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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Batch Process Images

Shrink O’Matic is an AIR application which will batch resize, scale and name any JPGs, GIFs or PNGs you drop onto it according to your specifications. Nice!
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Excellent Online Paint Software

Sumo Paint is a really top notch and very sophisticated online paint program and image editor. It’s very rich in features and very fast as well. For most everyday tasks this is a real alternative to Photoshop at a price that can’t be beat ($0)
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Internet User Statistics

StatOwl.com is a very rich source of a tremendous amount of data regarding who is using the internet, how, when and why they are using it and all else in between. All reports are configurable and can be drilled down to break the statistics down even further to a great extent. Very useful and current stats for any web designer or web marketer.

The amount of information available is truly vast but it’s the extensive drilldown capabilities that help make this an internet data goldmine. Available statistics include:

• Browsers
• Browser versions
• Plugins
• Operating systems
• Search Engines
• Keyword counts
• Screen Resolutions
• Colour Depth
• Traffic
• Locations
• Visitor source
• …and much more.    
  

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Edit Images in Firefox

This Firefox plugin turns Firefox into a full featured Photoshop like image editor using the excellent pixlr without having to visit the site.
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Photozoom

Here’s a fantastic way to place an image on your site that people can click on to zoom into, drag to pan around and explore and it’s deliciously interactive, and fast too. It excels at allowing you to zoom into an image and reveal details that you can’t possibly see at full resolution.

The images above show the original image on the left and then a highly zoomed in portion on the right (the text is completely legible on the actual site) the red box on the left image was drawn by me to illustrate what I zoomed into. Apart from being very useful, it’s also just a pleasure to use. Click, drag, scroll…all very smooth and intuitive. Try it yourself here

Just to take it to the extreme I zoomed in on some body text in the text box (Which is barely even visible in the original, in the red box on the first image) You can see the results in this image to the left.

This is great for images that need to be seen as a whole for context, but would benefit from interactive zooming and panning, the obvious example would be a map.

The finest level of detail you get will be what you give it, it’s not one of those pieces of software so often seen in movies that can clear up fuzzy photos.

You are probably thinking that this must be very difficult to implement or use on your website. For the technically challenged they have set up a 3 step Embed builder that will generate all the necessary code for you to copy and paste onto your site.
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Translate Your Website For Free

ConveyThis let’s you create a small translate button to put on your website. When your visitors click on it, they can choose a translation engine of their choice and the web page or blog post they are on will be translated into their choice of over 60 languages.

Translation engine choices include Google Translator, BabelFish, MSN Translator, Promt, and more. All for free.

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Why should I use ConveyThis rather than another free translator?

1. Our button combines six of the most popular free website translators on the web.
2. Choose your own style and color, the button is very small and can easily be uploaded to your website or blog.
3. You get access to a statistics page showing what languages your pages are most translated into.
4. Help promote your website to foreign speaking audiences.
5. Increase the awareness of your website among foreign visitors.

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