word clouds

web tools

Wordle is a an app used to generate “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater importance to words that appear more frequently in the source text.

Avatars

     The south park avatar website allows you to create a south park character.

 

 the zui website you can create a avatar that looks like this, there are many possibilities of avatars you can make.

claymation

glowtxt

animated text

In order to create the animated text link you have to switch the post from compose to HTML.

firefox add ons

1. Text to voice
text to voice is an addd-on that lets you highlight a word and it will read it aloud to you.  You could use this add-on in the scenario you didn't know how to pronounce a word or phrase.

2. Super paste
this add-on allows you to save the last ten things you copied and pasted.   You could use this to save time to type out a few words here and there.

3. lightShot
lightshot allows you to just click the icon in the corner and drag the screenshot anywhere. You might use this to show a webpage without going to it.

4. NoSquint
NoSquint allows you to adjust the text-only and full-page zoom levels.  You can use this to zoom easily.

5. Boounce
Boounce weeds out duplicate results from Google, Bing, and Blekko.  This add-on saves you time of scrolling over duplicate search results.

6. Persona switcher
persona switcher lets you quickly switch between your personas or reset it back to the default via a menu or the keyboard. You can also automatically rotate through all of your themes.  This makes it easier to use your personas.