Virtual graffiti a city

Google streetview by different company and in higher detail. Simple API for developers demonstrated by users being able to graffiti the streetview: http://www.wildstylecity.com

Worst things about the Internet

Again from the PC Authority Magazine:
http://www.pcauthority.com.au/News/139980,top-10-worst-things-about-the-web.aspx - need to edit/review Porn entry.

Free Software

PC Authority - an Australian magazine recommends 50 free software programs:
http://www.pcauthority.com.au/Feature/110139,webs-best-50-free-downloads.aspx

and in response to Google and the online revolution:
http://matrixed.org/wordpress/simply-handy/top-50-downloads-guaranteed-performers/

HTML stuff students could find useful

Students should have some knowledge of html because it can be used in everyday life:
e.g. Today I posted a comment on a blog and wanted to link to a website (tags were allowed in comments). So, I:

Searched google for "html code for hyperlink" with the 1st reulting page telling me to:



Ref: http://shell.cas.usf.edu/~mccook/uwy/hyperlinks.html

TinyURL

I have seen this a lot - note to self to look up what it is...

Art - colours and ICT

Two links to examples of online tools for students needing to know about colours and computers:

http://www.web-source.net/216_color_chart.htm

http://www.yellowpipe.com/yis/tools/hex-to-rgb/color-converter.php

New browser technology

I have been using Google's Chrome for a few weeks now. (Useful to use multiple browsers for different gmail accounts so they can all be open at the same time.) Last week I was surfing about Chrome and came across the experiments (http://www.chromeexperiments.com). One thing I thought could be useful for Art or English? was the animation; http://www.chromeexperiments.com/detail/browsermation This is a "new, modern" way of doing the animation I remember doing at school with drawings on paper and flicking through them.