Do you or other learning provider stakeholders need to do audio to text transcriptions? Those who do know only too well that even with the help of...

• a digital player;
• a digital word processor; and

Catching what others say is not as easy for starters, and most typing speeds can never catch up with speaking speed. All that...

• stopping-rewinding-replaying of the audio/video files; ...

A big thank you to Chris Harris for bringing this software to my attention. Chris was shown it at a workshop he attended and passed the link on during a "support chat" we had about something completely different.

BB FlashBack Express is probably one of, if not the best screen capture tool I've tried out. Currently it is "Free forever" but, if like me you try it out, the temptation to upgrade to Standard or Professional is huge. They both cost.

BB FlashBack Express allows users to...

• Rec...

I'd almost forgotten about Tuxpi when I was reminded to revisit the tools by one of the many RSS feeds I read.

Tuxpi is one of many useful web-based tools that lets users upload any picture they own and apply a set of effects to it; either because they want to experiment or because they intend to put it to some educational/professional use.

Just...

• upload the photograph,

• choose what it is you want to do to it from the provided list; they currently include...

• 18 Photo Effect...

Oxelon Media Converter is a must have "audio/video file converter software".

It meets all I've been looking for...

• neat,
• clean interface,
• integrated with the Windows Explorer context menu allowing me to convert media files directly in Explorer by right clicking on them.

It's not often I fall in love with an application at first sight but this is an exception.

Things I like...

1. Oxelon Media Converter supports a wide range of audio and video formats allowing conversion from one to the ...

Have you ever wanted to take pictures of a sprouting seedling, or watch an artist painting in slow motion, or document what went on in a teaching environment all day? Well this can be achieved with a webcam and free software.

If you are using a PC...

• download Microsoft's Webcam Timershot. (Doesn't work with Vista)
  Timershot will save all the photos into a folder of your choosing.
  To incorporate the the images into a video drop the pictures into movie maker or PhotoStory 3 and see phot...

The one thing I like about 'New Browsers' is tabs. Taking cue from web browsers, developers have started embracing the “tab culture” and now we often see tabs in various applications.

For me, I would have liked to have seen them in Microsoft Office. It’s frustrating to be not able to open documents in tabs.

Wait no longer! OfficeTab, a free utility, fills this gap.

OfficeTab enables users to open multiple documents within one office window without cramming up your taskbar.

Wit...