Chat without installing messenger using javascript based messenger

Inline chats are in, but what if u need more functionalities.

Have a look at http://izuz.net/
It has javascript based messengers for Google talk, Windows LIVE messenger, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, AOL Messenger

You can be any where in the world, be it africa, china, russia, mongolia... chat easily.

http://izuz.net/

Google chrome... the brand new browser with brand new features

Google comes up with a new browser, Google chrome, to challege the Internet explorer which is the banner of Microsoft as far as the browsers are concerned.  It has been built using the Mozilla as the backbone, integrating Apple safari and apple webkit. Built on a multiprocess environment. having a seperate thread, seperate memory for each tab, which gets realeased when the tab is closed.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13

Its fast. Built very intelligently, for instance the full screen mode is like default and u dont need the top bar always with the browser.

Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.

Crash control can control a tab crash, the browser need not be closed. 

People behind firewall can rejoice, incognito mode allows u to open sites that are behind firewall and for which there will be no trace.

so enjoy.

There are other basic features that are taken from IE and Firefox. 

http://www.google.com/chrome

Forest GIS free GIS software

Forestry GIS (fGIS™) is a compact but robust shapefile editing program, digitizer and GIS data query tool for Windows®. fGIS was designed for natural resource managers who are not GIS specialists. It's easy-to-use and simple to install. Many power users also like fGIS because they can run it on laptops or home computers without copyright issues, it produces data compatible with commercial GIS programs, and fGIS is free.

http://www.forestpal.com/fgis.html

You'll find that fGIS is relatively simple to use:

• Open and view geo-referenced raster images including digital orthophotos and topographic maps in MrSID®, ECW, BIL, ADF, JPG, TIFF, GeoTIFF, BMP, IMG, JPEG2000, PNG and SDTS file formats.

• Open and view vector data in ESRI® shapefile (SHP) and e00 files, AutoCAD DXF™, MapInfo® MIF, Microstation® DGN, DLG-O, TIGER2000/line, GML/XML, SDTS and TatukGIS SQL (ttkls) file formats. An advanced R-Tree index system allows easy viewing of large (100+ MB) data files.

• Create and edit point, line and area shapefile objects and their associated data attribute tables. fGIS also edits and writes MIF, DXF, DLG & GML vector layers.

• Buffer point, line or area objects at any designated radius or width.

• Generate Cruise Points. Select an area object and fill it with either a random or ordered grid.

• Design maps with pre-defined layer symbology (PDF preview 28KB), or use advanced layer properties to define your own.

• Copy and paste shapefile objects from one layer to another.

• Designate the direction and distance of the next leg of a line or polygon with the COGO-like Traverse Tool. Directions can be entered in decimal degrees or degrees-minutes-seconds (handy for plotting deeds or laying out a field data collection route).

• Split a polygon or line (including GPS tracks) into separate units by drawing a line with the Split Shapes Tool.

• Clip Shapefiles to the boundaries of a polygon layer.

• Merge multiple shapefiles into a new one.

• Customize map properties including line width and color, area fills, label fonts and positions, image transparency, thematic rendering of data and more.

• Measure areas and distances. fGIS reports distances and areas in English units (feet, miles and acres) and metric units. Area and perimeter measurement fields can be added to data tables and updated automatically.

• Display data at user-specified scales.

• View maps in 3D.

• Map live GPS positions from any connected GPS unit with NMEA output (beta).

• Extract geo-referenced images of selected portions of a screen display.

• Export part of a vector layer and save it as a new file.

• Manage large data sets organized in dBase tables with the "Load Library Layer" utility.

• Join dBase and Access tables to shapefile attribute tables.

• Create point shapefiles from comma delimited text files with x|y coordinates.

• Convert Geographic WGS84 coordinate shapefiles to and from worldwide UTM zones and Wisconsin Transverse Mercator.  (Use the MN DNR Garmin Tool for transferring shapefile waypoint and track data to and from GPS units.)

• Print the map with three flexible output options. The Simple Print command will add a map title, subtitle, footer and the scale to the page. The Send Map to Word command will send an image of the view at a user specified resolution and scale to Microsoft® Word. A third option through the Export Image tool will send the map to a technical illustration/page layout module called Diagram Designer. You can add headers, legends, annotations and non-spatial symbols from template palettes in the Diagram Designer module.

• Save WMF files for use in publishing programs.

• Georeference scanned images with fGIS and other available freeware.

• More specifications and instructions are here.

File format converter

Do you have any Office 2007 file which you desperately want to convert  to office 2003. Heres a tool using which you can convert Microsoft Office 2007 files to 2003 format. The extension changes from .docx to .doc for which you dont need to have office 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/thankyou.aspx?familyId=cf196df0-70e5-4595-8a98-370278f40c57&displayLang=en

Enjoy !

What is CommunityViz(R)?

What is CommunityViz^®?

If you are a planner, chances are you already know a little about CommunityViz, the popular GIS software for land-use planning. On this site you�ll find all the latest information on features, upgrades, purchasing, and more. Please feel free to look around, and e-mail or call us if you are not finding what you need.

If you are new to planning or to CommunityViz, read on for a brief introduction to the Why, Who and How of this powerful software tool.

Why

All over the world, cities, towns and regions face complex yet important decisions about their future. As population increases, communities need to choose where and how to shape themselves. There are thousands of questions like these:

• Where will or should houses, apartments and commercial buildings go?
• What roads, schools, water and infrastructure will be needed in future?
• Will tax revenue be enough to pay for services?
• What will traffic be like, and can it be reduced?
• What will happen to the natural environment?
• What will become of the local way of life � the heart and soul of the community?
• What can be done to improve the quality of life?

Fundamentally, communities need to decide how hundreds of economic, environmental and social considerations can be addressed and woven together to create vibrant places to live now and in the years to come.

While these decisions are important, they are also complex. Myriad factors are in play. Making wise, informed decisions requires combining science, data, and points of view from many fields at once � a task for which CommunityViz is designed.

Who

The people and organizations that use CommunityViz are diverse. They work in countries all over the world and they include:

• State and local governments of all sizes
• Regional planning and transportation agencies
• Federal agencies
• Professional firms and consultants
• Universities and academic institutions
• Non-profit organizations

Some of these people use CommunityViz �hands-on� every day; others simply see and interact with the rich set of multimedia outputs, reports, and visuals that CommunityViz users can create; still others are somewhere in between. CommunityViz is a flexible, customizable platform that can serve a wide variety of purposes.

How

CommunityViz is based on geographic information systems (GIS) software � computerized maps that can contain rich information about the physical world. In particular, CommunityViz plugs into ArcGIS^‐-brand desktop software from ESRI, the world�s leading GIS platform and the place where most planning organizations store information about the places they work.

CommunityViz adds a large suite of extra functions that combine with ArcGIS to make a more specialized, powerful decision-making platform � tools for setting up alternative futures (scenarios) and analyzing their effects; tools for making interactive three-dimensional (3-D) models of real places as they are now and as they could be in future; tools for explaining and communicating across the many groups of people who become involved in making decisions about the future of a place.

Some ways of using CommunityViz are very easy and anyone can do them; others are more sophisticated and require knowledge of GIS. Some people use CommunityViz themselves, and others hire certified CommunityViz professional consultants to help them apply it in particular settings.

http://www.placeways.com/communityviz/?p=communityviz

ArcMap MXD to ArcIMS AXL & MapServer converter/ export utility

NEW!
After over 9000 downloads I added the option to create configuration files for other Web Map Servers like MapServer ( http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu ) besides the already supported ArcIMS! You can extend this to other formats by adding new XSLT transformation stylesheets (see below 'Adding other formats')

The configuration files for ArcIMS and for MapServer are focussed on creating Open Geospatial Consortium compliant Web Map Services (OGC-WMS).

The files generated for MapServer can be customized by editing the "resoures/_MXDtoMap.xsl" file. The default form is particularly focussed on users that publish metadata and services through GeoNetwork opensource ( http://geonetwork-opensource.org ).

http://arcscripts.esri.com/details.asp?dbid=12766

zigGIS - PostGIS connector for ArcGIS, free ArcGIS plugin

PostGIS connector for ArcGIS zigGIS is an ArcGis plug-in that allows loading and viewing of PostGIS layers. The hope is to eventually get zigGIS so that it will also edit PostGIS layers.

The official zigGIS web site is http://code.google.com/p/ziggis/. The old ZigGis web site is no longer supported.

We have imported the svn project in google code, source code can be checked out at this address:

http://ziggis.googlecode.com/svn/

The ZigGIS logo - designed by Jeremiah Lewis, a very good friend of Abe - represents the aim of zigGIS, an Open Source GIS package that span Open Source and commercial GIS database packages. Launch zig for great justice!

Download it from : http://code.google.com/p/ziggis/

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samiazm!™

ESRI ready to release ArcGIS Explorer build 450

ESRI is about to release an update to ArcGIS Explorer.

Build 450 will add no new features, but will resolve a number of graphics card related issues that we inadvertently picked up at 440 (via ArcGlobe apparently).

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Ritesh Ambastha,

Free Spaces 25 GB- Share your data or atleast store it...

Hi all,

Heres a list of sites that are offering free space to store and share data

MediaMax offers 25 GB of free space to upload and share the data.


https://www.mediamax.com/Brands/MediaMax/home/signup.aspx

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Offers 5 Gb of free sharing and uploading space. Interface is good.

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Xdrive Features

• Back up your valuable files - your music, photos and more - automatically.
• Conveniently access all your files from anywhere.
• Easily share your files with friends and family.
• Get 5GB for Free!

its an AOL Service..

Visit : www.xdrive.com
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Then there is the


Omnidrive allows 5 gb of data storage space with a good and user friendly front end.

http://www.omnidrive.com/

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Got stuff to share? Give it a home on eSnips and expect the unexpected!

Yes, the esnips interface is more for the multimedia stuff where as rest others are like a common explorer kind of interfaces making it easier for the users to share and store the data.

www.esnips.com
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