Consultant Dan
17 June 2010
Good free, technologies for consultants, big and small
Here are some great free technologies that will be useful not just to consultants, but to anyone who wants to find files, grab web content or share videos.
I have decided to use Vimeo rather than YouTube or other free video sharing sites. It has better usability and was the leader in video quality although I do not know if that is still the case.
The idea is to post anything made by us and also content collected or excerpted from other sources. These will all be put on the Dan Cass & Co Channel. Goodbye, free to air TV, hello narrow-casting.
Meanwhile, in other technology news, I am one of more than 37,000,000 people who use DownThemAll. It claims to be the “first and only download accelerator” built inside Firefox. I find it faster and easier to organise files, especially when you are getting lots of files from one source.
For example, recently I wanted to send all the public submissions and other documents from an Australian Government Commission of Inquiry to a law firm in the US. Firstly, I used Google to quickly list all the pdf files on the relevant domain and list them 100 at a time, for easy reading. Secondly, I used DownThemAll to quickly select and download all 80 files that are publicly available.
Another great Firefox add on is Screenshot Pimp. This creates a right click menu for readily downloading a whole web page, the visible part of a page or a selection. It is good for getting a selection of heterogeneous content such as images and captions that are coded messily or in an obstructive way.
I also find Pimp vital when doing branding and design work. I can quickly make images of the relevant part of a site’s layout to send to the designer, after adding comments on the design elements I admire.
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