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I have multiple monitors (four) and I like to have a YouTube video running in one of them, and what I found was with some videos (not nearly all of them) was that the computer would become so slow it was essentially unusable, and I couldn’t figure out why. … Continue reading YouTube making your computer slow? You may be in the HTML 5 Trial…  Here is a great trick to capture To Do items as you think of them by using GQueues (or your favourite GTD program), and AutoHotKey, an amazing little program that can change your life if you use Windows. … Continue reading GTD Capturing using AutoHotKey + GQueues This is an awesome website. Ever wanted to quickly plot a bunch of addresses in Google Maps? Now you can with Batchgeo.com Create a spreadsheet with an address column (and any other columns of info), copy and paste it at batchgeo.com, and click “Map Now” and you get a beautiful google map showing all the addresses! Tons of options to customize, and much of it for free! No need to even log in! Check it out, … Continue reading Amazing Program: Batchgeo One service I am finding very useful lately is Aardvark (vark.com). The concept behind Aardvark is simple: people are nice and are usually very willing to answer questions about concepts they know about. Aardvark is the connection between people with questions and people with answers. … Continue reading Amazing Program: Aardvark What is #EdChat? EdChat is a chat created by educators for educators that takes place on Twitter using the hashtag #EdChat. You can find out more about what exactly it is by watching the video below, and by visiting here. #Edchat takes place on Twitter Tuesdays from 11am-12pm and again from 6pm-7pm.
I am just starting out using EdChat, and so I had to figure out how to do it, and how to do it in the most productive and effective way. I am still learning, but I thought I would put together this document for those like me who want … Continue reading Participating In #EdChat A real live Google Wave embedded in a blog for ALL to see (not just those who have a Google Wave account!). In the past I was able to embed a Google Wave into a blog post, but it could only be seen by people who had Google Wave accounts (a select few), which was a HUGE downside. Today Google has released the ability to put up a wave that EVERYONE can see. … Continue reading A Live Google Wave on my Blog I’m using my first Google form to ask for some feedback from those who find themselves on … Continue reading Feedback appreciated! With the development of Google Docs (http://docs.google.com/), one has to do word processing on their computer less and less. Working online is usually faster (just a browser to load), and allows your data to be stored in “the cloud”–that is, online rather than on your computer, making the files more secure. However, for mathematicians there has always been a problem with this–LaTeX. Many of us use LaTeX to write everything. Academic papers, tests and exams, assignments, and even worksheets and letters (my CV was even made in LaTeX). Because of this there has not been much opportunity to switch over to using … Continue reading Writing Math on the internet! I have just found two great plugins for wordpress that allow viewing and posting from a mobile phone!! They are both from the company Wapple, and are free!! Do a search in your plugin installer and you’ll find … Continue reading First post from cell phone Ever find a song on YouTube you like and would love to have on your Mp3 player? Or maybe you want to be able to listen to your favourite VLOGer on your mp3 player. Check out http://www.video2mp3.net/. Very impressed with it–downloaded quickly, converted quickly, and came out in great quality! … Continue reading Amazing Program: Converting YouTube to Mp3 |
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