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Kwout’un yardımıyla web sayfalarından rahatlıkla screenshot alabileceksiniz.Normalde SS alabilmek için görüntüyü bilgisayarınıza kaydedip boyutlarıyla, biçimiyle oynayıp sonra birde upload etmeniz gerekir.Fakat bu site sayesinde internet üzerinden görüntünün boyutunu değiştirebilir, kırpabilir hatta çerçeve yapıp beyaz fon üzerine gölgelendirebilirsiniz.

www.kwout.com

This is a great way to get a screen shot of a website that you want to use as an image on your own website, wiki or blog.

kwout | A brilliant way to quote via kwout

So here’s the problem: A) You dream of having an attractive blog. B) You want to set an example of copyright adherence for your students and blog followers, be they real or imaginary. C) You can’t get excited about going to prison and/or paying enormous fines for copyright violations. So what do you do to have pretty blog images quickly and easily without fear or guilt? Say hello to my little friends from the World of Web 2.o! You can safely use these sources to create your own images or borrow copyright-friendly images for your blog posts (or for any other school purpose such as your website, handouts, or social network pages). Here are my favorites, and I promise I use them all frequently because they are all so quick and easy that even a novice will find them irresistible:

• Image Chef lets you create an image in under a minute that not only includes a graphic, but also includes any wording you can type in. OK, this image is tacky, but all I did was go to the site, select an attention-grabbing image, type in my slogan, tell the ImageChef folk I was posting to WordPress, type in my WordPress username and password, and they sent it right to my blog. Not every Web 2.0 utility is WordPress-friendly, but ImageChef passes the test. I have an account, but I didn’t even have to log in.
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• GlassGiantworks just like ImageChef. I would show you an example, but it is blocked by our school district because there are also games on the site. As with ImageChef, you can select a design and add your own logo to accompany it. It takes just seconds to send the resulting image to WordPress or your website. You’re going to have to trust me on this one!
• TypoGenerator allows you to type in some text and make an image with the words you typed. Sometimes your first result is ugly or unreadable. No problem. All you do is hit a button to change your text style, text color, or background. You can also change your format from landscape to portrait. TypoGenerator warns you to be patient because sometimes it moves quickly and sometimes it is a bit arthritic. If you are patient enough, you can get a lovely result. Then all you do is right-click to save the file as a .jpeg, and voila, you have a fabulous image of your very own.

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• Kwout is a great way to get a sharp, smooth screenshot of a website to use as your image when you want to blog about a website, or a person who has a website, or a topic related to a website, or…you get the idea. To use Kwout, first go to the Kwout site, and scroll down to the bottom of the page to get the bookmarklet. Right click on the bookmarklet link, then click on “create in links.” You then need to click on “View” at the top of your toolbar, then on “Toolbars;” then if “Links” isn’t already checked, you need to click on “Links” so that it is checked. For Pete’s sake, don’t uncheck it! At the right side of your toolbar, you can then click on Links, where you will now see Kwout. Drag it over to your toolbar. This may sound complicated, but you won’t have to do it ever again. When you want to use Kwout, all you have to do is go to the website where you want to snag a screenshot, then click on the Kwout button you just created. If the button doesn’t want to drag, just click on the word “Kwout” in your links. A box will appear asking you to select the area you wish to quote. You drag your mouse to outline the area and click on “Cut Out.” You are given several options. I always select “embed”  and then copy the code. On your blog post, just click where you want the screenshot to go, then click on the HTML tab, then paste the code. The code will go in the right place, just like magic! The gorgeous  screenshot contains a link back to the site and has pretty, smooth rounded edges unlike a regular boring screenshot. You don’t have to create an account or anything. I know this sounds complicated, but, trust me, it only takes a few seconds to grab each shot.

kwout | A brilliant way to quote via kwout

• PollDaddy was once all alone and probably lonely out in Web 2.0 land, but then a few months ago it joined up with WordPress and now you can add it to your WordPress blogs automatically without ever even leaving your blog. You can use your poll as your image. Can’t think of anything on which to poll your real or imaginary audience? Oh, please! Get creative! Like take this blog post, for example. I could poll you about your favorite Web 2.0 image tools, or about whether or not you have ever violated copyright in your blog posts or about why you think people don’t laugh more at my posts, or…well, the list goes on. Anyway, you can go to PollDaddy, or when you’re adding a post, just look up a couple of inches and you’ll see a circle. When you mouse over it, you’ll see that it says “Add Poll.” You just type in a question, then a few options for answers. There’s even a choice of allowing your readers to enter their own response. After that, select from one of nineteen different styles. You can even insert images to go along with your poll (keep them copyright-friendly, please!). If you create your poll from the PollDaddy website, be sure to tell the nice people that you are working with WordPress, if you are in fact doing so, so that you get the right code. You can also create great surveys for your patrons, by the way, so they can let you know how well you are doing.
• Wordle allows you to create a cool image of a word cloud using words related to the topic on which you are blogging, or even all the words from an entire website or blog. For example, I could copy and paste all the words I have used thus far and paste them in. This takes zero time. Like TypoGenerator, Wordle wants to make people happy, so if you hate your results, you simple “randomize” or edit them, which changes font, color, whatever. If you post directly to WordPress, you get a tiny result. I like to do a screen shot, paste it into Paint, cut out the Wordle image, then paste that into a new page which I save as a .jpeg image. This creates a larger image. Again, much faster than it sounds. These are words from the first paragraph of this blog. All this took less than a minute.
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• Flickr Creative Commons is great for finding photographs taken by people who are willing to share their creativity, usually only asking in return that you give them credit for their work. The site makes it easy to tell what the creators want in return; right this minute there are over ten million pix available for just an attribution. I like to tell our students that the further you scroll down the page, the more people want, so it’s easier to stick to the top of the page. The explanation to the right of the page explains what the photographers (and videographers!) want in exchange for use of their work. Usually if it’s more than just giving them credit, it’s just that you not use their work commercially or that you don’t make derivatives from their work, like adding mustaches to the pictures of their moms. We can comply with that, right? Just click on the “See more” link in the category you decide to search, then type in your search term. And don’t forget to search for parts of speech other than nouns. Sometimes a verb, adjective, or adverb might work. When I find what I want, I save the attribution info in the title, so that if I ever want to use the file again, I will be sure to give the proper credit each time I use it. Here’s a great copyright logo courtesy of MikeBlogs.
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• Thanks to Sandi Adams, the Web 2.0 guru of Cherokee County, and Buffy Hamilton, the Sandi Adams MiniMe, for all their great Web 2.0 advice.

“Gostou de alguma página e quer divulgá-la? Então o faça de um jeito diferente com o Kwout.”

Kwout é uma variação com a palavra quote, que significa citação em inglês. E este serviço se propõe a fazer justamente isso: uma maneira diferenciada de fazer citações e referências a qualquer página da internet.

Através deste serviço, você cita uma parte de uma página como uma imagem. Para isso, você instala a ferramenta do Kwout em seu navegador. Quando você estiver navegando por uma página que deseja divulgar ou mostrar algum detalhe, basta acionar a ferramenta.

Um mini-editor de imagens será ativado e você deverá cortar a parte da página que deseja mostrar. A área selecionada será cortada com um mapa de imagens e links. Finalmente, você terá três opções para compartilhar a imagem: obter o código para publicá-la em sua própria página, postá-la em serviços de armazenamento de imagens e outros (como o Flickr, por exemplo) ou enviar por email para quem você quiser.

Se você quiser utilizar o Kwout sem instalar seu componente, basta acessar a página e digitar ou colar o endereço da página no campo “Demo”.

Extensão para o Firefox

Clique aqui para baixar a extensão do Kwout para seu Mozilla Firefox. Depois de instalado, você vai perceber um pequeno ícone no canto inferior esquerdo do seu navegador.  Quando você acessar uma página que deseja citar, basta clicar neste ícone ou então clicar com o botão direito do mouse sobre ela e clicar na opção “Quote this page”. Em seguida, corte a parte da imagem que você deseja usar. Você será informado sobre as dimensões dela em uma pequena janela. Clique em “Cut Out”.

Uma nova caixa de diálogo será aberta. Nela você poderá copiar a imagem ou salvá-la para a área de transferência, além de fazer o upload para citá-la onde quiser.

As pessoas que receberem o link também podem encaminhá-lo para quem desejarem, utilizando os mesmos recursos que o Kwout disponibiliza.

Observações

O componente bookmarklet do Kwout ainda apresenta alguns erros e não funciona corretamente. Portanto, utilize o serviço de demonstração do site ou então a extensão para Firefox.

As screenshots feitas pelo Kwout são armazenadas na memória cache por cinco minutos. Portanto, espere este tempo para tirar uma nova imagem. Algumas páginas, como o Facebook, não permitem que o Kwout seja utilizado.

Acessar: Kwout

Vor einigen Monaten habe ich – in diesem Beitrag – bereits einmal über diese einfache Möglichkeit zum schnellen Anfertigen von Screenshots von Internetseiten geschrieben. Jetzt werde ich durch eine Nachfrage an diese Nachricht erinnert und finde gerade ein Add-On für den Firefox-Browser, mit dem sich die Handhabung von Kwout doch sehr vereinfacht.

Für die Freunde des Firefox gibt es hier eine Hilfe (englisch). Dazu ein paar Hinweise:

• Nach der Installation befindet sich in der rechten unteren Ecke des Firefox-Fensters ein kleines Kwout-Symbol.
• Möchte man beim Surfen jetzt einen Screenshot machen, klickt man das Symbol und zieht ein Rechteck in der gewünschten Größe auf und bestätigt in einem extra Fenster mit “Cut out”.
• In einem weiteren Fenster kann man dann nachjustieren, uploaden (und dann den Screenshot weiter bearbeiten) oder auf den eigenen Computer speichern (was mir am sympatischten ist).

Wer oft im Internet surft und dabei schnell Kopien vom Bildschirm benötigt, sollte das alles einmal ausprobieren, denkt
HoSi

Kwout.com is an amazing tool for blogging. Everytime I want to create a screenshot and use it to paste into my blog, I head over to kwout.com. Its really simple to use… This is one of those must use services!

Here is a screenshot (courtesy of Kwout.com):

Aydin.

Kwout est l’outil qui me permet de faire un copier/coller d’un site, blog, ou autre et qui donne de belles images comme celle là :

kwout | Firefox add-on via kwout

C’est désormais une extension firefox donc super facile à utiliser. Je ne vais pas m’en priver !

KWOUT is my new best friend!

Do you ever want to save a portion of a web page rather than the whole page? While there are various online tools that clip webpages, only Kwout creates an image out of the clipping, uploads the newly created image in their server and gives you the image url. You can easily paste the code they give you to post the image in your blog. As the code is pure html, we wordpress.com bloggers (and bloggers from other blogging platforms that allow nothing but html) can have it in our blog!

Not only that, you can even post the image to your Flickr or Tumblr account.

kwout | A brilliant way to quote via kwout

You can choose the size of the screenshot. Choose a size and select the portion that you want to turn into an image. Pretty soon they will offer you the image url.

There are three ways to use Kwout. You can install the Firefox Add-on or install the bookmarlet that will open Kwout in the same window or another bookmarklet that will open it in an new window.

I have installed the Firefox add-on. It lets me select the portion of the webpage I want and use a slider to proportionately resize the image. Cool!

The bookmarklet is available for Internet Explorer and Firefox.

The best part is all this is free and you don’t even have to register to use the service!

Kwout is een webapplicatie die je in staat stelt schermafbeeldingen te maken van websites. Dat kan een screenshot van een volledige webpagina zijn, of een selectie eruit. Het is ietwat apart in die zin dat de links op de afbeelding aanklikbaar blijven -een platte afbeelding is het dus allerminst- wat ook eigenlijk de reden is waarom deze service enkel werkt voor schermafbeeldingen van websites. Het werkt wel redelijk vlot en goed: eerst geef je de url in van de website waarvan je een afbeelding wil nemen. Als je de afbeelding vervolgens wil bijsnijden kun je dat snel doen door de randen van je rechthoekige selectie te verslepen. Daarna kun je de afbeelding inbedden in een blog -jammer genoeg vallen de blogs die gehost worden door WordPress weer uit de boot- of website, of kun je het screenshot meteen opsturen naar je flickr- of Tumblr-account. Het is allemaal wel goed gevonden en zo, maar tot op nu is het wat onaf -zo kun je de afbeeldingen niet bewerken bijvoorbeeld. Pijltjes of cirkeltjes om ergens de aandacht op te vestigen gaat helaas niet; niet dat ik het zo heb voor pijltjes of zo, en tegen cercletjes zeg ik natuurlijk ook niet neen, maar het is toch ergens jammer. Het is evenmin mogelijk om de schermafbeelding rechtstreeks op te slaan op een locatie naar keuze -redelijk knudde als je het mij vraagt, maar iemand die zich hier niet aan stoort, zal Kwout waarschijnlijk wel de moeite vinden.

Kwout is een webapplicatie die je in staat stelt schermafbeeldingen te maken van websites. Dat kan een screenshot van een volledige webpagina zijn, of een selectie eruit. Het is ietwat apart in die zin dat de links op de afbeelding aanklikbaar blijven -een platte afbeelding is het dus allerminst- wat ook eigenlijk de reden is waarom deze service enkel werkt voor schermafbeeldingen van websites. Het werkt wel redelijk vlot en goed: eerst geef je de url in van de website waarvan je een afbeelding wil nemen. Als je de afbeelding vervolgens wil bijsnijden kun je dat snel doen door de randen van je rechthoekige selectie te verslepen. Daarna kun je de afbeelding inbedden in een blog -jammer genoeg vallen de blogs die gehost worden door WordPress weer uit de boot- of website, of kun je het screenshot meteen opsturen naar je flickr- of Tumblr-account. Het is allemaal wel goed gevonden en zo, maar tot op nu is het wat onaf -zo kun je de afbeeldingen niet bewerken bijvoorbeeld. Pijltjes of cirkeltjes om ergens de aandacht op te vestigen gaat helaas niet; niet dat ik het zo heb voor pijltjes of zo, en tegen cercletjes zeg ik natuurlijk ook niet neen, maar het is toch ergens jammer. Het is evenmin mogelijk om de schermafbeelding rechtstreeks op te slaan op een locatie naar keuze -redelijk knudde als je het mij vraagt, maar iemand die zich hier niet aan stoort, zal Kwout waarschijnlijk wel de moeite vinden.

You can embed Slideshare files into your blog for easy viewing.  All you have to do is:

1.  Go to http://www.slideshare.net
2.  Once you have found the presentation you want, you can copy and paste the code.  See the screenshot below I created using Kwout.  You will choose the embeddable code for WordPress.

Introduction to Blogging » SlideShare via kwout

3.  Open your blog and choose “Write” from the dashboard.  We will be writing a post.
4.  Instead of using the default visual view, click on “code.”  (this is similar to what we do when we copy and paste in FrontPage).
5.  Click on “Publish” and view your blog.  You should see your presentation!

Senioren Lernen Online mit dem Internet

Das obige Beispiel zeigt die Lösung für ein kleines Problem: Ich surfe im Web und habe etwas Interessantes gefunden. Doch wie halte ich es fest? Und, was noch wichtiger ist, wie mache ich es anderen auf einfache Art zugänglich?

Die Erfinder von kwout zeigen folgenden Weg auf:

• Kwout starten
  Auf die Website von kwout gehen und dort einen der Links unter Bookmarklets mit der Maus in die Lesezeichen-Symbolleiste (beim Firefox) ziehen. Es geht auch, wenn man auf den Bookmarklets-Link geht und auf die rechte Maustaste klickt und auf “Lesezeichen zu diesem Link hinzufügen..” (Firefox) oder auf “Zu den Favoriten hinzufügen…” (Internet Explorer) geht.
• Bereich wählen
  Eine andere Webiste aufrufen, z.B. www.senioren-lernen-online.de, dann das neue Lesezeichen “kwout” anklicken, in dem sich öffnenden Fenster mit der Maus einen Bereich auswählen (maximal 600 x 600 Pixel) und auf “Cut out” klicken.
• Screenshot gestalten
  Der Screenshot wird angezeigt und kann bei “Decorate” mit Rahmen, runden Ecken und Schatten versehen werden.
• Ergebnis veröffentlichen
  Dann kann bei “Post” auch noch gesagt werden, ob das Ergebnis im Web (siehe oben), bei Flickr oder Tumblr veröffentlicht werden soll.
• Ergebnis auf Computer
  Natürlich lässt sich das Ergebnis dann auch wie jedes andere Bild im Web über den Browser auf dem eigenen Computer speichern.

Irgendwie toll und sollte zum Ausprobieren reizen, denkt
HoSi

Für Audiofreunde hier der Podcast zu diesem Beitrag:

Barusan jalan-jalan ke blog temen saya si Amit di labnol, dia cerita tentang Kwout, salah satu layanan super duper ampuh buat kamu yang suka ambil screenshot web / blog orang. Tinggal masukin URL, klik dan halaman web otomatis tersimpan dalam bentuk image. Kopi aja itu kode nya ke web kamu dan hasilnya bisa dilihat seperti di postingan saya sebelumnya tentang foto dewi persik disentuh payudaranya free storage wordpress 3 GB.

Kwout gezindiğiniz bir sitenin beğendiğiniz bir bölümünü Kişisel Web Sitenizde, Flickr ya da Tumblr’de bir resim dosyası halinde yayınlayabilmenize olanak sağlıyor.

Yapmanız gereken, Kwout sayfasına giderek web sitesinin adresini girmek, sitenin istediğiniz alanını seçmek ve ardından size vereceği kodu almak.

(kaynak: http://www.bildirgec.org/yazi/kwout )

Bu işlemin bir diğer güzel yanı da, oluşturulan resim dosyası üzerindeki linklerin tıklanabilir olması.

Das Setzen eines Links, zumindest mit Bild, ist etwas mühsam: Bild von Originalseite abspeichern bzw.. Bildschirmabdruck erstellen, auf eigenen Speicherplatz hochladen und Bild in den Link integrieren. Ich weiß, wie das geht. Und vergesse es doch so gerne. OK, man kann sich z.B. mit der Firefox-Erweiterung Clippings einen vorformatierten Link anlegen, bei dem man nur noch den Dateinamen ändern muss. Aber wirklich praktisch wird es dadurch auch nicht.
An Weihnachten hat nun kwout das Licht der Welt erblickt. Zuerst speichert man sich einmal das Bookmarklet (verfügbar für Firefox und Internet-Explorer), beim Firefox kann man es einfach von der kwout-Seite an den gewünschten Platz ziehen.
Ist man auf einer Seite, die man zitieren möchte, erstellt kwout nach Drücken des Bookmarklets einen Screenshot. Diesen Bildschirmabdruck kann man mit einem Schieber in drei Größen erstellen, je nachdem, ob man mehr die Seite in ihrem Aufbau oder z.B. eine Grafik in lesbarer Größe haben will. Mit der Maus markiert man den gewünschten Bereich (maximal 600 Pixel groß), kwout schneidet diesen Bereich zu und erstellt bereits einen Link, den man eigentlich unverändert kopieren kann. Wer möchte, kann noch etwas Schnickschnack einstellen: Das Bild mit Rahmen, mit abgerundeten Ecken, mit Schatten, als Einzeldatei oder als Imagemap. Der Code für den Link ändert sich beim Ändern der Häkchen sofort im Kopierfeld.

Für mich hat kwout folgende Vorteile:

• unkompliziert
• schnell
• kein Erstellen und Hochladen von Screenshots / Bilddateien notwendig
• mein Server bleibt frei von diesen Bildschnipseln, da das Bild ja bei kwout gespeichert wird

Den eventuellen Nachteil, dass kwout weiß, was ich verlinke, sehe ich als unbedeutend an. Denn was man im Internet anstellt, ist sowieso öffentlich und bis zum letzten Byte verwertbar. Das vergessen viele Nutzer gerne. Diese Infos werden sowieso schon automatisiert gesammelt.
Hier noch als Beispiel ein kwout -Link zu kwout:

kwout | A brilliant way to quote

Computer: cretino ad alta velocità in dotazione, spesso, a cretini molto lenti.
Stefano Benni

Controllando la mia dashboard WordPress(fonte di grande ispirazione in questi giorni…) ho notato diversi link in ingresso un po’ strani. Strani sia perché i blog di origine non rientravano nel mio target abituale di lettori (detto con molta auto-ironia, s’intende…) sia perché il link al mio blog non era evidente.

Ho scoperto dopo una rapidissima indagine che si trattava di una specie di giochetto di società, non particolarmente entusiasmante direi.

In un’immagine all’interno dei post (una figura di 0 ed 1 rappresentante due calici) è in effetti una “map” HTML in cui sono inseriti un centinaio di indirizzi web. Si può effettuare una verifica tramite il codice sorgente delle pagine o cliccando in diversi punti dell’immagine.

Il giochetto è stato realizzato sfruttando kwout, un servizio in realtà piuttosto interessante che nelle parole di maestroalberto:

è capace di catturare una schermata di una pagina web (o di una parte di essa) e di trasformarla in una sorta di mappa contenente anche i link attivi (prova sopra).

kwout.com permet de capturer une portion de page web, d’héberger l’image correspondante et de générer le code HTML permettant de l’inclure en un simple cut&paste dans une page web. Et tout ça en utilisant à 100% le web . Rien à télécharger ! Voilà ce que ça donne appliqué à leur propre page :

Ouh que j’aurais voulu avoir cette idée en premier…