Tuesday, October 19, 2010

New Additions to the Digital Backpack

It has been far too long since I updated the Digital Backpack. According to my records the last time I did was July. Part of that reason has been that there just have not been the steady of influx of new tools in these last few months as there had been. The other reason is I have been busy working on other projects. I know excuses, excuses. Anyway, here are today's updates to the Digital Backpack:



- search for images being shared on real-time news and feed services

- Bookmarking service that lets you bookmark only the parts of websites you want to bookmark.

- Create HTML embeddable forms

- Create HTML embeddable forms

- create online music playlists that you can access from anywhere

- Free online course authoring tool.

- record and publish audio podcasts to the web from your phone - Directory of television channels from around the world that are streamed online.

- Search for virtual tour and panoramic image search engine and map mashup application.


- search engine that helps you find similar websites

- site that catalogs the internet according to the Dewey Decimal System

- real-time text collaboration (Etherpad replacement)

i - real-time text collaboration (Etherpad replacement)

Pirate Pad - real-time text collaboration (Etherpad replacement)

- Let people reserve fixed length slots of time in your Google Calendar

- online painting application

- online 3d sketching application

- Explore historical photos and stories in Google Maps Streetview

- generates a PDF ebook from your blog.

- create polls that students or audience members can answer with their cell phones.

- free online file converter

- create online screening rooms to watch YouTube videos with up to 50 people

- Online educational documentaries

- Online Video News Aggregator. Collects news stories from multiple sources.

- Browse today's news stories by exploring the world map

- Fun digital storytelling tool. Construct an image by putting together pieces from famous paintings then record your story about the image with your computer's mic

- Sync Microsoft Office With Google Docs

- Online PDF Editor. - visualize complex data sets

- Simple web-based animation creation tool.

- simple web-based animation creation tool powered by GoAnimate

- Simple web-based animation creation tool.

- Create your own search engine. Works with Packrati.us to auto-include links Tweeted by you and those you follow.

- Rss Aggregator

- Download video from many different popular video sites.

- Enter the link of a blog post or news article and Poligraft shows you how the people and organizations mentioned in the piece are connected.

- See maps of the world resized to match different demographics.

- Share your screen with someone online

- Journal of Visualized Experiments - Biological Experiments and Protocols on Video

- Easy drag and drop interface for creating web pages.

- Facebook style chat for your own website.

- Powerful online photo editor.

- Online Journal and blogging platform that sends you email reminders each day to post something and allows you to post through your email by replying to the message.

- free web-based timeline. Easily create and share timelines with pictures and videos.

- free web-based timeline. Easily create and share timelines with pictures and videos.

Twitter Apps:

  • - publish rss feeds to your Twitter account
  • - Create #hashtag based chat rooms for Twitter
  • - read Twitter as an online newspaper
  • - Enter the Twitter Status URL of a specific tweet and this tool will show you all the replies to that tweet
  • - make collections of tweets and generate an embed code for use in archiving on blogs and wikis.
  • - Twitter Analytics
  • - Twitter Analytics
  • - analyze data on topics trending on Twitter over time.
  • - View Twitter streams from different towns and cities
  • - Twitter Analytics
  • - Get email alerts whenever someone mentions you or your keyword on Twitter
  • - Track how many clicks the links you share on Twitter receive
  • - create photomosaics out of the avatar images of your followers on Twitter or friends on Facebook
  • - allows you to easily navigate your Twitter stream to scan through your old Tweets (Twitter only keeps your last 3000 tweets or so in their API so you can only go back that far)
  • - See how many people have seen your last 50 tweets
  • - Twitter-like microblogging platform that allows you to post more than 140 characters and lets you embed video or photos in your posts. Also will auto-post your amplify status updates on Twitter or Facebook
  • - Need more than 140 characters to say what you need to say on Twitter? Try TwitLonger
  • - create polls and survey your followers on Twitter
  • - create polls and survey your followers on Twitter

1 comment:

PDF Editor said...

Congrats to you for updating your ex project. But i cant see the images links my its broken?