Multicolr – finding shades from flickr

I love finding images interesting images and tools that help me find just what I am looking for. This is a very nifty little  web-based tools that everybody should know about.  Multicolr Search Lab (Idee) finds photos on Flickr whose dominant colours match those which you can select from a palette at the side of the page.  You can select [...]

Image sharing with Min.us

In a world where many applications aim to everything for us I have found one today that does not. Min.us does just one thing, and it does it quite well, it shares images. As long as you’re using Firefox 3.6, Google Chrome or Internet Explorer 9 you can simply drag and drop images into Min.us. This tool is useful for anyone [...]

Photos and Illustrations about learning and teaching with technologies (L3T at FlickR)

  I like the idea for this book project “Teaching and Learning with Technologies” They are looking for pictures and illustrations for each chapter.  A Flickr-group was started a while ago where people were asked to upload appropriate pictures under a creative-commons licenses. The L3T project collect creative commons licensed photos and illustrations about learning and teaching with technologies. The [...]

TinEye – image search engine

TinEye is a reverse image search engine. It allows you to upload an image from your computer and search the Internet for it. You can also paste a image URL and find other places that the image exist on the Internet. The interesting thing about this tool is that you don’t have to remember, or have, the same file [...]

HistoryPin – creating digital history

Google Maps allows you to develop a feel for an area and its surroundings when you use their street view options but what if you are interested in the development of an area over time? We Are What We Do, a social action movement based in the UK (London), created Historypin in partnership with Google may just offer this [...]