Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Anti-keylogger, Flash movie creator, remote access and more...

More goodies from around the traps:
A great anti-keylogger for free. Spyshelter is an anti-keylogger, and also warns if a remote system is attempting to perform a screen capture or view your clipboard. It runs under all recent version of Windows.
Best free Genealogy / Family Tree software. Genealogy is one of the most searched terms on the internet these days. Here's a list of goodies to get you started.
Remote log-in. Sometimes you need to access your own computer from another location, or it would be helpful to work one-on-one with a person at the other end. LogMeIn is a free program to help.
Copy plain text. Have you ever copied something to Thunderbird or Office and been annoyed that the text formatting (bold, font size, etc) came with it? Don't you wish you could just copy the text itself, without having to copy it, paste it into notepad, then copy it again? This extension gives you an option to copy text without the formatting. You can even set it to trim extra space in and around the copied text!
Trouble-shoot faulty video playback. You download a video clip from the internet, fire up Windows Media Player, and....nothing. Or maybe you get the video without any audio. Or perhaps the sound is perfectly OK, but the pictures are just the default Windows swirly pattern. Or maybe you've bought a new PC, copied all your video files to it, and then discovered that they won't play on the new machine. Here's a tool to help.
Making Flash movies simplified. Liveswif 2 lite is a free Flash maker which lets you create flash movies, flash buttons or banners quickly and easily. Alternatively, try Powerbullet Presenter. Powerbullet Presenter is small, simple to use and free. Use it to create presentations in the Flash format. You don't need any experience to create slick, animated presentations, and it has loads of functionality to get you up and running quickly. Simply type, click and drag.
Online collaboration on the cheap: 20 free and low-cost tools