I’ve just installed the Google Chrome browser to have a play. A few thoughts so far: Though it is based on Mozilla, it doesn’t offer the option to create a Master Password; so, the option to save passwords isn’t as useful. (That’s the main reason I don’t use it in IE, I can’t have the…
I’ve used Googlemaps for some time now to plan routes. It’s now recently started including public transport (seems to be limited to buses) and walking. Given that I’d expect the walking route to take the most direct route, while avoiding motorways, I decided to see what it recommended for walking to Exeter from Southsea. I’m…
Just a couple of sites that I’ve come across in the past couple of days. Phun is a physics engine. It has to be downloaded & installed. From what I can tell, it saves in its own format. It seems much more powerful than the physics engine for the Tablet PC, though probably more complex…
I’ve just had a wee play with 280 Slides. I’m impressed. It let me search online for images & videos that could be embedded, and then let me upload it to slideshare. In terms of Presentations, it’s not got too many choices, just a few backgrounds & a few layouts – but given that most…
Jane Hart’s “25 Tools” is today’s Slideshow of the Day Of those she lists: Firefox – yes (and Flock) Delicious – got an account, but never use it. Google Reader – yes, embedded into my iGoogle page (& now into Vista’s Sidebar) Gmail – yes – again into iGoogle (though not the Vista sidebar ……
I’ve used Slideshare quite a bit since I discovered it (apparently I first mentioned in it June 06), and I’ve also looked at other sites that offer similar functionality, though have tended to stick to slideshare as I’m used to it. There are other sites, though, that have additional functionality, and I do rather like…
I’ve just updated WordPress to 2.6 – which seems to be promising quite a few new features: https://videopress.com/v/mARhRBcT/fmt_std I’ve also been beta testing the Elgg 1.0 over the past few weeks. It seems to have a lot of new, useful features – I’m looking forward to being able to install & have a play soon….
A colleague has just shown me Wordle which is really rather fun. You have to paste in a chunk of text, or a site that has a feed. It then creates a cloud (much like a tag cloud) of all the words that are in it. It ignores common words (e.g. The, and), but not…
In this week’s Multiple choice (in the Guardian Education Supplement), a parent, teacher & student were asked the above question. Both the teacher As a teacher, I think this kind of site has got to be part of the future. and the parent but I do think it’s possibly more likely you’ll get more from…
I’ve been fairly busy over the last few weeks – what with marking etc. On Monday, on the way to the HEA Conference, I decided to test out both my new tablet PC & NXEC’s free wireless service. It worked fine – I got posted quite a few posts that had been in draft for…