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Zim Desktop: Brings the concept of a wiki to your desktop.
January 31, 2010 by christian · Leave a Comment
Zim brings the concept of a wiki to your desktop. Store information, link pages and edit with WYSISYG markup. Creating a new page is as easy as linking to a non-existing page. Pages are stored in a folder structure, like in an outliner, and can have attachments.
This tool can be used to keep track of TODO lists or ideas, to take notes during a meeting or to draft any other kind of text (blog entries, important mails, etc.).
Zim handles several types of markup, like headings, bullet lists and of course bold, italic and highlighted. This markup is saved as wiki text so you can easily edit it with other editors. Because of the autosave feature you can switch between pages and follow links while editing without worries.
Website: http://zim-wiki.org/
MySQL Workbench: Visual Database Design
January 26, 2010 by christian · Leave a Comment
MySQL Workbench enables a DBA, developer, or data architect to visually design, generate, and manage all types of databases including Web, OLTP, and data warehouse databases. It includes everything a data modeler needs for creating complex ER models, and also delivers key features for performing difficult change management and documentation tasks that normally require much time and effort. MySQL Workbench is available on Windows, Linux and Mac OS.
Company website: http://mysql.com/products/workbench/
Community website : http://mysql.com/products/workbench/features.html
XAMPP: Apache, MySQL, Perl and PHP for developers
January 26, 2010 by christian · Leave a Comment
Many people know from their own experience that it’s not easy to install an Apache web server and it gets harder if you want to add MySQL, PHP and Perl.
XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use – just download, extract and start.
Freemind: mind-mapping software
January 26, 2010 by christian · Leave a Comment
FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java. Mind-mapping software is used to create diagrams of relationships between ideas or other pieces of information. It has been suggested that the mind mapping technique can improve learning/study efficiency up to 15% over conventional note taking.
Website: http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Dropbox: sync your files online and across your computers.
January 26, 2010 by christian · Leave a Comment
Dropbox allows you to sync your files online and across your computers automatically. Sharing files is simple and can be done with only a few clicks.Dropbox backs up your files online without you having to think about it.A copy of your files are stored on Dropbox’s secure servers. This lets you access them from any computer or mobile device.Dropbox takes the security and privacy of your files very seriously. Access your files from your mobile device (ex: Ipod Touch, Iphone, Blackberry,…)
Website: http://www.dropbox.com
Zotero: collect, manage, and cite your research sources
January 26, 2010 by christian · Leave a Comment
Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work—in the web browser itself.
Website: http://www.zotero.org/
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The goal of this website is to give an end to end open source solution for a typical small company including Telephony, Document management, Customer Relation Application, Networking, Remote access, Desktop solutions and so on.
Although only the tools/applications have been listed on the website for the moment, a complete network diagram and individual how-to articles will follow.
Please note that for most of the installation instructions, we will not re-invent the wheel. A large number of very competent experts have already written how-to articles, we will just refer you to those. We will only document the missing links between the different components or if we feel that some installations could be better documented.
The KinDev team.
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Please note that the text for each of the blog post is taken from their respective websites. The KinDev team have experimented with those tools at different occasions. Your need and requirements could be different than the ones identified by our team for a specific situation, please take the time to read and understand the tool/application features before starting to install in a production environment.
We hope that you will have as much fun as we have discovering, installing and using those tools/applications and please do not forget to donate to the respective open source volunteers that have changed the IT landscape for ever.
The KinDev team.