Stellarium – An Open-Source Planetarium

Stellarium is an open-source astronomy application for all platforms. In their words: Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set …

Ictopus

Ictopus went live today. It stands for ICT online primary user support, you have to register with the site (which is free) and they will email you once a week with a few ideas with the aim of sharing good practise. This is a light-hearted small magazine that is easy …

Cartoons with Stripgenerator

I was looking around del.icio.us as I often to to pass sometime and found this website stripgenerator.com. I quickly made a cartoon strip (shown at the bottom of the post) in a couple of minutes with little inspiration, yes I know it shows! You get a set of characters, objects, …

Timeline Searching in Google

I was looking at the experimental searches available in Google and got to thinking about using the timeline one for History. You can search for a concept, or anything else and the results will be displayed on – yes – a timeline. http://www.google.com/views?q=victorian+england+view:timeline&esrch=RefinementBarTopViewTabs To the left is the search I …