Timeline Makers Interactive - Free and Paid Softwares

Need to find an interactive timeline maker to help you organize information into a linear structure? Timelines are linear organizers that help students to understand and illustrate the passage of large blocks of time. While the obvious application would be in a history class, teachers and educators from all disciplines and in all levels of education can benefit from teaching with timelines. Whether investigating events on a historical continuum, studying the evolution of a social and/or cultural phenomenon, or used as a tool for long-range planning, timelines are an excellent visual for helping students recognize “cause and effect relationships between events.”
Whether you are a teacher, educator or student, here are 5 free and 4 paid interactive timeline makers to build beautiful, full-color, multimedia timelines.

1. Sutori

Specifically designed for the education sector, Sutori‘s online timeline software helps teachers and students create interactive timelines for assignments and sharing online.

Pros

• Users are given a comprehensive, online tour of the software and its full capabilities upon registering.
• A variety of multimedia timeline events are available with an eye toward the education sector, including text, multiple choice questions, images, video, forums, audio, and “Did you know?”
• Events may be moved up and down the timeline using a drag-and-drop slider.
• Timelines can be embedded onto other platforms without Sutori branding.
• It is possible to add paragraphs, bold, italic, and hyperlinks to timelines.
• Your timelines can be saved as PDFs offline and then printed.
• Multiple users can edit a timeline at the same time.

Cons

• Timeline is build as a series of web pages linked together. An individual page has to be created for every new event, which then have to be linked to events already created on the website.
• There are a lot of fields in the new timeline template. Unused fields must be deleted before you can view your timeline. UPD: the template has been removed.
• Because Sutori’s software is specifically designed for educators and students, it may not be suitable for personal, home use, or use in the business sector. UPD: it’s in the plans to open up to other user types over the summer.
• Registration is compulsory.

2. Capzles

Capzles is an online software tool that allows you to create multimedia timelines for sharing online. The resulting timeline is almost like a blog-at-a-glance, documenting life experiences as they happen.

Pros

• Supports a variety of entry types, including posting images, inputting blog posts, and uploading videos, MP3s, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF files.
• The interface allows you to put multiple files into each event on the timeline.
• There are a lot of options for personalization, including backgrounds, themes, and colors, as well as the ability to add background music.
• Interactive timelines can be shared through social media.

Cons

• A rather complicated interface for both teachers and students.
• The only way to display an image for text entries is by entering a URL.
• Even after entering the URL, the image does not show up on the timeline.
• When uploading files directly to the timeline, you cannot post additional commentary for the entry.
• Registration is compulsory.

3. WhenInTime

WhenInTime allows users to create multimedia timelines for sharing on social media. The software has a simple interface, allowing for easy creation of online timelines.

Pros

• Events can be imported and added to your timeline from a number of social media sites such as Twitter, YouTube, and Google+.
• WhenInTime provides a number of themes and templates for its users, for use when personalizing their timelines.
• Users can link their social media to WhenInTime to create an ongoing feed to their timelines.
• The interface is intuitive and easy to manipulate, meaning that you can create professional-looking timelines with minimal time and effort.

Cons

• Because the software relies on database search engines to find images, the search to find something you like takes too much time.
• Some bugs may occur (e.g., the months/days going backwards in the B.C. years).
• Changing the background image to anything other than a pre-designed theme or template is clunky to achieve.
• Mobile version of the timeline is difficult to navigate.
• Registration is compulsory.

4. TimeGlider

TimeGlider is online software for creating timelines incorporating graphics and event blurbs. Public timelines are accessible via a personalized URL, which can be shared with others through email or social media.

Pros

• Dialogue box input makes it easy to create new events on the timeline.
• Events can be recorded by the year, month, day or hour.
• Multimedia files can be added to your timeline with images, audio and video links (from sites such as YouTube, Vimeo and SoundCloud), and hypertext links.
• Interface allows users to see the whole timeline at a glance, or to move through the timeline one event at a time.

Cons

• Manipulation of the final timeline is difficult to master, especially when setting the scale of the initial timeline display.
• Graphics are more like watermarks than full intensity when displayed on the timeline, which makes the final display less visually interesting.
• The timeline is divided into text and graphic lines, but images are automatically sized by height to fill the images lane, rather than sized by the user. This may cause overlap for entries displayed close together, affecting the organization and readability of the timeline.
• Only one image per event can be added.
• When you open the next event, the previous event popup is kept open, so it may be difficult to go through all the open windows overlapping the timeline.
• Registration is compulsory.

5. ReadWriteThink’s Student Interactive Timeline

Well-known in the educational community for their free tools and materials for literacy promotion, ReadWriteThink has a number of online, interactive tools for students, and the Timeline is one of them. With the Timeline software, students can create, save, and share free timelines.

Pros

• Timelines can be organized to user specifications, whether by event, date, or time of day.
• Timelines can be made more attractive by uploading and adding photos.
• Students can save their timelines and come back to work on them at a later date.
• Drag and drop interface makes the timeline easy to create and navigate.

Cons

• The interface allows you to input a label, short and long descriptions, and graphic, but the long description disappears on the timeline and can only be viewed with the timeline viewer.
• You can print the final timeline, but the timeline and long descriptions are printed on separate pages.
• When entering information, the first letter must be a capital letter. A space must be entered before you can begin a sentence with words like eBook or iSpring.

6. Preceden

Preceden creates text-based timelines. Users can enter a title, date and description for each event, which is added with a dot on the timeline. Full text for events is displayed when the user mouses over the dot on the timeline.
The free timeline option allows you to add 5 events to your timeline. Preceden Pro costs $29 USD for one unlimited timeline, $39 for three timelines, and a onetime payment of $59 for unlimited timelines.

Pros

• Timeline appearance can be easily customized.
• Privacy controls are available.
• The ability to add unlimited events under a Pro plan.
• Priority technical support under a Pro plan.
• Future upgrades and add-ons are free under a Pro Plan.

Cons

• Only 1 timeline with up to 5 events can be made with the free version.
• Other functions are limited in the free version.
• Timeline creation may be rather time-consuming.
• It’s difficult to add links and images. The latter have to be hosted somewhere on the Web before adding them.
• Created timelines can’t be embedded into a WordPress website due to security restrictions.
• Registration is compulsory.

7. Office Timeline

Office Timeline is a PowerPoint add-in that creates timelines slides for business communications. There is a perpetual, Free Edition designed for students and non-professionals, or a full-featured Plus Edition created for enterprise workers. The Plus Edition costs $49 USD annually, and there is also a Twin Pack which costs $89 and allows two co-workers to collaborate on a timeline. There is a menu on the site detailing the price for licenses for anywhere from 5 to 100 users after that.

Pros

• The app is integrated right into Microsoft PowerPoint so using it is familiar and intuitive.
• It creates native PowerPoint slides which are easy to share, edit and communicate with others.
• The shapes, text, colors and positions are all customizable so timelines can be uniquely styled.
• There are over 30 free downloadable templates and chart styles on the Office Timeline website.
• Plus Edition integrates with Excel and instantly converts existing data into a timeline slide.

Cons

• The app doesn’t allow users to add pictures to timelines.
• The Free Edition limits features like Excel integration, template styles and formatting.
• It does not work with Microsoft Office for Mac.
• Timelines are designed for executive summaries and are not suitable not for complex projects.
• Paid licenses are limited to 1 year of use.

8. TimeToast

TimeToast allows users to create timelines within moments of registering. Users can upload pictures to include on their sites (much handier than those which only allow for pictures to be inserted via URL), and create time spans to link events on the timeline into smaller groups.
The free web version allows users to create a single timeline. TimeToast also offers Basic accounts for $5.99 USD a month and Pro accounts for $8.99 a month.

Pros

• Each event can contain text, an image, and a link.
• Multiple users can take advantage of TimeToast under Basic or Pro subscription plans.
• The paid subscription plans are ad free.
• There’s access to collaboration tools under the paid subscription plans.
• The ability to moderate comments on public timelines under paid subscription plans.

Cons

• Only three events can be displayed at the same time.
• Few customization options (color, font, etc. can’t be customized), so resulting timelines are rather plain and lacking in creativity.
• The dates that the timeline goes by can’t be changed, as the app creates units for you.
• Support is only available in the form of a FAQ.
• The website is slow.
• Registration is compulsory.

9. TimeRime

TimeRime‘s online timeline creator allows you to make graphic-, text-, and multimedia-based timelines. It costs $7.85 to create a single timeline with up to 100 entries. Tiered Pro versions are available by purchasing licenses (ranging from $199.99 – $1,999) or with monthly subscriptions (ranging from $12 – $125).

Pros

• The ability to edit timelines to fit the look and feel of your website with the Pro version
• Full content management via the website or CMS/database with the Pro version.
• You can link back to your website from your TimeRime timeline with the Pro version
• The Pro version also covers automatic TimeRime upgrades.
• There are optional customizable features available with the Pro version.

Cons

• Complex interface, which leads to extra time spent on timeline creation.
• Have to click on Up/Down arrows instead of scrolling the timeline.
• Have to zoom in and out with inconvenient icons instead of using a slider.
• Crops the printable version, so only part of the timeline is printed.
• The generated embed code creates timelines of tiny sizes.
• Images can’t be added to the description of a period.
• Registration is compulsory.

Would you prefer to create timelines in the familiar PowerPoint interface? Check out this article to find out step by step how to create an interactive timeline in PowerPoint and publish it for the Web with iSpring.

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1. Acoustica Basic Edition

Acoustica is a beautifully designed, comprehensive audio editor built for recording, editing, mixing, mastering and batch-processing.
Most of the features are available with the free edition, but the multitrack editing, offline analytics tools, certain audio effects and audio restoration funcations are behind a paywall.
The Standard version costs $39.90; the Premium is $119.90. Click here for a full list of features and their respective prices.

2. Audacity

Audacity is a great open-source audio recording and editing program compatible with most operating systems. The software lets you record live audio through a mixer or microphone; you can also import MP3, WAV, AIFF and OGG file formats -- then, digitize previous recordings, edit them and export.
It comes with an array of effects, from Equalization to Bass Boost, and lets you remove superfluous background noise.
There are keyboard shortcuts to optimize your workflow, too. And the best part? It comes with automatic crash recovery.

3. AudioTool

AudioTool is a great beat-making app, similar to GarageBand. It has a simple, visually pleasing interface, and lets you create complex audio arrangements with more than 14 effects.
AudioTools also has a helpful Wiki page that teaches you how to perform actions; for example, how to set up your MIDI controller or use the Splitter tool. When you're finished making a beat, export the audio as an MP3 file.
Check it out in the Chrome Web Store.

4. Tunekitten Audio Editor

Tunekitten Audio Editor is a lightweight audio app that lets you cut tracks and apply basic effects, like fade-in and fade-out. It's non-destructive, so you can undo and redo your edits repeatedly. You can also input various file formats, including AVI, MP3, OGG and WAV files. You can't, however, record audio directly through the program.
The app is powered entirely by JavaScript, so no Flash required. However, some user reviews report problems with crashing.

5. MP3 Cutter

MP3 Cutter is an audio cutter. In other words, it helps you edit down MP3 files into small audio snippets. Once you've edited the clip, export it as an MP3, WAV or OGG file.

6. MP3Gain

MP3Gain isn't a complete editing program, but it does provide an essential audio service. As with most normalizers, you can peak normalization, so you're not constantly adjusting the volume of tracks.
What makes it superior to other normalizers is that it also lets you statistically analyze how loudly your files sound to the human ear. It adjusts the MP3 file directly, so there's no quality lost through decoding and re-coding.

7. Audio Joiner

Audio Joiner is a great app for combining several songs onto a single track. The app lets you cross-fade tracks and adjust certain intervals. There's no limit to the number of songs you combine, and it's compatible with a number of file formats, including MP3, M4A and WAV. It runs entirely online, too, so there's no need to download anything.

8. Reaper

Reaper is a compact, downloadable digital audio workstation. Using it, you can record, arrange, edit, mix, layer and render audio. It's non-destructive, so you can undo and redo edits without corrupting your file.
Reaper is compatible with almost all operating systems; however, you can only use the editor while connected to the Internet. The free trial period lasts for 30 days, but after that, it's $50 or $225, depending on the plan.

9. WavePad

WavePad is free for non-commercial use -- something it reminds you whenever you open the program. It has a clean, modern interface and supports a wide array of file formats. It additionally has a text-to-speech module, lets you rip and burn CDs and comes with tons of editing effects and batch-processing.

10. WaveShop

WaveShop is an audio editor for Windows XP, Windows 7 and Vista. The program's claim to fame is its "bit-perfect" audio editor, which doesn't alter audio samples unless they absolutely need to be changed. When you edit a portion of a file, only that portion will be adjusted -- the rest remins unaffected.
WaveShop supports most file formats, including AAC/MP4, MP3, FLAC and OGG/Vorbis. It allows for non-destructive editing, fade-in and -out and audio file format conversion. Additionally, you'll find an extensive support page.

11. Wavosaur

Wavosaur is a Windows-only application that lets you record, render and mix audio. The file is extremely small, taking up only 225 KB of storage, but still boasts some of the best features for editing. You can change the bit rates of files, convert file formats, normalize and apply other edits to audio files; plus, the editing process is non-destructive, so you can easily undo and redo any changes.
It's compatible with other downloadable software additions and plugins, too.

12. Fission

Fission is a freemium app exclusively for Macs. Using it, you can crop, trim, paste and join audio files. Fission doesn't decode and re-code files, so you don't lose any quality when making adjustments. It also supports file conversion, so you can rapidly export or batch-convert files to the MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless, FLAC, AIFF, and WAV formats.

13. Nero WaveEditor

Nero WaveEditor is an audio processing tool for basic editing and recording. It accommodates AC3,AIF, AIFF, MP3, WMA, MP4, OGG, WAV, WAVE and NWF files. It also allows for non-destructive processing.

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XP SP3 Final Lite

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Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended Multilingual Final [Portable] | 64.60 Mb

Adobe ® Photoshop ® CS5 Extended provides excellent opportunities for selection, retouching, and paint realistic images, as well as the creation of 3D-shapes. Many new features help save time and increase productivity raboty.S easily select the complex field. Remove any elements of the image moments of intellectual filling the empty field. Draw realistic illustrations. Create striking images HDR, Eliminate noise, add grain and adjust vignetting using the most modern tools for photo editing.

What's New in This Release:

Complex selections made easy:
· Select specific areas within an image in fewer clicks. Easily select intricate image elements, such as hair; eliminate background color around selection edges; and automatically vary selection edges and perfect masks using new refinement tools.

Content-Aware Fill:
· Remove any image detail or object and watch as Content-Aware Fill magically fills in the space left behind. This breakthrough technology matches lighting, tone, and noise so it looks as if the removed content never existed.

Superior HDR imaging:
· Create photo-realistic or surreal HDR images with unprecedented speed, control, and accuracy. Get better-than-ever results thanks to automatic ghost removal and greater control with tone mapping and adjustments,
and even give single-exposure photos the look of HDR.

Extraordinary painting effects:
· Easily change a photograph into a painting or create unique artistic effects with the Mixer Brush, which offers on-canvas color blending, and Bris...

Homepage: http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/photoshopextended/

Requirements:
. Windows OS
· 1.8GHz or faster processor
· 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
· 1GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on

flash-based storage devices)
· 1,024x768 display (1,280x800 recommended) with 16-bit video card
· Some GPU-accelerated features require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0
· DVD-ROM drive
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· Broadband Internet connection required for online service

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It now includes editing support for many other instruments like the piano or the drums, a realistic audio engine, and interactive tools to support every musician's practice.

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An optimal display of your score, together with all the tools you need for editing, sound-setting, and playing your instrument.

Choose your display options from the screen or page mode, horizontal or vertical scrolling, monotrack, multitrack, and full-screen mode, and 25-800% zooming.

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