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Cruz: A Smart, Multi-Pane Browser
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Taking a look at Cruz....
Think you've found the best browser to surf the web with? You may be selling yourself short. Mac users with Leopard should check out the latest entrant into the browser world, Cruz.
Convert PDFs to Word Online with Three Clicks [PDF]
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I've been looking for something like this...
Stuck with a PDF file and no application that will let you edit it? PDF UNdo Online is easy, free, works on any computer and there's no registration required.
Marking work in Google Docs | ICT in my Classroom
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At Lewis we have been using Google Docs with our older students and staff this fall. Tom Barrett has been using Google Docs with his students for a while and his web site is a great resource for those just starting out...
What is the best way to give feedback on a piece of work produced in Google Docs? What formatting tools are most appropriate to use when leaving comments? How do you organise 30 to 60 pieces of work handed in to you? How do children hand in work? What new possibilities does this process uncover?
Apple Working On Kindle-Killer?John Markoff at the New York Times writes that there’s evidence that Apple is working on a Kindle-killer.*According to Markoff, his contact at a search engine company has*”spotted Web visits from an unannounced Apple product with a ...
Greater access to voting information
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A voting resource from Google...
At Google, we pride ourselves on helping people find things on the Internet. And every four years in America, Google Trends shows that people are searching to find voting information, like how to register and where to vote.
It's hard to believe that in 2008, information so important to U.S. citizens and the democratic process isn't well organized on the web. To solve this problem, we've released our US Voter Info site, an effort to simplify and centralize voting locations and registration information.
NatsuLion
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Another Twitter client for the iphone...
NatsuLiphone is a simple Twitter client for iPhone/iPod touch.
It's based on NatsuLion for Mac OSX.
My Proposal to use Google Docs for Online Reporting to Parents | ICT in my Classroom
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Tom Barrett is planning to use a shared Google Doc to update the parents of his students on their progress in class...
What follows is a proposal I submitted to my headteacher regarding a trial of the use of Google Docs (as part of the Education Apps) to deliver online reporting
Pew Internet: Networked Families
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I heard about this yesterday, and hope to have some time to read it later this week...
The internet and cell phones have become central components of modern family life. Among all household types, the traditional nuclear family has the highest rate of technology usage and ownership.
ConceptDraw Mind Mapping Software Free for a Limited Time [Featured
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Follow the link to the Lifehacker article for details...
Windows/Mac OS X only: The robust mind mapping and brainstorming application from ConceptDraw—normally a whopping $200—is free for a limited time.
Google to Digitize Newspaper Archives - NYTimes.com
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This is an expansion of a service that Google already has in place with The New York Times. The Washington Post and Time magazine... Another great primary source for research...
Google has begun scanning microfilm from some newspapers’ historic archives to make them searchable online, first through Google News and eventually on the papers’ own Web sites...
iPhone stand in action on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
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Turn your iPhone into a bedroom clock...
I'd been after a nice looking digital clock for the bedroom for ages, so I was pleased with the 'Digital Clock' app from the iPhone App Store. It's quite customizable (colour, brightness and digit style) and auto-rotates. Only problem is you have to leave it on all night - which used to drain the battery almost flat, until I discovered the 'Airplane Mode'!
Safety Concerns Eclipse Civic Lessons as Schools Cancel Classes on Election Day - NYTimes.com"
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I find this kind of sad. I remember working at my old school on election day with the community coming in. Was a great learning opportunity for my students. Of course then Oregon went to vote by mail... I hate vote by mail... I always liked going to the polling place. Now I fill it out my ballot at my kitchen table... not the same...
“In a post-Columbine, post-9/11 world, we shouldn’t be opening the doors at our schools on Election Day, and just hoping everything will be O.K.”
How Nate Silver Went From Forecasting Baseball Games to Forecasting Elections -- New York Magazine"
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Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight.com is profiled in New York Magazine. This guy writes about my two favorite things, baseball and politics...
Nate Silver is a number-crunching prodigy who went from correctly forecasting baseball games to correctly forecasting presidential primaries—and perhaps the election itself. Here’s how he built a better crystal ball."
State of the Art - A Look at Google’s First Phone - NYTimes.com"
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David Pogue looks at the G1 phone from Google and T-Mobile. I was in a T-Mobile shop last week and the sales guy pulled one out from the back room and was showing it to customers. I didn't get to hold it, but it looked pretty nice...
A rival to the iPhone is about to debut, with software by Google, body by HTC and network by T-Mobile.
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How I use Quicksilver II: Scripts | jwdunn"
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Joseph Dunn explains how he uses Quicksilver. In this second part he talks about scripts and how he uses Quicksilver to do all kinds of useful things on his Mac. The one that caught my eye is the script that strips out formating from copied text...
Quicksilver is the first program any self-respecting Mac user should install on their box. Instead of giving a general overview of its features (there are already plenty of those), I’m going to prove Quicksilver’s worth by going over exactly how I use it.
This is part two, on scripts.
As I mentioned in the first installment of this bit, I’m going to devote this entire post to explaining how I use scripts with QS. I want to go over some general tricks for employing Quicksilver to run Applescripts and commands as well as discuss some useful QS actions, which are just more complicated scripts that accept inputs from the QS interface.
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What we can learn from the president: Doris Kearns Goodwin on TED.com"
Looking at vast political trends through the lens of a single story, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin talks about what we can learn from American presidents, including Abraham Lincoln and Lyndon Johnson. Listen for stories of decision, doubt and resolve, from people of great power and great character. To sum up, she shares a moving memory of her own father, and of their shared love of baseball. (Recorded February 2008 in Monterey, California. Duration: 18:48.)
Interior 3D Building Tour With Google Earth PluginA Singapore-based company called Peekspy has used Google Earth technology in an innovative way. Instead of just showing the normal Earth map or an exterior 3D building, they are instead using Google Earth technology to provide a 3D architectural walkthrough of the inside of a building. Go to Source
CQ Politics | Fact-Checking the Ayers Allegations: So Wrong, It’s “Pants on Fire” Wrong
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A look at the Annenberg Foundation that seems to have everyone all upset...
The McCain campaign said the “radical education foundation” to which they were referring is the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a charity endowed by publishing magnate Walter Annenberg that funded public-school programs in Chicago from 1995 to 2001...
Under ‘No Child’ Law, Even Solid Schools Falter - NYTimes.com
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A look at the increasing harder benchmarks of NCLB...
Required to make a giant leap in improving test scores, many once-successful schools in California have stumbled.
Too Much News? - NYTimes.comIt's hard not to watch the news, with the financial markets in meltdown and the presidential campaign entering the homestretch. But how much is too much?