I often recommend that teachers try out Delicious and Diigo.  Great solutions to syncing, sharing and collecting bookmarks. Here’s a short guide to using both.  Once you start using these services, it’s hard to ever bookmark within a browser. I certainly am looking forward to bookmark sync within Google Chrome.  Chrome uses Google Docs for [...]

I gave up IE long ago for Firefox, and now with the new developer edition of Google Chrome and Bookmark syncing, I may give up Firefox as well.  The speed at which Chrome runs is a major draw for me, since I’m opening browsers endlessly through the work day.  I want it to pop!  Click [...]

I checked out TweetBlocker the other day, a new online service that will evaluate all your followers and give them a grade, based mostly on their “quality” and whether they are spammer or not.  My first attempt using the tool kept timing out, probably because it was highly promoted the first day.  When I came [...]

GMail Adds Search For a company devoted to search, it’s pretty amazing that they didn’t add the ability to search from GMail until now.  Now, it will require retraining myself not to open another tab or window to search a topic.  You’d think their primary business would have found its way into GMail.  Repetition is [...]

Search Queries are getting longer Apparently, Internet users are using more words in their web inquiries when they use a search engine, and this is a good thing; it shows we are learning how to search more effectively.  Using one or two words is not guaranteed to provide the best results when you use a [...]