Software, Methods

  • You have zero privacy, so get over it

    Tech Central Station I joined Friendster, Ryze, Linked-in, Tribe.Net, Yafro, Plaxo and Spoke and stand amazed at the amount of data they hold. If social networking sites continue with the success they’ve had over the last year, Scott McNealy’s quip “you have zero privacy anyway, so get over it,” will be as true as the…

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  • You have zero privacy, so get over it

    Tech Central Station I joined Friendster, Ryze, Linked-in, Tribe.Net, Yafro, Plaxo and Spoke and stand amazed at the amount of data they hold. If social networking sites continue with the success they’ve had over the last year, Scott McNealy’s quip “you have zero privacy anyway, so get over it,” will be as true as the…

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  • A new telecom experience

    From John Perry Barlow’s blog: ‘Joi [Ito] and I were typing at each other over the Net using Apple’s iChat AV. I’ve never liked Internet chat. I don’t like having to type that fast. So, at a certain point, I asked him whether he’d used the audio capacities that are built into iChat AV. I…

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  • Your own handwriting on your computer

    Fontifier lets you use your own handwriting for the text you write on your computer. It turns a scanned sample of your handwriting into a computer font that you can use in your word processor or graphics program, just like regular fonts such as Helvetica. (The server is sometimes down or times out — but…

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  • RSS users group

    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-user/messages has an exchange about evaluating student work via RSS. See messages 175 and 176. I’m not sure how to go about either of the options Philip Miseldine suggests, but perhaps one of us could e-mail him and follow this up?

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  • RSS users group

    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-user/messages has an exchange about evaluating student work via RSS. See messages 175 and 176. I’m not sure how to go about either of the options Philip Miseldine suggests, but perhaps one of us could e-mail him and follow this up?

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  • Posting direct from Word

    I think that’s what’s happened here, courtesy of XML.

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  • Posting direct from Word

    I think that’s what’s happened here, courtesy of XML.

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  • Top 10 Web Tools 2003

    Best and Worst of Messaging & Collaboration in ’03 See full article; brief list as follows: RSS iSight/iChatAV Hydra Technorati RSS goes to Harvard Longhorn Office System Professional/OneNote/Infopath Sun licensing model NetNewsWire Camera phones

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  • A couple of Mac “utilities”

    You may know all about these, but here goes (I just wish they were for the PC, too): OmniWeb 5 LaunchBar

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