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You all know that I try not to get too corporate here on Teach42, but occasionally something rolls around that I’m just genuinely excited about and have to share.
When I first got hired on to Discovery, one of my very first meetings was to help brainstorm ideas for a new product. The […]

At NECC I got a chance to play around a little bit with the new Belkin microphone for the video iPod. It took them way too long to finally come out with a microphone for the latest generation of iPod, but I do have to admit that they did a nice job with it. […]

This is strange, but very very cool. While browsing through ITRedux’s Office 2.0 database, I came across Gabbly. At first I thought it was just another web based IM client like Meebo, but I was way off base.
Gabbly is actually a site specific chat room that requires no code or installation […]

Feeling adventurous? Here’s your chance to give Windows Vista a try long before it’s out on shelves. Microsoft has put the beta up for public testing, so you can check it out if you have the incliination. I’m wondering whether it will work on the Mac, so I’ll be downloading it this […]

I noticed that the computer was a little pokey when switching between users and switching between operating systems with 512mb of RAM. It could be done, but it wasn’t all that snappy. Considering it was a new computer, I didn’t want to be feeling frustrated with it. So I spent $165 at […]

I’m a fan.  I think that’s the simplest way to sum up how I feel about DabbleDB right now.  I think it rates somewhere between the lava lamp and sliced bread.

It’s a little hard to explain.  Much better to see it in action.  Thankfully, there’s a few ways to do that.  The […]

File this one under "Yet another application that can be replaced by a website".
AjaxSketch is exactly what it sounds like, an Ajax website that serves as a sketching program.  It’s clearly superior to MIcrosoft Paint, and clearly inferior to Adobe Illustrator.  However, it IS free and is web based so your students can have access […]

I was preparing for a presentation I’m doing on Friday, when I got totally sidetracked in the maps world.  I never really looked much at Windows Live Local before, but it has some pretty cool features.  I always knew how neat Google Maps is, it has long been one of my favorites for viewing sattellite […]

Huge kudos to John Blake for pointing out this one out to me.
GCast.com is a sister site to GarageBand.com, which has long been known for being a great source for ‘pod safe’ music.  GCast is similar to Audioblogger.com but has some great features that give it the nod in my book.
First of all, it’s […]

That new website I wrote about, Cosmeo, was reviewed in the Wall Street Journal today.  Pretty positive review too!  They did have a few technical issues playing some of the videos in pesky browsers like Firefox (my browser of choice), but that didn’t hold them back from giving it a thumbs up. 
"Though Cosmeo is […]

Via Kim Lim (and thanks for the IM!):

It’s official.  Windows XP is now completely supported on the new Intel Macs.  If you listen closely, you can hear the crowd in the street outside cheering.  Yes, this means you can have all the style of a Mac, the simplicity of a Mac, the wonderful […]

BUSlink’s 64GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive PRO 2 Series - Engadget
I misread this one at first and thought to myself, why would Engadget be covering a 64mb flash drive?
Then I saw that it’s not MB. It’s GB. 64 GIGABYTES of solid state memory the size of a keyring. […]

Over the summer, I had the unique opportunity to get wired up and try a cutting edge ’solution’ for ADD.  Well, I thought it was unique at the time.  Not so much I guess!
I thought it was pretty darn cool and had a lot of potential, something that I would have liked to explore more […]

I haven’t had a chance to try this out, but while poking around Feedburner today, I noticed a feature I’d never seen before (well, quite a few, but one in paritcular). Feedburner now supports the use of a username and password to protect your feed.
This doesn’t sound like a big deal, but if it […]

Catching up on the aggregator a bit today, and found something a little ironic while reading through David Warlick’s blog. First I read about his experience meeting Consuelo Molina. 
I looked back — at a young man with a hulking video camera resting on his shoulder, and that customary tremor of terror […]