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Make cool Web 2.0 buttons in only 4 steps and no registration required. MyCoolButton is a new Web 2.0 button generator that lets you choose the size, color, font and text for your button, then download it.
Olive is an electronic publishing company. They transform documents stored in different formats on disparate systems to a unified XML-based digital format, allowing easy information retrieval. Users can search across document collections, individual documents, and sections within documents, and view the results through a Web browser. Read this active magazine, Blogger and Podcaster, for a glimpse of "The Future of Magazines and The Future of Reading"
The PoducateMe Podcasting Guide takes the mystery out of: Finding and downloading podcasts - Selecting appropriate podcasting equipment and software - Recording, editing and polishing your podcast - Creating an "enhanced" podcast containing links and graphics - Uploading your podcast to the Internet - Creating a podcast blog - Sharing podcasts with your students - Much more!
There are dozens of tools for downloading videos from YouTube and other sites and then converting those videos to some format other than .flv. Here are 23 downloader tools that actually work. Here they are, categorized according to the platform they work on:
FauxTo is a free online version of Photoshop. You can bring up images from your hard disk, from your webcam or from a URL (so a Flickr pic, for example) and then edit away to your heart's content. Best of all you can start layering up images, something most other online photo and design apps miss out but which allows you to create much more original graphics.
Typinglessons-online is an e-learning website. Teach yourself typing with 10 fingers with the help of the typing exercises. If you finish all the exercises with a good result, you will be able to type with all 10 fingers. The next step is to increase your typing speed.
Clipmarks, the web clipping technology provider, announces an added feature to their Clip-to-Blog tool which allows you to post clipped content to multiple blogs simultaneously. You can now clip media such as text, photos and videos from across the web and instantly post the content along with commentary, directly to several blogs at once. The new clip-to-blog tool was created to make it easier to post discovered content from the web into your blog.
Go to this site if you want to know how many users are reading your website or blog in real time? Then simply copy and paste the code the page onto every one of your pages to bring up our nice little widget. No registration or setup required!
YackPack can quickly improve communication in training and learning. Give quality feedback with ease and communicate clearly with learners, customers and managers. YackPack's simple and convenient web browser based interface design allow designers and learners to focus on content and not be distracted by the underlying technology. YackPack offers a range of tools that include, unified communicatios, Walkie Talkie Widget and a Yack Player.
This guide has step-by-step instructions for shooting, editing, and publishing online videos that can be watched and subscribed to by millions of people. Very soon, this site will feature short videos from experienced internet video publishers. If you're interested in sharing your expertise, visit the Make Internet TV (MITV) wiki and find out how.
Use BubbleShare to create slideshows that scroll across your blog/website. Add text and audio captions and special effects.....html code is provided for simple embeding. It's a fun tool with potential for product and sales promotions.
The article and resources at this website will help you get a job? Seeking out an entry level position can be an intimidating task. Resumes and cover letters are a foreign concept to many entry level job seekers. Applying for your new job should be an enjoyable, exciting time. This article and the Emurse resources provide a quick and easy reference guide to help you seize the opportunity and make the most out of your transition to the work force!
Google Spreadsheets has added charts. The feature, in development for some time now, is a highly anticipated addition since the application was launched last year. Nearly every type of chart can be created, from pie charts to bar graphs. You can use the new feature in Firefox and Internet Explorer without the need for a plug-in. You can save your charts separately from the spreadsheet (.png format) for adding to your media products.
Here is a new video hosting and access service that provides a wide range of "bell and whistles" that include adding comments to vides, exporting to blogs, easy embeding, a big player, etc. Upload your videos in .avi or .wmv format and Viddler converts (as do most video services) to .flv format.
Essentially, you create a free Zude account and start with a blank canvas, where you can drag and drop anything from the rest of the Web. When logged in, you simply open a new browser window and grab any piece of content you would like – a photo, a video, a widget, or even an entire Web page – and drop it on your Zude page. From there, it can be manipulated, resized, or even given functions such as alt text or hyperlinks. Thus, Zude can serve as anything form a simple personal site, to a tribute to your favorite band, or become the “ultimate mashup” where you combine information from all of your social networking profiles, blogs, widgets, and favorite web sites.
Here is a cool tool to enhance your blog/wiki/website. SnapShots provides the html code that automatically displays a window when a user passes the mouse over a hyperlink. The window displays an image of the hyperlink's website. In the case of an audio file (mp3) link the window displays a player for the file. The window also includes a Snap.com search facility and there are other 'goodies' - give it a try.
This web free web service allows you to upload a range of file formats: .pdf, .doc, .ppt, .xls, .txt, etc. and provides the html embed code for a player to display them in your blog/wiki. In addition Scribd automatically converts and provides an mp3 audio version of your text documents with the embed code for a player.
Here is a really great article on design. Anyone, no matter what level of artistic talent he or she has, can come up with a design that works well and looks good--all it takes is a little experience and a working knowledge of some basic layout principles. The book from which this article is excerpted, The Principles of Beautiful Web Design , covers each of these principles in turn, showing even the least design-oriented of us how to create beautiful, elegant, functional designs -- see the Table of Contents for details. You can download this article -- Chapter 1 of the book -- in PDF format to read offline. So get started with the basics and before long you'll have the foundation necessary to design gallery-quality web sites.
Wiredness has an easy to use interface that resembles a lightweight version of its desktop cousins like Adobe Photoshop, but the editor is really designed for quick online editing, speed and flexibility. Photos can be uploaded or extracted from web sites easily (up to 5 MB). Wiredness is totally browser-based. The simple menu offers users editing, sizing, exposure, effects and wide range of tool options. You can save your image locally or upload directly to a host site and obtain the html embed code for your blog/wiki.
ZCubesTM is the world's first website where you can seamlessly browse, search, edit, paint, draw, hand-write, watch, listen, publish, type, print, network, teach, learn, and work. Z/cube is an online editing tool that lets you draw all over the websites you visit. Add notations, sketches and notes . They offer pre-selected portals to choose from when marking up a site. There are several ways in which this can be done, from freehand to text boxes. You can drag and drop images, video and hyperlinks onto your Zcube and publish your ZCube to the web.
