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If you did not read my previous post about Camtasia Studio 5, you can read it here.

I’m sure many people heard of Camtasia Studio screen recording software, it’s one of most widely used tool people used to create on-screen recording.

There’s an alternative if you want a free version. Techsmith has started this project called "JingProject " more than 1 year back in July 2007. It’s one of the best alternative other than Camtasia Studio.

Jing is both a screen capture and screencasting software under one program. It’s still free at the moment and by default the porgram comes with a screencast account with a 2GB limit.

Usage wise, it’s pretty much self-explanatory where you just select any area with either screen capture or screen recording, the program would let you upload the output to screencast.com with a simple click.

The only downside is that this program only generate flash files (.swf), which other video sharing sites do not readily accept this file format.

Best,

Thomas

Simply, Video Marketing

Hey,

Just to drop you a quick note that i have decided to upgrade my blog to the latest version, it’s on 2.6.3 now! Phew! Spent about an hour plus doing this…luckily i learned some wordpress knowledge sometime back, it’s relatively more technical than the blogger platform.

I really like the newer version, with more sneaky interface::)

And, i also changed the whole theme and look, and hope you will agree with me that this is a better looking one!

If you are considering getting a new theme, this is where I got my theme from.

What else did i do?

I have also wrote a special report on "7 Hidden Adwords PPC Tactics " to encourage you to sign up to my newsletter. You should do so now at the top right corner, this is a completely NEW report that is fresh from the oven, it is one of the BEST report that i have even released, but yours FREE, just put in your name and email address and i will let you download it.

I have decided to go into PPC as my main traffic source about one year ago, and since then i have learned a great deal of knowledge from the main PPC platforms including Google Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing and MSN Adcenter. This report will help you get started correctly with your Adwords PPC campaigns.

This report will help you outsmart your competitor significantly!

Best,

Thomas

PS: If you have any questions, pls feel free to post it here.

Blogging, Google Adwords, PPC, Simply

Many of you know about Alexa.

But I will discuss about a relatively new tool that was launched in recent months. It’s called QuarkBase.com

On first glance, the interface looks like Google.com search page.

The main function of this website is its ability to reveal almost everything about a particular website that you are interested to find out, such as site registration details, short description, main visitors grouped by country, related competitor websites (Hint!), social blogosphere popularity. It even reveals who are the key persons at this company.

How to integrate this tool with your browser?Go here for instruction…http://www.quarkbase.com/tools

The information that is particularly interested to me is “Similar and Related Sites”. By using this section of information, i can do some competitor analysis. This is very useful stuff.

For example, when i do a search for quarkbase.com itself, it pulls out more than 20 websites which the system “think” is highly related to, which probably people are visiting them as well.

It’s a way to find out if people who are interested in website A, will also visit what other sites frequently.

Talk soon,

Thomas UKM

Reviews, Simply

There has been a lot of good reviews about the latest web browser released by web giant Google recently.

2nd Sep 2008 was the day..

I believe a lot of people have been waiting for this released especially witnessing the many genius applications launched by Google over the many years, all these are focused at making the user experience on the internet better and better…

Especially the speed!

So what do i think of Chrome?

It’s fast, very fast!

The first thing i like about Chrome is its user interface, it’s clean and simple, is in line with all the Google’s applications. It’s just enough for you to do few things, back and forward, refresh and bookmarking. It’s good enough.

The address bar actually serves two purposes, on top of the normal URL bar, it acts as seach field as well.

Chrome also incorporates a feature called “Incognito” mode, which will not save your browsing history, cached images or visited pages, which is similar to IE 8 “InPrivate” mode.

According to Chrome, it treats each tab as a separate application. This is especially cool for multi-tab users as any javascript or flash issues with a particular tab doesn’t affect others…A quick look at the windows task manager reveals that they are all in different processes.

If you do a right click on the right hand side of the last tab, you will see an option “Task Manager”, you will be able to see how much memory every tabs / pages take up, this is useful if you have many tabs open at the same time.

Another sneaky feature of G-Chrome is the “Inspect Element”.

If you right click on an element on the page, there’s an option for you to click “Inspect Element”, it may be a good feature for people who are working with web development.

You can click on the resources button and then refresh the page, it will show the size and time taken to load each and every element on the page, it’s very sneaky! Immediately at a glance, you will discover which elements are slowing down your page.

On the other side of Google Chrome, there’s many users and bloggers voiced concerns on the terms of service at Section 11 about rights to any user-generated content “submitted, posted or displayed on or through” the browser. Well, it has been taken care of. Check it out at Google’s chrome TOS update. 

Overall the browser looks simple and clean, and to me at this early beta stage, the G-Chrome is a good browser.

Reviews, Simply

Dave from ZipCodeGuy.com has released a zip code database that he has been collecting since year 2003, it contains zip code, states, abbreviations, countries, cities, etc..

Go here to read more about it.

So, how does it benefit us? Hey, if you are a frequent PPC advertiser, then you need to know that “geographical” targeting is powerful, and this zip code database will be a “gold” to you.

Currently, There’ only two ways you can get it, and Dave may pull it off anytime. So if you are interested, go there to check it out.

until next time,

Thomas

Reviews, Simply

Have you been tracking your websites information?

If you did, I want to congratulate you! And you should know everything about your website visitors.

If you have not, I want to introduce one of the most powerful tool for website tracking to you, that’s Google Analytics.

I have been using Analytics for almost a year now, and I must say that they have some of the most powerful features in website tracking and optimization, and best of all it is completely free! It is from tracking that I know where my visitors are coming from and what are the posts / information that attract large amount of visitors.

Where’s the best place to learn Google Analytics? Of course it is Google, nobody know it better then their own team who develop this cool tool!

Google Analytics 101 - Part 1

Google Analytics 101 - Part 2

Google Analytics 101 - Part 3

Hope you enjoy this and put them into your website for immediate tracking!

Talk soon,

Thomas

Analytics, Simply, Traffic

Hey, it’s weekend and i did some readings and found a new technology that Google is developing..I’m speechless.

Find out why.

It’s really the latest technology at its play. I’m sure you are familiar with the Google Map service which is very easy to use and i personally find it easy to find any place on earth, just type in any location and Google will bring you round the whole world in seconds! There’s no other service that is such powerful at this moment.

Now, with the same platform, Google is bringing the whole universe, galaxy onto your browser. Period.

Go try it. It’s really mind blowing. Go take a tour round the sun….

Thumbs up, Google Sky!

Until next time,
Thomas

Simply, The Next Thing