Windows Live Writer Plugin for Amazon S3 Storage
Recently we set up an Amazon S3 account for uploading all images and files for this blog. We used the Firefox plugin S3Fox for uploading all the images to Amazon S3. We were searching for some integration of Amazon S3 services into Windows Live Writer as we use it to compose the posts and found this really good Amazon S3 browser plugin for Live Writer. Once the plugin is installed, restart WLW and you can see a link at the bottom right portion of WLW.
When you click Insert S3 Object, you will be prompted to enter you Access ID and Secret key for Amazon S3.
Once you enter the details, you will be able to access all you Amazon S3 images uploaded with the folder set up.
You can insert as link or as an image from the S3 browser. This browser also supports uploading of files to your S3 account. This plugin is pretty useful for people using S3 account for image uploading and WLW for composing posts.
How to Add a Watermark to Excel Sheets
Previously we had published a tutorial on how to add watermark for a Word document. You can also add watermarks for Excel sheets, but the procedure to add watermark is different from that of Word documents as Excel does not have a built in feature for doing it. So in Excel you can add an image as watermark to the sheets. Here are the steps to add a watermark in Excel sheet
1. To add an image as watermark, select the Insert tab in the ribbon, make sure you have created a graphical image using your favorite image editor.
2. In the Insert tab, click on the Header and footers button.
3. Header and footers are displayed on the Excel and now click on the "Click to Add Header" on top of the screen.
4. Now select a picture from the Picture button located in the ribbon.
5. Browse for the image you want to add as water mark and add it. Now the image will be displayed on the header. Click Enter on your keyboard to bring it to the center of the sheet. The watermark added will look similar to the one shown below.
This watermark will be available when we take the print of Excel sheets and also in the normal display of sheets.
Lyrics Viewer Displays Lyrics of Songs while Playing
The Lyrics Viewer is a freeware application which is a tool that allows the user to view song lyrics. It also allows the user to pull up extra information about the album containing the song as well as play the song while viewing the lyrics. Once you open the application, select the song from the hard drive using the left panel window and the available songs are displayed in the right panel window. When a song is selected, you can view the lyrics, play the song, get more details on the song and also embed lyrics.
For the lyrics to be displayed while playing, the song should have the lyrics must be embedded previously and if not the program gives directions on how to have lyrics embedded in the song.
This is a useful utility for music lover as they can view and embed lyrics of favorite songs. If you use Winamp, then check out this post to know how to display lyrics in Winamp.
Convert Video to Flash with Free Flash Converter
If you want to publish your video files as flash on your blog or website, then Free Flash Converter is a good application for the same. It can convert .avi, .mpeg, .mpg, .mp4, .m4v, .wmv, .asf, .mov, .qt, .3gp, .3g2, .dvr-ms. .flv video files to .flv and .swf files to publish on your website. The interface is pretty simple and easy to use. Add the files into the conversion window, select the output format and folder and then click convert.
Free Flash converter includes 80+ variants of flash players. Video to Flash converter also has provision to trim the video, so that you can selectively convert video to flash. This application is free of cost for both personal and commercial use.
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