Screenpresso is the zen master of screenshot apps

When it comes to screenshot applications, I am not easy to please. As a technical writer, screenshots are my bread and butter. I've used SnagIt, ZScreen, and even the Windows 7 Snipping Tool. Yet nothing comes close to the convenience of Screenpresso. Screenpresso is tiny. I have no idea what it's written in -- maybe some newfangled .NET thing, but it sure doesn't feel like the standard fare Windows application. The UI is all custom-looking and the app feels very lightweight. Like most screenshot apps, Screenpresso sits in your system tray and waits for you to hit a hotkey. But once it takes the screenshot, it does something a bit different: it instantly saves it in its own folder, and then lets you very easily save it to another path with Ctrl-S. As you can see in the screenshot above, there's a handy little "history" screen which lets you access the source files of all previous screenshots. So if you've messed anything up in editing, you can quickly revert to the original image. That's just one example for the general elegance of Screenpresso. It doesn't do anything exceptional -- it does far less than ZScreen, but that's exactly why I keep coming back to it. By the way, that screenshot was not taken with Screenpresso, which evidently cannot take a screenshot of itself -- how un-zen like.

WooRank summarizes your website in a few seconds

Competitive? Run a website? Curious to see how your favorite sites rank? I have just the thing. WooRank is a new service that summarizes your entire website in one decidedly useful shot. Highlights include:

• Traffic estimation numbers using Google data, Alexa & Compete rankings
• An internal site SEO analysis with a Text/HTML ratio
• Off-site SEO with link counts from Delicious, Digg, Twitter & Wikipedia as well as a back link count total -- Nice
• It even does a Whois lookup and shows if the site is using compression

Good stuff. It summarizes all this using some behind the curtains wizardry to create a single score they call the woorank. Without knowing more about the algorithm it's hard to say if this number is meaningful but from their About page I would assume it's based heavily on search criteria Google finds relevant. They appear to be adding features rapidly; in the last 24 hours a PDF feature appeared that will send the summary to an email address. The current services are free with unspecified premium features coming soon.

Convert PDFs with tables to Excel documents online

PDF files are great because you don't have to worry about the formatting of your document getting lost in translation when you send it to someone else. The only problem is that they're notoriously tough to edit. Nitro's new web-based PDF to Excel converter solves at least part of the problem. If you've got a PDF with tables, and you want to do more than view them, then this is for you. PDF to Excel does a pretty decent job of keep the formatting of the original PDF intact. Colors, text sizes and cell formatting all carry over into Excel. Just as importantly, it reliably detects tables to keep from forcing your non-table content into the Excel document, where you'll probably just end up deleting it. The only complaint I have about PDF to Excel is that it delivers the results by email. I'd like to see a direct download option as well.

Conceal your email address from bots with HideText

Sometimes you want humans to be able to read some information -- like your email address, for example -- while disguising it from bots that might be automatically collecting it. One way to do it is by displaying the info as an image, instead of as text, like Facebook does with email addresses. HideText gives you a quick way to do that. HideText has two modes for converting text to images. One is a plain text box, with a choice of only two fonts and a few sizes, but you can enter whatever text you want, and it will get the job done. The other is an email-specific mode that includes your provider's logo as part of the image. It works with most major email services, like Gmail, Yahoo, and MSN. Either way you use it, you end up with your text concealed from Googlebots and things that could potentially be more malicious, like spammers.

OpenOffice 3.1 postao dostupan

Verzija 3.1 je postala dostupna za skidanje. Radi se o potpuno besplatnoj alternativi popularnom Microsoft Office paketu, baziranoj na Open source softveru. Od lansiranja verzije 3.0 u oktobru prošle godine, OpenOffice je skinut 60 miliona puta samo sa OpenOffice.org sajta. Nova verzija je izbačena na čak 90 jezika. Prema navodima organizacije, izmenjeno je čak 500 miliona linija koda! Nova verzija je pretrpela određene grafičke izmene, a sadrži i brojna unapređenja druge prirode. Kompletan spisak karakteristika i izmena možete videti na ovoj stranici. OpenOffice 3.1 možete pronaći na ovoj adresi.