Tag: Experimenting
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How I scalped .mac
Like many others out there I’ve been tossing back and forth about leaving .mac. This year I got my own host and for the intro price, what I’m getting can’t even be considered to be in the same ballpark. But even next year when my hosting comes up, I’ll have way more functionality for almost…
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Google Gadgets
If you want to add all sorts of bite sized interactive content to a website, Google has now released its Gadgets. And yes, there is even a Bejeweled gadget to destroy any hope of productivity (I was going to add it, but then thought that I best not, so I’ll link it instead). These are…
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Firefox 2b1
Great news for all those people who use Firefox and miss OSX’s built in spell checker – it’s now working in the latest version! I’ve been playing with the new beta for a while and it’s certainly very fast and has me thinking about using it as my main browser over Safari. Most of my…
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High School Interface Design Contest
For all those budding Xerox Researchers out there, TAMU is having a contest. I found out about it through one a friend of mine who is involved. Wanted: High school teams who think outside the box and can design innovative and elegant solutions to non-conventional problems. A wide range of interests from art, education, psychology,…
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Making Cuts – Editing Hollywood movies legally?
According to the website this service will allow users to create custom versions of movies (akin to making stories for those of you playing with DVD Studio) so that you can take out or add elements to a DRMed movie without manipulating the original content. What I think will be useful for schools (if it’s…