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All YouTube embed codes currently support HTTPS in addition to the standard HTTP. This page explains the details and gives instructions.

GroupMe - is a mobile real-time group text messaging tool that helps you easily communicate with a group of people via text messages on your cellphone. You need to enter your phone number that'll register you for a free account. Once that's done, GroupMe sends you a phone number that can be assigned to a group and used for sending text messages.

Text to Speech (TTS) software allows you to have text read aloud to you. This is useful for struggling readers and for writers, when editing and revising their work. You can also convert eBooks to audiobooks so you can listen to them on long drives. We've posted some websites here where you can find some good TTS software programs and online tools that are free or at least have free versions available.

"Combine video clips, add text, and share your custom message via email, facebook, twitter and mobile text. SnapCuts is a place to create, communicate, and share your thoughts with video."

Team up with your friends for a few hours, a few days or forever! Reach everyone at once by texting a single number. Link up on an instant conference call or shout out with a recorded voice message. Share your location to meet up. Share photos with your entire team.

Lots of tools let you share a webpage with the world but what about sharing a specific quotation or specific piece of text? BookmarkQ is an amazingly simple tool that helps you share specific text from a website. It works as a bookmarklet by adding it to your browser's bookmark bar. 

In HTML authoring, there are very good reasons to include an alt attribute into every img element. The purpose is to specify a textual replacement for the image, to be displayed or otherwise used in place of the image. Thus, the prime rule is: Consider what the page looks like or sounds like when images are not shown. Then, write for each image an alt text that best works as a replacement. This document also gives more specific suggestions for simple, common situations, and some uncommon too. For content-rich images, it recommends explicit links to textual alternatives.

W3C Working Draft: author conformance requirements for use of the alt attribute in HTML5 and best practice guidance for authors of HTML documents on providing text alternatives for images

Ian Hickson's MINI FAQ ABOUT THE ALTERNATE TEXT OF IMAGES

While you would usually need to go to a badge creating professional to design and create custom badges, now you can do it on your phone thanks to a tool called My Badge, a phone app for iOS devices. You can use the app to design 1-inch badges using photos and texts.

iPiccy makes your photo awesome with many easy to use photo tools. Edit pictures, apply beautiful photo effects, add text and even paint! Enjoy free photo editing online and show your creativity with iPiccy editor!

Bland presentations come to life when you add audio and video elements. Audio also becomes much more important when you are sending presentations online. Fortunately, Hello Slide is a text-to-speech mashup that lets you add audio overlays to presentations and then host them for you.

Have you ever wanted a way to create a survey that looks a lot nicer and more professional than just some text on a webpage? If you have, than you should check out Survey Legend, where you can make beautiful surveys with just a few clicks.

"At DePaul University, the tip-off to one student's copying was the purple shade of several paragraphs he had lifted from the Web; when confronted by a writing tutor his professor had sent him to, he was not defensive - he just wanted to know how to change purple text to black."

Odiogo empowers you to convert your blog posts into high quality audio files.

The easiest and most entertaining way to collect feedback from your audience: Project polls or message boards on a large screen, have everyone send their input via their cell phones and see results instantly!

ReadTheWords.com is a free, web based service that assists people with written material. We do this by using TTS Technology, or Text To Speech Technology. Users of our service can generate a clear sounding audio file from almost any written material. We generate a voice that reads the words out loud, that you request us to read.

Whilst making Shoot The Summer I've been thinking a lot about the capabilities of the mobile in film making and story telling. I Twittered my thoughts at the Cambridge Folk Festival then converted it to audio using my Mac's text to audio recognition softw

While online video is a great tool, automatically indexing these videos and making them searchable is still a very hard task. EveryZing, a Massachusetts-based company that focuses on media indexing through speech-to-text and natural language processing, r

Ever seen those signs in front of churches with the moveable letters? Ever wanted to rearrange the letters to make your own church sign? Well, now you can. Choose a design below, add your text, and a personalized church sign photo will be generated for yo