Scholarly Life of a Committed Technofile

http://www.fortysomething.ca/mt/etc/archives/006375.php
James, one of the cool and hip dudes in our CTL, just told me about the Firefox addon Snapper. It basically allows you to snip images from a webpage and downloads them as PNG (Portable Network Graphic) files. For those of us who ask students to play with new technologies, and need to make [...]

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Now that I’ve understood what Greasemonkey does for about two weeks, I’m still trying to find scripts and play with it. This Adaptive Blue seems like another page adapter.
Greasemonkey
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748
Greasemonkey is one of the many wonderful Firefox addons. Once you load Greasemonkey on your browser you get a little monkey face in the lower [...]

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http://www.getgspace.com/
Last week (or maybe it was the week before) I read about using Gspace as online server space. So…it uses 2GB of a person’s gmail account as backup server space. I’m all about finding spaces for students to save their work; especially when they don’t own their own computer. On the one hand, I like [...]

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Well, I’ve had my Sandbox series this year. It didn’t end so hot this spring semester. Between my changing calendar and the CTLs new workshop scheduling system…we didn’t see much happening. However, I think the CTL and I got the word out to a number of faculty and staff about some cool tools. In the [...]

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