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Here is an article from Freelance Switch with 7 suggestions for starting your own business in the digital media industry. For example Create a Name and Logo, Start a Web Portfolio, etc.
Here are some great tips on how to add audio - text and music - to PowerPoint presentations. In particular the process of riff-ing where the mp3 file extension is changed to wav to allow the mp3 file to be inserted is worth noting.
SpokenText.net allows you to record (English, French or German) 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!
FreelanceSwitch is a website that provides advice and resources to people working in the digital content industry. Highly recommended for students thinking of running their own business - freelancing. Here are 3 great articles:
1. A Beginners Guide to Freelance Business Processes.
2. Accounting Basics for a Freelancer
3. A Copyright Casestudy (RECOMMENDED)
Here is an online version of Apple iPhoto's Enhance tool or Google Picasa's I'm Feeling Lucky button but essentially better than both of those. All you do is upload an image from your system or give it a URL to get it from and it automatically restores true original colours, corrects colour temperature and adjusts for poor lighting. There's nothing else to do and all you get is the option to download the improved image.
The eLearning Guild asked members for their favorite tips for using software for the creation of e-Learning. In the categories: Courseware authoring and e-Learning development tools - Rapid e-Learning tools - Simulation tools - Media tools - Combining and deploying authoring tools.
ClassMarker is a free, easy to use, online quiz maker that marks your tests and quizzes for you. You simply create your quizzes and your business clients take them online. Link directly to quizzes from your website or emails. Have quiz results emailed to you and saved in ClassMarker. Create multiple choice, true false, free text, short answer, fill in the blank and punctuation quizzes. Add your own images to quizze
Aspterpix enables you to create links in your video. Hypervideo, or interactive video, makes video an interactive experience by allowing viewers to i) Get more information on objects of interest during video playback ii) Navigate directly to specific scenes that contain objects of interest without having to watch the entire video. Asterpix enables users to easily create interactive videos and share them through websites, blogs, and email.
TypoGenerator is a random generator for 'typoPosters'. a typoPoster is a poster, created from images and letters/text that doesnt have any sense, just to look good. Create 'jazzy' images for key words in your projects.
Snagit is very good screen capture software and you can get a copy of version 7.2.5 (now that version 8 is available) for free. SnagIt 7.2.5 absolutely free. SnagIt is the screen capture and editing software that lets you add stunning effects - and helpful instructions - to anything you see on your PC screen.
Adobe's Buzzword is a new online word processor that looks great.
"It's probably the freshest approach to word processing in a generation.", "The user experience it promised was truly breathtaking. Buzzword made google docs looks like your grandpas word processing app."
These web sites provide links to over 5000 super web resources (most of them free) that will assist designers, animators, students and teachers.
Design Inspiration and More Design Inspiration and Web and Creative Resources and In Depth Collections for Web Workers and 101 Essential Freelancing Resources
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.
