If you have created a great slide presentation that you wish to share with people it can be quite cumbersome and inconvenient to email the entire presentation file. However, there is an online service called SlideShare (www.slideshare.net) which allows you to upload your presentations and make them viewable online. Free accounts are available together with paid Pro accounts that have additional features.

Bookmarking web pages which are interesting to read later can quickly become rather cumbersome when searching through the list of bookmarks to access the page at a later date. Two services which help alleviate this issue are Instapaper (www.instapaper.com) and Read It Later (readitlaterlist.com). These services allow you to save and organise web pages for later reading, and even allows you to read them offline.

Social bookmarking services are becoming increasingly popular, allowing users to share bookmarks together with annotations and notes on particular websites. Two social bookmark services are Diigo (www.diigo.com) and Delicious (delicious.com). In addition to the sharing benefits of such services they also allow you to easily search through your saved content and are accessible from any computer with internet access, by simply logging onto the account for your social bookmarking service.

A few weeks ago Service Pack 3 for Microsoft Office 2007 was released. This update includes some minor new features and also various updates to the Microsoft Office system. It is always a good idea to keep Office up-to-date, given how often most people use this product, so the Service Pack can be downloaded from www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27838 . More comprehensive information on Service Pack 3 can be found in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article: support.microsoft.com/kb/2526086 .

Occasionally you may wish to record your screen, such as if you are demonstrating an application and wish to save it for later (or include the demonstration within a presentation). Previously it has been quite difficult to complete such “screencasts”, as they generally required software to be downloaded. There is now a free web-based utility which allows you to create screencasts, called Screenr (www.screenr.com). This excellent utility is very easy to use and allows you to easily create screencasts to share.