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.

web tools

Face time allows you to make phone calls all over the world from your computer, to other face time users for free, and very cheaply to phones and mobiles. face time is a fairly simple program to use. If you just want to talk to someone else who uses face time too, you do not need to buy credits. These calls are free. Lots of people use face time, they use it to communicate with other people, using a webcam and a microphone.

Web tools

The board foot calculator is useful because it saves you trouble of doing all of the math for doing it by hand.  The board foot calculator is easy to use by just entering the width, length, and thickness of your boards.

App vs web

There are many differences using blogger on the web and using the app. On the web you can view your stats and overview of your blog profile, and using the app you can only view your posts on the homepage. Using the blogger app you can't change your theme of your blogger profile and on the web you can. There are more tools on the web over the app, you can also add gadgets on your profile on the web. The layout of blogger on the ipad is simpler to use because it is just your posts. Although there are more advantages of using the web because you can access your overview and layout.

Symbaloo

http://abilene.symbaloo.com/

Symbaloo

Symbaloo lets you pull together and organize content on the web.  To use symbaloo you just make a list of websites that you like.  Symbaloo is basically a bookmark page that you can set as your homepage when you open your browser.  Symbaloo is a faster and easier way of browsing the web.

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