Website thumbnails (also known as thumbshots, snapshots, or previews) are screenshots of web pages that can help you quickly and easily recognize and identify certain websites. ShrinkTheWeb is a powerful and free website thumbnail generator service of any website for webmasters and bloggers, allows you to automatically created website thumbnails with 250,000 request limits or month, and also offer more limits in the paid plans. For the free plan, no customize size can be mentioned and inner page thumbnails are not supported. On the other hand, this website screenshot service can capture JavaScript and Flash elements.
Shrink The Web can also filter and find offensive, foreign, duplicated/related, and parked/broken sites. Simply enter the website’s URL and specific a thumbnail size (There are six default sizes of thumbnails you can choose from), press the “customize it!” button. And then copy/paste the image code into your webpage where you want the thumbnail to appear. If you pay for a premium account, you would have more features like specific inside page capture, full-length thumbnail, custom sized captures, refresh thumbnails anytime you want, and custom browser resolution (i.e. 800×600 or 1024×768). WordPress, vBulletin, PHPLD, Drupal and Django third party plugins are available as well.
Sypex Dumper is a free web application to backup MySQL databases automatically and instantly. It is built with PHP with an Web 2.0 user interface with AJAX, and can also restore databases without using any third-party program, just pure PHP. Sypex Dumper was created to work with large databases ranging from a few kilobytes to thousands of megabytes. It supports common MySQL service functions such as check, optimize or repair, create/drop databases, easily viewable list of files with the possibility of removal. Sypex Dumper works on Windows and Linux server as well. Two file formats compression (Gzip and Bzip2) are supported as well as varying degrees of compression for GZip. Installation of Sypex Dumper is quite simple, you just need to upload all the files and chmod setting several files. Sypex Dumper requires PHP 4.3.1 or higher and MySQL 3.23.56 and above (up to MySQL5.1). Sypex Dumper 2 is free to download and licensed under the BSD license.
Flixtime, released by microstock photography company Fotoli, is a new mashup web application to let you create, share and download simple video slideshows with images, videos clips and music. Flixtime allows you to produce custom 60-second videos from your photos easily and quickly. And it’s absolutely free to sign-up for a account. You’ll need to upload your own photos or stock photos from Fotolia’s selection of images. You can also upload your own music, or choose from Fotolia’s stock music collection. You can add text to any slide as well. Flixtime videos are easy to produce and integrates the user’s choice of music, text, images, and videos. Once you create a video, you can share the file to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social media sites. You can also choose to download the file to your computer for further editing. All Flixtime video productions can be used both for personal or independent commercial use.
A stable and constant uptime API connection is very important for web developers to integrate information across websites. API-Status is a real-time website API status monitor that allows you to view and check the status of various APIs from popular services like Facebook, Google Search, Google Maps, Bing, Twitter, SalesForce, YouTube, Amazon, eBay and much more. Check on a particular API to see the average daily performance from selected countries presented by a line graph, a map showing its performance by country, and its availability over the week and over the last 24 hours. You can get a updated status of various web services’ API and have a quick review of their performance whether it’s operating normally or service disruption. So next time if your web applications get any troubleshoot related the API issue, it’s a very useful reference tool by providing daily historical status and speed results for each API.
