Flickr pictures in a Polaroid gallery

I just found an interesting web site where you could use your Flickr ID to display your pictures in a very nice gallery. It is interactive and you can reorder the pictures you see as you wish.
The owner of the Polariod Gallery is Christopher Einarsrud and he gives you the chance to use the script and Flash file for free!
Give a check, it is really nice.
Do you need to know your Flickr ID? click here

Flash components: Great charts and pies

Adobe (Macromedia) Flash is definitively the most used multimedia reader on the Internet. It is because it works no matter the browser or operating system.
Because of that to develop contents for web sites and web applications using Flash is a good choice.
For a good time I was looking for flash components that could help me to make graphs and charts from data stored on web sites, intranets or extranets. That is indeed very powerful.
Finally I found the right solution and it is free for personal and research use. The name of the company that produced the components is InfoSoft Global.
The components can interact with databases and other sources of data. For more technical information visit their site. Or check the demo clicking here.

Suggestion for them: make your samples enabled for embedding in Blogs.

Free alternatives to Adobe Creative Studio

I found an interesting post about this topic. It is amazing that the open source "movement" is able to offer such a great alternatives and in many cases for free. Here you have the list and links:

1. Photoshop: The Gimp; Paint.Net
   
2. Illustrator: Inskape
3. DreamWeaver: KompoZer
4. Flash: Synfig
5. InDesign: Scribus
6. AfterEffects: JahShaka
7. SoundBooth: Audacity