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"At this stage it's going to be incredibly hard for Android or even Microsoft/Windows tablets to break into the market. Apple are stated to have 94% of the educational market in the US and whilst the craze hasn't dominated Australian schools yet, the future is not far off. This means it is incredibly unlikely that Australia will reverse an already popular choice in America. Combined with a lack of development for other formats this means the iPad will soon be the tablet parents HAVE to buy."

"Converts .pdf to Kindle format .mobi or .azw Plus, it's free! Online eBook converter, no download required. Supports MacOS, Windows and Linux."

(via @rmbyrne)

Lulu gives you the opportunity to upload a document and convert to epub format. The site contains photo book tools and you can add images and text to tell a story. Tools are also available for creating poetry books and digital portfolios

"Evernote Clearly lets you read your favorite content on the Web distraction free. A simple to use browser add-on for web browsers, Evernote Clearly removes unwanted advertisements, navigation bars, and other distractions with a single click, leaving only the content you care about in a clean, easy to read format."

It is a simple freeware windows download application that helps you to backup videos from social sites like Dailymotion, MySpace, Yahoo, etc. to play back them offline and export them to many formats (MPG,AVI,MP4,3GP,3G2,WMV,PSP,MOV,FLV) with the quality that you choose, you can encode your videos to standard formats as DVD,VCD,IPOD,PSP.

Interesting commentary on the benefits of teachmeets and Twitter chats from Chris Betcher.

"Over 30 Tips to help navigate Google+  Here are an excellent collection of tips in .gif format to make it easy for you to quickly see what you need to do from Martin Shervington." Nov 2013

"CamScanner is a document scanning and sharing app. It allows you to instantly scan any type of text or graphic and save or share them with others. Using your phone or tablet camera, you can take a photo and CamScanner will automatically enhance the scanned results so you can easily email, print, fax or share them in PDF or PNG format." The basic version is available for free

A useful cheat sheet synthesizing the best file formats to work with, provide access to, and to permanently archive digital artworks.

PDF, DOC, PPT, eBook Search Engine. "pdftop.com is a search engine and online viewer for ebooks in pdf, ppt, xls, rtf, txt, doc file format. You can find and download the ebook but please respect the publisher and the author for their creations if their books copyrighted."

Google SketchUp is great free software that can be used across the curriculum. This page from RoboHelp contains links to numerous project ideas using the software. For each project shown below, you can view project details in HTML or PDF format.

Use this site to create simple webpages in a graphical format. Might be interesting to embed on a blog etc.

EducationEye allows the user to discover, explore and share new ideas. It maps hundreds of top educational websites, blogs, forums and case studies to provide up to date information about innovative ideas being explored in the education community. The information is then present in a visual format that is itself interactive. Type in your search term and let it find the relevant articles, websites or links. This is a innovative tool from Futurelab and well worth a visit

But perhaps the rarest thing about Digi-Comp is the combination of hands-on and minds-on fun it affords. It definitely still has things to teach*, like Boolean logic and problem-solving... and it's rewarding to build and use. That's why Minds-On Toys decided to reintroduce it in an affordable kit format, with a thorough and professional revamp of the original documentation.

Just ordered myself one of these for christmas, an elastic-band powered computer that comes as a DIY kit. I can hardly wait to turn up.

"A suite of tools that makes it ridiculously simple for anyone to copy and paste the correct attribution for any CC licensed work. These tools will query the metadata around a CC-licensed object and produce a properly formatted attribution that users can copy and paste wherever they need to."

Webslides allows users to easily and instanly convert their bookmarks and feeds and present them as live web pages in an interactive slideshow format complete with the full content pages, links, and comments. It enables a new way to easily create and share unique presentations based on web content and user annotations.

Online drawing tool which allows you to create a high quality diagram (e.g. concept map .. or pretty much anything else!), then download it in jpg, png, svg or xml format. Great for pupils as no sign on required.

An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format

Mind Map Library. 1000s of Mind Maps in FreeMind, MindManager and other formats.

The value of a mind map may be in creating it, rather than in the product itself, but useful for inspiration perhaps?

The World Digital Library will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and other significant cultural materials. The objectives of the World Digital Library are to promote international and inter-cultural understanding and awareness, provide resources to educators, expand non-English and non-Western content on the Internet, and to contribute to scholarly research.