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Pixoh is an amazing creation built with Twisted and MochiKit. It allows editing of pictures online within no time ofcourse using AJAX, A perfect example of Web 2.0 ;) . Though it now offers only few tools to work with, to name a few, “UNDO, REDO, CORP, ROTATE“. The save option enables the image to be saved in different file formats like JPG, PNG, PDF, PSD, TIF or save to Flickr

Key features:

• Edit big images—up to 10 MB, or 5000×5000 pixels
• Import pictures from any web site (including Flickr) with our bookmarklet
• Flickr export, or save as GIF, JPG, PDF, PNG, or TIF
• Basic editing tools like crop, rotate, resize—many more are in the works
• Unlimited undo and redo (Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y, or ⌘Z and ⌘Y on your Mac)
• Nondestructive scaling, rotating, and cropping—we always work from the original
• Image adjustments (beta feature)

AJAXPress as per its hompage is a web 2.0 blogging system written in Javascript with a PHP backend. Works on any webserver with PHP and MySQL installed. In order to properly view and use AJAXPress blogs, you must be using Internet Explorer 6.0 or FireFox 1.5 or greater.
Now I don’t see any Search Engine Optimization (SEO) done there, so if a bot comes to the blog with AJAXPress, it will only have access to the homepage, still its pretty clean code with nice interface. Corporates and not so SEO conscious may like it ;) .

AJAXPress aims to be a very minimal, but very usable, AJAX powered blogging system. AJAXPress is focused on ease of use, web standards, and speed. AJAXPress is not full of unnecessary features that just confuse the user. AJAXPress is light, fast, and simple. And best of all, it’s 100% free open source!

Backbase, a website that makes rich AJAX applications has enabled AJAX in Y! Search or say it has built an AJAX Search powered by Y! Search ;) .

The Backbase Presentation Client (BPC) is an AJAX engine based entirely on AJAX technology, and differentiates itself via a generic User Interface declaration language (BXML). BXML is a XML application that also includes many XSLT and XPath functions. BXML is interpreted by the AJAX engine, and translated to native DOM commands in the browser. The Backbase AJAX Engine is developed in JavaScript, and it works in Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Firefox and soon also in Opera and Safari. It does not require any type of plug-in, which differentiates Backbase from other RIA vendors.

Something that really works as we want, CalenderHub can keep a track of your time as per your need. It offers a wide range of tools for an calender service like sharing, publishing, reminder sevices etc including the basic features. The main parts like the addition, editing of an appointment etc works on AJAX .Though I think Spongecell would be preferred.

• Create multiple personal or group calendars
• Find local events and add them to your calendar
• Get reminders by email or on your phone
• Invite others to your events
• Ajax-based drag & drop interface
• RSS feeds for any calendar view
• Subscribe to public calendars (e.g. iCal)
• Import/Export (e.g. Outlook, Yahoo)

Ajax, as you all know is something that is used in most of the new and exciting application released on the web nowdays, Web 2.0 to be precise. Professional Ajax, lights up most the area needed for a web developer to get started with AJAX. The book does a good job academically of showing how Ajax has evolved and how it is used in Web 2.0 applications. The book effectively cites examples in PHP, .NET, and JavaServer Pages. Practically, the authors exhibit a proper mix of (X)HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Dynamic HTML and XmlHttpRequests, showing how the technologies are blended for developing next-gen UIs. The first few chapters have enough information to get a novice started with AJAX.

Title : Professional Ajax
Authors : Nicholas C. Zakas, Jermy McPeak, Joe Fawcett.
Paperback : 432 pages
Publisher : Wrox
ISBN : 0471777781

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AjaxTagsHave a look at http://ajaxtags.no-ip.info/, it shows few nice examples for basic ajac development. (.jsp)

The AJAX Tag Library is a set of JSP tags that simplify the use of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) technology in JavaServer Pages.

AJAX is primarily rooted in JavaScript. However, many server-side developers do not have an extensive knowledge of client-side programming in the browser. It’s much easier in some cases for J2EE developers, especially, to simply add a JSP tag to the page to gain the function desired.

Download a binary distribution of the AJAX JSP Tag Library

Windows Live Local : A simple superb creation from Microsoft. It is based on the Microsoft Map ,but a bit more interesting. The service will initially target San Francisco and Seattle only due to the massive number of images needed to support make it work .
It offers fabulous views , a Race car , Sports car and simple walking view. The zoom can be controled by scroller of the mouse . While at some level it offers few superb snaps of the city on the above portion of the map.

When in the Car mode, browse through the page while dragging the car or use arrow keys, when the head light is switched on the image infront of the car, will be shown in the above portion. Its like playing a game. :)

Simply Marvelous !

Check out the fastest and easiest way to recieve mail ;) . Mail2RSS.org is made to enable reading emails with any RSS feedreader!

If you ever wanted to read all your newsletters and mailing lists as RSS feeds, just forward those emails to any address at Mail2RSS.org.

How to use it?

Select an address you want to use e.g.

anythingyoulike@mail2rss.org

and read it as RSS 2.0 feed from

http://mail2rss.org/anythingyoulike.xml

That’s it! Just send all your emails to this newly created email address.

Limitations

• Attachments are not shown and will be dropped if found
• Emails are kept in your virtual mailbox for 7 days
• Only last 20 emails are show (on site and in RSS feed), all older emails are deleted