I somehow got on this Oncourse mailing list awhile back and usually disregard most of the emails, but today they were showcasing a faculty member at the Indiana University East campus who is using a Flip camera to record short lectures for his course. I think it’s brilliant!
Last night when I was doing everything but homework, I came across this WiseStamp Firefox plugin that lets you easily create customized email signatures that include links to your social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. The only problem I had with it is that it only works in Firefox and I compose most of [...]
It looks like my Amazon account was attacked by some Germans and caused Amazon to reset my account password. Sadly, I was ready to disregard the email they sent me about my account change because I didn’t trust the sender. According to Amazon’s phishing guide, I was doing the right thing but their guide didn’t [...]
I love IU. I think it’s a great university with many talented faculty members and endless resources for students. I’ve never regretted my decision to come here and pursue my degree in informatics. Just last month, the university announced that they had struck a deal with Adobe to provide CS4 to everyone for free! This [...]
Today, a friend of mine asked if I would read over her personal statement for grad school and I wanted to give her solid, easy to comprehend feedback. I’ve never had luck using commenting in word processors and have seen annotations in PDFs before but never found a good program to do them myself. Luckily, [...]