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Want to share files? Need more than the 2 Gb limit in Dropbox or Box.net? Pogoplug allows you to share the files of a USB drive over the Internet. See Pogoplug at http://www.pogoplug.com/home-en.html

Suppose you want to provide your students with an article from the Web but you don’t want all the extra things on the Web page such as advertisements and other blocks of text. The Web site Readability (http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/) allows you to generate printable text and vary three things: the text style, text size, and margin width.

Evernote allows you to clip information from the Web and edit the Web pages. You can create your own notes, drag and drop content into Evernote. Also, there is software that you can download that allows enter information and sync it with the Web-based content.

By default, the information is kept private on the Web but you can make it public.

A number of video tutorials are available here. The Getting Started Guide can be found here.

With the free account you are allowed up to 40MB of uploaded files each month. With a Premium account, which costs $5/month or $45/year. the amount of uploaded files allowed is 500MB. There are other advantages of upgrading to the Premium account. Click on this link for more details – Premium account.

You can also embed widgets into your Web pages such as the one below.

In another post, I mentioned the Optoma Pico Projector that David Pogue reviewed. In a later article, David discussed other pico projectors. This article is worth the read if you are interested in purchasing one of these projectors, especially if the source of the video is important to you. The Optoma Pico projector can’t hookup to a laptop but the 3M Micro Professional Projector can. To learn more about the 3M Micro Professional Projector, check out this article.

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Want a video projector for short distances? The Pico Projector, reviewed by David Pogue, might be worth getting for small classes. Cables come with it that allow you to hook up a variety of devices, including an iPod (both video iPods and the iPod Touch). But you’ll need a speaker because the speaker in the projector is pretty small.

Here’s some software that may be helpful. In Mac OS X, you can print probably about anything on your screen as a PDF file (e.g., Word document, HTML page, etc). If you have a variety of these documents or if maybe you want to combine one of your documents with a PDF that you downloaded, this program allows you to combine PDFs.

Monkeybread Software – Freeware – Combine PDFs 1.0

Want to add some additional features to Safari? Try SAFT. I haven’t tried it but according to the various articles that you can find on this site, it has some nice features. Cost is $4.99.

haoli

As you know, Mac OS X allows you to create a PDF file from word-processing documents, HTML pages, etc. But do you ever need to go in the opposite direction? This product costs $29.95.

Mesa Dynamics

Want to hear the latest is among IT professionals? Go to this site. The subtitle of this site is “News Ideas Through Your Headphones” which refers to the fact that you can get podcasts of the conversations.
IT Conversations

The Internet Archive is a “digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.” Like a paper library, [they] provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.” At this site, there are movies, still images, audio, texts,etc.

A page called Podcasting 101 can be found here.

Internet Archive

Teaching a distance course? Try Skype. This software works with all platforms.
Skype – Free Internet telephony that just works

This is some neat software that I wish I used more because one of the neat things it can do is convert your documents into Web pages with tabs on the side for each of the major categories that you create in your Notebook. A free Reader is also available for OS X. I wish they would create a Reader for Windows XP so I could share my documents with my XP students.
AquaMinds – NoteTaker

Need to catalog your personal library of books, music, and movies. This software allows you to read the barcode found on the back of the item using your iSight Camera. It then connects to Amazon, find the image and other information about the item, and puts that into your library. Works pretty well but you have to a little careful when you put the barcode up to the iSight camera so it reads it correctly.

Delicious Library

I am a college educator who is interested in the uses of instructional technology. At this site, I’ll post my thoughts on this subject. Stay tuned!