When I help small not-for-profits with web sites I often recommend free apps for preparing content, managing files, and communicating online. This CyberKen post covers ten of my favorites: Open Office Notepad++ Coffee Cup Core 7-Zip GIMP IrfanView ColorPic Audacity Skype Open Office is an office suite paralleling Microsoft Office, but offering mathematics, drawing, and [...]
Want a lean, fast, and FREE program to view, sort and tag your photos? Try IrfanView. Here are some of IrfanView’s great features: quick to launch and quick to display photos reads Raw files edits IPTC information offers basic photo editing tools, plus special effects and borders creates .ico (favicon) files handles batch [...]
"Everything You Need to Know to Create and Run Successful Community Discussion Boards." That’s the subtitle of Patrick O’Keefe’s 295 page book for would-be internet forum managers. Before I review O’Keefe’s book, however, let me explain what he means by "online forums." My introduction to online discussion was through the multi-denominational Christian online community, Ecunet. [...]
So, let’s say you have an email address at home, and an email address at the office, and maybe even several others, and you’re tired of having to visit several sites to read and respond to all of your messages. This post will show you how to have all your email forwarded to one location, [...]
Want to catalogue your photos without spending a bundle? Then this CyberKenBlog post is for you. What’s cataloguing? Organizing and labeling photos for safe keeping and easy retrieval. Let’s say you have a couple thousand photos and you have a vague recollection of one that you took a few years ago which showed a certain [...]
This post covers how to synchronize a narration track with slides using Windows Movie Maker. In a video editor it’s tedious to adjust the length of still images so that they change in synch with the narration. But if you make the visual track first, and record the narration as you watch the video track [...]
Friends sometimes compliment a photo that has captured a decisive moment, I suppose because they think that my reaction time was extraordinary. What they may not realize is that reaction time has little to do with capturing just the right moment in photography. What counts—I learned this from reading about Cartier Bresson– is anticipating an [...]
I In doing some Web research today I stumbled upon a new information storing program called Evernote, which enables you to quickly store text highlights, PDF files, picture files, and whole web pages, and sync these stored bits of information in your own account at the Evernote server, which can be accessed on the Internet [...]
Promote Your Website! Once you have created a website, you want people to visit, and keep visiting. The most important quality of popular websites is fresh and useful information. Weed out notices of transpired events. Keep the new content coming! This can be a tedious task over the long haul, which is the reason for [...]
When worried American parents reported to authorities that their five sons had been missing for some time, and that they suspected they were intent upon joining militant jihadists in Pakistan, the American public was alerted to the danger of home-grown terrorism. Investigators discovered that in large part the young men were "radicalized" by Internet communications. [...]
