Columbia Libraries Go for Google Video
The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog: Columbia Libraries Go for Google Video:
Nearly 100 hours of lectures, interviews, and courses from Columbia University will go up on Google Video, the Columbia University library system announced today. Google gave Columbia a grant of $50,450 to create 54 hours of new content and to convert 38 hours of MPEG2 content for the Google Video site. The university’s new media shop, Digital Knowledge Ventures, will do the work.
Web 2.0 Backpack: Web Apps for Students
Web 2.0 Backpack: Web Apps for Students:
“When I was in college most of the tools in this round up didn’t exist. It was truly the dark ages of education! Well, okay, it was a just a few years ago, but just in this decade, and especially in the last few years, a handful of tools to make school life easier have appeared. What follows is the set of web tools I would put in my backpack were I headed back to school tomorrow.”
via LifeHacker
How to…make NeoOffice run faster
Thursday June 21st 2007, 2:00 pm
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How To...Zolved - How to make OpenOffice run faster in Ubuntu
This little guide was written for the Linux version of Open Office, but the tips seems to work on the OS X with NeoOffice too. The Neo Office preferences can be found in the Neo Office menu.
(via LifeHacker)
swissmiss: love bags?
swissmiss: love bags?
From what I can tell by looking over your shoulders, laptop bags seem to be a hot item a this week.
-Russ
Featured Firefox Extension: Approve sites your kid visits with Glubble - Lifehacker
Featured Firefox Extension: Approve sites your kid visits with Glubble - Lifehacker
This is a post from LifeHacker, a very well regarded blog owned by blog heavy weight Gawker Media, that dispenses all sorts of tips about improving your life with and sometime without computers. If you are at all interested in the discussion about how to keep young kids safe on the internet, please read this post and check out the comments.
VirtueDesktops
Tuesday June 19th 2007, 8:33 pm
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VirtueDesktops
This is a really great virtual desktop program for OS X (and its free). Virtual desktop are actually been around for over 20 years in Unix-land. Think of you monitor as only displaying a fraction of a much larger desktop space, similar to how a microfilm reader only displays a portion of the content on the film. With a much larger desktop you can have more windows open,spread out, and spatially organized to your liking. You can easily change which part of your very-large-but-partially-obscured desktop is visible and avoid having to constantly hide/show or minimize/expand your open windows.
The next version of OS X, OS X 10.5 Leopard, will have a very similar virtual desktop feature called Spaces. Until then, VirtueDesktop is a very good alternative.
For more neat program that you can add to your new computer check this out…
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