Video Conversion software

This post is an excerpt from Educational Technology Guy: Free Video Format Conversion Software (3 of them).

WM Converter - another easy to use video converter. Converts from almost any format to almost any other format. You can also convert multiple files in the same session, so you can "set it and forget it" (sorry Ronco).

Free Video Converter = MPEG Converter + AVI Converter + FLV Converter + YouTube Video Converter + MP4 Converter
Any Video Converter - simple, easy to use, powerful video conversion.This one can also clip, sort, and merge video clips to create a new movie and can also crop the frame. This has saved me a few times when other converters just wouldn't convert a file. It also can convert with better quality many times.

Archaelogists use Google Earth & Discover tonnes

This post is an excerpt from Archaeologists Find 17 Pyramids, 1K Tombs, 3K Settlements Using Online Satellite Images.

Exceeding the discovery of 2,000 new archaeological sites using Google Earth, scientists have now found 17 Egyptian pyramids, 1,000 tombs and 3,000 Nile Delta settlements previously lost to sand and time.

The tech-happy group from the University of Alabama purchased imagery online from orbiting satellites and used image-filtering software to identify the locations, which they spot-checked and test-excavated in person.

Youtube Infographic - Wow.

Teachers: Google & Bloom's Taxonomy

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Gel: Gotta share! | Video on TED.com

Sony Compromised (again)

It looks like the problems still aren't over for Sony, which finally began bringing its Playstation Network back online over the weekend following a massive hack that exposed the information of millions of subscribers and left the company's online gaming network offline for almost a full month. News broke this morning that the email and password reset, aimed to help get players back online, has been compromised.

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Sony back online

This post is an excerpt from Almost 1 Month Later, Sony Playstation Network Coming Back On Line.

The Sony Playstation Network was taken offline on April 19 when hackers compromised the database. The episode has been disastrous for Sony PR, which took several days before admitting there'd been a security breach and revealing that its 77 million users' data had been stolen. The network has remained offline since then.

It's hard to say what's worse for gamers: this lengthy outage - one of the worst on record - or the compromise of their personal data. Either way, Sony will have a long road ahead to win back the trust of gamers, who have a wide variety of options for other console or handhelds games.

Indeed, even before this recent attack on Sony, the company had lost the favor of many with its decision to sue hacker George Hotz for jailbreaking the PS3. Hotz and Sony recently settled, but not before what Electronista described as Sony's "scorched earth attitude," in which it had demanded access to the records of anyone who had viewed or commented on the jailbreak video on YouTube. Sony also requested that Twitter provide the identities of those who revealed the hack there.