This tutorial will take you to the installation steps required to install Sweetcron in the XAMPP. I am taking the liberty to assume that you have already installed XAMPP. I
First of all download sweetcron and copy the extracted “sweetcron” folder inside the htdocs folder in the XAMPP directory.
You have to get few things in place before installing sweetcron:
1. Create a sweetcron database using Mysql. You can just put a name “sweetcron” and leave all the other settings such as Mysql connection collation as it is.
Now that you have the database ready you can configure few settings before making sweetcron to work on XAMPP.
2. Open the config-sample PHP file with your text editor (something like Notepad++ or Komodo Edit is recommended) which is located in Sweetcron/system/application/config. You have to make few changes in it.
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I recently tried my hands at using Sweetcron which is a lifestream application. You can visualize it as Friendfeed as a CMS which will display your feeds using RSS. Now I managed to install it pretty fine except few hiccups here and there but one of the places where I had to stop and choose was using the commenting system as Sweetcron doesn’t come with any. I had to find a decent commenting system and I found three credible options
Disqus is a commenting system which is being used by the likes of VentureBeat and it can be plugged into any website, blog or even application. Some of the interesting and useful features of Disqus being threaded comments and comment ratings. Disqus does well in filtering out spam and unwanted comments and moderation of comments can be done by email or mobile.
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Twitter started as a micro blogging network but it has now transitioned into a full fledged social network. The more internet savvy or geeks boast of their presence on twitter while there are people who use it over sms. The essence of any social network is the freedom of its users to customize their profiles. Twitter does offer some backgrounds which you can use on your profile and you can also use image as your twitter background after uploading. Some people might like a custom twitter background which can resonate more with their personality and some websites were offering it as a paid service. If you want a cheap or a free alternative to get a free custom twitter background then you might like to check out the following services.
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Color Scheme Designer is a web based color tool that allows you to create advanced color schemes for web or for multimedia. This amazing tool lets you decide what colors would be more compatible with others.
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Facebook is en route to become the next Myspace and there’s no reason why it can’t do so. The growth of Facebook in recent past has been phenomenal and the small campus community from Harvard has now reached some serious number of users. I personally know people for whom Internet is facebook and facebook chat is everything else so I decided to take a look at some of the desktop clients/softwares for Facebook chat.
Digsby has made a huge dent in the space of IM clients with its features, extremely easy user-interface and the diversity of supported social networks. It seems that Digsby had entered this space with the vision statement of becoming one stop shop for everything social and it has indeed managed to do that to some extent. It is by far the best desktop client which supports Facebook chat and it it matters then I’d like to add that it is my default IM client. I just hate the crappy applications that Digsby installs alongwith if you don’t uncheck those applications during installation.
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There has been so much frenzy around Apple iPhone and the application store envisaged by Apple certainly added more punch to the iPhone as a dream phone. No doubt that Cocoa developers latched on to it and created iPhone ready applications in no time. The iPhone App Store might have become the cause of envy for other mobile phone manufacturers but we would like to stick to the applications which have made life little easy for the web developers and designers.
WhatTheFont
Has it ever happenned to you that you saw some font on the go in some restaurant or on some billboard that you don’t know? You’d think about it for some time in such situations and leave the fancy of using that font after you failed to recognize it. WhatTheFont helps you precisely in such situations. If you have this application installed on your iPhone then you can click a picture of the font you want to know about and it will retreive the details of the same from the MyFonts’ WhatTheFont identification service.
# snap a photo right within the app
# choose saved photos from photo library
# view font details in safari or e-mail a link to yourself
# in-phone image processing optimizes upload for speed and accuracy
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There’s this perception that the best coders tend to code on a notepad and I will leave that to you for any criticism but you must always go with your instinct and choose the option that suits you the most. WYSIWYG or “What You See Is What You Get” does provide the option for the noobs to deal with code and create amazing stuff. It has simplified code for the new users and thus helped in better adoption. Here are some of the Open Source WYSIWYG text editors that are worth checking out.
KompoZer: Kompozer is a open source web development tool built on NVU. It is a full featured web authoring system that has an integrated FTP client, an intuitive tabbed user interface and support for all major operating systems.
Quanta Plus: Quanta Plus is a web development tool for the K Desktop Environment. It is designed for quick web development and is rapidly becoming a mature editor with a number of great features. It is highly extensible and able to run custom script. It has an excellent visual CSS editor that has code hints and auto-completion of syntax.
CSSED: Cssed is a GTK2 application for creating and maintaining CSS style sheets. It is a small editor that tries to ease the CSS editing. It features autocompletion, CSS syntax validation, selector wizard for complex rules, color wizard, box wizard and other useful features to help web developers to create and maintain CSS style sheets.
Aptana: Aptana is a new integrated development environment for building interactive web pages. It’s likely to be a big hit among Web 2.0 developers since it facilitates speedy coding of JavaScript behaviors and CSS styles. Aptana has a nice code assistant that’s customizable and the application ships with several popular JavaScript libraries that developers can import and employ. The application comes with third-party libraries like JQuery, Prototype, script.aculo.us, Yahoo UI and Dojo among others.
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We talked about Yourfonts yesterday which lets you create TrueType fonts of your own handwriting in no time. We found one more resource which let you create your own fonts. Don’t confuse the following resource with Yourfonts because the following application will let you create your fonts not fonts of your handwriting. Let’s see what it is.
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I like to keep my contacts organized and that’s one reason why i prefer using different im services for different tasks. i tend to use Gmail or Google Talk for my professional contacts while I use MSN for my friends. This often requires me to either have both Google Talk and MSN live clients open or I use a multi-protocol IM client like pidgin. For some time pidgin was the only such software I knew about but digging a little more, you find that options are aplenty.
Pidgin is one of the best multi protocol IM cleint available right now. It has been serving the communication needs of web users for some time now which apparently also means that some of the deviant users have tried to customize it as well. Pidgin offers one of the best customization options and you can change its look and icons to your desire. It works with almost every email account you own like AIM, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Google Talk, Groupwise, ICQ, IRC, MSN, MySpaceIM, QQ, SILC, SIMPLE, Sametime, XMPP, Yahoo! and Zephyr across all the Windows/ Linux and UNIX Operating Systems.
Digsby is the new kid on the block but has taken the world by storm because it not just mult-platform IM client but also a social networking tool. Digsby has exploited certain areas which were not considered useful or worthy by other similar applications. It minimizes the need to open the email account in browser as you can send emails right from the Digsby. It also supports Twitter and Facebook which are not natively supported by Pidgin. You can however use certain plugins to enable both the services on Pidgin but everyone likes complete product. It currently has Windows version but Mac and Linux versions are expected to be available soon.
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If you are even remotely like me then you must be using multiple computers to perform your work and the daily dose of video gaming. I tend to shuffle between three machines to do my work and thus I try to seek an uniformity in all the desktops. It is quite a challenge to synchronize certain files between all the machines I use and thus I need a solid synchronization and backup solution. I tend to use some applications which might help you guys as well in keeping a copy of your most used files and folders across all your machines.
Live Mesh is a new service from the notorious Microsoft which makes a backup of the user-selected files and folders on their servers. I am obviously assuming that you wouldn’t mind Microsoft keeping your data. The files which you have put in the mesh are copied/ to the other computers when they come online using a Live Mesh software which you need to install in all your machines with which you want to synchronize data. Any change in the file by means of addition or removal is updated across all the machines.
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