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Bulkr is an Adobe AIR application that can download all of your photos in your Flickr account in several formats like thumbnail, small, medium, large and original. It can also download photos by Set or your Favorites photo saved in Flickr. To use Bulkr, your system must have adobe AIR and you need to give authorize permission to Bulkr in Flickr.

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1.HOW TO: Create a jQuery Carousel with WordPress Posts

This post will give you a quick run down of how to easily add a simple and easily customizable carousel with WordPress posts from a specified category.

Check out demo

2. WP Slimbox 2

A WordPress implementation of the stellar Slimbox2 script by Christophe Beyls (an enhanced clone of the Lightbox script) which utilizes the jQuery library to create an impressive image overlay with slide-out effects.

Check out live demo

3.WordPress jQuery Lightbox Plugin

Used to overlay images on the current page, a little bit different popular Lightbox plugin.

If you want to see live demo of this plugin, just scroll down the page to see sample image and click on it.

Check out live demo

4.Carousel Gallery (jQuery)

This plugin tweaks the gallery tag in WordPress 2.6 thusly by replacing it with a javascript carousel. The plugin uses jQuery and a jQuery plugin called jCarousel.

Check out live demo

5.Shadowbox JS

Shadowbox is an online media viewing application that supports all of the web’s most popular media publishing formats. Shadowbox is written entirely in JavaScript and CSS and is highly customizable. Using Shadowbox, website authors can display a wide assortment of media in all major browsers without navigating users away from the linking page.

Check out for live demo

6.jQuery Lightbox For Native Galleries

Makes the native WordPress galleries use a lightbox to display the fullsize images.

Check out live demo

7.jQuery Comment Preview

Live comment preview without page reboot. Works on jQuery.

8.WordPress Plugin jQuery Pagebar

jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development.

Check out live demo

9.Google Analyticator

Google Analyticator adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google Analytics logging on any WordPress blog. This eliminates the need to edit your template code to begin logging. Google Analyticator also includes several widgets for displaying Analytics data in the admin and on your blog.

Check out screenshots

10.OpenID Comment Form

OpenID is an open standard that allows users to authenticate to websites without having to create a new password. This plugin allows users to login to their local WordPress account using an OpenID, as well as enabling commenters to leave authenticated comments with OpenID. The plugin also includes an OpenID provider, enabling users to login to OpenID-enabled sites using their own personal WordPress account.

Check out screenshots

11.sCategory Permalink

Permalink option of WordPress %category% has one great limitation – when this option is selected, WordPress uses category with lowest ID for permalink generation. This plugin is intented to bypass WordPress permalinks limitation and allows you to select category for permalink generation.

12.Google AJAX Translation

The Google AJAX Translation WordPress plugin provides a quick, simple, and light way to add translation to your blog.

13.Infinite scroll

Infinite scroll has been called autopagerize, unpaginate, endless pages. But essentially it is pre-fetching content from a subsequent page and adding it directly to the user’s current page. This means they never need to click “Next Page”, which dramatically increases stickiness.

Check out demo

14.GD Star Rating

GD Star Rating plugin allows you to set up rating and review system for posts, pages and comments in your blog. You can set many options for displaying the rating stars, and also add widgets into the sidebars for displaying top ratings and other statistics generated by the plugin. Plugin includes advanced settings panels that will allow you to control many aspects of rating. Plugin also supports multi ratings along with thumbs based ratings.

Check out live demos throughout their whole homepage

15.Image Drop Shadow

Image Drop Shadow wordpress plugin adds stylish drop shadow to images posted on your blog using jQuery. Just install it and all your posted images will automatically have a drop shadow.

16.J Post Slider

Show your post in fancy jQuery box, rotating images, with show-up text box with post description. This Plugin will present your HOT posts, in jQuery animation show.

17.Live Blogroll

Live Blogroll will make your blogroll livelier. It will show a number of ‘recent posts’ for each link in your Blogroll using Ajax.

18.WP Wall

WP Wall is a “Wall” widget that appears in your blog’s side bar. Readers can add a quick comment about the blog as a whole, and the comment will appear in the sidebar immediately, without reloading the page.

19.WordPress Sidebar Turned Apple-Flashy Using jQuery UI

Beautiful tutorial, explaining how to modify and add Apple type sidebar using the Accordion plugin in jQuery UI.

Check out demo

20.Adding Form Validation to WordPress Comments using jQuery

This tutorial will show you how to use jQuery to do some instant checking on an example comment form.

Check out demo

21.Snazzy Archives

Snazzy Archives is a visualization plugin for your WordPress site featuring an unique way to display all your posts. Your archive page will never be boring again!

22. Shockingly Big IE6 Warning

The Shockingly Big IE6 Warning is a plugin that shows a warning message alerting the user why it is bad to use IE6, the security risk and the bad compatibility of Web Standards.

You can choose from 3 types of warning:

• TOP, a discreet top bar
• FULL, a fullscreen warning
• CRASH, the mean option

23.WordPress Plugin – My Page Order

My Page Order allows you to set the order of pages through a drag and drop interface. The default method of setting the order page by page is extremely clumsy, especially with a large number of pages.

24.Using jQuery to liven up your WordPress login

Nifty WordPress login page using Thickbox jQuery plugin.

Check out demo

25.Plugin Central

Plugin Central is a comprehensive WordPress plugin solution. Main features are:

• Install plugins directly by typing the name of plugin or the URL to zip file!
• Multiple-plugin install feature allows you to move your plugins from one blog to another
• Displays status of plugins in need of update on the Dashboard
• Option to update all plugins at once!

26.Tweet Blender

Similar in functionality to Twitter’s own widget but has support for multiple authors, hashtags, and keywords all blended together. The plugin can show tweets from just one user (as all other Twitter plugins do); however, it can also show tweets for a topic which you can define via Twitter hashtag or keyword. But there is more! It can also show tweets for multiple authors AND multiple keywords AND multiple hashtags all blended together into a single stream.

Check out live demo on right sidebar of author’s site

27.Advanced Spoiler

Show or hide contents(text, image etc.) with animated effects wrapped by spoiler markup tag([spoiler][/spoiler]).

28.SimpleModal Contact Form (SMCF)

SimpleModal Contact Form (SMCF) is an Ajax powered modal contact form. It utilizes the jQuery JavaScript library and the SimpleModal jQuery plugin.

29.Accordion Image Menu

This is a different menu that uses your post images as a background. You can insert the menu wherever you want: content, php files or widget if your theme allows it.

Live demo on author’s website sidebar

30.PixoPoint Menu Plugin

Adds an SEO friendly, accessible regular or dropdown menu to your WordPress blog.

Check out live example

31.Quick Search

Quick Search add AJAX Search to your site sorting results by Posts, Page and Comments. You can easly customize the popup menu style by modifying the file quick-search.css.

32.Ozh’ Better Plugin Page

Better Plugin Page brings a few valueable enhancements to the Plugin Management page: tiny icons, less clutter, quick action links. Handy for those who have 70+ plugins on their blog.

Check out demo

33.Highlight Search Terms

Highlights search terms using jQuery when referer is a Google, Yahoo or Lycos search engine or within WordPress generated search results. This plugin is a light weight, low resource demanding.

34. µAudio Player

µAudio is a slim (450 Bytes!), fast plugin to create a flash mp3 player when mp3 links are clicked. In order to reduce clutter and file transfer, the links are unmodified until they are clicked, at which point a div with the player is faded in after the link. A second click on the link fades the player back out.

35.News-Ticker

A JQuery based News Ticker Displays a sliding or fading list of post titles, rss reeds or comments and excerpts with links to post.

In this post I’d like to showcase a brief sampling of the inspiration that is available at each of the galleries. There are ten items shown from each gallery. The text links will lead you to the source, and by clicking on the images you will be led to the pages on the galleries.

Folio Focus:

Folio Focus currently includes more than 300 portfolio sites on display from various creative professionals. There are around 20 new sites added each week. To stay up-to-date with Folio Focus you can subscribe by RSS, email, or follow on Twitter.

Galan

Eye Candy

Aespec

Hamza Labrinssi

Two24 Studios

Jeremy Charles

1h05

Monk

Naked

Rocco Studio

Cart Frenzy:

CartFrenzy has more than 300 e-commerce websites in the archives. There are about 20 – 25 new sites added each week. To stay up-to-date with CartFrenzy you can subscribe by RSS, email, or follow on Twitter.

More of Me Maternity

i/denti/tee

The Sak

designgive

JAQK Wine Cellars

Rapha

Maui Divers Jewelry

ShopRush

Active

Incase

Minimal Exhibit:

Minimal Exhibit currently has more than 230 websites on display. Each week there are 10 – 20 new sites added to the archives. To stay up-to-date with Minimal Exhibit you can subscribe by RSS,email, or follow on Twitter.

Tink

James Chambers

Brian Hoff

Sumo

Ribbons of Red

Heartworker

Greg White

Beyond the Pixels

Hurson

Neusblog

Blog Design Heroes:

Blog Design Heroes is currently showcasing over 180 blogs. There are 10 – 15 new blogs added to the gallery each week. To stay up-to-date you can subscribe by RSS, email, or follow on Twitter.

The Swish Life

justBcoz

Development Seed Blog

Ecosimply

Big Bad Collab

West Coast Poppin

One Blog

The Photo Argus

Helium Workx

The Greg Brady Project

Below we cover 10 mobile plugins for WordPress that can be used to make your website mobile friendly.

1. WordPress Mobile Edition

Developed by Crowd Favorite, this plugin has got a clean user interface that is designed for mobile devices. When a person visits your site from a mobile browser, it automatically detects the browser and loads the mobile version of your site. You can edit the list of mobile browsers in the settings page. This plugin enables particular theme to load on a specific mobile browser or device for example iPhone, Windows Mobile, Opera Mini web browser and other mobile web browsers.

2. WordPressMobile.mobi

One of the most popular mobile WordPress plugins, with thousands of downloads. This WordPress plugin makes your blog more mobile friendly, reducing the load time on mobile browsers and configuring your pages properly.

3. WordPress Mobile Pack

Another WordPress plugin for mobile browsers. It has got mobile recognition, device adaptation and it is widget ready. With the mobile recognition and device adaptation feature, it automatically re-sizes the images, split the articles or post into multiple pages such that your web page looks just fine on any of the mobile phones. It has a mobile admin panel so the admin of the site can easily manage it. Mobile ad widget allows mobile ads or mobile Adsense to be displayed on the mobile version of the web pages.

4. MobilePress

You can set this plugin to display a specific theme for a specific device model or mobile browsers like the iPhone, Opera Mini, etc., such that your blog displays according to the device capability. This plugin also allows the WordPress theme developers to develop their own mobile themes for WordPress blogs.

5. Mobile Admin

This WordPress plugin enables you to access admin user interface on mobile devices in a users friendly manner. This plugin is especially developed for the browsers on the iPhone and iPod Touch devices and it supports most of the other mobile browsers at basic level. Mobile Admin supports most of the basic WordPress admin features like editing posts with auto-save feature, tagging support, comment moderation, and more.

6. Mobilize

This WordPress plugin, once installed, will detect any mobiles phone having access to your site and it will redirect it to the Mippin server. Mippin will then rearrange your web page and its contents to suit the cell phone type. For example, if your website has images, then Mippin will re-size the images to fit the mobile screen and videos are converted to 3gp format such that users can have a comfortable and quick access to your site.

7. WPhone Admin Plug-in

This plugin will allow you to manage your WordPress install using a mobile browser. It has two mobile admin interfaces, one is for use on the iPhone/iPod Touch and other devices which supports full JavaScript and features CSS AJAX and sliding menus. And another is Lite version to use on phones that do not support JavaScript. It will automatically switch between the rich and lite versions based on the browser you use.

8. Mowser

Mowser is a service that lets your WordPress blog to be viewed more comfortably and quickly on a mobile browser or on any other mobile device. This plugin will automatically detect when a user is trying to access your WordPress based blog using a mobile phone and it will redirect to the optimized mobile version of your blog.

9. Wetomo WordPress to Mobile

Wetomo plugin will automatically detect when a user is trying to access your URL from a mobile phone. Wetomo will act as a proxy between you and the user, modifying your blog to suit the handset of the user such that your blog looks great on any of the mobile browsers.

10. WP viewMobile

This plugin is designed to make your WordPress blog mobile internet ready. It will detect when a user is accessing your blog via a mobile phone. It automatically sends a template which is optimized for mobile devices. It tries to re-size the images in your blog to suite the mobile phone or else it removes them completely if the mobile browser does not support images, such that your users can access your blog without any problem.

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.

Monochrome Gallery: Monochrome Gallery is a premium theme for all types of artwork that needs to be shown off. Unlike some of the other offerings, this one will allow you to add quite a bit of text about the work so that you can better explain any finer details the readers may need to know while browsing.

Ocular Professor: Ocular Professor is very abstract, and focuses more on the artistic side of presentation, but would be perfect for the designer who specializes in unusual themes and designs. Has a “featured post” function that will take a post and place it outside of the normal timeline, so it will be “sticky”.

Phantom: A dark theme that includes a rating system for your work. Theme is free, but doesn’t appear to be very customizable.

PhotoWP: A simple WordPress photo theme with the usual bells & whistles including allowing users to leave comments, but that is about it. This one is focused completely on the work and nothing else, but it is free.

Sharpfolio: Examples of your work are displayed on the main page with a bit of information about each off to the side. Clicking on any of the images will give you a lightbox enlargement of the image.

Snapshot: Snapshot is a free theme from Woo Themes that mimics their own theme browser. This theme allows you to choose different layouts, easily drop in codes for Google Analytics & Feedburner, choose different color schemes from the admin section and more. The main pages have your standard thumbnails, but when a potential client clicks through they will find as short or as long a description as you choose to write.

Premium WordPress Portfolio Themes

Album: Album is a WordPress theme that is focused 100% on allowing artists, photographers and designers to showcase their work. The theme is available in seven different color schemes and costs $59.95 for a license.

Gabfire WpShowcase: Gabfire WpShowcase is built around the idea of designers showing off their work easily, while also linking directly to the live example of that work. Besides including an automatic image resizer for on-the-fly image adding, the theme has also been optimized for search engines and ads. A single site license will cost you $59.

Geometric: Geometric is certainly an oddball in the world of portfolio themes in that it also integrates a full standard blog alongside the portfolio. You get the best of both worlds, alone with 12 Geometric optimized widgets for showing things like your social homes, your Tweets, your Flickr stream and more. As with all the premium themes from WooThemes, this one will cost you $70 for a single site license, but it also features all of the usual customizing options.

Image Hunter: With this one you get an unusual look, as well as full control over the size of the thumbnails, how many to display, control over the categories and a whole lot more. Image Hunter is a premium theme from NattyWP that sells for $39.

iThemes Photo Gallery: Although the name of this theme only mentions photos, it is built to show off any form of graphical creative work. The header can either be text or a logo, and many other tweaks are available to customize the look of this theme. Cost is $79.95. There are also four other variations of this theme that mostly differ in the shape and size of the front page images. All five can be found at the link.

Photo Nexus: Photo Nexus is a premium theme that comes with both a light and dark variant for you to use. It allows you to set your categories, drop in the corresponding examples of your work, set the number of images to display and then it does the rest for you. Very reasonably priced at $20, this theme is all about showing your work and nothing else.

Portfolio WordPress Theme:This $39 theme allows you to customize the head quote text, all of the theme colors, font families, font sizes, fill a curriculum vitae to be displayed from a special page, and all of this can be done from the admin area. Also gives you the ability to easily add info like client name, URL and more to each entry.

ProPhoto: ProPhoto is very much designed to be a photographer’s blog, but without much tweaking it could easily be turned into a designer’s site also. Highly customizable, but comes at a hefty price of $179 if you do it all yourself.

Viz | Biz: A very stylish theme that allows you to separate between your latest work and featured work. You can click any thumbnail for a larger version of the image and a full explanation about it. Price is $79.

It’s almost impossible to pick which of these themes would suit everyone best because they are all unique in different ways. If I had to choose though, I would say CSS Gallery from the free ones, and Geometric from the paid selection. It really is up to each individual, though, to choose what will work best for them!

What are some of your favorite WordPress gallery themes?

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

This articles details some of the better plugins that utilize jQuery.

Infinite Scroll Plugin. This baby adds related pages on to the one that your reader is reading. The content it grabs is predetermined by you by using the .load() method which is an CSS selector of the HTML you have chosen. This is also knows as autopagerize, paginate, and endless pages.

jQuery Lightbox Plugin. This plugin can be used to overlay images on a page. It is compatible with WordPress 2.2 and up, and fully compatible with K2. It is well worth considering if you are using a lot of pictures on your blog.

WordPress Post Information Plugin. This simple plugin allows you to view post meta information by using the toggle function in JavaScript. It is an on demand feature.

Snazzy Archives Plugin. Snazzy is a fantastic word and should never be underestimated by man or beast. The same can be said of this plugin which allows you to select different ways to display your posts, and add special effects to make it all snazzy. Displaying videos with comments for example is just one of the many options available with this plugin

J Post Slider Plugin. This plugin allows you to create a slider navigation element, that is used for showing your posts by sliding them across the screen. The motion is constant, until a user holds the mouse over a post, and selects it by clicking it. Post descriptions also appear.

WP Imagefit Plugin. This plugin uses JavaScript to resize images rather than CSS or HTML to do the job. If you enjoy your JavaScript, you’ll enjoy Wp Imagefit.

Wp Wall Plugin. This is quite a clever little addition to your blog, as it adds a widget in the sidebar which displays comments. It has the full range of moderation options as normal comments, as all the hard work is done back-office via WordPress.

jQuery Comment Preview Plugin. This plugin provides live uploading of comments without the page having to refresh. It could be a good one if your blog is powered by feisty debates.

Insights Plugin. This plugin is extremely useful if you use pictures in your posts. Powered by Ajax, it creates an interface which allows you to search the following sites individually to find images in real time. Flickr, Youtube, Wikipedia, Search Google, Insert a Google Map and more…

µAudio Plugin. This is an mp3 player powered by Flash. To save load time, the links are unmodified until they are clicked, at which a point the player fades in and out depending on whether it is selected. Clever really.

Simple Modal Contact Form Plugin. This Ajax powered plugin, basically provides a good way for a reader to complete a form. It has an option whereby the reader can request a copy. It utilizes the jQuery JavaScript library and the SimpleModal jQuery plugin to work.

Events Calendar Plugin. This plugin is a more enhanced version of the basic calendar provided by WordPress. It allows you to keep track of events, hence the name.

µMint Plugin. This allows you to integrate statistics of Shaun Inman’s Mint statistic package into WordPress. What you do with them after that is completely up to you.

As you can see, there are a lot of useful plugins here to help you create a better blog for your readers. As with all plugins, it is advisable to chose them with care, and be clear about its role in your blog.

Word Processors

Why pay for expensive word processing programs when you can get high quality and open source alternatives for much less? Here are a few programs to try.

1. yWriter: This word processor is designed especially for writers. Created and maintained by a novelist, writers will enjoy the features that are specialy tailored to their needs that help writers stay organized and focused.
2. OpenOffice Writer: Part of the incredibly popular OpenOffice suite, this word processor is a great alternative to more traditional options like Microsoft Word. Writer is just as fully featured and easy to use, making it a powerful choice for writers.
3. wikidPad: This tool is a wiki-style notepad that allows users to to quickly and easily jot down their ideas and notes. Perhaps one of the best features of it is that it allows you to easily cross-reference information, helping you more easily draw plot points and facts together.
4. NeoOffice: Similar to OpenOffice, this open source suite contains a word processor that allows Mac users to enjoy great functionality and ease of use when typing up manuscripts or anything else.
5. TiddlyWiki: Another wiki style notebook, TiddlyWiki allows users to take notes or jot down ideas anywhere they have an Internet connection. Users can easily link and organize their thoughts using the program.
6. NotePad++: An open source version of Microsoft’s NotePad, NotePad++ has more features and functionality for users built right in. For writers looking for a very simple way to get their ideas written down, this can be a good, lightweight choice.
7. Scribus: Scribus has much more than just word processing capabilities, it’s also a great open source desktop publishing solution. Whether you’re printing your own writings out or want to organize documents for online viewing, Scribus can be perfect tool.
8. RoughDraft: Created with writers in mind, this free tool is a great way to organize a story or screenplay. Writers will enjoy formatting, instant backups and automatic generation of cover pages.
9. AbiWord: One of the most popular open source word processors, AbiWord can be a great alternative to Microsoft Word. It’s available in a number of languages and for a wide variety of operation systems for writers of all kinds.
10. Kword: Create great literary works using this fully-featured word processing program. You’ll be able to write and organize your writings easily in the program’s frame-based setting.
11. Bean: Bean is an incredibly lightweight word processing program for Mac OS X that can make it easy to type up and edit your writings.
12. WordIt: This small word processor is ideal for students or business writers. The program is simple to use and provides advanced features like PDF exports.

Reference

Everyone needs a little help with spelling and grammar now and again, and these programs can get you on the right track.

1. JaLingo: This OS independent program allows users to easily look up words in a dictionary right from their desktop, whether they have an Internet connection or not. It has a sleek and easy-to-use interface.
2. StarDict: StarDict is available on multiple platforms and allows you to easily look up words in a desktop dictionary, even if you are way off in your initial spelling.
3. GNU Aspell: Get the best of the best of spell checks with this open source spell checker that can be used independently or with another program.
4. WBOSS: This open source script allows users to paste text into the website and find any spelling errors so they can be fixed before you publish your work.
5. WordWeb: Writers can take advantage of this free and easy to use dictionary and thesaurus program to help ensure their writing is clearly spelled and isn’t repetitive.
6. GNU Style and Diction: Once you’ve checked that your spelling is all right, style and diction are next up. This program makes it easy to check to see if your writing is overly wordy or contains common cliches.
7. Bibus: If you’re writing nonfiction, you’ll likely need to cite your sources. This program makes it easy to organize and maintain your citations without extra work.
8. Graviax: Give your grammar a once-over with this free open source tool. It goes through your writing to ensure you’re using words correctly and forming complete sentences.
9. Research Assistant: If you’re doing research for your next project you can organize your findings with this helpful research assistant. You can keep all your information in one place so you can easily access it later.

Organization

Working online isn’t always conducive to organization. Here you’ll find some helpful open source resources to keep you clutter free.

1. Sonar: Getting published can be an uphill battle, but Sonar can make it a little easier. It helps you to track your submissions and who you’re waiting to hear back from.
2. Celtx: If you’re writing a screenplay or another kind of specially formatted story Cletx can be an incredibly valuable tool for keeping all your writing straight.
3. StorYBook: When writing a long story, it can be harder to keep storylines straight or get a general overview of what you’re writing. StorYBook takes care of that by helping you keep all your data in order so your story will be more coherent, organized and easier to write.
4. EverNote: EverNote can be a great way to capture, store and organize information that you’re using in your writings. Best of all, you can use it from anywhere, even on your phone.
5. SAMM: Another submissions tracking program, SAMM makes it easy to keep on top of where you’ve sent your writings and what they’ve said in response.
6. LyX: Organize and format your writing with this convenient tool. It works to create easy-to-read scientific and mathematical documents as well as screenplays and novels.
7. TreePad Lite: Writers can keep track of their notes, emails, texts and reference materials with this all-in-one organizer. Looking like Windows Explorer, the program is easy to use and can be a great way to keep everything you need for writing in one place.

Helpful Tools

Everyone loves a tool or resource that makes doing their job a little easier. Try these and see if they can help streamline your work.

1. Prompts: Need a little help getting inspiration? This program can provide you with some helpful prompts to get your creative juices flowing.
2. Launchy: Make opening all the programs you need to start writing super easy with Launchy. With just a few keystrokes you can start your word processor, web browser or anything else.
3. ASuite: Take all your important documents with you on your USB drive or iPod with this helpful application. It launches files, folders and webpages from anywhere you need to access them.
4. txt2tags: If you’re putting your writings up on the web, then you may well need to code them before they can go up. This program makes that super easy by adding html tags to your text documents.
5. Inkscape: Unless you’re publishing a boring, lifeless blog or webpage, you’ll want to have some images or drawings on them. This program can make it easy to create original drawings or map out parts of your stories.
6. Tellico: Tellico is a program that works to help you manage a collection, whether it’s of your short stories or of your favorite novels. It can help you keep track of anything writing related that requires database maintenance.
7. Freemind: Brainstorm new ideas with this great open source mind mapping tool. You’ll get your great ideas down so you won’t forget them, and the format may help you come up with even better ones.
8. PDF Creator: Don’t pay for a program that can generate PDF files: use this convenient tool instead. You’ll be able to create PDF files of all your best writings to show off to others and get published all over the Web.
9. ZManda: Make sure you don’t lose your important files and writings by backing up all your information. ZManda makes it easy to create daily or weekly backups of all your stuff.
10. Word Count Plus: Sometimes you need to know just how many words you’ve written, especially if you’re going for quantity. This simple tool can give you the answer and let you know if you’ve met your quota.
11. Docvert: If you have old files saved in a Windows format and want to convert them to work with some open source programs more easily you can do so with this handy tool.
12. EyeOS: Wanna bring your desktop with you? You can with this great mobile desktop. You can use your word processing programs from anywhere, letting you get inspiration even when you’re not at home.

Web Tools

Online writers need to not only be able to write well but to be able to publish quickly and easy to the Web. These tools can help you get your writing up where people can read it.

1. Amaya: Amaya is a Web editing program that allows you to update or edit content directly on the Web, though it serves a dual purpose as a Web browser as well.
2. MediaWiki: Easily publish and edit your webpages online without even using an FTP program with MediaWiki. MediaWiki is the software that powers the online encyclopedia Wikipedia and allows you to easily share and create content online.
3. Sun Weblog Publisher: If you’re looking for a way to make publishing your blog super easy, then this program from Sun has you covered. Working with StarOffice and OpenOffice, this extension works with WordPress, Blogger, Roller and other blogging platforms to quickly put your content on the Web.
4. TrueCrypt: If you want to send material to a friend or boss for editing but want to ensure it stays private, use this encryption program. It works to secure almost any kind of file and keeps them away from prying eyes.
5. FireFTP: Those using the Web for storage or to publish a website will likely need to make use of an FTP program sooner or later. This program works directly with Firefox to make it easy and simple to get content up on the Web.
6. GIMP: If you plan on putting images on your site you might want to have an image editing program. GIMP can handle everything from a simple crop to much more complex photo manipulation tasks.
7. FileZilla FTP: One of the most popular open source FTP tools, this program will allow you to efficiently move your writing content to the Web, making it easier to publish and share your work.
8. WordPress: If you’re into blogging at all you have to have heard of WordPress. This open source software allows users to create and maintain a fully customizable blog.
9. Mozilla SeaMonkey: Want an all-in-one tool for your Web editing, browsing, chatting and email? SeaMonkey does that and more making it a great go-to for simple updates to your blog or for a little informative reading.
10. NVU: If you’re in the market for an open source alternative to a product like Dreamweaver, then NVU could be just what you’re looking for. A fully featured Web authoring system, NVU makes it simpler to create great webpages to display your writing.