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Category Archives: Cool Tools
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Claire Donald has just shown us a nifty new visualisation tool developed by IBM: Many Eyes We believe that visualizations gain power when multiple people use them to communicate, and that communication gains power when multiple people can visualize and … Continue reading
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A(nother) university with blogs
UMW: a university with blogs http://umwblogs.org/ “No parameters, just engage honestly with what you are doing, thinking about” – Jim Groom, in his OpenEd session. 2900 users in 2300 blogs. People given their own spaces. Jim’s Blog. Case study: “I … Continue reading
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Firefox 3: Download day
Tomorrow our time. 1.3 million and counting The only browser still to have things I am jealous of is Safari.
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Picassa fun and linux
Just catching up with a little glitch in Gmail, and looking at the Google blogs. Got diverted into the Picasa blog. 1. Picasa now runs on Linux. One step closer to a M$ free machine. 2. Control-Shift Y in Picasa … Continue reading
Another interesting free tool: for writing a novel
Provide a structure for your story, scenes, chapters, numbering etc etc. Then write. Then, when you need to: see things in overview, detail, structural, character, scenes etc. Repeat 2 and 3. When you have finished, export it to your DTP … Continue reading
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Free tools
PDF writer. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=57796&package_id=53473 Quite a nice little programme: automatically installed as a print driver in Word. Have created several PDF’s and they all seem very fine. Evernote This is like a personal receptacle for all your thoughts and ideas with … Continue reading
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Tags in delicious are not bookmarks
Last year my laptop was reimaged, and I’m just getting some basics sorted – like some Firefox plugins for delicious. I still have not found what I’m looking for. I tried a plug-in I had not seen before. Delicious Bookmarks. … Continue reading
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Blogs, Adverts and Books.
Alex Boschmans discovered yesterday I’d commented favourably on his blog design, but with a little throw away comment on the Google Ads. Alex’s comment: It’s true, I admit it, I put a google ad on my frontpage. But it’s supposed … Continue reading
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Open source cross platform DTP
I’ve just discovered an open source cross platform Desk Top Publishing program. http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=index I’d wondered why I had not come across it. OS X port in 2005, Windows Port in 2006, originally Linux – that’s probably why. Looks good with … Continue reading
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Wikis and WYSIWYG
It is sad that the best editors that come native with wikis are in non-opensource products. eg. Jotspot (which has just been bought by Google), Seedwiki and Wikispaces for instance. It’s to do with markup language. Mediawiki is probably the … Continue reading
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