This one's for Mum who chose this day to go to Heaven, we sit and see the glory into which she has passed.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Exercise 17 - Exploring Web 2.0 Awards
Spent awhile looking at various sites:- my heritage, vufind, picnik (interesting), technorati (I remember why I didn't like it), Pandora, and twitter. Lastly I looked at Google Maps and finally found one I could write about.
First, you don't need to sign in, you can jump right in. Features I liked were the zoom in/out capability with either satellite, terrain or road map choices for viewing. Other useful features included the Hot Spot and Island guides for checking out particular places. I really liked the Videos from YouTube function which allows you to access videos linked to locations. Quality was sometimes dodgy but they often gave an insight into the location. This would be good to share with patrons travelling overseas.
The other site I found useful was picnik. It was free but you needed to register. I didn't, but think its applications really exciting, eg - for photo editing, and its links to sites such as flickr, myspace and facebook for working with your photos.
First, you don't need to sign in, you can jump right in. Features I liked were the zoom in/out capability with either satellite, terrain or road map choices for viewing. Other useful features included the Hot Spot and Island guides for checking out particular places. I really liked the Videos from YouTube function which allows you to access videos linked to locations. Quality was sometimes dodgy but they often gave an insight into the location. This would be good to share with patrons travelling overseas.
The other site I found useful was picnik. It was free but you needed to register. I didn't, but think its applications really exciting, eg - for photo editing, and its links to sites such as flickr, myspace and facebook for working with your photos.
Sunday, December 21, 2008
It's raining light, Hallelujah!
This is so beautiful. I once saw a similar view in daylight. We came up and over the last big hill towardsCoromandel, New Zealand and a wonderous vista was spread below of sunlight spots interspersed with islands on a turquoise aquamarine sea. We were high enough to feel part of the blue sky and luminous clouds, the air was sparkling with light.
Moonshine, Orion Rising on Vilano Beach
This could almost be the Christmas Star! Indigo eternity filled with infinite light.
Exercise 16
Zoho writer
This is pretty cool. The portability of it is very appealing, I can see me using it to work on assignments in the future. I like the ability to work in word offline, knowing that it will appear on zoho straight away. Being able to share imput is also great, reading some of the users' comments shows how this has transformed businesses and facilitated collaboration amongst groups, eg friends, physically distant, planning an overseas holiday itinerary.
Zoho writer
This is pretty cool. The portability of it is very appealing, I can see me using it to work on assignments in the future. I like the ability to work in word offline, knowing that it will appear on zoho straight away. Being able to share imput is also great, reading some of the users' comments shows how this has transformed businesses and facilitated collaboration amongst groups, eg friends, physically distant, planning an overseas holiday itinerary.
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