Browsing Archive: March, 2010

This message will self-distruct...

Posted by John Dalziel on Sunday, March 14, 2010, In : Security

Relive one of its most-enduring pop culture elements of the classic TV show "Mission: Impossible". What worries me is the large number of you who have no idea what I'm talking about!

Named "This Message Will Self Destruct", this website empowers users to send out an eMail messages that will be deleted upon being delivered and read just once by the recipient.

Further safety is ensured by the fact that...

messages are actually encrypted before they are sent; and
messages can be prot...

Big Messages...

Posted by John Dalziel on Saturday, March 13, 2010, In : Web 2.0

Have you ever wanted to...

send a big message, font size I mean, to somebody? One that fills the screen; OR
produce signage for screens?

well Big Ass Message has it covered. What a pity they chose a name that, if the link is sent by email, could be blocked by firewalls or diverted into spam.

To use...

Just type your message;
Choose a style from...
- Basic; http://bigassmessage.com/d4c87efc1
- Jeopardy; http://bigassmessage.com/9b3debc2c
- Pepsi; http://bigassmessage.com/3a6f2728e or
  perhap...

fotobabble

Posted by John Dalziel on Saturday, March 6, 2010, In : Image and audio

Fotobabble offers a different way to share photographs/images with learners and/or link aural questions to images.

The basic premise is that of adding an audio track to whatever image users are sharing.

Simply...

upload a photograph;
record the (voiced) message/question/instruction etc. that users want to add.

Fotobabble also lends itself to the marketing and the promotion of any course/workshop/event/etc. Granted, it is not as striking as a video but there are some things that do not...