Insurance Agency

How do you prepare for 2009? Do you have prepare many things? Including insurance? Insurance is very important! We are living in the era that is not stable, an era that can not be predicted. Therefore, we must keep all the assets that we have (auto, condo, health, home, life, renters, etc) seriously and maximum, with insurance.I want to tell you about a website that contains many valuable information about the various types of insurance: insurancerate.com. This is an insurance agency that covers most major lines of insurance. Through this website, you will get many benefits, such as: 1.Compare multiple quotes from the nation's top insurance agencies.2.Get competitive quotes anywhere in the United States.3.No obligation to buy today and available to you absolutely free!4.And many more.Shopping...

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Easy Online Payday Loans

Happy new year! Hopefully, in 2009, we can do better life in all aspects of life compared to previous years. Btw, how your financial condition in this year? Good? Yes, I hope. But I want to provide a very valuable information to you, that is about payday loans. What is a Payday loan? In outline, a payday loan is a short-term loan to cover your spending needs. It is secured against your future paycheck. These loans have grown in popularity for years, and now this is the main tool of assistance to get you out of that sticky situation or get you that new luxury toy. Talking about payday loans, there is a website that obliged to you visit if you want to get a Payday loan up to $ 1500 with fast, easy and simple. Without collateral, without need to prepare various documents, and without having to...

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Rely on Alpha Mortgage

If you looking for Wilmington NC mortgage? Alpha Mortgage is the answer, they are one of the most trusted names in mortgages in the Wilmington NC area. They are offering really attractive refinancing options because mortgage rates at near record lows, Alpha Mortgage can work deals for first time home buyers with 100% financing even during a terrible recession right now.About Wilmington NC real estate, Alpha Mortgage Corporation is a full service mortgage banker with in-house processing, underwriting, closing and funding of your home. Rely on Alpha Mortgage for your new purchase loans, Jumbo loans? Super Jumbo Loans? Fixed rates? Adjustables?...

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USB Flash Drive Watch

Another unique USB flash drive for you, the Secret USB Flash Drive Watch comes with a tiny 4 GB USB flash drive cleverly concealed inside the body of the device,Simply remove, add data and then re-insert and you’re ready to conduct secret missions to building B on the other side of campus. This watch has a plastic case covered by stainlesssteel mask with brushed silver finish and convex mineral glass with shiny raised index. The USB flash drive fits flush with the watch case – ready to hold your data safe and secure. Now all it takes is a bit of ugly gadget know-how and $49.99.Sou...

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Context Organizer for MindManager-Screencast

I recently did a post about Context Organizer for MindManager and thought that you would be interested in seeing how it actually works within MindManager with this screencast. Please note just how easy it is to use within MindManager and how it is able to extract and summarize the key words to give you the context. In the screencast you will see how it works to give you the context within a PDF and Microsoft Word file as well as within a blog. Enjoy. Look for another post about how Context Organizer can be used for Microsoft Office and the Web to summarize information.If you or your company are interested in learning how you can integrate Context...

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Posted in: Context Organizer,mind mapping,MindManager 7,Mindmanager 8

Happy New Year!

I wanted to take this opportunity to wish everyone a Happy, Healthy, and Prosperous New Year! It has been a busy year at the AssistiveTek Blog and want to thank you my readers for making it a wonderful year. I have learned a lot from my interactions with you and have developed some great working relationships with some of the leading software developers in the field. Being the eternal optimist I am looking forward to the upcoming year and have some things in the work that you will be interested in reading about. So stay tuned and looking forward to hearing from you in the year ahead! All the best - Br...

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How does YOUR state measure up with Graduation Rates?

http://www.all4ed.org/publication_material/understanding_HSgradratesOne link leads to another which leads to another... and for me they ended up here. Something I read said that the US still only graduates 75% of its public school students. I had to check that out. After all, NCLB has been around long enough to have made a difference, if it was going to, right?PA graduates 80%. Of course, when broken down by race there is a 35% gap from highest to lowest, but when I first saw that figure I thought, "Go PA!" But then the reality of that figure set in and I just shook my head in disbelief. We fail to educate 1 in 5 kids in PA. The figures by municipalities are REALLY depressing. How is YOUR state doing?I wonder if this is a good lesson somewhere. A writing prompt, maybe? "PA's dropout rate is...

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XML Contest for You

If you think you are a master of XML, open source and database management just visit this site, participate the XML contest and win the prizes, this site serves as a learning ground for both students and professionals, seeking to empower them to learn more about open source, XML and database management. This contest offer to you to learn more about these new technologies that will help increase their marketability in the IT industry. Before participating, you are required to complete a Quick Quiz. Start now by registering for one of the following contests: Video Contest, Gadget Contest, Query Contest, Ported App Contest1, XML2 Contest. Participants will stand to win iPod Nanos, Nintendo Wii and other attractive priz...

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The New Era of Keyboard

The Virtual Laser Keyboard (VKB) is a revolutionary accessory for Blackberry, Smartphone, PDA, MAC & Tablet PC. The VKB comes with an elegant leather jacket, making it the perfect business / Christmas gift (and just what you want to take out of your inner suit pocket in front of your amazed business colleagues. When using the VKB settings can be changed either via your laptop, your PC or your compatible Smartphone and PDA:Sound: controllable Virtual Keyboard sound effects (keyclicks)Connection: Connection to the appropriate Laptop/PC portIntensity: Intensity of the projected Virtual KeyboardTimeouts: coordinated timeouts to conserve...

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IT Contract Work vs. Starting Your Own IT Company

Have you been considering IT contract work, but you don’t know where to start? Before you start working piecemeal, contract-by-contract, consider opening your own IT contract business.Many interested in IT contract work aren’t sure they have what it takes to start an independent business. But basically, if you have a good understanding of computer systems, strong problem-solving skills and a desire to help other people, you probably already have what it takes to consider going out on your own.The following 5 points can help you build your own IT contract company and avoid the frustration of trying to constantly find revolving-door, thankless IT contract work.Open Your Own IT Contract Business to Maximize Your Income. When you have a regular corporate IT job or even act as an IT contract worker...

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Video production at home!

If you feel that the time has come to reveal your best talents and skills in video production - this is the right time! Financial Crisis has lessened the possiblity to increase income from manufacturing or producing goods but has opened new perspectives for the video productions and especially advertising. Nowadays it is really cheap to advertise on the Internet than on billboards or newspaper advertising and the most important here is the fact that you gain much more feedback.So you have decided to shoot and compile the ads and process them after shooting. Digital signage converters as well as quad processors are absolutely a must as you need to postprocess the huge amount of gigabytes and store such ads on your hard disk drives. Think twice if you still want to develope your video production...

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Context Organizer for MindManager

I have been meaning to write about Context Organizer from Context Discovery for some time now and was recently reminded just how important this tool will become as we become increasingly inundated with information that we will be required to juggle in the work that we do. In my last post about, Wordle I received an interesting comment that made me think about Context Organizer and its value in the work that we do as information workers. Wordle is an online application that can pull out the keywords that are in the text and create a way to help us visualize the key content that is body of the text. One of my readers has been using Wordle to do...

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Posted in: Context Organizer,MindManager 7,Mindmanager 8,mindmapping

All About Notebooks

Notebook or laptop is a small mobile PC used to perform similar tasks done by PCs. A laptop has all the necessary parts of a general personal computer, the monitor, keyboard, CPU, etc. but compact in a much smaller space, done by using a lot of microchips. Since it can be used while on the move; hence, it has got a rechargeable battery inside it. Generally it has a thickness of 1.7 to 4 cm.The first portable computer, Osborne 1 came in the market in the year 1981.With a small 5`` CRT screen. It was a massive device as compared to the present day laptop. GRiD Compass 1100, was the first laptop which used the clamshell design, produced in 1982. Just the following year the Gavilan SC came in the market, which was the first notebook to use the term laptop.On the basis of purpose, laptops are generally...

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How do you acquire new Technologies, Innovations or Inventions?

How do you acquire your new technology? Do you look out for inventions or innovations? And how? Everybody or business does, yes sooner or later but of course the expensive and hard way. There is an easy way, You Techno. You Techno is an information resource dedicated to technologies, innovations and inventions and their applications in IT, Software, E-commerce, Business, media and Health. In today's world faced with a new problem of choice due to floods of technologies with no guarantee which one will really work for your one in a million particular situation and how? Why not find such a quest answered for you at You Techno, be it a business or an individual.Search Engine Submitted & Optimized by Vi...

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Wordle- "Word Clouds"

For some time now I have been playing around with Wordle, a web based application that can take your text or feed from your blog and create "word clouds" which you can display or post to the web. It is an interesting visualization tool and one that gives you some context, at least for me, about what I have been writing about. I recently entered my blog URL into Wordle and came up with this word cloud. What do you think of Word...

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The 12th Carnival of Computer Help and Advice

Seasonal greetings and welcome to the twelfth monthly Carnival of Computer Help and Advice. Another digest of blog articles that help you to avoid problems with and to get the most out of your PCs.Dan Coveney of Print n Post offers advice to anyone thinking of Buying a laptop in the January sales. On the subject of mobile computing Nim at dixlinx reviews Logmein - “the best free remote access available" - in the article, Logmein - excellent web-based remote access to your computer.If you want to see those Xmas TV shows that you missed streamed over the Internet on your television then fear not, ramaraobobby has written a tutorial explaining How-To...

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Choose the Best Gaming Laptop

Let's discuss the features of a gamers most look for and what is most important for the best gaming experience:1) The GPUGPUs in notebooks used for gaming are going to either be made by ATI or NVidia and have dedicated memory. Many notebooks have shared video which uses the notebooks resources to produce the video (CPU, RAM) and it can not produce framerates to run most of today's high end games. They often even are unable to correctly render 3D effects that games require.More expensive isn't always a better notebook GPU. For example NVidia has a line out called the Quadro FX. It is more expensive than their own Geforce series. The price difference isn't because it performs better in gaming, it's because it's designed for professionals in applications like CAD work. You have to make sure you're...

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Almost forgot - John Henry Faulk's Christmas story

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1115979I've been sending this link out for years. Almost forgot this year. If you're new to my blog, make CERTAIN that you listen to this story. I've made it a Christmas traditi...

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Can YOU help keep Wikipedia free to all?

I stopped in to Wikipedia just a few moments ago and saw that the headlines asked us to read a special appeal from founder Jimmy Wales. I did. In it he asks for our help to keep Wikipedia free and open to the World. Their small staff of just 23 - and their 150,000 volunteers - have helped to publish over 11 million articles in 265 languages. Their site is among the first to visit when we look for things on the web. (Sorry, librarians, it's true.) "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's our commitment."There are a couple great videos of Jimmy Wales telling folks...

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MindMeister 3.1 Released

One of the first mindmapping Web 2.0 applications that I tried awhile back was MindMeister and it continues to be one of the leading online mindmapping applications available. Just today MindMesiter released version 3.1 with lots of added features. One of the features which I feel will be a welcome addition is the ability to add relationships to your map. MindMesiter calls these graphic cross connections which are easily added by clicking on the Connect button on the Tool bar. You can see in the map below how I added the green connection arrow from one node to another one in the map. In Version 3.1 it is now possible to alphabetize the nodes and so that they are sorted alphabetically. If an individual who has been invited to collaborate on the map but has not yet entered the map a coffee...

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Posted in: MindManager,mindmapping,mindmapping 2.0,mindmeister

XMind -- An Open Source Brainstorming and Mind Mapping Software!

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Posted in: mindmapping,sharing,Web 2.0,XMIND

Happy Holidays

I wanted to take this opportunity to wish all of my readers a happy and healthy holiday season! We have a lot to be thankful for. Enjoy your time off and look for some new posts later this we...

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Slideshare plugins for powerpoint AND Keynote!

I don't suppose that this is coming as much of a surprise to many of you, but now you can upload your powerpoint or keynote (Mac) presentations directly to Slideshare without even opening your browser. Very nice, eh?http://www.slideshare.net/developers/apps/pptribbon - details for powerpoint (requires .net framework) I couldn't get the code to embed this one. It wouldn't load for me)http://www.slideshare.net/ashwan/upload-keynote-to-slideshare-presentation - for keynoteUpload Keynote to SlideShareView SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: keynote slidesha...

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Mac Tip - get TAB key to tab into checkboxes, etc

http://www.mactips.org/archives/2008/12/16/tab-through-checkboxes-and-radio-buttons-in-firefox-and-safari/I don't know about you, but one thing about the Mac that was driving me nutty (until moments ago) was the fact that, when filling in forms I couldn't tab to a checkbox or to a dropdown menu like I could in Windows. What a shame, I thought. Until I read the above post.Turns out it's a system preference. Now I'm a happy camper again.System Preferences>Keyboard and Mouse > Keyboard shortcuts. At the very bottom of that screen, underneath the list of your options. Click the All Controls option.Woohooo!Don't subscribe to the Mactips blog, Mac owner? Get on over there and sign up. Great stu...

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Ventrilo Hosting and Servers

Do you like to play game? Do yo want to get more exciting and fun experience when playing your favorite game? Want to be able to communicate with your friends (team) when you play game? That is why UGT-Servers.com comes in. In general, they offers 2 main products, UGT’s Ventrilo Servers and Teamspeak Servers.For you know, UGT-Servers.com is owned by Underground Tournaments LLC. They are building a gaming network for the everyday gamer. Their pricing is very agressive in order to provide an inexpensive gaming experience without giving up customer service or performance. Their standards are in place to keep the customers gaming experience in mind. They will not be overpopulating their servers. I think you also need to know more about Ventrilo Hosting. What is ventrilo hosting? And why you should...

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MindManager 8 Web Services Video Up

Each month for the past year I have produced a video tutorial or tip for Mindjet Connections Newsletter and I am happy to report this month's video is up on the topic of Web Services, a new feature found in MindManager 8. MindManager 8 Web Services offers users some very powerful search features that can be accessed right within the MindManager8 without having to leave the application. In the video I demonstrate how you can use both the Amazon and Google Web Services right within MindManager 8. I hope you enjoy the video tutori...

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Posted in: camtasia studio 6,Mindmanager 8,mindmapping,video tutorial,Web Services

Animoto

I came across Animoto today and wanted to share it with you. It is a web site that lets you upload your pictures, select your music form their library and then puts the whole thing together for you. You can see the sample video in this post. It is very cool and with a click of the mouse let me embed it in my blog. Try it out and let me know what you thi...

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Posted in: animoto,Flickr,pictures,video

new images in Google Earth

Have you seen the new hi-res images in Google Earth? Check out New York City. Then, go check out Dubai, UAE. THAT'S how the OTHER half lives, for su...

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bCisive 2.0 is Here!

I want to thank Katherine from Austhink for spending some time over Skype this evening going over bCisive 2.0, which was just released. As soon as you open bCisive 2.0 you will immediately notice a new and improved user interface with a Start Screen that lets you select from several templates to get your business decision making process off the ground. If you are new to the software, Austhink now includes an introductory video which helps you get started- a nice touch. bCisive 2.0 now supports a Spell checker which was one of the most asked for features for users of the previous version. Austhink has added some new Tools to bCisive 2.0 which...

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Posted in: Austhink Software,bCisive,bCisive 2.0,business decision mapping

Top 100 Inventions of 2008

Thanks to a former student, Eric, for sharing this with me tonight via the Gmail chat. The Top 100 Inventions of 2008.I didn't get very far before I thought I should just stop and point you folks to it. No, it's not going to raise test scores, but these inventions will amaze and inspire. From buildings that generate 15% of the electricity that they use, to car finishes that repair themselves, to Photosynth and Spore and beyond. The world is an amazing place, ...

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Career Forward

Just saw this in the ASCD Brief. http://nroc.careerforward.org/careerforward/mvu/default.htm"The CareerFoward program takes on the challenge of assisting young people as they prepare for careers in the global market that is impacting their lives now and in the future."It's for students, parents, and teachers of US citizens only, I believe. Share this with your guidance counselo...

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Lots of Jokes!

Do you want to guffaw? Want “unique and high quality” jokes? Stress? And you want to eliminate your stress? Saturated with daily activities, and want cheap entertainment but has high taste? Okay, I have good news for you. Start from now, you can guffaw without the money. lotsofjokes.com is a site that is able to eliminate your stress.For your information, they has a very large selection of jokes in many categories, including all the standards like blonde jokes, dirty jokes, Yo mamma jokes, political jokes, nerd jokes, computer jokes, lawyer jokes, clean jokes and many more. Several of the listed categories are unusual like Real Man Test, Fun While Driving, Fuzzy Language, Rules For Women, Signs Of Insanity, Self Evaluation, Horror Movie Survival, Bathroom Wisdom and a whole lot of other strange...

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I Love PS3, and You?

Well! The Nintendo’s and Apple’s of this world can wait. Sony keeps arriving with a bang each time and subtly mars any of their chances. Again, this time with the gaming console PS3 or playstation 3, Sony has come up just the perfect way. The PS3 has completely caught the imagination of masses and the gaming console is fast turning people into islands. Most of them just need this unique piece in their hand and the rest of the world might go to the dogs for all they care. Funny! The way the playstation gets stuck in our psyche. Now the PS3 is completely blessed with graphic interfaces and multimedia capabilities. The multimedia-enabled videos open a different world in the gaming consoles. The playstation 3 revolutions can be gauged by the download statistic associated with it. Portals are having...

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Taking the pulse of the nation

This year has seen the seventh opinion survey by the American Dietetic Association. It has been monitoring attitudes towards diet and nutrition since 1991 with irregular surveys. In this most recent, the headline is that three-quarters of those surveyed refused to give up the food they liked, with 80% stating there was no need to change their current diet. Now, as headlines go, this could be good or bad. If everyone liked healthy food in smaller portions, they would not have to give up anything they liked in order to maintain a low body weight. But if everyone likes a diet rich in fat, laced with salt and full of sugar, then their waistlines will continue expanding at an ever faster rate. Since the ability to lose weight depends on a willingness to change what you eat, the headline is more...

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A New Drug to Fight Cholera Epidemics

A recent medical study held in Bangladesh investigated the effectiveness of traditional cholera treatments and possible alternatives. The problem of cholera is very complicated in third world countries where the water supplies can be the source of numerous bacteriological diseases. Apart from the aspect of water supplies another problem, which contributes to the development of cholera epidemics in poor countries, is that traditional medication gradually loses its effectiveness with bacteria developing resistance to it. In such situation finding a new drug for treating cholera is crucial. Having these goals the study compared Cipro (ciprofloxacin), which is commonly used in cases of severe cholera for over a decade, and a macrolide antibiotic. The study involved 195 men suffering from severe...

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Electronic Graveyard - Wanna be depressed?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/06/60minutes/main4579229.shtmlThanks to Chris Champion and his post (http://blog.cchampion.net/?p=44) I saw this video on what happens to our old computers and printers and cell phones when we get rid of them. I, too, had thought that they were being properly recycled. I had once heard that the plastics in the cases were being used in materials to repair potholes, for instance. And I THOUGHT that a safe practice was used to remove the gold and lead, etc.Such is NOT the case. Watch that video from 60 minutes. Show it to your students.But, maybe you'll want to wait until after the Holidays. This is most depressi...

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192021.org

http://192021.org/This one may well be of interest to the sociology classes out there. I was pointed to this from a post in the Long Now blog. This self-paced animation site plots demographic and resource trend data from the past to ninety years out. Do YOU agree with its vision? Would your studen...

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IT Maintenance Conttract Tips Increase Your Profitability

Are you offering an IT maintenance contract package as part of your computer consulting business?Many small business computer consultants fail to understand how important a solid IT maintenance contract can be to building relationships with clients and developing a profitable, stable business. Therefore, many don’t choose to offer IT maintenance contracts right off the bat, instead settling for one-shot deal customers or low-paying, fly-by-night customers that leave them working way too hard for way too little money.The following 4 tips can help you learn how to incorporate a strong IT maintenance contract into your business, so you can establish great relationships with your clients, increase your profits and provide a solid foundation for your computer consulting company. 1. Start Offering...

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Dimdim 4.5 Released

I know I have written about Dimdim in the past but just wanted to let you know that their product offering has been upgraded and I had a chance to use it today with a colleague to share with him just how easy it is to start a web conferencing session. Dimdim is an very easy to use web conferencing application that runs through the browser and lets you upload your PowerPoint presentation for seamless webinars complete with Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) and access to your webcam. Dimdim provides for a shared whiteboard and as the host you can pass control to your participants with the easy to use interface. Considering that this is a free...

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Flight Simulator in Google Earth

Am I the last one to know about this? Flight Simulator in Google Earth?Read about it here: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/08/google-earth-easter-egg-flight.h...

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Check it out: Getting the most out of Google Maps

Again, one thing in my reader pointed to another which led me to another, etc, and I landed here: http://mashable.com/2008/12/04/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-google-maps/You say you can't use Google Earth at school? This may just be a very acceptable alternative. The trick to getting the most out of it is having a gmail account. Schools should REALLY be looking hard at getting the Google Docs for education. It opens up SO much!Anyway, check out the tips on this page, including the video that he did that shows some great tricks in Google Earth. They may not all be for you, but there's sure to be at least o...

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Posted in: google,Google earth,google maps

Windows Hopping reprise

Hopping Between WindowsHave you ever needed to swap windows while you are using the keyboard? Have you needed to jump quickly from that email you are composing to the report you are supposed to be writing? Then try holding down Alt key and pressing the Tab key. Select the window you want and release the Alt key to bring that one to the front. A little dialog box will open that looks like this in Windows XP or 2000:And looks like this in Windows Vista:There is also an alternate way of hopping between windows that does not show this box. Simply hold down the Alt key and press the Escape key (marked Esc) to hop between windows in the order that...

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