Looking for a great photo album organizer to put on your website or to base your website on? Gallery is a great open source script that will let you get that job done.  It looks great as a stand alone website, and it also blends in seamlessly into your current website design too.

Here are some of my favorite features that come with Gallery:

• Auto Rotate Images – Gallery can look at information in pictures from digital cameras and automatically rotate them as needed.
• Image Quality and Size Defaults – You can limit the quality and size of images so that when images are uploaded, Gallery will resize them to save space.
• Main Gallery Page Settings – The configuration wizard contains all of the settings for how the main Gallery page looks and acts including showing or hiding the album tree, search engine, or album owner, and what frames to show around albums.
• Email Support – Set up email support to have your Gallery email users when their accounts are created or when they forget their password, email you copies, email people when the Gallery is updated, and more!
• Gallery-wide Slideshow – enable or disable a slideshow that includes all pictures in the gallery
• Commenting – turn off or on the public commenting system and configure it.
• Logging – enable logging with syslog or the Windows logger
• RSS publishing – publish your Gallery with RSS!
• Album Defaults – set defaults for the way that all new albums will originally look

If you would rather host your photos on your own hosting account, rather than relying on one of the free album hosting services out there, Gallery is a great choice.  When it comes to customizing the script, you can do so by creating or using a theme.  There are many free ones to download or you can tweak the CSS to make the page display you want to.

With Gallery, you are in control.  You can download it, and test it out for free on your own hosting account from gallery.menalto.com.

No Joomla is not a board game, and I can promise you it has nothing to do with Robin Williams.  Joomla is, in fact, one of the most popular CMS (content management systems) out there today.  If you need a website backend that can do a little ‘bit of everything, then Joomla is the script you are looking for.

You can think of it as your building blocks to create an awesome and powerful website.  The core features are:

Content Management – Joomla really makes simple work out of organizing your articles and content you publish.  With the built in tools, users can rate the things you post, comment on them, e-mail them to a friend and more.

User Management – Joomla also allows you to have people register to do more things on your website.  This could be as simple as commenting, or could get as complex as adding more content to the website.  The script is very flexible to meet your needs.

Now you also have search, banners, media, and more than can easily be managed and manipulated to suit your needs too.

Joomla Plugins

If you need more functionality from the script, you can always add extensions to it.  By installing an extension, you can customize Joomla even further by giving it new abilities.  For example, you might need better tools to back up your Joomla powered website.  You could simply find an extension that suits your needs, install it – and then you gain new features that were not built into the script by default.

• Check out the 10 Most Popular Joomla Extensions

Joomla Themes

The look and feel of Joomla is fully customizable too.  By downloading and installing new themes or templates, you can give your Joomla a design that better suits your website.  A simple search for “Joomla themes” on Google will give you an endless supply of themes to choose from too.  If you feel daring enough, you could also write up and design your own theme from scratch too.

Overall, Joomla is yet another great CMS script that will make your life much easier.  No longer do we need to write up webpages, page by page in HTML.  With sophisticated scripts like Joomla, all you need to do is install, write up your content and you are good to go.

Download it and try it yourself at Joomla.org.

Tired of your favorite link shortening service not listening to your demands, or maybe you have a better idea for a link shortening service?  This is where YOURLS comes into the picture.  Wearing it’s spandex tights of freedom, it will let you use the power of PHP to roll down own link shortening service.

Some of the features include:

• Public (everybody can create short links) or private (your links only)
• Random (sequential) or custom URL keyword
• Track click count on your links
• Neat AJAXed interface
• Developer API

The requirements are pretty lean too:

• A server with mod_rewrite enabled
• At least PHP 4.3
• At least MYSQL 4.1

Once you get it up and running, you can even use it in connection with your own WordPress install so you can generate short URLs using your service for each new post or page. 

The bottom line is, if you want to roll your own TinyURL, this script provides the easiest way to get that done.  Download it and give it a shot at yourl.org.

The Nucleus CMS install process isn’t rocket science, so that is defiantly a good thing.  Any basic Linux hosting account should make a good home for it. 

You can check out more screenshots of Nucleus CMS in action here.  You can also play with the demo too, if you what to try some of the features out for yourself.

Here is a little more about Nucleus CMS from the developers:

Thanks to an international community of sophisticated developers and designers, Nucleus CMS remains simple enough for anyone to learn, and expandable enough to allow you to build almost any web site you can imagine. Nucleus CMS lets you integrate text, images, and user comments in a seamless package that will make your web presence as serious, professional, personal, or fun as you want it to be.

The must for any blogging platform, skins and plugins are both there.  So this means you have even more possibilities when it comes to customizing Nucleus CMS to meet your own needs. 

You can download Nucleus CMS for free, so why not give it a shot?

Installing this script should be no problem with any shared Linux-based hosting.  They only require 1 MB of free web space, PHP 4.3 or higher and MySQL 4 or higher.  After installing, you can upload your content via the web site or FTP and then you can add and edit lots of meta information for that media. 

You can also install templates and plugins to customize your experience even more.

You can check out the demo on OpenSourceCMS if you want to give it a try.  If you are looking for a sleek and easy to use content management system for publishing a podcast, Loudblog is definitely worth checking into.

Right click on the desktop, select “New” and then “AutoHotkey Script”.

On the desktop icon created for the script, I want you to right-click on it and select “Edit Script”.  This should open up a Notepad window with your empty script inside.  Go to the Notepad window, hit enter twice so you are on a new line.  Next I want you to type in the following:

c:testscript::

Now this is telling your script that the word “testscript” is your keyword to type to get your longer response to launch.  Next add some text to the end of that – such as…

c:testscript::Thank you for your suggestion.  I really appreciate it.

Now that you got that text typed into there I want you to go to “File” and then “Save” to save your script.  Now lets go back to the desktop where you created your quick response, and double click the icon created on your desktop to launch it.  You should see the green box with the “H” in it in your taskbar now. 

Now go into any text field, e-mail, search box, anything and type in testscript then hit enter after typing it in.  Presto – you just saved yourself a few more seconds in your day.  You can now quickly type out phrases you use multiple times in the day and save your keyboard (and fingers) from all that extra work.