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[Flickr Photo Find] Attack of the Mac Lego Force: “Operation Control+Option+Command+8″

Dreams – 6/365 Originally uploaded by tranchis My students would get a kick out this image of the Lego pieces taking over the computer. FYI— The “Operation” name in the posting title is a keyboard shortcut prank that I often see when I visit the local Best Buy Apple section. Have you ever noticed that [...]

iTunes U for K-12

{Classic Post: Originally posted at http://blog.eledtech.com on 7/1/08} Pretty exciting news came my way via Kelly Dumont. iTunes U, a wonderful free service full of rich content from universities and community colleges across the nation, is now spreading to K-12! Kelly has a great post on his blog where he talks a little bit about [...]

New Free Apps for the Mac: Desktop Curtain and Plainview

{Classic Post: Originally posted at http://blog.eledtech.com on 6/16/08} Found these free apps the other day when looking for presentation support software. One is called Desktop Curtain which displays a blank desktop right in front of your cluttered desktop. The other application is called Plainview. Plainview is a full screen web browser. Both are free and [...]

Great PDF Document Viewer for the Mac: Skim

{Classic Post: Originally posted at http://blog.eledtech.com on 2/1/08} A trend that I am beginning to see more and more of in the graduate classes that I am taking is the lack of textbook purchases that I am having to make. I think that this is wonderful. There were plenty of textbooks from my undergraduate years [...]