Search for a college in interactive 3D

Egiate

(as in coll-egiate) is the first interactive 3D and Maps-based school search site.

Search for schools by name, location, scene, weather, school size, and more.

Egiate provides in depth profiles of more than 4800 schools and navigates hundreds in 3D.

Uncover your school.

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MP4Cam2AVI Easy Converter

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MP4Cam2AVI Easy Converter

MP4Cam2AVI is a MP4/MOV to AVI repackaging tool for digital photo-video cameras, it makes their clips editable in VirtualDub, MovieMaker and other AVI editors. No video recompression, no quality loss, fast operation (5-20x realtime), no [...]

“Clippable” Bookmarklet

http://brettterpstra.com/share/readability2.html

Formerly known as “Readability 2,” this project uses code unceremoniously lifted from the original Readability. For more information, see the post here. If you’re an iPhone user, be sure to check out Clippable Mobile.

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Color Calibrate Your Monitor with Calibrize

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Want to know how to color calibrate your monitor? Try Calibrize. It will color calibrate your monitor and tweak your Windows settings so you don’t have to do figure them out manually.

The application is also portable and can run either on your local hard drive or your memory stick.

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President’s Day at Macalester College

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This article is reposted from CollegeWebEditor.com.   Please read the original article and follow the comments and related articles there, this repost is for use in my class.

You might have already heard about this YouTube video as several higher ed bloggers (mstonerblog, The Old College Try and edustir among others) and twitterers have mentioned it this week.

President’s Day at Macalester College is a 5-minute online video featuring President Brian Rosenberg.

Not your traditional college president video at all.

This online video is a humorous insider’s tour of Macalester College where the president does all sort of things to showcase the school and its spirit.

Take the time to watch it now if you haven’t yet.

Released on President’s Day – just 4 days ago, the video has more than 15,000 views – it’s not a huge hit in YouTube terms, but it’s definitely a popular video that resonated with the MAC community as some of the comments on YouTube prove it.

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Map Wars – Bing Maps

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Last week at the TED conference in Southern California, Microsoft’s Blaise Aguera y Arcas demonstrated a new crowdsourced-version Bing Maps that integrates photos and even live video that is shared by others. Microsoft will also soon launch what we’ve dubbed “Bing Sky,” the ability to use Bing to look up in the sky and [...]

Google Now Has a Street View Snowmobile

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First, there was the Google Street View Car, a special vehicle with a 360-degree camera mounted on top that brings us all that detailed Street View imagery. Then, Google engineers invented the Trike, a tricycle with a camera that can reach all those places where Street View Car cannot [...]