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Animoto – Create your own Video Automatically
While looking through the web, I found an interesting little tool to create your own video slideshow at animoto.com, the process is almost completely automated, so you just add the pictures and text, and select the music and Animoto, creates a video timed to the music with some interesting effects, it’s well worth playing with and you can create 30 second videos such as the one above for free. $3 will also buy you one full length one, which runs as long as you want.
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Dropbox – keeping in sync
I have been experimenting with DropBox and have been very impressed so far.
It’s easy to use and works well for me. You can have 2Gb of space free and any file changes are automatically “synced” to other computers with the same sign on.
So what I did was
- Registered for My Dropbox
- Installed the software on both my computers
- Moved some of my files into the Dropbox on my main machine
- Left it a while
- Checked and my Laptop had my files
- Now which ever machine I change my data on, it is copied to the other machine automatically and as a bonus, dropbox makes automatic backups of any changes.
- If your files are over 2Gb in size you can have a paid for account if you want.
So far it’s doing exactly what it says on the tin. Don’t try and use it on a dial up line though. Along with the fact the files are kept in sync between you machines it also keeps backups of documents you are working on so, if you delete a few pages and save and then need them back you can recover them from the web interface on dropbox.
Add to that the ability to drop photos into a public folder and share as a slideshow, and the option to share specific folders with other dropbox users and you have a handy tool for little money.
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Fotofusion : Building on Design
I have been a long term FotoFusion user, it’s a great product for building photo-collages and book layouts. It’s a bit limited on text editing, but for layout and photo presentation, I have not found much to beat it.
Sure it can all be done in Photoshop CS, but it’s generally quicker and easier in FotoFusion. I am a moderator on the Forums and Fotofusion and have assisted in earlier Beta projects. So if you are looking for a great layout tool try Fotofusion. Check out my collage and book galleries to see some examples. If you would like me to use my skills to layout your work ready for printing then, please contact me.
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FTP Sender for Lightroom Released
I am pleased to announce a new version of FTP Sender for Lightroom, this includes a new drag and drop so you can drop files into the file list from explorer as well as sending them from direct from Lightroom, this should help when you have a large number of files to send which exceeds the parameter length supported by Windows.
To use drag and drop simply select the files in Windows Explorer and drop them on to the file list.
See the original release notes for installation and usage with Lightroom.
FTP sender is free, however if you would like to send me a donation just click on the button to send me a donation by Paypal (no account needed)
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