Mind-mapping and Brainstorming Tool
Topic: All subjects
MindMeister, which is currently in private beta (enter your email and you might get an invite), is a new online mindmapping tool similar to Bubbl.us, Gliffy’s web-based diagram service and Mayomi (now dead, it seems). There’s no doubt that it’s nicely designed and comes with some neat features: cut, copy & paste, undo and redo, font colors, a revision history, keyboard shortcuts, multi-user editing and the ability to import, export and save maps to the server.

Virtual Worlds - Second Life
Topic: General
Second Life: The Official Guide Here is a great book if your interested in Linden Lab's fascinating Second Life metaverse. It explores in detail every aspect of Second Life's rich and multilayered virtual world, explains how it works, and offers a wealth of information and practical advice for all Second Life residents.

Get Ideas and Start a Portfolio
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Here is a web service where you can view the creative works of graphic designers….a great source of ideas for your projects. You can create a portfolio of your projects and send it out to potential employers and colleagues. You can connect with designers and start creative dialogues with colleagues, friends, and other members. What inspires you? Start your inspiration book and share where you find your creativity.

iPods - What to Buy and How to Use
Topic: General

This free iPod tutorial explains the differences between the iPod models. It also deciphers the technical jargon used on websites to explain the iPods various features and functions. The iPod tutorial includes screenshots to assist users in setting up the basics, from the date and time, to their contacts. The iPod tutorial is designed to even help advanced iPod users to take advantage of the iPods more advanced and complex features.

A Guide To Writing Well
Topic: All subjects
Writing well is a great asset. A Guide to Writing Well will help you to write better reports,project proposals, blog posts, assignments, letters, technical specifications, AND job applications. 

Edit Photos Online
Topic: General
This web service enables you to edit photos online in your browser. Crop, sharpen, enhance, rotate, etc. etc.

Video Podcast
Topic: vblogging

"Podesk is a unique and complete solution for video capture, encoding and podcast delivery. Everything is automated : a single drag?n?drop publishes your video straight to your web site, iTunes+iPod or iTV ! Record directly from your webcam, and Podesk will take care of the rest." Podesk is the only solution that combines a desktop utility that encodes video, prepares meta data and uploads the video, combined with an open source blog platform with all the tools to set up video podcast distribution easily."

YouTube for Cartoons
Topic: Instructional Design

MyToons, which is currently in private beta, is an impressive new video and image-sharing site for cartoons. You can upload your own videos and artwork, and find the most viewed, top rated, most discussed and most recent media in these sections. The player is large, fast loading and Flash-based - it can also be expanded to take up much of the screen. Look out too for tagging, comments and the ability to share via email (strangely, there’s no option to embed clips in MySpace and blogs). Beyond media sharing, there’s also groups, messaging, networks of friends and profile pages. The profiles provide a choice of design templates, and you can also create you own.

Webcam Videos
Topic: All subjects
Flixn, is a free service that allows you to quickly post your webcam clips to MySpace, hi5, Piczo, blogs and webpages.

eMail Your Videos
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TurboFlix is a simple new way of sending videos via email - just browse for the clip on your computer and send it, along with a message.

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
Topic: All subjects
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
Topic: All subjects
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.