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EveryZing

Posted on May 15, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

Here is a handy tool for anyone interested in finding a podcast about a specific topic.  Everyzing is a service that scans through an assortment of podcasts and converts all that speech into text that is searchable.  You can search … Continue reading →

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Jing

Posted on May 8, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

Jing is a free screen capture tool from TechSmith, the makers of Snag and Camtasia.  Jing runs on Windows or OS X and can be linked to your own server or to a free streaming service called ScreenCast.com. Jing will capture … Continue reading →

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TrustyETC Googlified

Posted on May 5, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

A couple of weeks ago, my mail server started making one of those “it won’t be long now” sort of sounds.  It was the kind of noise you hear an eight year-old computer make just before everything goes dark. I have … Continue reading →

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Google &as_qdr=d

Posted on April 27, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

The next time you use the Google, add this to the end of your search URL: &as_qdr=d Instead of this: http://www.google.com/search?q=”how+to+create+a+great+powerpoint” Make it like this: http://www.google.com/search?q=”how+to+create+a+great+powerpoint”&as_qdr=d Google then adds a time sensitive drop down box at the end of your … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu 8.04… day two

Posted on April 26, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

After nine hours of downloading from the mirror at OSU, my connection was lost.  I tried one of the torrents just to compare the download time. Twenty minutes later, I had the ISO on my hard drive.  What a great … Continue reading →

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