If you are a teacher or have any need for a classroom-based Wiki project, I have the perfect solution for you. I discovered CourseForum a few years back when I was looking for a web-based software that could help a peer create a web site for her class that could help students stay organized. There [...]

Tags: apache, classroom, classroom software, courseforum, courses, Linux, wiki
Categories: Advice, Linux, Mac, Project, The Web, Tools, Tutorials Basic, Windows, software

While looking for something completely different I found a handy little tool called Bookmarked Reporter which can parse your site (or use an XML sitemap) and create a report of the delicious bookmark count for all the sub pages. This is great for blogs with many posts, it makes everything easier to track.
Once you have [...]

Tags: adobe air, blogging, bookmarks, del.icio.us
Categories: Tools

While taking a look at my calendar today I noticed that Google has rolled out their offline feture for Google Calendar, and after some searching I found that this is indeed the case for everyone. Since we have become so reliant on the web for everything this should come in handy for times when your [...]

Tags: calendar, google gears, offline
Categories: Google, Tools

Your hard disk space may seem increasingly small but you may not be aware what is taking the space. I, for example, subscribed to dozens of podcasts but naively overlooked them when trying to clear space. In fact, they took up 5GB of space!
Whilst disk space is no longer seen as a problem, considering 1GB [...]

Tags: directory, disk space, files, freeware, hard-disk, hard-drive, Linux, mac, optimise, optimization, optimize, os x, software, Tools, windirstat, Windows
Categories: Linux, Mac, Tools, Windows, software

There are a number of reasons you would need to an archive. You might need to create backup archives of files, or you might want to be able to store project files together. Whatever your reason, the GNOME File Roller tool makes creating archives simple. File Roller is the Winzip of Linux.
Of course you can [...]

Tags: archives, File Roller, Linux, tar, untarring, unzipping, zip
Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Tools, Tutorials Basic

Recently I installed the amazing desktop Elive Compiz. After getting it up and running I decided I needed to get some screencasts of the desktop in order to show off what it could do. I thought the task would be simple. It wasn’t. Although there are plenty of applications to handle capturing videos of a [...]

Tags: Debian, elive, Elive Compiz, Enlightenment, gtk-recordmydesktop, screen casts
Categories: Advice, Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Tools, Tutorials Basic

Generally, I geotag my photos using Flickr’s Organizr. Unfortunately, I often find Yahoo! Maps to be much worse than Google Maps and whilst recently tagging some photos of Northern France and Flanders, I simply found it intolerable (being unfamiliar with placenames etc). I began to reminisce about the days when geotagging was somewhat more complex [...]

Tags: bookmarklets, flickr, geodata, geotagging, geotags, google maps, javascript, online photo sharing, photography, photos, photosharing
Categories: The Web, Tools