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Free Apps for Photo Editing and Enhancement

rosariostechpage — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 23:00:48 +0000

Here are some interesting and fun ways to edit and enhance your photos using some of the free Web 2.0 apps available online:

Picnik
Picnik makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools. Tweak to your heart’s content, then get creative with oodles of effects

SmileBox
Create amazing greeting cards, scrapbooks, slideshows, birthday cards, and more using your photos, videos, and music with Smilebox. Email, blog or print.

MacUpdate Promo

rosariostechpage — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:01:49 +0000

Your Deal: 11 top-selling Mac apps for $49.99 instead of $631.65, a savings of over $581.66! Purchase the Back-to-School bundle now and you’ll be the immediate owner of LightZone, Contactizer Pro, MacJournal, Bookends, Norrkross Movie, Mellel, DEVONagent, Periscope, Alarm Clock Pro, HookUp and Kameleon. All licenses are full licenses with normal upgrade paths.

MacUpdate Website

Boinx Fotomagico!

rosariostechpage — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:03:12 +0000

As stated on Boinx website, FotoMagico is a photo presentation software for professional photographers. Indispensable for the digital imaging workflow in the 21st century, FotoMagico let your photos shine. Turn your pictures into a story with a few simple clicks and present it in high resolution. Share it on your website or burn it to DVD. FotoMagico is the perfect companion for your iPhoto or Aperture library (Pro-Version) and uses the newest Mac OS X technologies. As easy to use as your Mac, FotoMagico helps you to impress your audience.

Getting in touch with nature through technology

rosariostechpage — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:07:37 +0000

CapeCodToday.com
Posted by Susan Spencer

It’s funny how an Internet post can lead you down a whole new path. An out-of-state visitor on an online forum described a beautiful spot he discovered on a hiking trail along the West Reservoir in Harwich. He described where to park, roughly how far to walk down the Rail Trail before heading off on a side path and which way to follow the winding trail. At the targeted spot, there would be a small container holding a log book and trinkets hidden among the brush.

The forum poster was talking about geocaching. Geocaching is a worldwide treasure-hunt game in which small containers, called caches, are hidden and their navigational coordinates (that’s latitude and longitude) and a few other clues are posted online at geocaching.com. Other geocachers search for the caches by plugging the coordinates into their handheld GPS receiver and following the trail. Geocachers log their finds both in the cache and online, and if there are trinkets in the cache, they may trade one from the cache with one that they brought.

Aquafadas Line-up: Pulp Motion, BannerZest, iDive, VideoPier

rosariostechpage — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 23:02:30 +0000

A new discovery shared by a colleague, Alex Reyes, that features Mac applications. These applications look very promising and interesting since it can create and edit photos and videos, make fantastic slideshows (amps it up!), builds interactive banners (like a flash pro!), and organizes videos (cool!).

Here are the various applications offered by Aquafadas:

When you get a moment, check it out!

New Features in United Streaming and Nettrekker

rosariostechpage — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:06:27 +0000

If you have not tried Unitedstreaming yet, then I recommend for you to try this wonderful and amazing tool. Unitedstreaming is a web-based resource that contains a variety of lessons presented in video form. The online resource stores videos similar to a database and provides detailed information that makes searching for the best and appropriate movies for your class easier. The web-based program likewise allows downloading of full videos or video snippets as long as you follow the licensing or copyright guidelines. If downloading is not your thing, then you can bookmark your favorite videos and store them in your personal folder. You can access your online folder within the program anytime and anywhere.

Unitedstreaming has something new to give to its loyal subscribers. If you have not tried this yet, then it is not too late to investigate the enhanced writing prompt library. Unitedstreaming’s library boasts of more than 500 writing prompts. The new writing prompts are based on the national English/language arts standards for writing from the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). In addition, speeches are now a part of the unitedstreaming library, which you can find when you use the content drop-down menu by the search box. Click here for more details.

Meanwhile, netTrekker is another online resource and provides websites that students can use for their research projects, teachers can find a variety of interactive lessons, and classes can search and work on fun-filled games and related activities. This web-based resource has included 21st Century Learning Skills as part of their latest features. I got a chance to browse through it and found very interesting topics on Life Skills, Media Literacy, and Technology Literacy, to name a few. If you have a netTrekker account, I encourage you to find time to visit and enjoy this new feature.