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#15
1. Photostory
- 3
- Bring your digital photos to life with Photo Story 3 for Windows.
Create a photo slideshow of your life's most memorable moments.
You can capture your memories just the way you want them - with
the a single click, you can touch-up, crop or rotate pictures.
It's that easy. Then, add stunning special effects, sountracks
and personalize your stories with titles and captions. The file
size makes it easy to send your photo stories in an e-mail or
take them with you on a Window Mobile based portable device. Start
sharing your stories today. This is great for use in your classroom
- have your students capture pictures and post their story.
2. Survey- Monkey
- Intelligent survey software for serious primates of all species.
SurveyMonkey has a single purpose: to enable anyone to create
professional online surveys quickly and easily.
3. Center for Applied Research
in Educational Technology
- CARET bridges education technology research to practice by offering
research-based answers to critical questions. Browse Questions
& Answers to learn what studies show about topics such as
student learning, curriculum and instruction, and professional
development.
4 Google earth
- tour the earth from your desk chair. it offers satellite-photo
views of the entire world, often at an amazing level of detail.
5. Almost
everything you need to know with excel spreadsheets
- Excel is a dynamic spreadsheet program that allows you to enter
numbers and make calculations. Both teachers and students can
use this software to
create useful and informative databases, graphs, and charts.
6. MS Excel
- asap utilities. freeware. ASAP Utilities contains over 300 useful
and powerful utilities to fill the gaps in Excel, and automate
frequently used tasks. Guaranteed to save you many hours of time
!
7. Who owns that domain?- how
is my traffic routed across the internet.
8. MSN screensaver
- displays your personal photos - along with date, time, current
news and weather.
9. Yahoo widgets
- yahoo widgets lets you run an animated clock, a calendar, day
planner, stock ticker or a notepad.
10. Manage your
podcast - juice 2.1
- best way to receive your podcasts - So what is it? Want to listen
to internet audio programs but can't when they are scheduled?
This program lets you create your own custom online audio anytime,
anywhere. Really.
Why should I squeeze Juice?
Juice is free
Juice supports more than 15 languages
Juice supports multiple media players
Juice is free software licensed under the GPL (open source)
Juice's primary purpose is to manage podcasts
Juice has a built-in directory with thousands of listed podcast
feeds
Juice has auto cleanup, authentication, centralized feed management
and much more
Juice is accessible for blind and visually impaired users (windows
version only)
Juice is fresh!
11. Stanford has
gone crazy with podcasting, so it can't be all that bad
- Download faculty lectures, interviews, music and sports.
12. qumana droppad
- you can drag text, photos, and graphics into this drop pad and
then upload instantly to your blog at blogger.com
13.
this week's top 20 podcasts
- you have to start somewhere, correct?
#14
1. Myfax.com - I have students
that request I fax a recommendation to their prospective employers.
I never seem to be near a fax machine, but this program allows
you to fax directly from your computer with a simple click. 30
day free trial, $10 per month for 100 faxes.
2. Put a "time left" clock on your computer -
TimeLeft is a versatile desktop utility, which may be used as
a countdown, reminder, clock, alarm clock, tray clock, stopwatch,
timer, sticker, auction watch and time synchronization utility.
TimeLeft uses Winamp skins to show digits and text. - click
here.
3. The
46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities -There are a lot of great
freeware products out there. Many are as good or even better than
their commercial alternatives. - click
here.
4. Best Free Digital Photo Organizer - this is a product
which will wow you. When you first run Picasa it offers to scan
your whole hard drive (or designated locations) for photos and
videos. Scanning is surprisingly quick and when finished you’ll
have all your shots neatly organized into folders on a time line
basis. Now you can view you shots one at a time, in slideshow
or traversing the time line. - click
here.
5. Best Free Sticky Notes Utility - Some people hate these
programs others swear they can't work effectively without them.
The function that is really useful is the reminder that pops up
at a designated time and date. - click
here.
6. CCleaner is a freeware PC optimization tool. That removes
unused and temporary files from your system - allowing Windows
to run faster, more efficiently and giving you more hard disk
space. The best part is that it's Small, Fast and Free! - click here
7. FreeCommander is an easy-to-use alternative to the standard
windows file manager. The program helps you with daily work in
Windows. Here you can find all the necessary functions to manage
your data stock. You can take freeCommander anywhere - just copy
the installation directory on a CD, USB-Stick or even a floppy
disk - and you can even work with this program on a foreign computer.
- click
here
8. Desktop sidebar - The aim of Desktop Sidebar is provide
you with instant access to some of your most important daily information.
Desktop Sidebar is integrated with Microsoft Outlook so you don't
have to transfer their data to a new application. While using
this application, you won't have to switch to Microsoft Outlook
in order to check their schedule or tasks. Desktop Sidebar is
docked to the edge of the screen and it is always visible, so
to check your schedule, one look at Sidebar is enough! - click
here.
9. PhotoFiltre is a complete image retouching program.
It allows you to do simple or advanced adjustments to an image
and apply a vast range of filters on it. It is simple and intuitive
to use, and has an easy learning curve. The toolbar, giving you
access to the standard filters with just a few clicks, gives PhotoFiltre
a robust look. - click
here
10. Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software
designed to be used on computers that run Windows 2000, XP, Vista,
or Server 2003. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects,
and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. - click
here.
11. Welcome to Wikipedia, - the free encyclopedia that
anyone can edit. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia written collaboratively
by many of its readers. Lots of people are constantly improving
Wikipedia, making thousands of changes an hour, all of which are
recorded on article histories and recent changes. Inappropriate
changes are usually removed quickly. How can I help? Don't be
afraid to edit—anyone can edit almost any page, and we encourage
you to be bold (but please don't vandalize)! Find something that
can be improved, either in content, grammar or formatting, and
fix it. You can't break Wikipedia. Anything can be fixed or improved
later. So go ahead, edit an article and help make Wikipedia the
best information source on the Internet!- click
here
#13
1. online.thinkfree.com - puts a full featured MS office double and 30 mb of storage at your disposal wherever your roam - great for students who cannot afford MS Word, excel, powerpoint.
2. photo sharing (www.flickr.com) - use this yahoo free owned service to share your digital photos.
3. brainstorm on jotspot - wikis make it easy (a wiki --- defn. = A collection of websites of hypertext, each of them can be visited and edited by anyone. “Wiki wiki” means "rapidly" in the Hawaiian language. A wiki (pronounced , or ; see Pronunciation below) is a web application that allows users to add content, as on an Internet forum, but also allows anyone to edit the content. Wiki also refers to the collaborative software used to create such a website (see Wiki software). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIKI - wikis make it easy for groups to add text, images, and even files to a single web page. jotspot is a wiki that lets co-workers in far flung locations to get on the same pages as it were.
4. stuff your data in your backpack - a web based personal organizer - will even send an email and mobile phone reminders when tasks are due (www.backpackit.com)
5. planzo.com - you can sync this calendar with those of friends who has also signed up for the free service and also attach files and photos to your notes, as well as create shareable to do lists (www.planzo.com)
6. for booklovers - if you love books and love people who love books, librarything is for you. start by using the service to catalog your book collection. tag your books by topic, share your catalog with others and then endlessly browse the titles that they have on their shelves (www.librarything.com)
7. simply hired
- collects listings from a variety of jobs sites (including careermole,
craigslist, Dice, and monster) - it allows you to filter out unwanted
job categories and save the resulting search as an e-mail alert.
lets you add prospective jobs to a Google Map so you can compare
commute times among your various employment prospects.
(www.simplyhired.com)
8. Check your radar
for blip.tv: the swiss army knife of online video. blip.tv
offer free video blogging, podcasting, searching, and sharing.
create your video blog on the side.
see www.blip.tv
9. step by step process
to create your own podcast -
http://radio.about.com/od/podcastin1/a/aa030805a.htm
you can purchase an Olympus
Digital
Wave Recorder ( it is a digital tape recorder - costs -
$80 -) then record your class notes, or classes, or audio clips
on assignments, and then upload it your blogger site (see http://blogger.com) and your students
will love you.
audacity® is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. Learn more about Audacity... http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/windows
starting your podcast
http://www.itrc.wvu.edu/openhouse/podcast.html
#12
1. How Spyware works - Has your computer ever become so
slow that you can fix yourself a snack in the time it takes your
word processor to open? Spyware may be to blame. - click
here
2. How podcasting works - click
here
3. How to clean your keyboard - click
here
4. Sluggish system - too many programs running atg the
same time - My system seems sluggish. I know it has to do with
all the programs that sit in my system tray, but how can I keep
these programs from running at startup? - click
here
5. Tired of squinting when you read your email? Maybe someone
sent you something that's just too difficult to read "as
is". Looking for a quick way to make the font larger without
making the change permanent? - click
here
6. Deleting and removing cookies - click
here
7. Hot keys for MS Word - click
here
8. Educational search engines - click
here
9. Flash memory - click
here
10. Look it up - Definitions for thousands of the most
current IT- and computer related words. - click
here
#11
1. Students or friends need good MS Word "look-alike -
open source" ?
AbiWord is a free word
processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable
for a wide variety of word processing tasks. This software is
FREE! and saves your documents in Rich text Format, so MAC's and
PC' users with WORD can read them!. - click
here
2. Open Source Office Suite
OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform
and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible
with all other major office suites, the product is free to download,
use, and distribute. To help build the community, join us. - click here
3. open source "photoshop" look alike / alternative
GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed
piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition
and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many
languages.
This is the official GIMP
web site. It contains information about downloading, installing,
using, and enhancing it. This site also serves as a distribution
point for the latest releases. We try to provide as much information
about the GIMP community and related projects as possible. Hopefully
you will find what you need here. Grab a properly chilled beverage
and enjoy. - click here
4. free computerbooks, tutorials, and lecture notes - click
here
5. Google video - new - click
here
6. Google Talk - new - Google Talk is easy to use. You
can be instant messaging and talking with your friends for free
in no time. This page will help you get started. For more detailed
information, please visit our Help Center. - click
here
7. Easiest way to send invoices online - 30 day free trial
- click here
8. Free browser-based Web conferencing - click
here
9. How to find your IP address - click
here, A little bit about your IP address (Internet Protocol
address). When you connect to the internet, either via your internet
service provider (AOL, Prodigy, etc.), or your office LAN connection,
you are assigned an IP address. This address identifies your computer
from the other computers on the internet. Your IP address can
be either static, meaning it never changes, or dynamic, meaning
each time you dial-in or login you are assigned a new address
for that session. Check with your internet service provider or
network administrator to find out if your computer uses static
or dynamic IP addressing.
spam - if you send out a lot of emails like newsletters, you may
want to to keep an eye on your domain name and IP address, to
make sure it's not being reported on any email blacklists. here
is a blacklist tool - plugin your domain name and IP address to
the five different blacklist lookups and get your results. - click
here
10. Good online calendar - (click
here to join) - Planzo is an exciting new online calendar
that makes planning your day simple and easy. Check out Testimonials
from some of its users - click
here
# Easy to use
* One click event creation,
move events by drag-and-drop.
The way web calendar was supposed to be
* Planzo's interface makes adding events easy! Directly click
on
your calendar and start typing in an event. It's that simple.
# Tons of features
* Daily Digest: E-mail
your day's events to you every morning
* SMS: Text message events and reminders to your cell phone
* Share Events: Share your events with friends on Planzo
* Privacy: Complete control over who can see your events
* Look and Feel: Customize the look of your Planzo calendar
* New features added daily. Tell us what features YOU want!
#10
1. Using Windows Explorer -
Windows Explorer is a
utility that has been included with every Windows OS since Windows
95. It provides a way for you to manage all the folders and files
on your PC. HOW TO OPEN WINDOWS EXPLORER You can find Windows
Explorer by right-clicking 'Start'. Then select Explore from the
list that appears and Windows Explorer opens. http://www.computerhelpatoz.com/freetips.html
2. USE WORDPAD TO CREATE SIMPLE WORD DOCUMENTS
Wordpad is a word processor that comes with Windows. It has all the features of Notepad plus more, like colored fonts, text alignment/formatting, and support for Word documents (.doc). A ruler is available to gauge text line lengths.
To open Wordpad, go to
'Start', then 'Programs' then 'Accessories' and single click the
Wordpad Icon. Wordpad is a word processor that comes with Windows.
3. What happens when your PC is powered on? - click
here
4. Windows XP and the Display - Desktop - Make the Fonts Larger
or Smaller
SUMMARY: Having trouble
viewing words on your Windows XP computer? Make the default text
larger.
If the fonts on your Windows XP system are too large or too small,
you can easily switch between three sizes with this tweak. Note
that some programs may ignore this change - you will need to experiment.
- click
here
5. Choose the best search engine for your information need - click
here
6. How Teoma Works (search engine) --
In addition to utilizing
existing search techniques, Teoma applies authority, a new measure
of relevance, to deliver authoritative search results. To determine
the level of authority associated with a particular site, Teoma
employs three proprietary techniques: Refine, Results and Resources.
- click here
7. outlook shortcuts - click
here
8. to quickly open up the Find all Files window - 1. Press Ctrl+ESC
ESC 2. Press F3
9. what happens when you use the right button on your mouse -
click
here
10. how to measure the donwload and upload speed of your internet
connection - click
here
11. what is bandwidth - click
here
12. free optimize scan for your computer - click
here
13. tune up facilities 2006 for your computer - free trial - 30
days - click
here
#9
1. Tune up your computer at startup - Everybody wants their
system to operate responsively, boot quickly, and run applications
immediately with no errors. Pruning your Startup List can be one
of the greatest ways to help your system run without the burden
of unnecessary programs - click
here
2. Gmail - group email list - Do you send emails to more
than one recipient often? Are the recipients often the same? You
can turn these contacts into a group in Gmail and address messages
to all of them much easier and faster. Instead of entering the
addressees individually, you just type the group name and let
Gmail do the rest. click
here If you do not have gmail, emaol "dekstop
dave" at abogado@pacbell.net,
and he will invite you (he has 100 invitations left - this is
how many you get when you sign up for gmail so you can invite
plenty of your friends.
3. Yahoo - Notepad - "He
is a big fan(me too - "desktop dave") of Yahoo!
Notepad. He always likes to write down stuff because it helps
him to be a bit more organized and helps him to make sure that
he doesn't forget something. So, he ended up using Notepad.yahoo.com
heavily. - click here You
need to obtain a yahoo email address first. However, it also has
a very nice calendar, and address book which then integrates your
daily tasks into just one place to look.
4. Get your notes on your desktop - Here is the new Yahoo Widget
- click
here.
5. Can't seem to get any attachments in email - click
here
6. CAPS key alarm - Don't you hate it when you accidentally hit
the Caps Lock key? Sometimes I have a whole sentence typed in
before I realize my mistake! (I know, GASP!) - click
here
7. Jump to it - Picture this: you’re working on a big document
and you’re making some adjustments just on page 17, but you
forgot something you needed on page one. So, what do you do? You
end up scrolling all the way back up to the first page. Once you
find what you needed, you have to go all the way back down to
page 17. Aye, make it stop! - click
here
8. F-1 - Help - It seems like the majority of technical difficulties
occur after business hours or on weekends. Sometimes you'll be
lucky, and we'll have a tip in our searchable tip archive that
already addresses your problem. If we don't, here is another route
to solving email problems. Most Microsoft programs have a similar
help file under F1 that may link to the official MS help pages
online. Just look around in the dropdown menus for a help or FAQ
option. - click
here
9. cool site - NBC Olympics - GO USA - click
here
10. Foodle view - When you’re cooking, do you ever feel like
you’ve slipped into a rut? I know I sure do. It seems like
I make meatloaf, taco bake, chicken pesto and pasta, chicken and
corn and potato casserole every week. I’m really dying to
get out of my cooking rut, so I went hunting for a good recipe
search engine. I found Food View and it met all my needs. - click here
#8
1. MS Outlook/Express and Web Access - In MS Outlook, as
well as Outlook Express, you will be happy to find that the Ctrl
key combined with the scroll wheel will enlarge (and shrink) the
email text that you're trying to read. - click
here
2. I'm installing a program, but it didn't put a shortcut on my
desktop. Where did the program go? - click
here
3. Keyboard shortcut - Ctrl F - to find stuff in windows - click here
4. Quick Paragraph Relocation in MS Word - click
here
5. Checking up on kids use of the web and clearing history - click here
6. Forward Slash Backslash
what do they mean ?- click
here
7. Keyboard shortcut - CTRL - Z to recover from big mistakes -
click here
8. Files and Folder Organization tips for your hard drive - click
here
9. Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows - click
here
10. Keyboard Shortcuts for Mac users - click
here
#7
1. Look at a Dictionary of terms for computers and technology
- click here
2. Megabits calculator - byte converter - file size - click
here
3. Pit Stop Bandwidth calculator - click
here (tells you how fast your internet connection is)
4. How to save "favorites" in Internet Explorer - click here
5. Sign up for Computer tips - click
here
6. Check available disk space left on your hard drive - click
here
#6
1. Using email with Outlook web access - IE
- Firefox
2. Outlook web access features - click
here
3. Feature Comparison Between Outlook 2003 and Office Outlook
Web Access - click
here
4. Tutorial on Outlook Web Access - click
here
# 5
Microsoft Training Modules - for Word - click
here
#4
Top Tools for Smarter Searches - click
here
#3
How Internet Search Engines Work - click
here
#2
The easy way to find, read and organize your email under Outlook
2003 - click here
#1
Managing your files username and password = introfm05 (type it
in at least 3 times) - click
here
updated: 4-06-06