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This current era of frequent Zoom meetings and screen sharing means I get to see how lots of peoples’ browsers are set up, whether they intend me to or not. I often notice that people have personal information visible in their browser window that gives us an unintentional glimpse into their personal...

Apple products like to hide the ugly inner workings of the computer from you – that “magic” feeling you get from a Mac or an iPhone is enhanced by the fact that you can’t see how it works!

In recent versions of Mac OS X, they started hiding file extensions (like .mp3, .jpeg, or .docx) in the Find...

You can think of BitTorrent Sync as “Dropbox without the Cloud”. Not to be confused with the underlying technology of BitTorrent, this is a way of keeping a folder and files sync’d across mul...

If you’re a student or an academic, you probably have a large volume of reading you need to do every week, and there’s only so many hours that you can be hunched over your desk reading. Why not clip your next few readings to Pocket, the read‐it‐later app for iOS and Android that now features t...

Two of the most popular posts here on TedCurran.net deal with replacing your too‐huge collection of browser extensions for Firefox and Chrome to improve your browser’s speed and performance. 

Replace Your Firefox Plugins with Mozilla Ubiquity and

O...

This post discusses how to build your own Personal (or Professional) Learning Network. Instead of starting by telling you which tools to use, I want to talk about why you would do this in the first place.…

This is a photo of my high school math teacher, Coach John Wa...

When I’m doing a creative project (or just working on a presentation) I am always looking for large, beautiful photos bearing a Creative Commons license. Works released in the Creative Commons can be reused, remixed, redistributed, and revised for free– this makes it easy for me to share this ex...

Image by flod via Flickr

Everybody loves Firefox. Even with all the other fast, standards‐compliant modern browsers out there (like Chrome, Safari, and Opera– sorry IE!) Firefox stands alone for its rich variety of extensions. If you’re using Firefox, you can be sure that “there’s an extensio...

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 more add‐ons you pile on...

This is a video we did based off of MWesch’s great work. We started a class discussing how technology impacts our lives and, in one period, turned it into a video that we could share with the wider world.

The students wrote their responses, rehearsed the choreography a few times, and shot it. We...