
Now go back to the PuTTY window where you are logged in to your Linux SSH server. From this prompt, enter the command to start up the application you want to run. As you can see in Figure I, I have Kopete running in the XWin32 window.

Figure I

As you can see, the window manager is not present, so windows cannot be moved around.
I have managed to get KDE running in an XWin32 session. What is odd about it is that the Kicker opens in one window and the desktop opens in another. Normally you wouldn’t want an entire Window manager or desktop running in this instance, but there are times when it could come in handy.

Final thoughts

The ability to tunnel X Windows applications into a Windows box has limitless possibilities for administration purposes or even for end-user work. This only serves to boost possible productivity in Windows by expanding the tool selection available into the realm of UNIX/Linux.
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