Mar 03 2008
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.
Dec 19 2007
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.
Oct 30 2007
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.
Jul 14 2007
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!
Jul 12 2007
A question I often ask myself !!
Today I received an invitation to fill in an on line questionnaire for a large organisation which supplies ICT services and equipment. As I worked through the questions I was trying to work out what they were going to do with the information gathered. It quickly became obvious – marketing! The questions had been constructed in such a way as to illicit positive information about the company.
Surveys like this, when properly constructed can provide useful information about the services we provide or the classes we teach. One good thing to come from this questionnairre was the last page. It was a redirect to the site which created and hosted it – SurveyMonkey. What a good site. Expect more on this later.
