You know I love free stuff so here’s an early Christmas gift… this one will save you about $50.. Snag-It is now apparently free! This is an awesome, must-have utility for anyone that maintains a website or blog. SnagIt enables quick screen grabs, video creation, multi media file management, and much more. It’s been in my toolbox for years and its a must have for me. I’m surprised to see its free… WTF… I just bought an upgrade!!! Oh well, this is a score.. enjoy! Get Details here
or simply download it from ftp://ftp.techsmith.com/pub/products/snagit/725/SnagIt.exe — enjoy!
Archives for November 26, 2007
Free stuff.. here’s a web developer tip for ya – SnagIt
You know I love free stuff so here’s an early Christmas gift… this one will save you about $50.. Snag-It is now apparently free! This is an awesome, must-have utility for anyone that maintains a website or blog. SnagIt enables quick screen grabs, video creation, multi media file management, and much more. It’s been in my toolbox for years and its a must have for me. I’m surprised to see its free… WTF… I just bought an upgrade!!! Oh well, this is a score.. enjoy! Get Details here
or simply download it from ftp://ftp.techsmith.com/pub/products/snagit/725/SnagIt.exe — enjoy!
DigitalGlobe WorldView-1 has completed its commissioning to NGA
This out of Longmont (just down the road from yours truly)… WorldView-1 has completed its commissioning, meets all of its requirements, and is delivering imagery to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) as part of the NextView program. Full Operating Capability (FOC) with NGA began on November 17th. Following a controlled roll-out with NGA, DigitalGlobe will begin taking orders for WorldView-1 imagery from its global resellers, partners and customers on January 3, 2008. The satellite was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base on September 18, and delivered its first sample set of high-resolution images on October 15.
WorldView-1 is the first of two new next-generation satellites DigitalGlobe plans to launch in the near term. In late 2008, Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. and ITT Corporation will complete WorldView-2, bringing the total number of satellites DigitalGlobe has in orbit to three and enabling the company to offer a constellation of spacecraft that will provide the highest commercial collection capacity, with more than 1 million square kilometers per day of high-resolution Earth imagery. Additionally, WorldView-2 will provide eight bands of multi-spectral for life-like true color imagery and greater spectral applications in the mapping and monitoring markets.
Some WorldView 1 specs:
Altitude – 496 km
pnchromatic resolution – 50 cm
swath width – 17.5 km
onboard storage – 2199 GB
revisit – 1.7 days at 1m GSD
Grab a Historical Map print on cyber Monday
It just dawned on me that I’m always promoting other people’s stuff so why not a self-serving promotion? If you need a cool historical map print for home or office don’t forget that over at Amerisurv we have a great selection in the store. Select from over 100 impressive historical map prints, printed on acid free paper and delivered to your door.. trust me, these things are very impressive! I couldn’t help notice in a recent tour of homes in a parade of homes that every home had an old map hanging on the wall somewhere — unfortunately none were as cool as some of these but it shows you how popular maps have become. Enjoy – Browse the collection HERE
Historic Map Collection — A Map of Lewis and Clark’s Track, 1814
3D shopping on Cyber Monday – an immersive online shopping experience
I’m not a big cyber Monday guy, although I do find this cool, 3D shopping experience to be way cool… reminds me of the speculation how virtual Worlds will soon invade cyber shopping in the future as we have companies like Google adding more reality to the experience every day… I’m guessing pretty soon we’ll be using Google maps to zoom in using the street side imagery as we walk down the street. Then we enter a store (generated with SketchUp and the amazing 3D renderings that are possible with the tool). Then we can start shopping using a second life to look at products, pick them up, rotate them, and then check out… here’s a cool 3D bookstore from Kinset that offers an immersive online shopping experience… the future of shopping for sure! See http://kinset.com/brookstone.php