Skype for iPhone Now with Video Calls

sI could remember back to 1964 at the New York's World Fair being transfixed as I spoke to my mother an father and was able to see them on the video phone in the ATT Pavilion. It sure has taken a long time for the idea of video calls to take hold. But if there is one prediction which will really take hold in 2011 it will be how we begin to make more and more video calls on our mobile phones. Apple lead the way this year with their  application FaceTime running on the iPhone 4 and iPod Touch, allowing users to have video conferencing calls on the go when they are within earshot of a Wifi network. Skype today announced the release of Skype...

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Documenting Student's Work with Xpaper

I have always been a big fan of the digital pen technology and have witnessed the growth of this market over the past 8 years with the release of such products as the Livescribe Pulse Smartpen and PaperShow for Teachers. Using a digital pen and digital paper makes the solutions come alive and are a ,natural for students and teachers to use since very little training is required. One of the solutions which I believe could have tremendous impact on how teachers and school administrators capture data in the schools could come about by using digital pen and paper solutions.I have been using a product called Xpaper from a company called Talario, LLC...

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Chirpstory - All Stories "Your tool forcompiling, sharing, and enjoying Tweets.Click "Create Story" to get started! " tags: twitter newspaper Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are he...

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aHa!Visual Web Export for MindManager 9

I find myself spending more times these days creating and putting up more  information on the web for both the classes the I teach and the workshops that I facilitate. As a result, I am always looking for tools that will make it easier for me to accomplish these goals. I spend a lot of time using various mind mapping tools to brainstorm and communicate the ideas and information that I will cover in my sessions. I tend to use MindManager 9 now to create a lot of my materials and have been looking for a way to quickly be able to output  my maps on the web. Several years ago I had reviewed aHa!Visual Web Export and found it to be an easy...

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The needs of Learning Chemistry and Physics

Benefits of learning chemistry is a better understanding of the nature and the various processes that take place on it.From the above description has explained that the material can be changed physically or chemically. By learning chemistry, we can convert natural materials into more useful products separately meet the needs of human life, and we can understand the needs of human life, and we can understand natural phenomena that we encounter in our lives every day.a. Digestion of food substances in the body.Food derived from growing plants. Growing plants assimilated with chemical processes. Our bodies need carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, all of which is a chemical process that can produce carbon dioxide gas, water and energy.b. Many kind of Daily NeedsWe need soap, toothpaste,...

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Welcome to NBC Learn- K-12 This site replaces iCue with the news footage, etc. Looks good.NBC News Archives on Demand (K-12) is a collection of NBC News videos, primary source documents, images, and resources specifically designed for use in the K-12 classroom. * Thousands of searchable and downloadable resources (1600s to Today) * Video content aligned to State Standards * Current Events updated regularly * Sciences, Social Studies, Language Arts, Health and Business * Personalized playlists for teachers and students * Revolutionary flippable media player tags: news Aviary Education - Home Aviary for educators! Shared...

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Computer 101: Installing a Printer on your Computer

Why? Well does everyone know how to install a basic printer? But there is the printer manual on how to install one. Every new printer that is bought off the shelf comes with one manual. Yes that true but does everyone really read those manual or do take time to understand them. To most of user installing a printer on their own is simply hard to do. If something's go wrong during the installation process they easily give up and ask a tech supp guy to do it for them with payment of course.Most printers' installation is the same and they use the same cable connection with the computer Universal Serial Bus cable. Let's do a quick checklist on what we need to install a newly bought regular printer. The printer itself, CD driver, USB cable and the power cable. All of them must be present to be able...

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Rebit’s Holiday Specials Bring “Ridiculously Simple” Discounts on PC Backup

Rebit has to be one of the easiest ways to back up your PC. I have had the opportunity to use Rebit on my laptop and it works as advertised. Rebit not only backs up your files but it also backups your applications and system. This is a great gift for the holidays! BrianRebit’s Holiday Specials Bring “Ridiculously Simple” Discounts on PC BackupAll Software, 1TB Drive on Sale through New Year’s EveLONGMONT, CO –  December 16, 2010 – Rebit Inc., the company dedicated to making backup and recovery for PC users “ridiculously simple,” today announced that it is offering holiday specials through December 31, 2010 on orders placed through www.Rebit.com.Site-wide Software Special:  20% off all software – The ideal backup solution for your office and home. Just connect your ...

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New French Blog / Novo blog em Francês

This article is written in English and PortugueseEste artigo está escrito em Inglês e PortuguêsEnglish Version:It's a great pleasure to present you another Informix blog. This one is written in French. The author is Eric Vercelletto, which was a colleague at Informix Portugal. Eric has a long history with Informix. We was working at Informix France and decided to join Informix Portugal mainly to participate in a big and complex project several years ago (before I joined Informix). After that we met and worked together on another customer. At the time I was working mainly with tools and he managed all the engine side stuff. When he decided to embrace other challenges outside Informix, I assumed his position at that customer. It was a big challenge for me (I had relatively low experience with...

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My Favorite Christmas Story

Every year for the past... many... I've tried to remember to send out this link to my favorite Christmas story. It's told by Henry Faulk and it used to be played on NPR each year. They finally stopped playing it, but the link to the story remains.This has become a tradition for me. I play it at least once each year.Gather the family around and settle in for what I'm certain you will find to be a wonderful story, brilliantly told. The story of a barefoot boy and his Christmas orange.Enjoy. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5028...

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Change MySQL ROOT Password

How Change MySQL ROOT Password? its pretty simple when using phpmyadmin, especially we using XAMMP just go to http://localhost/phpmyadmin on your browser, then choose privilege menu, then write your password like picture abo...

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Informix ROI webcast

This article is written in English and PortugueseEste artigo está escrito em Português e InglêsEnglish version:Following the recent announcement of a Forrester study about Informix ROI, a webcast was held on December 13. The replay can be seen here:https://www.techwebonlineevents.com/ars/eventregistration.do?mode=eventreg&F=1002717&K=4ONYou can listen to it in webcast format and also download the slides and sound file.The presentation was done by Jon Erickson from Forrester and Richard Wozniak who browses through some of the Panther key features.Be sure to pass this to your company management!Versão Portuguesa:No seguimento do recente anúncio sobre um estudo da Forrester sobre o ROI (return on investment) do Informix, foi apresentado um webcast no dia 13 de Dezembro. Pode rever esta...

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Google Chrome for Linux

Back in February I posted a list of Linux web browsers. I mentioned that a stable version of Chromium (the open-source basis for Google Chrome) would soon be available for Linux. I see that Chromium is now available in the Ubuntu repositories and a rpm package is also available for Fedora based distributions as far as I can tell.Alternatively, you can now download installation packages for a stable version of Google Chrome for Linux. Packages are available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and openSUSE. Chrome is also available in the Ubuntu canonical repository.I installed the 64-bit version of Chrome on Xubuntu and it...

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Computer 101: Parts that Affects the Over-All Computer System Performance. Part-2

Another part that directly affects the over-all performance of the computer is the amount of memory installed in relation with the software requirement of the user. For most standard computer the minimum amount installed should be 2 Gigabytes but this is only for standard user. This amount of memory my vary depending on the software requirements of the user. For any professional user that uses software intensive application then it should be more than 4 gigabytes. Another type or requirements is for the gaming industry. Games that needs vast amount of memory should have more memory preferred for it. The more memory there is available for the software the better. Remember the Operating system like MS Windows or MAC OS first and foremost is the first who uses this memory to function properly....

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Computer 101: Parts that Affects the Over-All Computer System Performance. Part-1

Processing speed, Booting speed and over-all performance of your computer. This is always what we wanted from our computer, from desktop to laptop. What ever the model or kind of computer that we have we need speed in it's performance. My processor has 2 or 3 Ghz of computing power but still it seems slow to react to all my task. Well yup your processor is fast, but it just one of the many factor that affect the over-all speed performance of the computer. But they say that if you have a very fast processor then it good enough to make your computer fast also in processing. Partly true and wrong. That just sales talk, most sale...

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Panther: Name service cache

This article is written in English and PortugueseEste artigo está escrito em Inglês e PortuguêsEnglish version:A recent thread in the IIUG mailing list (relative to a reverse DNS issue) reminded me of a new Panther (version 11.7) functionality that was on my list for articles. I've been avoiding many of the bigger and more important features because they will take a lot of time to write about... I hope this one will be shorter.Informix needs to read several files or interact with DNS servers each time you try to open a connection. Considering Unix and Linux (Windows is a bit different technically, but not that much conceptually), these are some of the actions the engine must do:Depending on your host resolution criteria it will probably open the /etc/hosts file to search for your client's...

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21 Things that will Disappear in Ten Years? My reply

Recently, someone on twitter pointed me to this blog post about twenty one things that will disappear in education by 2020. I read it fully and have copied and pasted it here along with my responses. What do you think?1. DesksThe 21st century does not fit neatly into rows. Neither should your students. Allow the network-based concepts of flow, collaboration, and dynamism help you rearrange your room for authentic 21st century learning.I don’t see this happening in the next ten years. Why not? There is nothing to suggest that our colleges are changing the way they teach, nor how they teach education majors how to teach. We teach how we were taught, so as long as the model remains the old model, well continue to teach that way.Another reason - it would take WAY too much money to replace...

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Free Pictures - Wylio.com search engine for creative commons images. Grab code to embed the image or click the image to be taken to the source tags: creativecommons PhotoFunia Shared recently on twitter. No account needed. For you but probably not the students. Nothing wrong, but certainly won't raise a test score. :) tags: photos fun Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are he...

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Creating Language Arts Lessons with PaperShow for Teachers

As more and more teachers have begun to use PaperShow for Teachers in the classroom I wanted to share this tip for creating quick grammar and cloze technique activities. Using the interactive paper that comes with PaperShow for Teachers gives you the freedom to create activities for the classroom that your students can interact with. Once you create the activity and print it out on the interactive paper you can then pass the activity out to your students and have them complete it from their desks, so that everyone can see. Likewise you could use it to model how to complete the activity so that everyone can see how it is done. So lets get started!I...

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