Technology

It used to be that you had to buy expensive Adobe software to type in or edit a PDF file.   Now there is a cheaper AND easy way - FillAnyPDF.com.   Simply ‘Browse’ to find the file and click the ‘Fill Now’ button to upload the file.   Click anywhere in the PDF and start typing.  You [...]

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I have heard the iPad being described as an iTouch on Steroids as if that would be a turn-off to me.  Being an iPhone fanatic I’d love to have a tablet size version of an iTouch!   However, I recognize that it won’t please everyone. 
Obviously, Hitler himself is extremely disappointed (language warning)…

There is also a [...]

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Phototakeusa.com is offers a large resource for scientific, medical, and technological photographs
and illustrations. It offers on-line search. You may also request a catalog or acquire a CD-ROM.
In your search you can select ‘Royalty-Free’. You can search by keyword, alphabetical, numerical, and by categories.
Includes photos, clipart, illustrations, and graphics.

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Did you know that Google shows Twitter ‘Tweets’ under ‘Updates’ and will soon show searches from Facebook?  How much do you really want to share?  With friends?  With the world?
KimKomando.com says,
‘Facebook has long been known for its excellent
privacy tools. But it recently made changes that expose more of your
information. Search sites can find your [...]

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Here are a few shortcuts I’ve learned:

mhm = means ‘yes’
l8r = means ‘later’
tnx = means ‘thanks’
lol = means ‘laugh out loud’
btw = means ‘ by the way
ttyl = means ‘talk to you later’
sys = means ’see you soon’
lmk = means ‘let me know’
ryb = means ‘read your book’ or ‘read your Bible’
b/f = means ‘boyfriend’
ttus [...]

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An article on InsideHigherEd.com entitled, ‘Text Generation‘,  got me started thinking about texting and communicating with students.   Personally, I don’t think in most cases the students should have a teacher’s cell phone number.  However, I think it would be interesting to provide texting options with the ‘library and specificially the ‘reference librarian’ as in the [...]

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ResearchBuzz.org introduced me to a ‘Huge Online Database of Blueprints‘.

I found it interesting and am going to send it to my high school’s CTE (career & technical education) teachers.  The drafting teacher in particular may be interested in it.   Budding artists may also be interested.  There are blueprints of:

cars
motorcycles
trucks
ships
buses
WWI airplanes
WWII airplanes
modern airplanes
tanks
weapons
science fiction
humans
phones
misc.

http://www.the-blueprints.com/blueprints/

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The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press released a survey of opinion on the 2000-2009 decade.   The report was presented under the title:  ‘Current Decade Rates as Worst in 50 Years: Internet. Cell Phones Are Changes for the Better’. http://people-press.org/report/573/#prc-jumpDecember%2021,%202009
Princeton Survey Research Associates International conducted telephone interviews for survey purposes.   The [...]

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