- 03 December 2008 - last chance
- 01 December 2008 - David Kreis showed us a tool that help us get up to speed on America's economic situation with a one-paragraph-per-day timeline since September.
- 24 November 2008 - Ashlee Edwards drew our attention to Microsoft One Note, a component of Microsoft Office Professional (and Home & Student).
- 19 November 2008 - we will be busy with our databases today
- 17 November 2008 - we were busy with queries today
- 12 November 2009 - Anna Kim showed us Sproutbuilder. It is a Web site for anyone who wants to build, publish, and manage widgets, mini-sites, mashups, banners and more. You can include video, audio, images and newsfeeds and choose from dozens of pre-built components and web services.
- 10 November 2009 - we were busy with relationships today
- 05 November 2009 - we were busy with tables today
- 03 November 2009 - we were busy with the lab today
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October 2008 - we had three today
- Danyell Worship showed us two
- as a follow-on to our discussions about Google, she showed us the new T-Mobile G1 smartphone and a link to a video preview of the phone
- a website that allows you to sign up for a class that specializes in 3D arts training
- Reid Green showed us the website for the Personal Genome Project and the specific news article about the 10 volunteers with their medical histories and DNA sequences. An article and a video on TechReview also discussed the same topic.
- Daniel Parker showed us how UNC Libraries provide public Community Workshops to teach important computer skills. Many of the things they teach are very basic skills and you all are fully qualified to teach them. It is a great opportunity for students to help with the instruction, gaining volunteer hours and valuable experience. Your personal gain in being able to help and to connect with the community will be extremely rewarding to you all.
- Danyell Worship showed us two
- 27 October 2008 - David Kreis showed us a handy tool, the citation builder provided by UNC Libraries. If you don't like the interface on that one, NC State has a similar tool.
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October 2008 - we had two today
- Eddie Garcia showed us Music Populair, a sort of compilation of online music sites, to include social networking sites as well as internet radio sites. The domain name is interesting and leads one to wonder who is behind the site.
- Raphael Levante showed us several links that discuss Intellifit, a scanning and imaging tool that has made its way into many daily activities. Two videos discuss the tool, one from the company, one from ABC News.
- 20 October 2008 - Thao Nghi Bui showed us two variants on a Microsoft ad for a new display concept - one from Microsoft, one not.
- 13 October 2008 - Rasmus Thogersen showed us Allmusic.com, a large database about music, with content created by a professional staff of editors and writers. The network of writers includes over 900 music critics who review albums and songs and write artist biographies.
- 08 October 2008 - David Kreis showed us how to incorporate a slide show into our sites using WebPasties. You can either upload photos to the site or link photos from an online storage service, such as Flickr. Then the site will give you html to add to the source code for a page on your website.
- 06 October 2008 - Alani Nichols showed us Wordle, a site that creates images out of text
- 01 October 2008 - Travis Price showed us pastebin, a collaborative debugging tool that allows you to paste code. This way you can send the link (www.pastebin.com/_______) of the code that you put on pastebin.com to your friend or classmate without it being messed up (or interpreted as an HTML page) by email or instant message.
- 29 September 2008 - Matt Jones showed us StumbleUpon, a form of a social networking tool that gives us a way to serendipitously discover web sites that we might find interesting. I also noted an article about it in a newsletter sent by Search Engine Watch. Social discovery engine StumbleUpon has one of the more original ad models in the Web 2.0 set. For every 20 or 30 Web pages users turn up when they click the "Stumble" button on the toolbar, they get one page that is a paid result. Now the eBay-owned service plans to extend those ads to a wider audience by offering a toolbar-free way for people to use the service.
- 24 September 2008 - we had two
- Anna Kim showed us wikiscanner to see to the IP addresses of individuals and organizations who are editing wikipedia entries - based on page, organization or IP addresses. Also, look at the top level domain name of the site and ask yourselves why the individual who created this tool wanted to use this domain name.
- Daniel Parker demonstrated the One-Laptop-per-Child computer in class
- 22 September 2008 - we had two
- John Lanzer showed us CCleaner, a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool.
- Tyler Layne showed us a follow-on to NationMaster. Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest. There are now nearly 600 maps.
- 17 September 2008 - we had two
- James Hill showed us cuil, which asserts Rather than rely on superficial popularity metrics, Cuil searches for and ranks pages based on their content and relevance. When we find a page with your keywords, we stay on that page and analyze the rest of its content, its concepts, their inter-relationships and the page's coherency.
- Kelsey Greenawalt showed us NationMaster, a site full of statistics from countries around the world on things like food, energy, government, labor, etc.
- 15 September 2008 - Mac Sumner showed us a fun site with everything you ever wanted to know about Ninjas
- 10 September 2008 - Matt Bloom showed us a video on advanced photo resizing, a technique that allows the user to resize photos without having to crop the photo or grossly distorting the image. Photos can even be extended beyond their original parameters. It is interesting that this video, that was is also available on YouTube, comes from a SIGGRAPH 2007 presentation, an organization that should be of interest to anyone interested in the visualization of information. The most recent SIGGRAPH conference also had a lot of interesting results. It is also interesting that one of the authors of the video, Ariel Shamir, has since been hired by Adobe.
- 08 September 2008 - two posted today
- Anna Kim showed us Book Explorer, a website that lets you search for books by title or genre and find other books that are similar. Users rank the books, and it is also pretty helpful to go check out people's lists with similar interests. If you are interested in getting personalized recommendations, sign up for the site.
- David Kreis showed us The Meeting Wizard, a site that helps the user to schedule meetings with coworkers or group members whose Outlook calendars the user cannot view. It prompts the user to enter up to 12 potential meeting times and allows the user to customize an email that invites the coworkers/group members to indicate which potential meeting times they would be available to attend. Then the user can log onto the website to view a matrix of who is free and who would be unable to attend at each potential meeting time.
- 03 September 2008 - two more
- Rasmus Thogersen showed us Alexa , a subsidiary of Amazon.com that provides information on web traffic. See his fuller discussion at his blog posting.
- Sarah Riazati showed us how anyone with an ONYEN can access online computer based training. As did Rasmus, Sarah expands on the topic in her blog posting.
- 27 August 2008 - we had two
- Travis Price showed us how to get free ringtones at phonzoo.com
- Alani Nichols introduced us to Ms. Dewey
- 25 August 2008 - we had two
- John Lanzer talked briefly about a program for backing up your data called Acronis.
- Jon Plymale showed us Pandora. The heart of Pandora is the Music Genome Project in which Pandora seeks to add to your music stream other new releases that are in synch with your stated desires. It analyzes new music and offers it to you to see if you want to keep it in your stream.
- 20 August 2008 - Rob Moore (from a previous class) showed the email riddler, one way to simultaneously give people an email link to reach you while hiding that link from spam link harvesters.
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