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October 1, 2006



New Media Tools Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 72

 

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  1. VoIP service allows you to call international numbers at $1.00 per week plus the cost of a local call
  2. Edit your digital photos and mix music, videos, and games in 2D and 3D environments
  3. Web-based service that allows you to share documents and ideas with friends and colleagues
  4. Service that creates a backup of your mobile contacts and calendar and allows you to share them
  5. Set up simple web-based to-do lists to organize your tasks within your team
  6. Upload images, resize them, and convert them into another format
  7. Photo sharing service gives you up to 2GB storage for your pictures
  8. Browser-based tool that enables you to edit big pictures up to 10MB
  9. Share your photos and videos directly from your camera phone
  10. Check the popularity status of your website by visualizing traffic details and sites linking to it

Sharewood Picnic is the weekly collection of the most interesting new media tools and resources selected and reviewed by Robin Good and Livia Iacolare.

Here the delicacies we have picked this week:


  1. Rebtel

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    Rebtel is a VoIP service that allows you to call international numbers at $1.00 per week. Rebtel gives you a local phone number where you live at to call your friend abroad, and it gives your friend abroad a local phone number where they live to call you. Afterwards, Rebtel connects the calls over the Internet. You can use the REBin service to make calls between more than 35 countries at the cost of what you pay your mobile operator for your local calls. A tiny per-minute fee is added when you use the REBout service, but then you can call anywhere in the world. Either way, you always pay your carrier for the local calls. No headsets and no downloads required. All you need is your mobile phone. Free sign up.
    http://www.rebtel.com/


  2. iBloks
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    iBloks is a service that enables you to edit your digital photos and mix music, videos, and games in 2D and 3D environments. You can share your personalized mix with friends, play iBloks from others, and remix content along the way. In order to mix your files, you can either use the 2D online iBloks mixer or a downloadable 3D Beta version of iBloks (Windows only). Free to use.
    http://www.ibloks.com/


  3. Approver
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    Approver is a web-based service that allows you to share documents and ideas with friends and colleagues.You can use Approver.com to create or upload notes or documents, then invite friends or colleagues to provide feedback. You can send automatic reminders of deadlines, and receive alerts when members of your team have reviewed and approved copy. Approver works better with Mozilla Firefox and is completely free to use.
    http://www.approver.com/


  4. ZYB
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    ZYB is a online service that creates a backup of your mobile contacts and calendar and allows you to share them with whomever you want and manage your mobile. ZYB works with more than 200 different mobiles. Your mobile just needs to be able receive and send data (the same as you use to go to the internet or download a ringtone). All the basic features for securing, manage and share your mobile are free. Some special functions cost 2-4 euros per year. Check the pricing chart to know more and take a look at the list of supported phones. Free to use.
    https://zyb.com/


  5. iPrioritize
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    iPrioritize is a web-based service that lets you set up simple to-do lists to organize your tasks. You can drag tasks up and down as your priorities change, mark items complete when you finish. You can access your lists anytime and anywhere, because you simply need an internet connection. iPrioritize allows you to print, email, subscribe via RSS, and view lists on your mobile phone. iPrioritize offers a free account and a business account coming at $10/month or $100/year (check out the features of both accounts). Free to use.
    http://www.iprioritize.com/


  6. ImageSquash
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    ImageSquash is a web-based tool that allows you to upload images, resize them, and change their format. When your image is uploaded, just select your options to the left panel and click the convert button. Once you are done, right click the image to save the newly transformed file. ImageSquash is completely free to use.
    http://www.imagesquash.com/


  7. YouRep
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    YouRep is a site that allows upload, store and organize your photos. You can decide whether to make your images public or show them to designated members. Free accounts get 2GB of storage space on YouRep server. 25% (0.5GB) of these 2GB may be used for pictures marked as private or friends only. There is no file transfer limit. YouRep is completely free to use.
    http://www.yourep.com/


  8. SnipShot
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    SnipShot is a browser-based tool that enables you to edit big pictures (up to 10 MB, or 5000x5000 pixels). You can also edit pictures from any web site (including Flickr) with our bookmarklet and export them to Flickr, or save them as as .gif, .jpg, .pdf, .png, or .tif. You can also import pdf (first page only) and .eps files. You will be provided with basic editing tools like crop, rotate, resize, basic image adjustments. Free to use.
    http://snipshot.com/


  9. PixSense
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    PixSense is a web-based service that lets you share your photos and videos with your friends and family directly from your camera phone, from the web, via email or SMS. You can publish photos and videos from your phone for public viewing. Once your pictures are uploaded, viewers can see them in slideshows. Free to use.
    http://beta.pixsense.com/main.ps


  10. Bloginfluence
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    Bloginfluence is a web service that enables you to check the popularity status of your website by providing traffic details and sites linking to it. You simply need to insert the URL of your site and Bloginfluence will automatically generate links to graphics, and all the stats provided by Technorati, Google, Yahoo! and many other popular services. Check out an example. Free to use.
    http://www.bloginfluence.net/en/

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Readers' Comments    
2006-11-16 12:31:37

Wadooah

Thanks for including iBloks in the post!

Cheers,
- The iBloks Team



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