Codeweavers is offering two of their products for Mac and Linux free today only. I’ve only played around with Crossover when it was still in Beta, but this is some exciting news. I’m hoping it can run VMWare’s console application so I don’t have to start up VMware Fusion on my MacBook. Read more →
Posting from my ipod
Showing off the WordPress app for the iPod. Read more →
Firefox 3.0 to be released at 10 PDT (1:00pm for those on the east coast)
Go and download it! (At the proper time, of course. 🙂 ) Read more →
Test post from TypePad’s Blogit
This is a test, posting from my iPod Touch. Read more →
Would a rose by any other name smell just as sweet?
According to a recent study, [names really do make a difference][]: > Parents are being warned to think long and hard when choosing names > for their babies as research has discovered that girls who are given > very feminine names, such as Anna, Emma or Elizabeth, are less likely > to study maths or physics after the age of… Read more →
Happy 35th Birthday Ethernet
[May 22, 1973: Enter Ethernet][] > 1973: Bob Metcalfe of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center writes a > memo outlining how to connect the think tank’s new personal computers > to a shared printer. The memo puts forth the basic properties of — > and names — ethernet. Looking at his diagram, he had the foresight to see networking… Read more →
Wiimote interactive whiteboard success
Since I am home this week, I decided to get caught up on some projects. The big one was working on getting an [interactive whiteboard setup going with a Nintendo Wiimote and an infrared pen][]. This morning, I finally got my infrared pen working. What I did was bought a cheap LED flashlight from Walmart and replaced one of the… Read more →
Why do students need email?
[![][]][]On the Ohio Technology Coordinator’s listserv this question was posted: > We already had one case of student to teacher generated e-mail that > originated on a student computer inside the school. The FIRST question > I got as the Tech Director was ‘Why are you allowing students to send > and receive email in school?’ > And my question… Read more →
End of year humor
[Exempt Those Exams!][] Read more →
Maybe, finally, found the perfect blog editor
Although the built-in editor for WordPress works pretty well, it still feels a little bit kludgy. If I’m on my MacBook I like to use Windows Live Writer or Textmate, but Windows Live Writer requires me to fire up VMware and Textmate seems to also be a little kludgy. I’ve looked at the ScribeFire Firefox extension in the past, when… Read more →