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March 2012 - Posts
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Greetings IGNITESTOCK is a website offering free stock photos for downloading. A few days ago, I wrote about a website offering free video backgrounds called IgniteMotion. After finishing that post, I poked around the site some more and found a whole Read More...
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Greetings, SWF SPOT is a site with a number of Flash projects such as the 3D Rotating Cube. Today’s site — SWF SPOT — is more about fun then utility. A good example is the 3D Image Cube — a 3 dimensional cube that rotates. Users can specify which pictures Read More...
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Greetings, SHAKESPEAR SEARCHED is a specific search engine which only searches the works of Shakespear Today’s offering — SHAKESPEAR SEARCHED — is a subject specific search engine meaning it’s searches are specific to a certain subject area or topic. Read More...
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Greetings, FONTSPACE is an incredible web site offering almost 17,000 fonts for free download. I love fonts, almost as much as clipart. The right font can mean all the difference between an ordinary publication and one that “pops” but, finding just the Read More...
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Greetings NASA STATION SPACEWALK GAME is a free, downloadable space simulation game. It’s Sunday again, the day of rest. How about a simulation game to relax with, although I’m not sure how much relaxing will occur as this simulation is very engaging. Read More...
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Greetings, FREE CLASSIC AUDIO BOOKS is a web site offering free audio books It’s Sunday again, the day of rest. Some folks enjoy reading a good book to relax. Others enjoy listen to the same book, especially when doing something monotonous like driving Read More...
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Greetings, POLLMO is free online survey tool. Today’s offering — POLLMO — is a free, easy to use online survey tool that can be linked to or embedded within a web page. Employing this tool requires the user to access the POLLMO home page, enter a question, Read More...
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Greetings, SCIRUS is a specific search engine which focuses on Science related information. Another specific search engine for your consideration. This one is called SCIRUS and focuses on science related information. Once again, Google is the main styling Read More...
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Greetings, SMART-IP.NET is and Internet utility capable of determining all sorts of information about an Internet connection. Time for an actual DE Tool for a change. Today’s offering is called SMART-IP.NET. It’s an online service that provides all sorts Read More...
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Greetings, PICTURE2LIFE is an online photo editing service with lots of special effects. Today’s offering — PICTURE2LIFE — provides the same sort of service — Photo Editing — as yesterday’s app, PICMONKEY but the two are as different as black and white. Read More...
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Greetings, PICMONKEY is a free, online image editing tool. I have another photo editing tool for your consideration. This one is called PICMONKEY and it’s pretty good. All the expected options and accessories are there such as crop, rotate, exposure controls, Read More...
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Greetings, PENCIL is a free, downloadable drawing/animation program for Mac, Windows and Linux with lots of features. How about another free, downloadable, draw program. I’ve featured a couple lately but today’s offering called — PENCIL — is a real dandy Read More...
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Greetings, WORDGAMES is a fun web site offering a variety of free games. It’s Sunday again, the day of rest. Some folks enjoy playing games as a way to relax and decompress after a hard week, especially if the games are familiar or easy to play. That’s Read More...
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Greetings, ONETIMESECRET is a way to send a secret, encrypted, self-destructing message. Safety, security and privacy are all concerns of present day Internet users yet there may come a need to communicate privately and securely with someone without the Read More...
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Greetings, BUZZSPROUT is an online audio streaming/podcasting service. Sometimes, tasks that should be easy, end up being the most difficult. Case in point — streaming audio. Embedding an audio file in a web page that users can play and hear should be Read More...
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Greetings, ALEGRIPHOTOS is a web site with free photographs. Whenever I discover a site featuring free pictures, I become suspicious. More often then not, it’s just a “come-on” for a commercial picture service or a site with overwhelming advertising. Read More...
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Greetings, ONLINE BOOKS is a collection of more then 1 million free books. Today’s site — ONLINE BOOKS — was created by the library of the University of Pennsylvania and contains more then 1 million volumes. That’s an impressive number by any standard. Read More...
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Greetings, MY PERMISSIONS is a tool that will quickly allow users to check which apps have access to their social media accounts. Facebook is the worst. Twitter, Linked-in and the other social media sites aren’t much better. I’m referring to all the 3rd Read More...
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Greetings, PIPL is a specialized search engine that looks for people. I’m doing a presentation next week on digital literacy/safety. Part of it involves steps and suggestions for maintaining individual privacy. I don’t think everyone realizes how much Read More...
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Greetings, WATCHILY is a specialized search engine that scans the Internet, looking for movies and TV episodes. It’s Sunday again, the day of rest. Lot’s of people enjoy watching TV shows or movies as a way to relax and with the multitude of delivery Read More...
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Greetings, THE TRAVEL FILM ARCHIVE is a collection of both short and feature length travel films from locations all over the globe. It’s Sunday again, the day of rest. How was your week? Here in southern British Columbia, the weather has been (and continues Read More...
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Greetings, PRO WRITE AID is an online grammar and writing syntax checker. Today’s online app called PRO WRITE AID will check a users writing for things like grammar misuse, overused words, sentence variation, “sticky” sentences, cliches & redundancies, Read More...
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Greetings, PROCON is a web site which presents controversial issues in a straightforward, nonpartisan manner. One of the big complains about the current education system is the lack of problem solving or critical thinking instruction. Instead, students Read More...
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Greetings, YODIO is a free, online multimedia creation tool. Perhaps “multimedia” is a bit of an exaggeration but I’ll let you decide. YODIO allows a user to upload one or more pictures then add sound files to them. It’s a very simple creation process. Read More...
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Greetings, PEAKYOU is a specialized search engine which looks for people. PEAKYOU is a people specific search engine created by the same folks that who made the “Rate My Teacher” and “Rate My Professor” sites. As a search site, PEAKYOU has some nice features Read More...
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Greetings CONVERTICO is a free, online utility that will convert a graphic or clipart image image to an icon or favicon. Have you every wondered where the small symbols in from of a URL or web address come from? They are called “Favicons” and they are Read More...
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Greetings, KALEIDOLISM is a fun geometric/prismatic viewer It’s Sunday again, the day of rest. How about some fun, mindless activities to relieve the stresses of the week? Back in the days when I was a child, I had a toy called a “kaleidoscope”. It was Read More...
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Greetings, ALEXA is a web site that keeps track of what’s hot or trending on the web. Call today’s offering my “silly Saturday” contribution. The site is ALEXA and it claims to track those web pages which are “hot” or most popular. The list is update Read More...
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Greetings, CCLEANER is a free, downloadable utility program for cleaning caches, histories and other files. Today’s offering, CCLEANER is a free, downloadable utility that has been popular with the Windows community for many years. Recently it was adapted Read More...
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Greetings, CRITICAL PAST is a collection of historic films drawn largely from U.S. government agency sources. CRITICAL PAST is a video repository containing over 57,000 historic video clips. Most tend to be short, newsreel type content but some are longer. Read More...
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