Media Services

• CamStudio Records your computer monitor activity. (See: "CamStudio: Get High Quality Screen Recordings" on the "Tech Tuts: Videos" tab.
• Chroma Key Live Realtime green-screen software.
  
• Customize YouTube Embed Players
• DVD43 Overrides DVD Region limitations & more.
  
• DVD Flick DVD Authoring tool.
• DVD Shrink DVD backup solution.
• Handbrake DVD ripping application, allowing you to convert a DVD to a video file.
  
• Time Adjuster Video subtitles tool.
• YouTube Uploader Upload lots of videos to YouTube at once.

• Media Player Classic Highly recommended. Plays almost everything.

• Universal Subtitles Subtitles and captions for video on the Web.

• WinFF Free video converter.

  
  

Tip1: Images for Video; Standard Screen 4:3 ratio, Widescreen 16:9 ratio. 
Tip2: Video for DVD; Render as 720 x 480, 29fs.
Tip3: Video for BlackBoard; Convert to Flash from NTSC DVD AVI; Or render both MP4 and WMV, 4:3 ratio. Compare files size/quality.
Commercial Video Production/Conversion Services In the Tallahassee Area.
Digital + Video How To's -> Click Search
Downloadpedia Library of freeware, shareware and commercial software for Windows, Linux, and Mac.

• Contentparadise
• Daz3d
  
• Poserworks
• Renderosity
• Turbosquid
  

• Audacity Record and edit sounds in Linux, Mac OS X, and other operating systems.
• LyricsPlugin Add-on to view lyrics in WinAmp or Windows Media Player.
• MP3 Player Buttons Code to put a series of buttons on your web pages for any MP3 file.
• Wavosaur Sound editor, mastering, sample looping, sound designing, audio mangling etc.
• Pure Date a.k.a. Pd Graphical programming environment for real-time sound, graphical and video processing. Created by Miller Puckette, the developer of Max/MSP.

TIP: The quality of microphone has greater effect on sound quality than quality of recording device.
Audioholics: Featured Reviews & Articles  Tips & Tricks to connecting your system.

• Adobe Photoshop Express
• Airtight Viewers Customizable image viewers for Photoshop.
• Blender Tools for 3D creation.
• Brusheezy Photoshop brushes and patterns.
• ColorPic Color picker/palettes.
• Cover Browser 250000+ magazine and comic book covers.
• DrawAnywhere Flowcharts, network diagrams, org charts & more.
  
• FaceGen 3D human faces, adjust age, race, gender, apply faces to any polygonal mesh and UV map.
  
• Gapminder A motion graph for displaying statistics.
  
  
• Greenshot Image Editor Nice screen image capture and output tool.
  
• IcoFX Icon editor.
• Iconza Customizable icons for your web site.
• Image Cropper/Resizer Web-base tool.
• Inkscape Vector Graphics Editor.
• Layers: Screen Forensics Screenshots that display as a PS layered file.
• Mayang's Free Textures High-resolution textures.
• Odosketch A flash drawing application.
  
• OpenOffice.org Labels Templates Label templates, including CD and DVDs, Avery & more.
• Percent Calculator Useful a print dialogue utility.
• Phoenix From basic image retouching to complex effects. Also see Picnik.
• Photopeach Arrange photos like a video, with music, captions, effects, & more.
• Pose Maniacs Poses for humaan figure sketching.
• Seadragon Inspire and enable new scenarios for viewing information online.
  
• TinyPic.com Image Hosting, photo sharing & video hosting.
• Vintage Wallpaper
• Windows Icon Save images as icons from Photoshop.
  

TIP: Guide for images in powerpoint: 1024 x 768, (120 dpi variable)  
Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog.
Graphic Artists Guild Handbook Copyright, contracts, pricing, trade practices & more.
Pre-Press Checklist Hosted by allianceprinting.net.
Corbis: Royalty-Free and "Rights Managed" stock images for editorial, commercial applications...

• Best 80 Photoshop Text Effects on the Web
• EditGrid Create and share spreadsheets documents.
• EtherPad Multiple people edit the same document simultaneously.
• Excel Tips Useful, helpful, and timely information for Excel Users.
• FontForge An outline font editor.
• Free Online OCR JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, multipage TIFF) up to 5 MB.
  
• Google Docs Word processor and spreadsheet, share and collaborate online. Also see Adobe Buzzword.
• Google: Language Tools Translate webpages or just text that you type in.
• Issuu Turns your documents into beautiful online publications.
• Mendeley Organize, share, and discover research papers.
• MiKTeX Typesetting system for docs that contain mathematics.
• Notepad++ HTLM editor.
• OpenOffice 3.0.1 Word processor, spreadsheet, presentation & more.
• PDFEdit Edit PDF documents.
• PDFescape PDF editor & .pdf form filler
• Sophie For writing, reading and visualizing rich media documents in an interactive, networked environment.
• TABLEIZER! Tool for creating HTML tables out of spreadsheet data.
• Romanization Translate non-latin based writing system into a roman system.
• YourFont Allows you to turn your handwriting into a font.
• Zoho Write, share, collaborate.

Typeface Font usage, layout, theory & more.

• Blogger Publishing tool from Google for easily sharing your thoughts with the world.
• Collection of PHP Calendars Scripts & more.
• Code Style Answers key questions for Web developers.
• Craigslist Also see upcoming set to monitor 'Event Guide' for Tallahassee, Florida.
• Doodle Schedule meetings and other appointments.
• Florida State University Libraries Search Gadget Customize & click 'get code' at bottom of the page.
• Google: Submit Your Site Add/update your site to the Google index.
• Google Webmaster Central Webmaster resources.
• Google Voice Free online service links all of users' phones — and even transcribes voicemails.
• GRSites.com Web design resources.
• JavaScript Information Visualization Toolkit (JIT) Amazing javaScript.
• Kompozer Web authoring system that has an integrated FTP client.
• Kontactr One-click free contact form service.
• Maltego Mining and gather information in a meaningful way.
• Mebeam Free instant live video chat with up to 16 people.
• Meebo Cross-compatible chat program.
• Mindomo Create, edit mind maps.
• Pageflakes Social networking homepage maker. Also see netvibes and protopage.
• Phonevite Sending reminders and alerts, with your own voice.
• Quarkbase Find information about a website.
• Quimble Polling made easy.
• Rainlendar Customizable desktop calendar.
• Skydeck Online cell phone.
• Skype Make free voice and video calls to anyone else on Skype.
• SlideShare Share and find presentations.
• StumbleUpon Discovers web sites based on your interests.
• Surveymonkey Create and publish custom surveys.
  
• Thinkfree Access to files, share with colleagues and friends anytime, anywhere.
• UserVoice Adds structure to user feedback by offering an easy to use website widget.
• W3C CSS Validation Service Finds errors in Cascading Style Sheets.
• Webpages as Graphs an HTML DOM Visualizer Applet. (must start with http://)
• WinCalendar Customizable Calendars for Windows, Word and Excel...
• Yourminis Widgets for your blog, website, startpage, and desktop.

Mashable Social networking news.

• Wi-Fi-FreeSpot Geared toward free hotspots. See site listing of Florida locations.

Handhelds.org
Mobile Technologies in Libraries How the academic library is using pda's, handhelds and other mobile technologies.

• Answers.com Dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, bios, tech terms, news, sports, weather & more.
• ClassMarker
  
• EndNote Bibliographies Made Easy, versions for Windows and Mac OS.
• Google Scholar Search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles.
• RefWorks Online bibliographic management program.
• Wolfram|Alpha Uses built-in algorithms and growing collection of data to compute answers; sources provided.
• Zotero Helps you gather, organize, and analyze sources (citations, full texts, web pages, images, and other objects), and lets you share the results of your research in a variety of ways.

 
REMEMBER! Cross-reference questionable material with scholarly, peer-reviewed resources.