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Here is an article from a freelancer with advice on how to succeed in web design. Topics include 1. Push Yourself and Get Good 2. Be Likeable, Excited and Enthusiastic 3. Be Referrable! 4. Design the portfolio you think your clients want to see 5. Focus on Clients and Be Flexible
Comic creation software Stripgenerator is free of charge. Created to embrace the internet blogging and strip creation culture, helping students with no drawing abilities to illustrate concepts and viewpoints via comic strips.
Use this software to add creativity to your audio projects.
Changes voice in real time, disguise gender and age, Create different voices for interviews and other projects, imitate someone's voice with the voice simulator.
Here is an alternative to Scribd for hosting your assignments. Docstoc is a user generated community where you can find and share documents. Find articles from teachers and students and business documents. Upload your documents for all the world to share.
Offering up 600,000 digital images that it’s got stashed away, The New York Public Library has found new life for its content, which can be used for videos and slideshows. The content is easily accessed for the creation of your videos or slideshows.
Start a KALTURA group video project. Invite other students to upload images, music and edit the video together and them embed in your wiki and blog
Here is a list of services for taking screenshots of web sites. It is probably one of the most commonly done tasks on the internet - doubly so if you have a blog or work as a designer. Thumbalizr, is a service that lets you take screenshots of websites. However, there are several other tools for easy screenshot capturing - some standalone and some in the form of a browser plugin.
Refer to this list if you are not satisfied with ready-made blog and website templates and want to build your own design, having a bare-bone structure might make it easier. Mashable have created a list of top ten tools to help you create that basic structure to kick-start your creativity.
Drop.io is a web-based service for uploading and sharing any type of file, up to 100MB. It is really intuitive and easy to use: just add the files you want to upload, type a personalized URL, add an optionalpassword, select the expiration type, and click drop. Anyone who will be provided with the URL will be able to get the files without sending any email attachment or making long file transfers. Free to use, with no registration required.
MyPlick is a new site that lets you create slide shows and offer an interactive widget for viewers to navigate your slide show. Images, PowerPoint presentations, PDF documents and all sorts of files can be uploaded (at once) to create your slide show. Include audio along with your slide show to make a complete online presentation. You can also add notes for each slide, to provide additional information to viewers as the slide show plays.
WebSlides, lets you create a slide show with web pages. From a collection of bookmarks, you can indicate which web pages you’d like to include for your slide show, or just insert which websites you’d like to add. Use drag’n'drop technology to arrange and rearrange the order of your slides.
SlideRocket is a web application that provides everything you need to design professional quality presentations, manage and share libraries of slides and assets, and to deliver presentations in person or remotely over the web.
Video is the language of the new millennium. This site will be used to help students and teachers begin to view video content creation in much the same way that we look at writing now. There will be short “How To” videos on video. There will be sample videos. Eventually students will create content and upload it to the site, where teachers can critique and can help students. No content will be longer than 5 minutes.
Protopage is your own personal page that you can use for quick access to everything on the web that you go to most. You can use it to: Read news from your favorite news sites and blogs: Keep bookmarks to your most frequently accessed web sites: Organize your day with to-do lists and sticky notes: Create web pages, group pages, and intranets: And much more! Creating your page is easy and fun - simply drag and drop from a directory of hundreds of widgets containing everything from news headlines to sports scores to puzzle games.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
