Surreal CMS is a remotely hosted content management system (CMS) that was designed with simplicity in mind.

Surreal CMS is a very simple GUI CMS designed for novices afraid to code. It runs on another server and can be used to edit websites hosted remotely.

The free license allows 3 websites while the $25/month designer license allows unlimited no. of websites.

You can edit any part of the webpage using Surreal CMS just by adding “class=editable” in the span, div or heading tags.

Surreal CMS : Home | Sign Up

Piwik is a downloadable, open source (GPL licensed) web analytics software program. It provides you with detailed reports on your website visitors: the search engines and keywords they used, the language they speak, your popular pages… and so much more.

Piwik is a very good alternative to other website tracking and counter programs as it is self hosted and maintained. As well as the table and data is also collected in one’s own database.

Piwik requires PHP 5.0 and MySQL to function. The tables and graphs are created as Flash (.swf) files.

Piwik : Home | Download | Demo

Opentape is a free, open-source package that lets you make and host your own mixtapes on the web.

Using Opentape you can create a full playlist by uploading all the songs you want to you server.

It creates a list of all the songs uploaded and then plays them using an embeddable flash player when clicked.

It does not require any database and runs on PHP. Customization options are limited to the color scheme of the playlist.

Opentape : Home | Download | Demo

Vanilla is an open-source, standards-compliant, multi-lingual, fully extensible discussion forum for the web. Anyone who has web-space that meets the requirements can download and use Vanilla for free!

Vanilla runs on MySQL and PHP. It is a very weight (386 KB only!) and compact yet powerful forum creating and managing platform. It is easy to use and maintain once installed.

Its features include RSS 2.0/ATOM feeds of Discussions, Categories and the whole forum. It has an inbuilt WYSIWYG editor for comments and discussions. Various different add-ons and themes are also available for it.

Vanilla : Download | Demo

eSpice is the computer symposium held every year in DPS Noida. TechEdge was held in Birla Vidya Niketan.

I am introducing a new feature in my website called ‘Anunay’s Chat‘ where the visitors can chat with me whenever I am available online. This feature is a crude AJAX and JQuery based chat interface. It saves the chat logs as a (X)HTML file that can be deleted. It runs on PHP and does not require MySQL to function.

The styling of the chat interface is done by CSS. The files needed for the system are very compact and it fits into about 7 KB. The source is attached at the bottom of the article. (I love Open Source.)

Anunay’s Chat : Home | Source

Today, I will show you how to use the ‘Permalinks’ feature in Wordpress. ‘Permalinks’ stand for Permanent Links to your posts. This feature can well be configured using the Permalinks Settings Option. It can be used to create a new URL structure, minimal or fancy looking or maybe a whacky word can be formed in the URL itself.

Permalinks are the permanent URLs to your individual weblog posts, as well as categories and other lists of weblog postings. A permalink is what another weblogger will use to link to your article (or section), or how you might send a link to your story in an e-mail message. The URL to each post should be permanent, and never change — hence permalink.

To configure the Permalinks goto the Permalink Box under the Settings tab. Go through. You will encounter a page displaying various permalink types including the default one for you to choose.

%year%

The year of the post, four digits, for example 2004

%monthnum%

Month of the year, for example 05

%day%

Day of the month, for example 28

%hour%

Hour of the day, for example 15

%minute%

Minute of the hour, for example 43

%second%

Second of the minute, for example 33

%postname%

A sanitized version of the title of the post.

%post_id%

The unique ID # of the post, for example 423

%category%

A sanitized version of the category name.

%tag%

A sanitized version of the tag name.

%author%

A sanitized version of the author name.

You can use the above mentioned snippets to create your own Permalinks. You may even try cool ones like,

• /its%post_id%/ >> will give you something like >> http://domain.tld/its123/
• /shownumber%post_id%/ >> will give you something like >> http://domain.tld/shownumber123/
• /this/is/number/%post_id%/ >> will give you something like >> http://domain.tld/this/is/number/123

You can also create many cool and trendy custom Permalinks as you like.

Do Not Forget to post your cool and wacky Permalink as a comment. (Claim Bragging Rights!)

Gelato is self hosted CMS for those who want both flexibility and design in their work. It is a specially designed CMS for tumblelogs. It provides a nice framework for tumblelogs and is very easy to install. It runs on PHP and MySQL. It can also import RSS/Atom feeds as well as Twitter and Last.Fm feeds.

The Gelato project is open source (you can use and change the original source code freely). You can browse the source code, request features, read the wiki and use the forum from the Gelato home at Google code or you can contact the authors.
The post formats found on gelato include photos, video, audio, links, quotes and dialogues.
gelato CMS created by Pedro Santana.

Gelato is ideal for posting images, text, music or videos.

Gelato : Home | Demo | Download

Wibiya is a website application offering custom user built web toolbars for putting up on websites and blogs. It enhances the beauty and design of the blog and can also be used just for the sake of easing out the reader’s experience on the blog.

Wibiya enables blogs to integrate the most exciting services, applications and widgets of their choice into their blog through customized web-based toolbars.
Our platform offers a one-stop solution for integrating, managing and tracking third-party applications.

But, as every rose has thorns. Wibiya too has both pros and cons. The first setback being that Wibiya does not allow direct user registration. You have to firstly apply for a invite to its private Beta mode. Done that, after sometime, it automatically mails you with an invite.

Another setback with Wibiya is that it comes as a plugin for Wordpress, which has to be uploaded, activated and then works. This is not the problem. The actual problem is that the plugin queries the Wibiya’s website for displaying the toolbar on the client’s browser which takes some what longer than it would have taken on the blog’s server itself. Pondering over this. It struck to me that even this has an advantage. It helps to save on valuable bandwidth which is helpful in cases with limited bandwidth web hosts.

Wibiya : Demo (see below) | Website