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Animoto: When Using Amazon Web Services Gets You Funding
via Mashable! by Stan Schroeder on May 15, 2008
Animoto, web app for creating videos out of photos and music has received funding from Amazon. The amount of money invested was not disclosed. The service uses Amazon Web Services (S3 in particular) to scale its application which quickly gained tremendous popularity. For instance, the Facebook version of Animoto is one of the most popular applications on Facebook platform, with over 750,000...
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Free Office Templates [Featured Download]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on May 15, 2008
Windows with Office 2007 or Mac with Office 2008: Spruce up your presentations, spreadsheets, invoices, letterhead and business cards with a set of free office templates from Microsoft. Everyone...
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Moonlight (Silverlight for Linux) is available now
via LXer Linux News by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
In another “not quite Windows Live but still cool” post, Moonlight, an open source implementation of Microsoft Silverlight for Unix systems, is now available in both Silverlight v1.o and 2.0 builds. Silverlight, while it still has a long way to go to become as widely adapted as Adobe’s Flash, is leading the charge for Microsoft to become a more open eco-system for development.
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Save Web Clippings with Notes in Google Reader via Shareaholic
via Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal on May 15, 2008
Like other web clipping tools, Google Reader now lets you save content from regular web pages. Earlier the sharing feature in Google Reader was limited only to sites that syndicated content via RSS feeds. To make this web clipping process a bit simpler in Firefox, Jay has released a new version of Shareaholic that now includes support for Google Reader in addition to Twitter, Digg, FriendFeed and...
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OphCrack 3.0 in the wild
via Security Database Tools Watch by Tools Tracker Team on May 15, 2008
Ophcrack is a Windows password cracker based on rainbow tables. It is a very efficient implementation of rainbow tables done by the inventors of the method. It comes with a GTK+ Graphical User Interface and runs on Windows, Mac OS X (Intel CPU) as well as on Linux. New features with the version 3.0 : Multithreading: Ophcrack's new architecture takes advantage of multi-core CPUs in order to...
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Create Interactive e-Learning Courses with Microsoft LCDS
via Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal on May 14, 2008
For educators: LCDS Author (Learning Content Development System) is a free software from Microsoft that lets you create and publish e-learning courses. You can include software simulations, interactive Flash content (such as Drag and Drop, tile puzzle game, etc.) and the regular true-false / multiple choice style questions in your e-learning content. Once you are done authoring the course, it can...
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Hosted With.US - Free web hosting paid for by obnoxious ads
via Download Squad by Brad Linder on May 14, 2008
Filed under: Internet, Web services, FreewareHosted With.Us is a free web hosting that vies you 100GB of storage and 100GB of monthly bandwidth absolutely free. If that sounds too good to be true, here's the catch: You have to include a Hosted With.Us footer on any web page you create. That wouldn't be so bad, but the footer includes an absolutely obnoxious advertisement. You know, those...
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Google Maps Adds More: Wikipedia Entries and Geo-Coded Photos
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on May 13, 2008
If you go to Google Maps, you’ll notice there is now a “”More” button right next to “Street View”" and “Traffic.” If you click on it after getting a map, you will be given the options to tick “Photos” or “Wikipedia.” Ticking the first option populates teh map with geo-tagged photos provided by Panoramio. Ticking the second gives you geo-coded Wikipedia articles. For...
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Fotosizer: A free batch image resizer
via Download Squad by Simon Kerbel on May 13, 2008
Filed under: Photo, Utilities, Windows, FreewareFotosizer is a free batch image resizer for Windows. The tagline for Fotosizer is "batch image resizing made easy," and we couldn't agree more. In the Fotosizer interface, you have the option to select individual files or entire folder. You can also include sub-folders with a simple click. Once you've selected the images you wish to resize,...
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Make your audio and video files executable without a media player
via Download Squad by Brad Linder on May 13, 2008
Filed under: Audio, Utilities, Video, WindowsWant to send a friend an audio file, but don't know if they've got an audio player that can handle your OGG files? You could point them to the appropriate player and codec combo, or you could just make the file an executable. Audio/Video to Exe is a utility that lets you turn pretty much any audio file into a standalone media player. The player...
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