Saturday, October 23, 2010

COOLSEARCH

Cool Search Engines

1. http://www.viewzi.com/search/power_grid/कैट्स

2. http://www.search-cube.com/ SO VISUAL

3. http://www.behold.cc/ Use for Images

4. http://www.nexplore.com/

5. http://www.exitreality.com/ (this is cool!)

6. http://www.taggalaxy.de/

7. http://www.itools.com/

8. http://www.factmonster.com/ SO EDUCATIONAL

9. http://www.blackle.com/

10. http://www.cuil.com/

11. http://www.quintura.com/

12. http://www.searchme.com/ ( view at home)

13. http://search.spacetime.com/#

14. http://oskope.com/

15. http://www.liveplasma.com/

16. http://quinturakids.com/ Great for Kids

17. www.musicplasma.com ( view at home)

18. http://middlespot.com/search.php

19. http://eyeplorer.com/show/

20. http://www.redz.com/

21. http://www.search1.org/

22. http://www.ziipa.com/view/shelfworthy-com

23. http://www.shelfworthy.com/

24. http://www.tineye.com/

25. http://www.touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrowser.html

26. http://musicovery.com/ MUISC SEARCH ENGINES

27. http://www.pandora.com/#/ MUISC SEARCH ENGINES

KSPS

Kendal Stills is Awesome!

Thursday, October 7, 2010

How to Create a Surreal Photo Manipulation with Twisting Water

How to Create a Surreal Photo Manipulation with Twisting Water

Photograph Puzzle Maker

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http://www.fodey.com/generators/animated/talking_flower.asp/generators
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Free Movies Entertainment Magazine- Watch and Download Free Movies!

Free Movies Entertainment Magazine- Watch and Download Free Movies!: "Free Movies Entertainment Magazine- Watch and Download Free Movies!
Watch Free Movies on your PC
Watch and download free public domain movies and videos, music videos, classic TV shows and movie trailers. Select a category below to find our list of available films. You can watch movies online with your PC using either a dial up modem, broadband, DSL, 3G, 3GS, WIFI, WIMAX or cable connection. These movies can also be downloaded to play at a later time or transfered to a mobile device.

The free movie catalog includes a collection of nearly 200 classic films- comedies, cartoons, dramas, romance, westerns, classic TV shows and dozens of music videos, video clips and movie trailers. These free movies play automatically if you have either Quicktime or Windows Media Player installed. You can also choose several different play and download options for each movies. Select movies to watch and download or choose from a category below.
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18 Free Ways To Download Any Video off the Internet | MakeUseOf.com

18 Free Ways To Download Any Video off the Internet | MakeUseOf.com: "18 Free Ways To Download Any Video off the Internet MakeUseOf.com


UPDATE: MakeUseOf put together an excellent list of the best websites for watching movies, TV shows, documentaries and standups online. Download it here. Enjoy!
Free Web services for downloading videos from video-sharing sites

ClipNabber allows you to download videos from YouTube, Metacafe, etc by simply copying and pasting the URL. You’ll then get a link whereby you can download the file to your computer, iPod, iPhone, or any other media player. You’ll need to have an FLV player for the YouTube videos. Quick and very easy to use!



Zamzar is a free online file conversion web application that can not only convert videos off the Internet to AVI, MPEG, 3GP, MP4, MOV, etc, but also converts between audio, image, and document formats. Paste the URL into Step 1 and then convert the file to your favorite format.



VideoDownloader is a FireFox extension, but also allows you to paste in any URL from many sites such as Blip.TV, iFilm, and even social networking sites like MySpace. You can also download a free FLV player from their site to play the videos.



Vixy.net is another site that not only downloads online videos, but will also convert them AVI, MOV, MP4, 3GP, or MP3 (if you want to extract the audio from the file). Using this site, you don’t have to worry about downloading a FLV player as you can convert it to Windows format. (Same as Zamzar)



KeepVid also supports just about any video sharing site out there and the only difference about this site is that it also has a Top Videos section, so you can quickly download the most watched videos around the web.



Media Converter is similar to ZamZar and vixy.net, but requires you to create an account and log in. Also, it seems like it only supports downloading and converting videos from YouTube. You can also download their video download program, but it only supports 5 sites.



Hey! Watch is an online video encoding web service that encodes video into different formats including HD very quickly. The graphical interface is very nice and there are lots of features and options, such as the ability to transfer any video from the web directly to an FTP server or to online storage.



YoutubeX, as the name suggests, allows you to download videos from YouTube. Obviously, it only supports YouTube, but it has a couple of other features, such as the ability to play your video on the site and find popular videos quickly.



VideoRonk searches across multiple video-sharing sites such as Google Video, YouTube, MetaCafe and DailyMotion to find the most popular videos on each of them. You can either watch them on VideoRonk or download them to your computer in FLV format.



VidDownloader supports about 10 sites including the major ones and can download the videos in DivX AVI format. It’s very easy to use and can also extract only the audio from a video by choosing “Just Audio” on the download page. You don’t have to worry about having an FLV player since it converts the files to Windows format.



According to their web site, they support more than 98 video sites including MySpace, CollegeHumor, iFilm, etc. You’ll have to rename the files you download from YouTube with the .FLV extension at the end.



This site is a foreign site, but is easy to use and supports most of the major sites. You can also download a free FLV player off their site to play videos from YouTube.



DownThisVideo has a nice tag cloud at the top that you can click on to find videos quickly. From what I could tell, this site is mostly used by Japanese because the popular videos are mostly Anime, etc. However, you can still use it to download any YouTube video.
Video Downloaders for your DeSktop
If you prefer to have a desktop application that can download videos for you, check out the following list:
1. Orbit Downloader - This is by far the best desktop application I have seen for downloading any type of social media off the Internet. It can download videos and music from MySpace, YouTube, Pandora, Rapidshare, and lots more. It has a great interface and carries a very small foot print.
2. VDownloader - A small little application that can download videos from many sites and converts them to AVI or MPG format.
3. VideoDownloader - A useful FireFox add-on that supports more than 60 video sharing sites. It can also download other objects on a web page, such as movies, MP3s, flash files, and Quicktime movies directly.
4. Ares Tube - Another popular video download application that is very small and very easy to use. You can download videos in batches by entering URLs into a queue and Ares Tube can convert them into different formats such as iPod, MP4, MPG, etc.
4. YouTubeGrabber - Not a very fancy program, it simply takes your URL and downloads the file. No conversion is done and you’ll need to install an FLV player to watch the videos.
5. KeepV - Downloads videos from YouTube, MySpace, and Google and converts them to either MOV, 3GP, AVI, iPod, or PSP format.
Hopefully, using one of the tools above, you can download the video you want! I’m sure the arsenal of web services and desktop apps will grow, so this list will be updated as needed.
(By) Aseem Kishore is an IT Systems Analyst and tech blogger. Check out his blog at Online-Tech-Tips.
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Six Visual Dictionaries and Thesauri

Six Visual Dictionaries and Thesauri: "Here are six visual dictionaries and thesauri that can help your students better understand the meanings of words.



Snappy Words is a free visual dictionary and thesaurus. Enter any word or phrase into the Snappy Words search box and it will create a web of related words, phrases, and definitions. Hover your cursor over any word or phrase in the web to read its definition. Click and drag any node to explore other branches of the web. Double click on a node and it will generate new web branches.

Visuwords uses a web design to show users the definitions of words and the connections between words. To use Visuwords just type a word into the search box and Visuwords will generate a web of related words. Place your cursor over any of the words and the definition appears. Use the color-coded key to understand the connections between the words in any web.

Lexipedia, like Visuwords, provides the definitions of words along with a webbed diagram of related words and their definitions. In addition to definitions and diagrams, Lexipedia offers audio pronunciations of words although when I tested it the audio didn't seem to be working properly. In my side-by-side comparison of Lexipedia and Visuwords, both performed equally well, but occasionally offered different definitions and connections for the same word.

Merriam Webster's Visual Dictionary is divided into fifteen thematic categories containing more than 6,000 words defined and accompanied by images. You can find words and definitions by browsing through the categorized images or by using the text search bar.

Wordia is a free visual, video dictionary. Wordia features a selection of user-submitted and professionally created videos explaining the meaning of a word. The videos focus on the everyday use of words while the text accompanying each video provides the dictionary definition of the word.
Got Brainy features two sections; Brainy Flix and Brainy Pics. Brainy Pics is comprised of images that demonstrate the meaning of a word. Most of the pictures are submitted by students. Brainy Flix is comprised of short videos that illustrate the meaning of words. Just like with Brainy Pics, most of the videos are submitted by students.



Here are some related items that may be of interest to you:

10 Resources for ESL & Foreign Language Students

22 Frames - Captioned Videos & More for ESL



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Linux Server Hacks, Volume Two | EShare | Free Ebooks Share

Linux Server Hacks, Volume Two | EShare | Free Ebooks Share: "The Linux Kernel Primer: A Top-Down Approach for x86 and PowerPC Architectures (Prentice Hall Open Source Software Development Series) (Paperback) by Claudia Salzberg Rodriguez (Author), Gordon Fischer (Author), Steven Smolski (Author) ...



EShare - http://freebookshare.com/
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Watch the Documentary Film for Free | Watch Free Documentaries Online | SnagFilms

The Uncounted - Chapter 1 - Watch the Documentary Film for Free | Watch Free Documentaries Online | SnagFilms: "The Uncounted - Chapter 1 - Watch the Documentary Film for Free | Watch Free Documentaries Online | SnagFilms
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VIDEOS

Subscriptions and other stuff







Video/Audio Searching Portals







See also educational video background listed on Information Fluency wiki

Academic Video Portals





Video content is included in these open source curriculum portals:








Humanities







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Mostly Science







Mostly News







Copyright-Friendly Video








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Noterr: Simple Sticky Notes Application Online

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Interactive

Interactive: "Interactive site

1.Interactive Mathematics http://www.intmath.com/

2. http://www.webresourcesdepot.com/25-alternative-open-source-databases-engines/

3.Dictionary http://www.lexipedia.com/

4. http://www.geo-cube.eu/index.html

5. Math http://www.geogebra.org/cms/

6. color http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html

7. Math http://zirkel.sourceforge.net/doc_en/Data/Applications/Triangle%20Geometry/index.html
8. Drawing http://www.drawanywhere.com/
9. http://twittersheep.com/ fun

10. electronics http://falstad.com/circuit/e-index.html

http://falstad.com/circuit/e-index.html
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web-based word processor

EtherPad is the only web-based word processor that allows people to work together
http://ietherpad.com/

nc.in is a web based word processor for people to collaborate in real-time.

When multiple people edit the same document simultaneously, any changes are instantly reflected on everyone's screen. The result is a new and productive way to collaborate with text documents, useful for meeting notes, brainstorming, project planning, training, and more.
http://sync.in/

coolest-gadgets

http://www.coolest-gadgets.com

PhotoGrAM

http://mediaplayer.srswowcast.com/photogram.phpLabs,

Inc. who is more well known for their various solutions in the surround sound, audio and voice arena, has ventured into the world of software by rolling out a free “Photogram” widget, enabling both MySpace and Facebook users to enhance their online photographs with personal sound effects that have been enriched with SRS audio processing. This free application would mean we could see a whole new way of communicating with one another, leaving these “comments” that are actually audible instead of using the voice in your head while you visually read those comments.

The emerging Top 100 Tools for Learning 2010 List

The emerging Top 100 Tools for Learning 2010 List http://c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/top100-2010.html

prezi.

What is Prezi Desktop

Prezi Desktop allows you to create and save zooming presentations offline. You can install Prezi Desktop on your computer (PC, Mac or Linux) and store files locally, or upload them to your account on Prezi.com.

http://prezi.com/

http://www.writeonit.org/

Write On It! http://www.writeonit.org/magazine-cover

Insert your photo on the cover of a famous magazine!

Shrink O'Matic is an Adobe® AIR™ application

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/marketplace/index.cfm?
Shrink O'Matic is an Adobe® AIR™ application to easily (batch) resize (shrink) images.

It handles JPGs, GIFs and PNGs.event=marketplace.offering&marketplaceid=1&offeringid=10355

Skitch.com

Skitch.com is a webservice that works hand in hand with our application Skitch to give you 1-click
uploading of images for fast and fun image sharing.http://skitch.com

Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies Social Business Centre

Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies
Social Business Centrehttp://c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/top100-2010.html