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It’s been said that the strongest combination is a good tool in the right hands. This is one of the best visualization and storytelling tools I have seen since I have started using Keynote on my Mac. This is worth checking out. http://www.prezi.com

18 Jul, 2009

ccMixer

Posted by: Michael George In: Audio|CC|Collaborate|Fun|Online Apps|Podcast/ Vodcasting|Video

http://ccmixter.org/ ccMixter is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want. Remixers If you’re into sampling, remixing and mash-ups grab the sample packs and a cappellas for download and you can upload your version back into ccMixter, [...]

16 Jul, 2009

Scratch

Posted by: Michael George In: Collaborate|Fun|Games|Online Apps|Top Pick

http://scratch.mit.edu/ Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create and share Scratch projects, young people [...]

http://www.wordle.net/ Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You [...]

06 Jun, 2008

Go Animate!

Posted by: Michael George In: Fine Arts|Fun|Math|Top Pick|World Languages

http://goanimate.com/  About the site - We are a bunch of guys who love animation and want to share our passion with the world! The problem is that animation requires very specific skills. Animators need to learn Flash or other advanced software before being able to create anything. They also need to know how to draw. [...]

PHUN Phun is a Master of Science Thesis by Computing Science student Emil Ernerfeldt for supervisor Kenneth Bodin at VRLab, Umeå University, Sweden. The solver is based on work by Claude Lacoursière Phun is meant to be a playground where people can be creative. It can also be used as an educational tool to learn [...]

29 Apr, 2008

Keybr : Practice Touch Typing Online

Posted by: Michael George In: Fun|Games|Top Pick|Web 2.0

http://keybr.com  Features No registration or sign up is required. See typing charts: typing speed, number of errors, top speed, average speed, etc. Supported keyboard layouts: US, US (Dvorak), and UK. Supported languages: English, German, French, Spanish, and Russian.

10 Apr, 2008

Viscosity - modern art generator

Posted by: Michael George In: Fine Arts|Fun|Web 2.0

http://windowseat.ca/viscosity/ Viscosity is a modern art generator. It’s a flash tool that lets you create beautiful abstract art and store it on your hard drive. One of the ways to use it is to create abstract wallpapers for your desktop. You can also just get something you like from the gallery. Features: Create abstract drawings [...]

05 Apr, 2008

Feedjit’s live traffic feed

Posted by: Michael George In: Fun|Online Apps|Top Pick|Web 2.0|Widget

Feedjit’s live traffic feed shows statistics on your website in real-time. It shows: Which city and country your visitors are in Which website they arrived from, if any Which page they visited on your website Which external link they clicked to leave your site, if any  

04 Apr, 2008

The Way Back Machine

Posted by: Michael George In: Fun|Online Database|Top Pick|Web 2.0

The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.    Libraries exist to preserve society’s cultural artifacts and to provide access to them. If libraries are to continue to foster [...]