AMD brings bare-bones PC to consumers – Yahoo! News
Radio Shack plans to start selling a low-cost alternative to the personal computer starting Sunday.The $299 machine, dubbed the Personal Internet Communicator, was designed by Advanced Micro Devices to access the Internet and perform basic computing tasks.
Getting Clerkship Info From a Blog
This is interesting. basically the author(s) setup a post for each circuit and are allowing anonymous posters to comment with information about each circuit as it becomes available. Currently, posts most list which judges are scheduling interviews, but we should expect ot see info about hiring soon enough. This is a nexcellent example of leveraging the power of a blog to gather and disseminate information. It would be cooler if there were RSS feeds for the comments.
Students Get Campus Info Via Cellphone
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When Travis Misurell arrived for freshman orientation at Montclair State University last month, he received the ultimate welcome gift.School officials handed him a $250 Motorola cellphone – and told him to use it.
Not for phone calls, but to tap into a multitude of “channels” packed with news and updates on campus happenings.
Roll Your Own Search Engine With Rollyo
This is intersting. Great potential.
O’Reilly Radar > Rollyo: Roll Your Own Search Engine
Rollyo affords anyone the ability to roll their own Yahoo!-powered search engine, attenuating results to a set of up to 25 sites. And while the searchrolls (as they’re called) you create are around a particular topic (e.g. Food and Dining), they are also attached to a real person (e.g. Food and Dining is by Jason Kottke). The result is a topic-specific search created and maintained by a trusted source.
NASA World Wind: An Alternative to Google Earth
NASA World Wind
World Wind lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, World Wind lets you experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D, just as if you were really there.
Wikibooks Trys For Electronic Texbooks
There is an entry for Contract Law.
Wikibooks takes on textbook industry | CNET News.com
Today, Wikibooks contains 11,426 submissions. The topics covered range from biology to economics in New Zealand. Because the books are digital and open source, any teacher can decide to assign one and simply point students to PDFs they can print.
Build a Telephone Recording Circuit
MAKE: Blog: Build a Telephone Recording Circuit from an Old Modem
This little hack is useful for those of us wanting to record Voip telephone calls for podcasts with good quality audio. Keep in mind that recording telephone calls without notifying all parties involved is against the law in many parts of the world.
Blogging the Duke Podcasting Symposium
Dave notes that I live blogged today’s sessions of the Duke Podcasting Symposium . I used Dave’s OPML Editor and I found it very handy. I’ve been blogging for nearly 5 years and I’ve threatened to live blog every conference I ‘ve been at since then, but it never seemed to work out. The OPML Editor made it work. Now if I could route the posts to this blog…
Use a Blog as a Powerpoint Alternative
For all you folks looking for an alternative to .ppt, try a blog. For a bonus use Classcaster to add audio.
LawLibTech: PowerPoint Alternatives – From Browsers to Blogs, Part II
StarOffice 8 Released
StarOffice 8 offers enhanced Office compatibility – Computerworld
Sun Microsystems Inc. today released a new version of StarOffice designed to better address the software’s compatibility with Microsoft Office, one of the chief complaints among users of Sun’s office productivity suite.