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SimpleViewer – Free Flash Slideshow Tool

Airtight Interactive’s Felix Turner has developed an excellent free Flash-based slideshow tool that he bills as a customizable image gallery, that is also free. SimpleViewer Download is easy to use...

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Free Database of World City Names

United Nations Code for Trade and Transport Locations maintains a huge list of city names for every country in the world with lots of other meta data like geographic coordinates, names without...

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How to Use script.aculo.us Effect Queues

Rails webdevelopment blog has a great tutorial that explains how to use the new Effect.Queues in the popular script.aculo.us JavaScript library. Effect queues allows you to queue up multiple effects...

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Free Mind Mapping Software

FreeMind is an interesting piece of free mind-mapping software that is open source and cross platform. Mind mapping is a process of recording your thoughts and ideas and representing them as a diagram....

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Create Awesome Header Backgrounds

Veerle Pieters has a fantastic step-by-step tutorial on creating Header Backgrounds in Photoshop. She proves that inspiration can indeed be found in photographs as she creates an awesome header graphic...

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2GB Free Online Backup

Mozy Remote Backup give you 2GB of free online and secure backup. When you sign up for the service, you then download a client that automatically backups folder you specify. There is currently only a...

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Hundreds of Free Virtual Appliances

VMWare has a community site that provides hundreds of Virtual Appliances for use in their free VMWare Server product. What is a virtual appliance? It is a preconfigured operating system that has been...

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Media Converter Online

Here’s a list of nine media converters from Digital Media Minute listed by OS and price, emphasizing recent releases that are either freeware or at least with free trials offered. This list is by no...

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Network Discovery Tool

If you need a network discovery tool for information on your network about IP addresses, hosts (and a whole lot more) but command-line tools intimidate you, take a look at this Zenmap tutorial. It...

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Mind Maps Free

Digital Media Minute has posted about free mind map software before, but I have to say, for elegance and ease of use, Mind Node is unbelievable. I’m actually looking for reasons to use it! I’ve found...

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Voice Typing Software

I’ve been using MacSpeech Dictate for a week now and I have two things to report that I didn’t know when I did my initial review of this voice activated typing software. On about day three I was...

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Voice Recognition Typing

In this short series on voice-activated typing software, I started by going over my initial thoughts on whether or not I needed it, as well as my hesitation because of the price. I also had serious...

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HDR Introduction

We have done posts before on high dynamic range photography-here is an excellent short tutorial on HDR. Included are sections on HDR processing software recommendations as well as image fine-tuning or...

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HTML Slideshow Generator

Dave Raggett has authored HTML Slidy, a cross-browser XHTML slideshow creator that runs like Powerpoint.  Wow, this is really slick and potentially fills a real need for people who for whatever reason...

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3D Character Creator

The open source MakeHuman software lets you model photorealistic humanoid 3-D characters in less than two minutes, or so says the documentation. The GUI looks very friendly and you can export figures...

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Class Design Tipsheet

Over at Dzone, Giorgio Sironi has a very nice list of generic class and interface design questions you should ask yourself before committing a new code artifact, relative to naming, structure, and...

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Digital Sculpting Tool

Digital Media Minute has done posts before on tools for making 3-D art including a slick 3D character creator, but take a look at Sculptris, a really impressive, free digital sculpting tool or 3-D...

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Beat Internet Filtering-The First Thing To Try

Just because Digital Media Minute is a friend of the little guy (who finds it inconvenient to not have Facebook open all day at work), here is the simplest possible workaround to bypass internet...

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Free Online File Converter

Mark this in the very cool utilities category – MediaConverter is a web based tool that will convert files from one format to another. The lists of files it can handle is impressive: MP3 WMV 3GP AMR...

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Voice Activated Typing Software

I have never been a very fast typist (or a fascist type for that matter), in fact I operate a keyboard in a fashion that might be called “touchhunting”. Lately if I’m writing something that runs more...

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