Free for Life 20 GB Cloud Space from Pogoplug

Can you buy a home now? Sure, why not? You have money – you can buy a home. If you have not much – you still can buy a small piece of it – like timeshare. Buy can you get it for free? Chance definitely exists, but not so big. But, in virtual space you have unlimited opportunities to get free “real estate”, “virtual” goods and services. This time, we will present an opportunity to get for free 20 GB of cloud storage at Pogoplug. What is 20 GB? It is good enough to store more than 6,000 pictures of 3 MB, and 20 video clips in AVI format of 800 MB.

Pogoplug is a new cloud storage service for your mobile life which enables you to store, stream and share your files, photos, music and movies wherever you are. Now, for a very limited time, Pogoplug is teaming up with Adorama to offer everyone 20 GB of cloud storage space for free forever.

Main Features:

* All your files, anywhere you need them.

 You’re constantly on the move, so why shouldn’t your data move with you? Pogoplug Cloud lets you easily upload files from your computer, smartphone or tablet and access them wherever you are.

* Stream your media anytime, anywhere.

 Stream from your Pogoplug Cloud to any device, including your smartphone, tablet or another computer. Watch all of your movies, view all your photos and listen to all your music whenever you want.

* Back up your smartphone and tablet.

 Ditch cumbersome cables: Pogoplug’s free mobile apps for iOS and Android automatically back up your photos and videos to your Pogoplug Cloud. Safeguard the photos and videos on your mobile device with one click.

* Share and collaborate with friends and colleagues.

 Share large files and folders instantly and securely. Collaborate on a work project with colleagues, or contribute to photo and video albums with friends. Pogoplug makes sharing a snap.

* Publish to Facebook, Twitter and Google+ with a single click.

 Pogoplug lets you post your photos and videos to the most popular social sites with a single click. Your friends can watch your videos and view your photo albums instantly. With Pogoplug, you own your data—not the social networks.

Sign up for the service is fast and easy – email and password, and you are done.

Website: https://pogoplug.com/promo/adorama

Access your web home: http://my.pogoplug.com/

Here you will find links for the free software assistants for iOS and Android.

Plan your kitchen online with Gliffy

While you may not use diagrams and plans for your line of work, once a while, you may need to use them for home arrangements or other projects. Without special software and certain expertise, that may be a challenging task.

Gliffy is an application, which provides online platform for plans and diagrams creation and collaboration. You can do all the tasks in your web browser without downloading additional software.

Using Flash technology, Gliffy allows users to quickly place specific diagram pieces onto the development screen with drag-n-drop functionality. Pieces can easily be deleted by selecting them and pressing the "delete" key on the keyboard. A variety of shapes, styles, colors, and formats are available for a wide array of projects.

The free user account has great functionality of the tools provided, but does not allow saving projects. Sharing and printing are also unavailable for free accounts. However, you are able to export the diagram as a .jpg, .png, SVG, or Gliffy XML files and save them locally.

The biggest advantage of the service is visual user-friendly interface, easy to use and requiring no complicated software manuals or extensive learning curve. Just drag-and-drop shapes from an extensive library and point-and-click your way to format. Clicking an object on a diagram allows you to rotate, resize or access the properties of the image. Within properties you can change the colors, size and position of the image. For even greater precision, set the diagram’s gridlines to display on the canvas as well as drawing guides and page breaks.

Website: http://www.gliffy.com/

How to Rotate Videos with VirtualDub?

We got inquiry from one of the blog readers on how to rotate videos 90 degrees, converting the general view from horizontal to vertical.

While there are multiple computer programs on how to reach the goal, in the post, we will present an easy way of rotation with freeware VirtualDub. This is a features-rich utility for video clips processing, and rotation constitutes just one of the numerous capabilities.

Software Download

As the first step, you need to download VirtualDub, if it is not installed on your computer, or you do not possess its portable version in your software toolbox.

VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows platforms (98/ME/NT4/2000/XP/Vista/7), licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).  It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video.  It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters.

·         Access downloading page at Sourceforge: http://virtualdub.sourceforge.net/

·         Download or install the software.

·         Run the software as installed.

Using the Rotate filter

·         Save the video you need to process in the known loadtion.

·         Load the file File – Open Video File.

·         Once the video is open, you need to apply the "Rotate" filter.

·         To select the filter click on the video menu and then filters (or Ctrl+F).

·         If the filter is missing, click on "Add" > "Rotate" and click "OK".

·         The Rotate filter will provide you will all the necessary options to rotate your videos: left or right 90 degrees or around 180 degrees.

·         Chose the right for you option and confirm.

·         The output video layout will appear on the right.

Using the Rotate2 filter

If you need to rotate your video for any reason to the angle other than 90 or 180, you may use the “filter 2” option, also appearing on the list.