PHPB2B is a set of PHP Development with B2B e-commerce system applications, free download, code open source, you can provide Internet users, business teams to quickly build B2B classified information systems, business website, e-commerce sites and other forms of e-commerce sites platform, this system is based on PHP + Mysql development, using good MVC framework for thinking as well as the system uses the popular Smarty template technology, static templates and dynamic process completely separated, the system comes with a dozen content-rich call labels, while expansion of freedom in a variety of plug-ins or other features, adhering to open source, open principle is to build the best B2B website PHP applications .

PHPB2B 2.5 Standard Edition is developed in the framework of PHPB2B the latest version of program, amendments to the previous version of the existence of some of the BUG, while improving the program performance and the implementation of the template interface to optimize the database structure, in the process, the re-reference from the traditional The B2B e-commerce to some outstanding B2B website, in terms of security, an increase of a number of the authentication method.
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by Sean P Aune

It’s easy to forget that sometimes that WordPress can be used for more than just a blogging platform. Due to its open nature, and thanks to many theme builders, it can easily be turned into a gallery to show off your latest work. Why should you take time away from working on paying jobs to work on your own gallery? There are a slew of themes for WordPress that can do the job for you, and many offer easy customization so it isn’t too obvious that your gallery is an off-the-shelf solution.

We’ve gathered up a nice selection of free and paid solutions, so you can get that gallery working for you right away — no matter what your budget!

Free WordPress Portfolio Themes

Ascari: A very artistic theme, with a unique “top” button that follows you as you scroll down the page so that the user can quickly return to the point from which they began. This one is definitely more about just showing off your work, but it does it in a beautiful manner.

CSS Gallery: CSS Gallery is built with web designers in mind. Each image on the front page can rated by site visitors, but when they click on the examples, they are taken to the live version of that work. Theme also features spots for GoogleAdSense and 125X125 ads, and, best of all, it’s free.

f8: f8 allows you to customize colors, fonts, front page categories, contact info, slideshow height and other options all from the theme options page in the admin section so that you may change it to your heart’s content. All thumbnails link to full blog posts where you can then provide your users with as much information as you like about the work you did.

Gallery: Built on the Thematic Theme framework, this dark gallery theme is quite the eye catcher. The top row is all 125×125 ad spots, but after that each image is a separate gallery link that when you hover over it, the image slides up to show you the name. The individual post pages will give you more information about the work, who designed it, and where it can be found, as well as allow users to rate it and to leave comments.

iQ2: iQ2 is a fully skinnable, widget-ready, WordPress theme directed at photographers wanting to show off their work, but is easily usable for anyone wanting to show off their works or designs. It does require you download and install the PhotoQ Photoblog Plugin as this is what powers the theme. No charge is associated with this theme, but donations are welcomed.

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Mac OS X is renowned for its simplicity, its reliability, and its ease of use. So when it came to designing Snow Leopard ($29 upgrade), Apple engineers had a single goal: to make a great thing even better. They searched for areas to refine, further simplify, and speed up — from little things like ejecting external drives to big things like installing the OS. In many cases, they elevated great to amazing.

Opanda IExif is a professional Exif viewer in Windows / IE /  Firefox, From a photographer’s eye, It displays the image taken from digital camera and every item of EXIF data in the image from beginning to end. The user can learn about how and where to take the photo, what the camera’s model is, the detail of photographer and more in IExif. You can know more information and some unbeknown story. It is not only the good assistant to study photography, but also the best choice to view EXIF for photographer, shutterbug, photo editor and so on…

Now digital camera is very popular, more and more people begin to use dc taking photo. It’s an important thing that reviewing and learning about the photographic technology via EXIF data in digital image. Opanda IExif is just a professional software browsing Exif / GPS / IPTC data in digital image. It’s powerful and easy-use, and it’s one of the best tool for every shutterbug and photographer.

Features:

*Support all of EXIF 2.21 standard
*Support IPTC/NAA news image record
*Support GPS information record
*Support of Location satellite map by GPS data
*Support TIPP6 and popular software’s extend EXIF tag
*Support some special company’s tag, for example Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Sigma etc.
*Support Internet Explorer
*Support Mozilla Firefox
*Support to display thumbnail and its information
*offer information of camera model and manufacturer

Download Opanda IExif, It’s freeware

A while back I started to put together a list of cases where it might be better to avoid using Flex and/or AIR, but never posted it.  I ended up concluding that most of the issues can be addressed if Flex is a fit otherwise.  I have never been an engineer that believes that any one technology is a fit for all cases.  The other side of that coin is that I don’t believe that any platform is perfect, and you have to accept the pitfalls of whatever you choose.

Anyhow, I decided I should dust it off and put it out there.  If, for no other purpose, than to have a good reason to post the facetious list I wrote up to go with it.

Here is the list of potential issues:

1. The iPhone:
   If you are building an application that must be available on every platform, including ones that have not been created or released yet, then targeting the Flash platform is not ideal.  That said, the notion of the platform that is portable across all types of devices and form factors comes up frequently, but in most cases it is entirely unrealistic and undesirable to build real applications with this approach.  A better approach is to build applications tailored to each specific device (or at least each genre), such as a native iPhone application with features tailored to a mobile device.

   So, in this case the iPhone is symbolic of platforms that do not support Flash and have no published roadmap for supporting 3rd party runtimes.  If you are building an application that truly has the requirement of being the same application on the desktop and every mobile device (which certainly exist), then using Flash is a no go.  In many of these cases, standard browser technologies are the default option (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript).  RIA features can be added by using frameworks like GWT.

2. Search:
   In 2008, Adobe announced their collaboration with Google and Yahoo to make Flash content searchable.  The ability for major search engines to craw a SWF file is a nice step forward.  Yet, if you have consumer-facing content that must be searchable, then it may be best to avoid RIA features in general (not just Flex).  The search paradigm is heavily dependant on the page-based model.  It is a major challenge to build rich applications that can be entered from any direction and properly reconstitute their state.
3. Low Bandwidth Clients:
   If you are building a system that potentially services a large volume of low bandwidth users, then Flex can present some challenges.  The compiled applications are typically quite sizeable.  Flex does allow for breaking up the applications with runtime-shared-libraries (RSL’s).  With that approach, the Flex SDK still has to be downloaded (just not over-and-over).  So, trying to using Flex in this case is a bit of a stretch.

   AIR can actually present some real opportunities with offline clients.  For example, Parleys.com has reported that low-bandwidth clients love their application because it can download videos overnight for viewing offline.

4. Content Centric Applications:
   There is a class of content centric applications that fit the hyperlink paradigm and should never be made into RIAs, such as Wikipedia and Craigslist.  Certainly, there are a number of applications that combine heavy content along with the need for a number of advanced RIA features.  In those cases, Flex / Flash has presented real challenges because of its limited ability to deal with large bodies of text.  Many of these limitations are being addressed with the next version of Flex and the recent release of Flash Player 10.
5. Local Device Access:
   Adobe AIR makes a compelling case for building desktop applications with web technologies, but if you are building an application that requires local device access then it is worth considering more traditional desktop platforms that offer a greater level of access to machine resources.  The community has responded to this concern with the Merapi project, but for those looking for major vendor support this is still a valid concern.

1. You prefer not to have a full featured easily extensible set of components.
2. You like spending time debugging your Ajax applications in all the different browsers and versions.
3. You are a Java developer and too afraid to shell out $250 for an IDE.
4. You believe that you can do anything you ever wanted to do in Perl.
5. You like working in a 10 year old standard (HTML 4).
6. You like the term Open Web, and believe it actually exists.
7. You hate quality applications, your clients, and yourself.

Let me know if you have any additions for either list!

{By Jon Rose}

Open Source: It’s always been a part of what makes Imageworks tick. However, up until now we haven’t had a chance to contribute back to the open source community. We’re beginning to change that now.

We’ve chosen 5 projects to release as open source. This software can be freely used by large and small studios around the world. We’ve intentionally chosen popular non-restrictive licensing models to help ensure you have lots of options.

Each of these projects have passionate people behind them who are interested in seeing the code widely used. We’re into the idea of building small development communities around this code. If you’re interested in contributing, join the respective mailing lists and introduce yourself.

Take a moment to familiarize yourself with Imageworks’ open source offerings. I hope you find something useful.

Rob Bredow
CTO
Sony Pictures Imageworks

Tiny Core Linux is a small a minimum of desktop Linux. It is based on the Linux 2.6 kernel, Busybox, Tiny X, FLTK graphical user interface, JWM window manager, all running in memory. It is not a complete desktop, not the full support of all hardware; it represents a lead into the X window desktop minimum required for the core content of a typical case may include a visit to the wired network. This can be the smallest desktop software from the online storage application software to install additional expansion.

Change log:

new boot option ‘embed’ to stay on initramfs;
upgraded ISO now using isolinux 3.8.2 to easily support isohybrid;
upgraded upgrade_tce.sh fixed false error warning and added to ‘Tools’ menu section;
upgraded upgrade_tce.sh to support microcore’s .core. elements;
upgraded usbinstall with ‘need root warning’ also added to ‘Tools’ menu section;
upgraded tce-load to use -c ‘continue’ option of wget to better support downloading;
upgraded BusyBox, replaced missing dc applet, also added ‘Length’ to wget applet output;
upgraded boot time F2 to display better message regarding kmaps;
upgraded boot time F3 to display missing options, no icons and laptop

Download:

tinycore_2.2.iso (11.0MB).

Almost five months since the second beta of Thunderbird 3.0 was made available, the Mozilla developers have released the third beta for version 3.0 of their popular open source email and news client. Thunderbird 3 Beta 3 is based on the Gecko 1.9.1.1 platform and includes over 500 changes from the previous beta 2 release. According to Mozilla, many of the changes have set the groundwork for future changes.

The beta 3 release now includes support for tabbed email messages, so that when a users double clicks, or hits enter on an email message, it will open in a new tab window in Thunderbird. A new message view summary has been added that provides a summary view to users who select multiple messages and column headings can now be set on a per-folder basis. Users can now use a Smart Folders mode to combine special mailboxes, such as the Inbox, from multiple accounts.

Gmail integration has also been improved, adding support for Gmail’s special folders such as Sent and Trash. The third beta includes an early test version of a new Mail Account Set-up Wizard “to make configuring email accounts in Thunderbird easier and less error-prone”. According to a blog post by developer Dan Mosedale, the release includes several improvements for extension developers and a fourth beta is already being worked on.

More details about the release can be found in the release notes and change log. As with all beta releases, Thunderbird 3 Beta 3 is intended for testing and not for production use. Thunderbird 3 Beta 3 is available to download for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux in over 40 languages. The developers also note that Thunderbird 3 no longer supports Windows 95, 98, ME, NT and Mac OS X versions prior to 10.4. A final release date for Thunderbird 3, however, has yet to be announced.

With Foto-Mosaik-Edda you can create mosaic-pictures, which are composed of many small pictures (tiles), from your own photos.

The single pictures will be analysed and copied into one or more databases. You can use your holiday photos, pictures of the last family celebration or even take over whole picture-CDs into the database.

A simple to use wizard will guide you through the program and will turn the creation of your own photo-mosaic into a piece of cake. Amaze others with this extraordinary effect.

Android 2.0 may be ready before summer’s end if a developer’s clues reflect Google’s intentions. In an interview with AndroidGuys, a representative of The Weather Channel says its next app release for Android will be based on 2.0 when it ships in that window. As apps written for the new software won’t work on older operating systems, the statement suggests the new mobile OS will be ready by that point.

She adds that, from a developer’s point of view, Android 2.0 is “greatly improved” and is both easier to code for as well as more stable than earlier versions. No features are immediately discussed, but the second edition is described as encouraging creativity.

Also known as “Donut,” 2.0 is due to add universal searching, voice control, text-to-speech and gesturing. It may also bring social networking components. Some companies, including Sony Ericsson, plan to use the newer version on their first Android handsets.