Archives for March, 2008
Dith Pran, ‘Killing Fields’ Photographer, Dies at 65 – New York Times Dith Pran, a photojournalist for The New York Times whose gruesome ordeal in the killing fields of Cambodia was re-created in a 1984 movie that gave him an eminence he tenaciously used to press for his people’s rights, died in New Brunswick, N.J. [...]
Google has recently added some new features to its Google Docs Spreadsheets that now allow you to pull collaborative data from Google Spreadsheets into gadgets for display on iGoogle and also for embedding into other platforms. The Google Docs Blog has a post that outlines the new features. One way a teacher might use these [...]
Data Robotics, Inc. | Products (tags: backup data drobo storage harddrive osx) RSSFWD – RSS Straight into your email inbox. A service by Blue Sky Factory. (tags: mail feeds rss email) Evernote Offers a Backup For Your Brain | Compiler from Wired.com Wired review of Evernote… (tags: evernote wired notetaking productivity) Marvin Minsky essays – [...]
MapJack is a mapping web site that offers street views similar to Google Maps, but with a better interface. Currently it only offers views of San Francisco, Sausalito, and Chaiang Mai in Thailand. While similar to Google’s Street Views its interface is much nicer and it also offers views from parks and walking paths, not [...]
A Victim Treats His Mugger Right : NPR “Julio Diaz ends his daily subway commute one stop early, just so he can eat at his favorite diner. One evening, his routine was broken when a teenage mugger took his wallet at knifepoint. But neither of them could have predicted what happened next…” (tags: npr storycorp) [...]
Useful Google Translate Addresses A listing of links to specific to Google Translation services… (tags: google translation)
Link Extractor :: Webmaster Toolkit Link Extractor will extract all the links from a web page you specify and list them. (tags: extractor HTML links tool Web) American Experience | Ansel Adams (tags: photography documentary pbs anseladams)
YouTube Coming to TV, With TiVo the Gateway – New York Times (tags: youtube tivo tv video web)
Now that you can hit space bar and preview everything, I thought it was about time I could peek into my various huge zip files and see if my file was there. Voila, you can. Here’s the link http://d.hatena.ne.jp/t_trace/20071125/p2
Daniel Cazzulino’s Blog Integrating SMS-based data entry with geographical visualization: a TED demo (tags: sms ted08 ted geosms geo) Welcome To The (Unofficial) AB 430 Principals’ Wiki (tags: markwagner wiki principals presentations workshops) TICAL – Technology Information Center for Administrative Leadership TICAL’s Resource Database contains over 500 carefully selected and annotated resources to help you [...]
I’ve written about PicLens, (here and here) the immersive image technology (a browser extension) that allows you to bring up full screen images to your browser from popular web sites such as Flickr, Google Images, and Yahoo, in addition to providing a plugin that brings the same technology to your blogs. I use it sometimes [...]
BBC Internet Blog – BBC iPlayer On iPhone: Behind The Scenes About the BBC iPlayer… (tags: iphone television iplayer bbc uk media)
Kindle Screen Shots… I have been using my Kindle, Amazon.com’s e-book and document reading device, for a few months and I thought I would post an update on the experience. I have to say I am very happy with the device. Yes, it is kind of ugly looking, Amazon does not win any design awards [...]
Sir Ken Robinson on public speaking Suggestions on public speaking from Sir Ken Robinson… (tags: education publicspeaking robinson speaking speech)
Postcrossing – Postcards Traveling The World “send a postcard and receive one back from a random postcrosser somewhere in the world!” (tags: internet culture postcard travel postcards postcrossing)
35 Ways to Stream Your Life – ReadWriteWeb An overview of lifestreaming applications and services by Josh Catone of Read Write Web… (tags: lifestreaming socialnetworking lifestream web2.0 mashup) Blimp UAV update: Minimum and Maximum versions – DIY Drones I want to build one of the for use in my cafeteria at lunch. Would be fun [...]
Photonic: A Flickr desktop client for Mac OS X A very nice interface for working with and adding to your Flickr images… (tags: photo flickr photography macosx software mac photos) TED | Talks | Roy Gould: WorldWide Telescope (video) Science educator Roy Gould and Microsoft’s Curtis Wong share Microsoft’s new WorldWide Telescope — a technology [...]
