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If you read my post from yesterday, you’d know that I’ve been trying out Camtasia v.5 for the past couple of days.  While doing so, I realized there was a feature I never used in v.4 – PiP.  I’ve seen some screencasts that include PiP so I got to wondering about how it would look and if it was, in fact, useful.  So, I recorded this brief test screencast and I want you tell me what you think.  Now, it’s not something I would do all the time because I like to have things planned out a bit more and explaining things while looking into a camera and trying to focus on what’s happening on your screen is not easy.  So, here’s my screencast test of PiP:

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Some people like to have their online calendar, email, to-do list, news feed, wish list, and address book all rolled into one.  If you’re one of those people, please, do not keep reading.  For those of you who would simply like a place online to store email addresses and phone numbers, then Flexadex may  be just what you’re looking for.  Ok, it does a little bit more than that – but the beauty of Flexadex is that you get to decide what it does for you.  At first glance it may look like a very basic address book.  But Flexadex is set up so that anything you type into your entry is searchable.  So you could use it as a to-do list, a place to store friends and families birthdays, or even a place to store project notes along with contact information.  It’s really quite pleasant to use and to look at.  Here’s my screencast tour of Flexadex:

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Ript is a fun little tool that allows you to rip photos and text from a web page and create scrapbooks, to-do lists, and whatever else you can think of.  You have to download it first (8.7MB)  and then after you launch it you’ll see a little pile of scraps in the corner of your browser.  That’s where you put the items you’re ripping from the web.  All you need to do is click on an item and drag it over to the pile.  You’ll hear a little tearing noise and then you’ll know the item has been Ript.  When you’re all through, you can re-size images, add text, create multiple pages of Ript items, and save or email your project.  Here’s my screencast tour of Ript:

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