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The Google Docs developers just added "insert drawing" capability. Drawing can be created easily with pre-determined shapes, colors, text, etc..

Have you become addicted to telling the world what you're up to in 140 characters or less? If so, say three cheers for wordpress. Wordpress recently launched a cool new feature that all bloggers will love to use : a Twitter widget for your wordpress sidebar.

Great article that could help with collection development in school libraries. Also, a great way to assess if a book is appropriate for the school library collection.

The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program, previously General Image Manipulation Program) is a free software, raster graphics editor used to process digital graphics and photographs. GIMP can also be used to create basic animated images in GIF format. It is often used as a replacement for Adobe Photoshop, the most widely used bitmap editor in the printing and graphics industries; however, it is not designed to be a Photoshop clone.

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Competencies assessed for information literacy skills for grades 6-12.

Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop - It's an offline capable client so you can take your data with you whenever you don't have internet access powerd with Ajax technology. Working offline is major feature integrated with Zimbra soon after Google adding offline access through open source gear projects. You can access Zimbra Mail. Yahoo! Mail. Gmail. AOL in one common place. Even Outlook and other business e-mail account can be accessed using POP or IMAP.

In the past years communication and way to communucate changes dramatically. The advent of the social and mobile web has made it easy to connect to large groups of people. Web technologies are used to connect millions of people online. This eases the sharing information simpler. Following the Social media smashers Twitter and FaceBook, It's tome now to micromessagging service from Quub, In this fast moving world stay connected over millions of people is a real tough one. To effectively deal with maintaining so many connections, frequent status updates have emerged as a popular method of staying in contact.

StumbleUpon is an Internet community that allows its users to discover and rate Web pages, photos, and videos. StumbleUpon allows users to web stumbling for the first time

iGoogle gadgets interact with the user and utilize the Google Gadgets API. Some gadgets developed for Google Desktop can also be used within iGoogle. The Google Gadgets API is public and allows anyone to develop a gadget for any need. iGoogle recently added a new gadget named " What's Popular". It seems to be similar to Digg, Reddit, Stumbleupon. where you can vote the web pages and add content you find interesti

Twitter been widely used micro blogging services for instant sharing with friends and followers. Since Twiter is updated instantly users can easily share information such as links, images, video and now you can share files instantly with all your friends on Twitter. FileTwt is a simple file sharing service on Twitter. Lot of us use Rapidshare for file sharing, but now FileTwt let Twitter user to share files up to 20MB maximum instantly. At present all files are hosted on Rapidshare, but FileTwt will soon start hosting the uploaded files themselves in a few days!

Recently Posterous joined Twitpic for sharing images on Twitter. Posterous is a simple place to post anything including images, videos, mp3 and files by sending an email to post@posterous.com in reply you can see your post at http://yourname.posterous.com.Posterous new API let users to post your image to some of the most popular Twitter clients either from desktop or from your iPhone.

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