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Zamzar: Free Online File Conversion

This link is to a web application called Zamzar. Zamzar is a free online file conversion web application. Zamzar can be used to convert document, image, music, video and other files as outlined on the website. Files can be up to 100MB in size. You will need an email address in order to retrieve the converted files.

See more at:

http://zamzar.com/

ABC2MP3: Text to Speech Application

This link is to a web application called ABC2MP3. This application is another very good application for turning text into speech. It has many uses which are outlined on the website.

See more at:

http://www.abc2mp3.com/

YakiToMe: Text to Speech Application

This link is to a web application called YakiToMe. This application is another very good application for turning text into speech. It has many uses which are outlined on the website.

See more at:

http://www.yakitome.com/

iSpeech: Text to Speech Application

This link is to a web application called iSpeech. This application is a very good application for turning text into speech. It has many uses which are outlined on the website.

See more at:

http://www.ispeech.org/

Chrome Extension: Eye Dropper

Today’s link is actually to a Chrome Extension called Eye Dropper. What is it? It’s an extension for Google Chrome that allows a web designer to pick colors from web pages, etc. Well worth a look. I use it now. Very useful.

Visit:

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/hmdcmlfkchdmnmnmheododdhjedfccka

The Wilderness Downtown: A Google Chrome Masterpiece

Now this is something special from the Google team of developers. It is called ‘The Wilderness Downtown’ and is a collaboration between Chris Milk, Google and Arcade Fire (Band). It brings together a number of web technologies including HTML 5, Google Maps and Google Street View. It is something to experience and could well be a look to the future of the World Wide Web.

http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/

Topsy: A Twitter Search Engine

Wow, it has been almost two months since my last post on this Blog. Time has gone by quickly as I have struggled to keep up with the demands of running a number of different Blogs and websites. In fact, I have done very little with many of them – just been too busy and too tired. Hopefully that will change a little now. I’m trying to become a little more disciplined with my time in order to allow myself to get on with the task of maintaining the various websites I own.

Today’s ‘daily’ is a website called ‘Topsy.’ Topsy is a search engine for Twitter posts or tweets as they are often called. If you would like to search Twitter for a particular topic or even a username, Topsy could be just the place you are looking for. I found it today and experimented a little with it – a very good little site I thought (for Twitter). Just another of the seemingly countless Twitter applications that are out there.

Visit Topsy at:

http://topsy.com/

Crossing Over

Kevin Matthews, Michael MatthewsThis photo is another from the slides that I managed to salvage from my grandfather’s collection. I have simply called it ‘crossing over.’ Why? Because my cousin Michael and I are crossing over a bridge. Quite simple really.

I am not entirely sure where this photo was taken, but it does resemble an old bridge that once crossed a stream as you headed into the Barrington Tops from Gloucester, in New South Wales, Australia. Perhaps someone will recognise the location and either confirm or correct me on that.

I am the smaller of the two boys in the photo. My cousin Michael is on the left of the photo.