[Translate] Image by Tiago Daniel via Flickr “Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration!” -Thomas Alva Edison “I discovered the meaning of life but I forgot to write it down.” -Hugh Gallagher You know those times when you are struck with a brilliant, life-alteri[...]
Posts Tagged ‘google’
GRUML: Google Reader on your Desktop
[Translate] Image by Sue Waters via Flickr As you may have gathered from my defense of desktop email clients, I prefer desktop apps to webapps any day of the week. Even if the app is powered by a web data service (like Gmail), desktop applications can take advantage of the massive computin[...]
Thunderbird Don’t Die!: The Case for Desktop Email Client Software
[Translate] Image by adria.richards via Flickr As the blogosphere debates the death of the desktop email client, I am anxiously awaiting the stable release of Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0. Like devotees of Apple Mail.app or Microsoft Outlook, I have come to depend on the desktop app for speed, [...]
Finding copyright-friendly Images: A blogger’s guide
[Translate] Image via Wikipedia Flickr.com, Yahoo.com, and Google (and now Bing.com) can be great places to find images of just about anything under the sun. Unfortunately, many of the images you find are the intellectual property of someone else– so you can’t include them with[...]
October 26th, 2009 - 2:00 pm § in TeacherHax, Web 2.0
Smart Dumb Phones: Cool Uses for Low Tech Cell Phones (NO iPhone REQUIRED!)
[Translate] Image by Ninja M. via Flickr There’s no denying that the iPhone has become an amazing tool for taking your internet connected life mobile. However, many of its functions are available to even the lowest tech “dumb phones” on the market. This post will show y[...]
Turn student blogs into an online class community
[Translate] Image by eyesplash Mikul via Flickr I have been interested in using blogging software to create online learning communities for a while now. This last year, I had students start Blogger.com, Tumblr.com, and Posterous.com blogs, then subscribed to all of their blog feeds with m[...]
June 7th, 2009 - 8:41 pm § in EdTech, TeacherHax
Offline is the New Online
[Translate] Image via CrunchBase Web 2.0 has beguiled us to forsake our old offline apps and turn to the online cloud for more and more of our data needs. CNET’s Buzz Out Loud podcast proclaimed that “Offline is the New Online” when Google Gears came out in 2008. Our emai[...]
April 20th, 2009 - 7:13 pm § in FreeAppoftheDay
Google Picasa- A Lovable Alternative to iPhoto
[Translate] Image via CrunchBase I really like a lot of things about Apple’s iPhoto– it makes it easy to rip, organize, and upload your pictures. However, I HATE how it tries to keep me from knowing where my photo files are, and how it always wants to steer me into using Apple&[...]
April 13th, 2009 - 7:04 pm § in FreeAppoftheDay, TeacherHax
Great Resources for FREE Software
[Translate] Every time I get a new computer, I always visit these sites to stock up my computer with free goodies. Check it out! www.OpenSourceWindows.org www.OpenSourceMac.org www.osalt.com Pack.Google.com Labs.Google.com [...]
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