Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Glogster: make a poster online. It's free!

Glogster: make a poster online. It's free!: Be Original. Mash up music, photos, videos, & more to express what you care about. Your ideas, your emotions, your Glogster. Be creative. Rotate, resize, add effects & animations. With Glog tools, the possibilities are endless. Contests. Your favorite celebrities, musicians, & brands hold exclusive contests on Glogster.

mPortfolios

mPortfolios: Is the future of ePortfolios in your pocket?

Monday, January 30, 2012

A. Kipta's Blog 01/31/2012 (a.m.)

  • It looks like the Department of Homeland Security’s three-year-long practice of monitoring social media has paid off. They prevented some United Kingdom tourists with plans to “destroy America” from entering the country and partying it into oblivion.

    tags: twiter homeland_security social_media

  • This article gives an overview of the various options in picking up a licence for one’s Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) project, and tries to give some guidelines for choosing one.

    tags: foss open_source licensing

  • Different stakeholders will have different uses for FOSS. A developer might use a program more intensively than an end-user, which means that the developer’s activities might be subject to more restrictions than an end-user. The following section tries to provide some scenarios as examples to explain the different legal issues that may arise for different stakeholders.

    tags: foss open_source licensing

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

Check Browser Compatibility, Cross Platform Browser Test - Browsershots

Check Browser Compatibility, Cross Platform Browser Test - Browsershots: Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different operating systems and browsers. It is a free open-source online web application providing developers a convenient way to test their website's browser compatibility in one place. When you submit your web address, it will be added to the job queue. A number of distributed computers will open your website in their browser. Then they will make screenshots and upload them to our central dedicated server for your review.

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Exhibitions: The Great American Hall of Wonders / American Art

Exhibitions: The Great American Hall of Wonders / American Art: The exhibition The Great American Hall of Wonders examines the nineteenth-century American belief that the people of the United States shared a special genius for innovation. It explores this belief through works of art, mechanical inventions, and scientific discoveries, and captures the excitement of citizens who defined their nation as a “Great Experiment” sustained by the inventive energies of Americans in every walk of life.

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Education Survey: China Scores Top Marks; U.S., France Lag - TIME

Education Survey: China Scores Top Marks; U.S., France Lag - TIME: The rise of China as an economic and political juggernaut has become a familiar refrain, but now there's another area in which the Chinese are suddenly emerging as a world power: education. In the latest Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) comparative survey of the academic performance of 15-year-olds around the world — an authoritative study released every three years — Chinese teenagers from Shanghai far outscored their international peers in all three subject matters that were tested last year: reading, math and science.

Scribophile, the online writing group for serious writers

Scribophile, the online writing group for serious writers: Scribophile is a respectful community of writers who’re passionate about improving each other’s writing through thoughtful critiques and the sharing of knowledge and experience. This is the place to be if you want to give and get the best critiques around. It’s serious feedback for serious writers.

A. Kipta's Blog 01/28/2012 (p.m.)

  • GrowVeg.com is an online Garden Planner which helps you grow fruit and vegetables to the best of their ability, whatever the size or shape of your garden or plot. With GrowVeg.com it is easy to draw out your garden plan and decide how best to plant it. The GrowVeg.com Garden Planner software shows how much space plants require and how to group them for maximum success, removing the need to look up planting distances and crop families.
    tags: gardening
  • CyanogenMod is an aftermarket firmware for a number of cell phones based on the open-source Android operating system. It offers features not found in the official Android based firmwares of vendors of these cell phones.
    tags: android
  • Template for submitting papers in APA style.
    tags: templates
  • Across North America ladybug species distribution is changing.  Over the past twenty years several native ladybugs that were once very common have become extremely rare.  During this same time ladybugs from other places have greatly increased both their numbers and range.  Some ladybugs are simply found in new places.  This is happening very quickly and we don’t know how, or why, or what impact it will have on ladybug diversity or the role that ladybugs play in keeping plant-feeding insect populations low.  We're asking you to join us in finding out where all the ladybugs have gone so we can try to prevent more native species from becoming so rare.
  • Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdevelopers, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages. See features for an extensive overview, take a look at the screenshots, or download it right away. Bluefish is an open source development project, released under the GNU GPL licence.
  • CKEditor is a text editor to be used inside web pages. It's a WYSIWYG editor, which means that the text being edited on it looks as similar as possible to the results users have when publishing it. It brings to the web common editing features found on desktop editing applications like Microsoft Word and OpenOffice. Because CKEditor is licensed under flexible Open Source and commercial licenses, you'll be able to integrate and use it inside any kind of application. This is the ideal editor for developers, created to provide easy and powerful solutions to their users.
  • KompoZer is a complete web authoring system that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG web page editing. KompoZer is designed to be extremely easy to use, making it ideal for non-technical computer users who want to create an attractive, professional-looking web site without needing to know HTML or web coding.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

Friday, January 27, 2012

Free HTML Editor, Visual Web Page Editor: PageBreeze Freeware

Free HTML Editor, Visual Web Page Editor: PageBreeze Freeware: PageBreeze Free HTML Editor is an award-winning HTML Editor which has both visual (WYSIWYG) and HTML tag/source modes. PageBreeze Free HTML Editor's design emphasizes simplicity and ease-of-use. You'll find that you'll be creating great looking websites almost instantly--with virtually no learning curve! PageBreeze Free HTML Editor is a completely free download for personal use and will never expire.

Free Online HTML Editor

Free Online HTML Editor: Need to use HTML code for your shopping cart product descriptions, newsletter or other part of your website? Use our free HTML editor to get the HTML code you need. Just enter your content below and format it as desired using the tools provided. When you are done, click the 'Source' button and it will display your HTML code. Copy and paste the code to your website.