Download Music from YouTube Videos
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You just finished watching a bunch of some excellent music videos on Youtube that you wish to save as MP3 files for listening on the iPod or ever better, burn them to an Audio CD [minus the video]. A solution is vixy.net [detailed review] - you just type in the address of the Youtube video page and vixy will convert that video file into a .MP3 file containing just the audio. No encoding required.  Now pop in the blank CD and hit the Burn button or start iTunes to transfer the Mp3 to your iPod.

eMail Subscriptions to Blog Updates
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It's a good idea to provide an option for readers to subscribe to your blog content using an RSS-to-email service like FeedBlitz (others are Feedburner and R-Mail). It's and example of 'Push Technology" that enables people to automatically receive information from your blog whenever you update it. Register for a free account. 1. Note the URL for your blog/wiki RSS feed. 2. Select My Account from the menu. 3. Select My Syndicates. 4. Select Add a New Syndicate. 5. Enter your Blog/Wiki URL. 6. Copy and paste the syndication's html code to your blog/wiki. 

How to eMail Large Files
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This online service allows you to upload large files (up to 100MB) and spits out a private web address which you can then email your contact e.g. teacher. Best of all, the link as a 'best before' date: 30 minutes right up to one week long. After that time the link is dead, the file deleted, your content transferred by then to its rightful owner.

Blog Text to Voice Conversion
Topic: blogs
Turn readers into listeners, and transform your blog into a high quality, broadcast that can vastly expand your audience reach! Similar to Talkr.

Mind-mapping and Brainstorming Tool
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Bubbl.us is a neat new mind-mapping and brainstorming tool. You can create “Bubbles” containing an idea, link them together, drag them and zoom in and out using the flash interface. You can also save your charts once you’re done. Very simple and fun to use.

Widgets for your blog and wiki
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Widgetbox is an online directory of web widgets for blogs and other web pages. These widgets work with TypePad, WordPress, Blogger, MySpace as well as most other blogs, sidebars or websites. No plug-ins are needed, and they're free!

Multimedia Blogging
Topic: blogs
With Scrapblog, you can easily create stunning multimedia scrapbooks featuring your photos, videos, audio and a bunch of creative elements. Scrapblog is drag-and-drop-easy so that youcan tell your stories and share them online or turn them into high-quality photo books and DVDs. Best of all, it's free and there's nothing to download.

Online File Storage
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Store your files online for free at this site. The service provides a URL for your  files that you can embed in your blogs and wikis. Features: > Upload unlimited files > Serve unlimited download > Files stay online forever.

File Conversion
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Here is a free site for converting files to different formats without having to download software. There is a growing list of online file conversion sites, but Zamzar has an impressive list of support file formats for documents (including MS Office docs), images, audio, and video including WMV, AVI, and many more.  More importantly, the site is incredibly easy to use and very handy when you need to do an urgent file conversion and want to avoid the hassle of the numerous freeware downloads.

Daily News - Current Events Updates
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This is an excellent site for keeping abreast of current events. It's a good start for any project involving current affairs, allowing you to get all the info without aimless wondering through Google's dark corridors. Make sure that you register for access to My World. MyWorld is your personal collection of news within Daylife, where you can save stuff that you find interesting, or want to easily check up on later.

Five Simple Steps To Designing With Colour
Topic: Website design
Here is a tutorial on using colour in design. Designing with colour is perhaps the element of graphic design which is the most difficult to get right. Why? Well, because it is the most subjective. For some, a palette of dark grey with splashes of bright pink will be just great; to others it would just be all wrong. Too many designers, whether schooled in colour-theory or not, end up making subjective decisions about colour and then when it comes to explaining those decisions to a client, things begin to unravel.

Write Notes on a Web "Whiteboard"
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Use this web “whiteboard” for your own notes or collaborative note development. SKRBL is a web whiteboard. Just start SKRBL, give your SKRBL URL to your friends, and instantly start sharing online. Write notes and add images, see & edit each others notes...Everyone sees the same screen, everybody stays on the same page.

Web Design Tutorial
Topic: Website design

Here is a link to basic web design tutorials. You can't just take all the design elements, throw them together and make a good web page, any more than you can take some eggs, sugar, flour and throw them together and get a cake.  Making a web page that works requires a lot of sensitivity to the various forces at work. A good design solution is one that balances those (often opposing) forces. And here is a link to a tutorial that focuses on Web 2.0 design.

Improve Your Writing Skills at OWL
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Use this resource to improve your writing skills. The goal of the Online Writing Laboratory (OWL) is to provide a resource for students who want writing help but can't attend writing classes. OWL has become a complement to classroom instruction, a supplement to face-to-face tutorials, and a stand-alone reference for thousands of writers worldwide. Use the "Navigation Menu" to access learning resources the include "The Writing Process", "Creative Writing" and "Job Search Writing".

Words Using Flickr Photos
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Spell with Flickr is a widget that enables you to create words with each letter represented by a photo from Flickr. Be creative and use this widget for your projects and reports. You can experiment with alternatives for each letter and the html code is provided to enable you to embed your words/titles in your blogs and wikis.

Slideshow Creator
Here is a great free slideshow creator. Use this web2.0 service to create slideshows from your photos and PowerPoint slides (saved as .gif files) that you can embed in your blogs and wikis. Slideshow creators can take photos from different sources and put them into a flash-based widget which flips, slides, scrolls, or fades through your favorite pics. 

New Web2.0 Developments
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If you want to keep up to date with Web2.0 software releases then visit, better still subscribe, to this blog. With hundreds of thousands of subscribers via email and RSS and in excess of 1 million monthly pageviews, Mashable is the world's largest blog focused exclusively on social networks and Web2.0 developments.

Website Development
Topic: Website design

Try using this webservice to create and publish websites. Weebly is the easiest way to create and publish a great looking website for free. From personal to professional sites, Weebly will enable you to spend your time on the most valuable part of your site, its content. Features include * Drag and drop interface, * a variety of themes, * personalised sub-domains (WOW!), * export to zip filies and numerous content elements (photos, videos, maps, etc.

Photo Enhancements Using ZingFu
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ZingFu lets you take your photos and put them into Zings (borders and/or crazy photos). You can send your Zing to friends or even your projects. You can also post your Zing in your blogs. You can copy the HTML code from the Zing page or from your ZingFolio. On both of these pages there is a link that says "post to MySpace". Click on that link and it'll open a box with the code. Then just paste that code into a section on your blog or wikispace.

77 Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper, and Better
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The average adult only uses 10% of his/her brain. Imagine what you may be capable of with more advanced learning techniques. Here are 77 tips related to knowledge and learning to help you on your quest. Some of the tips are specifically for students in traditional learning institutions; the rest for self-starters, or those learning on their own. Happy learning.