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Google Photo Walks

The idea of a photo walk is hardly new. I tend to understand such adventures as exercises for photographers in which they explore a location together and capture what they see. Some photographers are now altering this social experience somewhat … Continue reading

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Check Mac for Trojan

This Ars Technica post indicates that you Mac may have picked up a trojan. Evidently this may be one of the reasons you were notified of a java update a few days ago. I ran the test on one machine … Continue reading

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Flickr finds new image editing service

Flickr, the online image and sharing service, has provided Picnik as an online image editor. When Google purchased Picnik, this probably became awkward. Those of us who use Flickr have known for some time that we would no longer be … Continue reading

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Patent Battles

This post from Bloomberg Business provides an interesting summary of the tech patent battles. It is difficult for consumers when companies become self centered and the focus is more on other companies as enemy than on whether actions taken are … Continue reading

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Student use of wikis

Educational Researcher, a major AERA research journal, had a recent article summarizing use of wikis in K-12 settings. The authors have already posted a summary so you do not have to be an AERA member to take a look. The one characteristic … Continue reading

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Too helpful

I am on a mission to reduce my Mac’s efforts to be helpful. Why some programmer would assume I wanted to relaunch apps I was using when I shut down or review the documents I was examining when I quit … Continue reading

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