Tuesday, January 25, 2011

New Additions to the Digital Backpack

  • - Map and historical image mashup (both for web and iPhone)
  • - Explore the world through webcams
  • - Online virtual planetarium
  • - Search engine that searches deeper than most common search engines go.
  • - Searches over 70,000+ searchable databases and specialty search engines
  • - Search Scholarly Databases and Resources
  • - Travel Film Archive - Huge collection of vintage travel films.
  • - Upload a picture file and this tool generates hexadecimal color codes that match it.
  • - Archives your digital history in an interactive timeline
  • - Blog with a built in count-down timer meant for blogs about an upcoming event.
  • - a group storytelling game.
  • collaborative environment where anyone can pick up a narrative thread and weave a prequel or sequel.
  • - Choose your own adventure stories that you can add to and change with your own writing.
  • - RSS Search Engine
  • - RSS Search Engine
  • Search 4 RSS - RSS Search Engine
  • - QR Code Creator
  • - Blog Publishing platform
  • - Blog Publishing platform
  • - Online Sketchpad/Paint Program
  • - Create simple video chatrooms for web conferences
  • - Search and read any NYTimes article dating back to their first issue.
  • - Upload a lot of photos and generate a blindingly fast video slideshow.
  • - Surf the web simultaneously with someone else.
Twitter Apps:
  • - Sort and organize the people you follow on Twitter
  • - real-time twitter wall for conferences, events, cafe and classrooms.
  • - Search beyond Twitter's history
  • - Fun way to display a Twitter stream.
  • - This tool displays one tweet at a time from a search stream really big on your screen.
  • - share files on Twitter

1 comment:

Mrs. Tenkely said...

Webcam travel is a really neat idea!