Sunday, June 29, 2008

Cocoalicious Is Your Dedicated Del.icio.us Browser

11:00PM Adam Pash | Mac OS X only: Free, open-source application Cocoalicious is a dedicated browser for navigating your bookmarks from social bookmarking site del.icio.us. The app provides a three-pane browsing interface similar to many newsreaders, with tags on the left, bookmark titles on top, and a browser window below displaying each bookmark as you click on it. You can quickly search your bookmarks—including title, description, and tags—through an as-you-type search box, and adding a new bookmark in Cocoalicious will automatically sync up to your del.icio.us account. The download page even has a bookmarklet you can use to send bookmarks directly to Cocoalicious, which supports tag autocompletion and all that good stuff. Cocoalicious is free, Mac OS X only. Cocoalicious [Sci-Fi Hi-fi] More »

iSpring Converts PowerPoint Presentations to Flash Video

7:00AM Adam Pash | Windows only: Freeware PowerPoint plug-in iSpring converts your PowerPoint presentation to an interactive Flash video with the click of a button. Not only is iSpring a great way to make your PowerPoint presentation more portable (not everyone has PowerPoint, after all), but as Digital Inspiration points out, an exported movie even preserves all of your slide transitions, animations, and hyperlinks. iSpring is freeware, Windows only, works with PowerPoint 2000 through 2007. Alternately, you can upload any presentation directly to the SlideBoom web site (which appears to convert and host Flash movies made with iSpring) if you don’t want to host the presentation yourself. iSpring [via Digital Inspiration] More »

Make a Pen Holder Out of Floppy Disks

3:00AM Gina Trapani | Instead of throwing out those old floppy disks, grab a couple of zip ties and turn them into a roomy, DIY pen holder that pays homage to the old school method of data storage. Do-it-yourselfer completegeek posts the straightforward step-by-step. In short, drill a couple of holes into the disks, fasten them together with zip ties, and trim off extra length with scissors. Easy-peasy, with nifty results! Photo by matthew.shelton. Floppy Disk Pen Holder [Instructables via matthew.shelton] More »

How to Use Smart Objects in Photoshop

1:00AM Gina Trapani | Hilarious (in the dark humor way) Photoshop tutorial guy Donnie Hoyle is back with another installment of “You Suck at Photoshop”—this one showing you the ins and outs of Smart Objects. See the previously posted episodes: Touch Up Your Pics in Photoshop, Master Photoshop’s “Select Colour Range”, Paths and Masks, and Distort, Warp, and Layer Effects plus Covering Your Mistakes and Manual and Clone Stamp. More »

Write a Quick and Effective Thank You Note

12:00AM Kevin Purdy | The Simple Dollar blog breaks down the standard thank you note into four simple but vital pieces, offering help for those among us who get stuck as soon as they pick up a pen. Author Trent notes that the pieces are very similar, whether it’s a note for a job interview, a gift, or any other matter, and offers up a few examples meant to establish or reaffirm contacts and generally keep up social graces. Need more examples of good note-writing? Check out this collection of templates. Photo by scottfeldstein. How To Write and Effective Thank You Note for Any Occasion [The Simple Dollar] More »