Greetings, SNAGGY is a free web service which will post a screen shot, taken on a local computer to the web. Teaching online can be a very frustrating experience. Problems which take just minutes to solve in a “Face to Face” environment can require hours to resolve online. Often, the impediment is some sort of [...]

Greetings, PASTELINK.ME is an easy to use method for sharing files with someone on the Web. Being a successful online teacher (or technology using teacher, for that matter) means having a “Plan B” ready when “Plan A” doesn’t work and believe me, that will usually happen at the worst possible moment. Here’s an example. A [...]

Greetings, CRUXBOT is a free service which will parse a web page article or report down to a couple of paragraphs. The web is a marvelous source of information — too marvelous in most cases. While finding information is no longer a problem, reading through it all can be an huge challenge. That were today’s [...]

Greetings, SNIPPLIST is an online service for clipping, displaying and sharing web content. I have another web app — SNIPPLIST — which I just don’t get. Perhaps, you do. If so, please leave a comment. The app is a kind of web clipping service. Users can highlight some content on a web page, clip it, [...]

Greetings, DUPLICHECKER is a free, online plagiarism checker. Of all the links and resources posted on this web site, the plagiarism checkers are the most popular. I’m not sure whether to be happy about that or sad. I suppose anything which draws users to the DE Tools blog site is a good thing but I [...]

Greetings, PDFMAKER is a free, online, PDF Creation Tool. Every once in a while I come across an app which makes me scratch my head and wonder, “Why?” Why did someone or some group bother to create an app for which there is no apparent need or want? While it baffles me, perhaps someone wiser [...]

Greetings, BUNDLENUT allows the user to bundle several web links into one URL. I don’t know if Twitter was the rational behind today’s app — BUNDLENUT — but I can’t think of any other reason for it’s creation. Twitter’s 140 character limit severely hinders what can be posted however, an army of third party developers [...]

Greetings, SCREENLEAP is a simple to use, free, screen sharing service. Working with students at a distance, over the Internet can be a challenge at the best of times. One of the most frustrating aspects involves trying to explain a simple concept or solve what should be an easy problem. Something which requires just a [...]

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 of stats and data about a user’s Internet connection. For example, SMART-IP.NET can tell the ...

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 a special [...]