TeamViewer developed recently the version 6 for their popular remote access software, they’ve included the mobile version as well and now the Android app is available to download.
TeamViewer is one of the most know applications we can use to access computers remotely, their free version is quite complete and with no complexity for installing nor using it. The mobile versions represent a great tool if we need some quick access to remote machines, that’s why they’ve developed the apps for iPhone, iPad and now Android (beta).
Here are some of the features:
Support your clients and colleagues spontaneously.
Access your office desktop with all of its documents and installed applications.
Remotely administer unattended computers (e.g. servers).
Free for non-commercial use: support family and friends or have remote access to your own computer.
LeanBack it’s an open source project for a HTML5 video player which you can use, completely free of course, in any of your websites and with the characteristic that supports subtitles.
This is definitely not the first open source project for HTML5, but is the first which includes the support for subtitles in their videos. This is a nice feature for HTML5 videos, which are taking large steps to replace Adobe Flash as the preferred platform in websites.
LeanBack has several interesting features as weel, take a look:
Supports widely used desktop browsers and mobile devices
Supports also Microsoft Internet Explorer (≤8) and Safari (without Quicktime on Windows) by fallback to flash
Ability to handle more than one HTML5 video element on a single page
Javascript library independent
100% skinnable using CSS; consistent look between browsers
Multi-language support
Browser fullscreen mode; window fullscreen mode
Volume controls
Keyboard shortcuts on focused video (desktop browsers)
Different playback rates (currently in desktop browsers Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer 9 beta)
Supports subtitles through HTML5 track element; language-selection by label attribute of track
Supports preload attribute in desktop browsers to save traffic (using a fix)
Channel 9, one of the most known Microsoft’s Internet channel with thousands of interesting videos, created a very complete guide regarding Windows Phone 7 Development: Step-by-step guides for absolute beginners.
There are almost 70 different videos, available for free, covering all you need to know if you want to start working with the development of Windows Phone 7 applications and if you don’t have any experience working with development.
These videos also include the possibility to download in different versions: High quality WMV, MP3, MP4 (compatible with iPod and ZuneHD), and medium quality WMV.
Screenr is a simple web app which allows creating screencasts from your computer and we can share those in a Twitter friendly link for all of our followers.
Screenr does not install any software in your machine, works directly online using Java as the engine to record the video. The quality of the recording is quite good, and includes also HD support. The videos will be also available to run on iPhones and iPads.
Using this web app is also pretty straightforward; we only have to select the area of the screen and click on “REC”.
Spreadtweet is a great app which provides a unique and original way to use Twitter, disguising it as a common spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel. So if you are trying to hide your Twitter activity from co-workers, this is the perfect application for you.
“So, you work at a big corporate, huh? And you’re not allowed to use Twitter… Wouldn’t it be awesome if there were a Twitter tool that looked just like Excel?” This is what @elliottkember says to all those Twitter users that are afraid to open a browser or any Twitter application related in their offices.
Spreadtweet, an Adobe AIR app, offers three different types of user interface: Office OSX, Office 2003 and Office 2007.
PhotoRem represents a very interesting alternative for services like Flickr, YouTube or Picassa; providing a central place for us to store photos, videos and documents completely free.
PhotoRem also includes an application to edit your photos directly online, avoiding installing special software locally, editing it and then uploading it again. Other feature included is the possibility to create a slideshow with your images.
The files supported for video are: Flv, Mov and MP4; and the type of documents supported: PDF, DOC and XLS. Also PhotoRem is social network friendly, uploaded files can easily be shared via Facebook, Twitter, etc.
Rovio, the company in charge of the development of the famous iPhone game “Angry Birds”, created a few wallpapers to use them in your iPhone or desktop.
With over 6.5M downloads, we cannot say this game did not make a mark; and now, all of the fans can enjoy some of nice quality images as wallpapers:
MindFlash let us create in the easiest way online training and courses just selecting any existing documents we already have, like Word files, presentations, PDF, or even videos.
In the training we can include also quiz questions for the “students”, and MindFlash will also automate the process of creating the quiz, saving the answers and generating reports about the results. Here’s a short demo about how to use it:
The free version can invite up to 10 users, and for certain there kind of educational tools can simplify a lot of work and still provide some interesting ways to teach and share knowledge.
Connecting our websites with social networks is one of the easiest ways to increase our popularity. ShareSideBar can help us in a great way, completely free and in one step we can create a sidebar for our site with all the common social networks: Facebook, Twitter, Delicio.us, Digg, Buzz, Reddit and Stumbleupon.
The most common use of providing visitors an easy way to share our website is adding links in our home page to all of the networks; certainly a more effective is using a sidebar in our website with a permanent and visible links. ShareSideBar creates for us the necessary code ready to be added in our website.
We can choose if we want the sidebar on the right or left side of the page, and the social networks we would like to use in the sidebar. This web app is completely free and does not require any registration.
How do we design our website is the key factor to achieve popularity, there’s no point on having a lot of great content if we are designing a complex site which it is extremely expensive to maintain it. W3tableless is a simple web app which will show us if the website design follows some of the best practices.
Even though there’s no golden rule about how to correctly design your website, there are several best practices that should not be avoid. One of them is “tableless”: A design technique for dividing the architecture of our site separating content and design. Therefore the maintenance costs of the website are reduced.
W3tableless will show you with just one click and completely free if your website is using this best practices. Just enter the URL and click on “CHECK”.
We will receive also a complete report about the website: Number of DIV tags, TABLE tags, Encoding, XML Prolog, etc.
Channel 9, one of the most known Microsoft’s Internet channel with thousands of interesting videos, created a very complete guide regarding Windows Phone 7 Development: 
