Recap of last month’s best posts on Online Tech Tips
Posted on February 1, 2008 at 10:05 am
I’ve been trying to manage writing two posts a day for the last several months and have thankfully been successful so far. But with 60 posts a month, it’s not hard to miss a few good ones here and there. So here’s a look at a few good posts from last month that you might want to check out:
- How to merge multiple pictures or images to create the perfect group shot
Wouldn’t it be cool, though, if you could take five group photo shots and then merge the pictures together to only take the best parts of each photograph? Well that’s exactly what Microsoft Research is trying to do with a new free piece of software called Group Shot. - How to run software that is incompatible with Windows Vista
Unfortunately, as many Windows Vista users know, there are still many applications out there that are simple incompatible with the Vista operating system! - How to download and install all Wikipedia articles to your iPod
Mark from over at MakeUseOf wrote an excellent article on how to install the ENTIRE Wikipedia library of articles onto your iPod! Before reading this, I didn’t even know you could download the entire Wikiepdia site locally, but apparently you can! - Capture a video of your PC screen and share it online using uTipu
uTipu is a cool website that allows you to record anything on your computer screen and share it with online for free. - PageFlakes – Personalized AJAX start page with lots of customization
When you open your browser window, what’s the first page that shows up? Do you have a customized or personalized start page or do you simply load up Google or Yahoo? - SmashMash – Edit videos online, create slideshows, add video effects, create animations
SmashMash is a new online web application that can edit videos online, edit audio online, add motion and effects to pictures, and create slideshows. - Review of Live Documents – Office 2007 online replacement
I still use Microsoft Office to create, edit and modify documents, spreadsheets, and powerpoint presentations, but maybe not for too much longer! Why? There’s a new online office suite coming out soon called Live Documents and the only word I have for it is kickass! - Free Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Software by WEB CEO
In today’s article I am going to discuss a SEO software package that has become invaluable to me in recent months. It is an all-in-one SEM/SEO tool named WEBCEO and it is quite frankly the best SEO optimization tool I have ever used. - How to create your own Windows file sharing server to share large files
Have you ever wanted to share large music, video, or data files with friends, but didn’t know how to setup a FTP server? - Bookmark web pages to your email using toread
toread is a free bookmarking service which allows you to “bookmark” a web page to your email account rather than into a list in your browser! Now that’s cool! - Extract text from PDF, DOC, HTML, CHM, and RTF files
Have a document in PDF format that you would like to convert to a text document? Or maybe an HTML or CHM (Windows Help File) that you need to convert into simply plain text? - Social Shopping Networks – Forget malls, shop with friends online
Don’t know what to buy for your loved ones this coming Valentine’s? Are you having a hard time thinking of what to give to your friends’ kids on their upcoming birthdays? Worry no more, because a new kind of social network has evolved for your shopping comfort. - How to delete undeletable files in Windows (Part 1)
Are you sick of seeing messages like these when you try and delete a file: ‘Cannot delete file: Access Denied’ or ‘There has been a sharing violation.’… - Portable Scribus – a powerful, free (portable) desktop publishing tool
You really do have to love open-source. Open-source software is free and can often replace costly commercial apps, which is the case with Scribus, an open-source desktop publishing and page layout application that puts professional-looking documents within the reach of non-professionals like me, and maybe you. - Amazing Ways To Format Cells in Excel 2007
If you are used to using older versions of Excel, the conditional formatting options in Excel 2007 will amaze you.
Check them out and hope you enjoy some the of previously written posts! Thanks!
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Good job with the articles Aseem.
Keep the good posts coming….you’ve had a great start for the year.
Good Luck !!!