Posts Tagged ‘Software’

Drawing Charts and Diagrams

Posted in All Posts, Freebies, Software on March 7th, 2009 by Eoin – Be the first to comment

Diagrams are a great way to get over your message and are very effective at representing very complex ideas.

Charts

I just found a fantastic and for the most part free piece of online software that can make the most awesome charts.

Even if you don’t have the slightest bit of design skill inside you .. you will be able to make professional charts with this.

http://lovelycharts.com

Enjoy

Jing Project

Posted in All Posts, Freebies, Software on June 10th, 2008 by Eoin – Be the first to comment

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 :)

Beginners Videos On How To Build A Website Using Free Software

Posted in All Posts, Web Design on June 6th, 2008 by Eoin – Be the first to comment

Have you ever wondered how to build your own website? Here’s an excellent video course that takes you by the hand and walks you through the process step by step. You don’t need to know anything about the web. This course will even show you where to get free web design software and software for uploading your website. There are nearly three hours of video in total and an excellent resource for any beginner building their first web site

Minisite NVU

“Discover The Easy & Free Way To Create A Great Looking Minisite In Thirty Minutes (Or Even Less) – Even – If You’ve Never Created A Web Page Before…”

PLUS – A Special Bonus For You: You Also Get Full Resale Rights To This Product And Website So You Can Sell It Yourself And Keep Every Single Dollar You Make!

Louis Allport will walk you through the process of building a web site from scratch. He shows you where to get free software to build a web site. The videos are done for the beginner – someone who has never ever created a web site before. There are 14 flash videos and they run for a total of 3 hours.

It’s an excellent resource for anyone wanting to learn how to build their first web site. You really will be able to build a web site in 30 mins once you watch these videos.

The resale rights are given away with this product. Once you have got the hang of using the web design software and building your first site then you have a ready made product that you can sell. Just build a mini web site around the videos and sell them yourself!

Click here to see the beginners guide to building a web site.

Eprompter Mail Retrevial

Posted in All Posts, Freebies, Software on June 6th, 2008 by Eoin – Be the first to comment

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.

Version 2.0 build 2 adds supports for Gmail.

Download it free here