January 30th, 2008 · Ryan · No Comments ·
[cross-posted on techotuesday]
After two days of Office2007 training, I’ve a few pieces of info that might be of interest to language folks:
Publish Directly to Blog
This is pretty cool: if you don’t like your blog’s online post editor, or frequently need to blog when no intartubes are available, Word can automagically take content you’ve created in […]
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Tags: languages • learning centers • office2007 • office2008 • software • windows
November 20th, 2007 · Ryan · 2 Comments ·
Recently I’ve noticed a trend towards taking web apps and integrated them more fully into the desktop environment so they act more like normal locally-installed software. (Which seems to defeat the purpose of using web apps? But I digress.) This week’s episode is an overview of three major pieces of that trend: the $200 Walmart […]
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Tags: podcasts • software • web apps
October 6th, 2007 · Ryan · No Comments ·
Hello again from Denver! Here’s yet -another- list of free apps that I hope you find as interesting as I did …
bFree: a freeware program built by UNC-Chapel Hill that allows you to open a Blackboard course’s archive file, to view the documents in a usable file structure, and to extract files individually or in […]
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Tags: software
October 2nd, 2007 · Ryan · 1 Comment ·
I know, I know - it’s Tuesday and we haven’t had a new episode of Tech-o Tuesday in what seems like forever! Well, Felix and I have been incredibly busy and / or sick, but we’re scheduling the next episodes right now. In the meantime, I finally found an evening to sit down and read […]
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Tags: disruptive technologies • podcasts • software
September 12th, 2007 · Ryan · No Comments ·
While Gimpshop has been growing on me as of late, rumors of Photoshop Express still have me excited. No official announcement has been made, and we don’t have many details. Early screenshots reveal a GUI that looks as intuitive as iPhoto, but a bit more useful:
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It seems geared towards the low-to-intermediate user, which is […]
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Tags: software