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O'Reilly Answers is a community site for sharing knowledge, asking questions, and providing answers that brings together our customers, authors, editors, conference speakers, and Foo (Friends of O'Reilly). - Alan Levine

CreateSpace provides inventory-free, physical distribution of books, CD and DVDs on Demand, as well as video downloads through Amazon Video On Demand™. We manufacture physical products when customers order so no pre-built inventory is needed. Through our service, you can sell DVDs, CDs, and books, for a fraction of the cost of traditional manufacturing, while maintaining more control over your materials. With our services, you can make your books, music and video available to millions of customers by selling on Amazon.com and on your own website with a customized eStore. - Alan Levine

Fast, frictionless, and maintenance free. Deploy and scale with confidence. - Alan Levine

I have seen a number of students in Moving Image Arts painstakingly overlay and position video footage in FCP to achieve the split screen effect. It takes hours and the time is spent not in being creative but in nudging, adjusting and aligning. Things just might be getting easier with a plugin effect called SplitScreen, an effect for Final Cut Pro that lets busy editors create complex split-screen shapes by just dragging and dropping. SplitScreen works right on the Final Cut Pro timeline, without requiring a trip to another application. With SplitScreen, you can choose from among 35 different pre-made split-screens, or mix and match a set of smaller split-screen components to create your own. SplitScreen allows you to easily draw any custom split-screen shape, drop in video clips, and re-center, all within Final Cut Pro. - Alan Levine

Like iTunes™ for research papers. Mendeley is a free research management tool for desktop & web. - Alan Levine

The team at MOVIECLIPS has worked tirelessly to collect clips and make them completely searchable by actor, title, genre, occasion, action, mood, character, theme, setting, prop, and even dialogue. This makes it simple to find a scene fast. We are hopeful that you’ll use this powerful search to discover new movies. For that reason, we've included links with each clip to easily buy or rent the feature-length movie. we want to thank the Hollywood studios who’ve worked closely with us to turn this dream into a reality. No longer do we as fans have to resort to piracy in order to find, view, and share one's favorite scenes. No longer do we as fans have to wade through mismarked user-generated crap to find the “real” scene. No longer do we as fans have to put up with low quality, lame viewing experiences that have been our only option. - Alan Levine

This collaboration between The Wonderfactory and Time, Inc. is an excellent example of how tablets will enable the creation of innovative, addictive experiences by publishers, media companies, and advertisers. - Alan Levine

This collaboration between The Wonderfactory and Time, Inc. is an excellent example of how tablets will enable the creation of innovative, addictive experiences by publishers, media companies, and advertisers. - Alan Levine

SenseAware combines an in-package sensing device with a comprehensive web-based information platform. - Alan Levine

This is for all those people that find it more convenient to bother you with their question rather than google it for themselves. - Alan Levine

Scriblio (formerly WPopac) is an award winning, free, open source CMS and OPAC with faceted searching and browsing features based on WordPress. Scriblio is a project of Plymouth State University, supported in part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. * Free and open source * Represents bibliographic collections — library catalogs and such — in an easily searchable, highly remixable web-based format * Leverages WordPress to offer rich content management features for all a library’s content - Alan Levine

Load up your open-source Google phone with powerful apps without spending a cent. - Alan Levine

FlockDraw is the most seamless realtime collaborative drawing tool ever. Paint a simple masterpiece. Make a point visually. Do whatever you want. Do it together. Grab a tool. Pick a color. Draw something. Show a friend. Show the world. Share your vision. - Alan Levine

Google Sightseeing takes you on tour of the world as seen from satellite, using the free Google Earth program, or Google Maps in your web browser. Each weekday your guides James and Alex present new weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers. - Alan Levine

Now everyone and their aunt Sally's got a digital camera, and you don't take a few photos at a time, you take a few dozen. You may even take a photo every day. But every photo's still precious. And it's kind of sad that when you take so many photos, you tend to forget that. That's why we made the Photo Time Capsule. Photo Time Capsule won’t let your best photos be forgotten. Every couple weeks, the Time Capsule looks at your Flickr account for photos you took a year ago. It picks the ones that are most interesting — the ones that got viewed the most, favorited the most, and commented on the most — and sends them to you in email. - Alan Levine

For the last 3 years we have been inviting learning professionals to contribute their Top 10 Tools lists to help us compile the annual Top 100 Tools for Learning - Alan Levine

Using Joomla open source for ePortfolio and assessment is a custom solution for any institution. You can configure it in an unlimited number of ways. Here is how we did it. - Alan Levine

Light Painting in its many forms has been a growing trend on Flickr and other photo sharing sites in the last couple of years. These images are attention grabbing and full of amazing color, movement and detail. In this post we share 25 examples to inspire you. - Alan Levine

Twitster is a PHP application that lets you display tweets on your own web site from everyone you follow in Twitter. What's more, Twitster can filter those tweets by a hash tag (#example) giving you the ability to create a Twitter-based group or community on your own site. - Alan Levine

Here at TwHistory we feel the service can be a novel way to tell the stories of our past. We pick historical figures, especially those that kept detailed journals or histories, and tweet the experiences they went through. By doing this, followers get a feel for what has happened many years ago. Consider it a type of Twitter historical reenactment–reliving history in real time. But this is more than a ‘what happened on this day’ service. We are interested in telling stories. The Battle of Gettysburg, or the Cuban Missile Crisis were more than a couple of random events over a few days. There are exciting backstories of many characters who witnessed these events. We feel these stories can be told in 140 characters or less, over the course of many months. - Alan Levine

James Oliver picked up an Xbox game controller, looked up to a video screen and used the device's buttons and joystick to fly through a patient's chest cavity for an up-close look at the bottom of the heart. And there was a sight doctors had never seen before: an accurate, 3-D view inside a patient's body accessible with a personal computer. A view doctors can shift, adjust, turn, zoom and replay at will. Software that uses real patient data from CT and MRI scans. Software doctors can use to plan a surgery or a round of radiation therapy. Software that can be used to teach physiology and anatomy. Software that puts virtual reality technology developed at Iowa State University to work helping doctors and patients, teachers and students. - Alan Levine

web based photo collage tool - Alan Levine

Use this tool to find the Flickr page of a photo with its URL. Enter the URL address and the tool will find the address of the Flickr page for you. - Alan Levine

a daily story delivered straight to your iPhone, iPod Touch, or other mobile device Whether on a lunchbreak, riding the train, or simply kicking back on the couch with a post-work beer, why not read something awesome. Like today's story, "Dear Diary" by Khanisha Foster. This isn't another eBook store--this is something different, something simple: a new story, every day. Free and surprising, CellStories strives to bring you writing that's unexpected. Like all good stories, some are true, some are not, and many fall in that wonderful grey area between. - Alan Levine

If mainstream cultural commentators were talking about the projects I see covered in the alternative sources circulating through the Utne Reader library, however, devotees of print would perk right up: There are a number of start-ups that have the potential to turn conventional, commercial publishing upside down; free initiatives that dish up riveting prose in bite-size nuggets; and literary communities forming around the art (not the business) of storytelling. None of these models are out to replace ink and paper outright, nor do they rely on expensive devices whose rapid obsolescence is all but guaranteed. They’re simply designed to foster clear, compelling communication. - Alan Levine

Imo is a web instant messenger that helps you IM, voice chat, and video conference using multiple instant messaging protocols. - Alan Levine

Presentation at International Congress “Cultural Heritage and New Technologies” (Workshop “Archäologie & Computer”)” - Alan Levine

After using a blogosphere one year ago, this year microblog channels helped to expand the traditional lecture. Students choose (on a voluntary basis) whether they want to participate in a blogging/microblogging group instead of using conventional methods called Scientific Writer/Scientific Reviewer. This study addresses the question whether this method can change the learning outcome into a more reflective one. Furthermore, peer-reviewing groups judge the quality of essays and blog contributions. In this paper we examine if microblogging can be an appropriate technology for assisting the process. This publication comes to the conclusion that an amazing potential and a new way to work with information is opened when using microblogging. Students seem to be more engaged, reflective and critical in as much as they presented much more personal statements and opinions than years before. - Alan Levine

Future Internet (ISSN 1999-5903), an Open Access journal on Internet technologies and the information society, is published by Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) online quarterly. - Alan Levine

Edit audio in minutes, not hours. With Fission's streamlined audio editing, you can quickly copy, paste and trim audio, as well as split files. Fission also works with compressed MP3 and AAC formats to edit without the quality loss caused by other editors. Get perfect quality audio when editing natively in the MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless, AIFF and WAV formats. - Alan Levine

This is a series of posts about the use of Google Earth as a platform for my students to write. - Alan Levine