Archive for November, 2008

Adding on to the Firefox Experience

Fashion Your Firefox Definitely the best feature of Firefox is the vast collection of add-ons available to improve the browsing experience.  Not IE or Chrome has made as serious an effort to offer more functionality to the browser.  I’d imagine that many people who use Firefox do not realize the value of the add-on. I [...]

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Google Docs: A Small Mindshare

Most users don’t office in the cloud: 1% use Google Docs This doesn’t surprise me at all.  Google Documents is a very limited online word processor and spreadsheet program.  It doesn’t make sense in most capacities because most of the time people want to quickly create a Word or Excel spreadsheet and print.  Sharing is [...]

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1 Reason why 7 Reasons are Not Enough for Diigo Tasting Better Than Delicious

7 Reasons Diigo Tastes Better Than Delicious | MakeUseOf.com One reason why Diigo is not better than Delicious for students and educators is it’s not simple.  I believe that  new users to a technology need to be able to understand the value of a tool or website or program rapidly if they will adopt it [...]

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Messing with the Pipes

I finally took some time to try out Yahoo Pipes.  I watched the tutorial and it’s pretty clear the function of the Pipes.  It basically takes a number of sources (Yahoo Sports, LA Times, Google News, websites or feeds), and allows you to combine them together and select certain filters based on the title or [...]

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Adobe Media Player

Since I recently purchased Flash CS4, I wanted to get a rundown on the new features, such as the Bone Tool, the Deco and Spray tool, as well as the new Motion Tweening.  I haven’t spent much time using the Adobe Media Player, but it is a free installation.  You first have to install Adobe [...]

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