AllScoop Technology

One of my favorite tools I use often is called ColorPic. It is especially useful for web design. If you see a color you like, you can grab it and save it as a paint chip. Just hover your mouse over any color on any part of you screen. I’ve used this program for a long time and has become one of my favorites. This is a must-have for any web designer. Yes it is FREE.

How to do a permanent redirect using PHP.

Place this code at the top of your PHP page.


header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: http://www.example.com/otherpage.php");
exit();


The perfect website monitoring program I’ve used for windows. Does everything needed and nothing more. Enter your URL’s to be checked, and choose to be notified by email if you’d like. Also writes events to a log file for reference. (believe me, this comes in handy when dealing with your webhost). I also like how I can enter a stable website (like google, or yahoo) to check first, for the presence of a working internet connection. This helps to prevent false positives (or postives falses? huh?). There is a lite version and a full version, both are free. The full version runs as a serivce so it will start working even if you are not logged into your workstation.

Get the free website monitoring application.

This is a handy little program for testing and troubleshooting. Enter a port to listen on and it will show incoming connections to that port. This can be useful if you are trying to setup connectivity through a firewall or a router. This could also be used as a secuity tool to make it appear you are running a service on a standard port, by having the tool respond, while the sevices is really running on a different port.

Very small single file is only 48k in size.

Get TCP Listen

Download a free server header checker program. No need to open your web browser, just paste the url in this program to quickly check your server headers. Server header checking is essential to know that you are returning the right information to visitors, and especially robots that are trying to crawl your website.

Yes. Free document management software. Full featured and ready to run.

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Download Quick Image Transfer

This is a handy little piece of software by Allscoop to make it as easy as possible to get the pictures off your digital camera.

Do you have a Sony, Kodak, or similar digital camera? Use this program to copy the images off your camera and to your computer.

The purpose was to have quick way to move files off a digital camera. Some of the nice features are:

• Automatically create a folder named for the current date.
• Remembers source and destination locations.
• One click transfer
• Click to delete the source files when done.

A very nice alternative to phpmyadmin is a free script called Eskuel. It is very easy to use, clean and simple layout and very quick navigation. A great feature is the ability to easily add multiple databases and manage them on a single interface. So far Eskuel has been able to accomplish anything I’ve needed to do with a MySQL database.

Do you need something to play those flv files you’ve saved from You Tube or Google Video?

Free Stand Alone FLV Player.

Now you can easily download youtube videos.

POP Peeper is a program I use regularly. It really saves me a lot of time. I have it setup to check Yahoo mail, it allows me to quickly check what the new message is and get back to work in just a few seconds time. I can quickly delete any junk messages and go about what I was doing without losing my train of thought. At the same time if an important messages comes in I will also see it right away and can act on the message quickly. POP Peeper has worked great for me, I would highly recommend this product. Oh, and it is free.

POP Peeper Website.

Aptana is a free nicely featured editor. I am currently trying it out only as a general pupose web editor. So far I like the features and the layout. The download file is actually quite large, so beware if you don’t have a fast connection. Aptana can be downloaded at www.aptana.com