New Toy for My Blog, and beyond
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I’m nearly giddy when I see a new beta for a technology product that I can actually understand and incorporate into my life. It’s even better when it’s free.
QlipBoard from Qlip Media is is ridiculously cool little program that walks you through creating Qlippits, which are basically videos comprised of you narrating over documents, images or web pages. The ways to use a Qlippet are endless. You could make a tutorial for almost anything, narrate a slide show of photographs from your vacation, design a little birthday graphic and have your child sing Happy Birthday to send to Grandma…, do you want me to go on? I can think of 50 ways to use it right now off the top of my head.
If you have a hard time expressing yourself via writing, but talking is your strong point, then you’ll probably groove on Qlippits. Sometimes I get so bogged down trying to write out everything I am thinking when I am excited about a logo concept or something else I have designed and it would rock to just upload the picture and talk right over the image about all of my ideas and concepts.
I was looking over some of the Qlippit examples on the Qlipboard website and particularly liked the baby announcement. It added a new level of personalization to the modern trend of doing birth announcements online.
It’s freakishly simple to use. Even if you don’t have a microphone, you can still use the graphical aspects of the program. You can import photos and even save favorite images that you want to use more than once. Qlippits can be saved, e-mailed, sent to wireless devices or even posted to a website or blog. Check out this screenshot:
Did I mention that it’s free? What do you have to lose? This is the coolest little application I have seen in a long time. And, it’s keeping me up WAY too late playing around with it. A few of you can expect Qlippits in your e-mail tomorrow. 
Good idea. I like that sort of tool! I finally installed Google Notes so that I could collect notes across the web for research because I wanted something that resembled the Microsoft product. I like it better because it’s faster.
This is nice because of the audio capability.
I got hooked on this qewl product a little more than one year ago when I found myself using it for absolutely everything online – user interface feedback, logo reviews, getting our office laid out right, contract reviews, keeping up with my parents, even making presentations to our Board of Directors.
But I’m biased, given that I am one of the intentors and a co-founder of Qlip Media. I’m totally with you on the “bogged down trying to write everything” point. I find myself clicking that little Q at least twenty times a day just to capture something I’m looking at, say a few words, and send it along.
Thanks for the insights, and for some more examples, check out my blog Qlippin’ Along at qlippin.blogspot.com
One afternoon, I was in the backyard hanging the laundry when an old, tired-looking dog wandered into the yard. I could tell from his collar and well-fed belly that he had a home. But when I walked into the house, he followed me, sauntered down the hall and fell asleep in a corner. An hour later, he went to the door, and I let him out. The next day he was back. He resumed his position in the hallway and slept for an hour.
This continued for several weeks. Curious, I pinned a note to his collar: “Every afternoon your dog comes to my house for a nap. ”
The next day he arrived with a different note pinned to his collar: “He lives in a home with ten children – he’s trying to catch up on his sleep.”
I cried from laughter
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