Author Archives: Michelle Harris

ToolsOn Developed and Published Some New Free Web Services for GIF-Animation Creation

The www.toolson.net website is a new free service, which enables you to create GIF animations, make animated avatars from web camera shots, resize GIFs, convert any RAW image and create an ICO icon or favicon for your webpage in a few seconds.

There are many resources which can help you to create an animated image or an icon online. However, not every website combines several different applications. Many websites also require registration and thus extra time and not all of these sites are free. In this respect, toolson.net combines some major advantages: you can select and use several different applications for free and you do not need to register. Read More

Tags: animation, Gif, JPG, services, Tools, web

There have been many reports in the media recently regarding education departments in various areas banning or allowing students and teachers to add each other to social networking accounts. There appears to be a difference of opinion regarding these guidelines.

In an ideal world, it would be great for teachers and students to be friends online. In an ideal world, where everyone is honest, trustworthy and nice to each other, there would be no problem with this, but where children are concerned you have to think that it’s not really an ideal world, for the safety of students AND teachers. Read More

Tags: facebook, information, networking, online, safety, Security, social, student, teacher, work

We were just discussing this, here on the purpleplanet: what makes an outstanding mobile app? How do you create an application that everyone wants, knows and loves?

Surely, the most important things are that the application must firstly look good and be fun and/or functional. Something that helps us through the day, whether it be to guide us, help us or allow us to relax.

We decided to check out what people were downloading by looking at the most popular downloaded applications at this time. Read More

Tags: Android, angry birds, Apple, applications, apps, google maps, GPS Navigation 2, worms

An extremely different Mac OS X web browser went live this week.

Raven provides full access to your social networking services in a single and unified way. It uses a technique called ‘site specific browsing’ to create a dedicated browser instance for each web app in the Smart Bar.

The Mac web browser was co founded by the French blogger, developer - Thomas Ricouard and the American designer, developer - Kevin Milden. Also involved is Min Tran, a UI designer from Vietnam. All have worked with, or for, many top businesses around the world. Read More

Tags: apps, browser, Mac, OS X, Raven, social networking

Google+ Social Statistics was created by Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten – Internet Entrepreneur, co-founder of TwitterCounter and the very popular international technology news, business and culture site, TheNextWeb.com.

Google+ Social Statistics currently tracks and generates detailed statistics for 74,040 users and pulls in hundreds of the most popular posts, every second of the day, from Google+. Read More

Tags: @boris, conversions, goals, Google, internet, networking, social, statistics, stats, thenextweb, top users