Blog Tools & RSS Feed Readers

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Microsoft Windows Live Writer 2008 Final
Compose compelling blog posts using Windows Live Spaces


Live Writer is a desktop application that makes it easier to compose compelling blog posts using Windows Live Spaces or your current blog service.

Blogging has turned the web into a two-way communications medium. Our goal in creating Writer is to help make blogging more powerful, intuitive, and fun for everyone.

Writer has lots of features which we hope make for a better blogging experience. Some of the ones we are most excited about include:
WYSIWYG Blog Authoring
Photo Publishing - Writer makes inserting, customizing, and uploading photos to your blog a snap.
Map Publishing - insert a Windows Live Local map directly into a post.
Writer SDK - extend the capabilities of Writer to publish additional content types.
Compatibility - works with other weblogs including Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, WordPress (and many others)
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Blog

Blog is an automatic web log program which allows you to update your site easily without the hassles of HTML editing while maintaining a uniform, template driven design of your pages. You simply set Blog up with the necessary information for logging into your site via FTP, define a template to specify the look for your page and then type in your entries in the main Blog window and click Publish and Blog does the rest. If you are experienced with HTML, you can completely customize the templates to match your site design.
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w.bloggar

w.bloggar provides a Windows desktop interface to post your blogs to various online blog services, including Blogger, b2, MovableType, Nucleus, BigBlogTool, BlogWorks XML, Blogalia, Drupal blogs and custom server locations. You can use a word processor like interface to create your blog entries, add pictures, links and more and even preview the post before uploading it. w.bloggar also supports import of text files, color coded html tags, spell checking, posting to multiple blogs and much more.
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Planarchy

Planarchy is an application that lets you easily publish news, reports, statistics and so on to your website with ease. You do not need any knowledge of HTML (although it is an advantage) or require the use of an external FTP client. This is because Planarchy takes care of it for you; hit New Entry, type in your new entry, then click on Publish and your brand-new entry will be uploaded to your site.
The entry/entries are generated locally on your HD before they are uploaded, so you can instruct Planarchy to place them into a specified directory - this is useful if you develop your website on your PC first before uploading it as it removes the need to re-download the uploaded entries from your FTP server so you can have an upto-the-minute local mirror.
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BlogBridge
RSS feed reader


BlogBridge is a Java based RSS reader than finds blog items based on keyword input and category topic. You can also subscribe to any RSS feed by adding the URL to the list.

The program offers an attractive and easy-to-use interface with personal star ratings, weekly status display and collapsible article headlines. It includes some unique features like the option to generate a SmartFeed based on specific keywords, which can be aggregated from your own feeds or various online resources.

BlogBridge supports feed specific display settings and themes, feed collections (guides), OPML import, as well as custom feed tags, which can optionally be shared with others.

The program also integrates with an optional online service that lets you access your feeds from any browser over the Internet.
Win 2000/XP/2003/Vista

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GreatNews
RSS feed reader


GreatNews is a RSS feed reader that optimized for fast and efficient reading of your favorite web feeds. It offers different view styles, including a newspaper view, that allows you to read a group of feeds organized arranged in newspaper-style page layout without having to click through individual feed items.

The program supports custom labels, email and blog integration as well as custom keyword alerts (news watches) that let you automatically find articles of interest and have them available in a special category. Other features include import/export feeds from/to OPML and XML files, automatic cleanup of old items, browser integration with popup blocking and more.

GreatNews is small, fast and very efficient - it does not require an installation, just unzip and run.
Win NT/2000/XP

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b2evolution
Powerful blog tool for your web site


b2evolution is a powerful blog tool you can install on your own website.

It includes all the features of traditional blog tools, and extends them with evolved features such as file & photo management, advanced skinning, multiple blogs support as well as detailed user permissions...
Not to mention third party plug-ins!

Plus, it's free, open-source (GPL), it runs on virtually any webserver featuring PHP+MySQL and it's available in many languages


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tkblog

Standalone, cross-platform blogging application, no third party hosting required. running your own server is not required. php, perl, mysql is not required.
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Juice
Podcast receiver


If you want to listen to podcasts, this program is for you. Juice is the premier podcast receiver, allowing users to capture and listen to podcasts anytime, anywhere.

Why should I squeeze Juice?
Juice is free
Juice supports more than 15 languages
Juice supports multiple media players
Juice is free software licensed under the GPL (open source)
Juice's primary purpose is to manage podcasts
Juice has a built-in directory with thousands of listed podcast feeds
Juice has auto cleanup, authentication, centralized feed management and much more
Juice is accessible for blind and visually impaired users (windows version only)
Juice is fresh!
Win 2000/XP
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Blog Blaster

Blog Blaster is an automated tool to submit your blogs to over 12 blog search engines with just one click.
Pinging your blogs to the search engines is the fastest way to get thesearch engine robots to visit your blog and gain increased traffic in a short amount of time.
Blog Blaster uses the XML-RPC interface to ping your blogs to the blog search engines. This is the preferred method to submit blogs to the directories. "Ping" is the term used to submit a blog to a blog search engine. When you ping a blog, you are telling the search engine that you have updated your content and that your listing should be refreshed.
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blogBuddy

BlogBuddy is a small tool that will post new blog entries to our Blogger account or other weblogs which implement the Blogger API.
You can apply basic formatting, add links and even have the program automatically spell check the post. Type your post, click a button and you`re done. Very easy to use. Supports proxy connections and can run in the system tray.
It requires a free account at blogger.com or other weblog that uses the Blogger API.
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Thingamablog

Thingamablog is a cross-platform, standalone blogging application that makes authoring and publishing your weblogs almost effortless. Unlike most blogging solutions, Thingamablog does NOT require a third-party blogging host, a cgi/php enabled web host, or a MySQL database. In fact, all you need to setup, and manage, a blog with Thingamablog is FTP, SFTP, or network access to a web server.
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Bleezer blogging software
Cross-platform blogging software

Bleezer is a powerful blogging client. And it's free.

Why use Bleezer to blog?
Blog from anywhere. Work on Windows, OS X, and Linux.
Work with any blogging service. As many as you want, even Blogger.
WYSIWYG editing. Edit your posts as they will actually appear.
Image upload. Images will automatically be uploaded to your server.
Category support. Support for multiple categories.
Add tags for any tag service. Technorati, del.icio.us, or anything else.
Create custom markup. Define your own key combinations for custom HTML markup.
Spell check. Ensure everything is speeled spelled ok.
Advertise. Ping Technorati, weblogs.com, ping-o-matic, Pingoat, or any other service.
Work online or offline. Compose posts offline and post them when you want to.
Did we mention Bleezer is free.


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Screen Recording

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CamStudio
Free Streaming
Video Software
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CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)

Here are just a few ways you can use this software:
You can use it to create demonstration videos for any software program
Or how about creating a set of videos answering your most frequently asked questions?
You can create video tutorials for school or college class
You can use it to record a recurring problem with your computer so you can show technical support people
You can use it to create video-based information products you can sell
You can even use it to record new tricks and techniques you discover on your favourite software program, before you forget them
Win 98/NT/2000/XP


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AutoScreenRecorder 2
Capture screen activity
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AutoScreenRecorder 2.0 Free is a completely free screen recorder to save your screen activities into video files. It is free for unlimited personal and business use. It has no expiration date and can be distributed with free of charge.
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AviScreen Classic
Capture screen activity

AviScreen is an application for capturing screen activity in the form of AVI video or bitmap images. Beside the usual options defining the capture area, AviScreen has a unique feature called “follow the cursor”. Using this mode you can produce a video or image of relatively small dimensions while covering all mouse activity over the whole screen area.

Video can be saved as uncompressed or compressed using Video for Windows (VFW) video codec as AVI file

Besides capturing video, AviScreen is also good for capturing pictures. The settings size/mode, visibility of the cursor and "follow the cursor" mode are also applicable for image capture.
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Freez Screen Video Capture
Record screen activities and sounds
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Freez Screen Video Capture is a screen-capture & screen-recording tool to record screen activities and sounds into standard AVI video files. You can record any part of the screen's activities and the cursor's movements, using a microphone to narrate your screen recordings.

You can choose the output video's compressor (such as Microsoft Video 1, MPEG-4, DivX...), quality, framerate, audio format (such as PCM, ADPCM, MP3, OGG...), and volumn. You can also start, pause, and stop screen recording with hotkeys.

Use Freez Screen Video Capture to create screen demos, training videos, animated tutorials, animated presentations etc. Enjoy it
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VidShot Capturer
Capture your PC desktop and record them to video
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VidShot Capturer was created for quick screen capturing. You can use VidShot Capturer for capturing anything you see on your PC desktop and record them to video. You can capture windows, region, the entire desktop and even cursor moving.

VidShot Capturer helps you for demonstrating features of your website, for making movie, presentation and any other task requires desktop activity capturing. It is very easy and fast for to use. You just select windows or region or desktop and pull “start” button.VidShot Capturer is a software that allows you capture screen and record to video.

More other VidShot Capturer allows to adjust the framesof the video. It has easy to use interface that’s why if you even new to making screen captures you can manage it.

Features:
Capture Video from desktop
Capture video from Window
Capture wideo from region of your desktop
Automatic Video options
Frame Rate advaned settings
Easy and nice interfac
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Screen Master
Capture snapshots and video from your display screen
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Screenmaster is a tool for capturing both snapshots and video information from your screen. It allows users to capture static image and video from the whole screen, a specific window, or a user-defined region. Screen master supports WMV video format and most major picture formats such as JPG, GIF, BMP, PNG, ICON, EMF, EXIF, and PNQ.

Requires .NET Framework 1
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Wink
Tutorial and Presentation creation software
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Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users.

It is estimated that Macromedia Flash Player is installed in more than 90% of the PCs. Using Wink you can create content viewable across the web in all these users' desktops. Similar applications sell for hundreds of dollars, while Wink is free with unrivaled features.

Input formats: Capture screenshots from your PC, or use images in BMP/JPG/PNG/TIFF/GIF formats.

Output formats: Macromedia Flash, Standalone EXE, PDF, PostScript, HTML or any of the above image formats. Use Flash/html for the web, EXE for distributing to PC users and PDF for printable manuals.
Win 2000/XP/2003/Vista
Linux GTK 2.4 or higher

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ScreenCoder 2
Capture screen activity
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ScreenCoder is a tool for streaming and archiving video screen captures. However, it is robust and flexible enough to suit a broad variety of needs.

For instance, its first use was to stream live video from university TA sessions and maintain archives of these videos.

Since then, it has grown to include several output methods (record to file, push and archive to a Windows Media streaming server, stream directly from the encoding machine) and myriad niceties for managing screen captures.
Win XP

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