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"People love to learn by examining visual representations of data. That's been proven time and time again by the popularity of both infographics and Pinterest. So what if you could make your own infographics? What would you make it of? It's actually easier than you think… even if you have zero design skills whatsoever. Below are my two favorite infographic-making web 2.0 tools that I highly recommend. They both have pros and cons but in general are great for any beginner or novice designer. If Photoshop is a 4-letter word to you, then these sites are your friend. If you're a tech-savvy designer and illustrator, it can't hurt to check out some of the work on these two sites for inspiration."

Make Magazine: blog, zine, podcasts, projects, forum, etc.

Make Magazine: Technology modifications to work for you - DIY Projects - awesome!

Text to Speech app: "THERE ARE NO LIMITS OF TOTAL CHARACTERS PER YEAR, JUST A LIMIT ON EACH INDIVIDUAL CONVERSION. THE PLANS BELOW DESCRIBE THE DIFFERENT CHARACTER COUNTS PER CONVERSION. example: If you had 120,000 characters to process: For Free you could cut those characters up and make 240 mp3 files on the other hand for $69.99 for a whole year, you could divide those characters up and make only 2 mp3 files. And you can do this until your subscription runs out."

Useful for National Centers and other projects

Study proves conclusively that violent video games makes more aggressive kids

Make Use Of: tutorials, websites, hacks, and resources that you need to make technology work well for you - sign up for their newsletter to get a digest of their weekly scans of useful. Very much a "lifehacker" site.

Just need to make a few changes but more special imaging solutions? With hundreds of built-in special image effects, I assure this tool totally make you happier with better photos. Animated format export is also the strength point of this image solution.

on making thinking visible

Presentation advice: great presentation on making GREATER presentations

Presentation advice: great presentation on making GREATER presentations

Seven Things That Could Make Your Gadgets Obsolete: (1) HDMI 1.4 - new standard for moving media from source to display will include 3DTV & ethernet for transfer of data up to 100 Mb/sec (2) USB 3.0 - new USB format at up to 400 Mb / sec is ten times faster than USB 2.0 (3) 3DTV - you'll need glasses - to appear latter half of 2010 (4) DLNA - Digital Living Network - around since 2004 is now getting integrated into lots of digital appliances. Get ready for the promised "connected house" (5) Mobile ATSC - to allow us to get t.v. broadcast signal to mobile devices (6) Ambient Light Sensors and other eco-friendly tv features (7) Internet-enable TV sets

Preceden: Make timelines, gant charts, etc. with this easy tool. Exports to .pdf or embed code

tinysong.com: an audio search engine that makes it easy to tweet any song you want - finds the song, shortens the url, and it's ready to go!

10 Websites that make browsing Wikipedia more fun / useful

Planetfesto: web2.0 pledges to make the earth greener

Planetfesto: web2.0 pledges to make the earth greener

"the success of journalism's future can only be assured to the extent that each and every person in this room helps generate the excitement, the passion, and the creativity to make it so."

kids interface for making the physical world interactive and responsive using Arduino

swivel: share data and make it interactive - publish research results for the public!

Playable fictions are interactive stories in which one is positioned as a protagonist who makes game choices that have consequence in the fictional world. Further still, we often find ourselves engaging in struggles and developing understandings that shape player's worldview outside of the game.

Bright Hub's goal is simple: share knowledge about how the simplest scientific idea evolves into tomorrow's technology. With an expert writer network and an active community of life-long enthusiasts Bright Hub provides a level of technology transparency rarely seen in high tech. The team of writers and managing editors utilize deep domain expertise to focus on creating valuable information for both novice and advanced consumers. With a content inventory of thousands of science and technology articles, software and hardware reviews, buyer's guides, blog entries and forum discussions, Bright Hub is able to provide readers with a dependable resource to make informative technology decisions.

On the making of the OK-Go rube goldberg video!

Twitter: twitbacks allow you to make your own twitter backgrounds