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I was on campus last week for a campus technology committee meeting, and I ran into one of the faculty I used to perform instructional technology support for. We started talking about the class I’m teaching next quarter, an introduction … Continue reading →

SideTrack, from Raging Menace, is driver software that enables Mac trackpads to accept a variety of “gestures,” similar to those standard on Windows trackpads, strikes me as emminently useful. I’m contemplating trying the beta out, but I’ll certainly keep an … Continue reading →

Despite my exquisite taste and judgement in using Mac OS X as my OS, one of my email accounts (the one my students use) is getting swamped with email containing the Swen attachement—and I do mean swamped. So for Windows … Continue reading →

From Observable Phenomena – A news report yesterday stated that benevolent software hegemony Microsoft (all blessings to them [please don't hurt us!]) lost a patent suit brought jointly by Eolas Technology and the University of California. The jury decided that … Continue reading →

The thing that I’ve not seen any one, on either side of the .RSS/Echo issue mention is that whatever flaws .RSS may (or may not) have, it’s understandable by ordinary mortals, even Medievalists. Looking at the specs, especially the sample … Continue reading →