Today I was trying to network between mine and my wife’s laptop. This was easy when we both had Windows XP. Now, she has Vista and I still have XP. I thought I had set up the networking properly, but alas, it wasn’t working. I enlisted the help of my good friend Google and found the blog of the Proud Geek. The Proud Geek had a great post about just this issue and after following the instructions, I was good to go.
What was tripping me up was what user to use on the sharing screen. I ended up setting the user to Everyone. This seems dangerous, but I have a WEP on my network so neighbors can’t get on and modify our files, so it was all good.
Thanks Proud Geek.
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After making my own font at yourfonts.com I decided to try out another program that the company has, FontCreator. FontCreator is a program created by High-Logic. The program is a very powerful font editing and creating software and its features can be found on these other sites: Genius Share, ilham-links.
What these two sites don’t do, is they don’t try out the program at all or see if it works. I chose to take the new font I made earlier and try to make it a little better. The original font has several unaligned characters and different sized character. I wanted to make them uniform and lined up nicely. Here is the font as it stood after I created it:
So, the capitals looked okay, but it looks like the lowercase g, m, q, r, & w need to be corrected. In Font Creator you are able to Continue Reading…
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Today’s web app is a nice tool for sharing multiple links with others at the same time and can be found at http://www.sharetabs.com/. Here is a useful example: Say you were researching the applications of Twitter in an educational setting. You may have found several links you want to share with a colleague, but don’t want to send an e-mail (or a tweet) with all of those links. Enter ShareTabs.
To create a simple link you head over to the ShareTabs site and paste the links into the text box as shown below.
I am a big fan of screen shots when I am trying to explain a technology topic. This might range from reporting a bug to a website or typing up documentation for my students. When I am working offline I have been using MWSnap which is a free screen capture program that has some nice features above and beyond Window’s print screen. While MWSnap works well, there a web application that is even better for taking screen shots of on-line content (like web sites). This web application is called Kwout and is located at http://kwout.com/. What sets Kwout apart from other screen capture programs is that when you capture a piece of a website the image you capture becomes an image map embedded with hotlinks from the original web site. Here is an example from Wikipedia of my favorite physicist. If you run your mouse over the hyperlinks in the picture, they are actual links to the actual url. Continue Reading…
Following the Illnois Computer Eductors (ICE) Conference I learned about a lot of new and rising web applications that can be used for education or other purposes. In order to myself, and others, navigate through these resources, I am going to attempt to review one of these sites each week. In general I find this web applications fascinating, but I am always a little leary to use them because I fear that they will disappear tomorrow and all my work will be lost. However, even with that reservation, I still use them and love how many amazing free applications are out there for us to use.
Last week I attended the Illinois Computer Educator’s (ICE) Conference in St. Charles, IL. This is the second year I attended the conference. Last year, I went to a pre-conference workshop on how to use pivot tables in Excel, which was interesting, but this year I attended the actual conference. They are many sessions to choose from, and I chose to focus mostly on sessions about new web 2.0 tools (which aren’t all actually web 2.0) and how to implement them.
On a side note, I would like to define web 2.0. Web 2.0 technologies are technologies that utilize two-way information. Continue Reading…
Today at the Ice Conference, here was today’s first memorable comment. It was a picture (which I found a link to on the internet) which is a commentary and where man (possibly at least) started from and where he is today.
Today I am trying to use two new sites that I heard about on the internet. The first is http://yourfonts.com. This is a site where you can create your own font by downloading a template, filling it out and then uploading the template back to their website. Below is a copy of the template that I filled out.
I also was playing with http://scribd.com. This site is designed to let you post items that you write and display them on what they call iPaper. This is a format that will help protect your content from theft and let you embed it in a web-site as shown below.
This site was very easy to use and it accepts OpenOffice.org which I appreciate as an avid user of open source software. I don’t know that I completely have a use for this, but I could write and publish class notes on Scribd. which would allow me to get feedback on them and share than easily with students. I still always have a slight fear of putting too much storage online because sites may vanish tomorrow, but I am creating it online, just uploading it, so this would be a safe altenative.
As always I am astounded by the amount of free software and helpful tools out there. Soon I will post a review of on-line whiteboards that I found.
Today’s good thing was the acquisition of my new 4 GB mini-SD card for my Blackberry. I have become attached to pod casts (because they donwload straight to my phone) recently and I needed some more space, so I am pretty stoked that I have room for pod casts and my music now. I was surprised how cheap it was ($18.88). It was actually cheaper at Wal-Mart than at Circuit City, which is going out of business.
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This is an interesting article from a few years ago that finds that children are as likely to encounter a predator waiting for their bus as they will surfing on line. I think that makes a lot of sense and is really interesting. I am glad that somone has done the research to prove this.
