Entries from May 2009 ↓

Need to find an alternative to some software?


If you are like some software but would like something that has different features and/or is cheaper, check out Alternative To at http://alternativeto.net/

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SharedCopy – share annotated Web pages


SharedCopy is a free Web-based service that allows you place annotations and various other markups (highlight, lines, box, arrow) to a Web page and then share it with others. Go to http://sharedcopy.com/

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Readability – Remove unnecessary portions of Web pages


Suppose you want to provide your students with an article from the Web but you don’t want all the extra things on the Web page such as advertisements and other blocks of text. The Web site Readability (http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/) allows you to generate printable text and vary three things: the text style, text size, and margin width.

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