The free software Screen Markers has been designed to provide exactly that functionality. It can be used an unlimited amount of marker lines on the computer screen.

Here is how it works. The user interface of the software looks complicated on first glance, and it could use some improvement.

The Add Marker button can be used to place a new marker on the screen. A click on the button displays a new horizontal and vertical line that can be placed in any location on the desktop.

Screen Markers records the exact position of the marker lines, and displays them in the main program interface.

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Here it is then possible to edit the horizontal or vertical position directly, either by entering the numbers directly, or by clicking on the move and resize buttons in the interface.

Each marker can have its own color, which can be selected by clicking on the Colour field in the user interface. Here it is furthermore possible to change the vertical and horizontal length of each line individually. All lines take go from top to bottom, and left to right by default. Sometimes less is needed and this option makes it possible.

Markers can be saved in groups, which is helpful if they are needed on consecutive sessions as well. The select marker blinks irritatingly by default, which can be unset in the options.

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Markers are only shown to the user if the Show button is clicked on. They stay on the screen until the button is triggered a second time.

Screen Markers is pretty easy to use, despite its confusing interface. The freeware program is compatible with all recent Microsoft Windows operating systems up to Windows 7.

Downloads are available at the developer’s website. The program requires the VB6 Runtime which should be installed on most systems. A download is provided for that as well on the developer site in case it is needed.

A new service named social marker tries to step in and offer webmasters a solution that get rid of the repetitive typing. Once at their website you have the choice to submit your story to 32 social news and bookmarking websites with the option to check the ones that you would like to submit it to or to select profiles such as news, social, best, all and none of the sites.

The submission works like the following. You fill in the most relevant information about your article once at Socialmarker, those are Title, Tags, Excerpt and URL and hit submit afterwards. Socialmarker will load the first website of the list. You do need to login there of course but can choose that this login is saved for further sessions.

At the bottom of the screen is a short bar with the information that you entered before starting the process. You can drag and drop those details into the appropriate fields of the submission form at the various bookmarking sites. Sometimes those forms are already filled out.

The navigation at the top lets you load the next website in the list once the submission is finished at the current site. This takes some time because you will have to log into all those sites during the first submission round.

The second and all subsequent submissions however are more speedy because you do not have to log into the selected sites again. It takes about six minutes to submit the article to all bookmarking sites listed at Socialmarker.

This depends on your line speed of course and how fast your drag and drop skills are.

Socialmarker is great for webmasters who submit articles regularly to social bookmarking sites. The only drawback is that it only works in Firefox.

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