Hey, it’s the Vampire Slaying Cricket From Zambobway and I recently found a new tool called GIMP. GIMP lets you create templates for websites, blogs, and forums! It also lets you create desktop wallpapers, which is what I took advantage of!
Below are some of the wallpapers I made. I also have some posted on my blog under “Modern Typewriter Downloads” at themoderntypewriter.com. I made my own design “company” called Modern Typewriter Designs. So that will be the reason why at the bottom in the corner of every design it says Modern Typewriter Designs. Just click on the picture to enlarge it, and then right-click, and set as your desktop background!
To get GIMP, go to it’s website: www.gimp.org. To get the program, you will have to download it.
Anyway, once you’ve done that, GET “GIMPING”!
It is so much fun and easy to use. I started making wallpapers within an hour! So try it! You’ve got nothing to lose!
Twitter is one of the new technology tools that I really like and use everyday. Twitter is a free online service intended for people to use to update what they are doing so friends and family will know. It prompts you with a “What are you doing?” prompt question but you can stray from that prompt. You also “follow” people, meaning when they post a comment it shows up on your twitter home page.
It is very fun to say what you are doing and to see what other people are doing too. It would be especially useful for you if you had friends and family in different parts of the world because it is a way to keep in touch with them. Also, once you see what they are doing, you can help them with it.
In the future I plan on using twitter with my classmates from school. It would be very useful if we had a group project because then we could tell each other what we were working on with the project. By doing this, we could collaborate ideas and know what part of the project we were supposed to be working on. Also, we could get homework help and study for test together.
On a scale of one to ten, with ten being OUTSTANDING, I would give twitter a eight, AMAZING. What are you waiting for , go sign up for a twitter account today and start updating. Your only excuse is not here because twitter is FREE!
Have you ever heard of a voicethread? If not then if you sign up and log in, you can hear yourself through a microphone. Voicethread is a commenting tool. You can use it for commenting on anything. There is also a teaching voicethread website called ed voicethread.
You can do a lot of things with a voicethread like comment with any of the following: a phone, a microphone, a webcam(if you use a webcam then for internet safety disguise yourself), or plain old boring typing. You can also make a picture of yourself when to go with a comment(you shouldn't use a picture of yourself or anyone you know for internet saftey reasons), if you have an internet name than I would consider using pic.s from a website for your identity(picture). There is also a bunch of other stuff you can do in a comment.
When you sign up you can also make a voicethread by clicking create in the top left corner of the voicethread homepage. When you make a voicethread you can use almost every file you could save a picture as(jpeg, gif, art, bitmap). When and if you want make a voicethread public you have to think about one main thing: is this a topic lots of people would comment on? Because I was scrolling through some public voicethreads and most of them had 10 to 11 comments tops. So if you want people to comment on your voicethread a lot then try to make it an interesting topic.
This is most of the things you will be seeing on voicethread.
The blurb is a website that also has Bam Bam as chief editor. The blurb is for showing current events(from europe leave a comment if you don’t know what current event is) and also some tech stuff like animotos and vokis. Right now there is a animoto about The Blurb that I have made. this animoto shows some of The Blurb posts that were behind it. If you click on the link “animoto about The Blurb” it will take you to the post with the animoto. Here it is:
This little guy is Line Rider, an adventurous cartoon person who shreds down lines and jumps over various heights. We found this game in our last club meet. The website it was found on is http://entertainmentfans.com/. I think that this is one of my favorite games to play on because you get to somewhat create and edit it. I hope you have as much fun on it as I did (and am)!
Hey guys, I wrote this blog just for kids. Because sometimes there are blogs that are innappropriate or just un-interesting. This blog is to discuss topics that can’t be answered easily or are just some fun topics! I cover history, current events, sports, and sometimes school-related topics.
I also have a category called “Animal Hilarity”, where I post funny, (but appropriate!) pictures of animals doing funny stuff. My blog is called the Modern Typewriter, and I hope you guys like my blog! Be sure to post some comments on how I did!
Here is a very strange song made entirely from noises found in Windows. They are sped up, slowed down, and reversed simultaniusly to make them sound like music.
elfyourself.com is a free service in which you can paste any ones face on a dancing elf. The website can have up to four different elves dancing on the page. Its really funny when you have Borat and Sean Connery dancing together. Try it out for your self at http://elfyourself.com/
This is pageflakes another tool that Bam Bam had showed us. Pageflakes is kind of like your online life on a website. In pageflakes you can create a page with all your favorite websites if they have an RSS or XML on the page. XML and RSS is websites or web pages that get updated and can post the edited content’s link that they have on to your page flake or other things.
Pageflakes are good for using because they can have the links to your favorite websites. Also they are great for a group of people to use. In pageflakes their can be a large # of people in a flake page group. In pageflakes if you have a website bookmarked then you can put a flake in pageflakes for all you bookmarks. This is a very useful since almost any website can be put on your flake page. If you want to put news articles into your pageflake then you should visit the flake often.
This is a very easy to use internet tool that Bam Bam had showed us. When you go on to Tinyurl.com you just enter a long URL and turn it into a small one for example copy shortcut (left click) this URL into a tinyurl. This is a website I use all the time in projects for writing URLs down on paper.
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Hey guys, I wrote this blog just for kids. Because sometimes there are blogs that are innappropriate or just un-interesting. This blog is to discuss topics that can’t be answered easily or are just some fun topics! I cover history, current events, sports, and sometimes school-related topics.
This is pageflakes another tool that Bam Bam had showed us. Pageflakes is kind of like your online life on a website. In 
