Thursday, October 20, 2011

What's New 20 October 2011


BookLikes

BookLikes http://booklikes.com/ is a book-based social network that recommends great books based on your reading preferences. It’s a complete website for book-lovers. BookLikes gives only individualized book recommendations, books that really define you. A new kind of social algorithm takes into consideration users’ reading preferences, general book information and category it belongs to as well as individual social experience. This is a place where people can search for books by author, title, category, etc and then review them.

QuickScreenShare

If you need to share your screen with a friend or peek in on their screen and you don’t want to deal with installing software, QuickScreenShare is a nearly instant and dead simple solution.
Simply visit QuickScreenShare http://quickscreenshare.com/, start a session, send your friend the link, and you’re ready to start screen sharing between any two browsers with Java installed. It’s that simple and it’s a free service. Check out this video to see it in action.

How to Use the Cameras on Your iPad 2
With the iPad 2, you can take photos and HD video using the tablet's dual cameras. This article shows you how to do just that, as well as how to share videos and photos, upload them to your computer, and trim videos. You’ll also learn how to use FaceTime, Apple's free video chat service. http://www.wikihow.com/Use-the-Cameras-on-Your-iPad-2

Need an app? Try this app search engine

If you're looking for apps on Android, iOS, Mac, Windows, Chrome, Firefox, Facebook, or web, Quixey has just become one of your very best friends. Type in what you're looking for, limit to the resource that you're interested in, read the little summary and then click on the link to go and get it. If you're into apps for your smart phone or iDevice, then you're going to be very happy indeed. It includes priced as well as free apps.

KeepRecipes a Recipe Manager for Food Lovers

Whether you’re a home cook looking to explore new dishes or a chef looking for a place to store all of the recipes you’re collecting for a cookbook, KeepRecipes is a new web service that gives you a way to enter your own recipe collection, or snip recipes from cooking sites around the web, similar to the way Instapaper or ReadItLater lets you save articles and news stories.
KeepRecipes is a combination web app and iPhone app. The web app lets you organise and enter recipes into categories so they’re easy to search and dig through later when you want to find something specific. You can also search other recipes members have added to their own accounts to see if there’s something you’d like to try that another user knows how to make.
Use the KeepRecipes bookmarklet (again, like Instapaper or ReadItLater) to automatically save recipes on sites like Food Network, the New York Times and other cooking sites to your account. The bookmarklet only saves ingredient lists and highlighted text at the moment-so if you want the instructions saved with the ingredients; make sure to highlight them before clicking the bookmarklet.
The service also offers a mobile app for iOS that lets you view ingredients and search your recipes while you’re out shopping, view photos, see what’s new on the site, and use as a kitchen companion while you’re cooking. Both the iOS app and the web site are completely free.

Open Library

Open Library is an open, editable library catalogue, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Just like Wikipedia, you can contribute new information or corrections to the catalogue. Whether you fix a typo, add a book, or write a widget--it's all welcome. You can browse by subject, author or lists members have created.  Open Library also has a Lending library consisting of thousands of eBooks available to anyone to borrow, 1 copy at a time, for 2 weeks. Why not register your library?

ABCya

http://www.abcya.com/ 

ABCya is one of the best free websites of educational kids computer games and activities. All children's educational computer activities have been created or approved by certified school teachers. All educational games are modelled from primary grade lessons and enhanced to provide an interactive way for children to learn. Grade level lessons incorporate areas such as maths and language arts while introducing basic computer skills. Many of the kindergarten and first grade activities are equipped with sound to enhance understanding. Fun children's holiday activities are available in grade level sections.

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