tech tools

A colleague of mine is looking to create an avatar of himself for an online course he is teaching. As I’ve never created an avatar before, I was wondering if anybody reading this had any good avatar software suggestions for this purpose. I look forward to the avatar creation software feedback.

I would hope that there is software available that would allow me to make a fairly detailed avatar without it being too difficult to model or be contained in a file that was so large as to be unwieldy. Having said that, I’m betting that there will be huge demand for software that helps you to create realistic online avatars in the near future as more and more of us choose to represent ourselves in various arenas online for one reason or another.

The Passivator is a passive verb and adverb flagging bookmarklet for Mozilla-derived browsers.

Writers try to avoid adverbs whenever possible. This bookmarklet will flag adverbs and passive verbs with the aim to help you write better.  Wow, pretty soon when my browser be able to actually write my articles for me?

I have to say that I really like tools and applications– e.g. bookmarklets– that give me this sort of functionality, normally without having to pay a dime for it. It reflects a completely different paradigm when you think about it: rather than going out and buying a relatively expensive piece of software that does 1000 different things, installing bookmarklets that are specific to just one or two tasks is a brilliant way to essentially customize your computer for the work you yourself actually do with it.