PicMonkey
Let’s face it, Photoshop is hard. Gimp is hard. They are excellent tools, but they have a devil of a learning curve. What is a beginning photographer to do? Picmonkey.
First of all, Picmonkey is web-based. You drag your photo
Twine
Twine is a free software for creating interactive, “choose your own adventure” style stories. The software allows the user to publish the stories in a simple html format, making sharing the results on the web fairly easy. The path connection
iMovie for iPad
This is a good, bare bones version of iMovie and allows for all sorts of creative movie-making. Some features are disabled or significantly more difficult to use, though, because of the nature of working on an iPad. For example, this
Pixlr
Pixlr is a free, Flash-based online photoediting software by Autodesk. It comes in 3 formats, corresponding to 3 levels of depth of editing ability: Pixlr-o-matic, Pixlr Express and Pixlr Editor. The first two versions are also available as apps for
Arduino Uno
Arduino is a microcontroller that can be manipulated to do a number of functions from making lights blink to running an automated cat feeder. While this is a great tool to help people get comfortable with programming and circuitry, it … Read more >
Camtasia
Camtasia is screencasting software from techsmith. It’s not cheap, but if you are going to be doing a lot of screencasting, it’s worth it. The tutorials that go with it are highly recommended because even though you can figure out
Easel.Ly
Easel.ly is an online infograph maker that allows you to create infographs for export or for web publishing. The interface can be a bit slow sometimes, but it’s pretty intuitive and it’s free. The infographs can be either informational or
Picktochart
Picktochart is a free online infographic builder. It allows you to add datasets and build graphics from them. You can also upload graphics to insert. It’s quick, clean, and looks pretty good on a blog. The free version is pretty