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The Best of Both Worlds– Web Apps with Desktop Clients

Posted on November 2, 2010 by Ted Curran

The recent explosion of great tools that simply run in a web browser has been amazing. From tools like Google Docs, Evernote, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, Prezi, and Rememberthemilk and the venerable Gmail– you can access powerful tools for free wherever … Continue reading →

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Just an Idea: Google Human– Google Earth for the Human Body

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Ted Curran

Update! What began as a pie-in-the-sky idea was actually put into production as Google Body Browser, a 3D WebGL powered app that showed the major features of the anatomy in a browser. As Google has focused their energy around their … Continue reading →

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"Idea Catching": Tools to Unite your "Inspiration" Mind and your "Perspiration" Mind

Posted on December 3, 2009 by Ted Curran

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 … Continue reading →

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GRUML: Google Reader on your Desktop

Posted on November 19, 2009 by Ted Curran

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 … Continue reading →

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Thunderbird Don't Die!: The Case for Desktop Email Client Software

Posted on November 14, 2009 by Ted Curran

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 … Continue reading →

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Finding copyright-friendly Images: A blogger's guide

Posted on October 28, 2009 by Ted Curran

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 … Continue reading →

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Smart Dumb Phones: Cool Uses for Low Tech Cell Phones (NO iPhone REQUIRED!)

Posted on October 26, 2009 by Ted Curran

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 you … Continue reading →

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Over-Extending your Firefox with Extensions? Use Different Firefox-Powered Browsers for Different Tasks!

Posted on September 3, 2009 by Ted Curran

Everyone loves Firefox because there are so many great user-created Add-Ons that make your web browser into much, much more. Add-ons allow you to customize your browser to make tasks easier. This extra performance comes at a slight cost; the … Continue reading →

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Turn student blogs into an online class community

Posted on August 5, 2009 by Ted Curran

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 … Continue reading →

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Offline is the New Online

Posted on June 7, 2009 by Ted Curran

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” … Continue reading →

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