Text To Voice Converter
Topic: All subjects
SpokenText.net allows you to record PDF, Word, plain text, PowerPoint files, ,RSS news feeds, emails and web pages, and converts them to speech automatically. You can download your recording as an iPod book or mp3 file. And every member gets a personal podcast URL , which you can use to download recordings to iTunes or your iPod. You can also easily share your recordings on your web site or blog using SpokenText Badges or individual recording players. And best of all it's COMPLETELY FREE! Register now.

100+ Ways to Organise Your Life
Topic: General
There comes a time in life when you have to put a stop to the mess you’ve been working and living in and say: no more! I’m going to get organized, do more and earn more in the same or even shorter amount of time. We’ve collected over one hundred links to help you get it together.

Use A Search Cloud To Find Information
Topic: All subjects

Quintura, the visual search engine, has just launched a couple of new features, starting with a Hot News search cloud. This gives you quick access to items that are being searched the most on the web. You may appreciate Quintura’s other new feature–embeddable search cloud. You can embed a search cloud for any set of results you’d like, such as your own name, topics covered on your blog, etc.

Online Photo Editing
Topic: All subjects

Flauntr actually offers three web-application solutions for photo editing: PhotoStylr, PhotoEditr, and PhotoProfilr. Each one is different in it’s approach to photo editing, and all three are free to use under one single site login.
PhotoEditr is the vanilla of the three, offering the user a variety of simple picture fixes such as red eye or blur and focus correction. PhotoStylr adds to the mix special effects, light effects, tone adjustments.. essentially the types of fixes you see in your standard photo library editor like Picasa. PhotoProfilr is the social component, allowing you to take a picture you’ve edited and load it to any social network, resized and compatible.

Mind Mapping Software
Topic: All subjects

Here is a new mindmapping tool.
WiseMapping is an online mind-mapping software that enables you to create mind maps and share them with your team. It uses SVG/VML instead of Flash or AJAX so you can create online mind-maps that are viewable in more browsers. You can invite other students to edit the map and, when it's finished, you can export it in multiple formats or publish it online.

140+ Search Engines
Topic: All subjects
A great research link to over 140 search engines and directories. The fact that most students don’t even consider switching Google for anything else doesn’t mean that there’s no innovation going on in the field of search. Quite the contrary; which can be seen from the list of search engines at this site.

Learning Theories for Instructional Designers
Topic: Instructional Design
Stanton Wortham from Wharton/University of Penn describes the popular learning theories in use today and the assumptions they make about how people learn. He describes these theories in 4 videos. Very refreshing stuff.

Find Instructional Videos
Topic: All subjects
Here is tool for searching for instructional videos to assist your learning.

File Conversion
Topic: All subjects
If you're looking for a one-stop shop, file conversion service, then take a look at YouconvertIt. YouconvertIt lets you upload document, image, audio and video files and will convert them from one format to another. All you need to do is select the file from your computer, pick your target format, and the file will be uploaded and converted. Once the conversion is complete, you'll receive an e-mail containing a link to allow you to download it.

Graphic Search Engine
Topic: General
Here is a good tool to aid in WWW exploration for visual thnikers who don’t like paging through lists of search results? You enter a URL, it crunches a bit, and returns a node map with lines to sites that are “similar”. If you double click any of the nodes, they expand for the network around that node. You can use the sliders to zoom or change the spacing of the graphic, and drag around nodes to re-arrange them. And there are some graphic tools for coloring, annotating, etc.

Create a Collection of Your Favourite Videos
Topic: vblogging
Here you can create your own “pods” of video collections, and with their one click browser tools, you can create collections of web video from 1000s of different video sites, YouTube, Google, MySpace, just about anywhere that embeds flash video. You can do some customization of your “pod”, have categories, tags, comments– and it provides a cut and paste method to embed a “widget” in your blog.

Create Timelines For Projects
Topic: General
This is a nice interactive tool for developing timelines.  You can create and share your timelines as well as explore those already available. Check out the "History of Video Games" timeline as an example of the potential of this tool.

Save The Videos You See On The Web
Topic: vblogging

StreamYard enables you to save the videos you see on the web, for example on YouTube. Simply enter the URL, download and then playback. Upload to a host service and embed in your wiki/blog.

Improve File Searching With Tags
Topic: General

A tag is simply a label or keyword that describes your file for making it easer to find. With tag2find you do not need to have inflexible folder structures anymore: tagging frees your information. You will find everything (documents, movies, images, music, etc.)  on your desktop by simply using tags. It does not matter where your files are stored on your disk, you will find them anyway.

Add Content From Forbes.com To Your Web Sites
Topic: Website design
Forbes.com widgets allow you to add Forbes.com content on your blogs, wikis, social media sites , personalized homepages like Netvibes and iGoogle, as well as personal Web sites. Could this be an emerging trend that other magazines and newspapers will adopt.

Using Colours to Search for Flickr Photos
Topic: All subjects
ColorFields colour palette enables you to search for Flickr photos by matching a colour from the palette. This is actually quite useful, especially if you’re a designer in need of images that’ll match the color of whatever you’re working on. 

Text to Audio Conversion
Topic: General
BlueGrind will automatically pick up the RSS for your blog, and convert all your posts into Audio, without having you do anything else! You can download MP3 news and blogs, upload articles, press releases, register to have blogs converted to audio (Give Your Blog a Voice™), and much more.

Make Your Media....Scheduling and Storyboarding
Topic: Project Management
Celtx is the first, cross-platform media application that provides support for the entire pre-production process. Work with others by sharing access to your Celtx Media Project - scripts, breakdown files, budgets, schedules, and location forms - and maintain your artistic vision throughout the Project. Drag and drop images in to the Celtx Storyboard where they can be grouped together, tagged with text, and played as a loop to help pre-visualize your media project.

YouTube Online Editor
Topic: vblogging

YouTube has launched its Remixer tool, which is available on TestTube. Check it out here. The remixer lets you add effects and graphics, text and audio, overlays and transitions to your YouTube videos, directly in your browser. The remix tool is powered by Adobe. It’s the same as Photobucket’s Remix tool, which is also powered by Adobe. So if you’ve become a pro with the Photobucket remixing tool, you’ll have no trouble with YouTube’s.

Web Site Development Tool - Free
Topic: Website design
Synthasite is a powerful and easy to use website development tool. The construction tool lets you visually assemble your website using templates, components, widgets and services from the Synthasite superstore. Synthasite has a large and growing "superstore" of free web components to choose from including Widgets and Templates. Synthasite will host your site for free.