A temporary notepad

last updated 26 February 2010 - uploaded temp to Strato - some extractions to standard web page sections

 


tutorials from Cottage Arts

Scrapbook 'extractions'

Cottage Arts scapbooking and PS Elements tutorials - need a PS Elements section on here

 

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Grey Olltwit - Educational Software

PHP & MySQL tutorial - found by Google search php tutorial

Search for images by Creative Commons licence to stay on the right side of copyright law

Taking movies using my Olympus Digital Camera produces MOV (Apple Quick Time) files which are incompatable with Moviemaker - these can be quickly and easily converted to AVI files via this website which does not even require a download - P4060017 & P4060018 in My Videos/Test folder were converted in this way 4th June 2009
http://media-convert.com/convert/

RootsMagic

free backup software (FBackup) download page - Computer Active

Movie Maker - all links now on my website except
a very good 'save your movie to DVD'section
DVDFlick - produce a DVD from MovieMaker as recomended by Computeractive September 2009
British Film Industry (BFI) FREE video clips
online Flash Video converter - need URL of video - NO GOOD downloading

Freeplay Music - source of FREE MP3 MUSIC for movie backgrounds
British Pathe - film archive, FREE if used in UK school classrooms (see Terms of Use)

Genealogy

post backup - Geni online family tree - me @ yahoo like BT

Genealogy Research Associates - organise your paper records (link at bottom of 'home page') in association with Legacy & PAF (and others)

Genealogists' Toolbar - try out at Bury May 2008

About.com - Genealogy Course

FHUG - Family Historian User Group - not just the program Family Historian though, try Toponymy 2.2 & GedcomCensus

Family Tree DNA - is this linked to from Moodle/Lycos etc?

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Computer Active - misc. tools



Kompozer - a complete FREE web authoring system on a level with such as FrontPage

 

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Maps, aerial photos and routes

want to find somewhere in the UK quickly? - click here

or here for a map + aerial photos

or do a Google search using 'maps'

AA Route Planer

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Teaching Resources

Tech Train - looks useful for a lot of basic things/ideas but relates to Office 2000

Nvu - free, opensourc WYSIWYG web page editor

Adult Basic Skills Resource Centre for studets and tutor

Teach ICT - video tutorials

TES - Teaching, Resources and Ideas from The Times Ed Sup - some good stuff including the above (me @ hagside)

free web site hosts and links to online PS Elements courses (Sara from Yahoo discus grp)

Eclectic Academy - Sara Froehlich

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