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Friday, July 10, 2009

Screenjelly - Another screencasting app with a Twitter twist

I surely don't need to sing the praises of screencasting apps yet again, do I? Good. But this is a nice, simple one that allows you either to email or tweet your resulting screencast. From the website:

"Screenjelly records your screen activity with your voice so you can spread it as a video via Twitter or email.

Use it to quickly share cool apps or software tips, report a bug, or just show stuff you like.

To start recording, click on the red button. No need to install or download anything!"



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Thursday, July 09, 2009

Migrate MS Access databases to Zoho Creator for web-based apps

How many of my faithful readers use MS Access? For many reasons it's not as popular as Excel or Word (mostly because it's not intuitive). But for those of you who have Access databases, why not try this plug-in? From the Zoho website:

"Zero Infrastructure Cost - You dont have to buy any software/hardware or install, maintain or upgrade on periodic basis. All you need is a web-browser with connected to Internet. While you use your applications in peace, we take care of the rest - Availability , Security and Back-ups.

Easy and Quick Development - Zoho Creator platform offers highly intuitive drag-and- drop graphical interface to build applications for your business. Zoho Creator is integrated with in-built scripting language -Deluge Script which you can use for writing your business rules. You don't have to be a pro-developer to use Zoho Creator."




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Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Sonic PDF Creator - Makes PDFs from any Windows app

As an alternative to the gigantic Adobe Acrobat, this svelte application can make you a PDF-creating pro for, as Checkers likes to say, little coin. Besides creating PDF documents from any Windows program (via its virtual printer engine), you can manipulate PDF documents in all kinds of useful ways. (I just turned a huge PDF user's manual into a neat little booklet.) From the website:

"Create professional looking and secure PDF documents from hundreds of Windows applications. A simple to use interface with value added features you'll need, like batch conversion, watermarking, PDF merging and splitting & more."



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Logitech Vid - A clean and easy way to do video calls

Yes, there's Skype and Google Talk and Windows Live Messenger, not to mention the ones that you've never heard of (even though I may have posted about them...thanks for paying attention), but this one does video calls much more simply than the others.



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Tuesday, July 07, 2009

SpeedBit Video Accelerator - Speeds downloads for better watching

For a better downloading and watching experience, check out this app. From the website:

"SpeedBit Video Accelerator enables videos to be played from over 150 leading video sites such as YouTube without the frustrating wait. Videos load faster eliminating annoying buffering and freezing. In addition, paying iTunes users receive the fastest possible iTunes downloads speeds. Video Accelerator configures itself automatically and works seamlessly with all major web browsers and with iTunes."


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