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Missing Sync for hiptop enables synchronization of iCal events and To Do's list and Mac OS X Address Book contacts with the hiptop desktop interface and hiptop handheld (including the Sidekick). Share contacts, calendar events and to do items across multiple devices using iSync.
Markspace already makes a version of Missing Sync for the Sony Clié, now they are working on a version for the Sidekick. Website says coming soon...
Blogging and RSS Will's article published in Multimedia & Internet@Schools is available online at the link above.
Instant messaging, long a part of teenagers' lives, is working its way into the broader fabric of the American family. [NY Times Technology]
NPR : NASA Poised to Land Rover on Mars
Late Saturday night Eastern time, a spacecraft called Spirit is due to complete its 300-million-mile journey by landing at a site that scientists think was once a crater lake. They hope to find evidence that water once flowed on Mars, because where there was water there may have been life.
I moved my domain to TeacherHosting.com and it looks like things went well. Now I have this site and the Lewis Elementary site all running on Moveable Type 2.65 running MySQL. The process was pretty painless thanks to help of Paul Bradley. Now that I have all my sites running under one installation of MT, I can use plug-ins such as MT-OtherBlog to pull content from one site into the tim.lauer.name site. For example on this page, I have the last two entries from the Lewis Elementary site. Also the Photoblog is pulling images from http://tim.lauer.name/photolog.
Just read about this on Mobilewhack and gave it a try. Romeo, and Veta Universal turn your Nokia 3650 into a Bluetooth remote control for your Powerbook. It can be used to do all sorts of things like advance slides in a Powerpoint or Keynote presentation, control iTunes, iDVD and even control the mouse.
SyChip say they're close to introducing an WiFi SD expansion card that's compatible with Microsoft Smartphone-powered cellphones like Motorola's MPx200 and Samsung's i600. Now if only someone would make one that works with the Treo 600. Read... [Gizmodo]
My friend has a Treo 600. A very nice phone with a SD slot. If it can take a Wi-Fi card then you have a very interesting device. My Nokia 3650 is working well for me, but if I had a phone that also could connect via Wi-Fi, then I would have a device that would allow me to move about my school and stay connected via our wireless network...
Jeff Brown, a magazine editor and short-story writer who created Flat Stanley, the two-dimensional hero of an enduring series of children's books, died on Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 77 and lived on the Upper East Side.
My students always liked the Flat Stanley books... I mean who wouldn't want to read about a boy squashed paper-thin by a bulletin board... who possesed the ability to slide under doors and down sewer grates...
MobileWhack is all about that mobile handset, palmtop, hiptop, ipod, or laptop in your pocket, purse, briefcase, or dangling from your utility belt. It's about squeezing every last ounce of mobility out of your mobile device.
From Rael Dornfest comes Mobilewhack, a weblog about mobile devices. Bryan Bell did the layout and through the use of CSS, it looks great on any device, even my Nokia 3650...
BBC NEWS | Technology | Broadband arrival for GNER trains
Broadband arrival for GNER trains GNER is the first UK rail firm to offer passengers broadband internet First-class train travellers speeding along GNER's East Coast route can get fast broadband net too as wireless web trials get under way.
This would be great on the Amtrak Cascades that runs between Portland and Seattle...
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Ok, so $30 is a really good price for a DVD/VCR combination player, but is it worth nearly crushing another human being to death just to get one? Apparently so:A stampede of shoppers left a woman seriously hurt this morning. She was trampled by a crowd of bargain hunters at a Central Florida Walmart. 41-year-old Patricia Vanlester is at Halifax Medical Center tonight. Family members say she came to Walmart to buy an advertised DVD, but what she got was a trip to the hospital...When the store finally opened, shoppers grabbed for the item. People started fighting for the DVD player and pushed Vanlester to the ground. "I screamed and said stop don't step on her," Ellzey says. "My sister is on the ground but no one would listen." Walmart employees rushed to Vanlester. She was knocked unconscious. She was airlifted to Halifax Medical Center.Read... [Gizmodo]
School Is Haven When Children Have No Home
With unemployment and spiraling housing costs pushing a growing number of families into homelessness, school systems across the country are seeing more and more children like Mariah living in shelters, cars or motels. Some states are reporting a nearly 50 percent increase in homeless students over the last year.
An article from the New York Times on how schools are increasing becoming a resource of last resort for students of families facing homelessness and poverty.
SixApart Announcements...The great news is that we've got a new version of Movable Type planned for release in the next couple months that is a response to the sort of features and requests we've been hearing from our current users and other webloggers. Because of the success of TypePad and our ability to staff up, we're working on releasing more features in the basic Movable Type package and concentrating the features needed for businesses, organizations and large content-driven sites into Movable Type Pro. [Six Log]
It looks like there will be an upgrade to Moveable Type in the near future. Am hoping that a lot of the features that they have put into Typepad show up in Moveable Type. I'm also looking for tools such as those available in add on plug-ins such as MTMedic. These allow for an administrator to do global administration tasks on a MovableType installation.
Pat lists some of the things he learned at edBlogger "03. Pat did an excellent job organizing and staging this event. As he mentions, using his school really helped to keep costs down, and the generous support of other organizations helped to make the whole thing very enjoyable and worthwhile.
Thor Prichard and Paul Bradley created a weblog that helped capture the sessions and conversations, and also has some great pictures.
It was great to be able to have an opportunity to come together and share our experiences. Thanks to all that made this possible.
Notes from the Sunday EdBlogger panels taken using SubEthaEdit (formerly Hydra) can be found at...cogent life...
PhotoAm thinking I've dropped my camera phone one too many times...
Train stop at PDX.
Train to airport...
