For those who in internet work know the importance of watermarks. In brief, is a visible text put on top of an image that allows to mark the source of the work. The purpose of this technology is to prevent others from stealing the image.

Sure, you can create Watermarks through a photo editor like Adobe Photoshop but today I something that allows you to make the same thing more  easily through an  free online tool called “Watermarktool”

Note that you don’t even need to register to do so. The service is extremely easy to use. The home page, presents a field where insert the text that will displayed via your Watermark.

You can also set up different features such as: The size and  color of your Watermark text, the position of the watermark, the transparency level, the color of the watermark box, and the transparency of the watermark box.

In this image I used the3dtechnologies logo as an example, below you can also see what options I’ve set up

Here, the result

Once get the the results, click on the thumbnail to get the full sized image and then right click the image to save it to your desktop. You can make many test as you want, until you get something you like.

Google contains more than 100 algorithms that make it the world’s most popular search engine. One of those is PageRank, a complex voting system. If you are looking for a way that can check your entire website and show its PageRank for every page you have, certainly you come to the right place.

Has been developed by SEO Junkie on the request of one of his blog readers. Just to install SEO Junkie program on your computer. The download should take less than 30 seconds. It want be useful to many of you, because most of you have a own blogs and want check the PageRank.

If there is one thing that lets things down with SEO Junkie is that it don’t make pause when the website has too many pages. In fact when this happens there is not way to block it. I am using it for one reason, to check my intere website pagerank.

The recent success of social networking have made it very easy to people the possibility to open an own service online, without spend any money. Whether you need build a social networking, below is a collection of 16 downloadable open source software.

Yogurt. This is a Social Network module for xoops CMS. You have seen Facebook, Orkut, Myspace , try Yogurt for Xoops!

Mahara. Mahara is a fully featured open source electronic portfolio, weblog, resume builder and social networking system, connecting users and creating online communities. Mahara is designed to provide users with the tools to demonstrate their life-long learning, skills and development over time to selected audiences.

Mugshot. Mugshot is an open project sponsored by Red Hat. The Mugshot site lets you track what your friends are doing online across a variety of popular web sites — music, photos, blog posts, and more. We’re also exploring an idea called Online Desktop.

Vmukti. VMukti is a Unified Social Collaborative conferencing engine. Allows access through personalized, mashable web-interface. Core features:- Video conferencing, Audio conferencing, IP Telephony, Desktop sharing, Chat, Whiteboard, Presentation & More.

Appleseed. The Appleseed Project is an effort to create open source Social Networking software that is based on a distributed model. For instance, a profile on one Appleseed website could “friend” a profile on another Appleseed website, and the two profiles could interact with each other.

SPREE. Spree is an expert search engine where users ask questions to find other participating users, who are knowledgeable in that area and willing to help.

Akarru. Akarru is a social bookmarking engine, is used to build social bookmarkings sites, like www.blogmemes.com. Users posts links and promote links to front page using voting system.

Broadbandmechanics. Social networking and blogging are now commodity features. PeopleAggregator brings social web features to existing software or provides a stand alone social network of your own.

Getboo. It was created more than two years ago (April 2005) for the main purpose of learning PHP and MySQL. Also, I wanted to be trained in the web environment, because since we browse the web almost daily I wanted to know how things work. My first idea was to make a bookmarking website.

Mugshot. Mugshot is an open project sponsored by Red Hat. The Mugshot site lets you track what your friends are doing online across a variety of popular web sites — music, photos, blog posts, and more. We’re also exploring an idea called Online Desktop.

Scuttle. Web-based social bookmarking system. Allows multiple users to store, share and tag their favourite links online.

Semanticscuttle. SemanticScuttle is a social bookmarking tool (based on Scuttle) experimenting new features as hierarchical tags, collaborative descriptions or OpenID authentification. More details on the wiki.

Barnraiser. AROUNDMe is a free software suite that gives you personal Internet identity AND social tools in which to collaborate.

Isocial. iSocial is a free social networking CMS software that allows you to create your own Friendster and Orkut like sites. Use bookmarks, dating and create groups with just one mouse click. Start your profitable social networking bussiness now!

Clonesumating. It’s the open source version of the code that runs CONSUMATING.COM. It features many state of the art social networking functions including user profiles, user tagging, matching and discovery based on quirky tag combinations, group activities such as weekly photo contests and blog questions, an event calendar, RSS feeds for everything, etc. It is written primarily in mod_perl.

Icecoreopen. Much of the rationale for open source software is the opportunity for talented, knowledgeable, innovative professionals to collaborate — just what ICEcore was made for — to make the software better in every way. From usability to performance to interoperability to stability to things we can only dream about . . . things you may already be doing. We facilitate this exciting collaboration through a community that we host and facilitate.

Bevolunteer. BeWelcome to the first non profit and open source based travel/hospitality network. We, as an international community, set out to develop, run and maintain, BW-Rox, the platform driving BeWelcome, aiming to bring people together in real life. We believe that a free and open approach will promote communication across social networks and helps to create better code and new innovative features.

What do you need in order to have “perfect” digital photographer software?

1) Should never going in crash. The access violation is probably the most common crash in unmanaged software. In some cases can happens that your software can block the system. This thing happens especially with the open-source programs. I realize that open source is the solution if you want something completely free, but I prefer to spend something to get a program that work well.

Photo credit: Mike9Alive

2) Safety and efficiency are critical factors for any software. The no software works in isolation. The software works with the system. All must be given consideration when developing software. All parts of the software must be safe for not cause damage to the system.

3) Check that your images can be protected at all costs and that the interface is easy to manage.

4) Check that client-side applications are integrated with online services, well.

5) There are dozens of different formats and codes, jpg, png, gif, ets. Check up that you can open and save your images with all of these codes.

Your Private Photos Are Protected With Photos v1.0

At this point, I’ve something that is really going to interest you today. If you’re looking for a free, and if you want to hide secret Photo from public view, than “Hide Photos v1.0″ make it for you. Through a security password you have all your private photos protected from curious eye.

With Hide Photos v1.0 is impossible to access to your secret Photo without knowing the right password.

I’ve personally used it and has helped me solve my problem with all that images that I want to hide from familiar and friends. Very useful to my opinion.

Below is a collection of 12 firefox extension. This was a to do list prior to the New Year and I finally got it.  I hope it be useful for my readers, and for lovers like me of Mozilla Firefox web browser.

Firefox Extension Tabs

Duplicate Tab allows you to clone a tab with its history and place the duplicate tab in a new window or in the current window. And it allows you to merge all tabs from different windows in one window.Tabbrowser Preferences is a extension that provides a comprehensive UI for changing a number of the hidden tabbed browsing preferences in Firefox. It also provides the ability to control how internal and external links are opened in the browser and how the browser will react when links are sent to it. TBP 1.3.1.1 has been released for Firefox 2.0.

Scrollbar Anywhere allows to scroll the page as if the scrollbar is under your mouse pointer. Just hold the right (or any other) mouse button down and move the mouse. Scrollbar Anywhere version 0.9.1 is compatible with Firefox 2. It fixes a bug where context menus don’t display on Mac OSX. This package is compatible with Firefox 2.ColorfulTabs Colors every tab in a different color and makes them easy to distinguish while beautifying the overall appearance of the interface.

Firefox Extension Links

FirefoxView is a Mozilla Firefox extension that allows you to open Firefox with the current page or a selected link displayed in Internet Explorer.Linkification converts text links into genuine, clickable links. This Firefox extension contains many options, all of which are accessible by (1) right-clicking the status bar icon, or (2) clicking “Tools->Addons/Extensions” and double-clicking the Linkification entry.

Linky will increase your power to handle links. It will let you open or download all or selected links, image links and even web addresses found in the text in separate or different tabs or windows. You will just need to right click any link or web address, select the Linky menu item and choose the desired action. You can even specify what option you want to see available in the Linky menu through its preferences.IE Tab, an extension from Taiwan, embeds Internet Explorer in a Mozilla/Firefox tab. This extension is derived from the famous extension IE View, but much different. While IE View always open IE-only pages in a seperate Internet Explorer window, IE Tab can view them in a Mozilla/Firefox tab.

Firefox Extension File Download

DownThemAll (or just dTa) is a powerful yet easy-to-use Mozilla Firefox extension that adds new advanced download capabilities to your browser. DownThemAll lets you download all the links or images contained in a webpage and much more: you can refine your downloads by fully customizable criteria to get only what you really want.

FlashGot is the free Mozilla / Firefox / Flock / Thunderbird extension (compatible with Netscape too), meant to handle single and massive (”all” and “selection”) downloads with several external Download Managers.

ScrapBook is a Firefox extension, which helps you to save Web pages and manage the collection. Key features are lightness, speed, accuracy and multi-language support.

PDF Download removes the pain of dealing with PDF files on the web and is one of the most popular Firefox add-ons ever. PDF Download by Nitro PDF Software lets you regain control over PDF files in Firefox. When you click on a PDF file, PDF Download lets you know, can tell you how big it is, and can then give you the choice to open, download, or convert it to HTML. The add-on for Firefox lets you decide what to do with the PDF files you click on and customize and automate how they should be handled.