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Archive for January, 2007
User Review: CamStudio – free streaming video software
Jan 28th
As a web site operator, I found a major hurdle while creating a site tour was recording screen images. Govind suggested that he try Cam Studio’s freeware CamStudio to create such tours without capturing the video, then learning Flash and processing the videos as Flash movies.
CamStudio is a screen capture program that records all screen images and audio as either .AVI or .SWF files. camstudio.org redirects the download link to Sourceforge. And I downloaded both the executable file and its companion lossless codec. At the time I didn’t know what a lossless codec was but I figured “why not.”
CamStudio arrived More >
Dis A Numbah TEN
Jan 21st
So much for New Year resolutions. Made one to regularly update this column. And promptly broke it. Excuses anyone? Let’s say the column is regular as my water supply. Which flows for approximately 30 minutes every other day here in Secunderabad.
It’s not that there’s nothing to write about. There’s at least one new, interesting free software released weekly. It’s just finding the time to install and assess its capabilities is hard to find. However over the past fortnight I’ve been able to test TEN Notepad, a free Notepad replacement. Songbird, a Mozilla-based desktop Web player and digital jukebox.
This week’s post More >
2007 Hangovers and More
Jan 1st
The trouble with New Year Resolutions is that they are so easy to unconsciously break! No sooner have you made them that they’re broken. I was so determined that my first posting for 2007 would be available before the dawn of the New Year. But then I forgot to finesse and post it. Until now, that is. As I listen to Elvis Complete Singles Collection (an end of year gift to myself). Did you know I haven’t heard some of these songs for nearly two decades!
So definitely no resolutions for 2007. It’s better to BE instead of promising to be More >
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