I’d rather go canoeing !

The new online storage site Adrive is offering new users a staggering 50Gb of free storage just for signing up. The site is clean and quick and accepts most common file types including documents music and images. This site is going to prove a very useful companion to my Asus Eepc which only has 4Gb of onboard storage but is an extremely effective wireless operator.

Here we go again. Back to work for the long slog to Easter.
Just to remind myself that there’s more to work than work here’s a pic of my first sunday lunch for 2008.
The view is looking west(ish) from the top of the Cross Country ski trails at Clashindarroch Forest near Rhynie.

Convert any photo into a talking character!

PQ Talking Photo will do the job nicely.

Create animated characters from any photo you want.
Automatically match lip movement with voice.
Create your talking photo album, live avatars on blogs, funny greeting card, pets talk show, etc.

On 30th October we ran a session on Blogging for the Curriculum Support teachers. Unfortunately our internet access was extremely slow and hampered our ability to deliver a slick session.

Stumbled across this site when I was sent an email about Windows Photostory 3. More about that later. Pageflakes is a cusomisable personal website which uses WebParts or “flakes” to assemble the pages. You simply choose the flakes you want and drag them onto the page. You can put just about any content you like on the pages. Flakes are available for thousands of uses and interests, including news, sports, e-mail, local events, search, photos, music, videos – even interactive tools like a calendar and a to-do list – and just about anything else you do on the Web at school, work and at home.
You can share pages with selected individuals or with the whole world or just keep them private. The site is hosted in the US and is free for everyone. They seem to have a very clear privacy policy and there are no adverts.
In many ways this is like the Glow interface. You have a number of pages and you have control over the content and access to each page.
I can think of lots of uses for this and have seriously considered ditching “My Yahoo” which has been my homepage for the last 10 years or so!