Archive for 'freeware'

Create Page Flipping Magazines

create free page flipping magazine in flash

MegaZine 3 is a beautiful looking free and open source digital magazine app that will let you create all kinds of interactive Flash magazines. Click or drag the page to browse, zoom into the images, even create cut outs in your pages. Images, Flash and even video is supported.
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Google Analytics in Excel

Google analytics in excell

Excellent Analytics is an Excel plug-in that enables you to import web traffic data from Google Analytics into an Excel spreadsheet. If you’re not using at least Google Analytics (also free and more than excellent) you are really missing out. This adds a new way to sort and investigate the vast amount of data it offers.

    From the site:
    • Build queries with all dimensions and metrics available in Google Analytics
    • Apply filters to create advanced queries
    • All queries are stored in the spreadsheet

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Google Monitor

monitor your rank in google

This free monitor allows you to track your position in Google for any number of keywords you choose. It records your best and current position. Supports multiple sites and keyword lists.
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WYSIWYG Blog Editors

Most blogs have decent posting interfaces but if you want to write blog posts offline or in something more like a wordprocessor there are quite a few excellent free options.

Blogdesk

free wysiwyg blog software

A freeware offline blog editor with lots of features and support for many blog platforms. Images can be directly inserted and are automatically uploaded. With the ImageWizard you can not only insert images to your posts - it’s possible to edit them as well (crop, resize, rotate, shadow etc)

Links can be easily inserted and edited. If you link to local files (such as MP3 or PDF), BlogDesk will automatically upload them. You can even publish simultaneously to multiple blogs with one click.
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Post2Blog

offline blog editor

Similar to Blogdesk but has a few unique features. This blog editor allows you to use a flickr account to store your photos. It also offers live spell checking as well as the ability to post directly from MS Word.

Windows Live Writer

write blog posts offline

Last but not least is my personal favourite, Live Writer, the free offline blog post editor from Microsoft. Perhaps the slickest of the three, it has quite a few nice features and supports plugins, of which there are many. My favourite is the Snagit screen capture plugin which makes it a breeze to add a screen capture which will then be automatically uploaded to the blog when you publish the post.

A new feature in the latest version is the ability to insert a video from your computer and have it automatically published to YouTube when you publish the post.
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Jpeg Compression software

free jpeg compression software

Speeding up your website’s load time and conserving bandwidth go hand in hand and a key to achieving both is keeping your image sizes down. RIOT is a nice freeware tool that helps you compress your images as much as possible while maintaining as much quality as you can. Side by side previews show before and after comparisons for Jpeg, Gif and PNG files. You can even compress to a specific size you request. Similar to Adobe ImageReady but free!
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Free Webcam Software

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configure-free-webcam-software Yawcam is free webcam software for windows that allows you to start capturing and transmitting live video or images from webcams. You can even configure quite a few settings including quality settings, password protection, motion detection, text and image overlays, image snapshots and even schedule your webcam uptime.

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Free Invoice Software

free invoice software

    From the site:
  • Simple & straightforwards
    It does only one thing, but does it very well.
  • Comfortable
    Everything is placed where you are expecting to find it.
  • Useful
    Manage invoices with different serial numbers (as rectification invoices).
  • Pretty
    Obtain printable pdf versions of the invoices, with a professional look & feel.
  • Flexible
    Save drafts of your invoices and continue editing them later.
  • Productivity - oriented
    Automatically generate invoices on a periodic basis.
  • Anywhere
    Bill from any internet connection enabled place using a secure & restricted access.

As they say, it only does one thing but it does it well.

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