An ticket system (also issue tracking system, trouble ticket system, support Ticket or incident ticket system) is a computer software or web based package that manages and maintains lists of issues, as needed by an organization. Ticket systems are commonly used in an organization’s to create, update, and resolve reported customer issues.

There are 3 versions of tickets systems, paid version, custom version(mainly build for one company) and the open source version. Because we dont want to pay a lot of money for an ticket system, we use the open source versions.

These 9 ticket systems are professional ticket systems, and can be used in a big company. A couple of these ticket systems are even used by big company’s. I have just taken 9 good ticket systems that will do there job, but there are more great and professional tickets systems ticket available on the web.

OTRS

OTRS is an Open source Ticket Request System (also well known as trouble ticket system) with many features to manage customer telephone calls and e-mails. The system is built to allow your support, sales, pre-sales, billing, internal IT, helpdesk, etc. department to react quickly to inbound inquiries.

Website | Demo

os Ticket

osTicket is a widely-used open source support ticket system. It seamlessly integrates inquiries created via email, phone and web-based forms into a simple easy-to-use multi-user web interface. Manage, organize and archive all your support requests and responses in one place while providing your customers with accountability and responsiveness they deserve.

Website | Demo

Simple Ticket

Simple Ticket is designed to facilitate the support of our client’s computers and networks. It has been specifically designed for IT support companies who service multiple small business clients; however, it can easily be used by a company’s internal IT staff to support a single client with hundreds of users. The software was written using Ruby on Rails and boasts the latest features found in today’s rich web applications such as Ajax.

Website

eTicket

eTicket is a PHP-based electronic support ticket system that can receive tickets via email (pop3/pipe) or a web form. It also offers a ticket manager with many features. An ideal, easy to use and install helpdesk solution for any website. eTicket offers many features and can be easily skinned to the look and feel of your website.

Website | Demo

Trouble Ticket Express

The Trouble Ticket Express is a fully automated web based help desk. Written in Perl it can be easily installed on your website. Both Unix and Windows based servers are supported. Activate feature rich technical support email forms and attain complete control over your customer service operations.

Website | Demo

itracker

itracker is a true open source issue tracking system licensed under the LGPL license. itracker is built using Java enterprise technology. itracker is a professional, easy to use, open, easy to integrate, fast, modular, customizable and scalable solution for all kind of projects.

Website | Demo

Request Tracker

RT is an enterprise-grade ticketing system which enables a group of people to intelligently and efficiently manage tasks, issues, and requests submitted by a community of users. Written in object-oriented Perl, RT is a high-level, portable, platform independent system that eases collaboration within organizations and makes it easy for them to take care of their customers. RT manages key tasks such as the identification, prioritization, assignment, resolution and notification required by enterprise-critical applications including project management, help desk, NOC ticketing, CRM and software development.

Website | Demo

Jutda Helpdesk

Jutda Helpdesk is a Django-powered ticket tracking system for small enterprise, designed from the ground up to be easy to use.

Website | Demo

Mystic

Mystic is an open source trouble ticket system written in ruby on rails(RoR). It is designed to be fast, flexible and customizable. It also provides a simple, easy to use interface that’s quite intuitive. Tickets are used for several purposes, from internal project management, customer support/troubleshooting, reminders, and much more.

Website | Demo

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WordPress is growing and growing, more and more people are building there sites on WordPress or they switch to this powerfull open source CMS tool. This means that the number of beautiful designs built on WordPress will grow.

I will present every couple of weeks a small list of beautiful designs built on WordPress as inspiration for you and promotion for the site owner(s). Do you have a beautiful design build on WordPress and you want to see your site here on OpenSourceHunter? Just drop me a line!

Mozilla Labs

Laboratories are where science and creativity meet to develop, research, and explore new ideas. Mozilla Labs embraces this great tradition — a virtual lab where people come together to create, experiment, and play with new Web innovations and technologies.

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N.Design Studio was founded by me, Nick La, a Toronto based illustrator and web designer. I am also the creator of the popular blog Web Designer Wall, Design Jobs on the Wall, IconDock, and Best Web Gallery. My main focuses are designing stock icons, illustrations, and beautiful CSS websites. My work has been featured in many online portals and design publications such as: Computer Arts, Web Designer, Practical Web Design, Digit, and Web Design Index.

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TruSpeaks

This blog is a testament to what happens when you acknowledge your weaknesses, face you fears, and step outside of your comfort zone. You see, I have a problem with “sometimes”….my problem is quite simple really…sometimes I’m consistent and sometimes I’m not. Therein lies my problem. I am not a “writer” by trade i.e.~ school background, but I am a writer at heart. I love to write, but my punctuation… well, it will be flawless after some time passes with this blog.

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The use of the jQuery library is growing and growing(just released jQuery 1.4), more and more people are using this useful javascript library. This means that more and more useful jQuery tips, tricks and solutions are coming available. That’s why i created a small list of 26 cool and useful jQuery tips, tricks and solutions.

jQuery has a lot of very useful plugins that can help you with almost anything, but there are a couple of plugins that aren’t that smart to use, why? Well sometimes 1 or 2 lines of jQuery code can do the same thing(or even better), so why use a big script if you can do the same trick with a small piece of code.

As many of you already know, jQuery can do a lot of things in more than just one way, so if you see a tip, trick or solution and think/know this can be done better, smarter or faster please let me know, post and share it in a comment below of just email me this, so that i can use this for part 2.

1. Disable right-click

Disable right-click contextual menu.

$(document).ready(function(){
    $(document).bind("contextmenu",function(e){
        return false;
    });
});

2. Disappearing search field text

Hide when clicked in the search field, the value.(example can be found below in the comment fields)

$(document).ready(function() {
$("input.text1").val("Enter your search text here");
   textFill($('input.text1'));
});

	function textFill(input){ //input focus text function
 	var originalvalue = input.val();
 	input.focus( function(){
  		if( $.trim(input.val()) == originalvalue ){ input.val(''); }
 	});
 	input.blur( function(){
  		if( $.trim(input.val()) == '' ){ input.val(originalvalue); }
 	});
}

3. Opening links in a new window

XHTML 1.0 Strict doesn’t allow this attribute in the code, so use this to keep the code valid.

$(document).ready(function() {
   //Example 1: Every link will open in a new window
   $('a[href^="http://"]').attr("target", "_blank");

   //Example 2: Links with the rel="external" attribute will only open in a new window
   $('a[@rel$='external']').click(function(){
      this.target = "_blank";
   });
});
// how to use
open link

4. Detect browser

Change/add something for a certain browser.

Notice: As of jQuery 1.4, the $.browser variable is replaced by $.support.

$(document).ready(function() {
// Target Firefox 2 and above
if ($.browser.mozilla && $.browser.version >= "1.8" ){
	// do something
}

// Target Safari
if( $.browser.safari ){
	// do something
}

// Target Chrome
if( $.browser.chrome){
	// do something
}

// Target Camino
if( $.browser.camino){
	// do something
}

// Target Opera
if( $.browser.opera){
	// do something
}

// Target IE6 and below
if ($.browser.msie && $.browser.version <= 6 ){
	// do something
}

// Target anything above IE6
if ($.browser.msie && $.browser.version > 6){
	// do something
}
});

5. Preloading images

This piece of code will prevent the loading of all images, which can be useful if you have a site with lots of images.

$(document).ready(function() {
jQuery.preloadImages = function()
{
  for(var i = 0; i").attr("src", arguments[i]);
  }
}
// how to use
$.preloadImages("image1.jpg");
});

6. CSS Styleswitcher

Switch between different styles?

$(document).ready(function() {
	$("a.Styleswitcher").click(function() {
		//swicth the LINK REL attribute with the value in A REL attribute
		$('link[rel=stylesheet]').attr('href' , $(this).attr('rel'));
	});
// how to use
// place this in your header

// the links
Default Theme
Red Theme
Blue Theme
});

7. Columns of equal height

If you are using two CSS columns, use this to make them exactly the same height.

$(document).ready(function() {
function equalHeight(group) {
    tallest = 0;
    group.each(function() {
        thisHeight = $(this).height();
        if(thisHeight > tallest) {
            tallest = thisHeight;
        }
    });
    group.height(tallest);
}
// how to use
$(document).ready(function() {
    equalHeight($(".left"));
    equalHeight($(".right"));
});
});

8. Font resizing

Want to let the users change there font size?

$(document).ready(function() {
  // Reset the font size(back to default)
  var originalFontSize = $('html').css('font-size');
    $(".resetFont").click(function(){
    $('html').css('font-size', originalFontSize);
  });
  // Increase the font size(bigger font0
  $(".increaseFont").click(function(){
    var currentFontSize = $('html').css('font-size');
    var currentFontSizeNum = parseFloat(currentFontSize, 10);
    var newFontSize = currentFontSizeNum*1.2;
    $('html').css('font-size', newFontSize);
    return false;
  });
  // Decrease the font size(smaller font)
  $(".decreaseFont").click(function(){
    var currentFontSize = $('html').css('font-size');
    var currentFontSizeNum = parseFloat(currentFontSize, 10);
    var newFontSize = currentFontSizeNum*0.8;
    $('html').css('font-size', newFontSize);
    return false;
  });
});

9. Smooth(animated) page scroll

For a smooth(animated) ride back to the top(or any location).

$(document).ready(function() {
$('a[href*=#]').click(function() {
 if (location.pathname.replace(/^\//,'') == this.pathname.replace(/^\//,'')
 && location.hostname == this.hostname) {
   var $target = $(this.hash);
   $target = $target.length && $target
   || $('[name=' + this.hash.slice(1) +']');
   if ($target.length) {
  var targetOffset = $target.offset().top;
  $('html,body')
  .animate({scrollTop: targetOffset}, 900);
    return false;
   }
  }
  });
// how to use
// place this where you want to scroll to

// the link
go to top
});

11. Get the mouse cursor x and y axis

Want to know where your mouse cursor is?

$(document).ready(function() {
   $().mousemove(function(e){
     //display the x and y axis values inside the div with the id XY
    $('#XY').html("X Axis : " + e.pageX + " | Y Axis " + e.pageY);
  });
// how to use


});

12. Verify if an Element is empty

This will allow you to check if an element is empty.

$(document).ready(function() {
  if ($('#id').html()) {
   // do something
   }
});

13. Replace a element

Want to replace a div, or something else?

$(document).ready(function() {
   $('#id').replaceWith('
I have been replaced

');
});

14. jQuery timer callback functions

Want to delay something?

$(document).ready(function() {
   window.setTimeout(function() {
     // do something
   }, 1000);
});

15. Remove a word

Want to remove a certain word(s)?

$(document).ready(function() {
   var el = $('#id');
   el.html(el.html().replace(/word/ig, ""));
});

16. Verify that an element exists in jQuery

Simply test with the .length property if the element exists.

$(document).ready(function() {
   if ($('#id').length) {
  // do something
  }
});

17. Make the entire DIV clickable

Want to make the complete div clickable?

$(document).ready(function() {
	$("div").click(function(){
	  //get the url from href attribute and launch the url
	  window.location=$(this).find("a").attr("href"); return false;
	});
// how to use
home

});

18. Switch between classes or id’s when resizing the window.

Want to switch between a class or id, when resizing the window?

$(document).ready(function() {
   function checkWindowSize() {
	if ( $(window).width() > 1200 ) {
		$('body').addClass('large');
	}
	else {
		$('body').removeClass('large');
	}
   }
$(window).resize(checkWindowSize);
});

19. Clone a object

Clone a div or an other element.

$(document).ready(function() {
   var cloned = $('#id').clone();
// how to use


});

20. Center an element on the screen

Center an element in the center of your screen.

$(document).ready(function() {
  jQuery.fn.center = function () {
	  this.css("position","absolute");
	  this.css("top", ( $(window).height() - this.height() ) / 2+$(window).scrollTop() + "px");
	  this.css("left", ( $(window).width() - this.width() ) / 2+$(window).scrollLeft() + "px");
	  return this;
  }
  $("#id").center();
});

21. Write our own selector

Write your own selectors.

$(document).ready(function() {
   $.extend($.expr[':'], {
       moreThen1000px: function(a) {
           return $(a).width() > 1000;
      }
   });
  $('.box:moreThen1000px').click(function() {
      // creating a simple js alert box
      alert('The element that you have clicked is over 1000 pixels wide');
  });
});

22. Count a element

Count an element.

$(document).ready(function() {
   $("p").size();
});

23. Use Your Own Bullets

Want to use your own bullets instead of using the standard or images bullets?

$(document).ready(function() {
   $("ul").addClass("Replaced");
   $("ul > li").prepend("‒ ");
 // how to use
 ul.Replaced { list-style : none; }
});

24. Let Google host jQuery for you

Let Google host the jQuery script for you. This can be done in 2 ways.

//Example 1



 // Example 2:(the best and fastest way)

25. Disable jQuery animations

Disable all jQuery effects

$(document).ready(function() {
    jQuery.fx.off = true;
});

26. No conflict-mode

To avoid conflict other libraries on your website, you can use this jQuery Method, and assign a different variable name instead of the dollar sign.

$(document).ready(function() {
   var $jq = jQuery.noConflict();
   $jq('#id').show();
});

Resources

• jQuery
• jQuery UI
• 14 days of jQuery
• Learning jQuery
• Improve your jQuery – 25 excellent tips
• Cheatsheet jQuery 1.1.3
• Cheatsheet jQuery 1.2
• Cheatsheet jQuery 1.3
• Cheatsheet jQuery 1.3.2
• Cheatsheet jQuery 1.4

Every month, i will choose a site that gets the title site of the month here on OpenSourceHunter. This can be an site of a freelancer, a usefull application/tool, a cool company, a site with great tutorials and resources, a blog, a site with a cool design or something else.

The second site of the month is todoTweet. todoTweets is a simple free task manager for your tweets. todoTweet helps you use your Twitter account to track and manage tasks. todoTweet takes all the tweets from your twitter account with #todo and creates a clean and easy to use to-do list.

Do you know a site, for the site of the month, go to the contact page and send us an email about this site, use the subject “site of the month” and if the site is interesting enough it could be the next site of the month.

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I created a v-card template a couple of weeks back, which had a simple but cool logo animation by using just 2 images and a small piece of jQuery code. Afther a lot of emails asking me how to create this simple but cool animation i decided to share this in a simple and basic tutorial.

A couple of years back you would use an animated gif or Flash for an animation like this one, but with some little help of jQuery this can be done very easy and quick.

Tutorial Details

• Program(s): Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Dreamweaver
• Difficulty: Easy
• Estimated Completion Time: Less then 45 minutes

The first image

Open your Photoshop and create a new document. I have taken the dimensions 500px by 120px for this tutorial. You can fill Use the type tool to create the word HELLO or some other word. I have used the font Arial Black. This font is bold and present on every computer so perfect to use for this example. You can see the font setting on the screenshot below.

Now add a new layer and call this one result and fill this layer with the color #29b0b1 by using the bucket tool, this layer must be on top. Now select the result layer and select the outline of the typo layer by holding CTRL and click on the thumbnail in the layers panel. We have no selected the word HELLO

Once you have selected the word HELLO you can press delete and you should have the same result as below.

Now delete the background layer and the typo layer, and you should have a see true the image. Save the image and call it frame.png, be sure that you save this as a png extention, because the backgrond has to be transparent.

The second image

Create an new photoshop with the dimensions 500px by 500px. Use the the rectangle tool(u) to create a shape and call this layer ani bg. Choose the color #ffffff. Select the pen tool and select the Add Anchor Point Tool. Once selected hold CTRL and click with the pen on the border of this shape to select the anchor points. Now you can add a anchor point some where you like, and shape it to the shape you like. The example that is have use for this tutorial looks like this.

The code

Open your Dreamweaver or other editor and create a html file.

Html

As you can see there are 2 images in this div, but one is positioned outside the box.

CSS

body{
	background:#29b0b1;
}
.logo{
	width:500px;
	height:120px;
	float:left;
	overflow:hidden;
	position:relative;
}
.ani-bg{
	position:absolute;
	top:-500px;
	left:0;
}
.frame{
	position:absolute;
	top:0;
	left:0;
	z-index:1!important;
}

As you can see has the .frame an z-index attribute, this means, it’s on top of the other image. The logo div has a overflow hidden, this means that the ani-bg.png image will not be displayed outside the logo div. Basic and simple.

Javascript/jQuery

$(document).ready(function(){
	$(".ani-bg").animate({
		marginTop: "420px"
	}, 2500 );
});

Before using this piece of code you have to download and add the jQuery libiray in to your html file. Download it here. I have used 1.3.2 for this tutorial, but you can use all version of jQuery for this effect.

I have used the animation effect for this tutorial, this is a very simple but still very useful effect. This piece of code will animate the hidden ani-bg.png from the top to the bottom(from -500px till 420px), which it will be visible. You can change the speed of the animation, i have set this example on 2500 milliseconds.

I have used the margintop for this tutorial but you can use an other direction/position, for example you can use a marginleft as you can see in this demo.

You can create a lot of cool effect this way, so go a head and give it a try!

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Yesterday Google lanched there newest tool called Buzz. Google Buzz makes it possible to follow online activities of your friends on other websites within your Gmail account. Users can follow with Google Buzz, Twitter updates, blogger posts or Flickr pictures of there friends. For now it’s not possible to use Google Buzz to update services like Twitter, but Google says that they are working on that.

Users can set there Buzz messages to public or private, which is very useful because public messages will be displayed on your Google profile and these public messages will be index by Google, so if you dont want that, you can set the message to private. Google says that i would be easy to share a message with just a certain person or persons.

Because the numbers of smart phone are growing, there’s also a mobile version of Buzz available for the Iphone and Andriod phones. Because the most smart phone are equipped with a GPS, you can use Buzz in combination with your mobile GPS to post where you are and see the Buzz updates of the users in you neighborhood.

Google Buzz, the answer to facebook and twitter? Let use know what you think!

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Apple announced there newest gadget called ipad a couple of days back. While Apple’s interface builder is great, it doesn’t really allow us to create custom UI elements on the fly, thats why Geoff Teehan created iPad GUI PSD for us.

The PSD was constructed using vectors, so it’s fully editable and scalable. You’ll notice there are a few new UI elements as compared to the iPhone interface. The workable screen design is formatted to 768×1024 so anything you design in the Photoshop file can easily be brought over to the SDK.

You can download this free GUI PSD set here

It has been almost an year ago when i posted the 22 useful free icon packs list. Due the success and the requests for a new list of useful and free icon packs, i’ve created a new list, this time bigger and better. To save you some time(time is money) i have created this list of 50 icon packs in the categories, web application, e-commerce, sketch, mini icons, mono icons and social icons. Basically this is all you need for a new project, big or small.

There are a lot of great icons lists on the web but most of the time they contains good but not that useful icons packs, this list isn’t one of those lists.

If you like this list please share the love with the rest of the world by using the social buttons! Dont forget to subcribe to our FEED and to FOLLOW US on twitter and leave a comment below. If you find a dead link please let us know.

Notice: most of these icons are also free to use in a commercial project, visit the authors website first to see the license before using of of these packs!

Web application Icons

GiNUX

Alcohol

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primo

siena

shine

shiny

Standard Iconset

Gnome Icon

project icon set

Absque

google-maps-icons

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MinIcons

web development icons #4b

Stationery Icon Set

blockie icons

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Weby Icon Set

Chalkwork Payments

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Mini Icons

simple bold social media icons

Silk Companion 1

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File status icons

Mono Icons

travel business vector icon pack

Symbol Signs collection

token

media icons

Social Icons

vector social media icons

birdies a free twitter icon set

Google Talk Icon

40 free twitter badges

pagepeel free social iconset

polaroid icon set

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50 free and exclusive twitter icons

24 free exclusive vector icons handy

TwitterJoy 2 icons

Icons Cloud

Sketch Icons

sketchy icons

Free hand-drawn sketch icons

FreeHand_ColorStroked icon pack

Web 2.0 icons (colored pencil version)

Red Little Shoes Icon set

hand-drawing icons set

Resources

Some other useful resources for free and no-free icons are:

• Icondock
• Icojoy
• Graphicriver
• Deviantart
• Smashingmagazine
• freeiconsdownload
• qvectors
• 22 useful and free icon packs

Every month, i will choose a site that gets the title site of the month here on OpenSourceHunter. This can be an site of a freelancer, a usefull application/tool, a cool company, a site with great tutorials and resources, a blog, a site with a cool design or something else.

The first site of the month is Grafpedia. Grafpedia is a site that has a lot of great and useful design tutorials, free PSD file’s, free stockphoto’s and more resources. You can even become an VIP member to get even more great resources. Go and check it out.

Do you know a site, for the site of the month, go to the contact page and send us an email about this site, use the subject “site of the month” and if the site is interesting enough it could be the next site of the month.

A html vCard is an minimalistic design that contains just the right information that a visitor needs to know(most of the times). It contains(most of the times), anabout, porfolio, social(very important) and a contact section/page. This kind of sites are mostly used for personal sites.

The html vCard trend was started by Tim van Damme and his design has been copy and use for inspiration multiple times now.

Why use an html vCard for your site? The best reason to use an vCard design is if you dont have a lot of information for your site and you dont want use a design that has a lot of whitespaces in it.

Here are a couple of cool, professional designed html vCards, click on the images to visited the sites.

Tim van Damme

Rogie King

Jan van Lysebettens

Mike Jolley

Lji Jinaraj

Margot DOLEWSKA DYER

John Bloomfield

Katrina Neufeld

Ali Bahşişoğlu

Eugen Buşoiu

Chris Carey

Lee Adams Norris

Thierry Castel

Matthias Kretschmann

Shuffle Groove

Resources

If you think wow i want a vCard design to, and your not that creative, dont have the time or are just lazy, well the best thing is to buy an ready to go vCard template. Here are some useful, professional and cheap vCard templates.

Professional vCard

V-card site template

vCard Professional Portfolio

vCard Personal Mini-Site

Introducto – Personal Website / V Card Template

To celebrate the Redesign(more about the redesign here) of the Envato Marketplaces GraphicRiver is giving away a cool icon set. The icons are design by Eugene Artsebasov and Turbomilk.

These icons can be used in personal or commercial projects all you have to do is include an link back.

You may already have noticed it has been a little bit quiet the last weeks, the reason for this is that there is a new design comming for OpenSourceHunter. Because there are comming some new features and some a lot changes i wont post a lot of new articles.

The new site sould be up next month.

ThemeForest, GraphicRiver, FlashDen, VideoHive and AudioJungle are well knowen marketplaces where you can buy and sell very profesional templates, graphics, flash and audio files. Every month these marketplaces are providing a free downloadable item with permission of there authors. You can see the list for this month below.

ThemeForest

You’re a great PHP programmer, but you find that your web applications aren’t visually appealing? In that case, Ultimate Admin Theme provides the perfect solution!

Author: rzepak File: AdminTheme – Ultimate Admin Panel Solution

GraphicRiver

20 unique design symbols set. The pack includes PSD + AI + EPS + PDF

Author: logorado File: Design Symbols Set

FlashDen

• XML driven
• Unlimited categories
• Unlimited news
• Unlimited content per post
• Posts can be fully contained in the viewer, or if you wish you can leave out the full post and just link the list item to an external URL
• Users have cookies stored in their browser and upon returning to your site they are notified of any new news items and categories since their last visit
• HTML Formatted Text fields using CDATA
• Supports SWF ’s and Images with an expansion animation upon rollover
• Easy to set up, use, and customize

Author: FlashJunkie File: XML News

VideoHive

A slow moving, beautifully flowing animation. It appears to be a fabric, or abstract lights that smoothly move throughout the screen. The gray/silver color scheme help achieve the appearance of a liquid metal substance.

Author: Bushido File: Glossy Surface Collection – Silver 1

AudioJungle

This calm and introspective piano melody is beautifully arranged in this lovely track courtesy of tomh. Give your listeners the feeling of warm and tender emotions with this endearing and fully loopable song!

Author: tomh File: Paradise Looped

Drupal won the 2008 Overall Award for the second time in succession in what was a very close contest with Joomla!. While Joomla was the first runner up, DotNetNuke, a .NET-based open source Content Management System, made its way to the second runner up position in its first year in the final.

The 2009 Award will feature an increased prize fund of $24,000 and a new category designed specifically for previous winners of the Overall Open Source CMS Award. This new Hall of Fame category features CMSes that have won the Overall Award in previous years competing against one another. Alongside this, previous winners will have sub-category awards for their best themes and extensions. “We believe that this will open up the Overall Award to more CMSes and at the same time, recognize the support network behind previous winners of the Award” said Damian Carvill, Packt’s marketing manager.

Packt has opened up nominations for people to submit their favorite Content Management System at www.PacktPub.com/Award. The top five in each category will go through to final, which begins in the third week of September. For more information, please visit Packt’s website www.PacktPub.com/Award.

Envato is the company behind the well known Tuts+ Network, a network of site that provides very cool and useful tutorials. Some of the most popular site from the Tuts+ Network are: Nettuts, Vectortuts and PSDtuts.

Envato just launched their newest Tuts+ site called Phototuts, this site will be covering everything from beginner to advanced photography tips and techniques, post-processing, lighting and how to use your equipment with expertise. Visit this site here.

A couple of weeks ago i had the pleasure to give away three really cool book from Packt publishing to three people who have placed a comment on that post. I would thank everyone for placing a comment and ofcours i would like to thank Packt publishing for the three books!

Here are the three winners.

TTanja – (Learning jQuery 1.3)
Gamer2000 – (WordPress 2.7 Cookbook)
Double TT – (WordPress 2.7 Complete)

For those that didn’t win, dont worry there will be more giveaways here @ OpenSourceHunter.