Cloud Canvas is a free online image editing and image creation tool. Cloud Canvas fits in a niche somewhere between a simple drawing tool and a full-blown image editor like Aviary. If all you need is a tool for drawing simple pictures and diagrams, Cloud Canvas has you covered. If you need to do some basic work with vectors and layers, Cloud Canvas can help you there too. If you have photos or drawings that you want to edit, you can do that with Cloud Canvas.

Cloud Canvas uses HTML5 instead of Flash so you should be able to use it on the iPad. Cloud Canvas integrates with your Google Docs account so that when you save an image edited in Cloud Canvas it is saved and accessible in your Google Docs account. You can also export your images as PNG files.

Radical Image Optimization Tool (RIOT for short) is a free image optimizer that will let you to visually adjust compression parameters while keeping minimum filesize. It uses with a side by side (dual view) or single view interface to compare the original with the optimized image in real time and instantly see the resulting file size.

It is lightweight, fast and simple to use, yet powerful for advanced users. You will be able to control compression, number of colors, metadata settings and much more, and select image format (JPG, GIF or PNG) for your output file.

Main features:

• Open many image types including rare/scientific types.
• Save and optimize JPEG, GIF and PNG with a simple, clean user interface.
• Works in dual view: (original – optimized image) or single view (optimized image).
• Automatic preview of resulting image.
• In-place compare function (alternativelly display the original image over the optimized image to notice small pixel changes).
• Compress files to desired filesize threshold.
• Fast processing (all is done in memory).
• See instant results including resulting filesize.
• Batch support (process multiple files at once).
• Transparency handling options.
• Decide if you want to keep metadata (comments, IPTC, Adobe XMP, EXIF profiles, ICC profiles).
• Unsupported metadata is removed.
• Transfer metadata between image formats (destination format must support them).
• Common tools: pan and zoom, rotate, flip.
• Basic image adjustments: brightness, contrast, gamma, invert.
• Visually reduce number of unique colors for PNG and GIF images in order to reduce filesize.
• Two quantization methods are available: Xiaolin Wu and NeuQuant neural net.
• Resize image by using well known resample filters (ex: Lanczos3, Catmull Rom, Bicubic, and others).
• Out-of-the-box support for external PNG optimizers (optipng, pngout, etc).
• The compression and the results are comparable to those of commercial products, even higher.
• Adaptive logarithmic tone mapping algorithm (Drago) used for HDR images.

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Formee is nothing but a framework to help you develop and customize web based forms. Formee works with the technique provided by Fluid 960 Grid System to compose the form’s layout, allowing total flexibility to put it in any website or web system.

Customizable and Flexible – The form has a structure built around percentage widths, thus allowing its inclusion in any project, adapting to the space available. Formee has its structural code independent of the style codes, facilitating the complete customization and manteinance of the form.

Semantics and Performance – The form was built with care to preserve web standards and their semantic values, working with the smallest possible amount of tags and according to the W3C rules.

Accessibility and Usability – Some elements have been inserted to add more value to your project , such as message boxes that can be shown indicating errors, warnings and success alerts. We also use the fieldset element to cluster form fields that have the same context through the legend tag.

Pdfcrowd is an online tool which offers the user to convert a web page into a pdf formatted file. There are times when we need to go through info online, now with the help of pdfcrowd.com we can access the information without using the internet. Thus, we are able to create a pdf file out of a web page or an uploaded HTML document.

Pdfcrowd.com also provides services such as controlling the dimensions of the page, margins (horizontal as well as vertical), encryptions, permissions etc. The user is even allowed to upload the HTML document packed with external images and stylesheets.

Key Features

• Helps convert a web page into a pdf formatted file
• Also converts uploaded HTML document
• Edit dimensions of page, margins, encryptions etc. for pdf file
• Application Programing Interface is available for every platform that supports HTTP
• Various conventions for API bindings also available
• No third party libraries needed.

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Gluly Sidebar is a simple web application that allows you to post comments and create communities next to any webpage. And the best part is, you don’t need anyone’s permission to say what you want and where you want.

Gluly is currently available as a Firefox add-on. Internet Explorer & Google Chrome versions will be available soon.

ValidForm Builder is an impressive open source form creation library that relies on PHP and JavaScript (jQuery). The library outputs standards-based web forms (XHTML 1.0 valid) that are validated both on the client-side and the server-side.

It supports every input type (textbox, checkbox, radio, etc.) and comes with ready-to-use validation rules (integer, required, e-mail, etc.). ValidForm Builder also has a captcha class which is very easy to integrate and can display a new captcha on every click.

SeekWP is a search portal that is focused solely on the popular blogging platform. If you think that such a topic does not merit such a treatment, you obviously haven’t been doing your homework. As a platform, WordPress is phenomenal in its depth. Any person who is new to it all will obviously feel a bit confused. This site will be perfect for them, as they can look up everything from themes to general usage tips.

And a resource such as this one is not only suitable to newcomers. I can tell you from experience that even some of the more seasoned bloggers around are oblivious to many tricks and functionalities. Just like everybody, when they get what they need from what they are using they sort of stop there. Well, SeekWP will enable them to discover the platform that they use on a daily basis anew. And those who are just starting out couldn’t ask for a better companion to guide them through the long and winding road.

Youblisher is a PDF publishing service that is very similar to Yudu and Issuu. Youblisher turns your PDFs into online magazines complete with page-turning effects. The documents you upload to your Youblisher account can be embedded into your blog or website.

The service allows you to upload a PDF document or grab one online by providing a URL. All you need is an account and you can immediately experience reading an online document, Youblisher style. The visual reproduction of actually flipping through the pages of a magazine or a book is very remarkable. You’ll be able to flip pages back and forth as if you are reading an actual book with sounds to match.

Grid System Generator. This tool generates grid systems in valid css / xhtml for rapid prototyping, development and production environments. The grid system generators offer the ability to customize the width, no. of columns and margin(s) to allow more flexibility for various designs.

Besides the CSS framework, a .PNG background file is created as well to help in prototyping and design. The generator is based on 960.gs & displays already created grids.

Rendera helps you learn HTML5 and CSS3. Type in your HTML code and see it rendered in realtime. Then style it with CSS. You can use any of the HTML 5 or CSS3 tags your browser supports. Want to learn HAML and SASS? It support those too. You can also learn from the many examples provided within, or create your own example and send it to a friend.

You can try out some Javascript too. we’ve even loaded jQuery, jQuery Tools and jQuery UI so you can experiment with those libraries too!. You can use HAML and SASS instead of HTML and CSS if you’d like. Have fun learning, and go build something awesome.