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Internode - Unmetered Content

Internode - Unmetered Content Zac has just pointed out that we can get unmetered downloads from the ABC site. Pretty neat considering the plethora of topics and formats they have available. Seems to be more and more every week.

Landrum Middle School | Edublogs Workshop

link to pdf From K Boan, via James Farmer, comes this handout on Blogging in Wordpress, using the edublogs.org / learnerblogs.org services.

PodPress

link to website PodPress is a plugin for WordPress to make publishing a podcast feed much easier from Dan Kuykendall of http://www.mightyseek.com/ if I ever get around to podcasting this looks like it wouldl make it all quite easy.

Campfire - web based chat option

link to website “Campfire lets you set up secure, password-protected web-based chat rooms in just seconds. Invite a client, a colleague, or a vendor to a chat. Set up a room on your intranet for internal communications. Conduct meetings with people around…

Collections of Software

A couple of collections of software that have been circulating around the blogosphere. Portable applications can be loaded onto a USB drive meaning they can be used wherever needed. This can mean having your usual tools at your fingertips and not worrying so…

Elluminate Live! v6.5 Orientation

Orientation | Welcome link for future reference

Flickr Badge

I spotted this on someone else’s blog … You need to be a Flickr member to set one up, so sign up, load up some photos and create one at http://www.flickr.com/badge_new.gne HTML Version (for some reason the Flash one only wants to work in the sidebar of my…

Flickr Postcard browser

link to website just as fun as the Tag Browser from the same people at this address http://www.airtightinteractive.com/projects/related_tag_browser/app/ Flickr Postcard Browser This application lets you browse Flickr’s huge image database, by searching for…

Shareware and Free Software - DoE

Software Shareware and Free Software list from Dept of Education Tasmania which covers: # Web Tools # Graphics, animation and Image manipulation # CAD and 3D software # Concept mapping # Programming (inc games programming) # Typing Tutors # Sound and Music…

ipod stand from cardboard

link to pdf This foldable ipod stand could be a good solution to the cable tangle on my desk. Need to hunt out a great image/pattern for it too.

Total Cost of Ownership and Open Source Software in Schools

link to pdf (~80 pages) TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE Research paper by Kathryn Moyle Department of Education and Children's Services South Australia from the Introduction… “The aim of this paper is to contribute to the shared…

Macromedia Captivate

A Quick Look at Macromedia Captivate A Quick Look at Macromedia Captivate By Paul Clothier brief intro to the capability of the software

Web Conferencing Tools

link to website Conferencing on the Web “A comprehensive guide to software that powers discussions on the internet Web Conferencing - Video Conferencing - Online Meetings - Instant Messaging - Forums & Message Boards - Groupware Social Software for Online…

Internet changes over 10 years

link to website from Seth Godin “Yes, it’s only been ten years. And despite our memories of the crash of 2000, here are ten reasons why I believe that there’s about to be a significant flourishing of Net companies and business successes, not to mention…

Laptop Sleeves

link to website these look seriously cute.

Camera Phone Usage Patterns

link to pdf by OKABE, Daisuke of Keio University “This paper reports on an ethnographic study of camera phone usage in Tokyo, based on a diary study of usage patterns.”

Sunrise 0.2.1

alternative to jpluck Sunrise 0.2.1

Palm 71 with new PIM features

link to websitea> for Robin’s Zire 71

Panasonic SV-AS10 D-Snap Digital 4-in-1

Review: Panasonic SV-AS10 D-Snap Digital 4-in-1 : Reviews : MobileMag

mfop2 gallery

Untitled Document To post pictures to your Gallery

mfop2 again

gme.jp: How to make a moblog sidebar in MovableType How to make a moblog sidebar in MovableType There is already one tutorial linked to at Mfop2 that documents a way to make a sidebar that displays moblog pictures in your main blog using PHP. I’ve found…

T3

Palm InfoCenter | Software Store T3Rotate is a simple utility designed to overcome this small but annoying oversight in the Palm OS DIA (Dynamic Input Area) design. Tap the rotate button once to rotate your screen in the usual way, but a second tap rotates…

LibraryLookup

link to website Clicking the bookmarklet when a book page is current……looks up the book in your local library. If your local public (or college) library is one of these Innovative, Voyager, iPac, DRA, or Talis Web-enabled libraries, find your library on the…

Top 10 Open Source Tools for eActivism

link to website Dan Bashaw and Mike Gifford have put together a terrific list of Open Source tools that can be used by activists to spread the message and promote interaction by enewsletters, forums, blogs, wikis and epetitions.

The Myths of Open Source

link to website BY MALCOLM WHEATLEY “THE BOTTOM LINE Is open source right for every organization? In the end, argues Andy Mulholland, chief technology officer for Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, it’s a question of attitude. “The arguments for and against…

Gibberish

toolbot.com : ungreek ungreek For years, designers have been using fake Latin gibberish known as greeking (or sometimes lorem ipsum, after the customary initial words) as a text placekeeper. It conveys the shape and “color” of text without the distraction of…

Trimming length for tags in MT

movabletype.org : Support Forum Trims the tag value to the first N characters, where N is specified as the value of the attribute. Example usage: CODE

Liquid layouts the easy way

Max Design - Liquid layouts - the easy way By Russ Weakley 30-Dec-03 This article explains one method of achieving a successful liquid layout as well as providing basic definitions of liquid, fixed-width and em-driven layouts.

Open Source Advisory Service

[oss watch] Open Source Advisory Service OSS Watch provides the UK further and higher education community with neutral and authoritative guidance about free and open source software, and about related open standards. Specifically, it offers: A web-based…

Thinking XML: Learning Objects Metadata

link to website By Uche Ogbuji “The education technology field is leading the way with some very interesting uses of XML metadata in practice. A wide range of specifications, standards, and developments exist in the area, but at the center of things is the…

Why use CSS

Complete CSS Guide: Why use CSS? Why should I use CSS? Style sheets exist, above all, to enable the following principle to be put into practice. Web pages should separate content from appearance. As a developer this means that the information in your web…

Open Source Tools

Open source tools for teachers Examples of tools teachers can use to design, deploy and manage learning environments” href=”http://www.designplanet.com.au/Marty/moodle/mod/resource/view.php?id=12″>martymoodle: Open source tools for teachers Examples of tools…

Hyperlinking to 3rd Party sites

Legal Issues in Flexible Learning - Q and A When developing online material I was asked to obtain copyright clearance on 500 links. The task proved to be impossible because 1) most webmasters did not reply 2) Some were openly hostile arguing that there is no…

opensourceCMS

opensourceCMS “This site was created with one goal in mind. To give you the opportunity to “try out” some of the best php/mysql based free and open source software systems in the world. You are welcome to be the administrator of any site here, allowing you…

Online guide to html

http://www.htmlreference.com/htmlref89.html Great online guide to html code including explanation of the attributes. Tags etc organised by category.