The Complete Guide to Google Wave: How to Use Google Wave

The Complete Guide to Google Wave: How to Use Google Wave is an online “book” (in this case, in sort of wiki form) about Google Wave and how to use it.

iTrackMine: Track And Manage Collections Online

MakeUseOf has a post on the personal inventory service called iTrackMine which lets you Track And Manage Collections Online.  Handles books, music, movies, electronic items and various other goods which you can access anywhere.  Free!

Features:

• Manage and display collections online.
• See collections of others.
• Check out items your friends are willing to loan.
• Track items you have lent to others.
• Send auto reminders when the item is due to be returned.
• Mobile version available.

Camfrog free video chat

Camfrog free video chat has chat rooms & a webcam community.

• Make free live audio & video calls world-wide
• Join live webcam chat rooms or host your own for free
• Blazing fast streaming video and amazing audio quality
• A live webcam user photo directory makes it easy to meet new people

ABBYY FineReader Online for free OCR!

The Boreham Library uses ABBYY FineReader software for OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to convert text in pictures into text that computers can use as real text.

MakeUseOf has a post about ABBYY FineReader Online.

Features:

• Online image text extraction tool.
• Lets you process 50 pages a day for free.
• Supported input image formats: BMP, PCX, DCX, JPEG/JPEG, PNG and TIFF/TIF.
• Supported output file formats: Microsoft Word, Excel, RTF, and TXT and PDF.
• The file must not be larger than 10 MB.
• Multilingual recognition: Russian, English, German and French.
• Simple and clutter free design.

Go2Convert: Universal Image Conversion Tool

Go2Convert: Universal Image Conversion Tool is a post on MakeUseOf for changing the format (and the size, if you like) of a photo or image.

Features:

• Universal image converter.
• Convert an image into more than 100 different image formats including DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG,  PDF, PhotoCD, PNG, Postscript, SVG and others.
• Convert images up to 5 MB in size.
• Resize the output image for use as an avatar, as a thumbnail, for messages boards or other bigger sizes.
• Free, no need to sign up or enter your email.

Apple’s iTunes U(niversity)

Apple iTunes U “puts the power of the iTunes Store to work for colleges, universities, and other education organizations, so users can easily search, download, and play education content just like they do music, movies, and TV shows.”

This is Apple’s service for faculty to provide content for computers and portable devices.  Something to look into for podcasts and other online video/audio/PDF delivery services for classes.

BibMe: Fast & Easy Bibliography Maker

BibMe: Fast & Easy Bibliography Maker handles MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian styles.

Type the URL into the box, and it generates a bibliography in the style you select.

Recommended by Computers in Libraries magazine.

CiteULike: Everyone’s library

CiteULike “is a free service for managing and discovering scholarly references.”

• Easily store references you find online
• Discover new articles and resources
• Share references with your peers
• Find out who’s reading what you’re reading
• Store and search your PDFs

Recommended by Computers in Libraries magazine.

Follow That Page web monitor

Follow That Page – web monitor: we send you an email when your favorite page has changed.

A free service.

Soshiku – Keep Track of Your Schoolwork

Soshiku › The Smart Way to Keep Track of Your Schoolwork is “a simple but powerful tool that manages your high school or college assignments. Soshiku keeps track of when your assignments are due and can even notify you via email or SMS. And it’s totally free.”

This is a free online service for keeping track of assignments (and other things).

Facebook Lite on trial

Facebook Lite is a stripped-down version of Facebook that loads the more important functions, faster than the full version.

This is something Facebook is trying out, but it seems to be a useful way to handle Facebook on slower networks.

WaterMark.ws: Add Watermarks To Photos

MakeUseOf has a post on WaterMark.ws which lets you Add Watermarks To Photos Online.

Plagium: Online Plagiarism Tracker

MakeUseOf has a post on Plagium which is an Online Plagiarism Tracker.

Worried that your work is being used without giving you proper credit?  Enter a block of text into Plagium to check for its use anywhere on the web.

ThinkFree: Web Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)

MakeUseOf has a post on ThinkFree: Web Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel).

ThinkFree is an online Office-like suite of applications.

Feature Overview

• Create, Manage, Edit, Share and Collaborate on office documents online.
• Microsoft Office compatibility: View/Edit your M.Office docs on ThinkFree and vice versa
• Storage: 1 GB of free online storage.
• Share documents with others and assign different user privileges (viewer, contributor, etc)
• Version management: Detailed history of document changes, revert to any previous version when needed
• Document editing: Quick Edit and Power Edit modes.
• Search within all documents in your account.
• Embed docs on your blog, website (or on ThinkFree Doc Exchange)
• ThinkFree Premium (non-free): online and offline file synchronization, document archiving, full-scree mode, online/offline access, …

OurShelf to track your stuff online

MakeUseOf has a post about OurShelf which is a “cataloging application which lets you catalog all your personal items (CDs, DVDs, Books etc) online and share this information with others. You can add items to your shelf and organize them by different labels, borrow and lend items with your friends and create and share wishlists.”

Features:

• Online cataloging tool for your personal CDs, DVDs, books and other stuff.
• Search and add items to your shelf.
• Organize different items by labels.
• Share, borrow and lend items with your friends.
• Create and share wishlists.
• Join and form groups with other people around similar interests.
• Firefox plugin available.
• Free, sign up to get started.

TheBigPicture: Online Organizer & Innovative Project Manager

MakeUseOf has a post about TheBigPicture: Online Organizer & Innovative Project Manager.

TheBigPicture is a free online organizer and innovative project management tool which combines things like tasks, to-dos, calendar and other project management related features into an intuitive mind map style interface.

Stickam – The Live Streaming Video site

Stickam – The Live Community, Live Streaming Video will let you create your own online live video show, for free.

Recommended by Laptop Magazine.

Friv: Best Free Online PC Games In One Place

Gizmo Richards at TechSupport Alert has a post on 250 Best Free Online PC Games In One Place.

He recommends Friv as a site with 250 free online games.

Find IP Address: What is My IP Address?

Find IP Address: What is My IP Address? IP Address Lookup & IP Locator will automatically show your current IP address and location when you arrive.

Bear in mind that this address may be changed by your Internet Service Provider as it gets re-used by various people, unless you arrange a fixed IP address.

Doink: Create Fun Animated Drawings Online

MakeUseOf has a post on Doink which lets you Create Fun Animated Drawings Online.

Doink “is the intuitive animation editor provided by Doink. It lets anyone easily create fancy animated drawings online and then share them with others. The site lets you create drawing from scratch or re-use the works of other site members.”