Picasa 3.8 Release has “Face Movie”
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The New version of Google’s Picasa Photo Organizing/Editing software has just gotten better. The coolest new feature is “Face Movie.” Combining the face recognition feature, I selected the Album of all of the photos that my daughter was in. I then told Picasa to make a face movie. What a great slideshow of memories! The software tries to keep the face in the same place and change the picture. What a quick way to make something for a birthday or other special occasion! Down load Picasa here.
Publish to Facebook from Jing
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Check out this link to learn more about using Jing for screen capture videos that can be published directly to Facebook with the click of a button!
The Facebook Button – Jing Help Center
Google 20
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At the AITP National Collegiate Conference, I attended a session on creating collaborative online communities for students. One idea was hiring student bloggers to introduce people to technologies and encourage careers for women and minority groups in the IT area. They showed a video (which I haven’t found yet, but I’m still looking) about women working at Google. One of the things that I was impressed by was the Google 20 where 20% of your time could be spent working on YOUR project. I think that could be applied to a lot of things including the classroom!
User Account Control Fixes SoftChalk License
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On my Windows 7 machine, I had trouble installing my Softchalk software that I love to use for course design. I found this answer, and it worked like a charm!
SoftChalk FAQ – The five questions posted most recently:
Windows 7 is my operating system. I am having trouble entering my license information. What should I do?
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 3:28 PMYou may need to turn off your User Account Control. Please see the steps below.
1. From your desktop, click on the Start menu (round ball) in the lower left corner of your screen.
2. Type UAC and press Enter.
3. Drag the slider to the Never notify setting.
4. Re-boot your computer.
5. Start LessonBuilder and choose Help/Enter License.
6. Enter your license info. Click OK.
7. Enable your User Account Control by repeating steps 1-4 except reset your Notify option to your previous setting.
Google’s Picasa
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Picasa 3: Free download from Google
I have been using Google’s Picasa for quite some time, but I didn’t have the newest version (nor did I access Picasaweb) before I upgraded my computer system. This new version allows me to use face recognition so that it can find all the pictures with a certain person in it. As soon as I identified my daughters in several photos I uploaded, I was able to view all the pictures of them. It was very neat to scroll through their development — it shows only a close up of their face in all the pictures. It was also interesting to see how accurate it was. Out of the thousands of pictures I have of those two, it only made a few errors. I had to look at the whole picture to make the determination which daughter is was, too! It identifies who it thinks is in the pictures and then asks you to confirm. What was amazing was that it could identify the baby pictures.
If you haven’t tried this one yet. It is a must!
Create and Share your own Knowlege Base with Knol
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Knol – a unit of knowledge: share what you know, publish your expertise. I ran across this when I was looking up something in Google Help. It sounds real interesting. Some of its uses might be: helpdesk repository, teaching repository, journal, writing a book, nuggets of knowledge… I plan on doing a little experimenting with this. Let me know if you do some, too!
Microsoft Songsmith
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I am going to download this. I think the girls will love to use it. Okay, who am I kidding — I want to play with it, too! I think it will especially be fun for Christmas tunes we make up. I haven’t found out what it exports to — maybe it will even interface with my piano!
You Convert It
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Free online media file conversion (Document, Images, Audio, Video & Archives)
I was looking for something to convert an Access ACCDB file, and stumbled upon this link. Unfortunately, it did not work for my file; but this looked interesting enough to keep a link on it to try again in the future!
C++ Compiler Error C2360
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Compiler Error C2360 I was getting this error after I added another case to a switch statement. This link proved to be helpful in rearranging those silly {}’s.
I am currently running the 2010 Beta 2 version of Visual Studio.
Attaching your Flickr Account to Email and Your Blog
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Flickr: Help: Photos – This link helps you add tags when you upload via email or phone to your special flickr email address.
Basically, whatever you type in the Subject line becomes the photo’s title. Whatever you type in the body of the message becomes the photo description. Then type tags: tag1, tag2, “really cool”, tag 4 in either your subject line or body to add your tagging to the photo.
WARNING: Be sure you send optimized — smaller-sized photos to your account. A good way to do this from your computer is to right click on the photo and send the smaller sized photo to your special email address.
