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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-12-20

Dec 20, 2010

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barrique, Boxing day, camping, cell c, christmas, chrome os, cloud computing, dissertation, drakensberg, durban, ebooks, Europe, fantastic food, gantto, Jennifer Thorpe, monks cowl, netbook, Online Course Materials, online project management tool, phd, presentation, project management, publishing, research, restaurant, RT, sliderocket, Tech Leader, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Thought Leader, twitter, ubuntu, United States, Wesley Lynch, writing

dRonaldArendse Boxing day # @Shuayb702 the weather here is ridiculous # @RonaldArendse spending Christmas and birthday with my sister & her family # Just arrived in Durban, the air is wet # Future of education. R we having the right conversation? http://ow.ly/1rYdPe. Ed. & social conditions are inseparable # The Problem of Filters and Silos…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-24

May 24, 2010

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Academic Productivity » New paths to “research productivity” http://bit.ly/dBnPYO # Bloom’s Taxonomy. Useful illustration with additional information that may assist with implementation http://bit.ly/cAFYwr # The Cronk of Higher Education » College Art Exhibit Celebrates 30 Years of Boredom in Academia (humour) http://bit.ly/cBufLp # APA Style Blog: It’s All Latin to Me: Latin Abbreviations in Scholarly…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-10

May 10, 2010

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Ning Announces New Pricing Model, Free Nings for Teachers…but they can still take it away anytime they want http://tinyurl.com/2g6evay # Law Librarian Blog: Moving Beyond the Ubiquitous PDF for Durham Statement Compliance http://bit.ly/c7f7XR # RT @pgsimoes: Simple but gr8… RT @retorta: The Clever Sheep: Top 20 Uses for Wordle http://ow.ly/1ABMY # RT @gsiemens: sentences you…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-05

Apr 5, 2010

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the lost art of solitude http://zenhabits.net/2010/04/solitude/ # @dkeats I use #hootsuite almost exclusively because everything I tweet is from the browser, so its already open. Besides, #AIR sucks # RT @openended: Ubuntu 10.10 to be codenamed Maverick Meerkat – http://arst.ch/hyt # RT @barrykayton: Just uploaded nine short video interviews about Cognician: http://bit.ly/9NIv77 #cognician # The…
Gnome-shell on Ubuntu

Jan 22, 2010

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I’ve been playing around with Gnome-shell on Ubuntu over the past week or so and am still trying to decide if I like it. It’s going to replace Compiz in the next generation of the Gnome desktop and the idea is that it’s supposed to enhance productivity by creating an innovative user interface that more easily exposes…
Chromium browser and extensions

Nov 7, 2009

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So the Linux build of Chromium (the open source browser than Google Chrome is based on) has been out for a while now and every now and again I’ve been upgrading to the latest developer release just to see how it’s coming along. Lately, the builds have been a lot more stable, font rendering hasn’t…
Ubuntu Netbook Remix update

Oct 25, 2009

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Here are the screenshots of my netbook running the Karmic version of the Ubuntu Netbook Remix (this link goes to the current stable release, which is Jaunty) that I promised in my previous post: [nggallery id=23] I’d recommend installing Ubuntu-Tweak, which exposes a few of the hidden features of Ubuntu and also allows you to…
Moblin, Ubuntu Moblin Remix and Ubuntu Netbook Remix

Oct 23, 2009

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I’ve had my Samsung NC10 for almost 2 weeks now and am loving it. I’ve been using it for taking notes at meetings and seminars, as well as at home for simple online tasks. I thought I’d put up a few notes about the different operating systems I’ve tried so far, because I couldn’t find…
Open source alternatives to proprietary applications

Jul 7, 2008

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I 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…