Tool of the day: Video Avatar

Video Avatar is a tool for creating animated GIF avatars.
You can choose the video file and its part and then crop it for your avatar or userpic. So basically Video Avatar is a video cropper. By using Video Avatar you can create original video avatars for your blogs, journals, you can also set userpic in your profile page for any forums, communities, your website, etc.
Video Avatar supports all the video formats for inputing, such as avi, asf, mp4, mpg, mpeg, mov, wmv. Output file will be controlled with width, height, Frames Per Second and reverse mode. So you choose a video file, such as your favourite movie, music video, cartoon or any video you have, choose a part for cropping in the video preview and manage range bar for time limits and click Start. After converting you will got an animated GIF with pixelsize that is set.
Video Avatar has a very simple and friendly-using interface, thats why you will not have any difficulties managing it.

Imports various video files

Crops video for creating GIF

Width, height, FPS settings for GIF

Plays GIF in a normal and reverse modes

Customizable dimensions for GIF

Time line with ZOOM feature

Supports English, Spanish and Russian languages

Easy to use interface

http://www.geovid.com/Video_Avatar/

Graphics of the day: The Blogging Fever

eBook of the day: Blogosphere

Blogosphere: Best of Blogs by Peter Kuhns, Adrienne Crew

You probably have your favorite blogs to visit each day, but there are countless other blogs that you could never find on your own and that could potentially be added to the top of your favorites! Blogosphere: Best of Blogs is a collection of the blogs you've heard about and the ones still waiting to be discovered. Organized into sections based on interests and moods, you'll find a listing of the best blogs out there, along with the reasons why they've made the list. Complete with searching tips and strategies, Blogosphere will help you find the greatest voices in the blogging universe.

Publisher: Que; 1st edition ISBN-10: 0789735261 CHM 5,1 Mb 336 pages

Tool of the day: BlogJet 2.0

BlogJet is a blog client for Windows that allows you to manage your blogs without opening a browser. What makes using BlogJet a lot more comfortable than posting with browser or other blog clients?WYSIWYG EditorFormat your posts as you do it in ordinary word processors like Microsoft Word. No need to learn HTML.ImagesInsert pictures from your computer or camera, resize them or create thumbnails — BlogJet will take care of uploading them to your blog or FTP server.Flickr and YouTube SupportYour photos on Flickr and videos on YouTube will complement your blog – and now it’s easy to insert them to your posts, as BlogJet supports these services natively.Spell CheckerYour mistakes won’t go unnoticed thanks to BlogJet spell checker, which supports many languages.Auto ReplaceIf you are tired of writing the same thing over and over again, create an Auto Replace rule for it. For example, when you type Scoble, BlogJet can replace it with a link to Robert’s blog.File AttachmentsSharing documents and files with your readers is easy — just attach them to your posts.Post Management and SearchingBlogJet now stores your posts in the cache, so you can access thousands of your posts in a blink of an eye (even with no connection). Finding posts is now easier because of the instant search, which shows results as you type.Word Counter and Blog StatisticsBlogJet now has a live word counter. And with Statistics feature you can find out a lot of interesting information about your blog: how many posts it has, average post length, and number of posts published by days of week.DraftsIf you are on the road and there is no Internet connection, or if you want to finish your post later, save it as draft. Then you can get back to finishing and publishing it.Blog AutodiscoveryRSD. This R-word means that you will be able to work with your blog in less than a minute after installing BlogJet, because it will literally configure itself: you only have to enter your blog’s address.Integration with Browsersand Feed ReadersBlogJet integrates with Firefox, Internet Explorer, FeedDemon, RSS Bandit, NewsGator and others for you to be able to blog about something in just a few clicks.Supports All Leading Blog ServicesWordPress, TypePad, Movable Type, Blogger (new and old), MSN Spaces, Blogware, BlogHarbor, Squarespace, Drupal, Community Server, etc.Current Music DetectionLet your readers know what music you like — BlogJet can automatically insert the title and the artist of the song playing in iTunes, Winamp or Windows Media Player.20 High-Quality SmileysIt’s not cool to use text smileys anymore :-) That’s why BlogJet can automatically replace them with funny graphics.Right TypographyBlogJet cares about typography: it automatically replaces quotes and dashes with proper ones as you type.Group PostingIf you have several blogs, BlogJet can publish the same post into each one of them. Even if they are on different blog services.Modern InterfaceAs usual, we care about the interface. The easy-to-use graphical user interface in BlogJet comes with themes.
http://www.codingrobots.com/blogjet/download/