Bruno Silva

Safe mail

To avoid spam a technique which consists on displaying e-mails as images instead of plain text is increasing each day. Plain text can more easily discovered by spammers. Because today I wanted to add an e-mail to this website I search for a website where I could generate an e-mail image.

I’ve found this nice one http://safemail.justlikeed.net. You can choose font and color. You can easily do this in paint for example. But this service stores your e-mail image, so you can use it in blogs or forums just by referring it.

CamStudio - Free Screen Recording Software

During last month I had to record some demonstrations in my computer. I used the well known Camtasia Studio. Well, now the trial is ending, and I don’t want to buy this software

Today I found a nice software that can be used to achieve the same result. It is called CamStudio. You can record your screen while you perform some action like record an interaction with some software, record a presentation, etc. Then you can deploy it as an AVI file or flash video.

Maybe it isn’t new for many of you, but for those who haven’t ever heard about this software, give it a try.

Splashup - Online Photo Editing

Have you ever heard aboutsplashup? Maybe Fauxto (which was a previous name)?

I haven’t heard about them until I found Splashup on the web.

This is a tool that allows you to edit your images using a Adobe Flash based interface. You can edit files from your hard disk or access your Flickr, Picasa or Facebook images and photographs. It is great when you are in a public computer without any good software to edit some photographs you want to put in your blog. Upload your image, resize, crop, apply some effects and publish into you Flickr account or download it into the computer.

You can edit several images at the same time, and even work with layers! I was really amazed while I tried it out. It is in Beta stage. But this stuff has a lot of potential. You can even work in full screen mode! One functionality that I didn’t go quite well was importing an imagine from my webcam. It didn’t work

Here’s a screenshot.

TinyURL.com - shorten that long URL into a Tiny URL

Do you want to share an really big URL in a presentation to an audience or in a printed document?
Maybe it isn’t such a good idea. It’s a boring task to copy it and in a presentation you don’t want to show a slide for 5 minutes to let everyone copy it.

Well, you can use TinyURL.com. Type any long URL you want and it will create a new one like http://tinyurl.com/37xaar. It can be useful.
I found out about it in TechEd, when a speaker left some references in the end of the presentation.

Portal PPC

Acabou de dar uma reportagem sobre o Portal PPC, mas precisamente sobre a base de dados de Radares.
Já conheço a iniciativa desde que comprei o meu GPS, e sem dúvida é um excelente contributo.
Ter no software de navegação registados os “Points of Interest” referentes aos radares impede multas desnecessárias, e também serve como inibidor do excesso de velocidade em alguns locais.

No entanto a reportagem da SIC deixou muito a desejar… Dizer que o responsável pelo projecto criou uma “aplicação para GPS para detecção de radares” é uma mentira. O que o Júlo Rocha fez e muito bem foi utilizar a funcionalidade da maior parte dos sistemas de navegação de registo de locais de interesse, e mobilizar os automobilistas a nível nacional a contribuirem para a base de dados por si gerida, de forma a disponibilizar a lista de radares e respectivas localizações o mais completa possível.

Os meus parabéns à equipa Portal PPC, e a minha desaprovação pela imprecisão da SIC.

HTML Playground

Na página http://htmlplayground.com pode-se brincar com HTML e CSS, tendo sempre uma ajuda à mão para perceber como funcionam as tags e respectivos atributos.

Não sei quanto a vocês, mas a mim isto dá um “jeitaço”