Gspace

Last week (or maybe it was the week before) I read about using Gspace as online server space. So...it uses 2GB of a person’s gmail account as backup server space. I’m all about finding spaces for students to save their work; especially when they don’t own their own computer. On the one hand, I like this; however, I think it is worth telling students to email themselves as backup...so it would be redundant to backup via gmail and gspace--ie, if google’s server crashes, both will be lost. So I’m still …

...Continued | April 06 2007 | Comments
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Adaptive Blue (& Greasemonkey)

Now that I’ve understood what Greasemonkey does for about two weeks, I’m still trying to find scripts and play with it. This Adaptive Blue seems like another page adapter. Greasemonkey https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748 Greasemonkey is one of the many wonderful Firefox addons. Once you load Greasemonkey on your browser you get a little monkey face in the lower right hand corner of the browser page. Once Greasemonkey is loaded, you can go load a bunch of java userscripts. The java scripts start adapting webpages. So far I’ve been …

...Continued | April 06 2007 | Comments
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Sandbox Blog Category--now New Tech

Well, I’ve had my Sandbox series this year. It didn’t end so hot this spring semester. Between my changing calendar and the CTLs new workshop scheduling system...we didn’t see much happening. However, I think the CTL and I got the word out to a number of faculty and staff about some cool tools. In the next month or so I’ll be posting an evaluative reflection thingy in the CTL’s wiki. While chatting with Biray today about our “new" technology FPLC next year I had the epiphany that I …

...Continued | April 03 2007 | Comments
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