For web developers this is a great software which allows you to test your web page compatibility with all versions of internet explorer at the same place. IETester is a free WebBrowser software that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8, IE7 IE6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.

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Ever tried to save a webpage and it could not be saved or it was saved with missing style sheet, media or images. This great extension of Firefox forces a page to b downloaded completely with all its content in original form. 'Save Complete' saves a webpage completely, providing a better alternative to the flawed built-in save functionality of Firefox. As more and more websites use CSS, imported CSS and CSS checks, Firefox's built-in complete save becomes increasingly less effective. Save complete enhances download management ability for Mozilla firefox.

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If you are using Mozilla Firefox and not not IE anymore but want to check the web page in IE too then this extension comes really handy. IE Tab is an extension used to Embed Internet Explorer in tabs of Mozilla/Firefox. This is a great tool for web developers, since you can easily see how your web page displayed in IE with just one click and then switch back to Firefox.

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Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Squid has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator. It runs on Unix and Windows and is licensed under the GNU GPL.

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FireShot is a Firefox extension that creates screen shots of web pages. Often I have seen many people hit Print Screen button and then past in Microsoft Paint or Adobe Photoshop to get a Screenshot of page. Fireshot available as a Firefox plugin is easiest way to capture web page as an image. And its free.

Unlike other extensions, this plugin provides a set of editing and annotation tools, which let users quickly modify web captures and insert text annotations and graphical annotations. Such functionality will be especially useful for web designers, testers and content reviewers.

It's possible to choose whether you want to capture entire web page or take screenshot of only visible part of the web page.

The captures can be:

• Uploaded to FREE public screenshot hosting
• Saved to disk (PNG, GIF, JPEG, BMP)
• Printed
• Copied to clipboard
• E-Mailed
• Sent to configurable external editor for further processing

Get Fireshot

I will have to admit. Programming is a very sensitive and careful work to do. Its been quite some days while I have been developing my new but first open source based, php full content management system. Even if I did write down all the points which I will be going to cover in this management system but as the project went on I had to drop some code and add some new by time to time. I like to do PHP stuff. Its my one of many interesting things to do.

In PMB I promised my readers to provide them a complete content management system which will cover more than just a phone book or address book. I would say that it has actually more bells and whistles in it. The development process went on fairly. I am almost done with it. I have planned to provide my readers full support relating to this system. I have created some web-based instructions on how to use PMB? what PMB contains? What platform is uses? How PMB can be used at local machine? How to use it at local server? How to use wamp server in fact and wamp general settings and also screenshots of the software. Even if anybody do not know that how to run PHP pages at PC locally, I can say that by reading detailed instruction manual along with PMB, he will be able to setup PMB locally and use it successfully for his record management needs.

I am pretty happy about the development of this CMS. If I will get responses and suggestions, I will even enhance its functionality, support and modules. Presently it will support images also and everything is customizable. Just waiting for 17-December-2007 to arrive and PMB will be on its way.

Personally I do not think so that web based emailing list softwares spread spam at all. The reason behind this is that, user subscribes to receive email notifications by himself and if he wants, he can freely unsubscribe to not receive emails further. Every big successful/website has an emailing list to facilitate users to notify them if any updates are available for him.

Some servers think so. I have Cpanel hosting. Recently I used subscribe2 plugin from WordPress for my blog and started sending updates to my users. I had round about five hundred subscribers. As soon as I sent updates, I got an email from my hosting service that I have installed subscribe2.... (Page address) script and I must check whether its spamming script or else my account will be suspended.

I contacted my resellers who said that there might be some limit upon sending emails per day or per hour. And it brings load to their servers to run these kind of scripts. I wondered. I mean an emailing list software is supposed to mail many users at a time for sure.

There are many things which I might have taken into consideration before choosing my host.
Here are some points to remember before choosing host.

• Before choosing your host, ask your hosting service provider about all the services and facilities they offer.
• Ask about all the restrictions they enforce.
  Do not select indirect host. It means there are resellers who resell hosting packages to you. Beware; You will not be able to contact hosting support direct.
  Always select direct hosting where you can contact support by yourself and can communicate directly.
• Before selecting host, know your website needs and requirements and discuss in detail about these with hosting support.

I did not know much about hosting services around before. I have a list of some hosts to select from.
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Do you think that Subscription Softwares/Emailing Lists spread spam?

Blogging has been quiet a craze as much people get to know what this is all about. And definately everybody wants to get listed somewhere, wants to get his links included of his work somewhere or share with others.

Today i was wondering that if I could get some good colorful badges of directories for my blog and also links but I wondered that no service could be seen working properly. I tried more then six of directories. They asked many details and then provided a link back. I placed the code in my blog and gave them URL but they insisted that they could not find the reciprocal link so could not add my blog. If they can not add my blog then I thought that I must refuse their colorful badges and stickers too. I removed the code and repented over time wastage. So I am thinking now to make my own directory.

I am creating my own PHP PMB which will be released at 17-December-2007. Thats my first Open Source Based complete project which will enable users to track and manage their personal stuff and this php software will include many modules and will be quite flexible.

After that I am planning to create directories which will be easy and flexible and easy to navigate, surf and utilize. Do you have a blog or just a cool website? For Now, you might consider sharing links with me then.

PHP 5, is the first major release of PHP in years to focus on new features.

While one of the key goals behind PHP 3 was increasing PHP/FI 2.0's performance and efficiency, at the same time it introduced a whole new set of functionality.

That was back in 1998.

PHP 4 provided another speed burst, as it introduced the Zend Engine. However, the majority of PHP 4's changes were behind the scenes. Those features allowed more people than ever to use PHP, but it didn't provide them with more tools to build their sites.

Finally, after six years, the community has revisited the legacy baggage that made tackling some problems unnecessarily difficult.

In particular, PHP 4's version of object-oriented programming (OOP) lacks many features, the MySQL extension doesn't support the new MySQL 4.1 client protocol, and XML support is a hodgepodge.

Fortunately, PHP 5 improves on PHP 4 in following major areas:

1. Robust Support for Object-Oriented Programming

It offers:

Constructors
Destructors
Public, protected, and private properties and methods
Interfaces
Abstract classes
Class type hints
Static properties and methods
Final properties and methods
A whole suite of magical methods

2. A Completely Rewritten MySQL Extension

3. A Suite of Interoperable XML Tools

4. An Embedded Database with SQLite

5. Cleaner Error Handling with Exceptions

6. A First-Class SOAP Implementation

7. Iterators