Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Video Tutorials

the web is full with tips and tricks about everyting in the forms of videos posted on google, youtube or in more dedeicated sites for certain softwares, mulimedia...
here is examples for tutorials you can watch relaxed that will save you hours of reading.

Microsoft video tutorial http://www.microsoft.com/events/AdvSearch.mspx?EventsAndWebcastsControlName=As1%3AAdvSrc&As1%3AAdvSrc%3AAudienceID=0&As1%3AAdvSrc%3AProductID=50663fd1-dbad-4705-b915-e4cf683e70fe&As1%3AAdvSrc%3AEventType=OnDemandWebcast&As1%3AAdvSrc%3ACountryRegionID=en%7CUS%7CUnited+States&StateProvinceID=0&As1%3AAdvSrc%3ATimeframeID=-1&As1%3AAdvSrc%3ASearchFilter=
this will be about periodically updateded videocasts about Microsoft office products.
you can get more if you search for tutorials in Google videos; be more specific and search for video webcasts about computers and softwares.

the following sites contain helpful video material about softwares media publishing...etc
http://www.video-tutes.com/Tute_details_1062.htm
http://www.guidesandtutorials.com/audacity-tutorial.html
http://www.mp3soundstream.com/Audacity_Tutorial_-_Free_Audio_Editing_Software.html
http://www.mp3soundstream.com/Tutorials.html
http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/98/17/index0a.html

you can save them in flv format using programs such as Orbit Downloader; or save them by downloading through another sites that allows flash video downloads such as viloader.net
the saved files can be stored on flash drive to viewed on the go. Use a portable video player such as VLC media player to play them directly from the flash drive with no need for installation in a public computer. A retractable headset will add to the ease for on-the-go use.
the list of downloaded videos saved on the flash drive can be synchronized with the list on home PC-to add comments and keep the list updated for unseen videos. this is best performed by using File Note Organizer. this program allows making lists of files based on the comments and notes; so a project can be build using the video files with the note "unseen", for example.

IE sessions

IE session is useful for saving multiple open webpages URLs so they can be reviewed latter.
you will come across this when you are doing internet research for a product to buy, for sofrware reviews, planning a trip or an event... then you have to close before you finish.
IE sessions will save the open URLs into text file.

IE session: Used to save sessions of IE. This is useful in particular after a long search online if was unfinished. multi-tabs will be saved into txt file. Then using excel function "MID" it's cleaned from the numbers at the beginning of each line before they can be transferred to other applications or saved online for remote access. The cleaning step is better performed using a macro in excel.
The clipboard manager softwae "clipCash" has the ability to do some cleaning but not as diverse as what can be performed in excel.