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Teacher's Productivity Hampered by technology. No love.Amber Arizpe | Jan 27 2008Greetings Programs, I am a User. (Sorry, I rediscovered Tron the other day... Anyways...) Background: I am a math teacher. High School Math Teacher. I am a engineer. I like elegance. I like usability. I like duct tape. I like being able to come up with my own solutions. I also like to not re-invent the wheel as I have other things to do. Lesson Plans, Grades, Re-takes, filing, parent meetings, staff meetings, continual professional development, making worksheets, tests, learning guides, and that secret side of a teacher called a dating life. I use macs. I use PCs. I use unix/linux. But my preferred choice is the mac. Why? Because I have one at work and one at home. I was raised on it and unix. I lived in a house that lived by the Customer Calendar (Advertising), so I know products from Adobe and Quark. I like pretty buttons. I am a computer engineer, so I know how the things work. I know I can program my own stuff, but again... I don't like re-inventing the wheel. read more »71 Comments
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Slate Magazine on the market for "Zenware"Matt Wood | Jan 24 2008Sort of an add-on to the New York Times piece Merlin linked the other day about Scrivener and its cohort of new writing applications, Jeffrey MacIntyre at Slate coins a new term for programs that eschew the familiar, bloated twiddliness of Microsoft Office for simplicity: read more » POSTED IN:
Towards being a more entertaining guestMerlin Mann | Jan 24 2008Global Nerdy | How to Work the Room Joey's condenses some great tips on going from wallflower to party panda. Number one has always stood me in good stead:
Totally. Not to get all Burning Man on you here, but any event will only be as good as the people who actively participate in it. People who arrive waiting to be entertained are dead weight, while those who do more than the minimum to make things happen can bring the place to life. read more »POSTED IN:
Mostly not-Wookiee-related links for January 23rdMerlin Mann | Jan 23 2008
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MacBreak 74: Hot Lips and HawkeyeMerlin Mann | Jan 22 2008MacBreak Weekly 74: Hot Lips and Hawkeye > Hosts: Leo Laporte, Merlin Mann, Andy Ihnatko, and Rich Siegel > A look back at Macworld, Office spreads out, MacHeist, .Mac future bright and cloudy, certain gestures and more. Here's a direct MP3 download of MBW 74. I think this might be one of my favorite episodes of MacBreak Weekly. Say what you will about the podcast medium, it's amazing to be able to pull an articulate person like Rich Siegel into your conversation midway -- (~00:38:15) -- just via IM and a phone number. Very cool. So. That said. I really want the promoters and developer-fans of MacHeist to have their opportunity to respond to what Rich (and we) had to say. Clearly we all think a lot of the Mac indie community, so it'd be valuable to continue the conversation in a way that's fair and civil for everybody. Directions on how to get your voice heard appear around (~00:57:11) of this episode. update 2008-01-25 08:21:01 read more »POSTED IN:
Macworld Expo '08: Merlin talks with the makers of 1PasswordMerlin Mann | Jan 22 2008Aha! Embeddable video for a third MacBreak interview at Macworld '08 has turned up -- this one's with Dave Teare at Agile Web Solutions, makers of 1Password. As we discuss in the video, I'm really looking forward to seeing 1Password's secure password bookmarklet for iPhone. MacBreak: Macworld 2008/Agile Web Solutions
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