WhatWasHere Creates Historical Maps Using Crowd Sourced Photographs

WhatWasHere [http://whatwashere.com] is a project that uploads historic photographs to Google Maps so you can see what a location looked like in the past. Photos can be uploaded through the WhatWasHere website or via an iPhone app. The success of this online project depends on people's willingness to prepare and upload photos. The site tries to make it easy by requiring people to enter in only the location and the year of the photograph. But it will need a lot of participants and a lot of photographs to make it work. If you have a few boxes of old photos sitting around your library or council, why not do your part and start scanning and uploading.

Think Tutorial

Think Tutorial [http://thinktutorial.com] is a database of simple, easy to follow tutorials covering all aspects of popular computing. Think Tutorial is a site for free computer tutorials on any number of subjects divided into categories including communication tools, browsers, Microsoft Office, iWorks, smart phones and social media. These tutorials are text based with pictures, which is nice for those who don't want to sit through watching a video.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) - Explained by Common Craft

If you’re the owner of a website, you know the power of search engines. If your website shows up high in the results, it means more visitors to your website. There are tactics you can use that help your website look more attractive to the search engines. These tactics are called Search Engine Optimization or SEO. This video provides a review of the basics of SEO. Watch it now [http://www.commoncraft.com/video/search-engine-optimization-seo].

Tonara – iPad app

With Tonara [http://tonara.com/], turning pages is a thing of the past! Tonara listens to you and knows when to turn the page on its own, based on what the musician is playing. It can even work with multiple instruments playing at the same time. Although the app is free, each piece of music costs between $1 and $4 depending on its length and complexity. Classical music, whose practitioners typically carry around heavy musical scores, are an obvious target audience for an app like this. However, Levy said pop music could soon find its way into the app too.

Introducing the world’s first interactive sheet music app

· Download and view sheet music on your iPad

· See your exact position on the score as you play

· Pages are turned automatically for you, just in time

· Best of all it’s free.

Montage

I don't have much artistic or design skills so I like playing with tools that help mask this lack of skill. The following is a tool that allows me to create more flashy presentations, visualizations and mashups without much skill or effort.

Montage is a flexible web-based service that makes it fun and easy to create and share a visual album of the web on the topics you care about. You can design your Montage around any topic you can imagine by adding content that pulls information from a variety of sources, including RSS feeds, Twitter, Bing News, and YouTube.

Blogger iPhone app

Google has released an iPhone app for Blogger. Great for posting while on the go. It includes upload of images and location services.

Organize Your Ebook Collection with Calibre

Calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books. It has a cornucopia of features divided into the following main categories:

· Library Management

· E-book conversion

· Syncing to e-book reader devices

· Downloading news from the web and converting it into e-book form

· Comprehensive e-book viewer

· Content server for online access to your book collection

· Calibre supports 22 ebook formats including MOBI, EPUB, LIT, PDF, and more. It can accept those 22 formats and convert them to 16 formats, with customized output for dozens of specific ebook readers including the Kindle, Nook, Sony Readers, and more. The interface is polished, easy to use, and makes managing your ebook collection like managing a media collection through popular media management applications such as iTunes. You’ll be able to easily download covers, metadata, and tags from online databases and browse your collection using that information.

· To get started you need a copy of Calibre [http://calibre-ebook.com/download] for your operating system.

Watch a demo here [http://calibre-ebook.com/demo]. Step by step instructions are available at How-to Geek.

JPEGmini - ReduceYour Photo Size and Lose Your Spare Kilobytes Now

JPEGmini reduces the file size of your photos by up to 5x, while keeping their original quality and JPEG format. JPEGmini has introduced a new photo compression technology for JPEG photos which reduces the overall file size (by up to 5 times), while preserving the photo’s quality and resolution. With JPEGmini, photos can be uploaded, emailed and shared faster, while saving on storage and bandwidth costs. http://www.jpegmini.com/main/shrink_photo