Stating the Blogvious

Just a quick note to loyal readers. I’ve created a new product called Screen Capture magic that shows you how to take Camstudio or Camtasia videos at the right resolution to get it looking fantastic on DVD and on TV.

There are a few steps involved but I’ve managed to do everything with free software and now its in the book.

So get a quick look over at Screen Capture Magic now.

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After months of development and testing my new php based software system for podcasters and marketers has been launched.

Its called Podcast Responder (http://www.podcastresponder.com) and what it does is create dynamic RSS feeds with audio or video enclosures set to a date based on the feed request.

Basically its an RSS feed that acts like an autoresponder - specifically for delivery of Audio or Video.

I know there are other RSS autoresponder’s out there but this is unique.

If you add the ability to increase your sales by using audio and video messages instead of email messages this is it.

I’m working on a deal with a well known Internet Marketer so it may get rebadged soon but it was my baby to begin with.

So there you have it. The webs first ever Audio Autoresponder

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This brilliant site is giving away commercial software - one per day

I’ve downloaded the powerpoint to flash convertor.. now to see if it works..

Yes it does! Click on the arrows in the above presentation. Done in a few moments.

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I’m developing (again!) a program in php to perform some podcast stuff. So I needed to get a setup configured locally to do my development work on.

Here’s the tools I chose.

Xampp for the apache/mysql/php server. I configured a simple virtual host as well to make things a bit easier.

Wscite for text/code the editor. Even though Maguma Studio Free is ok it has a bug on my XP system that the scroll mouse causes and I don’t have the time or inclination to fix it.

I tried a couple of different templating solutions including Savant and went back to Smarty again as this seems the most logical in my mind.

Next I needed some templating and css editing facilities. The best thing for css (as I can’t stretch to buy Dreamweaver just now) is to install the Firefox Development suite. It works a treat once you’ve got a rough idea of layout to work from.

I also re-installed NVU so I can test out HTML code and steal it for the template as I go. I know I can do this in Firefox as well but sometimes its faster to use another app/window.

I need to make sure the code is versioned (it’s a bad idea with php to do anything else as it lends itself so well to quick fixes that then take ages to back-out). So a fresh install of WinCVS was in order. I don’t recommend it to anyone unless they know what their doing. I’m probably going to switch over to Subversion anyway once I’ve tested TortiseSVN.

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