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Create Your Own Video Sharing Site with StartYourTube

Want to know what it feels like to have your own YouTube? StartYourTube(now known as BootCast) is the Ning of video sharing sites. It lets you easily create your own video site without hassles. There is no installation needed, no servers and other technical stuff. It’s just like creating a blog in Blogspot. Actually the procedure is very similar to creating a Blogspot account where you create an account, customize your site (upload logos, change theme colors etc), use your own domain name and advertise (where they keep 40 percent of the revenues for the free account).

Being a video sharing site, StartYourTube lets you have your own members where they sign up and share their tubes in your created tube site. The service is free but will only allow you to have 10 thousand page views per month and upload a maximum of 200 videos which should not exceed 2 GB of storage space. You also get to have a “Powered by StartYourTube” mention in your pages and you cannot disable advertisements. This is not a bad deal considering that you are paying them nothing but it is not enough to survive a Digg effect if ever one of your videos gets dugg. However, a paid account will let you get a bigger storage space and bandwidth, remove the StartYourTube mention, run your own ads and keep all the profit.

The trick is to start free play around with a niched video site and eventually upgrade your account if your site becomes popular. This is another interesting service and a potentially useful one (if they can offer larger bandwidths and storage) for people who wants to start a niched tube site.

Update: StartYourTube is now known as BootCast.

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Tags: ning, startyourtube, tube, video, video hosting service, website, youtube

Type Mathematical Formulas with Ease Using LyX

LyX is an open-source document processor which runs on Mac, Windows and Linux. They called it a “document processor” simply because unlike most word processors, it encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of the document rather than the appearance. This means that you do not have to worry about the appearance of your document because the software will handle the details for visual layouts.

The software is free with no strings attached. Using LyX for typing regular notes and letters is as easy as using your favorite word processor. The main feature of the software is its ability to produce complex equations with ease while providing a professional look for the created document. It takes a little time to get used to and to learn the commands for the software, but once you get the hang of LyX, you can turn LyX into a very useful document tool. You can check out their video demo here.

LyX is a great alternative for your usual word processor and a great tool for creating documents that contains simple and complex equations. It is light and does not eat up a lot of memory and you can download it for free.

Tags: document processor, linux, lyx, Mac, Windows, word processor

Xobni: Email Organizer for Outlook Users

Xobni (Inbox spelled backwards) is a Microsoft Outlook plugin that helps you manage and organize your emails by utilizing existing Outlook features and creating an email-based social network within your email client. Bill Gates quoted Xobni as “The next generation of social networking.” The plugin features; quick e-mail searches, quick attachment discovery, automatic extraction of phone numbers, automatic schedule creator and email conversation threading. Check out the video demo below for a more detailed explanation on how Xobni works.

This is a new and interesting way of managing your emails if you are using Outlook (the most popular email client in the world). The plugin is currently available for Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007 and they are planning on releasing Xobni in other email clients and platforms. This is a great idea for Xobni to create an application/plugin to make Outlook users’ life a little easier. Think of the time that one can save by using this plugin. This will allow the users to be more productive and have easier time managing information in their emails.

Tags: e-mail client, email, microsoft outlook, outlook, outlook 2003, outlook 2007, social network service, Windows, xobni

Moshi Monsters Finally Launches

Moshi Monsters is a social networking site for kids that we introduced last year. The service is focused on kids’ learning through the use of social networking. You can start by adopting a monster and eventually taking care of your monster pet. You can feed, play and buy stuff for your monster. Get all the stuff available in the shops by using Moshi Monsters credits called Rox. You can earn your Rox by playing kid friendly puzzles and games. The monsters will develop different personalities depending on how it is treated by its owner.

The game features kid friendly interface that I’m sure most will enjoy. The daily puzzles are educational and the games can be played in easy, normal and hard modes which makes the game playable by any age group. This makes Moshi Monsters both entertaining and a great learning experience for kids.

Parents can also monitor their kids’ Moshi Monsters activities through email. Everytime someone invites your kid to become someone’s friend, an email will be sent to the parent for approval. Online safety for kids is important for the Moshi Monsters team so that parents can relax while their kids play with their monsters and discover new friends through online social networking. This is a cool and interesting site for kids and adults as well. So take a some time off and adopt a Moshi Monster.

Tags: kids game, Moshi Monsters, online game, Social Networking

Photoshop Patch Tools and Levels Tutorial

This video shows us how to use the patch tool in Photoshop and how to enhance a photo using levels. This is another video tutorial by Donny from MyDamnChannel.

Tags: enhance, levels, patch, Photoshop, tool, tutorial, video

Use Multiple Online Language Translators with Translate.Net

There is a wide range of translator engines that exists in the web right now and none of them can really translate a context with full accuracy. Nothing really beats the power of a human translator in doing a task like this one. In the absence of a human translator (which is more likely always) we just have make do with what we have.

Translate.Net is a handy and powerful open source desktop application that will translate any text from one language to another. What is great about the application is that it connects to different translation engines in the web and gives multiple versions of the translations. This is very useful so that we can compare the translations made by different translator engines and do our own analysis so that we can provide ourselves with a more accurate translation.

Using the Software:

In order to do a translation, just paste the text into the translator and choose the language of the text you want to translate and the language you want to translate the text to. You can disable a service to prohibit Translator.NET from displaying results from it. You can also choose from a list of subjects before doing the translation so that the engines can display more accurate results of the translation which will depend on the subject that you have chosen.

Minimum System Requirements for Translate.Net:

• Windows 2000,
  or XP (SP2 or later),
  or Windows Vista,
  or Windows Server 2003 (SP1 or later)
• .NET Framework 2.0
• 500 MHz processor (Recommended: 800 MHz or faster)
• 256 MB of RAM (Recommended: 512 MB or more)
• 2+ MB hard drive space

Tags: application, open source, Software, translation, translator, translator.net, Windows