Soft gadget: June 2005

Feedburner for rss and atom

https://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/home

and free trail for 20 days with
tool feeddemon

voice blog -blogmatrix

www.blogmatrix.com

4 times upload and total quota is 150 mb one day

Power tool spark! can upload and download mp3 files.

Ipodder is only downloading for reciever purpose.

May 1, 2006 no free at least 5/month

Other old files can be downloaded but no more upload

Aduna AutoFocus is searching netdrive

Desktop search free and net drive also free

http://aduna.biz/index.html

Aduna AutoFocus is a visual desktop search application, providing fast and accurate access to all your personal information sources such as your files, mails and favourite websites.With the Cluster Map visualization it features an innovative way of presenting search results, giving you overview of and insight into the available information and providing continuous hints for further exploration.Use it in combination with the free Aduna Metadata Server to transparently blend desktop and enterprise search, resulting in a single point of access to all your relevant information sources.

For me I have tried for other desktop search tools before I like yahoo + ava find so far.
AutoFocus is java based program running index very slow but it is easy to setup and operate to look for network drives your mapping. You may search A: B: C: D: E: F: G:.....

Yahoo : free but only your local hard disks
Coveo: not totally free
Google: visual effect is not acceptable
Msn tool bar: performance not good at my desktop
Ava find: only file name not content

Email search capablity is weak.

Photoshop alternative

http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/

"Acrylic" is the codename for an innovative illustration, painting and graphics tool that provides exciting creative capabilities for designers working in print, web, video, and interactive media.

So far it is free.

Free concept map with mysql database

Compendium

Compendium 1.3.04

http://www.compendiuminstitute.org/download/download.htm

Compendium is an approach with methodological and technological elements

A centerpiece of the approach is the rapid construction and manipulation of granular knowledge elements in a visual hypertext environment.

This approach can be used with existing software tools,
developed a special tool (also called Compendium, formerly Mifflin) that is optimized around the approach.

Free image tools I like

Imageviewer

Irfanview

= acdsee + snagit for making exe bundle slides show and capture window

Almost every image format supported by plugin(for free download) like swf...

Preclick

to view and organize picture contains information by its flimstrip mode.
HR department guys said this tool very intersting for his personel database.

Office2003 has a default to manager pic but is not supporting to display different folder pictures in slides. (And MS default pic viewer)

New Axon 2006 with a lot of templates for idea org

Download pic tool-extreme picture finder

http://www.exisoftware.com/

20 days for eval
built in online database for search specific kinds of images. Ahh, I downloaded many Owls for friends. 5- up to 30 simulaneous connections!!!
Esay and lastest update database supportive.

But no more than 2500 files in trail version.