Tag: cross platform
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-29
in Digestassessment, citation, cross platform, Cross-platform reference manager, earth hour, facegbook, Google, google wave, last lecture, learning, learning habits, linux, literacy, mendeley, mozilla contacts, Mozilla Labs, net generation, oer, open accreditation, paperpile, podcasting, Professor, randy pausch, research methods, RT, screenr, social media, social network, students, telemedicine, twitter, Web Illiteracy, wikipediaScreenr – Create screencasts and screen recordings the easy way, includes posting to Twitter http://bit.ly/9t6uLh # Mozilla Labs » Blog Archive » Contacts in the Browser http://bit.ly/bsQnr9 # RT @davidworth: RT @brad_bett: High-Tech Cheating Abounds, & Professors Bear Some Blame: Chronicle of Higher Education http://bit.ly/bOuBCA # RT @cristinacost: …Am I right to assume we need…
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Mendeley: research paper / PDF management
citeulike, collaboration, cross platform, data from both services, desktop tool, internet-enabled computer, Manitoba, mendeley, Mendeley library, online library, pdf, PDF library, reference management, reference manager, remote server, research, social media, social networking aspect, social networking tools, web service, zoteroA little while ago I wrote about Zotero and how I felt it came short of my expectations for a reference manager (my main contention was that it wasn’t very efficient at managing my offline content, for example, PDFs. Incidentally, see this interview, which also mentions this shortcoming of Zotero). Today I came across Mendeley,…
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Open source alternatives to proprietary applications
in Technologycross platform, Discovery Channel, facebook, GIMP, instant messaging, Internet Explorer, Internet TV application, linux, microsoft, Microsoft Windows, National Geographic, open source, operating system, operating systems, proprietary, social networking, social networking service, software, software application, technology, TED, ubuntu, web browser, word processingI thought I’d take a moment to briefly mention a few open source alternatives to popular computer applications. The following programmes are all: Here is my incomplete list of the open-source software I use: Firefox – A very popular web browser that offers a more secure, more intuitive and faster alternative to Internet Explorer. OpenOffice.org…