Free Camtasia

This is old news by now, but Techsmith has made an older version of their Camtasia Studio software available for free. The quality of the video screen captures are great, much better than the tool I previously used.

5 Places to Find Free Photos For Your Blog

Need some images to make your posts more interesting? You need stock photos. A stock photo is a royalty-free image sold or given away for free that can be used in things like flyers, brochures, and of course websites. Have you ever seen the…

What Can You Do to Make the Most of Shared Hosting?

In response to Keep track of your shared hosting performance at the Royal Pingdom blog. Many blogs and small website are hosted on shared servers. Unfortunately, those bargain hosting plans have their share of problems. Most of the problem come from overselling, but that…

BlogBuzz December 8, 2007

How Do You Use Social Bookmarking Sites?

How do you use voting-based social bookmarking sites (like Digg, Reddit, Design Float)? Do you just subscribe to RSS feeds, and see what others like? Do you just vote occasionally? I’ve been wondering about this lately, as well as complaining about the way that…

WordPress Plugin: Accept Submissions For Posts

The TDO Mini Forms WordPress Plugin allows you to create a form on your blog that allows people to write a post on your blog. Submitted entries are saved as drafts for your approval. You will find this plugin useful if you run a…

Digg: It’s About Who You Know

Digg needs some rethinking. If you know 1235 people, then you’ll have no problem getting something to the main page. If you don’t, it’s virtually impossible. I’ve submitted pages to Digg, only to have someone else submit a duplicate a few hours later (that…

Technorati Revamps *Again*

Technorati has had an overhaul again. They’ve had a redesign (for the second time this year) and they’ve totally changed the main page’s content (for the 3rd+ time this year). The new version of the site looks like this:

WSC on Design Float

My post, The Coolest Web Designs on the Planet was second on the DesignFloat main page yesterday. Despite not sending a flood of visitors, you have to admit DesignFloat isn’t totally based-off knowing 7856 people who use the site. That’s what I hate about…

WordPress Theme of the Month: Aspire

This month’s WordPress theme is Aspire. Aspire is a great theme for a site about books, writing, or a fantasy computer game. I’m a big fan of parchmentesque designs, so this one really stood out when I was looking for a theme for this…