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Tech Corner - January 2010

Frequently Asked Question

Question: Is there a free video editing tool in order to make 30 second snippets of workshops for our website? We have some filmed sessions on CD and would love to rip out small teasers.

Answer:

Some Mac's come with "I-Movie" for video editing.

Windows Users can download "Windows Live Movie Maker" for Windows XP and later operating systems for free.

If you just want a snippet of a video, I use "Any Video Converter" which is available for free for Mac and PC. This tool is primarily a video format conversion tool, but it does allow you to trim the video also.

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Feature - Adobe Browser Lab

A must have tool for web designers. This free service from Adobe lets you compare any web page on your site on a variety of Browsers and Operating systems. Just type in the address of the page you want to see and in about a minute you will be able to see exactly how your page looks on different browsers.

Adobe® BrowserLab is an online hosted service that lets you test the pages of your web site across a variety of web browsers and operating systems. The service works by taking screen shots of your web pages in different browsers, and then displaying them in the BrowserLab application window.

You can use BrowserLab as a standalone service, or integrated with Dreamweaver CS4. The standalone service lets you test pages that you've posted to a server within the context of a web browser. If you use BrowserLab as an integrated service with Dreamweaver, you can test your pages from within Dreamweaver without publishing your pages to a server.

BrowserLab supports the following browsers:

  • Firefox 2.0 - Windows XP
  • Firefox 3.0 - Windows XP
  • Firefox 3.5 - Windows XP
  • Chrome 3.0 - Windows XP
  • Internet Explorer 6.0 - Windows XP
  • Internet Explorer 7.0 - Windows XP
  • Internet Explorer 8.0 - Windows XP
  • Safari 3.0 - Macintosh OS X
  • Safari 4.0 - Macintosh OS X
  • Firefox 2.0 - Macintosh OS X
  • Firefox 3.0 - Macintosh OS X
  • Firefox 3.5 - Macintosh OS X

Browserlab not only elimanates the need to have secondary computers with old versions of browsers installed on them, it also has side by side comparisons of the different screenshots that you can rotate with the up and down arrow keys on your key board.

It also has an overlay mode that they call Onion Skin View that has a slider bar that will let you lay the screenshots on top of one another and change the opacity to get a different look at the differences in apperence between different operating systems and browsers.

It's very important to know that your web site works on all of the different browsers that people use. With Adobe Browserlab you can now easily check your web pages to make sure they look like you want them to on many different browsers.

 

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