Apr 5, 2008

Top 5 software utilities

Flash Slideshow Maker

Want to share or post images on your blog, homepage or upload them to your own Website? You could try Flash Slideshow Maker, a Flash album creator to make animated photo slide shows with .swf file as the output format.
Its features include flash templates, transition effects, background music, image scroller banner, decorate photos on MySpace, Yahoo! 360° blog, blogger, embed mode or XML-driven mode. The XML-driven mode is ideal to create animated slide shows on your Website (knowlede of XML or coding knowledge not required) and create backups of images by burning them onto CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW discs. The user-friendly Flash Slideshow Maker Version 4.77(Released Date: March 02, 2008) can be downloaded at: http://www.flash-slideshow-maker.com/setup_flash_slideshow_maker.exe

Bordermaker


BorderMaker is a freeware that enables you to create borders, text and watermarks that can be placed on digital photos.

The utility can be used to process a large numbers of photos, include copyright information, ‘sharpen’ digital photos with an unsharp mask, convert photos to various formats, rotate photographs in the right direction.
For installation, install the Java runtime environment, download BorderMaker, unpack the zipfile in a folder (for example c:\BorderMaker) and execute bordermaker.bat to start BorderMaker.

This latest release of Bordermaker, v.3.0, which has solved some bugs found in release 2, can be downloaded at http://www.bordermaker.nl/index.php?page=download&local=en

Podmailing

This service can help send files or folders of any size by e-mail without clogging your inbox. You can use Podmailing to send and receive home videos, receive the entire high-quality photo collection from others, share large powerpoint presentations, pdfs and others.

Among the new features and improvements in this version of Podmailing are: files can now be retained for 30 days; new BitTorrent/http hybrid download system enables to receive podmails at full speed even if the ISP blocks the BitTorrent protocol; local network maximal upload speed has been increased to 10 MB. There is an improved display of podmail state and new help messages in the mail composer window.

Before downloading and using Podmailing you need to agree to their terms of service and your recipients need to sign up for the Podmail service. The 6 MB Podmailing v.0.9.5, for Windows XP or Vista can be downloaded at:
http://www.podmailing.com/download.html

Webinaria

With this utility, you can create demos or screencasts in Flash format.
You can record desktop screen movements, voice narration and upload them onto the web in the Flash format for free.

You can create Flash (.avi to .flv) recordings of your desktop, record voice commentary and save or edit your recordings to add voice, webcam or text.

Webinaria allows you to modify the capture area from your active window to a customised area, adjust your hardware or recording quality and a video editor (no watermark on videos) to save projects, add text, sound and Web cam effects to selected frames on a timeline and convert an .avi file to .flv.

The 3 MB Webinaria v.2.1 (March 19, 2008) for Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista can be downloaded at: http://www.webinaria.com/Setup.exe

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