UWW310 Technology & the Arts

Software for video, audio, image converting and editing. Support all popular formats and devices. This is a subscription ( paid ) service. It is pretty easy to use and has many different tools available.

Online women's history, art, photography exhibits. I found this especially useful in researching for historical fiction.

history, photography and art exhibitions that are online.

When it comes to innovation in the beauty industry, makeup seems to be the area most people think has the least room to grow. People have been using it since Ancient Egypt, and plenty of the beauty brands we use today have been around since the early 20th century. Innovation?

It was crowded on the sidewalks in Hong Kong. Early morning commuters, shoulders tightly pressed against the strangers walking next to them, moved in a sluggish blob through each brimming intersection. Katia Vega didn't mind the congestion. If anything, it made for ideal people-watching.

"Clip Converter is a free online media conversion application, which allows you to convert and download YouTube URLs to formats like MP3,MP4,AAC,3GP." This is a great resource for saving videos for offline viewing as well as converting media to viewable formats.

Online Art Exhibits from the Library Company of Philadelphia includes historic documents, photography, broadsides, paintings, and other ephemera. It's definitely worth having a look around if you can't go in person.

"Floola is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod or your Motorola mobile phone (any model supporting iTunes except iPhone, iPod touch and nano 6G). Floola Desktop is another freeware application to manage your local PC music library. Both are standalone applications that do not need installation and run underLinux (any GTK2 distro), Mac OS X (10.4 or newer!)" --I have used Floola to retrieve music files off of an old ipod that itunes would not allow me to use the music from. If anyone else has had this frustrating problem, Floola is your friend. It also allows you to use your ipod like an external hard drive and drag and drop files to and from it...no syncing necessary.

Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library. You can download books, movies, music in the file type/format of your choosing for free. They have lots of out of print or otherwise unavailable materials.

Audacity is a multi-track audio editor and recorder in the same vein as pro-tools, but free to use for Windows, Mac, Linux. Music tracks can be edited individually, mixed and exported in multiple file types.

Rick Friedman (almost!) weekly Location Lighting Blog! This is a great source for photography lighting tutorials and workshops. One of my favorite photographers.

Download free photography tips on selling photography, SEO & social media, and building the best websites for photographers. Free guides help grow a photography business. If you want to be a professional photographer, get this free guides. They have helped me expand my business.

The Fractured Atlas Blog has a running tag called #TechToolTuesday. They highlight a new app every Tuesday that can help with everything from time management, website making, marketing, and finances that are all either free or reasonably affordable.

Create your own whiteboard video (like those by RSA and AsapSCIENCE) without having to be a great artist. VideoScribe does all the work for you. There is a free trial you can use to test out the software before you purchase a subscription.

A mobile app that works as a thesaurus for phrases

Poetreat is a mobile app that will suggest words that rhyme. You can choose the style and meter.

Here is an article on new technology that a named museum is planning to use to make 3D replications of paintings by masters - to have a limited edition of and sell at exclusive pricing. The article notes that as this technology advances it will become harder and harder to distinguish copies from the real. Fascinating but not applicable to me - the artist.

Obviously, I am behind the times! Scroll down and notice the highlighted text on this new group of iphone artists.

Not yet convinced that this app would actually do anything for me other than entertain me when stuck in traffic (not that I ever am)

Do you know how to do something? Do you want to share it step by step with other people? This app and website allows you to do just that. You can add pictures and text to explain each step! You can also check out all the other awesome how to guides while you are there!