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1. Eyespot

   Eyespot provides video editing and sharing software that can be easily embedded in any website. Eyespot allows you to apply special effects, transitions and even audio dubbing to your videos.

   

2. Jumpcut

   Jumpcut is an online video editing and remixing website that lets you edit your videos, create slideshows and post them on any webpage. You can add transitions, titles, effects, and audio dubbing.

   

3. VideoEgg

   VideoEgg is a video editing platform that lets you create a movie, edit it, while adding effects, making slide shows, create mash-ups, etc- all from withen your browser.

   

4. PhotoBucket

   Photobucket lets you edit your videos using Flash and lets you remix your photos, home videos with cool effects, video captions, transitions and other things.

   

5. YouTube Remixer

   YouTube Remixer lets you add effects and graphics, text and audio, overlays and transitions to your YoutTube Video, directly in your browser.

   

6. Movie Masher

   Movie masher allows you to sequence and trim clips, add effects, transitions, titles, and music, using a familiar timeline editor.

   

7. Cellsea

   Cellsea is a free online video editor. Cellsea allows you to add effects, change size, add sound or simply to convert their videos to another format—eg 3G for mobile use, MP4 for iPod or PSP etc.

   

8. JayCut

   JayCut is a flash-based online video editor. To add clips, music, transitions, or effects to the timeline you simply drag and drop them into place.

   

9. One True Media

   One True Media mixes your photos and videos with effects to create something wow-worthy.

   

10. MotionBox

    This service features the ability to link to a very specific point or “segment” within the clip itself.

    

11. Vidavee Graffiti

    Vidavee graffiti adds graphics and text into any video; the service is called a “legal form of artful vandalism” by the creators.

    

12. Stash Space

    Stash space allows you to upload, store and edit your videos online. You can also record videos directly from your camcorder or digital camera.

    

13. Kaltura

    Kaltura’s open source platform enables any site to seamlessly and cost–effectively integrate advanced interactive rich–media functionality, including video searching, uploading, importing, editing, annotating, remixing, and sharing.

    

14. Editor One

    With EditorOne, visitors can edit and publish their own videos on virtually any Website.

    

Free Downloadable Tools

1. Avidemux

   Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs.

   

2. Windows Movie Maker

   Windows Movie Maker is an equipment you need to make digital movies andget footage from your camera to your computer. You can create, edit and add special effects to your home movie and share them with friends and family.

   

3. Jahshaka

   Jahshaka lets you to edit with flexibility and create effects in real time. You can alsopaint and design on moving video.

   

4. VirtualDub

   VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for video editor with lots of features, including a choice of compression codecs, splitting, addition of audio tracks.

   

5. ZS4 Video Editor

   ZS4 Video Editor is video editing and composting software which provides media experts with a facility to combine a variety of media types (currently photos, videos and audio files) into one (or more) output file(s).

   

6. Wax

   The idea for Wax is to be very general purpose and flexible in video compositing and effects, so that you can compose your dream video sequence with ease everytime.

   

7. Vivia

   Vivia is a video editing program for Linux and Windows that offers very user-friendly editing of DV video material.

   

8. AVIEdit

   AVIedit allows you to join and split avi files, extract frames and perform video warping, color restore, noise reduction and so on.

   

9. AVI Trimmer

   AVI Trimmer is a free video editor for fast and lossless AVI editing. This freeware AVI editor is small, smart, easy to use and involves no encoding/decoding processes.

   

10. VideoSpin

    VideoSpin is free video editing software that allows you to create your own movie clips in minutes using your own videos and pictures.

    

11. Zwei-Stein

    Zwei-Stein is a freeware non-linear, non-destructive video compositing and editing system which offers many advanced features

    

12. DVD Knife

    DVD Knife is a simple tool for extracting DVD clips from your DVD’s. This is the simplest and fastest tool in its category which has ability to extract long VOB clips in few seconds.

    

13. SuperDVD Video Editor

    SuperDVD Video Editor is a all-in-one solution for home video editing and authing.

    

14. VideoThang

    VideoThang enables you to mix video clips with images and background music (.mp3), and save the result as MPEG file for sharing via email, web upload or file on your local drive.

    

15. AVITricks Video Editor

    AviTricks is a non-linear, non-destructive AVI video editor with real-time preview. It makes cutting and joining footage easy and includes a wide range of built-in adjustable effects that can be used separately or in combination.

    

16. Mewa Film

    Mewa Film is an innovative editorial, effects and finishing video editing application.

    

Image editing software has become ubiquitous in this digital age. Whether you’re creating a web interface or simply cropping and enhancing your family photos – you’ll need your favorite image editor to do it.

In this article, you’ll find the top image editing applications currently out in the market.

Last week, readers of Six Revisions were asked what they thought was the best image editing software. Over 150 people responded and here, you’ll find the pick of the litter.

5. Pixelmator

Pixelmator is a fast and powerful image editing software for the Mac operating system. With its intuitive and beautiful Graphical User Interface (GUI), support for layers to organize your document, a large assortment of painting tools, and simple-to-use photo correction tools - Pixelmator is an excellent pick for Mac users who don’t quite need the features (and price tag) of Photoshop. 

4. Inkscape

Inkscape is an open source vector graphics editor much like Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw, and Xara X. Its default file format is web standards compliant Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) under W3C’s specifications. Want to learn more about what Inkscape has to offer? Check out this list of articles and presentations about Inkscape.

If you’re interested in finding more open source and free alternatives to Photoshop, you may want to read this list of ten open source and free alternatives.

3. Fireworks

Fireworks is Adobe’s image editing software for the web designers. It excels in several areas over its big brother Photoshop, namely in high-fidelity prototyping of sites and a workspace environment that’s optimized for web designers. It is also a raster and vector hybrid, being able to work with raster-based images and vector-based graphics better and more symbiotically than Photoshop.

Fireworks is a popular tool of choice for many web designers and was once voted as one of the top tools for web designers.

2. GIMP

GIMP - which stands for the GNU Image Manipulation Program - is a feature-packed and powerful open source image editor that can be used in all major operating systems (Linux, Mac, and Windows). It has a customizable interface so that you can easily set the view and behavior of GIMP.

It has a huge set of retouching tools that will allow you to perform advanced image retouching and manipulation. The GIMP outputs your work in many common formats like JPG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, and even PSD (Photoshop’s native file format).

Here are a couple of articles you may wish to take a look at if you’re interested in learning about the GIMP:

• 10 Websites to Help You Master GIMP
• 25 GIMP Video Tutorials to Help Get You Started

1. Photoshop

Not surprisingly, Photoshop is the winner by a landslide, garnering over half of all the total votes. Photoshop is what comes to mind when image editing is involved there’s very little that can be said about it that hasn’t been said already.

With an insurmountable amount of features that help you manipulate and enhance photos as well as create web graphics, all while helping you manage your workflow and image editing environment – Photoshop comes in at numero uno as the best image editing software currently in the market.

Frustrated with how long it takes for your computer to boot up? That could change, say researchers who have made a breakthrough that could take the PC industry closer to truly instant-on capability for computer systems.

Scientists have found a way to add ferroelectric capability to silicon, which pushes the idea of building a completely ferroelectric transistor closer to reality.

"If ferroelectric transistors are ever realized, they can be turned off and back on instantly — no reboot, no 30-second wait, no nothing," says Darrell Schlom, lead researcher on the project and professor of material sciences at Cornell University. "For the user the computer would be ready to be used again immediately when power is applied."

Ferroelectric materials provide low-power, high-efficiency electronic memory and are already used in smart cards for subways and ATMs, among other things. Integrating ferroelectrics with silicon-based circuits like those in modern electronics would enable instant-on capability, and it could also provide higher speed and lower power consumption overall, making the ferroelectric circuits an attractive alternative to flash and other memory technologies. But integrating the two materials in a transistor has eluded researchers for more than half a century.

For the project researchers from three universities — Cornell, Penn State and Northwestern University — took strontium titanate, a normally non-ferroelectric variant of the ferroelectric material used in smart cards. They deposited it on silicon in such a way that the silicon squeezed it into a ferroelectric state.

So far approaches to instant-on computing have been software-driven, with companies such as Microsoft promising to create better operating systems that would cut down boot up time from a few minutes to 30-45 seconds. Phoenix Technologies has also attacked the problem with a super-lightweight operating system called Hyperspace designed for quick and easy access to e-mail, calendar, and other basic functions without having to boot into a fullblown OS like Windows; Hyperspace has recently shown up in some netbooks.

But materials science researchers have been pursuing an alternative track for decades.

In 1995, Bell Lab researchers first realized the benefits of a ferroelectric transistor. They used glue to attach various ferroelectric materials to semiconductors, says Schlom, but the result was not what they had expected because of the intervening layer of glue.

Since then attempts to get truly nonvolatile ferroelectric transitor technology haven’t succeeded. Most have resulted in ferroelectric transistors that have data retention time, also known as operational lifetime for a memory card, of few hours to a few days. That means they could hold data in memory for a few days (or less) without being powered. It’s an improvement over volatile RAM, but significantly short of the storage industry’s ten-year retention requirement for a non-volatile memory device like a flash memory card.

But that’s changed, says Schlom. "In subsequent work, the glue has been replaced by thinner intermediate layers, but ours is the first with no intermediate layer between a ferroelectric and silicon," says Schlom. "Our ferroelectric is made directly on silicon."

Schlom says the research team is still a ways off from its goal of creating a complete ferroelectric transistor. And he won’t take a shot at speculating just when these transistors could become a reality. "We have just gotten rid of all of the intermediate layers," he says. "There could still be trouble with electronic traps at the interface, electrical leakage through the ferroelectric since it is quite thin and manufacturability."

But the latest breakthrough is an important step on the road to a new kind of silicon transistor, says Schlom.

Mozilla Thunderbird is an email program ("email client") distributed by the Mozilla Corporation, commercial arm of the Mozilla Foundation.
"Open-source" means that the source code behind the program is freely available over the web, so that programmers around the world can contribute to the development of Thunderbird. Each new release of Thunderbird is a community effort. and everyone is welcomed to participate in further development.

Open-source also means that Thunderbird is free, in the best sense of the word: no nagging advertising screens, ad-supported features, or registration requests. It’s just free.

My Live Screen cast

Online video broadcasting services like Ustream.tv, Mogulus, Justin.tv or Qik.com have made it possible for anyone to stream live video over the internet for free. Just connect your web cam (or DV camera) to the computer or switch on the video camera of your cell phone and you are all set to broadcast live video on the web.

Now there’s a new live streaming solution in town called Procaster that goes beyond webcam video and lets you broadcast your desktop screen activity live on the Internet. Video gamers may also enjoy using Procaster as it supports game-casting so you can even live stream your video game sessions to anyone in the world for free.

To get started, you need to download Procaster - it’s currently available for Windows though a Mac version is also in the works. Now run the Procaster application and choose whether you to want to stream webcam video or your desktop screen or a video game that you may be currently playing on the computer.

Live screencasting is on

As you hit the record button, a semi-transparent information bar fills the bottom of your computer screen that shows a live preview of your current broadcast. It also has zoom buttons in case you want to limit the broadcast area to only a particular portion of the desktop screen.

That’s all you need to do at your end. People can visit the mogulus site and watch your live broadcast in their browser without having to download anything (see the following screenshot). Or you can embed the mogulus player into your blog and visitors can watch the live screencasts from there itself.

Mogulus is free but if you are looking to broadcast HD quality screecasts, you may want to go for the Pro version.

The previous versions of Camtasia Studio had a live output feature that turned the screen recorder into a virtual video camera so you could directly stream desktop recordings into any hardware device that required a "video source". Live Output was removed from Camtasia Studio 6 so this Procaster utility looks like a good replacement.

My Live Screen cast

The latest security threat to your Windows operating system is a computer worm called Conficker that has already infected over 9 million PCs worldwide with maximum victims in China, Brazil, Russia, and India.

Conficker first disables system services like Windows Automatic Update, Windows Error Reporting, etc. and then connects to a web server from where it downloads additional malware onto the victim’s computer. The worm also attaches itself to certain Windows processes such as svchost.exe, explorer.exe and services.exe.

Prevent Conficker on your Windows machine

To prevent Conficker virus from infecting your Windows computer, you first need to disable the AutoRun feature. This can be done by downloading and installing certain updates manually for Windows XP or Windows 2000. Windows Vista users can skip this step as this is taken care of via automatic updates.

Now click Start, Run and enter gpedit.msc and click OK.

Under Computer Configuration, expand Administrative Templates. Now for Windows XP, click System and for Windows Vista, click Windows Components then Autoplay Policies. In the Settings pane, right-click Turn off Autoplay, and then click Properties.

Click Enabled, and then select All drives in the Turn off Autoplay box to disable Autorun on all drives. Click OK and restart the computer.

If the computer is on and you want to clean the mouse or keyboard without shutting down the system, check out Toddler Trap.

It’s a free utility that will temporarily disable the mouse and all keys of your computer keyboard so you can safely clean the hardware without having to worry about making any accidental clicks. It may also be used to lock the track pad of a laptop prior to cleaning.

While it is possible to lock a computer by hitting the Windows + L keyboard shortcut, the advantage with Toddler Trap is that it doesn’t change your screen so if you are watching a video on YouTube or listening to some music, you can clean the computer parts in parallel.

Once you are done with the cleaning, hit the lone close button to reactivate the mouse and keyboard.

If you ever spill a drink on the keyboard, this utility may save you some "precious" time because you won’t have to wait for the computer to shut down before wiping the wet keys. Thanks Ryan.

1. Zamzar – Your cell phone records video in 3gp format but Windows Media Player cannot play these files. Your client has sent a document in Office 2007 format but you don’t have the software to read it. What you therefore need is Zamzar, an online service that can convert images, videos, audio and documents from one format to another without downloading any software.

2. Spypig – This is an email tracking service that will send you a notification as soon as someone opens your email. SpyPig works with web based email (like Gmail, Yahoo!) as well as desktop email clients like Outlook and Thunderbird.

3. Photoshop.com – This is like a light version of Adobe Photoshop that’s both free and requires no installation. You also get 2GB of storage space for saving those editing photographs online plus there’s a mobile version of Photoshop.com available for Windows Mobile.

4. Sumo Paint - While image editing apps like Photoshop Express or Picnik offer almost everything to edit your photographs online, a limitation with these tools is that you cannot use them to create new images from scratch. That’s where Sumo Paint enters the frame.

5. Skydrive – This is an online storage service from Microsoft where you can store files, photos and documents forever for free. You get 25 GB of storage space and the size limit per file is 50 MB.

6. Wakoopa – You have seen social networks for senior citizens, for women, for pets, for toddlers and so on but Wakoopa is different - it’s a social network for software. The service tracks software and web apps that you frequently use and then recommends other software programs that are popular in your social circle.

7. Screen Toaster - You can record all your on-screen activity with Screen Toaster without downloading any software. When you hit the Stop button, the recorded video clip with auto-upload to the web and the quality is pretty good. See some more online screencasting apps.

8. Posterous – Posterous may look like another Tumblr style micro-blogging platform but it’s actually the best cross-publishing platform on the web. You can use the service to write blog posts, publish photos, uploaded video or even send tweets - all through a simple email message.

9. Truveo – Not exactly a web app but this search engine from AOL lets you find and play videos from all over the web including YouTube, MySpace, Metacafe, Blip.tv and other video sharing sites. Truveo also indexes video clips from news and entertainment websites.

10. Joongel - If you can’t find the information you’re looking for on Google, use Joongel as it will help you search other web properties from one convenient interface. Joongel works with blogs, images, social websites and more.

11. Iterasi – Web pages change frequently and some of your favorite websites may not even exist after few months. Iterasi will help you save an exact copy of web pages in a click so even if the original website goes down, you’ll still have all the stuff to read.

12. RescueTime - This will help you understand how you spend your time on the computer and the Internet. There’s no need for you to enter any data manually as all time tracking is done behind-the-scenes automatically.

13. Ping.fm - This service lets you interact with blogging sites and social networks through SMS, IM clients, desktop apps or the good old-email. Just send a message to ping.fm and your current status will be updated simultaneously across all the different social networks.

14. Meebo – If you have friends using multiple IM clients, you’ll find Meebo pretty useful. This is a web based IM client that lets you connect with friends on Google Talk, Facebook, Yahoo! Messenger and other popular IM clients from a central location without downloading anything.

15. Animoto – Slideshows are boring so Animoto turns your pictures into very interesting videos (or should I say movie trailers). The final video is produced in widescreen format and the quality is extremely impressive.

16. InstaCalc - This is an interesting mix of an calculator and a spreadsheet application much better than your default Windows calculator. Instacalc also supports unit conversion and you can embed the calculations in web pages while maintaining the interactivity.

17. Live Mesh – Mesh is a must-have service for people who work across multiple computers. Just add some folders to Mesh from one computer and access that content from anywhere else. Other than cloud storage, Mesh also offers remote desktop capabilities with copy-paste support. Also see comparison of Mesh with Live Sync.