Archives for “Web Tools”
In a recent post, Alan Levine discussed the use of a web tool called Your Flowing Data. Your Flowing Data(YFD), is a Twitter application that lets you collect data about yourself. It allows you to use direct messages from your Twitter account to track different types of data. Basically, once you have set up your [...]
“Pixelpipe is a content distribution gateway that allows users to publish text and upload photos, video and audio files once through Pixelpipe and have the content distributed across over 60 social networks, photo/video sites and blogs, and other online destinations. We provide a number of mobile & desktop applications for users, liberating their media and [...]
I have been playing with the Everytrail iPhone app and find it a pretty interesting tool. It utilizes data from a GPS to document a walk or a hike. You can shoot pictures along the way and when finished upload the information to your space on the Everytrail web site. You can also edit your [...]
Mocha VNC for iPhone – iPod Touch. Free Lite Version.. Playing around with MochaSoft VNC Lite for the iPhone/iPod Touch. Set up was very simple. Am typing this on my MacBook through my iPhone… A bit too meta….
Simplify Media is an application that allows you to share your music over the net. In addition you can listen to up to 30 other streams from your friends music collections. In addition they have a nice application for the iPhone/iPod Touch that allows you to access music from your own computer, or from friends [...]
Today CNET reports that Google has added translations to its offerings for the iPhone.
Michael Tyson, a Computer Science PhD student, living in Melbourne, Australia, has created a service (Speak to iTunes Audiobook Service) running on Mac OS X that converts any text to an iTunes compatible audio file. Select some text, invoke the service, and his tool converts the text into a spoken file using the Mac OS [...]
It looks like this has been up since last summer, but today was the first I have heard of TagCrowd. TagCrowd is a web based tool that allows you to visualize word frequencies as a tag cloud. You can visualize web pages, text files, and contents of your clipboard and then embed the tag cloud [...]
Cabel Sasser is a software developer and one of the founders of Panic Software, the folks that make Transmit along with some other nice web development tools. Transmit is a great FTP utility for the Mac and a tool that I find myself using just about everyday. Cabel also does some other coding and his [...]
MapJack is a mapping web site that offers street views similar to Google Maps, but with a better interface. Currently it only offers views of San Francisco, Sausalito, and Chaiang Mai in Thailand. While similar to Google’s Street Views its interface is much nicer and it also offers views from parks and walking paths, not [...]
Photo Dropper is a WordPress plugin that allows you to easily search for and place Creative Commons licensed photos from Flickr in your weblog posts. The Plugin provides a search field within the post interface that allows you to search via key words. It provides the option of placing a small, medium or large images [...]
Craig Nansen has developed a nice little Google Maps mashup called Tweet Map. Kind of like Twittermap, except it only notes those that you follow. I tried it yesterday at work and ended up keeping the window open on my second monitor. Kind of a nice way to keep up with folks throughout the day. [...]
iRadioapp.com is a web based application designed for use on the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch, but available through any web browser. It uses radio station listings from Yes.com and returns live information about currently playing and recently played songs for the top 30 US radio markets. Once you have found your station you can [...]
Stop sharing spreadsheets, start collecting information: The Google Docs Blog posts today about a new feature in Google Docs Spreadsheets called forms. It basically allows you to share a Google Docs Spreadsheet as a form with others and the data they enter in that form is automatically added to a Google Docs Spreadsheet. So rather [...]
CoveritLive is web based software for live blogging of events such as conference sessions or lectures. Through an iframe, your commentary is published on your web site in real time like an instant message dialog complete with time stamp. You can easily add polls, videos, pictures, and audio clips to our live session. Viewers of [...]
Hal MacLean has a short review of the Asus EeePC, the ultra light web enabled lynux laptop. I have one on order, according to UPS, it should arrive today, and I am looking to order about 20 if they live up to expectations.
Pingie is a web tool that allows you to sign up to receive SMS (text messages) messages whenever a particular RSS feed is updated. Might be useful to monitor sites within my district that are updated on a less frequent basis. An interesting way to keep up with your information flow. Regular SMS charges apply. [...]
Official Google Docs Blog: New features for 2008!: Google has added some new features to its Google Docs applications. These include the ability to create sub folders and the ability to rename documents within the Docs home toolbar view. The one that is of most interest to me is the ability to embed Google Docs [...]
Last June I wrote about PicLens. It is an immersive image viewing tool that allows you to share images from web sites in a full screen mode. During the winter break I have been spending some time playing around with it again. It is a browser plugin that allows you to display images on web [...]
Update: Brad Kellett has created a web tool, based on DCortesi’s code, that does this and uses the Google Charts API. http://bradkellett.com/twitter_stats.html DCortesi . blog » Twitter Stats A perl script for OS X that pulls down your public tweets and allows you to graph them using Numbers… By way of Daring Fireball
Kwout is a web service that allows you to quote a portion of a web site as an image and or image map. For example I used Kwout to grab a portion of the Lewis Elementary web site. When you invoke Kwout (either from their web page, or from a bookmarklet…) a medium sized screen [...]
Last week Scott McLeod posted a series of FAQ type questions for why a school administrator might want to share information with his or her community through a weblog.... Information sharing and progress monitoringMarketing and public relationsCommunity building and customer relationsBranding and creating evangelistsThought leadership and advocacyToday he compiled the information into a handy PDF file that can easily be diseminated (i.e: slid under a principal's door...
The interface is designed as a wiki, so anyone can add or edit content.... I don't know if this is an open source tool, but if it is, it is something that I'm going to work to put up on our school server so that so we can have a student sandbox and have our students play with this.
