XO Communications - Tools and Applications

Productivity Applications

NetDrive
For those who work in a shared computing environment, NetDrive lets you map a drive on your workstation and then through the Internet, connect to a folder on a Novell, Windows, or Linux server. You can even map multiple drives to multiples servers. The drive mapping displays in Windows explorer and look and acts like a local drive.

PHP-Nuke
PHP-Nuke is a flexible, easy-to-use, news automated system that lets you create a company Intranet, club Extranet, or an Internet-based portal. The PHP-Nuke Administrator controls the web site, registered users, databases, RSS feeds to automatically distribute content, and can even add additional features such as a calendar or Internet forums to the core modules. No special HTML knowledge is required and everything can be done through your preferred Web browser.

Web Builder
Publish a professional Web site and manage content easily with XO® Web Builder. Get started right away, even if you have no prior experience. Create a website to showcase your products and services or sell your products and services online. With no software to download Web Builder gives you thousands of design options, and walks you through adding content and publishing your web site to the Internet. You can even add PayPal® to your site for commercial transactions.

Ecommerce: Zen Cart/osCommerce
When you’re ready to start selling on the Internet XO can help you with Zen Cart™ and osCommerce applications, which power many of the largest web stores on the Internet. Both Zen Cart and osCommerce support merchant accounts through GoEmerchant, Cardservice International, and PayPal, with many additional gateways available. Both include the latest SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) technology to keep every transaction safe, so you can take customer credit cards online knowing their personal information is secure.

Communications Applications

Blogs: WordPress
Do you want to create a blog that focuses on a particular topic, such as web design, politics, sports, or mobile technology? Or, create a personal online journal to share with family and friends? WordPress is a highly acclaimed application known for its formatting tools, web standards, and superb usability. It is so simple to use that you can focus on your message and let WordPress handle the rest. More

Wiki / MediaWiki
Get your team on the same page and improve productivity with n XO® Wiki. An industry-leading tool, MediaWiki was originally created for the hugely successful Wikipedia project - an online encyclopedia. It was later made available to the general public. Since then it has grown quickly to become one of the most popular Wikis. It is designed to handle a large number of users and pages without imposing too rigid a structure or workflow. More

Photo Sharing: Coppermine/DAlbum
Coppermine is a multi-purpose, fully featured, and integrated web picture gallery script. DAlbum is an easy way to upload and share photos on the Internet. The Coppermine application supports photo, multimedia, and data files and features a user-friendly, picture gallery script written in PHP. It uses an ImageMagick® library with a MySQL® backend. The Coppermine photo gallery can be private (restricted to registered users) or open to anyone who visits your site. More

Podcasting with Loudblog
Loudblog is a sleek and easy-to-use application for publishing media content on the web. Just upload your files via your browser, use an FTP client or get files directly from the web, making sure that you have permission to publish them on your site. You can also reference music files on other websites. Once your podcast is complete, Loudblog provides an RSS-feed to automatically “deliver” it to subscribers. More

Note: there is no installation wizard available for LoudBlog.

PHP iCalendar
XO provides PHP icalendar functionality so you can share scheduling information on your web site with your site's visitors. PHP iCalendar is a centralized tool that allows you to automatically upload iCal-compatible information directly to your web site without requiring knowledge of HTML. PHP iCalendar is compatible with calendars saved in iCal format and supports 21 different languages.

Bulletin Board
With phpBB, you can build a fully scalable and highly customizable Bulletin Board for your web site with just a few mouse clicks. The powerful PHP server language and MySQL combine with a user-friendly interface, a simple and straightforward administration panel, and helpful FAQs make creating your new Bulletin Board as fast and easy as possible. You’ll be able to discuss topics with friends and colleagues, exchange messages, play games, read news, publish articles and more.