Archive for November, 2009

Use scr.im to get less spam

Leaving your email as plain text in forums, on Twitter or on classified sites makes you an easy spam target: spam robots and email harvesters constantly browse these sites to collect new victim emails.

http://scr.im/

What is it?

CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)

Here are just a few ways you can use this software:

• You can use it to create demonstration videos for any software program
• Or how about creating a set of videos answering your most frequently asked questions?
• You can create video tutorials for school or college class
• You can use it to record a recurring problem with your computer to show technical support
• You can use it to create video-based information products you can sell
• You can even use it to record new tricks and techniques you discover on your favourite software program

http://camstudio.org/

Sometimes an online web application really hits the mark and makes you think “wow”. Pixlr is that application. At initial glance the layout, feel and commands make you think you’re using Photoshop and the speed is second to none. If we’re all heading for a Google type OS where everything is done in the cloud it’s applications like this that will be pushing the ideology forward to show what can be achieved online.

Amazingly it doesn’t end there the editing suite of tools are beautifully complimented with a series of filter effects and tweaking that are provided by pixlr Express and if that’s not enough how about a standalone application to right-click your desktop images and import them directly into pixlr or a Firefox plugin allowing you to quickly grab web images or shots and tweak them.

This online application really does hit the spot and I am keen to explore more.

http://www.pixlr.com/editor/

Shape Collage is an automatic photo collage maker. It can take dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of your photos, and in just seconds, create a photo collage that you can post on your blog or website, email to your friends and family, print it out as a poster, or put in a scrapbook or photobook. The photos are arranged automatically in the collage using a patent pending procedure. Shape Collage is the only photo collage software that intelligently arranges the photos in the collage and is the only software that can create collages in different shapes automatically.

http://www.shapecollage.com/

ColorPic Features

Version 4 is now available, with the following features:

• Easily pick any color from the screen
• Totally 100% Free!
• No popup adverts or spyware, it really is free
• Colors shown in hex and decimal
• Adjust Hue, Saturation, Value, Red, Green and Blue values
• Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black percentages shown
• Easy to use with any other program
• Resizable magnification area
• Overlay a grid for quick colorpicker alignment
• Use arrow keys to nudge mouse pointer
• Save multiple palettes of colors automatically
• WebSafe Colors and names displayed
• Snap to nearest WebSafe color
• Point sample, 3×3 or 5×5 pixel color sampling
• Adjust color with four advanced color mixers
• Edit colorpicker values after selection easily
• Easy to use collapsible sections
• Works with Firefox, Internet Explorer, Photoshop and any other application

http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/

At fontcapture.com you can create a font from your very own handwriting. There’s no software to download and install, all you need is a printer and a scanner. Simply fill in the font template, scan and upload it to the fontcapture website, and download your completed font. The fonts you create can be used on both Windows and Mac computers.

http://www.fontcapture.com/

This program is an easy to use but powerful font manager, which allows getting a quick overview of both installed and non installed fonts. It can install and uninstall fonts, and organize them in categories. Some of its features are:

• Supports TrueType and OpenType fonts.
• Supports Type1 fonts.
• Installation of fonts from a folder (one by one or from a list).
• Installation of fonts temporally (until the program is closed).
• Deletion of installed fonts.
• List of all installed fonts with several display options.
• List of the fonts from a folder with several display options.
• Several options for organizing fonts in categories and managing them.
• It can print a list of all or some of the installed fonts with an example of each font.
• Scratchpad area for testing the look of any font (installed or from a folder).
• Dual English/Spanish version.

http://www.ampsoft.net/

FontStruct is a free font-building tool brought to you by the world’s leading retailer of digital type, FontShop. FontStruct lets you quickly and easily create fonts constructed out of geometrical shapes, which are arranged in a grid pattern, like tiles or bricks. Creation is simple and there is a whole community to share your creations with.

http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/