Increase/Decrease Volume
Pressing modifier keys
while increasing/decreasing (F4/F5 for MacBook) will
slowly increase/decrease the volume bar by a quarter.
Searching by Lyrics
Spotlight in Leopard now supports searching music by its lyric.
Attach Files into Mail
Simple drag-and-drop to the Mail.app icon helps you done the attaching in New
Message.
Working without Mouse or Trackpad
Using only keyboard shortcuts with modifier key
and keys F1 to F3, you can do Turn on Full Keyboard Access, Jump to Menubar and Go to
Dock respectively.
Assign a Shortcut to Multiple
Pool is a social media project developed by ABC Radio National. It's a place to share your creative work with the Pool community and ABC producers - upload music, photos, videos, documentaries, interviews, animations and more. It's a collaborative space where audiences become makers.
Picocricket is aimed at primary schools, age 8 and up. From the same people who created Scratch. Combining Art & Robotics to spark Creative Thinking. Not free.
A PicoCricket is a tiny computer that can make things spin, light up, and play music.
You can plug lights, motors, sensors, and other devices into a PicoCricket, then program them to react, interact, and communicate.
Choose from hundreds of free slideshow designs for all occasions. Add captions, music and up to hundreds of your photos. Then share your free slideshow via email or post it to your blog.
This site is easy o use and helps make your singing sound better. You sing or play an instrument while recording to UJAM. When you're done recording, use UJAM to alter the sound quality of your voice, turn your voice into other sounds, adjust the tempo of your song, and or remix a song to include your recording. UJAM is essentially an online, light weight version, of Garage Band. Watch the video below to learn more and see UJAM in action.
This teacher's kids want to use pop music they love for a project. Their teacher wants them to do so legally and with respect, so he's trying to contact the artist directly. To get her attention (the artist is Taylor Swift), he's asking all his Twitter PLN to re-tweet his open letter to Taylor Swift to her Twitter account, so her mentions column will be filled with the RT of his letter. If you Tweet, please copy and paste this into Twitter:RT @thenerdyteacher An Open Letter to @TaylorSwift13 - http://bit.ly/gV6uaH
A tool to create animations. You can animate the characters, change the background, movement, sound effects and emotions; you can add speech bubbles, interactive elements and music to your animation as well. You can resize things, delete, and move or change their places. Children can create their animated books that talk or they can write their own screenplays and turn them into animation.
a tool to create your mini animations by pointing and clicking. You can choose the setting, characters, music at the background and how the chosen characters interact in your animation. You write what you want your characters to say and it shows up in bubbles in your animation. Children can watch a video and write an ending for it or they can summarize a story.
"Companies who want to know more about prospective employees can learn a lot by checking their Facebook profiles, according to a new study.
Jennifer Golbeck and colleagues at the University of Maryland surveyed the public profiles of nearly 300 Facebook users for information about their favourite activities, TV shows, movies, music, books, quotes, and membership in political or other organisations.
They also looked at the "About Me" and "blurb" sections. The work did not include status updates or other data that is only available to users' online friends."
"Slideshow Maker, Free Online Slideshows, Edit Photos Easily Create personalized Slideshows
Add Music and Text to your slideshows
Choose from thousands of Special Effects
Burn slideshows to DVD
Share by Email or post to Facebook
Post slideshows on Websites and Blogs
Store and Organize photos online
Edit and Crop photos"