Odeo (http://www.odeo.com/) is a service for managing audio. You can record audio directly through the website if you have a microphone, record a segment over the phone (note: I haven’t gotten this to work yet), or link to an existing MP3 file on the web. You can then organize, annotate, add a picture, and share the files. either by RSS or via a Flash based player that can be embedded in a website.
I used Odeo to create and embed the audio segments for a presentation on Web 2.0 tools and this blog at HigherEdBlogCon. (The video on the first “slide” is hosted by a similar service for video called YouTube.) You will need a Flash plug in for your browser in order to hear the clips.
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We’ve all gotten spoiled by the simple search interfaces available these days: a single keyword box with no frills. Just plug in some words and Poof! results show up. But most searches, both web search engines and database search interfaces, have advanced searching available as well, and you can save yourself a lot of time by learning to use them. In this post, I’m going to go over a few of the common features available in advanced searches and a few specific examples.
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I mentioned Portable Thunderbird in the Email post. The same person who allows us to carry our email around on a USB drive has also developed several other portable versions of applications. You can download them individually or as a whole collection in the Portable Apps Suite (http://johnhaller.com/jh/useful_stuff/portable_apps_suite/0 ). Imagine carrying around an email program, a web browser, a calendar, an office suite, a chat/IM client, even a web editor and FTP client, all on a USB drive to plug into any Windows computer. (more…)
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