Monday, September 28, 2009

Putiton


Putiton is a portal where creative people from four disciplines - art, music, fashion and films - can showcase their work and perhaps even sell it.

Registration is free and you get one gigabyte of space to upload your portfolio. Artists can stream audio and video and even make live broadcasts to their fans.

If you are not an artist yourself there is plenty to be gained by visiting these pages. You can browse all the content by category, offering support and encouragement to those acts which impress you.

Pixlr


Pixlr.com is a photo editing tool.

It is similar in functionality to Photoshop Express with all of the basic features you would expect - such as brightness and contrast, hue and saturation, crop and rotate.

This is a lightweight, effective and free application - and the package itself is Flash based so requires no installation. Just open up the website, click the link to begin creating and dive straight in.

When you have finished, simply save your work onto your own computer - no registration is needed.

WATZATSONG



Do you ever get a song stuck in your head - going round and round, and you cannot quite put your finger on what it was? Or perhaps you have heard a snippet of something on a website and want to hear more?

Watzatsong as the name suggests is all about putting names and artists to the tunes that are flying around in our heads.

Once registered, just record a snip of the song that has you stumped (whether you choose to sing it yourself or record it from wherever you heard it, the choice is yours) and wait for the suggestions to come rolling in.

Twitgoo


This is the place to go if you want to upload your pictures straight to twitter. No mess, no fuss, just sign in with your twitter account details and send.

You can upload from your own hard drive, and a link to your picture will appear instantly in your twitter feed. If you want to connect using a mobile phone or from an email address on the go then you will need to add the contact details to your account settings.

Then you simply email the picture to the address provided and hey presto - your pictures will be uploaded to twitgoo.

If you don't have anything to upload yourself, it is worth visiting the site to have a look at what other people are doing. Just sit on the public page and take in the sights that are being published. There seems to be a new picture added every few seconds - who knows what you might find?

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Kids' Click


The web is a wonderful place for children to explore and learn - but as any net-savvy parent will tell you, there is plenty to be worried about out there as well.

Kidsclick.org is a site created by librarians that aims to allay our concerns by providing a search engine of content that is suitable for younger surfers.

The site covers more than 600 subjects, from health to sports & the arts.

Instead of using spiders and search bots to sniff out the content like regular search engines, this content is all human-filtered - so you can be sure that the results you get back will be age-appropriate.

Simon's Cat


The cutest cartoon on the Internet. You might have seen one or two of these films doing the viral rounds, but there is plenty more to look at if you head to simonscat.com.

As well as the films you can link to Simon's Cat on Facebook and Twitter, and view a gallery of pictures submitted by visitors to the site.

The website design is in perfect harmony with the content. Not only is this a cat lovers' heaven but even those who do not like cats will get a kick out of it.

The author of these cartoons has managed to capture the idiosyncrasies of our feline companions so brilliantly it will not fail to melt your heart.