Just a Few Cool Things

Since I haven't had a chance to update this in a while, I figured that rather than trying to make a whole bunch of little posts, I'd make one post with a bunch of the cool things I've wanted to share lately.
First of all, if you haven't tried Flock lately, I highly recommend it; it's advanced quite a bit since the last version I used, and if you are a social moth like me (not quite a butterfly I'm afraid), then the integration of Facebook, Flickr, De.licio.us, Twitter, e-mail, etc. into your browser will be useful. Also worth checking out is Digsby; I don't use it as much (Windows-only for now), but it's like Adium w/your social sites integrated. Plus it has a Facebook widget to integrate directly onto your profile.
And speaking of Facebook, it's proven to be quite the time-killer; there are several games I've added lately that will probably be a lot cooler once I figure out how to play them :)
On another social front, there's now a mobile version of LinkedIn (m.linkedin.com).
And of course, check out friendfeed.com to try and sort them all together!
But my favorite new 'toys' have got to be the demos I'm checking out from Vara Software. ScreenFlow is brilliant so far. I've been looking for a great screen movie app for the Mac for forever; SnapzPro is okay, and the freeware Jing seems to update daily so it's been a while since I've used it. If anyone has any other recommendations, do let me know, as this is something we'll be using a lot to add tutorials and demos to the site! Their other two products, VideoCue Pro and Wirecast, also look promising. VideoCue Pro is similar to (Windows-only) Visual Communicator from Adobe. It allows you to add a script, switch images, titles, etc., and put together a decent little video blog. It has the ability to work w/green screen footage, but I haven't seen how to designate the background in it yet (a la Ultra). Wirecast is similar, but is meant for live productions.
We'll be putting some additional book and software reviews up on the site soon. We still haven't been able to fix that review glitch, nor re-upload our old data, so hopefully we'll get this resolved soon!

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