“Hackacademic” has a variety of meanings. In my current use of it here, I’m aiming for “hacks for the academic”. I spend most of my professional time, teaching or preparing to teach. I got an Ipad with the goal that I would strive to have it replace my laptop for in class teaching use. On [...]
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Ipad Hackademics: Ipad Uses for Teachers
Posted in Productivity, TECH TIPS on October 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Is Skynet Watching?
Posted in Entrepreneurs, TECH TIPS, tagged cloud computing, SaaS, tech on April 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Is your head in the clouds? How about your data? Worse yet, is it in his?—> Software as a Service (SaaS), sometimes referred to as “Cloud Computing”, was the topic of a recent meeting I attended. Ian Duffield, COO of Decipher, Inc. Survey Reporting and Data Collection lead a discussion revolving around the implications of [...]
Dial2Do-Gmail-Omnifocus Hack
Posted in Innovation, Productivity, TECH TIPS, tagged dial2do, gmail, gtd, hack, jott, omnifocus, Productivity on January 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Dial2do is the killer app of 2009. This is a bold claim in that it’s January 2009 but this app is really changing my workflow for the better. For example, this message is being recorded from my phone to illustrate the power of dial2do’s functionality. I spoke that sentence into my jawbone ear piece which [...]
“Totem Posting” with Skitch
Posted in TECH TIPS, totem, Totem Posting on December 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just found skitch from the wizards at plasq and I must admit that It allows you to mark up photos rather easily. I’m trying to build what I’m HEREBY referring to as “totem posting” or building a pictorial life story of TheAnthroGeek and my lineage – and the indexing (i.e., pointing) feature on skitch [...]
St. Patrick’s Day in San Fransisco
Posted in personal musings, TECH TIPS, tagged tech, travel on March 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This sensationalized account of TheAnthroGeek’s St. Patrick’s Day in San Fransisco and is photo-fictionalized. …Although I do not remember much, I found these photos on my iphone. With them, I’ve stived to piece together TheAnthorGeek’s day in San Fransisco. Select “slide show” for full effect. PS. In truth, there is a tech angle here: Tech [...]
Tech Tip 37: Need StoryTelling software?
Posted in TECH TIPS, tagged tech, Web2.0 on March 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.seesmic.com/ http://www.mapjack.com/ http://www.storyblender.com
TechTip 36: Skim. The PDF annotator. Take notes on PDF files.
Posted in TECH TIPS on March 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=192583 Thanks to jason for the tip http://ohwhatablow.wordpress.com/
TECH Tip 35: Security using public wifi hotspots?
Posted in TECH TIPS on January 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Uncle Leo has some good advice in hour 3 of this show http://techguylabs.com/radio/ShowNotes/Show417
TECH TIP 34: Loose your Flash Memory?
Posted in TECH TIPS on January 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Use PC Inspector to recover lost flash memory. Thanks Uncle Leo, hour 2.
TECH TIP 33: Figure out Mac Memory-free app
Posted in TECH TIPS on January 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.derlien.com/