The best way to find good pictures

When we did PS assignment and picture-relative works, we always face picture problem. Pictures are as important for our work as fresh raw materials for a delicious dish. I found PhotoXpress is a good picture database. There are a lot of high quality pictures (around 2000-3000 pixels), and most importantly, most of them are free. It included 22 categories, 352,798 pictures，and increased at the speed of 1000 pictures per day.
You can search the pictures you want through key-words or by categories.

And when you input the keywords, the result will be listed in two groups: one is free, and the other is premium. You can preview the big picture as your cursor around your objective picture.

Paint right now!

Myoats is a fun painting picture. You can draw a creative picture through the tool supplied by Myoats. They are not the common tools, so it is easily to creat an "art" yourselves. And Myoats wrote a guideline book for everyone, so that you can have more fun in your creating process.

And you can find friends who have the same interests with you, and you can appreciate their work and grade them. Most of them are very beautiful.

Musipedia

"Musipedia", look very similar, right? Yes, it is like wikipedia, but it concentrates in music field. You can edit, create and search for music in musipedia.
The search engine is very special, named "Melodyhound". You can find and identify a tune even if the melody is all you know. You can play it on a piano keyboard, whistle it to the computer, simply tap the rhythm on the computer keyboard or use the Parsons code.

You can choose any search way you like in the top of the website.

Keybord is a very fun way. You can play the piano in the flash, computer will form a melody according you play.

And you can draw contour to search, and you can narrow the scale through choose the music type.

And you can draw notes on the table. You can preview your drawing by clicking "play" botton.

Often, we can remember the melody but forget the name of the music. This website can help us. And it create a music sharing platform. It is really a creative idea.

Experience Shanghai Expo in 3D view

3G become very popular after Avantar flood into the world. People love the reality feeling created in 3D view. Shanghai Expo official website uses 3D flash. It is fabulous. When firstly click into the home page, you can see the whole view of Shanghai Expo.

And when you click every pavilion, you can see the detail of it. You can see the pavilion in panorama view,eye-level view, bird's eys view and night view. If you look at it in bird'eye view, you can see 360 degrees view while you drag your mouse. And when you click "enter", you can see the detail inside, at the same time, you can hear the introduction of the pavilion.

Communicaiton technology really narrow the distance of the world. People can enjoy the fun of traveling at home. Shanghai Expo website create a good experience of traveling Shanghai Expo.

DIY a 3D e-card

Still think about what present is best sending regards?  Howdycard can help you.  You can design and DIY a 3D card yourself. And then you can send the e-card to your friends as a gift and also can share it in your blog through copy and paste html code. And the whole process is very simple.
If it can improve interactivity, it would become better.
The manipulate window and the whole process as below:

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Forvo

Forvo is a website for netizen sharing and collecting words and pronouciation all over the world. So it is a good and free dictionary for you to check words and pronouciation, and meanwhile, you can contribute your effort for it. It is a very huge online words database. Until now, it built up 548,479 words, 464,300 pronouciation, and 236 kind of languages. Of course, all of these are created by netizen.
Users can use these funcitons:
1)add new words into database
2)add pronouciation for words existing in the database and record the location of speaker
3)listen and learn new words pronounciaiton in different districts
4)collect the words pronounciation

I think it is good for students in developing countries who want to improve their language skills. And everyone can contribute his/her effeor easily, just speaking naturally, but help a lot to others.

Google wave

What is a wave?


"A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.
A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.
A wave is live. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time. "
                                                                    ---http://wave.google.com/about.html
I think google wave have some magic advantages:
When you type, people can see what you type, not like MSN, you can only wait and see "someone is typing". Especially, when a group people type, you can see a lot of cursons moving. One wave can consist of several wavelets, like this:

You can insert any content in any where. Usually, you can only reply a article under the content. But in google waver, you can immediately insert you comment after any sentence. When editting a document colabratively, the advantage would be more obvious.

The funnest part of google wave is you can work with a group people you liked. You can invite people participating in you wave through drag his/her name to your wave window.

Now, google wave's function is limited. People can use it only if they are invited. So, they may face the embarrassing thing that there is no one in participants blank. In this situation, they can search the topic wave and apply for joining.

I think it is really a good communication tool for group discussion no matter for daily life or academic.