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Lloyd the Android

After reading a few end‐of‐year wrapups, I realized that I’ve never done a roundup of useful Android apps for productivity and education. This is a list of the very best of the best apps I use on Android to stay productive, connected, and collaborative on the go.

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apps (Photo credit: Sean MacEntee)

This week at work, they replaced my ailing but valiant Dell XP laptop with a new HP Windows7 notebook for work, and then surprised me with a dual‐booting iMac desktop for me to aggressively customize and evaluate the next wave of standard applications w...

John Ward, my High School Math Teacher
John Ward, RIP

 

This post discusses how to build your own Personal (or Professional) Learning Network. Instead of starting by telling you which tools to use, I want to talk about why you would do this in the first place.…

This is a photo of my high school math teacher, Coach John Wa...

Wanted: Santa Claus

Image by kevindooley via Flickr

Amazon.com’s AStore Affiliate program pays charities if you search Amazon via a referrer link. In the spirit of giving, here’s how you can replace your Amazon Firefox Search Bar button with the AStore search link of your favorite cause. Amazon will donate...

Unemployment Line
Image by John and Keturah via Flickr

When you’re looking for work, keeping up with the online job listings is a job in itself. This tutorial will teach you how to automate your job search so you can quickly scan through lots of fresh, relevant job ads every day.

The Big Picture

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Opera Browser 2.0

Image by Glztt via Flickr

Opera Unite is an amazing service that allows you to run a web server right out of your own browser! What does that mean? It means that you can share photos, music, and files without uploading them to some external service. You can even set up a private chat ...