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If you are a web designer or a webmaster, you often need to put nice looking a photo gallery in your website.  You don’t have to hire a coder to do it for you.  There is a list of easy-to-customize flash photo galleries you can find in this article:

20 Free Flash Gallery Solutions for Your Images

How is converting video file format important?

1) If you works involves dealing with mulitmedia content, it’s  a pain when your clients send you a video of a foreign file format and expect you to work on it.

2) You want to put a video on your cell phone or iphone so you can enjoy it when you’re taking the bus.

Here’s a perfect for video file format conversion: SUPER – free video converter

As a blogger or a web designer, you always have a need for stock photo that is free for download and legal to put on your blog or website.

Here are two websites where you can find the good freebies:

1) Dreamstimes

2) stock.xchng

There are times when I just want to grab the audio part of a Youtube video and save it as an mp3 file in my computer, so I can listen to it anytime I like without Internet access.

I found a very easy-to-use Free YouTube to MP3 Converter that can do exactly what I want.

As a startup, one thing you must learn is to minimize your cost without affecting your performance. There are lots of great freewares and free resources nowadays that their quality is very close to or even better than the paid programs.

Let me tell you what freewares and free resources you can use to replace the expensive ones.

1) Word Processing: Open Office
The Open Office is basically a free version of MS-office. I still think MS-office is a little better because I am so used to it but the Open Office is free and there are more and more people using it now.

2) Email and Calender: Google Apps (including Gmail for organization, Google Calendar and much more)
Gmail for organization allows you to use gmail for your company’s email sending and receiving.  (i.e. you can use john@yourdomain.com on a gmail system, exactly like you are using gmail)  Google Calendar is a web-based, sharable calendar for scheduling.

3) Image Editing: GIMP
Basically a free photoshop like software. It can do what you need unless you are an advanced graphic designer.

4) Virus and Spyware Scanning and Removal: Free ESET online scanner
This is a powerful, updated, and free web-based virus and spyware scanning and removal tool.  Based on my experience, it’s much more powerful than a lot of expensive virus and spyware removal software.

I am not a windows vista fan at all. Indeed, i don’t like it, it’s too slow. Sadly my laptop comes with Windows Vista. Oh well, I will live with it and try to find the good things about it. Yeah, the black theme is kind of cool. And…the gadgets on the sidebar may be useful. Here are two that I think are quite useful:

1) MCG Calculator – a simple calculator that has just the right size. It’s perfect for quick and easy calculation such as helping your girl friend to find the discounted price of a pair of jeans.

2) PowerDo – a to-do list gadget to let you keep track of what you have on your to-do list. It is just what you need for a to-do list.

Something that everyone just hates doing is to crop and resize a bunch of image. Probably what you want to do is to make every image in a folder into a standard thumbnail size for your website.

No worries, with the right tool, you don’t have to resize and crop the images one by one. You can batch crop and resize. Here are the right free tools to do the right job for you:

1) For batch cropping: JPEGCrops
2) For batch resizing: Fotosizer