Simple online invoicing and time tracking.
Perfect for creative teams and solo freelancers.
Designed to make you look professional.
(Link: Ronin: Online invoicing and time tracking)
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STEP 1 (5 Minutes) Set Plan for Day.
STEP 2 (1 minute every hour) Refocus
STEP 3 (5 munutes) Review
(Link: An 18-Minute Plan for Managing Your Day – Peter Bregman – HarvardBusiness.org)
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Parents universally believed that the computer could help their kids learn, but they couldn’t find great, fun, educational content. Additionally, they wanted more say over what their children were doing online. Parents didn’t really want to open up the whole, sometimes scary, web to their young kids. Mark decided it was time to build a safe, fun, online educational experience for kids that also gave parents the information and control they wanted.
(Link: Zoodles – safely entertain and educate your child online)
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Here is a quick rundown of common tasks you might have to do to migrate properly.
(Link: Riding Rails: Upgrading to Snow Leopard)
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So here’s what we got! All of these logos combine two or more individual concepts to create one seamless design. Some are a little more obvious than others, but all equally impressive. Please share any “no-so-obvious” elements that I missed, I’m certain I missed a few.
(Link: 30 Dual Element Logos, Do You See Them All? | Fuel Your Creativity)
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Google Spreadsheets is a powerful web application to do everything you do using Excel.
A nice way to use it is to manage a project plan with a gantt chart (microsoft project-like) and share it on-line with your team.This is a free and versatile solution to do that. This tutorial illustrates how to use Google Spreadsheets Viewpath Gadget to implement it.
(Link: Google Spreadsheets Gantt Chart (Microsoft Project-like))
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1. CNAMEs.
2. Shared data.
(Link: How to fix URL-shorteners (Scripting News))
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The first phase of the process is customer discovery, which is identifying who the people are with the problem. This is harder than it sounds as they must not only have the problem, they must realize they have a problem and be willing to invest time and money in a solution to that problem. These are your early adopters. They are willing to overlook shortcomings in your product and believe that you will make it better with time.
(Link: The long lost formula for start-up success.)
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What is WakeOnLan?
WakeOnLan discovers all other computers in your LAN, and enables you to wake them up by clicking a button. If your remote computer is a Mac you can put it asleep too.
(Link: WakeOnLan)
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Apple, in its infinite wisdom, chose to implement Exchange 2007 support in Snow Leopard even though the iPhone supports both Exchange 2003 and 2007. So, my desktop system can not access the calendar even though my iPhone has no problem accessing my calendar. I find it hard to believe that they did this when Exchange 2003 still has more installations than does Exchange 2007.
(Link: Snow Leopard Blues – Users of Exchange 2003 should avoid this update)
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In summary, our ambition is not merely an incremental improvement of Sakai nor is it to
copy Google. Our goal is not simply to create a better and cheaper version of Blackboard. It
is time to arrive at a clearer understanding of the capabilities that represent needs unique
to education and for the Sakai community to focus its development effort on providing
these capabilities while taking advantage of established open‐source efforts to provide
more generic capabilities. We should, in short, strive to create a different type of academic
collaboration system. Institutions that choose Sakai 3 will be choosing to run a qualitatively
different type of system. This is the kind choice we should provide to the educational
community. Not just a choice between open source and proprietary.
(Link: Sakai 3 Proposal – the ambitions for a next generation sakai collaboration and learning environment)
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Apache Shindig is an OpenSocial container and helps you to start hosting OpenSocial apps quickly by providing the code to render gadgets, proxy requests, and handle REST and RPC requests.
Apache Shindig’s goal is to allow new sites to start hosting social apps in under an hour’s worth of work.
(Link: Apache Shindig is an OpenSocial container)
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What Stanley H. Kaplan taught us about the SAT
(Link: Malcolm Gladwell on What Stanley H. Kaplan taught us about the SAT)
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Instead, the college piloted the flash drives this spring in 15 “FlashTrack” courses, which include the “Science of Nutrition,” “Social Gerontology,” and “Principles of Finance.” Each flash drive contained Open Office versions of word processing, spreadsheet and presentation programs; media players; and folders containing course material. At the end of the class, students took a high-stakes test — as they would in any other online course — to complete the course, Mr. Cooper said.
(Link: The Wired Campus – At Distance-Learning College, Flash Drive Replaces Course-Management System – The Chronicle of Higher Education)
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According to a short article in SD Times, the site and the applications were built in just four months on a budget of less than a million dollars. The developers used a number of advanced technologies including Hadoop, Clojure, and Cascading. Clojure is a dynamic scripting language with a LISP-like syntax, running on top of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Cascading is a very high-level workflow language. It runs on top of Hadoop. They used this technology to build a system which can do predictive AI, literally forecasting the future.
(Link: Amazon Web Services Blog: FlightCaster – AWS-Powered Flight Delay Prediction)
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