Archive for October, 2008
« Previous EntriesEdit HTML in Realtime
Monday, October 27th, 2008We try to post about free and low-cost software that we find specifically related to web development and graphic design, etc. Recently, we found a pretty cool little coding tool from squarefree.com. It is a real-time HTML code editor. It is handy if one is trying to learn the HTML basics because they will [...]
Adobe Creative Suite 4 Voice Recognition
Friday, October 24th, 2008Adobe has updated and released its Creative Suite 4 for professional media production (aff). This latest version is Adobe’s largest software release to date and contains six application bundles.
A new feature that I particularly keyed in on is Creative Suite’s ability to recognize human speech contained in a video. That is awesome! This means [...]
PPC Click Fraud Rate Q2 2008
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008There is good news and bad news for PPC advertisers on the issue of click fraud for the second quarter of 2008. Click Forensics has released their click fraud numbers for last quarter and so I will give you the good news first:
Click fraud rates went down last quarter (16.0 percent) compared to the previous [...]
Yahoo! Rolls Out Web Analytics Beta
Friday, October 10th, 2008Five months after acquiring web analytics company Index Tools, Yahoo! has announced that they are launching Web Analytics Beta. That is actually a pretty quick turnaround, I think. There is quite a bit of work involved in platform modification. Maybe the threatened mutiny by Yahoo! shareholders fanned the flames .
Currently, the [...]
Microsoft Opening European Search Centers
Friday, October 3rd, 2008Steve Balmer of Microsoft announced Thursday that they were opening 3 R&D centers in Europe as part of their ongoing efforts to catch up to Google in Search Engine market share. The search center locations would be in Munich, Paris and London.
Microsoft also announced that it was going to be increasing its $600 million/yr European [...]
Faststone Screen Capture is an absolute "can't do without" piece of software. Capture screenshots in a fixed window or with the scrolling window feature. It even has a screen color-picker that will tell you the code for any color that is displayed on your screen. Love it. Oh, its free too! 

