Friday, February 14, 2003

New Promise Convert Powerpoint Presentations To Flash Alongside Gmail Ppt Viewer

GMail instantly has an inbuilt PPT viewer that lets y'all persuasion Powerpoint attachment every bit a Flash moving painting slideshow inwards the spider web browser itself without requiring Microsoft PowerPoint application.

This slideshow characteristic of GMail volition live on useful since y'all no longer accept to download the amount PPT attachment inwards lodge to persuasion that 16th slide of the presentation.

Here are 2 additional situations where it may help:

1. If y'all accept to persuasion a presentation on to a greater extent than or less figurer that has no re-create of PowerPoint, gmail yourself the PPT file in addition to scout the slides within the spider web browser. [similar to converting PDF to text using GMail]

2. GMail converts every slide of your Powerpoint presentation to a Flash (swf) file - if y'all manually advance the entire PPT slideshow using the arrows, all the slides volition larn available every bit Flash files inwards your browser's temp folder.

Just a quick manner of transforming Powerpoint slides into SWF documents without using whatever desktop conversion software. The swf files may in addition to then live on embedded inwards your spider web log for sharing amongst readers. Nothing non bad since Scribd tin ship away besides convert your PPT to Flash paper.

Do y'all know if GMail Powerpoint viewer tin ship away read PPS (Powerpoint Show) formats.

Related: Reduce the File Size of PowerPoint

Thursday, February 13, 2003

New Promise Respect Alexa Reach Of Whatever Website Using Google Talk

Imagine typing "whois xyz.com" within GTalk to honour out who owns that spider web domain name. Or proverb "alexa abc.com" volition demo yous the Alexa Traffic details of that website correct within your Google chat window.

You tin instantly easily run pop network commands inside Google Talk, Yahoo!, AOL or Windows Live messenger through IMified - only add together imified@imified.com to your buddy listing in addition to commencement using the chat window equally a network ascendance line tool.

Other than whois, commands similar traceroute in addition to ping tin also live on executed from GTalk.

publishing posts on Wordpress or Blogger blogs through messenger clients.

The service has come upward a long vogue since hence in addition to instantly plant seamlessly amongst tumblr, jaiku, twitter in addition to hence on.

You tin fifty-fifty role Imified to add together bookmarks to your del.icio.us line of piece of job organization human relationship from Google Talk. How cool is that.

imified | Add it to your friends listing in addition to the add together the netlookup widget.

Wednesday, February 12, 2003

New Promise Persuasion Or Search Your Spider Web Browser History Inwards A Moving-Picture Exhibit Timeline

Thumbstrips is a wonderful Firefox extension that helps you lot persuasion late visited spider web pages inwards a visual mode - it's a more user friendly together with powerful approach than the native Firefox History persuasion (Ctrl+H).

Thumbstrips, similar an automatic hide capture program, takes screenshots of the websites that you lot are visiting together with besides records other details similar how long you lot stayed on that spider web page together with the expose of times you lot viewed that page inwards your electrical flow session.

Thumbstrips is a wonderful Firefox extension that helps you lot persuasion late visited spider web page New Hope View or Search Your Web Browser History inwards a Picture TimelineDave

Related: How to Capture Web page Screenshots

Tuesday, February 11, 2003

New Promise Social Bookmarking Enters Youtube, Related Videos Forthwith Optional

The YouTube Videos website sports a novel hold off today that looks cleaner together with to a greater extent than usable amongst the re-arranged modules. The site has moved from a 3-column layout to a 2-column amongst the embed department straightaway placed but below the actual video clip.

They accept added ii novel features together with every bit good removed few things:


Other than the cosmetic changes, the really interesting tidings is that YouTube is straightaway giving users an selection to embed video clips on their sites amongst or without the related video thumbnails. This selection is available virtually the Embed box.

For existing videos inwards your blog, you lot tin post away insert the parameter "&rel0" to the Youtube URL to include related video clips or "&rel1" to cover the related videos - the default setting is that related videos volition last shown inwards the video clip.

Another enhancement is that purpose tin post away straightaway percentage YouTube videos on Digg, Delicious, Furl, Reddit together with StumbleUpon straight from the YouTube interface.

YouTube has removed the favorites link that suggested how many YouTube members have marked some video every bit their favorites. The star ratings stay.

Also missing are the links which showed the pinnacle 5 websites who accept embedded that video clip.

Monday, February 10, 2003

New Promise Search Video Clips From Pop Video Sharing Sites

How create you lot discovery videos on the spider web related to around topic? The Youtube website is likely a skillful identify to outset simply if you lot limit the search alone to YouTube, you lot volition immature lady in addition to hence much exciting materials that exists inward other places.

DailyMotion, Metacafe, Vimeo, in addition to other video sharing websites may non hold out every bit big every bit YouTube simply they nevertheless convey a groovy fan next in addition to host tons of video clips that may good hold out of your interest.

We oft ignore searching video content on these "non-YouTube" sites because of lack of fourth dimension - fortunately, this occupation is at 1 time a affair of the by alongside uLinkx - a comprehensive video search engine to aid you lot conveniently search multiple video websites from 1 place.

uLinkx provides RSS search feeds for your video search queries. And you lot tin too scout whatsoever of these videos without leaving the uLinkx website - no to a greater extent than hitting the dorsum or frontward buttons inward your browser.

My favorite characteristic is the Live Video search which is similar a mutual wrapper for all video sharing sites. You execute a alive interrogation on YouTube or sites correct within uLinkx.

Other than video search, uLinkx tin hold out used for bookmarking video clips from multiple sites or organizing them inward video playlists. [image a unmarried playlist that streams videos clips coming from dissimilar sources similar YouTube, Metacafe in addition to Google Video]
Wishlist - to a greater extent than customizable RSS feeds in addition to back upward for BrightCove in addition to Blip.tv. I too faced problems subscribing to the Video search feeds inward Newsgator simply they worked fine within Google Personalized homepage.

Update: uLinkx is no longer available simply you lot tin purpose Bing Videos for video search.

Sunday, February 9, 2003

New Promise Apple Tree Releases Spell For Windows Safari 3.0.1

The half baked world beta of Safari iii bought plenty bad PR for Apple as well as and thence they bring silently released a novel version - Safari 3.0.1.

The novel spell fixes sure enough entire exercise of editing the fonts.plist file inwards guild to encounter the card bars as well as websites similar Yahoo or Amazon correctly.  The other option is to manually re-create the Lucida Grande fonts from your c:\windows\fonts folder to the C:\Program Files\Safari\Safari.resources folder. It has worked for lot of Safari users.

If yous don't encounter the toolbar or condition bar inwards Safari 3, re-create the Defaults.plist from C:\Program Files\Safari\Safari.resources\ to C:\Documents as well as Settings\<user name>\Application Data\Apple Computer\Safari as well as rename it to Preferences.plist - this volition reset everything to manufactory defaults.

This overnight liberate looks to a greater extent than inwards answer to the 0day exploit discovered just two hours after the world release. Should hold off for roughly other spell from Apple.

Download Safari 3.0.1

Saturday, February 8, 2003

New Promise Windows Alive Author - Involve For Ability Bloggers

Windows Live Writer from Microsoft  is likely 1 of the best and most pop spider web log editing software closed to for Windows platform.

Have you lot explored all the wonderful features, tips together with tricks of using Windows Live Writer ? If not, here's a comprehensive Windows Live Writer tutorial cum direct to attention you lot snuff it a ability blogger:

Embed Video Clips from YouTube together with Facebook

There's a really tardily means of embedding video clips within your spider web log posts - just re-create the video embed code from YouTube or Google Video together with glue that within the normal persuasion of Windows Live Writer (or unproblematic drag-n-drop). You don't accept to switch to the HTML persuasion of Windows Live Writer every bit the software is smart plenty to recognize the Flash video code together with renders it just perfect.

Related: How to Embed Anything inwards your Website

Do you lot Paste or Paste Special ?

When you lot glue a block of formatted rich text inwards WLW using the criterion Paste ascendance (Ctrl+V), all the font styles together with hyperlinks look precisely every bit inwards the source. Windows Live Writer gives you lot some other selection called "Paste Special" that's borrowed from Microsoft Office.

Using Paste Special (Ctrl+Shift+V), you lot accept the selection to take all HTML formatting but preserve hyperlinks together with images.  Or you lot tin effort the Thinned HTML selection which preserve the fonts sizes together with text alignments but strips the origin text of all extra formatting similar CSS styles.

Not just categories, Add Tags to Your Wordpress Posts

By default, Windows Live Writer lets you lot add together categories to your spider web log posts that are listed every bit a tree persuasion close the condition bar. In improver to categories, you lot tin every bit good include whatever issue of tags inwards your articles past times using the next syntax [not to live on confused amongst Flickr, del.icio.us or Technorati tags]:

The Ultimate Tag Warrior or Simply Tagging Wordpress plugin volition automatically recognize these tags together with this business won't look inwards your primary blog. You tin every bit good role Windows Live Writer to insert the More tag for Post excerpts <!-- to a greater extent than -->

Use Link Glossary for Quick Access to Favorite Websites together with URLs

Link Glossary is your personal repository of spider web pages or URL that you lot oft quote inwards your spider web log posts. For instance, if you lot are regularly link to the Yahoo! homepage inwards your spider web log post, you lot tin include that address inwards the Link Glossary.

The adjacent fourth dimension you lot desire to add together a link to yahoo.com inwards your post, Link Glossary volition produce that for you lot without you lot having to type the whole URL over an over again. Available from Tools -> Options -> Link Glossary or correct click whatever hyperlink inwards your post together with tell "Add to Link Glossary".

Tumbleblog - Quick Blogging from the Web Browser

Similar to the BlogThis bookmarklets, you lot tin choose spider web images, hyperlinks or whatever component subdivision of a spider web page within Firefox or IE together with rapidly release them to your spider web log using the Blog This characteristic available separately.

Windows Live Writer volition automatically insert the attribution links (source URL) in the spider web log posts. You tin every bit good customize these HTML snippets through Tools -> Options -> Blog This. H5N1 expert representative would live on to include social bookmarking icons, Technorati cosmos, Sphere related posts, etc.


Resize Images using the Image Handles

Most of us may know this fox but however mentioning it hither since it is only the biggest time-saver for bloggers. Sometimes that spider web images don't jibe our spider web log layout together with thus you lot tin easily resize them correct within WLW past times dragging the pointers close the icon corners. Windows Live Writer volition keep a link to your origin icon for readers who similar to persuasion the icon inwards amount size.

To Move Draft Blog Posts from 1 Computer to Another

When you lot are composing blog posts within Windows Live Writer, the software won't salve the draft entries to you lot difficult campaign - they are alone accessible from the Windows Live Writer interface. If you lot similar to movement your unfinished spider web log posts from 1 PC to another, the best selection is to salve them every bit online draft which are accessible from all computers (Goto Save Draft -> Post draft to Weblog)


Turn Off Smart Correction

When you lot type a string of characters that resemble a spider web URL or an e-mail address, Windows Live Writer volition convert that into an http: or mailto: hyperlink. You tin easily contrary this alter past times pressing Ctrl+Z or right-click the hyperlink together with says "remove hyperlink"


Insert Blog Widgets, Google Adsense Referrals together with other Javascript

Switch to the HTML code view (Shift+F11) together with insert whatever scripts or CSS code.


Important Windows Live Writer Shortcuts

  • Ctrl+K - Insert Hyperlinks 
  • Ctrl+L - Insert Images from the desktop or the internet
  • Ctrl+S - Save drafts locally
  • F7 - Run Spell Checker
  • F9 - View or Hide the Sidebar

Additional Reading: More Windows Live Writer Tricks