Scribefire is a blogging pluggin for Firefox. You can edit your blog right inside of Firefox meaning I can do it from work instead of working. Scribefire has a lot of great functionality for a Firefox pluggin including an interface for Youtube and Flickr. Cool Huh!
Animoto is a website that creates professional looking slideshows using your pictures and music and you absolutely don’t have to know anything about multimedia. You upload your photo (You can import your photos from Flickr and other photo sites.) and music (If you don’t have any music it will provided.) Click a button and in a few minutes you have a slideshow like this one. I did this in a few seconds it needs to be tweaked but is pretty good for not putting in any effort. You can make much longer videos with the payed service. You can make a one time long program for $3 and all can eat $30 per month.
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Truecrypt is a free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux. I installed and used it on thumbdrive and then a partition of a harddrive. It was easy to setup and use. It worked flawlessly! True would be a excellent solution for those who need to carry confidential information on a laptop.
Main Features:
* Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk.
* Encrypts an entire partition or storage device such as USB flash drive or hard drive.
* Encrypts a partition or drive where Windows is installed (pre-boot authentication).
* Encryption is automatic, real-time (on-the-fly) and transparent.
* Provides two levels of plausible deniability, in case an adversary forces you to reveal the password:
1) Hidden volume (steganography – more information may be found here).
2) No TrueCrypt volume can be identified (volumes cannot be distinguished from random data).