See the world with Google Map Street View

Google Street View is a new technology featured in Google Maps and Google Earth. Google Street View provides panoramic views from position along different places in the world. In a simpler language, Google Maps Street View allows you to explore various places around the world with 360 degree imagery.  You can view landmarks, natural wonders, restaurants and many more as if you are actually there.

Imagery of Street view is collected by using a car with Cameras, GPS devices etc. So The Street view vehicle whatever it may be amongst Car, Bike, Trolley or snowmobile depending on the environment of a particular area has a camera which collects images as the vehicle passes through different places.  So when we view Google map Street view for a place we can have 360 degree look around the place where the Street View Car has been ranging from a street in Las Vegas to Sydney Australia or New Delhi in India.

How to use the Street View?

The first step is to go to Google map and find the place that you want to visit in street view. After finding that place you can pick up the Pegman icon on the top left of the map and drop it to the location where you want see in street view mode.

To rotate your view in the street you can either use the rotate wheel on top left of the screen or your can user your mouse or keyboard to do so. If you are using the mouse you can click and drag to change your view and for keyboard you can use the left and right arrows on the keyboard.

To walk down a place you can either click on the white arrows on the screen or use the up and down arrows on the keyboard.

To exit the Street view mode of Google map, either click on the top right corner or zoom out to view the map.

Google Street View is currently available in North America, parts of South America, Most of Europe, and South Africa, parts of middle-east, Australia and parts of Asia.

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Facebook and Twitter

Everyone today is Familiar with the terms Facebook and twitter. The purpose of the two is helping the world to connect through different ways. Some of you are learners while some can use them effectively.

Apart from the daily buzz Facebook and Twitter sever the purpose of   e-learning and inspires many students to learn.

As a result, the question arrives How can we use Facebook & twitter for educational purposes?

There are a certain applications in Facebook which serves the purpose.

Slide Share

You can create and share presentations on Facebook. At the same time you can add documents.

Flashcards

You can create flashcards to help you study on Facebook.

NewsRack

You can use information relevant to your course and share it with your other learner friends.

Mathematical Formulae

As a teacher you can distribute the mathematical formulae to your students and they can use them even if they have not added the application.

WorldCat

You can do research, catalog your library’s collection and share it with others.

Quiz Monster

Create your own quiz Facebook application.

Study Groups

You can quickly and easily collaborate your classmates and discuss the courses.

Koofers

Share your old testes, quizzes and study guides with other students.

If you are interested to explore how you can use Facebook for  e-learning you can join the Facebook group “Facebook for e-learning”.

Talking about Facebook there is more to the list, where as twitter does not lack behind in serving educational purposes.

Twitter could be used for classroom teaching.

• Summarize topics- view as tweets
• Really simple story- tweetstory
• Collate classroom views
• Twitter could be a guidebook for teachers, and they can project brainstorming sessions for their students..
• Atlas- Audio files of Twitter can be used in school…Great stuff!!

If we move away from the casual purpose of these social sites, we may come across a variety of purposes served by them. It’s just a matter of interest!

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Android 4.0

Quite easily, the Android platform is garnering immense popularity across the world. There was a time when the Blackberry was seen everywhere. A lot of people now understand that while the RIM interface might provide the exclusivity of BBM, there is nothing more to it. The Android platform however, was not an instant hit – especially in India. It grew steadily but now has a lot of purists in the market can do anything to vouch for it.

The last version on the phone was Gingerbread 2.3 and the one on the tablet was Honeycomb 3.0. Now, Honeycomb is specially created only for the tablet and has a lot of suitable features for the tablet that the phone does not have or might not need. Google is breaking the version nomenclature and jumping directly to Android 4.0, Ice-cream Sandwich, where the phone and tablet versions will be brought together.

There are a lot of noteworthy features in this version of Android. Ice-Cream Sandwich has firstly hit the right spot by bringing out features that help in easy multi-tasking. That is what a lot of us look for in phones. Home screens look better and are more customizable. You can even resize the widgets and experiment with a lot of new themes. There is a Recent Apps button that lets users navigate between various tasks using the System Bar. The list consists of various thumbnails and just gently tapping an icon will lead you to the app of your choice.

It is sometimes a pain when one has to unlock the screen each time before performing even the most menial of actions. Android 4.0 has a better lock screen service where users can avail the camera facilityand view notifications without unlocking their screen first. One of the best features is face unlock. The phone can unlock itself by just looking at the user’s face. This is something like the fingerprint option that a lot of phones and options use but this is just so much cooler! Even the media folder has been made more attractive by letting users see HD album art and by having easily manageable music tracks.

Dismissing notifications usually involves reading them at least once. On this platform however, just asimple swipe of your finger is enough to dismiss individual notifications, apps from the Recent Apps list and even browser tabs. One more aspect is that multiple browsers are now easier to handle because the user interface is even friendlier.

This platform even offers a new voice input engine that provides sort of a continuous microphone usage experience. For instance, users can speak for a prolonged time and dictate long sentences.They can even pause for intervals if needed to create a punctuation mark whenever needed! The softer keyboard on Android 4.0 makes text input faster and more accurate. Word suggestions have been improved and the suggestion strip shows only three words at a time to avoid confusion and mistakes. To fix words that have been misspelled, the Androird 4.0 spellchecker locates and underlines errors. Apart from this, it also suggests replacement words.

Lastly, this variety of new features has been designed to enhance the accessibility of Android 4.0 for all users. Sharing is much easier with new and improved features such as Live Effects which is similar to Photobooth on Macs.

HTC, Samsung and even LG have stated that their top-of-the-line phone will get an Android 4.0 update. Whether it is for users of developers, the Android 4.0 Ice-Cream Sandwich is sure going to be a force to reckon with and change a lot of rules of the smartphone game.

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E-books

With the growing arenas in technology , even the traditional habit and activity of reading has upgraded itself to a completely new level.Electronic books , popularly known as e-books are basically electronically displayed copies of regular printed books.There are devices ie- e-book readers are specially designed only for the purpose of reading such books. However e-books can also be read on laptops , computers , tablets etc.

Advantages of E-books
1)  Portability
With the help of an eBook reader , laptop etc it is possible to read multiple books on a single device. It gets rid of the problem of trying to accommodate  multiple books in limited space while travelling or even for storage purposes.

2)  Lighting conditions
In the case of an e-book , it is possible to read it under all lighting conditions especially in the absence of light because of the prevailing background  light in the electronic device which contains the e-book.

3)  Easily Readable
It is easier to adjust the e-books according to your convenience like adjusting the fonts , page size , zoom functions etc.

4)  Great for new releases
E-books are a great option in the case of new book releases. Not only are they available for cheaper but you can also avoid the problem of sold out copies which are often prevalent during the initial launch of the book.

Disadvantages of E-books
1)  Strain to eyes
Looking at the screen of an e-book for long hours can be a huge strain on the eyes. Apart from causing temporary irritation , constant and prolonged  exposure can lead to more serious eye problems.

2)  Power
Ebook readers , laptops,tablets or other devices have a power of maximum 2-3 hours and you may not always have access to power supply. This is a negative point considering how the paper books does not require any other supplementary device.

3) E book formats
A wide variety of ebook formats are available.Many of them are specific to certain ebook readers only whereas one particular book may not be available in all formats.

4)  Destroys the novelty of books
Many argue that no technology can replace the pleasure of flipping through pages of the book .The smell of pages and the feeling of printed paper holds a special place in the hearts of many and it’s hard for such people to change their reading habits.

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Most Popular Apps for iPhone and iPod touch

There numerous application available for iPhone and other apple products and there are various types of them some of which are very popular amongst iPhone and iPod touch owners. Here are the top apps for iPhone.

Color Mail –
This web application allows the user to create a color styled email template. You can use this template in your iOS mail app to send colorful emails. You can create a colorful email from various templates by just tapping on it to choose a theme from the given ones. By using this app you can create colorful emails by just a few taps. This app can also be used on iPad.

4G Speed –
4G Speed is an Internet Speed Test and it was designed to measure Wi-Fi, 4G, 3G, GPRS and EDGE. The average speed of your internet will be revealed after testing it.

Funny Pictures –
This app has numerous funny pictures for the iPhone and iPod touch categorized in over 15 different types. These categories include illusions, cool stuff, cartoons, Animals, Military, People, Signs, Sport, Vehicles and Weird. This

iTrailers –
This app is all about movie trailers and reviews. You can see the movie trailers and reviews at anytime of the day. The listing keeps getting updated so you can see the latest trailers.

Carbon Footprint Calculator –
Carbon footprint calculator is a simple application which gives you an estimate of how many trees are required to offset your carbon footprint. This is calculated on the miles you drive, your airline travel, your electricity usage, train travel, your natural gas usage, oil heating etc.

Gold Nuggets –
Gold Nugget is a game app which involves collecting gold nuggets of different sizes and values. There are also ore chunks mixed with the gold and you are not supposed to pick those. This is an interesting game once you play it.

Micro Bleach –
Micro bleach has over 400+ chapters. If you have Wi-Fi or 3G connection, you can enjoy this wherever you are. This app also has individual panel zooming, portrait and landscape mode.

Memory Vitamins Game –
This is a game app and one of the latest. This game has 3 levels of difficulty with great graphics. This game can be played by all ages and it is quite interesting.

Puck Billiards –
This is a simple billiards game with great graphics. You can flick a puck and score. Very simple game suitable for all ages

Hangman Haunting –
Hangman Haunting is a game application. In this game you can increase your creepy vocabulary.

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Credit Card Apps for iPhone

You can make secure online transactions from your favorite bank by using credit card apps for your iPhone. Here are some the best credit card apps for your iPhone.

1. Swipe It – Credit Card Terminal with Secure Reader
This app supports drag and drop on iOS4 and it is the first terminal credit card for the iPhone and iPod Touch that works with a magnetic field-Swiper.

2. Square –
You can accept credit cards and cash on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch through this app. There are no contracts in this and you can include monthly fees or merchant accounts in it. Fund will be deposited in you back account on the following day of the transaction. You can easily accept payment from anywhere in the world by using Square.

3. Phone Swipe –
You can process your credit card in safe and secure manner by using Phone Swipe.

4. Pay Anywhere –
You can accept payments through your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch by using Pay Anywhere app. This credit card app is a free application for apple products. Through this app you can accept credit cards at anytime, anywhere by anyone. This app is best suited for artists, tutors, for garage sales or even for fundraising. There are also no hidden fees included in this app. Pay Anywhere app is a leading credit card processing app for over 110,000 businesses.

5. Card Log –
You can keep a record of all your expenses and spending through credit cards, checks issued, cash or any other mode of payment by using Card Log. You can have the images of the documents, date, name of related parties and addresses with GPS. Basically you can save all the information you will and might require related to your expenses and incomes.

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Top 10 image morphing/editing apps for Smartphone

Be it an iphone, blackberry or an android, the download market is always flooded with as many Apps as you have hair on your head. It’s next to impossible to figure out how many or which one out of them is the best and worth downloading. So here’s a handy guide to the top 10 image morphing or editing Apps that are available on your Smartphones. They are not ranked here, but they are definitely the top 10 most used, trusted and popular apps.
1).  Snapbucket
It allows you to use the 3 ‘S’ system – Snap, Style and Share. It not only allows you to edit your pictures by filtering, adding effects, frames and vignettes but it also allows you to design your own filter and finally share it with your friends on Social Media.

2). Instagram
Relish quick and easy styling and sharing with free Instagram App download in your iPhone. It is used by over 9 million people all across the world. It gives you the privilege to use its ecstatic features like Sutro, Earlybird, Nashville, 1977 vuntage etc. which are famous custom borders available and can give a new aura to your photos. Linear and Rafical Tilt-shift blur add cherry on the cake.

3). Camera +
This is an ultimate app, which has multiple features which miraculously help you click pictures with better quality. It gives you control over exposure and focus; has multiple shooting modes and facility of flash light, grids, cropand digital zoom. It also helps you manage your clicked pictures by immediately transferring them to pioneering Lightbox where you can edit,delete and add pictures. It comes with a special function to search your photos by any criteria and finally allows you to go social!

4). Face Fudge
Now photo morphing is just a tap away from you with Face Fudge app on your smartphone. You can now change the faces by simply changing features like eyes, mouth or tanning a skin colour or by just blurring.  Edit and make funny photos with Face Fudge, make your friends laugh by sharing it on various social networking sites.

5). Be Funky Photo Editor
Go whacky and make your photos look trendy with Be Funky Photo Editor, an online application. Add 20 high quality special effects, crop, add frames and share funky photos with your friends absolutely free from android market.

6). Camera 360
If you are a photo enthusiastic and love photo editing to make your photographs better, then Camera 360 is all you need. It is one of the most popularapplicationthat gives you a 360 degree approach to editing. It incorporates several features like Tilt shift allowing you to fake selective focus,Color-Shift mode that allows desaturation of all colours except one, Image stabilization mode, filters, funny effects, stickers and scenery frames.

7). Picplz
Have an Android phone and so don’t have Instagram app? Never mind, Picplz available with android smartphone satisfies all your needs that an Instagram does in iPhone. Click new photos with this app or edit the existing ones with quality photo filters, geotag, vintage 70s effect, Hipstamatic effect, B & W effect etc. and share it on social network. It allows you to synchronize your dropbox account with this app, to create an automatic backup of both original and filtered pictures in cloud storage.

8). Photogrid
This app is a must for you if you’re fond of making collage from your snap collection. It also gives you exciting options to edit images with High mode, Wide mode, Multi-mode, Edit Grip, swap, rotate etc.

9). Adobe Photoshop Express
This is a smaller version of Adobe Photoshop for your smartphone with incredible features like crop, straighten, roatate, clip, adjust exposure, sharpen or soften your image, convert it into sketch, tint it, contrast it, desaturate it etc. which can now revolutionize your snaps.

10). Pholeido
Create hilarious pictures with Pholeido that comes with a package full of fun effects, funny texts, strange objects and fine frames. You can twist your friend’s face or add strange objects or frames to it and canhave fun with your friends on social media.

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Top 10 image morphing/editing apps for Smartphone

Be it an iphone, blackberry or an android, the download market is always flooded with as many Apps as you have hair on your head. It’s next to impossible to figure out how many or which one out of them is the best and worth downloading. So here’s a handy guide to the top 10 image morphing or editing Apps that are available on your Smartphones. They are not ranked here, but they are definitely the top 10 most used, trusted and popular apps.
1).  Snapbucket
It allows you to use the 3 ‘S’ system – Snap, Style and Share. It not only allows you to edit your pictures by filtering, adding effects, frames and vignettes but it also allows you to design your own filter and finally share it with your friends on Social Media.

2). Instagram
Relish quick and easy styling and sharing with free Instagram App download in your iPhone. It is used by over 9 million people all across the world. It gives you the privilege to use its ecstatic features like Sutro, Earlybird, Nashville, 1977 vuntage etc. which are famous custom borders available and can give a new aura to your photos. Linear and Rafical Tilt-shift blur add cherry on the cake.

3). Camera +
This is an ultimate app, which has multiple features which miraculously help you click pictures with better quality. It gives you control over exposure and focus; has multiple shooting modes and facility of flash light, grids, cropand digital zoom. It also helps you manage your clicked pictures by immediately transferring them to pioneering Lightbox where you can edit,delete and add pictures. It comes with a special function to search your photos by any criteria and finally allows you to go social!

4). Face Fudge
Now photo morphing is just a tap away from you with Face Fudge app on your smartphone. You can now change the faces by simply changing features like eyes, mouth or tanning a skin colour or by just blurring.  Edit and make funny photos with Face Fudge, make your friends laugh by sharing it on various social networking sites.

5). Be Funky Photo Editor
Go whacky and make your photos look trendy with Be Funky Photo Editor, an online application. Add 20 high quality special effects, crop, add frames and share funky photos with your friends absolutely free from android market.

6). Camera 360
If you are a photo enthusiastic and love photo editing to make your photographs better, then Camera 360 is all you need. It is one of the most popularapplicationthat gives you a 360 degree approach to editing. It incorporates several features like Tilt shift allowing you to fake selective focus,Color-Shift mode that allows desaturation of all colours except one, Image stabilization mode, filters, funny effects, stickers and scenery frames.

7). Picplz
Have an Android phone and so don’t have Instagram app? Never mind, Picplz available with android smartphone satisfies all your needs that an Instagram does in iPhone. Click new photos with this app or edit the existing ones with quality photo filters, geotag, vintage 70s effect, Hipstamatic effect, B & W effect etc. and share it on social network. It allows you to synchronize your dropbox account with this app, to create an automatic backup of both original and filtered pictures in cloud storage.

8). Photogrid
This app is a must for you if you’re fond of making collage from your snap collection. It also gives you exciting options to edit images with High mode, Wide mode, Multi-mode, Edit Grip, swap, rotate etc.

9). Adobe Photoshop Express
This is a smaller version of Adobe Photoshop for your smartphone with incredible features like crop, straighten, roatate, clip, adjust exposure, sharpen or soften your image, convert it into sketch, tint it, contrast it, desaturate it etc. which can now revolutionize your snaps.

10). Pholeido
Create hilarious pictures with Pholeido that comes with a package full of fun effects, funny texts, strange objects and fine frames. You can twist your friend’s face or add strange objects or frames to it and canhave fun with your friends on social media.

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Best Android Apps

Once you buy an Android based smart phone you are going to need to get more familiar with the Android environment and get to know your phone better. There are many apps that you can download either for free or for small amount of money. But you will surely many apps to make your Android cell phone more user-friendly, simpler and entertaining. Here are the best Android apps that you can download from the Android Market on your mobile.

1. Best Automation Apps –

• JuiceDefender: This app will increase Android phone’s battery life.
• Llama – Location Profiles: This is an automation utility.
• Silent Time Pro: This app will keep your mobile on silent according to a sc edule given by you.
• Sanity: This app filters calls, announces callers name by audio and records all your calls. It can even answer calls automatically.
• Tasker: This app is a task management utility.

2. Best Communication Apps –

• chompSMS: This app is a less expensive alternative for SMS services.
• Gmail Label Notifier: This app notifies you on your mobile about your new emails.
• Skype: Skype is an essential for long distance calls.
• Imo.im: This app works with all accounts such as skype, facebook, Gtalk, MSM, ICQ/AIM, Yahoo, Jabber, Myspace.

3. Best Reading Apps –

• AnkiDroid flashcards: This app is great application for reading purposes.
• Wapedia: This app is like wikipedia’s mobile app.
• Aldiko Book Reader: This app is customizable book reader in which you can purchase books.
• Kindle: This app will give you a great reading experience.

4. Home Screen Apps and Widgets –

• Beautiful Widgets: with this app you can check the weather and time in a great environment.
• WeatherBug: You can check the weather with this app at any place in the world.
• WP Clock: This app offers wallpaper with time, date and battery and Wi-Fi network.

5. Android Games –

• Alchemy: In this game you can drag and drop various elements and create new combinations
• Angry Birds: Angry Birds is probably the most popular and well known game for smart phones.
• Chalk Ball lite
• Gamve Dev Story
• Flood it
• Jet Car Stunts lite
• Roll It
• Wordfeud Free
• Android Sudoku
• Fruit Slice
• Stair Dismount

6. Health and Fitness Apps-

• Endomondo: This is a social sports training app in which you can compete against your friends.
• Gentle Alarm: This is one of the best alarm clocks for Android smart phones

7. Productivity Apps –

• Astrid Task: This is a To-do list manager app
• Barcode Scanner: with this app you can find out the prices by scanning them.
• Dropbox: This app does not need continuous sync and it lets you reach your files when required.
• Google Docs: you can edit your documents with this app.

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How to run android apps on Windows

I’m sure that all Android based smartphone users would really prefer testing their apps before downloading them from the Android Market place to their phones. This way you can avoid unnecessary apps that take the space on your phone and SD card. Some of us also wish to play some of the cool games that are available for the android based smartphones on a larger display like a PC. Well this is very much possible. You can play android games on your windows based PC using a free and very simple software called BlueStacks. Here is how to do it: -
BlueStacks is basically an app-player software for Windows, through which you can play Android apps even faster than it is done on an Android based mobile phone and that too, on a full-screen of your laptop or desktop.

BlueStacks has pre installed apps and you can add 26 more. You can even push your favorite apps directly from your phone onto the PC using an Android app via internet route. You can find BlueStacks on the internet and download on your computer and get it installed. The software is actually a simple virtual Android operating system and it uses the PC’s resources such as its processor, internet connection, mouse, keyboard and audio card. After the installation there will be a folder on your PC consisting of all the necessary files and data for the use of BlueStacks. These include the kernel, data, system, boot and storage (SD card).

After the installation you can see all application running the Android OS. By clicking on widget on your screen you will be about to see all the installed Android apps on your computer. This software is quite user friendly and easy to use. You will know what to do once you have installed BlueStacks on your computer.

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Some amazing open source web applications

I’ve been thinking about what life would be like without open source software. How could you get through much of your daily life without it? Absent open source, Google would not have been able to easily and cost-effectively build a huge cluster of servers to power its search engine. The reason is Linux would not have been free for the company to modify and adapt to its needs. And Google is only one obvious example here. Yahoo runs its entire site on FreeBSD.

In the span of 10-15 years it  emerged as the best friend for any of the web developer, if you have experience with web development you must feel the freedom and ease of coding with open source web applications.

Here are some of the amazing open source web application :–

1.) phpMyAdmin (1998):

phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields, manage privileges, export data into various formats and is available in 50 languages. Development is backed up by the phpMyAdmin team.

2.) squirrelMail (1999):

SquirrelMail is a web-based email application started by Nathan and Luke Ehresman and written in the PHP scripting language. It can be installed on almost all web servers as long as PHP is present and the web server has access to an IMAP and SMTP server.

3.) osCommerce (2000):

osCommerce is an open source e-commerce solution under on going development by the open source community. Its feature packed out-of-the- box installation allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort and with no costs involved. osCommerce combines open source solutions to provide a free and open development platform, which includes the powerful PHP web scripting language, the stable Apache web server, and the fast MySQL database server.

4.) openX (2000):

OpenX is an open-source advertising server that is licensed under the GNU General Public License. It features an integrated banner management interface and tracking system for gathering statistics. The product enables web site administrators to rotate banners from both in-house advertisement campaigns as well as from paid or third-party sources, such as Google’s AdSense. With over 50,000 publishers serving more than 300 billion ads per month, OpenX is the largest publisher-side ad server in the world. OpenX ad server is used on over 5% of the top 10,000 most traffic websites in the world.

5.) phpBB (2000):

phpBB is a fast, efficient discussion board program built in PHP with a muti-database backend. Features include: posting, replying, private messages, polls, username/ip banning, strong encryption for storing passwords, user rankings, very advanced access control for private forums, full templating, simple yet robust translation system and much more.

6.) Drupal (2001):

Drupal is a modular content management system, forum, blogging and community engine. It is database driven and can be used with MySQL, MySQLi and PostgreSQL. Its features include (but are not limited to) discussion forums, Web-based administration, theme support, a submission queue, content rating, content versioning, taxonomy support, user management with a fine-grained permission system based on user roles (groups), error logging, support for content syndication, locale support, and much more. It is considered to be an excellent platform for developers due to its clean code and extensibility, and it can also be used as a Web application framework.

7.) MediaWiki (2002):

MediaWiki is a web-based wiki software application used by all projects of the Wikimedia Foundation, all wikis hosted by Wikia, and many other wikis, including some of the largest and most popular ones. Originally developed to serve the needs of the free content Wikipedia encyclopedia, today it has also been deployed by companies for internal knowledge management, and as a content management system. Notably, Novell uses it to operate several of its high traffic websites.

8.) WordPress (2003):

WordPress is an open source CMS, often used as a blog publishing application powered by PHP and MySQL. It has many features including a plugin architecture and a templating system. Used by over 300 of the 10,000 biggest websites, WordPress is the most popular blog software in use today.

9.) SugarCRM (2004):

SugarCRM is a complete CRM system for businesses of all sizes. Core CRM functionality includes sales force automation, marketing campaigns, support cases, project mgmt, calendaring and more. Built in PHP, supports MySQL and SQL Server.

10.) Joomla (2005):

Joomla! is a free and open source content management system for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets as well as a model–view–controller (MVC) Web application framework. It is written in PHP, stores data in MySQL and includes features such as page caching, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, search, and support for language internationalization. Within its first year of release, Joomla was downloaded 2.5 million times. Over 5,000 free and commercial plug-ins are available for Joomla.

11.) Pligg (2006):

Pligg is an Open source Social Networking Content Management System (CMS) Combining social bookmarking, blogging, and syndication and a democratic editorial system enables users to collaboratively submit and vote articles. It was influenced by the extremely popular and proprietary software Digg, where when a user submits a news article it is placed in the “upcoming” area until it gains sufficient votes to be promoted to the main page.

12) Magento eCommerce (2007):

Magento is a new professional open-source eCommerce solution offering unprecedented flexibility and control. It was designed with the notion that each eCommerce implementation has to be unique since no two businesses are alike. Magento’s modular architecture puts the control back in the hands of the online merchant and places no constraints on business processes and flow.

13) eyeOS (Cloud Computing OS) (2007):

eyeOS is an open source web desktop following the cloud computing concept that leverages collaboration and communication among users. It is mainly written in PHP, XML, and JavaScript. It acts as a platform for web applications written using the eyeOS Toolkit. It includes a Desktop environment with 67 applications and system utilities. It is accessible by portable devices via its mobile front-end.

14) Elgg (2008):

Elgg is open source social networking software that provides individuals and organizations with the components needed to create an online social environment. It offers blogging, microblogging, file sharing, networking, groups and a number of other features.

15) Open Atrium (2009):

Open Atrium is a platform for building team portals that can be extended to meet highly custom knowledge management needs for large organizations’ intranets and extranets. It starts with “out of the box” features like a blog, a wiki, a calendar, a case tracker, a shoutbox, and a dashboard to manage content. These features can be expanded to meet unique needs for large organizations so that full scale enterprise collaboration sites can be built with Open Atrium as a base. By fully leveraging Drupal, all of the strengths of Drupal can contribute to creating custom features for Open Atrium within a framework that is already tailored for team collaboration.

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