December 8, 2009
The Free Technology Academy consists of an advanced virtual campus with course modules that can be followed entirely on-line.
Only just started (courses are “under construction”)
October 10, 2009
A useful utility on the cover disk of Australian PC authority ( http://www.pcauthority.com.au/ ) is Paragon’s Hard Disk Manager (9.5 SE)
I am often confronted with students who have trashed their Hard Drives (or the drive have magically trashed themselves). This utility allows you to create a complete backup of the drive. Additionally if you want to upgrade your HDD to a bigger one it has a wizard to do this.
Also included is Magix Music Maker Silver for those of you who want to create your own “original ” music.
August 3, 2009
JJ has just given me a link to a page that links to lots of free(?) utilities – nicely organised.
FileHippo.com (2009). Retireved August 4, 2009 from http://www.filehippo.com/
July 19, 2009
From Terry
Does File and Web comparisons (free online and doesn’t store the documents)
About
http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20090717092232364
The site itself is at
http://www.doccop.com/index.html?nc=22822718
June 28, 2009
Had a pdf that needed converting to doc. Found two options
1. Free Standalone converter that can be downloaded to your PC (http://www.hellopdf.com/download.php ) and
2. A Web based converter ( http://www.pdftoword.com/ )
Of the two the web converter (#2) did the best (though not perfect) job though I’m always suspicious about web converters when they ask to send things to my email address that they are not collecting them. Will be monitoring my email for new spam.
April 7, 2009
Apr 7, iCloud was publically launched. Have included the “marketing email below…
First observations. Tried it on our institutions PC.. Connection too slow, tried in IE/Firefox came up but never got to a stage I could use it. Chrome had JavaScript issues…
Must try it at home 
In the email it stated…
icloud, the online service that gives you the freedom of your friends, files and digital life on any computer. After 8 years of development icloud is today officially launched worldwide as the online PC for everyone without a PC
Linkoping, Sweden – April 7th, 2009 - Xcerion today announce the launch of icloud, the world’s first free online computer, giving everybody in the world their own online computer packed with free storage, applications, virtual desktop and backup accessible from any computer connected to the Internet. Starting today the icloud service is available in English, Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Swedish and Filipino languages.
The public launch of icloud builds on a closed beta testing program and the incorporation of user feedback from iclouder’s worldwide. icloud is proud to announce free icloud accounts for everyone at http://icloud.com.
Daniel Arthursson, the founder of icloud say, “With icloud, we put a virtual computer together with free storage and free applications in the hands of everybody in the world, it’s the PC for everyone without a PC. Everybody can now access and share documents, photos, music and their complete digital life from any computer“.
The public version includes:
April 6, 2009
Open Library (n.d.) . Retrieved April 7, 2009 from http://openlibrary.org/
Apr 7, 2009: featuring 22,845,290 books (including 1,064,822 with full-text)
April 5, 2009
Presentation by Terry Anderson at Moodlemoot
Anderson, T. (2009) Beyond LMS Keynote to Canada Moodlemoot 2009. Retrieved April 6, 2009 from http://www.slideshare.net/terrya/beyond-lms-keynote-to-canada-moodlemoot-2009
March 25, 2009
March 25, 2009
This real-time simulation displays the CO2 emissions of every country in the world, as well as their birth and death rates.
Found by DR
Belja, D (2008) CO2 emissions, birth rate & death rate simulation. Retrieved from http://breathingearth.net/
