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Comment on Herding Cats by David Lippman

David Lippman — Thu, 17 May 2012 04:31:00 +0000

Funny, and I jokingly describe the process from the faculty side as being put in a maze with a blindfold and being told to find the exit

Comment on The Complete Guide To Importing Contacts Into Android’s Gmail by Past Palm

Past Palm — Thu, 10 May 2012 23:35:00 +0000

I share your frustration with finding a decent syncing system. I was a long-time (since 1994) Palm user and couldn’t face making the switch to a smartphone. I researched like crazy until I found this app called B-Folders. I was able to just *import* all of my Contacts (it even put stuff into the right fields!) and my Memos (over 1,200) from Palm desktop (no re-keying). I was transferring to a Mac so it used “tab&return” instead of CSV, but it did it flawlessly. Amazing.

Their nested folder system works just like Palm’s categories (only you can have an unlimited number of them and can combine Contacts, Memos, and Passwords all the in the same folder if you want). It’s more versatile than Palm (it has this feature of “customizable cards” to keep all sorts of stuff).

I had been using an encrypted password program in addition to Palm before – now it’s all in this B-Folders program which even auto-fills your passwords into the login pages you’ve stored.

Can you tell I really like it? And it’s all “off the cloud” secure, just like Palm. And easy backups provide a great sense of security – especially when I’ve never had to use them!

Comment on Found a Recipe for Legoland-style Apple Fries by Barny

Barny — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 08:19:00 +0000

I enjoy fries made of potato, not apple!

Comment on Long Live the Copycats! by Update: Angry Publishers Bolster My Case Against Higher Ed | seriously, y'all…

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:59:46 +0000

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Comment on Publishing Open Textbooks to Lulu and Create Space by tom4cam

tom4cam — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:28:00 +0000

I like it! I’ll play around with CreateSpace a bit more, but that might be the way to go. Hopefully we can talk Amazon into supporting CC and playing nice with open sharing. I shouldn’t have to give them bank info.

Comment on Publishing Open Textbooks to Lulu and Create Space by David Lippman

David Lippman — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:53:00 +0000

Just a thought – could you put a PDF of the book up on some free/cheap hosting like S3 or filedropper, then put a link to the PDF in the print book’s description on Lulu?

Comment on Publishing Open Textbooks to Lulu and Create Space by David Lippman

David Lippman — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:51:00 +0000

I really don’t understand Lulu’s change in book downloads. As an author, you used to be able to provide a free download link on the book listing. Now they treat the ebook and print version as separate projects. Quite annoying. I didn’t know createspace did such cheap color books – if our book was under 500 pages I’d make a color version available there

Comment on Using Instamapper & GPS Phone to Track MS150 Bike Ride by Tablet PC

Tablet PC — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 02:22:00 +0000

Thank you the great information …..

Comment on Three Things You Should Know About the Open Course Library by Open Education by the Numbers « New Learning Resources, a NITLE initiative

Open Education by the Numbers « New Learning Resources, a NITLE initiative — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:16:28 +0000

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Comment on Found a Recipe for Legoland-style Apple Fries by Patman

Patman — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 04:19:00 +0000

Sorry. This will turn out like an apple pie filling, and not like apple fries.