Friendfeed is a cool aggregation service which took aggregates many social media websites. They’ve introduced the service with a cool new feature called “Like this”. You can press the like button to mark your emotions towards the shared content. Finally the number of people liked the story and comments give every author a good satisfaction and inspiration to share more! Of course believe me.

Facebook also introduced the “Like” option to the shared contents inspired from friendfeed. but recently I’ve noticed that, lot of good, bad news are happening around but without having any common sense or understanding people are “Liking Stories” (even myself accidently liked a sad story, which I never supposed to").

This came to my attention when Barack Obama’s page posted the Passing Away for Senator Kennedy. You can see 38,847 people like this story so far.

It surely doesn’t make any sense. It’s a great loss for a nation. People may clicking the like button for showing the interest to the stories or may be just because the news was shared by a “The President” who’s a celebrity on the same platform. It’s method to convey your feeling towards what’s he shared.

Another story is shared by the Indian Army. It’s again the feelings of a nation, a sad news shared by the protectors of great India. But still lot of people liked this story (I accidently clicked by misunderstanding the trooper with trespasser. Anyway I unlike it quickly) .

I think facebook (or any other service providing this feature) should provide an option to control this by the author itself. Because social networks are not simply automated robots. Ultimately it aims people and Sharing their thoughts and information. The services should be flexible and apt to make good sense and value to their users stories and emotions.

Here’s the another one in the tools series. Suppose if you’re preparing for a hands-on demo on your product, or want to prepare some cool tutorials like this guy because you just luv2help.  What’s the easiest and cost effective way to capture high resolution vide of your desktop? Camstudio is a free screen recording (capturing) Software. Don’t think about paying some bucks to get the license, it’s absolutely free and Open Source software.

CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)

CamStudio can also add high-quality, anti-aliased (no jagged edges) screen captions to your recordings in seconds and with the unique Video Annotation feature you can even personalise your videos by including a webcam movie of yourself "picture-in-picture" over your desktop.

And if all that wasn’t enough, CamStudio also comes with its own Lossless Codec that produces crystal clear results with a much smaller filesize compared with other more popular codecs, like Microsoft Video 1.

You have total control over the output of your video: you can choose to use custom cursors, to record the whole screen or just a section of it and can reduce or increase the quality of the recording depending on if you want smaller videos (for emailing to people, for instance) or you can have "best quality" ones for burning onto CD/DVD.

Enjoy the cool tools

Windows provides only limited Window arrangement facilities by default. The usual Tile Vertically, horizontally, cascade windows are the usual options available in Windows. But it was never flexible to use, especially with multiple monitors.

In Windows 7, as part of the Desktop Enhancement new Window Organizing features are more flexible than ever.  Like maximizing, horizontal, vertical resizing, side by side view etc.. The best thing is it’s integrated with keyboard shortcuts and also with some cool mouse gestures. e.g by dragging to the top edge, you can maximize the window, to the right or left edge. you can make it 50% size vertically to make a side-by-side comparison. also you can do these with Keyboard shortcuts as well.

But, Windows 7 is yet to be released. Also not everyone opting Windows 7. This kind of simple features are really handy especially when you’re using a high resolution display and multi-monitor setup.

WinSplit Revolution is a free solution for excellent window management for high resolution and multiple monitors. It permits you to "divide" your screen into several parts: halves, thirds, fourths, etc… For instance, a window can be resized and moved to the left half, the right half, the top, a corner… of the screen. Also it helps you to move a Window to another screen when you’re using multiple monitors.

[Image taken from http://www.winsplit-revolution.com/]

The utility provides some cool features as (don’t confused with the name, take the help page and try each features you will find it very easy). Also Video Demo will help you for an introduction

• Automated window handling (resize, move, reorganize, close tasks)
• Shape – process association
• Global hotkeys and clickable virtual numpad
• Automatic startup
• Automatic update
• Moving a window with mouse (drag’n'go)
• Hotkey configure
• Layout configure
• Fusion between 2 windows
• Minimize/Restore by hotkey
• Mosaic mode

Enjoy this cool utility with your own desktop for painless arrangement of Windows @ free of cost.

In my case, usually use this for dealing windows with multiple monitors and side by side view (for updating review comments ). Also resizing my Google reader windows to 50% horizontal for painless reading and lot more.

Download it here