It seems like every cool web tool makes you register with your email address and you never know which ones will spam you. Even sites you want to belong to like Facebook will FILL your inbox with announcements.
Many students don’t like to register for sites because of this fact. You can always kee...
Posting a paper you’ve written to the internet is sometimes an ugly affair. Usually, you have to copy and paste your work into a blog window, and you lose all the formatting, fonts, images, and other prettiness that you’ve worked so hard to create. You can output to PDF (which makes a perfect image...
It sounds very boring, but Evernote is actually a great resource for collecting your ideas in text, voice, and
pictures. You can even take pictures of words on a whiteboard or
powerpoint and Evernote will use text recognition to figure out what
the note says! From this point, you can sort, se...
Some of your classmates have been trying out Weebly.com as a blogging platform to do their class blogs. So far, we’re finding that it has all of the good benefits of Blogger and Tumblr without all of the headaches.
I have been using it for my “What is Art?” blog and it makes it very easy to...
If you didn’t know, PDF files (or Portable Document Format) is a great format for sharing your documents electronically. It’s different than sending a Word .doc because it shows up just the way it looks on your computer– no broken fonts or missing pictures.
Skim is an open source (Mac only) app...
For all of us having too much trouble posting to our Bloggers, I was about to have everybody just GIVE UP on those services. Now, I have seen the light– Posterous, the incredibly easy email‐based blogging platform, can post your blog posts FOR YOU on your existing Blogger or Tumblr. It’s a little...
I’ve been playing around with different blogging sites, and there are a ot of good choices if you’re frustrated with your current Blogger or Tumblr. I don’t know how they’ll be on the school network, but if you’re not afraid, try one of the ones below or one of these!
Posterous.com is a blogging...
This economy hasn’t been good to any of us, but if you want to make some cash from your blog, listen up. Google AdSense makes it [pretty] easy to set up ads on your page. Tools like Weebly and ScribeFire make it dead simple!
The basic formula for $$$ goes like this:
1) You create interesti...
Jing is a cool little screencast app that allows you to make instructional videos. You can capture your actions on video and record your voice. It only saves as SWF files (which are hard to work with) but it’s free and works pretty well.…