Mr. Bup’s Webmaster Guide

Easily Create Free Website Thumbnails and ScreenShots for Your Next Web Application, Blog, or Directory

Apr 4, 2009 File and Data Sharing, Image Editing, Online Tools, Web Apps., Web Services

websnapr lets you capture screenshots of (almost) any web page. Allow your visitors to instantly visualize any web page before clicking. Increase site traffic, click-through rate and site stickiness

Websnapr’s basic services are completely free of charge. They provide 100,000 snapshot impressions for their free service users each month. If your website will be needing more than 100,000 snapshots to be served up Websnaper offers a premium service as well. For $45.00/month they will host up to 500,000 thumbnails each and every month. I have to say, that pretty reasonable.

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Tags: File and Data Sharing, Image Editing, Online Tools, Web Apps., Web Services

Easily Find All UPS Stores, Blue Mailbox Drop Offs, or Post Offices Near Your Current Location

Mar 23, 2009 Best of the Web, Image Editing, Online Tools

Mail Box Map helps you easily find the all the UPS stores, Blue Mail Boxes, and Post Offices nearest you.

The other day I was driving around town and I had to mail a check to scottrade and I had no idea where the closest blue mail box drop off was. I drove around until I finally found one. When I got home later that night, I Googled how to find blue mailboxes. After some digging and weeding through worthless websites, I came across mailboxmap.com. Its a website that utilizes Google Maps and tells you where all the UPS stores, Post offices, and Blue MailBoxes are in any area that you tell it to search. This is a completely 100% FREE service and the only income generated by the site for its owner is done through adsense.

If your on the road, you can even check for the closest mailbox on your IPhone, PDA, Palm or any other Internet ready device. This is because the site owner has created a fast loading mobile version for all of us CrackBerry Addicts to use at http://www.mailboxmap.com/php/mobile.php

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Tags: Best of the Web, Online Tools

Jahshaka is a Full Feature Free and Open Source Video Editing Software Suite

Feb 26, 2009 Audio & Video, Desktop Apps, File and Data Sharing, Image Editing, Living Under a Rock, Open Source

Imagine if you could edit movies with flexibility and speed, create effects in real time, and animate with unlimited features. Jahshaka allows you to do just that plus much much more. With Jahshaka, you can paint and design on moving video, create music with all the tools professionals use, and work in any format at any resolution. Basically the sky is the limit.

Jahshaka uses todays next-generation hardware to do everything in real time, regardless of what box you are running on. Thanks to the power and economics of mass markets, todays pc’s come with everything you need to create any kind of media you want. Todays graphics cards would have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars just a few years ago… and deliver an unbelievable level of power and speed into your hands. This is the power that drives jahshaka.

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Tags: Audio & Video, Desktop Apps, File and Data Sharing, Image Editing, Living Under a Rock, Open Source

GIMP (Free Adobe PhotoShop) is the Best Free Open Source Image Manipulation Software Available, PERIOD

Dec 27, 2008 Desktop Apps, Image Editing, Living Under a Rock, Open Source, Website Design

Ok…Today’s Living Under a Rock article is about GIMP, free and open source image editing software. GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program, and to best describe GIMP, you would basically have to call it a free and open source Adobe Photoshop.

If you are used to Photoshop and switch to GIMP it might take you some time to get used to the different user interface, but over a couple of days you’ll begin to fall in love with it and refuse to go back. The huge drawl to GIMP over Photoshop is the massive saving. I mean I’m talking about hundreds of dollars here.

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Tags: Desktop Apps, Image Editing, Living Under a Rock, Open Source, Website Design

Flowplayer is a Flash Video Player for Embedding Video Streams into Your Website

Dec 17, 2008 Audio & Video, Blogging, Business, File and Data Sharing, Image Editing, Open Source, Web Apps.

Flow Player considers itself to be YouTube’s video player’s big brother, and they very good reason to think so.

Today, most of the World Wide Web’s video activity occurs strictly on YouTube.com. Even videos that are placed on your own personal websites are often shown using the YouTube video player. The drawback with this is that people are escaping your website and watching more videos hosted on YouTube. Its hard enough to develop new site traffic without having to give it away to other YouTube video producers. Additionally the YouTube logo is highly visible on every single video you produced and host on YouTube.

Flow Player is a free and open source solution to this problem. With Flow Player you can host and proudly display your own videos in any number of ways. The folks over at Flow Player are always developing new and interesting plugins to make your visitors’ video viewing much more enjoyable. You can customize your Flow Player install in any number of ways(see demos for examples). And if you feel like you need a little help with optimizing Flow Player, click here for some tutorials.

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Tags: Audio & Video, Blogging, Image Editing, Open Source, Web Apps.

Gliffy is an Online Flow Chart & Diagram Software Suite at Gliffy.com.

Dec 15, 2008 Best of the Web, File and Data Sharing, Image Editing, Online Tools, Web Apps.

With Gliffy online diagram software, you can easily create professional-looking flowcharts, diagrams, floor plans, technical drawings, and much much more. The online diagram editor makes it easier than ever to create great looking drawings for any scenario and to impress any difficult client.

Gliffy makes it easy for you to create, share, and collaborate with diagrams. It looks and feels like a desktop application, but it works through your web browser, so there is nothing to install or maintain. You simply need to navigate to http://www.gliffy.com/ and create a free account.

After you have created either a FREE or PREMIUM account, you can begin creating new diagrams. These diagram can be saved to your account and shared with your friends and colleagues. To see a comparison chart on the differences between the two click here.

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Tags: Best of the Web, File and Data Sharing, Image Editing, Online Tools, Web Apps.

Paint.NET is Free Open Source Image and Photo Editing Software for Windows

Dec 13, 2008 Desktop Apps, Image Editing, Living Under a Rock, Open Source

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for the Windows operating sytem. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.

Tags: Desktop Apps, Image Editing, Living Under a Rock, Open Source

Free Online Watermarking Tool to Keep Your Images & Photos Secure

Dec 12, 2008 Image Editing, Online Tools, Web Services

The free online watermarking tool was created by, “I Don’t Know”. “I Don’t Know” built this water marking tool with people like you in mind; people whom don’t have access to fancy image editing software packages such as Photoshop, GIMP, or Illustrator.

The watermark tool is free online watermarking software that allows you to quickly and easily protect your images with a visible watermark. With the many available watermarking options, you’re able to personalize your images in any number of ways. You select the displayed watermarked text, its size, its color, and its position on the image.

Tags: Image Editing, Online Tools, Web Services

PicResize.com Resizes, Shrinks, & Crops Your Images Online For Free

Dec 10, 2008 Ajax, Best of the Web, Image Editing, Online Tools, Web Apps., Web Services

PicResize.com can be a total savior to those who need to resize or crop images and don’t have have the tons of cash to shell out for Adobe Photoshop or understand the complexities of GIMP. You simply point your browser to PicResize.com and follow 3 easy steps:

Tags: Ajax, Best of the Web, Image Editing, Online Tools, Web Apps., Web Services

Blender is an Open Source, Cross Platform Suite of Tools for 3D Graphics Creation

Dec 9, 2008 Client Software, Desktop Apps, Education and Learning, Image Editing, Living Under a Rock, Open Source

Blender is a free and open source suite of tools that enable the creation of and replay of linear and real-time, interactive 3D content. It offers full functionality for modeling, rendering, animation, post-production and game creation and playback with the added benefit of cross-platform operability (Windows, Mac, Linux, IRIX, Solaris, NetBSD, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD).

Blender is aimed at both media professionals and creative individual users. It can be used to create commercials and other broadcast quality linear content. It has a robust feature set similar in scope and depth to other high-end 3D software such as Softimage|XSI, Cinema 4D, 3ds Max, Lightwave and Maya.

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Tags: Client Software, Desktop Apps, Education & Learning, Image Editing, Living Under a Rock, Open Source