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For those that don’t have screen recorder software here’s a free solution that has just been launched.

http://www.screentoaster.com

It works with all operating systems. You simply log in and start recording what is on your screen.

On first sight the one disadvantage I would say it has is that it does not record sound, however, for a quick slide presentation or a quick demonstration of something this will do the trick.

You can embed the resulting video on your site or blog.

Looks like a handy resource.

I do a bit of Web Design and Internet Marketing. My Internet Marketing mainly consists of getting top positions in the organic search engines for clients.  The one thing where I was a little short on knowledge was in the Social Networking gizmos that come out every other day.

Sure I knew about twitter, stumblupon, friendfeed, facebook etc. Even joined some of these things but could never really figure out how they would help in Internet Marketing .. Duh!

Enter Ed Dale and The Thirty Day Challenge. Because I am around the net a lot and on a lot of mailing lists I of course knew Ed Dale as a prominent marketer and just thought he was “another guru” strutting his stuff online.

I noticed that The Thirty Day Challenge that Ed does every year was free and thought, what the heck, nothing to lose but a bit of time.

OH Boy.. Has Ed opened my eyes to marketing through social networks… and to say that he overdelivers is an understatement.

Right now The Thirty Day Challenge is in pre season.  Ed is going through all the tools that will be used in the course that begins in early August. The whole point of the course is to make $10 at the end through your own internet marketing efforts. Theory being that if you can make $10 then you can make much more online in the future.

Folks, if you don’t know that much about Internet Marketing and especially all the new social networking tools out there… get yourself signed up to this. It’s totally free. The only thing is your time. It really is worth it even just to see how Ed uses social networking tools to build an empire.

You can see some videos below where Ed is showing how to use the Google Reader and RSS feeds. These are just a sample of what he is demonstrating. He has other videos on using friendfeed, twitter, stumbleupon so far in pre season.

You can find out all about the Thirty Day challenge here. Really is worth it to have a look.

Google Reader Settings

Ed Dale Takes you though how to set up preferences, filters and RSS feeds with the google reader.

Using Google Reader

Ed Dale shows you how you can save hours each day by using the Google Reader the proper way.

How To Use Google Reader

Part of a 3 part series by Ed Dale on how to use RSS feeds and google reader.

Google Reader is one of the quickest ways to sift through information on the web.

Rainbow

Originally uploaded by emackintosh

Will I be lucky and find the pot of gold … It’s not happened yet:)

whiteloch

Originally uploaded by emackintosh

Bit off topic but I was out the other night on my bicycle taking a break from the computer and went round the loch. Took my mobile phone out and snapped this. I was wise enough take a few snaps. Came back in and stitched it together to make a panorama. Came out really well I thought.. especially from a mobile phone.

Gosh every now and again one comes across a little GEM of a piece of software. It’s a thing called The Jing Project. Totally free at the moment and it comes with 200 mb of space at screencast.com.

I wasn’t very sure what this software did until I actually download it and tried it out. I thought it was just another screen capture gizzmo that loaded up to your flickr account but after playing around with it for a few minutes I saw that it does 90sec video clips too. Being a web designer this is really handy.. to be able to show clients something that they are having difficulty with. OK, sure, in 90 secs you are not going to show something in a great detail. You would need camtasia for longer videos but for very quick snapshots of something it’s just perfect.

Once you have registered and download the software you need to set up some pe sets. When you install you are already given a screencast account and user name. You need to set up your own flickr account details and if you want to save to file or even ftp the movie/screenshot for storage on your server you will need to set that up with your user details.

OK so now it’s installed lets take an example. I’ll do a little movie about scribe. It’s a beautiful little extension that you can add to Firefox and blog directly from your Firefox browser. (This is another very handy utility that everyone should have by the way).

I simply clicked on the Jing button that sits on the top of the screen. Selected capture and drew out a window on the screen. Pressed the video button and started talking. After the video is complete you get an option to pick a url, which is just a direct link to the file on screencast.com, or you have the option of selecting the embed code. (You can save to a file or ftp to your server as well). I choose the embed code from screencast.com so that I could put it on this blog post.

Here’s the little video that I did. Completed and uploaded automatically to screencast.com in about 3-4 minutes. The embed code is copied into the clipboard and all you need do is paste the code into the blog.

That’s all there is to it. Sure, the video is not very polished as I did it very quickly for the demonstration, however, perfect for showing someone how to do something quickly.

The other thing you can do with Jing is take a screen capture and annotate it. You can then send the screen capture straight to a file, to ftp, or to your flickr account. Here’s something I did and sent to flickr. Then used the embed code from the clipboard to paste in here.

If you have the need to share screenshots and small videos I highly recommend you take a look at Jing. Heck it’s free

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Here’s a fantastic free software program to help you control spam and keep track of all your email accounts. Keeping track of several e-mail accounts can be annoying. Thankfully, ePrompter’s bare-bones yet effective approach helps you solve this hectic problem.

Utilizing an uncluttered interface and stone-simple setup, ePrompter does one thing and does it well. You can set the application to check up to 16 password-protected e-mail accounts, including Hotmail and AOL. Notification consists of a flag in your system tray–color coded for each different e-mail account–and a choice of five screensaver options. When you get a new message, you simply click the icon and start reading. Composing a new e-mail or responding is just as easy.

ePrompter automatically and simultaneously checks and retrieves your e-mail messages from e-mail accounts, such as AOL, Hotmail, Yahoo, POP3, Earthlink, Excite, Juno, GO, Gmail, Email.com, Mail.com, Mindspring, MSN, MyWay, OneBox, Rediffmail, USA.net, and hundreds of other e-mail domains.

ePrompter not only lets you compose, forward, and reply to your retrieved messages, but also gives you the ability to delete unwanted spam or suspicious-looking mail without having to launch your e-mail program or having to go to your Web mail’s site.

ePrompter notification features include a unique rotating tray icon and a choice of five screensavers that let you know at a glance the number of new messages in each account, as well as audio alerts for new messages. ePrompter also includes autodial for automatic message retrieval.

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