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TimelineMovieMaker: A Simple Tool To Create Movies From Facebook Timeline

Hammad — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:01:03 +0000

If you have activated your Timeline layout on Facebook and want to get something interesting done from it, check out Timeline Movie Maker. This website takes out those special moments from your timeline and makes them into a sort of a movie.

It gets difficult to buzz through your timeline to find all those precious moments – Timeline Movie Maker makes it easier by finding them for you and then displaying them in a very creative manner.

Just authorize Timeline Movie Maker to access your Facebook account and then wait as it scouts through your Facebook Timeline and grasps all the important events and memories. The Movie Maker then displays those events, automatically adds music and amazes you!

Features

Simple and easy to use.
Save time searching for important events.
Displayed in an amazing way – amazes the person and brings back memories.

Check out Timeline Movie Maker @ http://www.timelinemoviemaker.com (via Mashable)

Projeqt: Tell Stories With Attractive Slideshows

Hammad — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:01:13 +0000

Projeqt is a very simple web service that allows you to create slides online for free. Whether it’s for business purposes, or just for fun, Projeqt allows you to create smooth flowing slides in a matter of seconds.

Projeqt goes one step beyond the default “text and image” format, and allows the users to embed videos and even news feeds from different social networking websites, for example Facebook, to your slide show.

The service is fairly simple to use. All a user has to do is sign up for an account on Projeqt, and then log in. Click on the “Slide” button to create a slide, where you can put in all the details, including the video, news, image, etc. You may wish to add the name of the slide and tags as well.

Once you have added all the slides, just click on the button that says “Visit Slide” and preview your slide show.

Features:

Free and easy to use.
Requires no software installation.
User-friendly interface.
Create slides in seconds.
Similar tools: TN3Gallery and Present.me.

Check out Projeqt @ www.projeqt.com (By Hammad from TechnicallyDigital)

Slidestaxx: Create Embeddable Slideshows Of Pictures, Videos & Websites

Umar — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 01:01:47 +0000

Slideshows offer an effective and visually appealing way to communicate information. If you are looking for a tool that helps create online slideshows, then you should pay a visit to Slidestaxx.

Slidestaxx is a free to use web service that lets you create online slideshows. Your slideshow can be about any subject. You can add not only pictures to your slideshows but also videos and websites as well. Media is added to your slideshow through their direct URLs; in other words, you don’t need to download pictures to include them in your slideshow. The order of slideshow items can easily be modified to suit your preferences.

Your slideshow is published on a unique URL that other people can visit and comment on. Additionally you will get a code that lets you embed your slideshow on your own blog or website.

Features:

A user-friendly web service.
Helps create online slideshows.
Slideshows can include photos, videos, and websites.
Media is added through direct URLs.
Slideshows are published under unique URLs.
Embeddable code for slideshows is provided.

Check out Slidestaxx @ http://www.slidestaxx.com/start (By Umar from TechCityInc)

TN3Gallery: Create Visually Appealing Slideshows For Your Site

MOin — Sat, 28 May 2011 01:01:09 +0000

Creating a slideshow of images on your site’s homepage is a wonderful way to catch and hold a visitor’s attention. While writing the code of such an image slideshow can be a tedious task, there are services on the web that simplify the process. One such service is TN3Gallery.

TN3Gallery is a free to use tool based on HTML. The tool can be downloaded and customized to create amazing image galleries with slideshows that feature transitions as well as multiple album options. Powered by jQuery, the tool is compatible with all modern desktop and mobile browsers.

All you have to do to start using TN3 Gallery is copy the code and specify your parameters. Options provided by the TN3 slideshows include full-screen slideshows, CSS skinning, image captions, transition effects, image preloading, and support for mobile browsers. The content within the slideshows is all semantically correct and easily accessible to search engines to help you achieve the best SEO results.

TN3 Gallery comes offers a free version that provides most of the basic functionality whereas the other 2 paid version provide advanced features.

Features:

A user-friendly tool.
Based on HTML.
Lets you create slideshows.
Transitions for slideshows are supported.
Preloads images.
Content in slideshows is accessible to search engines.
Can expand slideshow to full-screen.

Check out TN3 Gallery @ www.tn3gallery.com (by MOin from ThumbPress)

Present.me: An Online Tool to Give Your Presentations a Personal Touch

MOin — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:01:21 +0000

Most presentation tools online offer essentially the same service: letting you create PowerPoint-like presentations with each slide showing a chunk of information. “PresentMe” however offers that and lets you add a narrative to the presentation.

PresentMe is a web service that lets you create effective presentations through your PowerPoint files. You start by creating an account on the website. Next you upload a PowerPoint presentation to your PresentMe account. After your file has been uploaded, its slides are made viewing in the site’s Flash viewer. To help give your presentation a better flow and explain each slide as it appears, you can start recording a narrative through your webcam and microphone. The resultant presentation then appears with your webcam recording on the right and slides on the left. A filmstrip view of the slides is also given on the bottom of the presentation.

Under the presentation video you find details, comments, likes, and ratings for that presentation.

Using the button available in the bottom right of the video presentation you can download the PowerPoint presentation, get the embeddable link of the presentation, and share it with your friends.

PresentMe offers paid and free packages. The free plan lets you record up to 10 recordings per month; each of these presentations can be 15 minutes long. To paid plans increase the presentation duration and the number of them you can make each month.

Features:

A user-friendly web service.
Lets you create video presentations using existing PowerPoint presentations.
You record video using webcam and microphone.
Your video is made public and can be shared with others.
Visitors can comment on and rate your presentation.
You can get your presentation’s embeddable link for your blog or site.

Check out Present.Me @ www.present.me (by MOin from ThumbPress)

EasyGalleryManager: Easily Set Up A Customizable Slideshow For Your WordPress Blog

Umar — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 23:01:35 +0000

Do you want to put up a slideshow for the images on your WordPress blog or site? Normally to accomplish this you would have to tackle with some coding issues. But with the help of Easy Gallery Manager, you can get the WordPress slideshow without dealing with any code at all.

Easy Gallery Manager is a WordPress plug-in with a download size of 32KB. In order to download it you simply have to share the site’s URL with your friends on Twitter or Facebook. With the plug-in downloaded and installed, your jQuery slideshow on WordPress initiates. To organize the images you simply drag’n'drop them. The plug-in also provides you with numerous customization options that let you change the transitioning, timing, and other aspects of the slideshow.

Features:

A user friendly web tool.
Comes as WordPress plug-in.
Lets you easily setup a jQuery slideshow without having to code anything.
The slideshow can be easily customized.

Check out Easy Gallery Manager @ www.unclepear.com/easygallerymanager (By Umar from TechCityInc)

Pummelvision: Creates Videos From Your Photos On Social Networks

TehseenBaweja — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:01:24 +0000

PummelVision is a neat tool that creates a slideshow videos from your social network photos, without requiring you to do anything. All you have to do is authorize PummelVision to access your photos on Facebook, Tumblr and Flickr. The tool will then grab your photos from your social networks and create a video with photos and music.

Once created, the video will automatically be uploaded on Vimeo or YouTube as you specified. Pummelvision does not however let you pick and choose which photos to include or exclude, so it may select some photos that you feel are not the best representation of your life. It’s still a great tool to create an introduction to your life through colorful photographs.

Features:

Create a slideshow from your social network photos.
Works with Facebook, Flickr and Tumblr.
Makes a cool video with added music.
Automatically uploads video to Vimeo or YouTube.
No registration required.
Similar tools: Frobee, FlickrSlidr, PrettySlide, PhotoSnack, PhotoPeach and Animoto.
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Visit Pummelvision @ www.pummelvision.com

BridgeURL: Send multiple links as a slideshow

abhijeet — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 17:01:50 +0000

If you intend to share a bunch of cool websites, which you’ve discovered lately, with a friend, then sending those via email looks like the easiest thing to do. But it isn’t convenient to click on them one by one and open in browser tabs, especially if there are a lot of them. BridgeURL solves this problem by helping you create a website slideshow and combining all those sites into a single URL.

The service doesn’t require registration and you can quickly add URLs and share the new URL that’s generated.

As you see in the screenshot above, there are arrows to the right and left to facilitate quick and easy navigation. The sites can also be popped out in a separate window. Overall, a simple yet useful service.

Features

Share multiple website links by creating a slideshow out of them.
No registration required.
Great for viewing sites on browsers that don’t support tabs (like the ones on mobiles).
Similar tools: Minmu, ShareTabs, UrlBunch and Shrink2One.

Check out BridgeURL @ www.bridgeurl.com (By Abhijeet from GT Resources)

SlideDeck: Present Your Website Data Effectively As A Slideshow

Umar — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 19:01:13 +0000

Web developers are always on the lookout for visually appealing and effective ways to present data. One technique that site visitors usually appreciate is data presented as slideshows. Often to organize your information as a slideshow and put it up on your blog or site, you need to go through extensive coding and spend a great deal of time. But this entire process is made simpler by SlideDeck.

SlideDeck is a wonderful tool for web developers. Its purpose is to help developers create slideshows on your website ““ you can get it either as a jQuery slider plug-in or a WordPress plug-in. You will no longer have to waste time writing up lengthy code, thanks to SlideDeck’s rich API; or, using the WordPress GUI, you will not have to write code at all. Your SlideDeck slideshows can be used to explain your web app’s function, let visitors visually browse through your posts swiftly, or anything else you can think of.

Features:

A user friendly service.
A great tool for web developers.
Helps you create slideshows to display whatever information you want.
Can be used as a jQuery plug-in or a WordPress plug-in.

Check out SlideDeck @ www.slidedeck.com

DropMocks: Instantly Create A Picture Gallery & Share

TehseenBaweja — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 01:01:10 +0000

Tools that let you display and share pictures can be pretty comprehensive like Picasa and Flickr. But if simplicity is what you are looking for, DropMocks will beat any tool hands down. It is a dead simple tool that lets you create a picture gallery by dragging and dropping image files to the webpage.

After you drag the files to the DropMocks webpage, the tool automatically arranges the images in a gallery and give you a quick widget to browse or delete your images. The images transition like a cool slideshow and can be shared using a short permanent URL. You can also give your gallery a title and download images. Check out sample gallery here.

Features:

Create an instant image gallery.
Share photos by dragging them to the webpage.
Each gallery gets a short unique URL.
View images like a slideshow.
Browse, delete or download images.
Works best on Chrome 6 or Firefox 4.
No registration required.
Similar tools: Picupine, PictureSure and Mylivegallery.

Visit DropMocks @ www.dropmocks.com