Being a speaker worth listening to is an art, but most presentations aren’t built entirely from scratch. With a clever, Evernote-backed filing system, you can quickly stash and pull up your best jokes, quotes, statistics, themes and images.
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Mac OS X only: Skitch is the best screenshot app for Macs. It’s finally out of a very, very long beta with a 1.0 release, adding some neat sharing/social features for free users and many more goodies for $US14.95 per year.
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Chrome: Awesome Screenshot is a screen capture and annotation tool with text editing, drawing and free image sharing — all accessible from the Google Chrome toolbar.
Android only: Universal memory tool Evernote has finalised the features in their recent 2.0 beta, giving its free application speedier access through offline caching, a dramatically improved look and interface, home screen shortcuts and Google search bar integration.
Windows: Among the screen capture and encoding tools, Microsoft’s name probably doesn’t come up. Too bad, because their Expression Encoder offers a free, high-resolution screen capture tool that works great for how-to recordings, demonstrations, and other desktop video capture needs.
If taking notes isn’t quite your style, you can import conversations, interviews, lectures or any other voice recording into free service VoiceBase, which will transcribe them and make them searchable.
Windows: If you frequently find yourself trying to capture the contents of scrolling windows such as long or wide websites, DuckCapture offers excellent capture abilities for larger-than-screen snapshots.
Windows: Shotty is a lightweight and portable screen capture tool that captures screenshots in Windows Vista and 7 while preserving the transparency of Aero-Glass effects.
