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Recover Your Lost Or Stolen Camera Thieves beware. CameraTrace scours the internet searching for photos that were taken with your camera to help police track it down and get it back for you.

If you have a PDF file that you need to display on the web in HTML, than this website is exactly what you need. PDF files were not designed to be displayed right in browsers, and sometime converting them to HTML is the best way to display them. Using this service, the process couldn't be easier.

Many people stream YouTube videos, but in addition to the required information, videos include undesired scenes such as introductions, endings, etc. Here to help you watch and share only the important parts of a video is a tool called Snipreel, a web service that helps you share only the important parts of a video.

"Welcome to Piazza-a place where students can come together to ask, answer, and explore under the guidance of their instructor. It'll save you time, and your students will love using it. It's also free, and easy to get started."

Do you ever find a YouTube clip you want to share because of the audio, but the imagery is boring or annoying or unnecessary? Here's how to embed that video as only an audio player. It's very easy.

If you ever need to make a few quick tweaks to a photo, and you do not want to take the time to load up Photoshop, you should check out enThread. Sure, it doesn't have nearly as many features as Photoshop or one of the big image editing programs, but if you just need to make some small changes, the convenience of having it in your browser is awesome.

Gmail Backup is a migration tool for Gmail service from Google. You can backup or restore your emails on any email account from Google. Backup your emails on Google Apps Restore emails Incremental backup

ThisMoborobo is an application for Android users that allow them to do pretty much everything with their Android smartphone - in terms of management. The software can be used to easily back up and restore data that includes backing up contacts and apps to PC and easily transferring them between Android and iOS devices.

 Sharing files is a core Internet activity. It is done through e-mail, instant messages, posting links in Twitter, or by using Dropbox and Google Drive. But what if you just need a simple drag-and-drop interface and a quick link? Dropcanvas is a simple app that does exactly this. 

"Check out our list of 50 awesome videos for gaming teachers to discover what experts, teachers, and even students have to say about using games for education."

Infuse Learning is a free student response system that works with any Internet-connected device including iPads and Android tablets. Infuse Learning allows teachers to push questions, prompts, and quizzes out to students' devices in private virtual classrooms. In an Infuse Learning room a teacher can give students a wide variety of formats in which to response to a question or prompt. Students can reply to prompts and questions in standard multiple choice, true/false, and short answer formats. But Infuse Learning also offers an option for students to reply by creating drawings or diagrams on their iPads, Android tablets, or on their laptops.

Minimal marking allows students to work toward their goals of writing that is clean and error free. While I do not allow sentence-level errors (or their correction) to affect the project's evaluation, students cannot receive credit for completing the project until the minimal marking has been completed. I remind students that errors do have an effect on readers. The minimal marking process helps students recognize, diagnose, and correct their own typical errors, without overburdening the instructor or overwhelming students by marking every error in a project. It also reduces the impatience instructors generally feel when they encounter students' errors repeatedly throughout the work.

Create collections of web content: web pages, videos, books, articles, etc.

Infographic: Get More Out Of Google

Showcase blogging site. Big on visuals. Great for photographers.

The Internet Society engaged in a scenario planning exercise to reveal plausible courses of events that could impact the health of the Internet in the future. While obviously not intended to be a definitive overview of the landscape or all potential issues, we believe the results are interesting and, we hope, thought-provoking. We are sharing them in the hope that they will inspire thought about possibilities for the future development of the Internet, and involvement in helping to make that happen in the best possible way.

Harvard mathematics professor, Oliver Knill, has developed a website called Mathematics in Movies that shows movie clips that include math discussions. There are no restrictions on the movie or scene type or the type of mathematics being discussed.

If you care about Internet search, this is a good blog: "Internet News is written by Gwen Harris as a current awareness service for people wishing to stay abreast with developments affecting web searching. It is a companion to the Websearchguide tutorials and the online courses Gwen teaches."

I noticed a link to cogdogblog.com on December 10, too...