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Please add updates@feedmyinbox.com to your address book to make sure you receive these messages in the future. Digital Inspiration - Technology Blog Create a Flash Catalog of your Favorite Amazon Products May 27, 2009 at 10:26 am Before I get into the actual product, here’s how your Amazon Product catalog will look like on the web. You can navigate through the pages of this virtual catalog like other flipping magazines (e.g. Zinio) and if the pictures or text appears too small, you can always zoom-in.   Publish an Amazon Product Catalog The product catalog is created using flipick.com. The idea is that you search and build a list of Amazon products that should be part of the catalog and this service does the rest. It pulls relevant information about these products include the price, customer reviews, etc. from Amazon databases and puts everything in a beautiful catalog that you may also embed in web pages as a Flash widget. You also have the option to customize the theme and cover art of your catalog to make them look more unique. And unlike the print catalogues, you can also shop on Amazon through this Flip book catalog - you can collect any number of items from a catalog and it transports you to the Amazon website at the checkout stage. Obviously, the Amazon ID of the developer is included in the product links so he or she benefits from every purchase. Here’s a live demo - just drag the top right corner to flip a page. Related: Generate Summary of Amazon Reviews Create a Flash Catalog of your Favorite Amazon Products - Published at Digital Inspiration (RSS) Never Forget an Email Attachment in Outlook Again May 27, 2009 at 7:44 am You just sent an email referencing a document but only after that mail has left your Outlook outbox did you realize that you forgot to attach the file with the message. And then there’s another wave of follow emails from recipients asking - ‘Where’s the attachment?’. Does this situation sound familiar? If you like to save yourself from embarrassment caused due to "missing email attachments", check the new Forgotten Attachment Detector plug-in on Office Labs. It will pop-up a message if you accidentally try sending an email in Outlook that is supposed to contain file attachments. Screen A: Opportunity to attach missing files before sending this email The Attachment Detector plug-in for Microsoft Outlook checks every email for particular keyword phrases (like "PFA" or "See enclosed" or "find attached") before sending an email. If any these words are found in the message body but the email itself includes no attachments, you’ll see a prompt reminding you to attach file(s). Gmail too includes an attachment detection feature but with this new Outlook plug-in, you can define custom keywords that should trigger the missing attachment alert. This is handy if you exchange uncommon file-types (like dwg or psd) in your internal communication which can otherwise go undetected. Other than reminding you to attach missing files, the "Forgotten Attachment Detector" plugin can also issue notification when you try sending an email message that has no subject line. Again, this "blank subject lines" feature is also available in Gmail labs. Related add-in: Attach Large Files in Outlook Email Never Forget an Email Attachment in Outlook Again - Published at Digital Inspiration (RSS) Watch TV Shows on the Desktop with Joost Media Player May 27, 2009 at 5:23 am Joost.com, as you probably know, is a free web service that lets you watch popular TV shows, music videos, podcasts and even some movies on the Internet. Initially, Joost required users to download a desktop application for watching Internet TV but in December last year, they switched to a website-only model and completely discontinued the Joost software application. Joost on the Desktop Now if you enjoy watching videos on Joost but miss their original desktop app, try the new Joost Media Player - it’s an Adobe AIR app that brings the same Joost experience on your desktop outside the web browser. With Joost Media Player, you can not only view Joost.com’s library of TV shows and music videos but it’s also integrated with Twitter so you can easily share links of videos you are currently watching with your Twitter friends. Picture in Picture One of the most useful feature in Joost Desktop is the Picture-in-Picture effect. You can watch videos and browse the Joost library simultaneously - the video will continue to play in a corner while you navigate the other sections. The Joost Media Player also offers a TV mode where you can watch videos in full screen mode and navigate through different shows as if you were surfing channels on TV. You can use the arrow keys of your wireless keyboard to "switch channels" on Joost (similar to a remote control) but unlike the Adobe Media Player, there’re no DVR features here so you can’t download or record shows. Joost video library includes television programmes from CBS, CNBC, Viacom, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon and more. Watch TV Shows on the Desktop with Joost Media Player - Published at Digital Inspiration (RSS) Nokia N97 Reviewed at CNET May 27, 2009 at 4:07 am Like the Palm Pre, there’s plenty of buzz around the Nokia N97 mobile phone that is expected to hit the retail shelves sometime next month. The touch-screen N97 phone has a sliding QWERTY keyboard, a 5 Megapixel camera and you can customize the 3.5" home screen of the phone with widgets just the way you arrange gadgets on a personalized Google homepage. Try this online demo to explore the other feature of the N97 phone. Nokia N97 - Video Review John Chan at CNET Asia recently had a chance to review the Nokia N97 unit and here’s what he has to say about the phone. Nokia N97 Reviewed at CNET - Published at Digital Inspiration (RSS) Adobe Introduces Acrobat.com Presentations - Create Impressive Slides Online May 27, 2009 at 1:24 am Acrobat.com Presentations is a new online presentation tool from Adobe to help you create presentations in the web browser. The service may have some things in common with Google Docs Presentations, Zoho Show, 280Slides or Slide Rocket but unlike competition, the real focus of Acrobat Presentations for the moment is collaboration. With Acrobat.com Presentations, different members of your team can edit the same presentation simultaneously - the technical manager may focus on the text or the actual content of the slides while the designer may take care of the presentation graphics and color schemes. The best part is that all members working on the same presentation can see the slide numbers which the other members are currently viewing or editing so there are less chances of any conflict or overwrites. The user interface of Adobe Presentations is done in Flash and pretty similar to that of Buzzword, Adobe’s online word processor. Another unique feature of Acrobat Presentations is that you can upload Flash FLV videos into your presentations and the process of adding videos is very similar to inserting an image into a slide. The size of individual video files should be less than 10 MB in size and the videos will auto-play when you run the slideshow. Acrobat Presentations - The Missing Stuff There are some missing features though. For instance, you can’t import PowerPoint presentations into Acrobat for editing on the web, no option to embed presentations*, no audio support, people with whom you share a presentation need an Acrobat.com ID to view the slides and you only export slides out of Acrobat.com as PDF files so you can’t edit them in another application. That said, this is an early release of Acrobat.com presentation and Adobe may be incorporate some of the missing features in future releases (support for ppt & pps slideshows is coming for sure) but one feature you’ll seriously like about Acrobat Presentations is collaborative editing. This may come handy if you are nearing a deadline - just rope-in several colleagues and work simultaneously on a same slides. You can also deliver your Acrobat presentations live on the Internet via Adobe ConnectNow, a web conferencing service that is also part of the Acrobat.com suite. Acrobat.com Presentations is part of Adobe Labs and absolutely free with no limits on storage size - they are going with with the Google philosophy of "release early, release often". Click here to sign-up for Acrobat Presentations or read an overview. *How to Embed Acrobat.com Presentations If you need to share your Acrobat Presentations on web pages, simply export the slides as a PDF file and upload it to SlideShare or Issuu. See more solutions in this guide to embedding files. Adobe Introduces Acrobat.com Presentations - Create Impressive Slides Online - Published at Digital Inspiration (RSS)   This email was sent to xfeedr@gmail.com.  Create Your Account Don't want to receive this feed any longer? Unsubscribe here.