Gadgets

Gadgets are basically applications for your website, blog, etc. to add. Some of the gadgets are games like Pac-Man and Snake. You can also add stuff like calendars, translate, etc. You can also add virtual pets like the fish, dog, ferret, guinea pig, etc.

You can add these gadgets to "spruce" up your website, blog, etc. Some of them are cute and funny but most of them are useless like the "Virtual Girlfriend" gadget where probably only the Admin would use that gadget and not other people if they visited the blog or website.

This is the Pac Man gadget. 

Symbaloo

Today in class we went to a website called www.symbaloo.com. This website is a Social Bookmarking Website/Tool. A Social Bookmarking Website/Tool is where you can bookmark your favorite websites in just one page they call a webmix. You can also search for people's webmixes too if they shared it with the world.

The benefits of using Symbaloo is pretty cool like you can put Symbaloo as your homepage so you can access those websites that you bookmarked in a few seconds. Another benefit is say that you need help on researching a paper and you can search for webmixes that have to do with that subject and look at what other people have made in the past and that can help you.

Symbaloo uses things called tiles to bookmark your websites which is basically a tile that has the URL in the tile so you can access it in an instant. If the website is popular say like YouTube then their icon will pop up so you can know what that website is. You can also change your background from the images that they already have or you can upload your own image as shown below with my Kingdom Hearts wallpaper of Oblivion and Oathkeeper. [[Yes im a big Kingdom Hearts fan]]

This is the tiles that I have so far and the background is the Keyblades Oblivion and Oathkeeper from Kingdom Hearts

Voki

A Voki is an avatar that you can make at www.voki.com. It is a free service that anyone can use. An avatar can be a representation of yourself or someone else.

With the Voki avatar you can customize what they look like. You can also make it talk by typing what you want it to say or call the number provided at their website and record up to a 90 second message with your own voice by using a computer microphone or like i said you can call the number that is provided at their website and use your own voice.

To add a Voki to a blog, website, etc. you first need to sign up with their website. After that you need to create the avatar to your specifications. Finally you go to the HTML code then copy all of the code then you post all of that code to a gadget.

My Favorite Websites.

One of my most favorites websites to visit in my free time is www.cheatcc.com. It is a gaming website and since im a gamer i go to that website when i have questions on how to beat like a boss or i may want to find some easter eggs {extra things in the game} for fun or try to find some glitches in the game. It also has people writing reviews about games, new console systems, and just everyday gaming experience that the have throughout the day so i read those often just for a laugh or something that interests me i read it.

 

The other website that im usually on is of course Youtube. On it i usually watch gaming videos on it or i use it to watch anime that i cant use to watch on the regular shows. Like i said i use it to watch gaming videos like walkthroughs which are helpful...at some times. I use it to watch anime because i like watching that kind of stuff but you really cant see any anime in the United States so thats when Youtube is really helpful. 

Practice Blog Post

Web Tool

• description
• Features
• Benefits
• Picture
• Link
• How can a person use this tool? How will i use this tool? 

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Day 2

This is my very first blog post.