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 I’d read a message on my iPod Touch or Samsung Omnia (a Windows Mobile cellphone). Sometimes it would be a message that I would need… Read more →
Group Twitterbot is broken. :-(
Twitter updated how direct messages are emailed, so my Group Twitterbot code is now broken. I’m hopefully going to be able to work on it this week. I’m planning on fixed this problem and set it up so it’s more stand alone, you’ll be able to use it anywhere you can have a php based web page. ![][] Read more →
Language arts teachers, take note, experience Bram Stoker’s Dracula in real time
Dracula Experience Bram Stoker’s Dracula in a new way — in real time. Dracula is an epistolary novel (a novel written as a series of letters or diary entries,) and this blog will publish each diary entry on the day that it was written by the narrator so that the audience may experience the drama as the characters would have.… Read more →
Online collaboration with EtherPad
Etherpad, which was open to users, then closed, appears to now be open again. It is an online collaborative text editor usable by anyone with an Internet connection, a browser, and Javascript. There is no sign up required, you just share a unique URL with the people you want to collaborate with. Each user is color coded and there is… Read more →
The Kindle DX is available for pre-order, does anyone care?
Today’s announcement of the Kindle DX, a 9.7″ version of the Kindle is being hailed as some sort of savior of the newspaper industry and a breakthrough for the college textbook market. At almost \$500 I don’t see it as either. The biggest negative about the Kindle will also be the last thing fixed, if it is ever addressed, and… Read more →
OS X not saving passwords?
About a month ago I noticed that passwords weren’t being saved in apps in OS X like Safari, Omniweb, etc. I didn’t bother trying to figure out the problem, until today when I would go to a site in Safari and it would ask to save the password. I said yes everytime, but it still didn’t save it. Finally I… Read more →
Gmail presents Autopilot
From the website: The easiest email could possibly be. As more and more everyday communication takes place over email, lots of people have complained about how hard it is to read and respond to every message. This is because they actually read and respond to all their messages. With Gmail autopilot no longer do you have to worry about actually… Read more →
Attention education vendors
After reading Miguel’s article The Bad PR List at Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org, it got me thinking about the vendors in the education community and some of my pet peeves. My biggest complaint with education vendors is the lack of pricing transparency. If I’m going to take the time to visit your website and examine your product, the least you can… Read more →
What’s in a domain name?
For Kenton City Schools our original domain name was the standard kenton.k12.oh.us. Unfortunately, only techies could remember it correctly, so I registered kentoncityschools.org. I’m still kicking myself for not registering the .com version, it’s since been picked up by domain squatter. 🙁 Kentoncityschools.org has served us well, even with it being longer than our original k12.oh.us version. In the back… Read more →
The $99 mobile Internet Device
Nvidia Plans To Power \$99 Mobile Internet Devices Nvidia has announced that it plans to power \$99 mobile internet devices with its Tegra 600 series chips, perhaps as early as this summer. If they can get an Android version released at \$99 that is something that could be a game changer in education. Although I’m a big fan of the… Read more →