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Wednesday, 31 October 2007

Super NoteTab available again

Probably the best free Notepad replacement is now available again. Super NoteTab permits you to have multiple windows open simultaneously, includes Clipbook for inserting text snippets (including interactive HTML tags), plus user-defined snippets.
For some time, it has appeared that it is no longer being distributed or supported by its creator, Eric Fookes. However, I am now making it available.
Its many features include:
· Covers all essential features available in Notepad (including LOG).
· Open and edit many documents at once (only limited by system resources).
· Use files as large as memory permits.
· Fully configurable toolbar with flat or standard style buttons.
· Web enabled (can open links and HTML documents in browser).
. While editing HTML files, immediate opening in browser of edited files (without saving).
· Powerful Clipbook tool makes it easy to memorize and insert any kind of text in your document. Includes templates for HTML tags, acronyms, smilies, etc. Can also be used for "shorthand" glossaries or to launch other applications.
· Each document can have different settings such as font, tab widths, word wrap.
· Can search/replace text in all open documents; accepts search tokens.
· Functions to strip HTML tags, sort lines, change case, etc.
· Automatic scrolling for hands-free reading of documents.
· Context-sensitive shortcut menus.
· Options to set margins, page numbering, headers and footers for printing jobs.
· Text statistics (counts number of characters, words, and frequency of each word).
· Drag-and-drop files from File Manager or Explorer.
· Accepts multiple file names, including wildcards, passed as command-line parameters to the program.
· Quickly open files or folders from the "Favorite Files" dialog box or Favorites menu.
· Option to automatically load files from "Favorite Files" list or those opened during a previous session.
· Remembers its size and position on the desktop.
· Can stay on top of other applications.
· Can capture text copied to the Clipboard from any application.
You can download a free version of this very powerful text editor, go to:
http://www.karldallas.com/software/SNPinstall.exe

Wednesday, 17 October 2007

InfraRecorder Free CD/DVD burning software for Windows

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Lockergnome's software pick for this week is a FREE DVD/CD burning solution for Windows, InfraRecorder. The InfraRecorder installation does not include the plug-in needed to encode MP3-files due to patent license restrictions. However, the InfraRecorder website does offer a link to download and install the MP3 plugin (https://sourceforge.net/project/platformdownload.php?group_id=175271)since it is only illegal for them to package it together with their burning solution. So if you are looking for a free and easy to use DVD/CDs burning solution for your Windows PC, give InfraRecorder a try. Leave a comment and let us know if you have any other suggestions for good software to use for burning DVD/CDs.

Thursday, 11 October 2007

Internet Company to Let Consumers Profit From Posted Videos - New York Times

Internet Company to Let Consumers Profit From Posted Videos - New York Times
Blinkx, an Internet video search company based in London, will allow consumers to make money from the videos they show on their own blogs, social network sites or home pages if they agree to embed advertising in the videos.

By combining two Internet trends — social networking and online video — with a moneymaking opportunity, Blinkx hopes to better compete with YouTube, the market-leading video-sharing service owned by Google, said the founder and chief executive of Blinkx, Suranga Chandratillake.

Google said yesterday that it would allow Web sites in its advertising network to use some YouTube content and share advertising revenue. In a similar vein, Revver.com, which shares 50 percent of its ad revenue with people who post videos on its site, includes its ads before and after the videos.

Blinkx, however, has until now concentrated on its role as a video search engine. The company, which was spun off from the British software firm Autonomy in May, uses speech-to-text transcription and visual recognition technology to sift through Internet videos.

On Monday, Blinkx started offering search capabilities in French, German and Spanish. It is indexing content from 200 European sources and sites with more than one million hours of non-English video content, including Eurosport, Euronews, TF1, Elmundo, Le Monde and Spiegel TV.

Under Blinkx’s new program, to be formally introduced in London today, Internet video fans can post film clips to their sites and then submit them to Blinkx to be indexed and categorized.

Each time the video is watched, the Blinkx system will choose a relevant ad from its inventory and place it in one of two places — either in a small transparent window at the bottom of the video screen or in a box outside the top of the frame.

Every time an ad is clicked, the host Web site for the video will receive a portion of the payment for the ad placement. The rate varies, based on the ad, but it is generally a few pennies for each click.

“This way, the people who are powering the video revolution are the ones who get the rewards,” Mr. Chandratillake said.

He said the choice of ad display was up to the host, adding that the ads were no more distracting than the banner ads now common on Internet pages.

Many Web sites — especially social networks like MySpace and Facebook — allow users to borrow and embed video on their personalized pages. Others, usually professional media companies like the BBC, do not.

Mr. Chandratillake cautioned that any income derived by bloggers and others agreeing to take the ads would not be much. “Maybe enough to pay your Internet bill at best,” he said.

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