Posted in search engine, technology, tagged cuil, google, reference, resource, search engine, website on July 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Cuil.com, originally uploaded by Litandmore.
http://www.cuil.com/
By Eric AuchardMon Jul 28, 1:18 AM ET
A start-up led by former star Google engineers on Sunday unveiled a new Web search service that aims to outdo the Internet search leader in size, but faces an uphill battle changing Web surfing habits.
Cuil Inc (pronounced “cool”) is offering a new search service [...]
Posted in technology, tagged dummy, microsoft access, reading on July 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
After struggling to get Access to do what I wanted, I swallowed my pride and checked out Access 2007 for Dummies.
Posted in Education, school library, technology, web 2.0, tagged alice.org, computer instruction, computer programming, Education, gaming, programming, Randy Pausch, the last lecture, virtual reality on June 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve spent the afternoon reading Randy Pausch’s inspirational book, The Last Lecture. He helped develop Alice, the Carnegie Mellon 3D programming world that makes it easy for people of all ages to create animations. It is a free service that millions have downloaded. To Randy, Alice “…is infinitely scalable. It’s scalable to the point where [...]
Posted in Interesting, technology, tagged microsoft, shortcuts, web, word, word processing on June 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Microsoft Office Word, originally uploaded by tuttovolume.
I’m a huge fan of Microsoft Word shortcuts-always have been! My students leave third grade with a bag of tricks. PC Magazine put out a list of ‘Eight Handy Tools in Microsoft Word You Probably Don’t Know!” I only knew 6 out of 8. Hmm…
Microsoft Word is [...]
Posted in technology, tagged associated press, blogs, iphone, news on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The iPhone changes your life. I just added Mobile News Network, a news aggregation Web application. It provides international, national, and local news. You can read more about it at the Associated Press website or @ www.iphone.com/webapps.
Posted in technology, web 2.0, youtube, tagged schedule, web 2.0 on April 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Posted in technology, tagged flickr, jenny levine, photo applications, photos, piclens on March 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Shifted Librarian blogged about PicLens, a cool photo application that turns your browser into a 3-D experience for viewing pictures. I played around with it for a while and can see students having a lot of fun! The free download is avaliable at http://www.piclens.com/site/ie/. It works with Google, Picasa, flickr, Yahoo!, Facebook, and more! [...]
Posted in technology, tagged apple, iphone, ipod, itunes, tutorial, wikipedia on February 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Posted in technology, youtube, tagged nintendo ds, professor layton, professor layton and the curious village, videogames on January 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ll be getting this for Nintendo DS on February 10th.
Posted in Education, technology, tagged documentary, Education, growing up online, internet, online, online culture, teachers, youth on January 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By Maureen Ryan
Tribune television critic
January 22, 2008
During the time that I should have been writing a review of “Growing Up Online” (9 p.m. Tuesday, WTTW-Ch. 11), a sobering “Frontline” documentary, I did what people with computers do — I perused e-mail, worked on my blog, read reader comments there and checked [...]
Posted in technology on January 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Posted in technology, tagged screensaver, web applications on January 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Instasaver allows one to build Animated Slideshow Screensavers rather quickly. You can upload pictures from your computer or get photos from Flickr. There are over 150 animation effects and fun transitions. I’ve had a lot of fun playing around with the program while avoiding school work.
Posted in technology, tagged pdf files, pdf., software, technology on January 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Life just keeps getting easier. Check out this neat tool.
PDF Hammer is a website that allows you to edit your PDF files online for free. You don’t need to install any additional software, you can edit PDF documents right now inside your browser. Once you start, you will be able to upload one or more [...]
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