Free Screen Capture with Jing Project

I’ve always been a great fan of using screen captures to document and explain things. I use SnagIt from TechSmith every day. These folks also make the Camtasia software for making screencasts (mini movies of your computer screen.) They have a free beta of software that kind of combines a simplified set of features from both SnagIt and Camtasia. It’s Called Jing. There is a Windows and a Mac version of the free downloadable client. It’s worth a try if you’re looking for a simple and free screen capture utility.

You can save your captures to a file, to a Flikr account, or to a Screencast account.  (Screencast offers a free trial for 60 days.) You don’t need a screencast account to use the utility though.

How could QuickBooks be Quicker?

What if you could scan your invoices into QuickBooks without having to type in all the info from every piece of paper that comes through your office? Would that save you some time? Well, we have a solution for you!

FormCliQ™/Office is the only practical desktop application that allows you to easily capture data from important business documents such as invoices (and many others too), and accomplish a fast and accurate transfer into QuickBooks®. All you have to do is point and click!

Order it here, time saved will pay for it in 30 days!

Want CYBERCity to install it for you? Let us know!

Website Speed Tester

Here’s a handy tool to test the speed and optimization of your website. Try this free website speed test to improve website performance. Enter a URL to calculate page size, composition, and download time. The script calculates the size of individual elements and sums up each type of web page component. Based on these page characteristics the script then offers advice on how to improve page load time. The script incorporates best practices from HCI research and website optimization techniques into its recommendations. The site is hosted by Andrew B. King who wrote the book on site optimization: “Speed Up Your Site: Web Site Optimization” (Out of Print.) He also offers a “Tweak of the Week” and that seems to be up-to-date.

I tested the CYBERCity site and the results showed good results with areas we could improve.

Send a bunch of links at once.

Here’s a handy tool: Linkbun-ch What is LinkBunch? A web tool to bundle a bunch of links. It condenses multiple URLs into one short address. Quite often I have to send a list of links to someone to review, or a list of links I want to send to myself to remember, and research latter when I have a chance. With LinkBunch, you take a list of links and put them into one “bunch”, which becomes just one single link–which looks like a TinyURL or SnipURL link–and save that one link instead of having find a place to store my list. If you use Firefox there is an extention that will open the list of links in your browser - all tabbed up and ready to review.