Tiny bytes of tech
Looking for a free, open-source, and powerful web editor? If so, check out Amaya. You can use it to browse and author web pages plus it supports CSS, MathMl, SVG and XML. It’s got a very clean and easy-to-use interface and is great for simple or advanced web page editing.
Ever get a PDF file that had a bunch of text in it which you wish you could extract and paste into Word or Notepad? Unfortunately, this situation happens more often than you would think. To extract text from a PDF file, you can use a program called A-PDF Text Extractor, which is free.
If you have purchased Windows 7 from the Microsoft store, you are able to download an ISO file, which you can then burn to DVD. Using the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool, you can create a bootable DVD or USB flash drive with Windows 7 on it. Neat! Using this tool, you can install Windows 7 from a USB flash drive easily!
Want to stream live video directly from your iPhone? Now you can! Using the new Ustream iPhone app! The cool thing is that it works over WiFi and 3G! Install it and give it a shot! Seems to work pretty well so far. Of course, we’ll see more live streaming apps soon.
Want to customize the logon screen in Windows 7? You can do it manually via the registry and pull your hair out or you can use Thoosje’s Windows 7 Logon Editor. It’s a free app that lets you change the logon screen in seconds and reverse the settings just as quickly. You can even see a preview before accepting! Nice!
Love a particular scene from Die Hard? Or maybe a funny scene from Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure? If you’re a movie fan or simply love a few scenes from random movies, you can now probably find them on MovieClips, a cool website that has over 12,000 movie clips from a bunch of Hollywood studios. Watch and share!
Ever wish you could grab a clip from a DVD movie onto your PC? Normally, you would have to rip the entire DVD to your drive and then use some cutting/editing program to grab any particular section of the DVD.
Using DVD Knife, you can simply set your start and end points and then click Save. That’s it! It’ll automatically extracting the clip into a VOB file that can later be converted into any format you like. Nice!
DVD Knife via LifeHacker
So 2010 is coming fast and things are in tech are changing just as fast? Have any guesses as to what is going to change dramatically in 2010? According to Digital Media Buzz, Facebook is going to replace email, you’ll not have to use so many logins on different sites, Flash will become more popular, and crowd sourcing will get bigger.
Want to include some charts or graphs on your website easily? Trying to embed an Excel file or use HTML is not very user-friendly. Highcharts is a cool service for adding interactive charts to your web pages using only JavaScript! And for non-commercial websites, it’s free! Also, it’s compatible with all browsers, including the iPhone!
Google announced yesterday the release of a new DNS resolver called Google Public DNS. This is a product in direct competition to OpenDNS. With Google Public DNS, Google aims to bring speed, security and validity to DNS lookups. Try it out and see if you like it better than your ISP!