Finding new technology so you don't have to
The ECAR survey folks always have interesting information to present. Free and online. Hope to see you there! For those who can’t attend, but are interested, I’ll be tweeting live during the event. Follow me on Twitter by clicking the… Read moreEDUCAUSE Live! Web Seminar: ECAR National Study of Undergrads and Info Tech 2011
Quick tech tip: Change the default color of comment boxes in MS Word 2010. In any MS Word document, select the “Review” tab, click on “Track Changes” then select “Change Tracking Options. Next to “Comments” click the dropdown menu and… Read moreQTT: Change Comment Color in Word 2010
Dropbox.com provides you with 2GB free space out of the box. If other people who are invited by you join, Dropbox will increase your allotted space by either 500MB (edu accounts) or 250MB (everyone else) up to an additional 16GB… Read moreDropbox: How to Get More Free Space
I bet you don’t schedule many appointments between 9pm and 8am. Yeah, me neither. Google Calendar now gives you the option to hide those hours, or whatever early/late hours you choose. To activate the option, go to your Google Calendar,… Read moreGoogle Calendar: Hide Late/Early Hours
My friends over at the Teaching High School Psychology blog, just posted about the 60 Minutes segment on the flavorists which they describe as “a nice piece on the flavor industry and their attempt to create ‘addictive flavors’ to woo… Read more60 Minutes: Chrome App
UPDATE: TodaysMeet shut down on June 16, 2018. I just finished reading a Scientific American blog on how people watch television. The author reports that “TV networks have taken to dividing their audience into two new segments.” There are those… Read moreTodaysMeet: A Walled-Off Space for You and Your Class
Qwerty? 123456? Ashley? Bailey? SplashData has released the list of the top 25 passwords culled from lists produced by hackers. Is yours on the list? Password security is the best thing you can do to protect yourself. I use LastPass… Read morePassword Security: Can I Guess Your Password?
A little comic interlude. From failblog.
[Update 6/20/2013: Sandglaz converted all of the grids to infinity grids. This added a whole new complexity to Sandglaz that I don’t need, so I’m no longer using Sandglaz.) I feel like I’m continually on a search for a good task… Read moreSandglaz: Task Management
Web browsers have gotten smarter. Enter a few letters and the browser flips through your browsing history to find matches. Want to go even faster? Check out Shortmarks. When I type gm into my web browser’s address bar and hit… Read moreShortmarks: Shortened Bookmarks