Citelighter Is Like a Highlighter for the Internet The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Citelighter Quick Pitch: Citelighter keeps information from multiple web sources in one place. Genius Idea: Making it easy to compile notes — and citations — from multiple web pages. For better or worse, students use the Internet for research. Citelighter attempts to solve this conundrum by giving students a note-collecting toolbar that sticks with them as they navigate the web. Through marketing partnerships with well-targeted websites such as CollegeHumor and Frat Music, the company says it has signed up students at 1,000 different universities since it launched in August 2010. In the current version, users are restricted to collecting information on websites through a Firefox extension. Citelighter is simple and easy to use. Series Supported by Microsoft BizSpark
MAPMYself (aka Mapul) Guide: How to Defeat US DNS Censorship (Using DNS Web Tools) In our previous guide, we showed you how it is possible to defeat basic web censorship solely using things you already have on a Windows machine. Unfortunately, this might not always be successful, so we would like to show you a second way to obtain a server IP address that relies on tools available for free. As you no doubt may be aware of by now is that a website can really be described as something with two components. The first being a server and the second being the domain name. As an example, “google.com” is merely a domain name. Domains are so common on the internet, it’s really become just an expected part of browsing the internet. In our previous guide, we showed you how to manually locate a server IP address. Step 1 – Finding the Appropriate DNS Tool Online DNS lookup web tools are all over the web. After searching around on Google, we found network-tools.com. Step 2 – Search for the DNS Information. Step 3 – Test the IP Address Congratulations! Have a tip?
Clip and post resources Just want to quickly share some text between computers without fuss? There used to be a great resource for this called Cl1p.net, but it has closed its doors. However, there are a number of other resources out there that do the same thing. They allow you to create URLs either that you create, or with an address they can provide and you can simply cut and paste your content to your URL and share it with whoever you want. Then you can either delete or forget about the page until next time. So, take a look at these: Clipbord It says of itself: "Instantly make a page to share notes and related files. Kl1p It says of itself: "Sharing text or code over internet now made easier and faster than ever before! Short Text Simply add in the text that you want to share, allow comments if preferred, add links to video, limited to 30,000 characters. WePaste About as simple as they come.
Twig: Twig With Twig’s Noter, you can make notes simply by typing them. Want to revise an old note? Just start typing its name. Every note can have as much text as you need, and as many tags as you desire. The Noter shows you a list of related notes and a topical word cloud. Adapted detail from a series of lecture notes by Dr. (Click to close) The Twig Map gives you unprecedented freedom to make notes and express relationships exactly as you want. Link gracefully within your document, and from your document to any file, Web page, or internet service. The Twig Noter gives a two-minute overview of this simple, flexible tool for quickly capturing ideas. Mapping with Twig explores Twig’s map view, showing how informal clustering keeps your ideas organized even as your understanding changes. Twig’s Noter and Map views work together to let you capture information quickly and keep it organized as your understanding changes. For a quick tour, watch Stacey Mason’s screencasts on notemaking with Twig.
Cloud Computing webcasts Join this webinar and learn why consistency is the hallmark of an effective, agile organisation. With thousands of moving parts, ensuring that every user, every system is being managed consistently is critical. This webinar will show you how a best practice IT systems management software effectively defines, manages, applies and enforces IT policies across groups of machines. A state-of-the art Policy Management system streamlines the process of creating, setting and remotely applying IT policies to groups of systems across a distributed organisation. Pinterest There's been a lot of interest in Pinterest recently (sorry, that wasn't intentional), and I've been using it for a while, so I thought I should scribble it. Basically, it's a social bookmarking service, but for pictures. You can create your own folders, 'pin' images into them, view friends images, comment, add them to yours and so on. This is what my home page looks like: You can see the kind of folders that I've created, but of course you can choose any you like. It's a very simple concept, but quite addictive - partly because I use images a lot when I'm teaching, and Pinterest gives me a very easy way to keep them all neatly together and I can see them visually, and partly because you can view lots of images really quickly. I've already found it a very useful system, and it's really one of those 'why didn't I think of it' services.
50 Useful CSS Tools And Generators for Developers - Noupe Design Blog Jul 11 2011 CSS tools are essential for web developers because they act like a sort of magic lamp that can simplify the job at hand. Most development tools are time savers that are there to help developers create stylish, functional and optimized websites with a few shortcuts. CSS tools and generators are available in such large numbers that a developer can choose from a range of them to make their projects go smoother. Here is the collection of around 50 useful and handy CSS tools and generators that every developer should know about. CSS Colors Tools Color Scheme DesignerThis tool provides colors in the form of a color wheel that offers mono, complement, traid, tetrad, analogic and accented analogic color variations in the percentage ratio; and it also highlights the same with the suitable scheme chosen. Ultimate CSS Gradient GeneratorIt is a CSS gradient editor and generator that lets you create CSS gradients having cross-browser support. CSS Layouts Tools CSS Grids Tools CSS Sprite Tools
Top 10 Google Chrome Extensions That Enhance Student Learning This post was co-authored by Beth Holland and Tracy Sockalosky. Being 1:1 is fantastic, and if you are fortunate enough to have constant access to your own device in the classroom, then the benefits – especially in terms of efficiency – are tremendous: stored passwords, saved bookmarks, familiar file structure, and more. However, even if you don’t have the advantage of always being in possession of your own device, thanks to the versatility of Google Chrome extensions available through the Chrome Store, the web experience has become customizable and productive in completely new ways. What are Chrome Extensions? Chrome Extensions are tools that live inside of your Chrome Browser and provide additional functionality by connecting to other web utilities. As illustrated in the image below, these extensions can be accessed by clicking on icons near your address bar – similar to clicking on a bookmark. We also find this video to be a helpful explanation for getting started.