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Writing a book, creating a personalized magazine or delivering a print magazine or zine has never been this easy but thanks to Zinepal, now even a kid can do it.

Creating a zine is simple. Add the URL to a blog or blog feeds, select the entries you wish to add to the zine, preview your content, customise to your heart’s content, and you’re all set.

Delivery options include having it emailed to you (with new stories added), reading it on the site itself (or on any ePub/Mobipocket compatible reader), or having it sent directly to your Kindle by adding your Kindle email address.

Looking for a zine to read? Zinepal.com also offers a search function of zines created by other users, ready to be downloaded and read.

Video presentation of the product is given below:

While trying Zinepal, i created a newsletter for TechNama and decided to make it a regular feature of our site and publish it on weekly basis for our readers. It will be delivered to their e mail address or Amazon kindle address as per their request. They can also print it to read it while being on the go or during their lunch breaks.  Check out TechNama first newsletter created with the help of ZinePal

TechNama Newsletter 20th September, 2009 (PDF Version)

TechNama Newsletter 20th September, 2009 (Kindle/MobiPocket Version)

To find TechNama page on Zinepal, click here.

Today I stumbled to a very good resource that allows you to take screenshot of full scrolling web page without installing any software or adding any browser plugin or extension. This cool tip comes from aviary.com that not only take screen shots but also enables you to edit your captured image. Editing is basic though but still you can draw ellipse, rectangle, line, arrow, brush, write, crop, resize rotate or flip. You have standard color choice to add to these basic shapes. You can save the captured image to your desktop along with other option of saving online.  Now here is how you can quickly capture a full scrolling webpage:

simply add “aviary.com/” prior to http. For example if i have to capture http://technama.com i will add aviary.com/http://technama.com. WOW! that’s pretty simple.

Below is the screen shot tour:

Tell us how you like aviary or do you use any other tool capture scrolling web pages?

There are a lot of times when you want to chop or cut the YouTube video to suit your specific requirements. Webmasters or bloggers might also not be interested to display the complete YouTube clip of 10 minutese if the actual part they want to highlight on their site is of just two minutes. Thanks to TubeChop, now your problem of cutting the YouTube clips has been solved. TubeChop allows you to easily chop a funny or interesting section from any YouTube video and share it. The sharing is done through the html code that the site provides.

Below is the demonstration of the TubeChop as i used it to cut/chop the a video of GameSpot E3 2009 preview. The orignal YouTube clip is embedded below.

Now i used TubeChop to chop the video as per my own selection. The video can be cut in a very easy manner. Below is the screen shot of how you can cut the video with the help of scroll bars. Click the picture to enlarge it.

After choosing my selection through the scroll bars below the video link, i cut the orignal clip of 6 minutes 57 seconds to just 2 minutes. I started from 15th second of the clip and chopped till 2 minutes and 15 seconds. Below is the second screen shot after i cut it using TubeChop.

Now the above is the new cut version of the clip as per our specifications. You get an url as well as html code to embed the video on your site or to share it with friends.

Overall, TubeChop being a Web 2.0 site is very simple and still very useful. Do give it a try and give us your feedback.