FronTools

This is a simple and new tool with a brillant idea. With Kwout you can cut part of a website and them use it on your own site as quotation. Kwout will leave the links and it will work as an image map.

To use it just go to Kwout, paste the link of a website, cut the image of the site and use it with the code. Simple.

I use it to cut part of Frontols - the recent posts area. Here’s the result (use the mouse to see the links in the image map):

FronTools - Free Online Tools via kwout

Sony’s latest flat panel tv produces moderately deep shade of black. Sony dvd has a very nice and standard-definition video processing features. It’s the standard feature of Sony electronics that these bring numerous picture controls. Sony digital cameras i.e. Alpha A200 is a comparatively slight modification from the electronics giant’s initial digital SLR, the A100.

You may have a cool blog, but traffic is essencial to make it visible. Social blogging networks are the best way to promote your blog for free, you just have to make your regist. I have been using some of them with nice results:

 MyBlogLog is one of the best social blogging networks. Add your blogs and profile and start visiting other people profiles and blogs. Each blog have a community of readers you can join, with time you will see the members of your blogs communities increasing. You can also add contacts and leave messages (or receive them). There is a lot of features to explore.

• My profile in MyBlogLog  (join my blogs )

Another cool social blogging network. Again add your blogs and profile and start visiting other people profiles and blogs. You can also create groups to discuss a theme or use the discussions feature to post something. Blogs will be ranked.

• My profile in Blog catalog

Add your blogs, create communities and discussions. Add friends and leave messages.

• My blogs in Bumpzee

This is a recent one, but i guess with time it will be a very cool social network.

• My profile in pijoo

You can also join the BlogCave and BlogDune. In this social networks users can vote to rank users.

• My profile at BlogCave
• My profile at BlogDune

Most of these networks have widgets for your blog, we use some widgets in this blog as you can see.

Remember that not to spam is essencial and with time you can really make friends and share your blog with others.

Do you use these networks? Give us your opinion.

thumbalizr let you take screenshots of any webpage you want. You can use it to make a thumb of your blog and then use it in the social blogs networks, use it for presentations, documents or just to keep a visual history of you page or blog.

It’s simple to use. Insert your URL and select a fixed height of the screen or the complete webpage. Then press “Thumb it”.  After a few seconds your image is ready.

You can then choose your resolution (150, 320, 640, 800, 1024, 1280 or a custom pixel width) and download your screenshot.

This is the tool we have been using for The Blog List.

Related post:
Browsershots - a screenshot generator of your site

A new project from the FronTools team.

Welcome to The Blog List.  This is a special place to let the world know that you have a blog. The main concept of The Blog List is really simple and very usefull. It’s as easy as telling us what your blog is all about and let us post it.

With this tool you can promote your blog for free. Just fill this form with you blog info and we will post it here.

Go2Web20 is a comprehensive list of web 2.0 sites with a nice interface, converging flash and ajax. You can sort by name or date, use the tags sellection or search by theme to find the right tool for you. We this tool you will find the web2.0 site you were searching for.

No need to register or install as we like it

Midori is a french company offering entertainment products, such as PC games and mac games, some specially designed as Games for kids.  You can also find some online free games: lady bugs (a maze game) and Mister Monster (a monster face builder).

Global Warning is one of the Midori games. This game covering environmental issues will give you small tips for big differences. You can also find the classic games mahjong, solitaire and some other games. You can download all this demos for free.

This post is a sponsored review.

We have been talking about education tools in the last posts: Web 2.0 ideas for educators, Camtasia Studio 3 now for free, Computer training and also Sciencehack - Science Videos.

edu2.0 is a powerfull tool for education. edu2.0 is more than a CMS, a LMS, a Social Network, a RSS Aggregator or a social software tool. With edu2.0 you can teach, learn, use and share resources and  join communities.

edu20 is free but have most of the features offered by the commercial vendors, like virtual classrooms, communities, social networking, a community-contributed library of resources, private messaging, rubrics, quizzes, curricula, a personalized self-paced study.

If you’re not a native english speaker they allow volunteers to translate the site into different languages. edu20 is already available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish and Italian.

This short 3-minute video provides a good overview of the site:

All this for free, just regist and you’re on edu2.0.

Quentin D’Souza from Teaching Hacks made this book: “100+ Web 2.0 Ideas for Educators: A Guide to RSS and More”. This is specially for teachers and educators, describing how web 2.0 can be used in the Classroom with examples of elementary and secondary teachers.

So if you’re a teacher/educator and want to know more about RSS, feeds, web2.0, tags, creative commons, social bookmarking, blogs, wikis, podcasting, eportefolios, then this is your opportunity. A book with a simple language and good examples.

This 50 page document with 750 KB is available for download in pdf here.

Another free tool. Friendsation is a powerful free online dating website, but there is more than  just a dating site.  Members from all around the world can also have the opportunity to Blog on the site, develop buddy lists, use a free chat or a recent free live phone chat and also rate photos.

FriendSation is a community that grows with its focus on various forms of free online dating. Now you can make online friends in a free way.

This post is a sponsored review.

I guess this is Techsmith Christmas present, especially for the education area. Camtasia is now on the 5ht version, so they decided to offer version 3. This tool will help to capture your screen.

You can record (screen, voice, cam) edit and share a presentation. This will help you to demonstrate a program or how to do an action on a computer.  With the PowerPoint included add-in, you can also record a PowerPoint presentation using your voice along with the presentation. When editing you can include transitions, quizzes, images, captions, callouts… and then it can be produced to make a cd or a web page, or just a file using your preferred format (MP3, iPod video, Flash (SWF and FLV), AVI, Silverlight, compatible WMV, QuickTime (MOV), RealMedia (RM), Animated GIF, Executable (EXE)).

So if you want to use this powerful tool, just download it here and get your software key here.

Check the Camtasia tutorial made with Camtasia here.

642-552 covers topics like security pressures facing contemporary network infrastructures, protecting Cisco routers, ect. 642-892 may also be considered in place of the BSCI as well as BCMSN exams needed for CCNP and CCDP certifications. 650-621 enables the candidate to sell, develop, and support Cisco technologies and enhance their performance. 70-630 teaches skills to handle internet information server, its administration and configuration. 642-432 involves basic IP telephony, its troubleshooting, and integration with an accessible PSTN network.