Friday 30 May 2008

Dipity - Timeline for all your feeds

Dipity is the easiest way to make and share interactive timelines about the people and things you care about.

Saturday 17 May 2008

IT Salary Surveys: www.ITWeb.co.za

Apparently the average salary for South African IT staff is between R25,000 and R31,000 and support and helpdesk staff took home an average R11,800 a month and web designers slightly more at around R12,000...

Tuesday 06 May 2008

uTIPu Makes Video Demos on the Fly

Record and share (email and/or web) your screen in a video.

Get started in just 3 easy steps:

  1. Download and install the software
  2. Record your videos
  3. Share your videos (web and/or email)

logo-noface  www.utipu.com

Monday 05 May 2008

Sun CEO speaks out on corporate blogging

Jonathan Chwartz (CEO Sun Microsystems) speaks about blogging as a "vehicle to communicate directly and authentically to the marketplace".

http://news.zdnet.com/2422-13568_22-198923.html

Chwartz says "the word 'blogging' will be anachronistic" At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz shares his views on the future of business blogging. The chief executive is credited for pioneering the corporate blog as a tool to reach customers, employees, and others, but he predicts the novelty of his methods will soon wear off.

Sunday 04 May 2008

Freeware - Digsby = IM + Email + Social Networks

01-digsby I recently replaced my favourite instant messaging client (Pidgin) with Digsby which now consolidates instant messaging, email, and social networking into one very slick chat application.

www.digsby.com

Freeware - Photoscape: View, Manage & Edit Photos

Photoscape is FREE photo editing software that enables you to fix and enhance photos.

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www.photoscape.org

  • Viewer: View your folders photos, slideshow
  • Editor: resizing, brightness and color adjustment, white balance, backlight correction, frames, balloons, mosaic mode, adding text, drawing pictures, cropping, filters, red eye removal, blooming
  • Batch editor: Batch editing multiple photos
  • Page: Make one photo by merging multiple photos at the page frame
  • Combine: Make one photo by attaching multiple photos vertically or horizontally
  • Animated GIF: Make one animation photo with multiple photos
  • Print: Print portrait shot, carte de visite, passport photo
  • Screen Capture: Capture your screenshot and save it
  • Color Picker: Zoom in screen on images, search and pick the color
  • Rename: Change photo file names in batch mode
  • Raw Converter: Convert RAW to JPG