Software Geekery: Switching to Ubuntu?, Songbird, Flock and more

I am a died-in-the-wool, kool-aid drinking Mac fanatic. Most of you who know me are aware of this. However, as Apple has grown its market share recently, it has started making some curious moves, including filing for a patent on a built-in piece of spyware that acts curiously like Windows Genuine Advantage, calling back to [...]

“Hi, I’m a Mac. I’m a PC. And I’m Linux.”

I love this video (found on a thread at the Whitechapel board). It’s so true.
I also like the video because it simply, and humorously illustrates what the Open Source community is all about. Nice. Simple. and Short. We need more Burst Culture like this in the Open Source movement. Information and [...]

Notely: Notetaking and Organization for Students

I realize I’m late to the party on this one, but I just ran across an interesting online note-taking and organization app aimed at college students called Notely. Notely is a collection of online apps that allow you to create lecture notes, make a to-do list, keep track of homework, papers and other assignments, manage [...]

Useful Websites for College Students

Found over at Mashable: a list of 60+ useful websites and web-based apps for college students in categories such as buy/sell/trade textbooks, homework reference and work sites, organizational sites and social networks. I’d heard of a few of these, but most of these are new to me. A great resource for both incoming and returning [...]

Moving to PBWiki from Wikispaces

As some of you know, I have been a booster for Wikispaces, especially in the classroom, for a couple of years now. However, I’ve recently made the decision to use PBWiki for my classroom activities. I really like the community around Wikispaces, but have lately been disappointed with their feature set. PBWiki recently got a [...]

GIMP Tutorials

[Attention conservation notice: I'm posting this so I can go back and do these tutorials later. I'm too cheap to spring for Adobe CS3, but I need a robust image editing program. I think GIMP will fit the bill nicely.]
This site has 10 video GIMP tutorials like this:

available. Links out to [...]