Open Resource Centre

Managing Twitter followers

Mike Temple — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:48:40 +0000

Do you get fed up with those ‘follow’ emails you get from Twitter. They tell you someone is now following you, but nothing about them. Well take a look at Twimailer

Twimailer demo from jon on Vimeo.

This little app sends you a more detailed email so you can, at a glance, see if you want this person to continue and if you want to follow. You can also do this on the same email. Brill

Using Google docs – a love letter

Mike Temple — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:27:00 +0000

From Dean Shareski via Twitter

100 Most Educational iPhone Apps

Mike Temple — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:22:56 +0000

From David Warlick via Twitter

100 Most Educational iPhone Apps

You probably carry your iPhone with you everywhere, so why not make it an integral part of your education? These apps are all educational in nature and will have you learning about math, science, geography, history, English, and foreign languages; help strengthen your skills with brain exercises and quizzes; provide reference material; and offer opportunities to boost your productivity so you can devote more time to your studies. Check out these apps to see which ones you need for your iPhone–and your education.

Building an avatar

Mike Temple — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 17:48:16 +0000

This site seems very good for those of you who would like to allow your children to make their own avatars.

Myavatareditor is really simple and intuitive to use, probably needing no instruction at all

TUBEchop – edit youtube videos

Mike Temple — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:22:21 +0000

Have you ever had a bit of a youTube video that you wanted to use or send to someone else?

Download the video, edit out the bit you want, upload the video, email

Or, you could use TUBEchop

TubeChop allows you to easily chop a funny or interesting section from any YouTube video and share it.

1. Find the video you want to chop.
2. Select & cut interesting part of the video.
3. Share it with friends.

all done online – brilliant

TubeChop allows you to easily chop a funny or interesting section from any YouTube video and share it.

12 best places to get free images for your site

Mike Temple — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:14:38 +0000

Trying to get hold of royalty free pictures can be a bit difficult – especailly if you want to illustrate your website.

Mike Williams has put together a collection of sites that can help you on your search – do check out the site licensing details carefully though

Stop motion animator – with onion skinning

Mike Temple — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:47:36 +0000

The stop motion animate is simple to use animation program.

The program allows the user to easily build stop motion animations by recalling single video frames.

It also allows the user to do something impossible to do with film: the user can play through all of the previously recorded frames been for taking the next – this is called onion skinning and allows the user to compare the current position with previous ones

some examples

Hockey, Skiing & Bobsleding

Bluesoup & Inflatable

Claymation Videos by students at Carroll High School

Yotophoto royalty free photos

Mike Temple — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:46:16 +0000

Again from Wes Fryer’s podcast, Yotophoto - royalty free, Creative commons protected images – ideal for anyone using web images - a simple one stop search for usable images

Who’s using Yotophoto?

Designers, Bloggers, Educators, and Digital Artists from all over the world are adding imagery to their projects for free.

About the images

We index images in the public domain or available for free usage under various forms of copyleft licensing.

Create any size wall posters from any size images

Mike Temple — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:45:26 +0000

Have you ever wanted to make a really big poster sized picture? Well now you can do this online and free at Blockposters
Upload an image from your computer and choose how many sheets wide you would like your poster to be printed

via Lifehacker

Photowipe – remove unwanted objects from photos

Mike Temple — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:44:33 +0000

PhotoWipe is a revolutionary image processing tool that magically removes unwanted objects from your photos.

Just paint over them in black, and click go! Uncovers hidden details in your photos. Sit back and watch as cage bars disappear from the zoo, and your old girlfriend or boyfriend fades away.

It removes wrinkles, or it can remove entire facial features. PhotoWipe uses a modified version of the greycstoration image processing library do its work. You can see more samples of this incredible tool here.