Panorama App for the iPhone

Recently I've been playing around with Panorama iPhone apps. Of the several that I have tried, I find Pano to be the best in class. Pano allows you to use up to 16 photos, is quick and easy. It let's you decide if you want use landscape or portrait modes. Start shooting your photos, and in successive order your shots lines up with the previous ones. Once you're done, Pano works it's Magic, to beautifully stitch your panorama together. The results are quite nice. Pano sells in the iTunes App store for $2.99

Pano - Website
Pano - iTunes Store Link

Create Presentations Online

Prezi is a web based service that allows you to make animated zooming presentations online. The results can be viewed online or downloaded to view locally. Utilize images, videos, PDF's Flash files...etc. Like most cloud based services, there are Free public accounts, which are limited to 100 MB's of space, and a watermark on your presentations.

Pro and Private accounts unlock more features, remove the watermark and give you the ability to edit your presentations offline. It's not a replacement for Keynote or Powerpoint, but it's a nice solution for you to use if you need to create a presentation with nothing but a browser in front of you. Try the online editor, or flip through the showcase to see what is possible.

• Prezi - Website
• Prezi - Showcase

3rd Party Backup/Cloning Apps For Windows

Whether you're backing up your desktop(s) for archival, preparing for disaster recovery or just re-formating a PC, it's inevitable that you will need a good backup solution in your Windows environment. Here's a short list of common ones you may want to look into:

• Norton Ghost
• Paragon’s Drive Backup Express
• Acronis True Image
• DriveImage XML
• XXCLONE
  

Depending on your needs, some of these have personal free or demo downloads available. Although, I've used or seen most of these in action, the 2 most widely used i business/corporate with support for both multicast & unicast are Ghost and Acronis True Image.

Run Linux from USB drives

UNetbootin, is a unique little application for Windows and Linux users. It allows the creation of bootable USB drives loaded with your choice of the various Linux distro's available alonside other utilities.

Choose any of the distro's provided via the application download, or simply provide your own .iso image. A computer running Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista, or Linux is required.

UNetbootin Website

Converting Video on the Mac

In the Past converting video was a complicated process for people with a technical know-how of codecs and convoluted jargon that only experts understood. With the evolution of video on the internet, various developers have simplified the process down with some easy to use applications, which the average person can utilize.

The list is long across all the mainstream platforms. However, I live in the Mac world for all my graphics/web and Visual Effects work. The two most common applications I end up using for converting between video formats are FREE.

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