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Give Away of the Day is on a tear lately, with one great offering after another. Today, Monday, April 20, they have SoThink’s JavaScript Web Scroller Creator. It creates horizontal or vertical image scrollers, news scroller, ads, events, image slide shows, etc. You’ve seen similar scrollers on eBay (Auctiva’s scrollers are an especially popular way [...]

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Betsey Weber and Matt Pierce of TechSmith (the makers of Camtasia) have done an excellent short comparison of several microphones for screencasting, including a lapel mic, freestanding USB mics, a headset, and even a webcam. Matt reads the same short passage from Alice in Wonderland with each microphone. The entire screencast lasts less than two [...]

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You Tube has introduced a raft of changes in the last few months. Most have led to better looking videos. Today, MakeUseOf.com posted a cheat sheet of URL tricks that will allow you to take advantage of this improved video resolution when when you embed videos on your own site or blog. We’ve mentioned some of [...]

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If you do any photo editing work – whether as a hobbyist photographer or as a web site owner – you know you need Photoshop Elements. If you’ve been waiting to buy – you are in luck. From now until April 23, Adobe is selling Photoshop Elements 7 for $59.99 when you buy direcly from [...]

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When you finish a project – whether it is a 10 second YouTube video or a 300 page book – set it aside. You are too close to judge. The good, the bad, and the parts that could be better will all look different tomorrow. Today, you’ve poured your soul into your work. The mind [...]

Tags: deadlines, perspective

A friend in Boston was buying garden seeds. As the cashier rang them up, she picked up a packet, shook it, and asked suspiciously, “Do these things really work?” The cashier wasn’t asking about the brand or the germination rate – she was asking if you can really grow a plant from a seed. I [...]

Naomi Dunford has a post on IttyBiz today called Talking About The Nice. Naomi exhorts her readers to market a product by emphasizing the good points, rather than obsessing over how to hide the weaknesses. Certainly, that’s a fine idea. But it also made me think of how infrequently we identify our own good points [...]

Tags: confidence, self doubt

April Fool’s Day (April 1 in the USA) is an internet institution. At no other time of the year are the frat boy roots of computer science thrown into such stark relief. Dozens of major web sites roll out practical jokes: some clever, some stupid, precious few worth the time or resources devoted to them. [...]

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