Future of Touchscreens

Two laptop-ish links.

(1) Jeff Han demos his amazing touchscreen interface. Makes our current tablet PC capabilities look wimpy; but it also makes it look like the tablet interface is an indication of what's to come.

(2) Macs Only: A good site for free Mac applications.

fj

Cleaning Up Mac Desktops and Docs

Apple Folks-->

I just came across two li'l programs that might interest you.

1) Desktopple, a free program that does just one thing: temporarily hides all the icons on your desktop. Could be useful when hooking up to a projector, especially if the projector has lower resolution than your Mac. (I have a lot of detritus on my desktop, and syncing my screen with one of the projectors always jumbles my icons.) http://foggynoggin.com/desktopple

2) Overflow. This one costs fifteen dollars but has a free preview. Basically, this is to help you have quick access to all your applications but ALSO have a clean simple dock. It kind of gives you multiple docks to launch from. Really, you need to see it to understand, and, luckily, the software company has a handy video on the linked paged that shows you what it does. Worth a look if your dock is getting too full. http://www.stuntsoftware.com/Overflow/

2.5) Overflow is kind of a more elegant version of the free program Todos, which I linked to a few weeks ago: http://www.dbachrach.com/opensoft/index.php?page=Todos

That's all I've got,

fj

Just Notes and Links

Hello, everyone.

Just a reminder that if you're running into any consistent tech problems in the laptop rooms, you should let me know.

And an exhortation: Share ideas and solutions with each other! The thing that's great about having so many laptops in circulation now is that we have so many brilliant minds working on how to use them.

Some links of interest:

* A tool I'll add to the help site soon, worth a look: Snipshot, for online photo editing.

* And here's a rundown of all the online photo sharing sites (http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/web_photo_sharing_faceoff.php), in case any of you are looking for interesting ways for students to work with photos.

* Some funny (or mildly amusing, at least) parodies of the recent Mac vs. PC ads that Apple's been running. Relevant because this one's about Tablet PCs. (The one about games and jobs is pretty funny, too, and it sets up the joke at the end of the Tablet PC one.) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9Krgk4Mlps&mode=related&search=)

* And just to show I love the Macs, too, here's Todos (http://www.dbachrach.com/opensoft/index.php?page=Todos), which gives Macs a kind of super dock, showing all their applications at once. I just tried it. It's neat.

All for now,

Fred