{"id":483,"date":"2009-04-04T14:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brainlitter.itgroove.net\/2009\/04\/04\/miscellaneous-third-party-techie-tools-i-cant-live-without\/"},"modified":"2009-04-04T14:23:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-04T14:23:00","slug":"miscellaneous-third-party-techie-tools-i-cant-live-without","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regroove.ca\/brainlitter\/2009\/04\/04\/miscellaneous-third-party-techie-tools-i-cant-live-without\/","title":{"rendered":"Miscellaneous Third Party Techie Tools I can\u2019t live without"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Here’s a listing of (no, I’m not ranting about how much I love SharePoint in this post, though I might reference it here and there) 3rd<\/sup> party tools that I use constantly and a brief summary of how I use it (I’m not listing the complete listing of features of each, that is what their websites are for) but maybe someone will find this useful. <\/p>\n

These aren’t the only tools I use, but they all deserve honourable mention of being ‘important’ in my busy, business\/techie life, that make me more efficient. <\/p>\n

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SnagIt (v9) <\/h1>\n

www.techsmith.com<\/a> <\/p>\n

I wasn’t a fan of SnagIt previously \u2013 I love the idea of detailed screenshots, etc. but I always found the tool frustrating \u2013 but this new version is AMAZING. I use it daily as when communicating with customers, a Picture is indeed worth a 1000 words (okay, maybe saves me 2-300 words, but already that’s better).<\/p>\n

In particular, the save as profile feature is awesome \u2013 I have two keystrokes predefined, in my case F4 and F6, yours can be what you want, that each create a readymade screen capture complete with a nice shadow effect, border, etc. and ready to go on my clipboard).<\/p>\n

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Jing <\/h1>\n

www.techsmith.com<\/a> <\/p>\n

From the same folks that make SnagIt, Jing is pretty cool (and free, unless you want to upload to YouTube direct and at $15\/year, which was a reasonable enough price that I did it right away). Jing allows you to capture a quick screenshot or video (capturing a few motions on your screen to show someone how to do something) and ‘Paste it to the Internet’. The free version results in it being posted on Screencast.com, but the paid version allows me to submit a video directly to YouTube, to my account there \u2013 awesome, quick and easy <\/p>\n

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YouSendIt <\/h1>\n

www.yousendit.com<\/a> <\/p>\n

We use this daily. For ‘sending’ files to customers (or ourselves, to pick up on a server somewhere), quickly and easily. Think of it as FTP without the hassle. You simply go to www.yousendit.com<\/a> (free for files up to 100MB, for our cheap\/monthly fee, we can do up to 2GB!), enter the email address of whom is to ‘receive’ the file and then upload the file(s) you wish. When the upload is completed, the recipient (and sometimes, that is me, as I use it for myself, to send a file to a remote system and ‘download’ it there) gets an email with a link to download the file. The key benefits (for me at least are): <\/p>\n