I have recently started using Safari as my primary browser. I love Firefox, but the Safari Top Sites page that shows images of my favorite sites with little blue corners to indicate they have been updated has inspired a change. But one thing I hated about Safari when I switched was that it insisted on [...]
Best Collaboration Tools
I have been looking for a good online collaboration doc share/edit and project management tool. I have used Buzzword in the past with good results, but unfortunately, Buzzword does not have group functionality where several members can have access to a number of documents in an organized way. So, in conducting a google search, I [...]
Kindle vs. Nook
UPDATE 10 Nov 09: If you are wondering whether Kindle books are compatible with Nook (and vice versa) the answer is no. Kindle uses a proprietary book format that cannot be transferred to another system. Nook’s book format, ePub, is compatible with Sony, so those books would be cross-compatible. I would say this is a [...]
Does Online Education Work?
An article published yesterday by Inside Higher Ed. cited a survey that indicated many universities do not know if their online education programs are profitable or as effective as face-to-face classes. Well, no doubt! Rhetoric about online education has incited a panic at Universities and created a flurry of new distance programs and online course [...]
Bad News
Well, I just got some bad news. For the past few months, I’ve been working a contract job converting classroom trainings into online trainings for a company in Tampa. It has been a dream job. The pay is decent, I work completely from home, I use my own computer, no one watches over my back…I [...]
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