Cool Stuff

Pageflakes - #1 Start Page in this years Web 2.0 Awards

Omar AL Zabir [MVP] — Thu, 04 May 2006 18:01:00 GMT

Pageflakes won the Web 2.0 Award for #1 Start Page. See the "Start Page" category from:

http://web2.0awards.org

#2 is Google's IG and #3 is Microsoft's Windows Live.

Pageflakes is developed using ASP.NET 2.0 and Microsoft Atlas.

Here's what Pageflakes say:

Pageflakes is your personalized Internet. You can add what you like and remove what you don't like - and it's totally simple. What you see on the site right now is just a selection of a few standard modules ("flakes", as we call them) that allow you to read blogs, do web searches, create a to-do list, check your Gmail account and read the latest news. Normally you'd have to go to a different web page for each of those things. With Pageflakes, you have it all on one page! And it's all free.

Note: You can now create public sites and share your page with your friends! Setup a personal site very easily and collaboratively work together

Stickout - .NET 2.0, Outlook, Word, Excel, Remoting everything in one article

Omar AL Zabir [MVP] — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 23:50:00 GMT

StickOut is a desktop sticky note application with multi-user support and Outlook integration. It is a .NET Framework 2.0 Windows Forms application that uses .NET Remoting to communicate with other StickOut users and exchange sticky notes with them. It uses the new .NET Framework 2.0 IPC Channel for communicating between Microsoft Outlook and the StickOut process. The Outlook Add-in allows you to stick anything out to the desktop from Outlook including e-mails, notes, tasks, appointments, etc., as sticky notes. Care has been taken to reduce the memory footprint of a .NET application significantly and to make a fast and smooth user experience. This article chronicles my first day of planning the application, through subsequent design, development, testing, and deployment days, revealing the evolution of the application, and the complications I dealt with at each step. You will read about lots of .NET tricks, deployment and versioning problems, Visual Studio tricks, and some other non-development–related tricks that might help you to boost your daily development work.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnwinforms/html/stickout.asp

Hope you enjoy it!

Google Analytics

Omar AL Zabir [MVP] — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 02:43:00 GMT

Introducing Google Analytics.
Sophisticated. Easy. Free.

Google Analytics tells you everything you want to know about how your visitors found you and how they interact with your site. You'll be able to focus your marketing resources on campaigns and initiatives that deliver ROI, and improve your site to convert more visitors.

http://www.google.com/analytics/images/intro_small.jpg

Atlas resources on web

Omar AL Zabir — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 15:55:00 GMT

Atlas is the solution from Microsoft which is integrated in Visual Studio 2005.

Please read the following articles to get familiar with Atlas:

http://weblogs.asp.net/eporter/archive/2005/10/04/426630.aspx

http://weblogs.asp.net/pglavich/archive/2005/10/07/426868.aspx

http://weblogs.asp.net/mschwarz/archive/2005/09/14/425185.aspx

http://atlas.asp.net/docs/default.aspx

http://atlas.asp.net/quickstart/default.aspx

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2005/09/14/425131.aspx

http://weblogs.asp.net/pglavich/archive/2005/10/14/427453.aspx

http://weblogs.asp.net/mschwarz/archive/2005/10/06/426816.aspx

http://weblogs.asp.net/mschwarz/archive/2005/09/15/425220.aspx

http://weblogs.asp.net/eporter/archive/2005/10/05/426701.aspx

http://weblogs.asp.net/rchartier/archive/2005/09/13/425039.aspx

http://www.wilcob.com/wilco/Default/158/showpost.aspx

Largest collection of web related resources

Omar AL Zabir — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 05:10:00 GMT

Everything you can imagine about CSS, Javascript, Blogging, and other web related technologies, you will find it here:

http://www.bobbyvandersluis.com/main/linkLibrary.php

Million and Zero dollar homepage

Omar AL Zabir — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 05:15:00 GMT

A homepage that earns million dollar. You can book one pixel on this page with $1.

http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

You can also book space on this Zero Dollar Homepage free of cost:

http://www.zerodollarhomepage.com/

Delicious

Omar AL Zabir — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 00:23:00 GMT

http://del.icio.us

This is a community driven favorites collection. It is a collection of favorits of people all over the world. This site it so popular and active that you will get at least 20 favorits posted every minute. The web UI they have made is truly incredible. You can drag bookmarklets on your browser and post a favorite just by one click.

Best way to remember your favorite places on the web.

Google Books

Omar AL Zabir — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 21:32:00 GMT

If you haven't seen print.google.com before, you are going to fall down from your chair when you will see it.

Search with some word, it will give you all the books which contains the result. Click on a result. you will see a scanned page of the book which contains the word. Not only that, inside that scan, you will see your search words highlighted.

Now this is called technology.

http://print.google.com

CMS Matrix

Omar AL Zabir — Sat, 24 Sep 2005 21:45:00 GMT

Content Management Martix, compare 200 open source Content Management Systems

http://www.cmsmatrix.org/matrix

Work with USB and COM Ports from .NET

Omar AL Zabir — Sat, 24 Sep 2005 20:44:00 GMT

Talk directly to the USB channel from .net using C#

http://weblogs.asp.net/israelio/archive/2005/08/15/422637.aspx

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=144221&package_id=158554&release_id=348786

Is that you? Writing Better Software for Cool USB Hardware

http://msdn.microsoft.com/coding4fun/someassemblyrequired/isthatyou/default.aspx

Chat on Windows Drivers

http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats/transcripts/windows/windows_040302.aspx

And some other general material ports

SerialPort (RS-232 Serial COM Port) in C# .NET

http://msmvps.com/coad/archive/2005/03/23/39466.aspx

http://sourceforge.net/projects/usbwisec/