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January 2012 - Posts
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Greetings, REMINDER GURU is a reminder service with many different ways of notification. Do you have a way to keep track of appointments and events? Do you have an app or device to alert you when meetings or engagements are due. I confess that with my Read More...
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Greetings, CANVAS DROPR is an image editing and display app. Over the past few days I’ve featured a couple of free photo/image collections. Great, but what to do with all those pictures? I may have an answer for that as well, thanks to today’s app — CANVAS Read More...
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Greetings, BIG FIVE GLORIES is a web site offering free, classic, Hollywood films for viewing. It’s Sunday again, the day of rest. Just in time too because it’s been quite a week. Several prominent sites including Wikipedia went dark for 24 hours to protest Read More...
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Greetings, FOTOPEDIA is a web site offering free pictures and images for downloading. I’ve found another free photo site. Actually, I located it quite a while ago but have only now had time to take a look. It’s called FOTOPEDIA and it’s similar to sites Read More...
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Greetings, CORKBOARDME is a simple, online bulletin board app Sometimes, the easiest way to encourage reluctant colleagues to use technology is to pick a virtual app which looks and functions just like a familiar class room object, such as a bulletin Read More...
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Greetings, PUBLIC DOMAIN PICTURES is a web site offering free, public domain photos for download. I’m not sure how today’s site — PUBLIC DOMAIN PICTURES — escaped my notice. I thought I had located all the good, free clipart and photo sites. Obviously Read More...
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Greetings, TWITDRIP is a web app that allows users to send pre-written or cached Twitter messages (Tweets) at scheduled intervals. Twitter is great for sharing links and resources or sending event notifications. It’s easy to use and quick. Unfortunately, Read More...
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Greetings, PEARLTREES is a new kind of social bookmarking application. Imagine what might happen if a social bookmarking app like Diigo were mashed-up with a mind-mapping app like Bubbl.us or Mindmeister. Congratulations, you have just visualized today’s Read More...
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Greetings, GEEKPHILOSOPHER is a web site offering free, Creative Commons pictures. Here’s another photo site, that I just learned of. The site is called GEEKPHILOSOPHER and all the digital images are completely free for personal and commercial use. The Read More...
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Greetings, CUT THE ROPE is a simple, yet deceptively complex, online game. It’s Sunday again, the day of rest. How about a nice, simple game to relax with? I have just the solution called, CUT THE ROPE. CUT THE ROPE is deceptively simple yet very challenging. Read More...
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Greetings, SPAMON is a web site offering free disposable or temporary email accounts. If one disposable email account is good, are two accounts better? Last week I blogged about a disposable email service called DISPOSTABLE. This week I have an almost Read More...
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Greetings, TINYLETTER is free online service for creating and sending attractive newletters via email Email still has a lot going for it as a communications method. It’s simple and ubiquitious. Everyone understands how it works and everyone has an account. Read More...
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Greetings, PDFESCAPE is a PDF document annotation tool that allows the user to mark-up a document. I almost didn’t include today’s tool, PDFESCAPE because a part of it ticked me off. In the end however, I decided there was more good then aggravation here Read More...
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Greetings, SLIDEPOINT is a free web service for publishing Powerpoint presentations online without the use of Flash. Today’s app — SLIDEPOINT — allows a user to publish a Powerpoint presentation on the web. Nothing newsworthy there. What is newsworthy Read More...
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Greetings, SOUNDJAY is a web site offering a variety of free, high quality, downloadable, sound effects files. Today’s site — SOUNDJAY — has 3000 free, downloadable sound files in either WAV or MP3 format. Most of these files are available in 16 bit stereo Read More...
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Greetings, MOVIEMATH is a web site containing numerous video clips from movies and TV shows in which some sort of mathematics appears. It’s Sunday again, the day of rest. Today’s site — MOVIEMATH — could be labelled semi-restful and semi-work related. Read More...
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Greetings, ITV WILD is a web site featuring numerous out-door and nature film clips. ITV is perhaps best know as the creators of “Coronation Street” but it does produce several other television series, such as “Survival”, “Lion Country” and “Granada Wild”. Read More...
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Greetings, OOKABOO is a web site offering free stock images and pictures. How about another site offering free photos? Last week I blogged about a very slick, professional looking site called KOZZI which offered free pictures for downloading. It was not Read More...
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Greetings, DISPOSTABLE is a web site offering free disposible or temporary email accounts. One of the biggest obstacles to integrating many web apps in the classroom is the need for an account which usually involves an email address as part of the process Read More...
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Greetings, GIFGEAR is an easy to use, online app for making Animated Gifs. I like Animated Gif’s. They are the most rudimentary of all web animations and most tend to be tacky however, they work with virtually every combination of operating system and Read More...
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Greetings, SEND-EMAIL allows a user to send an email message to someone anonymously. I’m not sure how, where or why I would use todays app — SEND-MAIL– but, having a well stocked DE Tool Kit means having an app for every occasion even the ones I can’t Read More...
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Greetings, A GOOGLE A DAY is a Google service that offers one Jeopardy type question a day for users to answer. It’s Sunday again, the day of rest. How did your first week back at school go? While it’s great to be back … . Did you make any New Year’s Read More...
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Greetings, KOZZI is a web site offering free vector images and photographs. It’s been a while since I’ve blogged about a clipart/image site so, to start off 2012 the right way, I have a wonderful site to recommend called KOZZI. Initially, I had a hard Read More...
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Greetings, FOOFIND is a specialized search engine which combs the Net looking for files. I hesitated before including todays app, FOOFIND. It’s a specialized search engine which scans the Web for files rather then text or search terms. To do that, FOOFIND Read More...
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Greetings, ONLINE IMAGE RESIZER is an easy to use use online image editing/resizing tool. Sometimes, simple tasks require simple tools. Today’s offering — ONLINE IMAGE RESIZER — is a perfect example. It’s an online tool that does just a couple of functions Read More...
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Greetings, FREE PHOTO CALENDAR is a web site where users can create their own photo calendars. Today site — FREE PHOTO CALENDAR — is so ridiculously simple to use, I’m almost embarrassed to include it. Nevertheless, it’s a great place to take reluctant Read More...
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Greetings, OCREXTRACT is a free, online OCR Service Today’s site, OCREXTRACT was originally recommended by DE Tools reader “thtesche”. After reading my post of another OCR service called, Better OCR, he suggested I also try OCREXTRACT. This service will Read More...
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Greetings, FREE FLASH RESOURCES is a site offering free, downloadable, Flash games for teachers. Today’s site — FREE FLASH RESOURCES — was created by British educator Stewart J. J. Davies who has an amazing talent for developing in Flash. Mr Davies has Read More...
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Greetings, MUSY is an online picture/visual blog. Today’s site — MUSY — describes itself as a blog for creative people. It’s that and then some. Most ordinary blogs such as WordPress or Blogger tend to be linear sequential in nature with posts or entries Read More...
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Greetings an Happy New Year, UTUBERSITY is a search index site listing university related YouTube video content. Another web site that has continued to grow and expand until it’s become the second largest on the web is YouTube. What began as simply a Read More...
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Greetings, MUGEDA is a wonderful drawing and animation tool. Happy New Year! Thank you gentle readers for making 2011 a very good year for DE Tools and me. While there were no awards or accolades to brag about, a few significant milestones were reached. Read More...
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