Articles in Software
Can Insync dethrone Dropbox as a cloud storage service?
A couple of weeks ago I read a Techcrunch article about Insync. It is a service that works almost identically to Dropbox. Their differentiating feature is the fact that they use your Google Docs account …
The Senior Experience – Student Blogging for School Pride and High School Credit
Madison Local School District
Ohio School Public Relations Association
AJ Huff – Coordinator of school community public relations
The Senior Experience
- class
What
- 21st century teaching and learning
- language arts credit
- students apply, 6 students in class
- blog …
I’ve been hacked and you can learn from my mistakes. :-)
Hacked!
Yes, I let my WordPress installation rot. And it’s entirely my fault. WordPress makes it so easy to keep it up to date now that there is no excuse, so I do accept full responsibility! …
Put a countdown timer on a presentation slide
This past week as I was working on a presentation, I had a slide where I asked the participants to discuss among themselves. I wanted to set a time limit, but I didn’t want to …
Distraction free writing with JDarkroom
While there are several full screen text editing apps, I’ve settled on JDarkroom. Written in Java, JDarkroom is a distraction free text editor, taking over your entire screen so you can concentrate on writing and …
Checking out Android
As I prepare for my eTech 2011 presentation, An iPad, Kindle, and iPod Touch walked into a classroom…, I decided that it would be beneficial to plan on questions about Android, Android Tablets, and how …
Ping.fm bookmarklet for multiple Ping.fm accounts
Since Ping.fm doesn’t allow you to add multiple Twitter accounts to one Ping.fm account, I’ve resorted to have two accounts with them, one for my personal accounts (Twitter, Facebook, MySpace) and one for my professional …
OS X Widget to show machine name
I use Apple Remote Desktop or a KVM (Keyboard/Video/Mouse) switcher to administer several OS X servers and machines. When you’re working on machines in this way you can sometimes get confused on which machine you’re …
Following lots of people on Twitter? You need ReadTwit
A couple of months ago I decided to expand my use of Twitter, and began following more and more people in the education community. This was awesome, until I realized I could not keep up with the barrage of data that I was being given. In November I started brainstorming ideas on how to keep up
It feels like the 50s with all this Chrome
Although Firefox has been my default browser for several years, every so often I try out alternative browsers. A couple of weeks ago I started to use Chromium (developer builds of Google’s Chrome browser) for …
