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Sync data with Macs, iPhones using Google

Oscar Retterer — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:39:27 +0000

If you don’t want to spend the money for MobileMe just to be able to sync contacts and calendars among various Macs and iPhones, you can get the same results for free using Google.

[Source: MacWorld]

Georgetown University’s Digital Commons

Oscar Retterer — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:15:38 +0000

The Georgetown University Digital Commons is a place where Georgetown students, faculty, and staff can explore new and innovative online tools for communication and collaboration.

One site within the Digital Commons is Academic Continuity 2010: Connecting with Students, Continuing with Coursework. Within these pages are ideas, examples, and faculty reflections for engaging with students in atypical circumstances like weather-related closings.

Mac OS 10.6 – Digital camera auto-import options

Oscar Retterer — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:34:14 +0000

A welcome new Feature in Mac OSX 10.6 is the ability to set the auto-import options for different applications by using Image Capture with the device you want to set-up – connected and powered on.

[Source: MacWorld]

One Easy way to transfer files from Boot Camp to OS X – Mac OS X Hints

Teb Locke — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:46:23 +0000

I use Boot Camp on my Mac, and quite often I create files in Windows and want those files on the OS X side as well. It's a pain to take out a USB flash drive and copy the files there, reboot, and copy them again. If the files are large, emailing the files to yourself may not work either.

One solution is Dropbox. As Dropbox works on OS X, Windows, and Linux, all you have to do is install Dropbox on your Boot Camp Windows installation, then drop or save any files in theree; they will automatically transfer into OS X the next time you boot back into the Mac OS.

via One Easy way to transfer files from Boot Camp to OS X – Mac OS X Hints.

Responding to Student Writing (audio style)

Oscar Retterer — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:52:52 +0000

Responding to student writing in an effective and timely manner is important to student success. Teaching writing is hard work, and it takes a lot of time, more time than most of us feasibly have. However, we can find a way to respond to student writing in a detailed manner that doesn’t take significant blocks of time. We could conference with students (and this is a very effective teaching tool), but we can also respond to students through the use of digital/audio recording. By recording our comments to students, we are able to give more feedback, be more personal, and connect more easily with the student writer. And, as studies have indicated, the students are more receptive to those personal words.

[Source: ProfHacker.com]

Use DropBox to distribute new apps to multiple Macs – Mac OS X Hints

Oscar Retterer — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:31:23 +0000

One usage which is not obvious, is to use it to distribute a new software disk image to my different computers.

[Source: MacWorld]