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Stay Updated (Free) 21 September 2017
  • A new implementation of Smalltalk has been added to the Free Smalltalk Compilers and Interpreters page. This one lets you write computer programs in the Squeak/Smalltalk language for execution on a web page without requiring your visitors to install any plugins. For those unfamiliar with Smalltalk, it is an object oriented language, second in the list of "most loved" languages among 64,000 developers surveyed in 2017.
19 September 2017 15 September 2017
  • A new SSH program has been added to the Free SSH (Secure Shell) and Telnet Clients page. For those not familiar with such things, SSH clients allow webmasters to access the computer where their websites are hosted through a command line window, as though they are seated directly at that computer. They are often used to perform various administrative tasks that are otherwise difficult (or impossible) to do.
14 September 2017
  • Are you setting up your own business (online or otherwise)? Then you probably need an accounting software to keep track of your finances. Check out the Free Accounting Software page, where a new program has just been added.
12 September 2017
  • Two open source programs have been added to the Free Clipboard Managers and Extenders page. Such software are especially useful to programmers and webmasters who may cut/copy and paste a lot of text (and other things like images, filenames, HTML, etc) between different windows. They allow you to paste something you copied some time ago, and that you may have already overwritten in the default clipboard.
11 September 2017
  • A new open source program for Windows has been added to the Free Screen Video Recorders and Screen Capture Software page. This one is a Windows program that can do video recordings of the screen (along with audio from a microphone or speaker) and webcam, as well as take screenshots.
8 September 2017
  • A new computer program has been added to the Free File Synchronization Software page. Such tools allow you to back up your files and folders to another location and keep the data in sync. This latest addition not only supports backing up to the usual hardware devices (like hard disks, USB drives, CD/DVD media) but also to FTP servers and over the local area network.
7 September 2017 5 September 2017
  • A free and open source program has been added to the Free TV PVR (Personal Video Recorder) and TV Recording Software page. This one handles a wide variety of inputs (DVB-C/C2/T/T2/S/S2, ATSC, ISDB-T, IPTV, SAT>IP, etc), supports EPG (Electronic Programme Guide), and can also serve as a TV streaming server. For those who are not sure what I just said because of the heavy jargon, the software essentially lets you record TV shows, and can also send those shows to other devices in your home.
31 August 2017
  • Another open source tool has been added to the Free Make Utilities page. For those not sure what "make" in this context means, it refers to a type of software used by programmers to automate the process of building a computer program from its source files.
30 August 2017 29 August 2017 25 August 2017
  • Another host has been added to the Free File Storage Hosting site. This one is from Mozilla and it allows you to upload a file of up to 1 GB in size for download by one person within 24 hours. I have no idea how long this service will last though. Nearly all the services I previously listed on the page have long disappeared. (Free file storage hosts seem to have a half-life measured in months, if even that.)
24 August 2017 22 August 2017 11 August 2017
  • Another Atari ST emulator has been added to the Free Atari Emulators page. This one is open source and comes with ROMs for Atari 520ST and 1040ST. For those wondering, an Atari emulator is a computer program that mimics the old Atari computers sold in the 1980s and 1990s, and can run software written for those machines on your modern computer.
10 August 2017 3 August 2017 31 July 2017 26 July 2017
  • A new web analytics package has been added to the Free Web Statistics and Web Log Analyzers page. This open source software, consisting of JavaScript and PHP scripts, provide a wide plethora of statistics on your visitors in real time. If you don't want Google Analytics or any of the other remote-hosted web statistics services because of privacy concerns, you may want to check this one out since it's installed on your own web server.
24 July 2017 18 July 2017 14 July 2017 7 July 2017
  • Another computer program that can capture the text found on an image has been added to the Free OCR Software (Optical Character Recognition) page. This program recognizes a huge number of languages (eg, English, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Russian, Spanish and lots more) and can even translate those words to a language of your choice.
6 July 2017 23 June 2017 20 June 2017 14 June 2017
  • New page: How to Move Your Website to SSL (ie, Convert from HTTP to HTTPS). This article deals with the issue of moving a website from HTTP to HTTPS. Besides discussing the pros and cons of the conversion, it gives a checklist of things that you need to remember to do. You can also read the guide if you are planning to start a website, and want a better understanding of what this is all about.
9 June 2017
  • Another source of free pictures has been added to the Free Royalty-Free Stock Photos page. This one has both scenery and people photos which are released under the Creative Commons Zero licence, which means that they may be used for any purpose without attribution or payment, even on a public website that you created.
8 June 2017
  • Two cryptographic software libraries have been added to the Free Encryption / Cryptographic Libraries and Source Code page. If you are writing software for the Internet, or any other type of software, these libraries allow you to add encryption support for your program without being a cryptographic security expert. (In fact, these libraries assume by default that you aren't an expert, and so have appropriate options selected by default. You can of course override them if you wish.)
6 June 2017
  • New page: How to Redirect a URL. I was asked by a visitor last week how he could set things up so that when visitors go to the old URL of a web page, they will automatically be sent to its new address. This article shows you how to redirect URLs using .htaccess.
29 May 2017
  • [Updated] The Free Feedback Form Wizard now supports the Invisible ReCAPTCHA test. With this facility, you can generate a contact form for your website with a test that only shows if Google cannot figure out if the sender of the message is a human or a spam computer program.
     
    (Note that you can still generate a form without any CAPTCHA test, or one with the visible "I am not a robot" test. It's up to you. It's just a new option for those who want it. And it's all free.)
     
    Find out more from my guide on adding a CAPTCHA test to your form.
24 May 2017 17 May 2017 11 May 2017 8 May 2017 20 April 2017

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