100 Unbelievably Useful Reference Sites You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
Beyond Google, Wikipedia and other generic reference sites, the Internet boasts a multitude of search engines, dictionaries, reference desks and databases that have organized and archived information for quick and easy searches. Laura Milligan has compiled a list of 100 favourites, for librarians, teachers, students, hypochondriacs, bookworms and more.
The list is divided into the following categories: Dictionaries and more; Teacher Resources; Librarian Resources; Just for fun; Health Care; References for students; Niche sites; Search Engines; Open Source Sites; Internet and Computer Reference; Consumer Research and Public Information; and News and Pop Culture.
Motivator
Motivator allows you to create your own customized motivational posters. Armed with a digital camera and that non-stop wit of yours, you now have the power to turn a simple photograph into a humorous or inspirational message. Print it, frame it! Make two—we know you've got hundreds of digital images and photos to spare! Make your own inspirational, funny, parody, sports or other posters. Perfect for libraries, schools, teachers, coaches, as announcements, for parties, invitations, and a lot more. Thanks to Anna Raunik for sharing this with us.
100 Free Library 2.0 Webinars and Tutorials
If you’ve heard the buzz about Library 2.0, but don’t quite understand how to implement it, you’ve come to the right place. 100 Free Library 2.0 Webinars and Tutorials is full of helpful Webinars, presentations, and tutorials designed to help you take your library to the next level. Grab some headphones and enjoy!
17+ Things to Do with your Online Photos
Ellyssa Kroski shares with us 17+ Things to Do with Your Online Photos. The list includes Animoto music videos, slideshows, business cards, scrapbooks, newsletters, cartoons, collages and comic strips.
Radiologists using iTunes to organize medical PDFs
Sure radiologists in Shanghai like to listen to music but that's not how they're using iTunes. At Renji Hospital and Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, they're using it to organize PDFs of important medical research and images that they say are more useful than many textbooks. You can drop a PDF into iTunes and sort it just like you would with music. That means that the medical documents in Shanghai are searchable, rateable, and can be given multiple different tags. Before iTunes, they were keeping redundant copies of PDFs in directories by category. Now, they only need to keep one of each. So, if you've been looking for software that can organize your PDFs, think about an app you likely already have: iTunes!
Blow Up Flickr...Images!
Do you ever want to blow up your Flickr images. There's nothing better than a fullscreen display of your latest photographed memories. While Flickr's slideshow is great, you won't be able to stretch your images to fullscreen while viewing them. That’s about to change with Blow Up a Flickr web app.
Blow Up offers "presentation quality for users and portability for developers." Blow Up allows your images to be seen in fullscreen mode while still maintaining your image quality.
The service is free and doesn't require anything but your Flickr username to get started. Other options include being able to download the Blow Up to display your Flickr images on your website.
Colour Scheme Creator
What's its color is a free image-colour processing utility that will evaluate an image and give you the image's primary and complementary dominant colours of an image, how many visually unique colours are in an image, and the top ten visually unique colours in an image. Extremely useful when creating any type of designs around an image. The more colourful the image, the better the results. Results will display your image on the best suited background for that image.
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