Entries Categorized as 'software & computers'

Plants can Twitter

Date June 16, 2009

Wouldn’t it be awesome if your plant could tell you if it were thirsty, or drowning? With this little DIY Plant Twitter Kit from botanicals, you can give your plants a voice through their own personal twitter account! Check out @pothos on twitter!

Botanicalls is an ongoing collaborative project about communication between plants and people [...]

TikaTok Publishing for Kids Under 13

Date May 13, 2009

Last Wednesday, We posted about how Blurb.com allows you to upload your blog content and publish a book from it. Today I thought I’d feature another online publisher… Tikatok™.

TikaTok was begun by two mothers with the goal of encouraging their children as well as children everywhere to channel their imaginations and creativity into stories that [...]

Blog Book Publishing

Date May 6, 2009

 
Blog vs. Book. Tagable vs. Tangible, Dynamic vs. Analog.
It isn’t as hard or as impossible as it may seem…Blurb (an online publisher), allows you to slurp (upload/import) content from your blog and then translate it into a multi page book. The online publisher provides free software called BookSmart (crossplatform mac/pc) as well as several tutorial [...]