Tag Archives: mac

f.lux– A Plugin To Save Your Eyes

Posted on June 3, 2011 by Ted Curran

A couple months ago I added a free, open source plugin to my Mac called f.lux that promises to relieve eye strain and insomnia caused by blue screen glare. It adjusts my screen’s color temperature based on the time of … Continue reading →

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Chrome OS Netbooks: Can Your School Live in the Cloud?

Posted on June 2, 2011 by Ted Curran

If you haven’t heard of Chrome OS, it’s Google’s attempt to do away with the desktop altogether and have everything that happens on your computer happen inside the browser. This means that instead of opening Outlook for your email, you … Continue reading →

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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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Work at a school that can't afford fancy software? GO OPEN SOURCE!

Posted on May 7, 2008 by Ted Curran

I first became interested in open source software while working at an underfunded little charter startup in the central valley of California. We had an aging computer lab that didn’t have any modern software because the school couldn’t afford to … Continue reading →

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