Check this out!!!!
Three websites for 25+ Photoshop alternatives
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11 Free Adobe Photoshop Alternatives (Softwares) | Tools
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/11-free-alternatives-softwares-to-adobe-photoshop/
Photoshop Alternatives: Another 14 Free Image Manipulation Tools | Tools
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/photoshop-alternatives-another-14-free-image-manipulation-tools/
One more site to check out for Mac based (non free) Image editors
Top 5 Alternatives to Photoshop For Mac Users | Psdtuts+
http://psd.tutsplus.com/articles/top-5-alternatives-to-photoshop-for-mac-users/
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Friday, September 11, 2009
Photo Tampering Throughout History
We all know by this time that any photo can be doctored if someone tries hard enough. Hany Farid has created a thorough documentary of altered photographs throughout history.
You can check out his resume here: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/farid/bio.html
His career ranges "from working with federal law enforcement agencies on digital forensics, to the digital reconstruction of Ancient Egyptian tombs, Hany works and plays with digital media at the crossroads of computer science, engineering, mathematics, optics, and psychology."
He introduces the research with the following paragraph: "
Check out the photographs we always took for granted from Lincoln to Sarah Palin and beyond.
You can check out his resume here: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/farid/bio.html
His career ranges "from working with federal law enforcement agencies on digital forensics, to the digital reconstruction of Ancient Egyptian tombs, Hany works and plays with digital media at the crossroads of computer science, engineering, mathematics, optics, and psychology."
He introduces the research with the following paragraph: "
Photography lost its innocence many years ago. In as early as the 1860s, photographs were already being manipulated, only a few decades after Niepce created the first photograph in 1814. With the advent of high-resolution digital cameras, powerful personal computers and sophisticated photo-editing software, the manipulation of digital images is becoming more common. Here, I have collected some examples of tampering throughout history.
To help contend with the implications of this tampering, we have developed a series of tools for detecting traces of tampering in digital images (contact me at Ma'at Consulting for more information about our services)"Check out the photographs we always took for granted from Lincoln to Sarah Palin and beyond.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Browsers are changing
Today’s web is changing fast to keep up with the times. The new browsers are using dynamically relevant search techniques to provide a more intuitive search results. They are also using images besides text to provide these results.
Microsoft has entered the search engine arena.
Bing.com http://www.bing.com/ searches images, videos, shopping, news, maps, travels, health, and much more. The front page provides a tour of the various features. David Pogue’s article inbox NYT 7/9/2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/technology/personaltech/09pogue.html?_r=1
Twoogle http://twoogle.browsys.com/
Search twitter, Google others simultaneously. The search engine provides entry to many different services immediately. Examples would be: news/blogs, images, Bing, eHow, YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia, and others.
Search me www.searchme.com (gone offline) There is a very good video on what a search engine should provide to its users.
Image search engines
Spezify http://www.spezify.com/ The website states; “Spezify is a search tool presenting results from a large number of websites in different visual ways.” It is a search mashup web visualization that tries to provide a more intuitive experience showing your online presence.
Imprezzeo www.Imprezzeo.com http://www.imprezzeo.com/demos
His search uses a new concept of using images to find other images. Their website states: “Imprezzeo is an image-based search technology company. Our technology allows users to search for images using other images as examples rather than textual search terms. Those images might be scenes, landmarks, objects, graphics, people, or even personalities. Irrespective of the size of the collection, Imprezzeo Image Search helps you find the right image, fast.”
Specialized browsers
Literature infloox http://www.infloox.com/hiaw This is the website where you will get to see the books of influential people. They state: “But that's not all! You can also search this website, to find the favorite readings of entire countries, regions, job types, cultural movements or groups in general. Do this through our "collective search " feature!”
Real-time Collecta is not like other search engines. http://collecta.com/
Their site states: “Collecta is not like other search engines. The web is alive with real-time information. So why search a stale archive? Collecta monitors the update streams of news sites, popular blogs and social media, so we can show you results as they happen.
Surf Canyon http://www.surfcanyon.com/ Improves your search on Google, Yahoo!, Bing, and Craigslist. It helps you find information buried deep down in a site. It also personalizes your search making it more relevant as it reflects your actions and choices, dynamically updating your results page. .
Semantics Twine www.twine.com Is a smart way to track, find, organize, and share what interests you with other people with the same interests and concerns.
The Deep web browser http://www.deeperweb.com/ powered by Google (Firefox plugin and tutorial can search with specific time parameters)
Other engines based on the deep web.
Business www.Biznar.com – re-searches for businesses
Science www.ScienceResearch.com – a science research engine, with multiple advanced options, and personalized options for customized research
Medicine www.Mednar.com – medical research engine
Science & Technology www.Scitopia.org – a science, technology, and engineering search engine for researchers, focusing on scholarly documents
Microsoft has entered the search engine arena.
Bing.com http://www.bing.com/ searches images, videos, shopping, news, maps, travels, health, and much more. The front page provides a tour of the various features. David Pogue’s article inbox NYT 7/9/2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/technology/personaltech/09pogue.html?_r=1
Twoogle http://twoogle.browsys.com/
Search twitter, Google others simultaneously. The search engine provides entry to many different services immediately. Examples would be: news/blogs, images, Bing, eHow, YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia, and others.
Search me www.searchme.com (gone offline) There is a very good video on what a search engine should provide to its users.
Image search engines
Spezify http://www.spezify.com/ The website states; “Spezify is a search tool presenting results from a large number of websites in different visual ways.” It is a search mashup web visualization that tries to provide a more intuitive experience showing your online presence.
Imprezzeo www.Imprezzeo.com http://www.imprezzeo.com/demos
His search uses a new concept of using images to find other images. Their website states: “Imprezzeo is an image-based search technology company. Our technology allows users to search for images using other images as examples rather than textual search terms. Those images might be scenes, landmarks, objects, graphics, people, or even personalities. Irrespective of the size of the collection, Imprezzeo Image Search helps you find the right image, fast.”
Specialized browsers
Literature infloox http://www.infloox.com/hiaw This is the website where you will get to see the books of influential people. They state: “But that's not all! You can also search this website, to find the favorite readings of entire countries, regions, job types, cultural movements or groups in general. Do this through our "collective search " feature!”
Real-time Collecta is not like other search engines. http://collecta.com/
Their site states: “Collecta is not like other search engines. The web is alive with real-time information. So why search a stale archive? Collecta monitors the update streams of news sites, popular blogs and social media, so we can show you results as they happen.
Surf Canyon http://www.surfcanyon.com/ Improves your search on Google, Yahoo!, Bing, and Craigslist. It helps you find information buried deep down in a site. It also personalizes your search making it more relevant as it reflects your actions and choices, dynamically updating your results page. .
Semantics Twine www.twine.com Is a smart way to track, find, organize, and share what interests you with other people with the same interests and concerns.
The Deep web browser http://www.deeperweb.com/ powered by Google (Firefox plugin and tutorial can search with specific time parameters)
Other engines based on the deep web.
Business www.Biznar.com – re-searches for businesses
Science www.ScienceResearch.com – a science research engine, with multiple advanced options, and personalized options for customized research
Medicine www.Mednar.com – medical research engine
Science & Technology www.Scitopia.org – a science, technology, and engineering search engine for researchers, focusing on scholarly documents
Online Free Storage, Sharing, and syncing in today’s technology worldhttp://drop.io/
Today’s activities mean that we are frequently not at our main computer when we need it. Everyone from teachers, students, and business people need to have a way to share or store files for easy access at sometime in the future.
Luckily the web 2.0 computer tools have bequeathed us with several sites that allow us to store or transfer files for free or a nominal.
Web and computer only
Drop.io http://drop.io/ “Simple real-time sharing, collaboration, and presentation.
Use drop.io to privately share your files and collaborate in real time by web, email, phone, mobile, and more. Create each drop in two clicks and share what you want, how you want, with whom you want.” There is a tutorial video on the main page. Users are allowed 100MB free per drop. Upgrading is necessary for larger files.
Tools that store and sync computers, the web (Cloud), and iPhone/Touch
SimplyBox http://simplybox.com is a very visual free service that works with your computer and syncs with the web and iPhone so that you can access it from anywhere. It allows you to capture, organize, and share what you find on the web. With it you can collaborate with others sharing what you find on the web with the establishment of shared, paired, and public boxes. A standalone app is also available for downloading and installation on as many computers as needed.
Mobile Me ww.me.com $99/yr $69/yr@Amazon is a well known Apple app that facilitates mac users keeping their life coordinated. It is very easy to move files and data around with the iDisk sync w/Mobile Me on iPhone
Box net www.box.net (also available for iPhone) Their web page states: “Sharing and collaboration are at the heart of the Box experience. As you exchange content with more and more people, the ability to effectively monitor the activity in collaboration folders takes on greater importance. That’s why we rolled out a new set of advanced email preferences - we wanted to give customers more flexibility in getting the notifications they want, when they want them. Of particular note is a new setting that lets you receive notifications in one “daily digest,” making it even more streamlined.” There are quite a few features that teachers and businesses will appreciate.
Drop Box www.dropbox.com (also available for iPhone) is a free online storage service that keeps your data in the cloud for access whenever and wherever you have internet access. Their website states: “Dropbox works just like any other folder on your computer, but with a few differences it is a cross-platform client (Windows, Mac and Linux) that enables users to drop any file into a Dropbox folder that is then synced to the web and the users' other computers with the Dropbox client. Files in the Dropbox folder may then be shared with other Dropbox users or accessed from the web. Users may also upload files manually through a web browser. A free Dropbox account offers 2 GB of storage. Users may upgrade to 50 GB by paying a monthly or yearly fee. The total amount of storage space of both the free and fee-based accounts may be increased by an extra 3 GB for free accounts and 6 GB for fee-based accounts by referring others to the service.”
Sugar Sync www.sugarsync.com (available for iPhone, Blackberry, WinMo, and Android)
All your files can be accessed on the go, instantly and securely from any Mac, PC or mobile device. After your initial 30 day trial ends, plans start as low as $4.99 a month.
Luckily the web 2.0 computer tools have bequeathed us with several sites that allow us to store or transfer files for free or a nominal.
Web and computer only
Drop.io http://drop.io/ “Simple real-time sharing, collaboration, and presentation.
Use drop.io to privately share your files and collaborate in real time by web, email, phone, mobile, and more. Create each drop in two clicks and share what you want, how you want, with whom you want.” There is a tutorial video on the main page. Users are allowed 100MB free per drop. Upgrading is necessary for larger files.
Tools that store and sync computers, the web (Cloud), and iPhone/Touch
SimplyBox http://simplybox.com is a very visual free service that works with your computer and syncs with the web and iPhone so that you can access it from anywhere. It allows you to capture, organize, and share what you find on the web. With it you can collaborate with others sharing what you find on the web with the establishment of shared, paired, and public boxes. A standalone app is also available for downloading and installation on as many computers as needed.
Mobile Me ww.me.com $99/yr $69/yr@Amazon is a well known Apple app that facilitates mac users keeping their life coordinated. It is very easy to move files and data around with the iDisk sync w/Mobile Me on iPhone
Box net www.box.net (also available for iPhone) Their web page states: “Sharing and collaboration are at the heart of the Box experience. As you exchange content with more and more people, the ability to effectively monitor the activity in collaboration folders takes on greater importance. That’s why we rolled out a new set of advanced email preferences - we wanted to give customers more flexibility in getting the notifications they want, when they want them. Of particular note is a new setting that lets you receive notifications in one “daily digest,” making it even more streamlined.” There are quite a few features that teachers and businesses will appreciate.
Drop Box www.dropbox.com (also available for iPhone) is a free online storage service that keeps your data in the cloud for access whenever and wherever you have internet access. Their website states: “Dropbox works just like any other folder on your computer, but with a few differences it is a cross-platform client (Windows, Mac and Linux) that enables users to drop any file into a Dropbox folder that is then synced to the web and the users' other computers with the Dropbox client. Files in the Dropbox folder may then be shared with other Dropbox users or accessed from the web. Users may also upload files manually through a web browser. A free Dropbox account offers 2 GB of storage. Users may upgrade to 50 GB by paying a monthly or yearly fee. The total amount of storage space of both the free and fee-based accounts may be increased by an extra 3 GB for free accounts and 6 GB for fee-based accounts by referring others to the service.”
Sugar Sync www.sugarsync.com (available for iPhone, Blackberry, WinMo, and Android)
All your files can be accessed on the go, instantly and securely from any Mac, PC or mobile device. After your initial 30 day trial ends, plans start as low as $4.99 a month.
Monday, May 11, 2009
Thanks for trying the Visual Thesaurus : Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus
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Thanks for trying the Visual Thesaurus : Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus
As you've just seen, the Visual Thesaurus is an interactive dictionary and thesaurus that allows you to discover the connections between words in a visually captivating display.
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Why should I subscribe to the Visual Thesaurus?
- It works like your brain. Unlike a paper-bound book, the VT is fluid and dynamic, like the way you think. Word maps blossom with meaning, helping you find just the right word. You'll write more descriptively and precisely, discover new ideas, and expand your vocabulary.
- Join a community of word lovers. A subscription to the Visual Thesaurus is your ticket to an online community of thousands of creative people who are passionate about words and language.
- Learn about language and the creative process from our online magazine. Members of the VT community can enjoy our online magazine, updated daily with fresh content. Informative features explore everything from how writers find inspiration to how words and phrases become part of our lexicon. Hear from experts in fields ranging from teaching to copywriting, and learn how to make language work for you.
- Keep track of words that inspire you with word lists. Build your own customized word lists on any theme of your choosing. You can explore other people's lists, leave comments, and rate them.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Monday, April 27, 2009
Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Modern History in the Movies
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Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Modern History in the Movies
list of movies. The Internet Modern History Sourcebook now contains thousands of sources and the previous index pages were so large that they were crashing many browsers.
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The Internet Modern History Sourcebook is one of series of history primary sourcebooks. It is intended to serve the needs of teachers and students in college survey courses in modern European history and American history, as well as in modern Western Civilization and World Cultures. Although this part of the Internet History Sourcebooks Project began as a way to access texts that were already available on the Internet, it now contains hundreds of texts made available locally.
The great diversity of available sources for use in modern history classes requires that selections be made with great care - since virtually unlimited material is available.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
National Archives Experience
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Collection of more than 10 billion records in the National Archives. You can build your own online collection, keep track of what you have viewed, take a pathways challenge, search by tags, create your own movie or poster, and much more. It is very helpful when you need primary sources.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Free Technology Resource
Free Technology for Teachers
A review of free technology resources and how teachers can use them. Ideas for technology integration in education.
The author of this blog presents some great tools and resources for the classroom teacher who is interested in utilizing new technology.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/
A review of free technology resources and how teachers can use them. Ideas for technology integration in education.
The author of this blog presents some great tools and resources for the classroom teacher who is interested in utilizing new technology.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/
History of the Internet (YouTube)
"History of the internet" is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to filesharing, from Arpanet to Internet.
The history is told using the PICOL icons on picol.org , which are available for download soon. On blog.picol.org you can get news about this project.
Voice-over by Steve Taylor http://voice-pool.com
You can get more information on this movie on my website
http://www.lonja.de/motion/mo_history...
or on the PICOL-Project site where you can download a pre-release of the icons.
http://blog.picol.org/
If you are interested in more Internet history you can also read/watch:
- ISOC: History of the internet: http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_...
- Geschichte des Internet (german & link to Amazon): http://tinyurl.com/4kzlwq
- Computer Networks: The Heralds Of Resource Sharing http://tinyurl.com/apocod
Credits for subtitles:
(The correctness of the subtiles depends on the people listed down here)
English: Stefan Badragan | youtube.com/StevXtreme
Italian: Stefan Badragan
German: me
Turkish: Zeynep Can
French: Arnaud 'dehy' DE MOUHY
Bulgarian: Andrian Georgiev
Chinese: Terry Lee
Portuguese (Brazilian): Guilherme Euler
Spanish: Mauricio Diaz Orlich
Polish: Agnieszka Marciniak
Greek: Pantelis Bouboulis
Also thanks to: Frederico Goncalves Guimaraes
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
GoView™ Beta : Home
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"Capture your screen and audio with GoView, then instantly share your recording online. It's quick, easy and free."
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
50 Unusually Awesome Icon Sets for Mac « AppStorm
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50 Unusually Awesome Icon Sets for Mac « AppStorm
A collections of 50+ icons for the Mac platform. Thanks to Dave Marra from Apple for alerting us of this site.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
New Media demands new literacy
http://inanimatealice.com/education/index.html
Today educators face a quandary. On the one hand there are anxieties about the reliability of internet sites and concerns regarding how to educate students to make informed online decisions. On the other hand there are, for example, government initiatives like the National Curriculum in England and Media Literacy outcomes in Canada which emphasise the important role technological skills play in all sorts of learning environments. But how can teachers successfully integrate new media literacies into the classroom?
'Inanimate Alice' is easily assimilated into learning environments; its use of multimodality (images, sounds, text, interaction) enables students to see storytelling in a new, multi-sensory light. 'Inanimate Alice' is a new media fiction that allows students to develop multiple literacies (literary, cinematic, artistic, etc.) in combination with the highly collaborative and participatory nature of the online environment.”
There is a downloadable Education Pack (.pdf) is available free of charge to teachers and educators wherever you are. http://inanimatealice.com/education/iteachregistration.html
Check out this technology device used to develop storytelling:
iStori.es - http://www.istori.es/ "the authoring tool for teachers, primary and secondary school students, university undergrads and, in fact, just about everyone.
If your students relate to Alice they are going to love working with iStori.es.
iStori.es is a supremely easy-to-use story-telling device that requires no manual. All of the instructions necessary to create dynamic output are available from the on-screen wizard. Load up some pictures, add text, music and sound effects and BOOM! you have your own interactive story in minutes."
This graphical interactive novel will definitely connect with today's students.
Check it out.
“'Inanimate Alice' has proven to be popular across a broad range of ages as well as with a broad range of viewers, including both book-lovers and gamers. Because the level of interactivity starts out low in episode one, increasing with each subsequent episode in order to reflect Alice's own growing abilities, we've found that we can take an audience unfamiliar with multimedia fiction with us. Educators like 'Inanimate Alice' because of this; students from primary to post-graduate level find the work engaging.Check it out.
Today educators face a quandary. On the one hand there are anxieties about the reliability of internet sites and concerns regarding how to educate students to make informed online decisions. On the other hand there are, for example, government initiatives like the National Curriculum in England and Media Literacy outcomes in Canada which emphasise the important role technological skills play in all sorts of learning environments. But how can teachers successfully integrate new media literacies into the classroom?
'Inanimate Alice' is easily assimilated into learning environments; its use of multimodality (images, sounds, text, interaction) enables students to see storytelling in a new, multi-sensory light. 'Inanimate Alice' is a new media fiction that allows students to develop multiple literacies (literary, cinematic, artistic, etc.) in combination with the highly collaborative and participatory nature of the online environment.”
There is a downloadable Education Pack (.pdf) is available free of charge to teachers and educators wherever you are. http://inanimatealice.com/education/iteachregistration.html
Check out this technology device used to develop storytelling:
iStori.es - http://www.istori.es/ "the authoring tool for teachers, primary and secondary school students, university undergrads and, in fact, just about everyone.
If your students relate to Alice they are going to love working with iStori.es.
iStori.es is a supremely easy-to-use story-telling device that requires no manual. All of the instructions necessary to create dynamic output are available from the on-screen wizard. Load up some pictures, add text, music and sound effects and BOOM! you have your own interactive story in minutes."
Sunday, February 8, 2009
PicLits.com - Create a PicLit
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Great tool for posters and creative writing
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Glogster - Interactive poster
If you haven’t seen www.glogster.com/edu , you must take time to enhance your classroom toolbox. Glogster is an interactive on-line poster maker that will bring creativity and enthusiasm to the forefront in the classroom and for homework projects. Students can combine pictures, graphics, text,and audio/video to create an on-line interactive poster. When completed the glog can be hosted on the Glogster site or embeded into a blog, wiki, personal website, or facebook page.
There is almost endless possibilities for curricula adaptations. Once the students start realizing the audio/video connectivity, they can start to create full scale multimedia projects that could include podcasts and other presentations.
Check out this YouTube video about Glogster.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40zmLiFqjG8&feature=channel_page
Facebook application
http://www.glogster.com/news/16-12-08-facebook-application
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Acronyms can be fun and frustrating when you don't know them...
Acronym Interaction, Expansion and Extrapolation Engine
Tired of practicing your blank stares for when someone says they need a TCP/IP-based LAN set up and a USB-to-SCSI adapter ASAP? Do you wish you could throw around acronyms with that same casual attitude that pisses you off so much? Here's your chance. With this tool, you can enter any combination of letters you like (from 2 to 6) and we'll expand them into a handy, technical-sounding, completely made-up phrase that borders on the plausible.
So invent your own. Go to: http://www.brunching.com/acronymer.html
Print 3D Buildings from Google Earth
SketchUp and 3D Printing the Disney Concert Hall - Sweet Onion Creations
Another company has come out with a solution for making 3D prints from Google Earth. This time the solution is actually based on SketchUp 3D models. The company is called Sweet Onion Creations, and they describe how to click on a 3D model seen in Google Earth (or any found in the Google 3D Warehouse) and using their "3D printing" service get back an actual physical model. Here's a video they've made showing how it works:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLiReajlXrg
Slideshare now has keynote plug-in
Slide share is a great way for online educators to share powerpoint and keynote programs with both student and parents.
This is a video that explains the basics:
This is a video that explains the basics:
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