Archives for February, 2008
Our Nutrition Services department is working to offer more locally produced food in our school cafeterias. They have a program called Harvest of the Month and on Tuesday they invited local media to our school to talk to students about the latest choice…. beets… I hate beets Technorati Tags: beets
iPodia “iPodia is a Wikipedia viewer for your iPod touch or iPhone. With this application, you can view articles in an optimized layout, find certain text in the article, and save the article as a data URL for offline reading.” (tags: wikipedia touch ipod iphone wiki ipodtouch mobile)
Children and Youth – Play – Development – Science – New York Times What can science tell us about why kids run and jump? (tags: children psychology health education play nytimes) PEDIAPHON EN MP3 files, playlists and podcasts automatically generated from Wikipedia! (tags: audio speech wikipedia podcast tools mp3)
Social Media in the 1990’s | Copy Brighter Compare and contrast the rise of social media tools with life before them… (tags: web2.0 socialmedia courosa socialnetworking social technology) surveillancesaver SurveillanceSaver is a screensaver for OS X and Windows that shows live images of over 400 network surveillance cameras worldwide (tags: surveillance camera screensaver) Photojojo’s Photo [...]
DeliciousSafari DeliciousSafari is a Safari plug-in for del.icio.us that lets you access and share your bookmarks. (tags: del.icio.us safari mac delicious plugin macosx) “The Connection Has Been Reset” James Fallows writes about “The Great Firewall of China.” (tags: china censorship theatlantic firewall politics) James Fallows Blogs This is the blog of James Fallows… (tags: fallows [...]
Photo Dropper is a WordPress plugin that allows you to easily search for and place Creative Commons licensed photos from Flickr in your weblog posts. The Plugin provides a search field within the post interface that allows you to search via key words. It provides the option of placing a small, medium or large images [...]
This is not an advertisement for The Education Trust, nor is it an endorsement of all that The Education Trust stands for. This post is merely my commentary on one aspect of The Education Trust's practices - assessing standards in practice.In 2003, I ...
Craig Nansen has developed a nice little Google Maps mashup called Tweet Map. Kind of like Twittermap, except it only notes those that you follow. I tried it yesterday at work and ended up keeping the window open on my second monitor. Kind of a nice way to keep up with folks throughout the day. [...]
Safari HD is now available Safari for the Apple TV (tags: appletv mac safari tv) Poverty Is Poison – New York Times Krugman points out that we continue to ignore the plight of the poor in this country. (tags: poverty krugman nytimes)
I spent some time this weekend learning how to use ScreenFlow, screencast creation software for Mac OS X. I have been using Jing to make short tutorials for my staff. These tutorials are short introductions that highlight features of our web site, or demonstrate how to do common computer tasks. While Jing is free, and [...]
Embedded Media HTML Generator Handy web form for generating HTML code for embedded web media objects… (tags: webdesign quicktime flash real windowmedia video utilities podcast embed howto)
Vara Software : ScreenFlow “ScreenFlow is a complete workflow for creating screencasts: powerful enough to capture your desktop, video camera, microphone & computer audio at the same time.” (tags: apple webcam utilities video screencast recording)
The making of Will.i.am’s Obama video. – By Bonnie Goldstein – Slate Magazine (tags: obama will.i.am video music)
HarperCollins Publishers – Browse Inside for the iPhone Browse Inside digitally replicates the experience of browsing the pages of a book prior to purchasing. To experience the pilot project firsthand, open the Safari browser on your iPhone (tags: books iphone publishing)
iRadioapp.com is a web based application designed for use on the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch, but available through any web browser. It uses radio station listings from Yes.com and returns live information about currently playing and recently played songs for the top 30 US radio markets. Once you have found your station you can [...]
Perian – The swiss-army knife of QuickTime® components Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats. (tags: mac macos opensource osx video quicktime) plasq.com – pluzzle The classic picture puzzle on your computer… (tags: photo mac games)
Stop sharing spreadsheets, start collecting information: The Google Docs Blog posts today about a new feature in Google Docs Spreadsheets called forms. It basically allows you to share a Google Docs Spreadsheet as a form with others and the data they enter in that form is automatically added to a Google Docs Spreadsheet. So rather [...]
“How to create a custom Apple iPhone icon for your Web site”: Tech Support from Ask Dave Taylor! Make a custom icon for your web site to display on the iphon (tags: iphone tools webdesign icons) welcome! | twit.io A database for posting job, event, and video announcements via Twitter… (tags: Database mashup twitter web2.0 [...]
MacThemes / [Growl] iPhonesque — ala the dialog box on iPhone iPhonesque is a Growl style imitating the “pop in” dialog box on the iPhone. (tags: display design plugins growl iphone)
