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...
View ArticleFree 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleFree 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....
View ArticleCreate 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...
View Article2GB 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...
View ArticleHundreds 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...
View ArticleMedia 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...
View ArticleNetwork 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...
View ArticleMind 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...
View ArticleVoice 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...
View ArticleVoice 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...
View ArticleHDR 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...
View ArticleHTML Slideshow Generator
Dave Raggett has authored HTML Slidy, a cross-browser XHTML slideshow creator that runs like Powerpoint. Â Wow, this is really slick and potentially fills a real need for people who for whatever reason...
View Article3D 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...
View ArticleClass 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...
View ArticleDigital 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...
View ArticleBeat 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...
View ArticleFree 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...
View ArticleVoice 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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