Cutting Your Ex Out of the Picture?

Snipshot. This new online image editor is easy and efficient for those quicky crop jobs, according to Lifehacker.

Category: Images_

Getting Graphic

Check the Wikimedia Commons for images and media files with Creative Commons licenses, etc. that can be incorporated into Blackboard course sites, web sites, and documents.

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The Best Things Come in Small Packages

Are you sick of posting URLs in emails only to have it break when sent causing the recipient to have to cut and paste it back together? I occasionally use an online sevice called TinyURL to help me with this problem. For example, this monster URL (which I use frequently):

http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?latlongtype=
internal&addtohistory=&latitude=
Ww05rMXA7bI%3d&longitude=N93yqL1EzGs%3d&name=
Slippery%20Rock%20University&country=US&address=
1%20Morrow%20Way&city=
Slippery%20Rock&state=PA&zipcode=16057&phone=
724%2d738%2d9000&spurl=0&&q=
slippery%20rock%20university&qc=Schools%20%28K%2d12%29

Becomes http://tinyurl.com/ob8ph

Go ahead & try it!

Category: Web_

Button, Button, Who's Got the Button?

Confounded by the idea of creating buttons? Meet the Buttonator, from ResearchBuzz.

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Back It Up

Ever have a hard drive crash? Lose everything? This article from PC magazine gives the rundown on online back up services, including several free solutions.

Category: Web_, Utilities_

Oh Those Pesky Passwords

Gina Trapani has another excellent article on Lifehacker,
Geek to Live: Choose (and remember) great passwords. Considering the large number of passwords we must create (not to mention, remember!)on a myriad of websites, her advice makes remembering those umpteen passwords a little bit easier.

Category: Other Cool Stuff_

Looking for Web Site Tools?

Protolize.org is a site devoted to all things Web. If you are looking for a central place to seek out page snippets, code, and utilities, check out this site.

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Go With the Flow

Create flowcharts, diagrams, etc. in your web browser with Gliffy.

Category: Utilities_

Cleaning Up StartUp

Caution! Caution! Danger, Will Robinson! Don't do this unless you are familiar with your sysinfo file and feel comfortable making changes. With that warning given, this would speed up your computer's start process and eliminate adware, spyware, and other unnecessary nasties.

StartUp from SysInfo

Category: Utilities_

Moved, Leaving No Forwarding Address

Here's a helpful bit of information on the best way(s) to redirect a web page (and none of them are "this page has moved, click here.")

Category: Web_