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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Google Spreadsheet Forms for class/meeting sign-ups
I was trying to think of a quick and easy way to have my staff sign up for classes. Right before I sat down to whip something up with a little php/mysql I realized I could just use a google form. [][]To get started, log into Google Docs and under the New button, one of…
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eTech Ohio ’09 Presentation page updated
[][]I’ve uploaded my slides, my handout, and audio from my presentation at the eTech Ohio 2009 Technology Conference to the eTech Ohio ‘09 presentation page. Wes Fryer’s notes from my presentation are also online. If you have any further questions or comments, please let me know! []: http://ryancollins.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/etech-2009-handout.png