Archive for November 2010

Dailybooth is a cool way to publish photos and to get followers on the web. Just imagine Dailybooth.com as a Facebook strictly focused on photos. This means that you can follow people and, each time they update their photos or receive comments, you will see a list of the updates.

You have three ways to add a photo on the site: by taking one directly from yuor web cam, by choosing one from your hard disk or by uploading one from a mobile device or email.

You have control of the privacy you want to have. For example, you can make your profile private so just your friends will be able to see your photos and updated. On the other hand, you can make your profile public and that will allow others to comment on your photos and give you more feedback.

Page: DAILYBOOTH.COM

Google said some days ago that it has made improvements to better recognize and index pages (make sites appear on the search engine) that use JavaScript to embed SWF (flash) content.

The company in collaborating with Adobe has been improving its ability to index Flash content for the past two years.

Google has also made improvements in its video indexing technology, so it is now better at detecting when a site has a video.

Nevertheless, the technology needs more development to compete with HTML content, which is more used.

FastStone is a free image viewer. With the software FastStone you can edit and convert images, as well as browse between all of them. The program is for free, so you don't have to pay anything for it (its a freeware). You can get FastStone on the site faststone.org.

There is a short description of the software and a direct link to download. There are also marked the formats which the program supports. For example, it supports JPEG, BMP, GIF, and so on.

Avidemux is a free video editor. Once you get to the site avidemux.sourceforge.net you will see a description of the software, which is for free. Summarizing what the site says, Avidemux is a video editor designed to cut, filter and encode task supporting a variety of file types: MPEG, MP4, ASF, among others.

The left side of the screen of avidemux.sourceforge.net shows you the downloads entry to the section where you can get the software. There are versions for Linux, Windows, Mac, and so on.

Visit avidemux.sourceforge.net to get the program.

Shorten Links, Share Content. Snip.ly is an URL shortener and a way to cut text and share it directly on Twitter, Facebook or via email.

How it works?

First you provide a link or URL in the respective space. Then you will see a new window which allows you to select the parts of the article that you want to cut to share. There is the Snip button which will shorten the URL.

Why to shorten an URL? That's because some URLs are too large, so its easier to share a short one. In addition, Snip.ly is a good summarizer to share pieces of content on social networking sites.

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A free Audio Editor. Do you like to edit audio records or music? Audacity could fit in a perfect way your requeriments. This one is a sofware for you to edit audio. It's for free and can run on Windows, Mac and Linux.

Once you get to the URL audacity.sourceforge.net/download/ you will see the respective Audacity versions for each Operating System.

Google Talk is a fast instant messaging software, and it is free. On the website Google.com/talk you can get the instant messaging service called Google Talk, for free. This one represents the response of the most important search engine to the ones created by Microsoft, with its Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo, with its Yahoo messenger, among others.

Gtalk is very fast. You can manage your contacts and send them instant messages, files, and so on. The site also has a plug in to have video chats in your Google Talk software.

Safari is the web browser of the Apple's company, the same the created the iPod and the iPad. Now it's available the newest version of the Safari browser: Safari 5. This is the Apple's response to the most used browsers on the web: Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer.

In the page Apple.com/safari you can get the software for free. It works on Mac and on PC. The site shows you some of the features of the software. Some of these are that each time you get to an article it will display a new view which makes more comfortable to read, and you will have a wall where your favorite sites appear.

Www.glogster.com is a site to create and post posters. Each poster is called Glog and the idea is to add text, music and other decorations to it. You can also attach a video to the post, so it becomes something more complex than a simple poster: it is almost a blog post. Of course, it is more attractive and artistic.

Glogster is perfect to show your personality. A personalized image that contains the music that you like and the messages in which you beleive is an excellent way to describe yourself and show your lifestyle to the world.

Visit the site: Glogster.com

M.facebook.com is Facebook in your mobile phone. It means that the messages of your wall will appear in a way that is easy to be read in the screen of your cellphone. On top of the screen you have your manu bar with the following options: start, profile, friends and messages.

Also, you can choose between the latest messages or the headlines of the walls of your friends or of the people and pages you follow.

Get to the site: M.facebook.com