Got a new phone this week, and I’ve had some ups and downs with it that I will chronicle here. I’ve been truly trying to find the perfect smartphone for me, and I’ve come close in the last year or so. For example, I had a Sprint 8700 that I thought was pretty cool, since [...]

Posted in Blackberry, gadgets, technology

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asus900, originally uploaded by nooccar.

On May 12th the ASUS EeePC 900 hits the US Market. Now some people won’t give a damn, but there’s definitely a niche market who will. My friend Coop has one [...]

Posted in gadgets, macbookair, online, technology

Last night I was grading and went to refresh Google docs. Suddenly everything looked a little different, and I suddenly realized they made a format change that gave me several options I’d been praying for before bed for months. Where to begin?
Page breaks - Google docs now let’s the user set his or her own [...]

Posted in eng101, gadgets, google docs, online, technology, tutorials

This rocks. This woman did the work for me, and she did it almost a year ago. Where’ve you been all my life? Liz B Davis made this Del.icio.us tutorial, and I require most of my classes to use this site. I would say less than half the students stick with it, but it’s definitely [...]

Posted in Video Captures, gadgets, tutorials, video, web2.0

Ever since I’ve hit this whole teaching online thing so hard, I always searched for an easy to use ScreenCast program where I could do simple, yet clear video tutorials that I could post quickly. I thought maybe I could do this through QuickTime Pro, but that program’s been useful elsewhere, and then I tried [...]

Posted in Video Captures, gadgets, tutorials, video

My mother sent me a link to the Kindle video, and I had heard about it on my drive into to work on BuzzOut Loud. This is a small hand held digital reader, which downloads books, blogs, and other text for your reading pleasure anywhere anytime, as long as you are online. Anytime someone [...]

Posted in books, gadgets, technology