Software by tag 'Tools'

12 Adobe AIR Applications for Twitter Lovers

June 15th, 2010 in Tools | 1 Comment

Twitter is known as a very simple way to keep in touch with family and friends by knowing what are they currently up to, particularly in the form of a sentence. The Twitter application has now extended its capacity to the desktop. The application provides a clean interface to keep tabs on the current happening of your social circle once you have created a Twitter account. Published comments will appear immediately within the AIR desktop application which eventually pushes away the need to log-in into the Twitter website.

The Adobe AIR platform provides an opportunity for developers to create web applications that runs on one’s desktop without needing a web browser. Today, Adobe AIR has some pretty cool applications that make one’s web browsing life much easier. Here are 12 cool Adobe AIR applications which can be used for Twitter.

You may also want to check out our previous article about Flickr Air Tools, Firefox Twitter Plugins and Beautiful Twitter Backgrounds.

TweetDeck

TweetDeck can be your very own personal browser to stay updated with the current happenings and keeps you connected with all your contacts across Twitter and many other social networking web sites. You can now stay updated and organized as TweetDeck displays everything to be seen at the same interface.
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Top 10 Free Video Converters for Windows Users

June 8th, 2010 in Tools | 2 Comments

Video converter software programs are built to convert or encode digital video files from one format to another format. They may convert videos from and to MOV, WMV, AVI, and other common file formats. Video converters may also encode videos for iPhone, iPad, PSP, and any other portable media players.

These are 10 video converters that will allow you to convert video from one format to another in just one click of a button. Scroll down and give them a try!

Kigosoft

Kigo Video Converter for Windows is outstanding software which converts various video formats to another with good output quality and high speed of conversion. It supports almost all commonly used video formats. It also provides the functionality of converting video to audio and audio to audio with various supported audio formats. Kigo works perfectly for most well-liked video players like iRiver PMP, Creative Zen, Archos, a range of video mobile phones and other digital video or audio players. Batch conversion is also supported in this player as an added advantage.
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27 Useful Screen Capture Tools

June 2nd, 2010 in Tools | 24 Comments

A screen capture is basically an image taken by your computer to record or capture visible items that are displayed on your monitor. This digital image is usually taken by running software on the computer device. Screen captures are usually used to demonstrate a meticulous problem, a program or even just to show others what you do on your computer.

To produce a screen capture or a screen cap, you will of course need a screen capturing tool. Producing a screen capture is complicated and is easier said than done. However, using the right screen capture tools might help make things easier for you.

Let us take a look at 27 of the best screen capture tools. We shall look at screen capture tools for Windows, Mac and Linux. There are certain screen capture tools that can be utilized by both Windows and Mac. Enjoy!

Snipping Tool

If you are looking for one of the best screen capture tool, which is also free, than the Snipping Tool is your answer. This tool is suited for Windows Vista, Windows7 and the tablet version of Windows XP. The Snipping Tool is already a popular choice among many as it fits the perfect niche of many users. The most important factor about the Snipping Tool is that it is simple and has extremely basic functions such as the editing function. If your screen capture needs are minimal and simple, then the Snipping Tool is your choice. After all, it is free!
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40 Places Where You Can Create Your Websites Online

May 26th, 2010 in Tools | 13 Comments

Website builders are tools that allow internet users to construct particular websites without manual code-editing. They are usually distinguished into two categories which are the online proprietary tools provided by web hosting companies, specifically intended for users to build their personal site; and software which runs on a computer, creating pages offline and which can then publish these pages on any host.

Online website builders usually require their users to sign up with the web hosting company. The range of services varies widely between creating basic personal websites or widgets to making e-commerce websites. These sites are usually either template based or on more flexible platforms which are totally design-free.

Listed below are the 40 places where you may create websites online for free.

Weebly

Weebly is a useful website builder where Internet users can create free website and blog with no technical skills required. Weebly provides an easy drag and drop interface with dozens of professional designs. Users are also able to drag on slideshows, forums, files, games, RSS feed, or any other HTML embeds code. It is also has a free domain hosting. As an added advantage, there are a variety of content elements provided such as adding pictures, videos, audio and music, maps, documents, and multiple columns.
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35 Online Photo Editors To Help You Editing Photo Online

April 27th, 2010 in Tools | 11 Comments

As our generation is changing, tools for image editing and enhancers have improved and has multiplied. Editing photo online has become easier with the help of innovative and creative online photo editors.

Back to few years ago, Adobe Photoshop is the king of photo editor. But there are quite a number of Free Photoshop Alternatives around us, which we can perform the photo editing without paying any single cent for the application!

Now, we even have websites that allow us to edit photo online. One advantage of the online image editor is, it doesn’t consume the memory size of your laptop or desktop, since you edit photos online. The processing part is done by the server and you won’t feel any slow or lag at your machine. And also, you won’t be hassled in downloading these tools anymore and it’s so easy to use.

Here, we share 35 useful Free Online Photo Editing Websites which we think it may be very helpful as one of your photoshop alternatives.

Online Photo Editing Websites

Picnik

This online tool makes your photos look beautiful in just one click. Try it!

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10 Social Media Monitoring Tools to Monitor Your Brand’s Performance And Results

April 19th, 2010 in Tools | 22 Comments

Social media has become much more than a way to stay connected and to have fun: it is a way to market yourself, your business, your products and services.

By establishing a presence in social media, you give yourself virtually unlimited exposure to relevant people without encountering any significant cost issues. While this is good, it can be hard to track how you are performing across the wide spectrum of the Internet.

With powerful tools you can judge the effectiveness of your social media efforts and keep track of what people are saying about you. Here are 10 Social Media Tools to monitor your brand’s performance and results across multiple social media sites.

Twazzup

A dashboard program that monitors Twitter, Twazzup will tell you every time your keywords are mentioned in a tweet. It will also categorize your results by link popularity, contributors, tagging clouds and users. Unique features like avatar mouse-overs that give more details about that user’s relevant tweets make Twazzup a surprisingly powerful and valuable social media monitoring tool.
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20 Great Project Management Tools

February 10th, 2010 in Tools | 68 Comments

Project Management is often defined as the science of organizing, planning and managing the available resources of a particular organization to successfully complete a project, which aims to meet the organization’s goals and objectives. This type of system will be useful in ensuring the timely and effective output of a project. Furthermore, the implementation of such a system will give you greater productivity in every project.

To guide you in the proper implementation of this system, we give you 20 project management tools that you can use either for personal or commercial purposes. Read through the instructions and overall overview of implementing such system for more insight towards this program. You may be surprised at how easier things will become if the tips and techniques given in this post are followed accordingly? Get started!!!

1. Huddle

Huddle.net provides all the collaboration, sharing and project tools you need to get your team, partners and clients working together.
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15 Helpful Web Based Broken Link Checkers

August 17th, 2009 in SEO, Tools | 19 Comments

Broken link, or dead link is a link that point to an address that is unable to reach. If your blog or website has many broken links, then it may give a very bad impression for your readers and visitors. Furthermore, broken links will also affect your SEO ranking. It is because Google PR will directly affected by the quality of your internal and external links.

In my previous post about Wordpress SEO plugins, i had shared about Broken Link Checker, which is a Wordpress plugin that able to check your articles for broken links. However, if you are not Wordpress users, then you may not able to use this plugin.

So, i am going to share 15 helpful web based broken links checkers that able to use by everyone. These online tools able to check broken links without install any software or plugin.

1. W3C Link Checker

This Link Checker looks for issues in links, anchors and referenced objects in a Web page, or recursively on a whole Web site.
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15+ Useful Firefox SEO Tools For Serious Bloggers And Web Designers

July 10th, 2009 in SEO, Tools | 76 Comments

Search Engine Optimization, or SEO is the process of structuring your web page so that search engines can reach, read and index your page in a higher ranking and finally bring more organic traffic to you.

So, who should perform SEO for our websites, the web designers or the bloggers? Obviously, SEO should be done by web designers as well as the bloggers. Why i said so? Web designers should design the page structure so that the page can easily be read and indexed by search engine while the bloggers should make sure the articles contain keywords that can really generate traffic.

As a blogger, you are encouraged to use Wordpress as your blogging platform. Why? Because Wordpress has a lot of awesome plugins for SEO purpose and it is well-structure for SEO purpose.

Today, we are going to look into 15+ Useful Firefox SEO tools and extensions for bloggers. Web designers who run blog may also need these tools.

1. SEO for Firefox

SEO for Firefox is definitely the most powerful Firefox SEO plugin. This plugin pulls useful marketing data points and integrate into your search results. For example, it pulls the PR, delicious save counts, Technorati links, Alexa rank, WhoIs information and etc. You can selectively turn it on and off by using the icon at Firefox status bar.
SEO for Firefox

2. SeoQuake

SeoQuake is a program that integrated in Firefox so that users can view a large number of search engine parameters on the fly. It consists of SeoToolbar, Seobar, and output of requested parameters on Search Engine Result Pages.
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15 Extremely Useful CSS Grid Layout Generator For Web Designers

May 31st, 2009 in CSS, Tools | 59 Comments

There are a lot of online generators which can help designers a lot. Some example of online generators are favicon generators, background generators, button generators, and badge generators. Balkhis had wrote an excellent article about extremely useful online generators for us.

Without these online generators, designers have to waste extra effords to do repeat jobs. Since we had shared about CSS Frameworks last week, i would like to extend the topic by sharing some useful CSS grid layout generator.

  1. Grid Layout Generator by Pagecolumn

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  2. Grid Generator by DesignByGrid

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