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eduTecher is a free social web resource dedicated to helping educators, students, and parents find the latest web tools for use in an academic setting 42 Tasks is a cross-platform task managing tool, a perfect way for students to manage their workload and keep on top of due dates. The site/app is simple to use and is very user friendly.

>> X-Ray Goggles allow you to see the building blocks that make up websites on the internet. >> Appmaker is a free tool for creating personal mobile apps, even if you don't know code! >> Popcorn Maker helps you easily remix web video, audio and images into cool mashups that you can embed on other websites. >> Thimble makes it ridiculously simple to create and share your own web pages.

CanYouSeeMe.org - Open Port Check Tool This page will serve as a free utility for remotely verifying a port is open or closed. It will be useful for users who wish to check to see if a server is running or a firewall

LOREM IPSUM TOOL content+ markup options (Unordered List,  Ordered List,  Headings,  Paragraphs)

This is one of these portals that will enable you to figure out what is the current sentiment on the Web regarding just anything.  We use proprietary techniques of text mining, semantic analysis, and sentiment analysis. We have many years of experience in these fields. Please take a look at other tools produced by us:SenseBot - semantic search engineLinkSensor - a tool for contextual advertising and linkingSemantic API - a set of REST services for developers 

What is Movie Masher? A set of Adobe Flash™ applets that provide front-end tools for common video editing tasks: Trim, composite and timeshift video Mix and fade multiple audio tracks Add effects, transitions and titling An XML API is used to customize both the appearance and behavior of the tools: Colorize and reposition panels Reskin and bind interface controls Reconfigure bundled effects Integrate with CGI scripts

A young company "driven by their passion for travel and software," Explorra is a travel site that offers a range of travel inspiration tools, social features, a full service API for developers, and a Travel by Color tool. Travel By Color display travel products (destinations, hotels, travel experiences, holidays etc) based on the colors in their photos.

This is the direct link from http://elliottback.com/wp/archives/2005/04/25/convert-image-to-css/
 Convert Image to CSS
Posted in Code, Plugins, Graphics by Elliott Back on April 25th, 2005. [Del.icio.us]

Ever wanted to take an image and convert it, pixel by pixel, into CSS, HTML, or xHTML? Well, now you can, thanks to my handy conversion tool! Just give it the URL of the image to convert, select a pixel resampling ratio, a mode, and off you go. You can also save the html. Just right click on the permalink and "save target as" to your favorite location.

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Note: If you give a very large image, with a very small pixel ratio, the image could take a long time to load, or eventually overload your browser with multiple megabytes of web information. These "images" are very large!

This tool will convert an image to div block w/ CSS

Here's my webtools page. Too many tools that I love on my UNIX system(s) are inaccessable to the average friend/co-worker of mine. Yet everyone has access to webpages. So my choices to help people out involve either giving shell accounts out and teaching people how to run specific UNIX comands or I could just write these tools on the web. So here they are (in order of writing):

Exefen is tool for easily adding XFN values to hand-rolled links. If you're using a system like WordPress to manage your links, adding rel values is a matter of a few clicks, and this tool brings that ease of use to any page on the world wide web. It parses a given page, returns all the external links, and lets you choose XFN values for each.

Here, you'll find a teacher's guide to Google Tools for Your Classroom. And to spark your imagination, you'll find examples of innovative ways that other educators are using these tools in the classroom.

collection of tools by mozilla labs

Teaching with maps (whether on the whiteboard or using a set of personal computers) makes learning much more visual, exciting and personally relevant. uLearn is the easiest way to access a range of Ordnance Survey mapping in the UK, plus stunning aerial imagery and historic maps, all in a safe educational environment. Much more than just Geography Use maps as an index, not only to study geographical locations but also alongside uLearn's enormous library of geo-referenced resources. Explore the historic, cultural and factual aspects of your chosen locations across the planet. Just select a topic, zoom in to a place of interest and the resources available will automatically light up. And uLearn's mapping tools are interactive - stitch maps together, add your own photos and videos or annotate them to highlight your teaching focus. uLearn's maps and resources can be manipulated to meet your classroom needs, whatever the curriculum area. Really simple tools for creating lessons Whether using the resources already in uLearn or uploading your own resources, uLearn allows you at the click of a button, to capture the maps and resources for your lesson, ready to use in the classroom. It's as simple as clicking the 'Save current view to playlist' button!

TAPoR is a gateway to tools for sophisticated analysis and retrieval, along with representative texts for experimentation. Features of TAPoR * Manage electronic texts * Experiment with online text tools * Learn about digital textuality

Font Tester is a free web-based font comparison tool. It allows you to easily compare different fonts side by side and adjust the various CSS properties of those fonts in real-time.

Font Tester is a free online font comparison tool. It allows you to easily preview and compare different fonts side by side with various CSS font styles applied to them. It is very useful for web developers who are looking for just the right font/style/color to use in their pages. To use it all you have to do is simply enter the text you would like to preview, modify the various CSS properties until you find a style you like, and then click on the Get CSS Code button to generate all the necassary CSS code to reproduce those styles in your webpage.

This SEO Analysis Tool is to help you analyze and measure the ranking potential of your web pages. It doesn't only analyze the Meta Tags of your pages, rather it tries to use the same spider technology as the search engines spiders them self.

Sourcemap is a tool for producers, business owners and consumers to understand the impact of supply chains. Our site is a social network where anyone can contribute to a shared understanding of the story behind products. You can simulate the impact of manufacturing, transporting, using and throwing away products using our Life-Cycle Assessment calculator. This web-based tool uses linked data from geological and geographic resources. Each 'Sourcemap' can be used to help market socially- and environmentally- conscious products and to buy carbon offsets. Supply chains published on the site can be embedded in external websites, printed onto product packaging or linked through QR codes readable by camera phones. As the site grows, suppliers will be able to contribute their products to the Sourcemap database, providing a geographic catalogue of materials and products around the world.

The world's leading online scheduling tool, Doodle takes the pain out of finding the right date and time for a group of people to meet and makes scheduling virtually effortless. The basic service is a free online coordination tool which requires neither registration nor software installation.

A good tool to schedule your meetings

Schedule an event ... ... such as a board meeting, business lunch, conference call, family reunion, movie night, or any other group event.

PrimaryAccess is a suite of free online tools that allows students and teachers to use primary source documents to complete meaningful and compelling learning activities with digital movies, storyboards, rebus stories and other online tools.