Portable Apps

I loved the idea of being self-sufficient and being able to carry around all my key applications on a single thumb drive. Particularly when you have to move around from place to place running PD and not knowing whether you’ll have access to the stuff you really need.
Thanks to PortableApps.com, you can do that very [...]

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Welcome to Sloodle

With a greater uptake of open-source Moodle happening here in the WA VET sector, it may interest some people to know that some bright sparks have decided to look at combining Moodle with the 3D online environment of Second Life.
From the site:
Sloodle is Open Source. We develop learning tools and structures for educators exploring 3D [...]

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Thoof

Another social bookmarking platform on the Intermanet, but this one is a little different to Digg and Reddit in that, wiki-style, it allows users to edit (and hopefully improve) posts and descriptions.
From the site:
Thoof is a website that offers interesting news articles, websites, videos, photographs, and other links from around the web. Everything on the [...]

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In the interests of greater workplace well-being

Daniel James, CEO of games design outfit Three Rings is my new hero. Oh, to work in a place that would do things half as cool as this!
From the Wired article:
The company’s loft, in the trendy South of Market district, has been painstakingly outfitted to resemble The Nautilus from Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the [...]

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The game geek within…

I need someone to talk me out of buying a Nintendo Wii. For the last couple of days, I’ve been doing that thing where you mentally collate a list of justifiable reasons why you should have something. So far, this list runs to:

They’re damn cool
See number 1

I’m not entirely sure if that’s enough of a [...]

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