This is a site that will read any text you give it - cut and paste direct into the site or upload a word doc, pdf plus heaps more.
You can choose the reader and read in French, English or Spanish.
You can control the speed at which your text is read.
Then, you can save the sound file as MP3 to upload to your website or play on your iPod. Neat aye!
This is a cool site for my media studies students who are always looking for sound effects.
A site totally dedicated to sounds on the internet. They give you lots of categories to start with and you can also search for your own. They seem to be of quite good quality and it is all very easy.
I think I have already posted about RSS before. If you enjoy reading web pages like this one that are constantly changing through being updated, you can join a service that will track all these changes and present them to you in email like form. I use Google Reader.
Andy Beal is encouraging people to sign up to his blog - Marketing Pilgrim - through RSS by holding a competition to win an iPod touch if you sign up before 1 March. All the details about the competition are here.
This is a neat blog where people send in photos of old record album covers that are put over various body parts to create an illusion… here is an example…
This is an amazing project which aims to “create a sensitive and human portrait of the planet’s inhabitants”.
The site contains video interviews of a large number of people from all around the world, asking them questions about life, love, happiness. The site is still growing and is amazingly well produced. Make sure you have plenty of time to visit and have a good look around.
This is truly a global project which shows the power of the internet, being used for good.
Just came across this site called popurls.com. What a fantastic site. It basically lists the headline posts of all the current most popular web2.0 sites like delicious, youtube, reddit, digg plus heaps and heaps more. I really encourage you to go and have a look… just make sure that you have plenty of time! Really interesting to see the titles that make it to the top of a number of really popular sites!
Here is a very cool little game… can be played with one or two players. You get played a piece of music from a TV theme song and then have to guess which programme it comes from.
Well… this one is really here for my students! Basically, you upload a photo, cut out its mouth, add some sound and it makes the mouth move in time to the sound!
This is an interesting site… of photos where cameras are not supposed to go…
I guess you could upload your own if you had some …
