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Can Insync dethrone Dropbox as a cloud storage service?

January 13, 2012 – 3:22 pm |

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 …

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Following lots of people on Twitter? You need ReadTwit

January 12, 2010 – 8:06 am | Comments Off
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

Top ten skills needed to succeed as a teacher (and technology)

December 15, 2009 – 12:27 pm | One Comment
Top ten skills needed to succeed as a teacher (and technology)

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This article started out as the top ten skills needed to use technology effectively, but as I wrote the list, I realized that technology shouldn’t be separated out. As we proclaim that …

Organize your email with a Flagged folder

May 12, 2009 – 11:51 am | Comments Off
Organize your email with a Flagged folder

I have multiple email accounts, and read it from various devices. It’s all based on IMAP, so folders, messages read, etc. stay the same from device to device. The problem I was having was when …

Paradox of choice

March 28, 2008 – 8:24 pm | One Comment
Paradox of choice

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In the technology world it seems we’re continually confronted with new products, services, software, hardware, etc. And for those of us who have a tough time focusing on one thing at a …

Of course you’re busy, aren’t we all?

October 30, 2006 – 7:22 am | Comments Off

A great article, I don’t want to look busy, sums up our preoccupation with being busy perfectly.
Our culture is obsessed with being busy. When’s the last time you asked someone about their job or life …

Multitasking Realities

February 9, 2006 – 6:36 am | Comments Off

Smelly Knowledge » Multitasking Realities
Merlin Mann of 43Folders posits that when one says they are multitasking, they are really just slicing their attention into smaller and smaller chunks.