I was on Carbonite.com and clicked their McAfee Secure Badge to see what McAfee was reporting on them and got the following FAIL. Inspires confidence in McAfee’s ability to secure anything, especially online.
I posted my first PodCast for The PodCast at Delphi.org this morning. So far the feedback has been really positive. I am really excited about doing a podcast on Delphi, I just hope I get faster at making the episodes as I go. This episode is 18 and a half minutes long, and it took me over 10 hours to produce.
Be sure to Digg my podcast.
Well more of an evil Genius, but a musical none the less. Check out Dr. Horrible from the mind of Joss Wheaton. It is free online for a limited time, be sure to check it out.
With all the talk about the next version of Delphi fully supporting Unicode, I was pretty excited to find:
Well, maybe the best use for those of us who typically only need to use standard ASCII characters. . . .
When it comes to screen capturing, Techsmith’s products Camtasia and SnagIt are probably the best, but there are good free alternatives. It would appear if you know where to go (links at the bottom), you can get a legitimate free license for Camtasia and SnagIt (earlier versions at least, that are eligible for a discounted upgrade.)
Camtasia is a screen video capture tool. It produces a video (animated GIF, SWF, AVI, etc.) from a series of screen shots over a period of time, usually with audio. It has a lot of nice extras and a good editing system. DebugMode’s Wink is a great tool for free. While Camtasia is more like a video editor, Wink is more like a slide show editor. It will take a screen shot at a keypress, mouse click or automatically at specified intervals. Then the editor is based on individual screen frames instead of a sequence of video. While it some regards it competes with Camtasia, it serves a different purpose as well. Worth checking out, especially at the price.
SnagIt is a single frame screen capture tool. Typically I just use [Print-Screen] or [Alt] + [Print-Screen] to capture the whole screen, or just the current window respectively. Then I paste it into IrfanView (a great quick image viewer, editor and converter) to make any changes necessary. Honestly though, SnagIt offers a number of additional features that are worthwhile. However I have found that MWSnap has most of the features I need available free. I haven’t done a side by side comparison of the tool, but I imagine MWSnap would hold up quite nicely.
With free versions of SnagIt and Camtasia though, that provides some stiff competition to the other free versions. Granted these are previous versions, which is risky on Techsmith’s part, since the biggest competitor to most products is its previous version - why pay the upgrade fee when the old version still works? If you want an older version of many freeware / shareware titles, check out OldVersion.com.
Camtasia Studio 5 (the version I have) is $300 and has a lot of nice feature upgrades from version 3. You can still download version 3 and then get your free license straight from Techsmith. It appears it was a promotion offered to PC Plus Magazine readers in the UK, but the form lets you specify any country and I don’t see anywhere it says “only” a limited group. Not sure how long the promotion is good for either. [Source]
Check out Digital Inspiration Technology guide for the details on downloading and getting a free license for SnagIt 7.2.5 (current version is 8). It appears to be a free promotion for UK .NET Magazine.
My source code, some resources, additional information and links from my CodeRage presentation on Advanced Downloads will be available here shortly. Check back.
My name is Jim McKeeth and welcome to my site about software development. This is where I plan to share all my exciting source code, program, and articles related to software development.