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Desktop Reporting For Google Analytics – Polaris

Author@w3planting — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:19:20 +0000

Polaris is a free Adobe AIR application that brings Google Analytics to your desktop, with a host of features that help you understand how your web site is performing and where you can improve. From tracking your visitors, referrals and campaigns to viewing your AdWords ROI metrics.

Polaris has been developed using Adobe AIR thus making it cross-platform desktop widget for Google Analytics. It works on all major platforms i.e. Windows/Mac/Linux. With 8 standard reports available, you can view your stats instantly.

This smooth application is free for download for Windows, Mac, and Linux (with Adobe AIR). If you’re planning to use the app for more than one web site, Polaris costs $15/year.

You can download free Polaris for Desktop from here.

If you don’t have Adobe AIR 1.5 you can download it from here.

Visit the Polaris website.

Free Shopping Cart: CubeCart

Author@w3planting — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 10:22:25 +0000

As more & more business moving to online, they need to get a Shopping Cart to process the online transaction of money. CubeCart is one of the well known and free Shopping Cart available for download.

CubeCart 3 is a free download(you can’t remove their copyright information from the bottom of pages tough). The CubeCart Shopping Cart has all standard features that an e-commerce application should have plus some extra features that make it perfect choice for businesses, features are as follows:

Bulk Upload Product Inventory
Multi Currency & Language Support
Inventory Stock Control
Professionally Security Audited
100% Template Driven – Valid XHTML & CSS
Search Engine Optimization
Alternate Checkouts (PayPal / Google Checkout)
Coupon & Gift Certificates
Import new Shipping/Gateway/Affiliate Modules
Email Marketing

CubeCart support multiple payment and shipping gateways. Their support forums are lively and many people contribute plugins to the cart. It works on PHP & MySQL. With CubeCart you can quickly setup a powerful online store which can be used to sell digital or tangible products to customers all over the world.

Download Free CubeCart 3 from here. View a Live Demo here.

Galleriffic: Image Gallery jQuery Plugin

Author@w3planting — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:57:45 +0000

Galleriffic is a dynamic photo gallery, which supports very fast loading of images, optimized to handle a high volume of photos and Search Engine friendly, you can assign the Title & description tag to each and every image separately.

Galleriffic is a jQuery image gallery plugin for presenting images in a user friendly manner with Events that allow for adding your own custom transition effects.

Galleriffic’s Features includes:

Smart image preloading
Thumbnail navigation (with pagination)
Sideshow support
Support for image captions
Flexible configuration
Graceful degradation when javascript is not available
Support for multiple galleries per page

Download Galleriffic Image gallery.

jQuery plugin: Twitter plugin for your website

Author@w3planting — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:52:25 +0000

jQuery plugin for Twitter v1.0 is a jQuery plugin that can display your tweets on your website and/or blog.

A simple and customizable client-side method is available for embedding in into your web page(s). Not an advance one, but should be good enough to get you up and running it on your web page(s).

Place and Assign “twitter” id to a DIV tag (i.e.

), and the DIV tag where you want your tweets to appear and Lastly attach the plugin to that div with the following jQuery code it and your tweets will appear on the on the website!

The options are easy & self-explanatory:

userName (your twitter id)
numTweets (number of tweets to show on the page)
loaderText (preloader text)
slideIn (true or false)
showHeading (true or false)
headingText (heading of the tweets)
showProfileLink (true or false)

See a demo or download the source code