Invisible is an Open Source Software written in CSS. A CSS is sometimes interpreted to different meanings in various browsers so that some browsers display it correctly and some often incorrectly. We should use a CSS framework to avoid such inconsistencies.

Ease of good design
Some CSS framework might provide various features, on the other side, they often bind us down or make us force to memorize restrictive rules and cause messy. I recommend Invisible to those who want to use simpler ones.
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Tornado made by Python and Opensource software. Currently trend word is “Real time-web”. Real time search likes Twitter or Social aggregator likes FriendFeed…many services target to Real time-web.

If web-service support realtime, web-server has to change. Tornado is web application server which make for real time-web.
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Gmail Notes is a free extension for Google Chrome. During texting with Gmail, we sometime want to make a note about the E-mail. An occasion like no time for replying to a E-mail and need to make a note for it.

Make a note at side of an E-mail.
We often make a note in memo-application, but we often lose it. That’s a bother! If Gmail has a little function for making a note… then use Gmail Notes!
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StExBar is opensource software for Windows. I feel often “Wish such a function” to Windows explorer. Some filer software take solutions for people who have a stresses. But original filer has another problems.

So, other solution is using explorer extension and add on need to fuetures. That is StExBar.
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Posted by Michihide HOTTA | Posted on 30-07-2010
Category : Software
Tags: CUI, github, GPL, MIT License, OSS, Windows
Gow is one of OSS products for MS Windows.
For those who usually use Linux or Mac OS X, command line operations are real pains when they switch to Windows. As we have no choise but to use GUI on it, it would be convenient if we can do some work on a command line.

Over 130 commands
In that case, I used to use Cygwin. But I didn’t like it bacause of its frequent changes of registries and the naming “cygdrive” itself.
If you want to use just commands simply, try Gow.
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Posted by charbon | Posted on 29-07-2010
Category : Software
Tags: Freeware, GUI, Mouse, Utility, Windows
TouchpadPal is freeware for Windows. Personally, I’m no good with a mouse or a track pad, so I usually use a touch pad. Even with a desktop PC, I use an external keyboard with a touch pad. A touch pad is useful because we don’t need to move our hands from a certain position.

TouchpadPal avoids wrong operations of a touch pad
There is one weak point of the touch pad though it is useful. The weak point is that a cursor will move when we touch the touch pad while we enter characters. TouchpadPal will help this weak point.
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Generally speaking, the standard way of script layout is from left-to-right, meaning horizontal in the world of internet or may be the expression “in the world of computers” would be more appropriate. Even though we, meaning Japanese, feel quite confortable with this standards now, generally speaking in Japanese, the script layout is preferred to be written vertically when you’re talking about traditions. Taketori JS is an opensource software written in JavaScript Library which lets you convert horizontal text to vertical text.

Discover the beauty of Japanese traditional script layout!
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Posted by litols | Posted on 29-07-2010
Category : Software
Tags: GPL, JavaScript, Open source, PHP, plugins, Web, WordPress
Elastic Theme Editor is open source software developed by PHP and WordPress. WordPress grows up blog market in Japan from few years ago. We get many plugins and themes all of the world. There is no reason to not use.

You can set the width by dragging
Normally, designing theme is difficult. If you wish to easy, using Elastic Theme Editor. It’s more easy designing WordPress theme for developer and designer.
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