Posts Tagged ‘Tech Goodies, News & Trends’

Photosynth of the Addlestone Library

March 10, 2009

Tracy, Jared, Jerry and I have been exploring Photosynth technology, which creates 3-D environments from overlapping photographs.  With a little screen capturing, some Public Domain music from Internet Archive and a bit of video editing we turned it into a little tour for the library.  If your curious how we did it we will be [...]

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LIFE Photo Archive Hosted by Google

November 24, 2008

Google is hosting the LIFE Photo Archive, featuring a collection of photos dating back to the 1750’s.  Many of the photographs were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google. Charleston Photo View of Main St. in Charleston. | Location: Charleston, SC, US | Date [...]

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Digital Campus

October 31, 2008

A biweekly discussion of how digital media and technology are affecting learning, teaching, and scholarship at colleges, universities, libraries, and museums. Episode 33 – Classroom Action Settlement The big news this week was the announcement that a settlement had been reached between Google and authors and publishers over Google’s controversial Book Search program, which has [...]

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Maker of EndNote Citation Software Sues George Mason U.

September 30, 2008

Chronicle of Higher Education/The Wired Campus blog September 29, 2008 Thomson Reuters Inc. sued George Mason University in a Virginia court this month, arguing that a free software tool made by the university makes improper use of the company’s EndNote citation software. The company’s complaint argues that programmers at George Mason’s Center for History and [...]

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A Sociologist Says Students Aren't So Web-Wise After All

April 29, 2008

April 29, 2008 Eszter Hargittai, an assistant professor in Northwestern University’s sociology department, has discovered that students aren’t nearly as Web-savvy as they, or their elders, assume. Ms. Hargittai studies the technological fluency of college freshmen. She found that they lack a basic understanding of such terms as BCC (blind copy on e-mail), podcasting, and [...]

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Blackboard Wins Patent Suit Against Desire2Learn

February 25, 2008

Posted by kdawson on Monday February 25, @06:58PM from the that’ll-learn-’em dept. edremy writes “Blackboard, the dominant learning management system (LMS) maker, has won its initial suit against Desire2Learn. Blackboard gets $3.1 million and can demand that Desire2Learn stop US sales. (We discussed Blackboard when the patent was issued in 2006) This blog provides background [...]

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Wal-Mart's $200 PC – Sold Out

November 13, 2007

Wal-Mart’s $200 PC – sold out by ZDNet‘s Adrian Kingsley-Hughes — About two weeks ago, Wal-Mart began selling $200 Linux-based PC. The initial run was around 10,000 units. Now Wal-Mart is sold out. Has Linux now found a niche? If Wal-Mart’s recently released $200 PC sounds like a potentially great deal but you’re not sure [...]

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USB 3.0

September 20, 2007

“USB (Universal Serial Bus) 3.0 will create a backward-compatible standard with the same ease-of-use and plug and play capabilities of previous USB technologies. Targeting over 10x performance increase, the technology will draw from the same architecture of wired USB. In addition, the USB 3.0 specification will be optimized for low power and improved protocol efficiency. [...]

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Presentations Added To Google Docs

September 18, 2007

Plusmo.com | Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:44:02 GMT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Google has been working on adding PowerPoint-like functionality into their online office applications suite – Google Docs. Well, now it’s live and you can create your presentations online. Here’s what you can do with presentations: Import existing presentations in .ppt and .pps file types. Export your [...]

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Handy Reference For Every Key On A Macintosh

August 24, 2007

 Fri, 24 Aug 2007  |plusmo.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Liquidcity have published a very handy crib-sheet of every accented or special character available on an Apple Macintosh keyboard along with the key combinations required to use them. There are three sheets and they’re available as JPEG images and PDF files, either of which you can download and print. [...]

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