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Category Archives: Geeking out

A simple solution for MacBook overheating

Just found this on Digg – Gert Stahl found a piece of plastic covering the vent on his MacBook. When he removed it, the machine became a lot quieter and cooler (go figure!). He has also posted some pictures showing the removal of the plastic. A big salute to him for posting this information. G-Stahl.com: [...]

The silver lining

I mentioned a while ago that the monitor on my laptop had given up on me. I’m thinking now that perhaps the screen failure was a timely occurence, rather than a complete inconvenience. Apple released my next computer today. MacBook And I know its more expensive, but I’ll probably go for the black model. Why? [...]

Early preview of Skypecasts – Skype Blogs

Early preview of Skypecasts – Skype Blogs Skype announces (with the new version of Skype – but sadly version 2.5 is currently Windows only) Skypecasts, 100 person conference calls that have a moderator who controls who is talking. So – if we combine this with Thumbstacks (sweet little online presentation creation/hosting), we basically have all [...]

The Posse is moseying to Saskatoon

From EdTech Posse site – The Posse is riding to TLt 2006: On May 1, all four members of the EdTech Posse will be presenting at the Teaching and Learning with the Power of Technology 2006 conference in Saskatoon. Our presentation about podcasting (no big surprise), is entitled Podcasting in Real Time. During the presentation, [...]

Google Calendar is here

It has been talked about around the internet for quite some time, but finally it is here (as also noted by Alec Couros). I’ve only played with it for a little while, but so far it looks very good. A lot of the best functions in it are also found in Zimbra, which is probably [...]

Read-Blend-Write Web

We’ve all become fairly accustomed to this read-write web thingy where we are all consumers and producers of information. I use the pronoun we assuming that if you are reading this, you are probably also involved in creating some sort of online content (blogging, wiki-ing, podcasting, contributing to discussion groups) or you soon will be. [...]

Love and fear of google

Google is a strange company in the technology world. There are a lot of companies that people either love or hate – Microsoft, Apple, IBM, Intel – but Google is unique in the reaction it provokes. I love it and fear it at the same time. There’s many reasons to love Google – great search [...]

The blog based school website – a good first start

Earlier this week I wrote about building a school website one blog at a time, and some thoughts on the merits of not building a monolithic site, but as a series of small inter-related pieces. I’m happy to report that things have already started to move in that direction. You can see the main school [...]

K2 released for WordPress 2

A great way to get developers to release an upgrade is for me to install it. I just downloaded and installed this and … the site looks just the same! I don’t even see any difference on the administration side of things. But nothing seems broken, so I think I’ll keep it ;^) K2 at [...]

WordPress 2.0

It looks like WordPress 2.0 has been released (and the WordPress site has been spiffed up). I’m setting up a blog for someone, so this seems like a good chance to try out the installation. If all goes well, I’ll upgrade this site as well. If the sites starts to cough up digital hairballs, you [...]