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Wink, a free Tutorial and Presentation creation software
Wink is an amazing tool for anyone who wishes to create software tutorials which create a visual of mouse click operations of various procedures.
I came across this software by accident while downloading video plug in software developed by the same author. This software is very flexible and outputs a flash file once compiled. The features are very rich and the GUI is very intuitive.
Features:
- Freeware: Distributed as freeware for business or personal use. However if you want to redistribute Wink, you need to get permission from the author.
- Cross-Platform: Available for all flavours of Windows and various versions of Linux (x86 only).
- Audio: Record voice as you create the tutorial for explaining better.
- 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.
- Multilingual support: Works in English, French, German, Italian, Danish, Spanish, Serbian, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese and Simplified/Traditional Chinese.
- Smart Capture Tools: Capture screenshots automatically as you use your PC, based on mouse and keyboard input (great time saver and generates professional captures).
- Performance/Quality: Creates highly compressed Flash presentations (few kbs to few hundreds of kbs, much smaller than competing commercial products) ideal for using on the web.
Tools:
- Navigation buttons to move to next/previous/random frames in the presentation, you can use custom bitmaps for these buttons (full transparency/alpha channel support).
- Callouts and shapes for displaying text explanations. The inbuilt Callout Editor is used to create custom shaped callouts as you want.
- Intuitive drag-n-drop editing of the frame, callout, cursor, navigation buttons and the title elements.
- Advanced features like templates, cursor editing, palettes, background images, control bars & preloaders for the flash output etc.
- Completely PC and Web ready with exports to PDF, HTML, SWF and EXE formats.
- Innovative compression techniques applied to reduce filesize of output Flash file. Generated flash file plays in Flash players from version 3 and above, giving you widest array of target audience.
- Uncompressed output to allow you import the output of Wink into other Flash editors.
Wink is a very valuable tool in walking clients through any computer operations that may not be done on a routine basis. Your clients can refer back to these tutorials to refresh their memories in accomplishing procedures.
The author is a saint in my opinion, and deserves praises for creating such a useful tool and allowing people to use this software for free!
Click this link to download the program and discover more about the software and it’s author. http://www.debugmode.com/wink/
Thank you, Satish Kumar for your generosity!
Excellent FTP Software
Another recommended software.
I have been using this FTP software for 7 years. It is fast, reliable, easy to use and FREE. An excellent Open Source application.
Try this program before paying for something that you can have for free.
Filezilla features:
- Easy to use
- Supports FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS) and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)
- Cross-platform. Runs on Windows, Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X and more
- IPv6 support
- Available in many languages
- Supports resume and transfer of large files >4GB
- Tabbed user interface
- Powerful Site Manager and transfer queue
- Bookmarks
- Drag & drop support
- Configurable transfer speed limits
- Filename filters
- Directory comparison
- Network configuration wizard
- Remote file editing
- Keep-alive
- HTTP/1.1, SOCKS5 and FTP-Proxy support
- Logging to file
- Synchronized directory browsing
- Remote file search
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Image Converter and Renaming Tool
For personal use, we’re recommending this excellent software FastStone Photo Resizer for those who want to easily resize, watermark, crop, rename their images/pictures. It is very fast, stable and easy to use. The interface is very easy and it’s completely free for personal use.
FastStone Photo Resizer is an image converter and renaming tool that intends to enable users to convert, rename, resize, crop, rotate, change color depth, add text and watermarks to images in a quick and easy batch mode. Drag and Drop mouse operation is well supported.
To download please click here.
Again peeps, don’t forget to donate.