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Lesson ideas using Google
From search games to presentations on how to use Docs & Spreadsheets with your students, here you can find real-world examples of innovative ways that teachers and librarians are using Google tools to help students learn.
PC Hell - zomg there really is such a place
Everyone has been to PC Hell at one time or another. It's that place you visit when your personal computer is driving you insane with problems. Great site for pensioners with nothing better to do with their time. Fix a Ballmer's mistakes.
FORTUNE: Apple’s market share of PCs over $1,000 hits 66%
In the lucrative >$1,000 PC segment, in the first quarter of 2008, Apple's retail market share was 66%. This includes a 64% market share for laptops and a market share for desktops of 70%.
Trim Down Windows to the Bare Essentials
Whether you want to put Windows on a diet in a virtual machine or you want to get Windows up and running all snappy-like on older hardware, you've got a handful of excellent and free options at your disposal.
Jackson Pollock by Miltos Manetas
A Greek-born, London-based artist, Manetas explores the worlds of computers through everything from oil paintings of cables and hardware to video pieces featuring Tomb Raider and Super Mario, which he uses to comic effect.
Upgrade from Vista to Windows XP
To be honest there is only one conclusion to be made; Microsoft have really outdone themselves in delivering a brand new operating system that really excels in all the areas where Vista was sub-optimal.
Vista disgust helping Mac 'Leopard' sign-ups News - PC Advisor
Apple's Mac OS X 10.5 'Leopard' is being pre-ordered at twice the rate Mac OS X 10.4 was in the week before its release, MacObserver reports, with the current anti-Vista movement among the factors encouraging people to sign up to the new Mac OS.
Windows shocker: 67% would buy XP over Vista
Is Windows Vista the biggest PR failure in Microsoft's history? I don't remember the criticism being this bad a year after XP was launched, nor any of its predecessors.
Opera Mini™ 4 beta
Point your phone browser to mini.opera.com/beta to get a decent browser on JasJam. Allows you to send Gmail from your JasJam.
100 Web 2.0 Ideas for Educators
This guide provides K12 educators with a number of ways to use Web 2.0 in their classrooms.
Ends of Days » » Extinction Momentum and the Critical Band
Like an animal enlarging its own teeth, sharpening its own claws, we have actively re-endowed our own ferocity, so much as to exceed the scope of possible targets. I dare say an animal that could claw the world in two so fairly might.
See-Through Frog Bred in Japan
Masayuki Sumida, a professor at the Institute for Amphibian Biology at Japan's Hiroshima University, bred the frog to be a humane learning tool. "You can watch organs of the same frog over its entire life, as you don't have to dissect it,"
FuturePD Home
Tools for the digital age that will facilitate collaboration and communication. This is an exciting time to be an educator. Make sure you have the skills and the pedagogy to maximise the effectiveness of tools like these.
TED | Talks | John Maeda: Simplicity patterns (video)
The MIT Media Lab's John Maeda lives at the intersection of technology and art -- a place that can get very complicated. Here, he talks about paring down to basics, and how he creates clean, elegant art, websites and web tools.
collectZing a site for collectors
We all know that documenting your collectibles can be time consuming. That's why we tried to invent the best and easiest way possible to keep all your collectibles in order.
Teacher fights to take gun to class | Oddly Enough | Reuters.com
PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - An Oregon high school teacher on Tuesday sued for her right to bring a gun into the classroom for personal protection, clashing with anti-gun advocates fighting for years to rid U.S. schools of weapons.
Cold War 2.0 - open source software on every computer in Russia by 2009
Sputnik's launch got everyone's attention, galvanized America and pushed us all forward. Will the installation of free, open source software on every computer in Russia catch the attention of American legislators?
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