Browsing Archive: June, 2010

TinEye

Posted by John Dalziel on Tuesday, June 8, 2010, In : Search Engine

TinEye is a reverse image search engine.

Users can upload an image to TinEye to...

find out where it came from;
how it is being used;
if modified versions of the image exist; or
find higher resolution versions

TinEye claims to be the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks; it is free to use for non-commercial searching.

Visit http://www.tineye.com/ to try it out.

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UFO Search Engine

Posted by John Dalziel on Friday, June 4, 2010, In : Search Engine

The URL <http://www.manuals-search-pdf.com/> of the site is something of misnomer - here users will be able to look up far more than PDFs.

On the UFO Search Engine website users will be able to locate DOC, PPT and XLS files.

All users have to do is...

specify a title of an eBook they are interested in, and
the results will be displayed for them to choose from.

This is in its early stages of development but is worth a closer look.
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Locate Online Courses and Course Materials

Posted by John Dalziel on Thursday, June 3, 2010, In : Links Portal

Einztein is an online tool for locating online collegiate level courses and corresponding materials.

Einztein isn't a standard search engine as all courses listed...

are reviewed by a PhD level editorial team.
come with a listing of the types of materials available for each course. Some courses have
- audio,
- video, and
- documents while other course may only have one or two of those elements.

Visitors to Einztein can search for course by keyword or simply browse by subject...

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John Dalziel

Liverpool

I'm an eLearning Adviser specializing in stimulating and supporting innovation in learning via eBooks, eMagazines, blogs (including audio versions), online TV, interactive resources, forums, workshops, conferences and face2face consultations. Evaluating and becoming familiar with sustainable and new technologies allows me to respond to the needs of learning providers from a position of experience rather than 'hearsay'. Supported learning providers, in the northwest of England (UK), can contact me for FREE consultations. Based at Lancaster University I work for the JISC Regional Support Centre - Northwest.