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		<title>Pivot Stick Figure Animator (free for Windows)</title>
		<link>http://itfairhurst.edublogs.org/2008/08/12/pivot-stick-figure-animator-free-for-windows/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>itfairhurst</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pivot makes it easy to create stick-figure animations. You can build your own stick figures and load your own backgrounds. The animations can be saved as animated gifs to be used on web pages. An example animation is included. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size: x-small"><span style="font-size: 24px">Pivot Stickfigure Animator</span></span></p>
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<td colspan="10" rowspan="2" width="261"><span style="font-size: xx-small"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-size: xx-small"><span style="font-size: 18px">Pivot makes it easy to create stick-figure animations. You can build your own stick figures and load your own backgrounds. The animations can be saved as animated gifs to be used on web pages.</span></span></span></span></td>
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<td height="12"><a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v424/peterbone/pivot_cap.gif"><img src="http://www.geocities.com/peter_bone_uk/resized_pivot_cap.gif" border="0" alt="click to view full size" width="207" height="149" /></a></td>
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<td colspan="7" height="19"><span><a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v424/peterbone/tower_fall_back_small.gif"><span style="font-size: xx-small"><span style="font-size: 18px">Click here to see an animation made using pivot</span></span></a></span></td>
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<td colspan="7" height="19"><span style="font-size: xx-small"><span style="font-size: 18px">Download the most recent version of Pivot Stickfigure Animator</span></span></td>
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</span></span><a href="http://pbone.it-mate.co.uk/Pivot.zip"><span style="font-size: x-small"><span style="font-size: 24px">Pivot version 2.2.5    (485 KB)</span></span></a></td>
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		<title>GIMP &#8211; A freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 05:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>itfairhurst</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages. (more...)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program.  It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as <a href="http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Blur_Overlays/">photo retouching</a>, image composition and <a href="http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Draw_A_Paint_Brush/">image authoring</a></p>
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<p>The <strong>GNU Image Manipulation Program</strong>, or <strong>GIMP</strong>, is a <a title="Raster graphics editor" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raster_graphics_editor">raster graphics editor</a> used to process digital graphics and photographs. Typical uses include creating graphics and <a title="Logo" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo">logos</a>, resizing and cropping photos, altering colours, combining multiple images, removing unwanted image features, and converting between different image formats.<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMP#cite_note-1">[2]</a></sup> GIMP can also be used to create basic animated images in <a title="Graphics Interchange Format" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Interchange_Format">GIF</a> format. It is often used as a free software replacement for <a title="Adobe Photoshop" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Photoshop">Adobe Photoshop</a>, the most widely used bitmap editor in the printing and graphics industries; however, it is not designed to be a Photoshop clone.<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMP#cite_note-2">[3]</a></sup> The project&#8217;s <a title="Mascot" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mascot">mascot</a> is named <a title="Wilber (mascot)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilber_%28mascot%29">Wilber</a>GI</p>
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		<title>Gapminder</title>
		<link>http://itfairhurst.edublogs.org/2008/06/23/gapminder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>itfairhurst</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gapminder World 
Gapminder World lets you explore the 			changing world from your own computer. Moving graphics show how the 			development of all countries of the world by the indicators you choose.
Gapminder World is powered by Trendalyzer and Google Spreadsheet.
» CLICK ON THIS LINK TO GO TO THE GRAPH 
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size: 10pt"><strong>Gapminder World </strong><br />
</span>Gapminder World lets you explore the 			changing world from your own computer. Moving graphics show how the 			development of all countries of the world by the indicators you choose.</p>
<p>Gapminder World is powered by Trendalyzer and Google Spreadsheet.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.gapminder.org/world" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff">» </span>CLICK ON THIS LINK TO GO TO THE GRAPH </a><br />
<em>(Opens in a new window)</em><a href="http://www.gapminder.org/world" target="_blank"><img style="margin: 5px;float: left" src="http://www.gapminder.org/images/stories/gw_2006.jpg" border="0" alt="gw_2006.jpg" width="328" height="240" /></a></p>
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