Enterprise ready open source applications are far too few and evaluating them is sometime very tough deal. To find out the best and most productive among the open source enterprise applications one has to invest a lot of effort and time and has to install them for evaluation. Well worry not, InfoWorld’s Best of Open Source Software Awards (aka Bossies), chosen annually by Test Center editors and reviewers, recognize the best open source software for business users. This year’s top picks among applications include standouts in ERP and CRM software, BI and reporting, content and document management, search, and wiki collaboration. Well what else you need… read on to read about the winning projects.

Ramadan 2010 is just starting and Muslims will be fasting, offering prayers and also will recite and learn Quran. One great resource for free online Quran recitations is QuranExplorer. We have covered QuranExplorer in our previous post Listen and recite Quran online with translation with Quran Explorer in detail. Greetings to all Muslims on start of Holy month of Ramadan and may this be month of blessings for all.

Since then Quran explorer has new features available like new audio recitations and translations, following is the list of new features and existing features.

Great News for all users of twitter, Mashable has reported that a new Twitter setting called “Tweet Media” is rolling out to some Twitter’s users, “strongly suggesting that the company will soon embed videos and photos in the stream.” . Using this feature you can just peak at your Twitter steam and look at how many people are sharing video and photos.

Tweet Media, as it’s called, was accessed by Mashable and others have been able to access under Twitter’s account settings, according to the report. Apparently, the system asks you whether or not you want to show photos and videos from everyone. It also comes with the following description of the setting: “By default, you’ll only see images and videos shared by people you’re following, and reveal those by people you’re not. Check this box to see media from everyone on Twitter.”

Are you a website or blog owner and want to know about popularity of your and competitors site/blog, Quarkbase.com is the right tool for you. Allowing you to know statistics, information about your website traffic, ranking, popularity etc. You can find out how good a site is, get comprehensive website details, discover competitors and analyze them.

Quarkbase.com saves you from spending hours on search engines finding website details, as it provides you with up-to-date information in seconds for free!.

I am a fan of LOLcats and regular visitor of I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER?. I came across this illustrated history of all acronyms of LOLCats and its really amusing. Checkout the illustrated history below in high Res.

This is the creation of Designer Ryan Oneill of Onlineschools.org and he describes history of internet lolcat memes like :

• LOLCats
• Caturday
• I can has cheezburger
• happy cat
• ceiling cat
• Lolrus
• OMG Cat
• NOM NOM NOM
• Monorail Cat
• MOAR
• DO NOT WANT

Check out the High Res Picture below..

Tanzil.info is a Great and Free web resource for Online Quran recitations and translations. I also like QuranExplorer.com which is also free website for Quran recitation and translations, But Tanzil.info since its launch has improved many folds and has added many Quranic recitations and translations to the collection, making it the largest collection of Quran recitations and translations.

New Quranic Recitations available :

• New Quranic recitation by Mahir Al-Muaiqly
• New Quranic recitation by Ibrahim Al Akhdar
• New Quranic Recitation by Abdullah Basfar II

New and Revised Quranic language Translations available:

• Quran English translation by Abul Ala Maududi is added.
• Quran Somali translation by Mahmud Muhammad Abduh
• New Quran Urdu translation by Allama Jawadi (Zeeshan Haider Rizvi)
• New Quran Hausa translation by Abubakar Gumi
• Revised Quranic Italian translation by Piccardo
• New Quranic Hindi translation is available
• New Quranic Thai translation is available

Download Full Quran options:

• Tanzil Quran Text
• Zekr: Quranic Desktop Application

Largest and Comprehensive list of Quran Recitors at Tanzil.info:

• AbdulBasit
• AbdulBasit (Mujawwad)
• Mishari Al-Afasy
• Ahmad Al-Ajamy
• Ibrahim Al-Akhdar
• Muhammad Ayyub
• Abdullah Basfar
• Abdullah Basfar II
• Al-Ghamadi
• Al-Hudhaify
• Al-Husary
• Al-Husary (Mujawwad)
• Muhammad Jibreel
• Al-Minshawi
• Al-Minshawi (Mujawwad)
• Maher Al-Muaiqly
• Hani Rafi
• Ash-Shateri
• Ash-Shuraim
• As-Sudais
• At-Tablawi
• Ibrahim Walk (English)

People seem to think information they put on the internet is transient – here today, gone tomorrow. Increasingly, we are finding data doesn’t disappear when you delete it. It may be automatically saved by Facebook or Google.

You may think you got rid of something but it can come back to bite you. If you are 18, you don’t think about your 42-year-old self looking for a job or promotion. People don’t consider that long-term risk. I think this could become a serious problem in future. Young people seem very blasé about their privacy, but their opinions may change in years to come.

People should consider what information they are letting out about themselves and to whom. Even if you think you have secured your pages through Facebook, the data may be accessible through other routes like Google.

Sometime back I wrote about 5 useful add-ons for Mozilla Firefox, the we also talked about creating a Persona for FF besides some easy and free tools for the world’s most loved browser. Firefox is gaining ground. I have now made a list of some useful add-ons for sharing with you guys, gals included The vary in category from getting updates on weather to finding a websites original location etc. Read on for some rich web surfing experience.

 1-Click YouTube Video Download. This add-on does exactly what its name says, it downloads the YouTube video that you are viewing with a single click in FLV, 3GP modes and saves it to the desired location on PC. The best part is its simplicity and ease of use. Upon installation a small button will appear on the left bottom window of the YouTube video screen, all one has to do is click it and Presto! Try it out, it is available here oh and watch the screenshot below.

Simply Click the Red Download button

The Mozilla Firefox RC2 is now available for download. As usual it is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux in over 70 languages. The release notes can be accessed here and known issues are documented here. Some of the features of Firefox 3.6 RC2 are:

• Support for WOFF font format.
• Support for latest web technologies like DOM, CSS and HTML5.
• They say the browser performance has improved considerably at startup.
• Automatic alerts for out of date plug-ins.
• Off course Personas come supported and are just a click away.
• A lot of bug fixes and improvements in stability, security and performance.
• The usual add-ons are also supported.

By the way Mozilla Firefox just recently made available the release candidate of Firefox for Maemo. All those in possession of a Nokia N900 or N810 can also get it from the Mozilla website for Mobile devices.

If there is one E-mail service that competes with Google that is Yahoo and one search engine that dares to stare at Google well its Yahoo too. Yahoo has recently added a few applications that be used form within one’s mail box. Yahoo was previously offering a number of goodies in My Yahoo like a Calendar, weather forecast etc etc. But this thing is way ahead. this is something new and worth a try.

.io is an application that has been developed by drop.io. This lets users attach files up to 100 MB in size. But before you click the Allow just read the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy which says that your email or files might be stored by the drop.io team! Anyways privacy issues aside it’s a nice utility to have.

Automatic Organizer is an application that scans one’s email inbox and after that organizes, prioritizes and summarizes the emails stored. This helps users prioritize their emails from real people thus making users lives easier. In order to use this service you will have to Agree to the sign in permissions. After that the system will scan your inbox for real emails, coupons, receipts, shipping notices etc and will send you an email giving the details.