Site of the Week

This week’s site is Scrapblog. This is currently in beta, so use at your own risk. Scrapblog allows you to create a scrapbook online using all the web 2.0 goodness we’ve come to know and love…you can even have a page with layers in it so that you can add stickers, captions, and more. I’m thinking this may be a good site to use for digital storytelling. It has good integration with Flickr.

The site can be slow at times (due to it being in heavy development) but that should improve once the new version is out.

More Software Guides

The following guides are now available in the Support section of the Laptop Initiative website:

• Keynote 3: Updated to include 3D charts, new table features, and more
• Pages 2: includes mail merge and other new features
• iWeb: covers everything you need to know to get a site created

Almost done with all the iLife and iWork guides…just in time for Apple rumors to get started about new versions of all of these coming out next month at the MacWorld conference. There is a rumor about a new spreadsheet application called Charts (Excel lite) as well as a new version of Keynote with expanded podcasting support. Pages 3 is supposed to have two modes: word processing and page layout, as well as stronger collaboration features. iWeb 2 is rumored to add user created templates (a big improvement that was lacking in iWeb 1), dynamic content such as sorting in Photo pages, integration with Flickr, Google Ads so you can finally make money with iWeb sites…and all of the new programs will supposedly let you buy additional templates.

At least I will have all of these done so now all I have to do is update them with the new features…