Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Free Conference Call with Gmail Call Phone and Join.Me
I found recently a good way to make a group conference call (250 participants for free). Basically, the idea is to get a conference call number from Join.Me (Share button) and call to that number using Gmail Call Phone (for free in US national). We can use Join button to share a screen (this is optional).
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Google Calendar + Mozillar Sunbird
I found a great way to manage my schedule, mixing Google Calendar and Mozilla Sunbird. Take a look at an easy guideline to find how to do here,
http://alternatetech.wordpress.com/2010/01/31/mozilla-sunbirdgoogle-calendar-harmony/ (helpful picture demos)
The blogger explains, "First of all, you may be asking, why put Sunbird and Google Calendar together? Well, to put it simply, it offers even more flexibility than what even Sunbird and Google Calendars offer by themselves. To put these two together, we’ll be using Sunbird mainly as our interface and Google Calendar as our “database”, or storage of where the events are actually saved. Note that the only requirement for this is to have an internet connection whenever you wish to access your calendar, but that would not place any new limits if you were using Google Calendar by itself. This combined setup is extremely useful for a number of reasons. If you have more than one computer, such as a desktop and a laptop, and have your Google Calendar configured in Sunbird on both machines, you’ll have completely synced events on both computers without even touching any sort of button with a “Sync” label on it. Another example would be when you are traveling and happen to be away from your computer. You can get on another computer, such as at an internet cafe, and look through your calendar using Google Calendar, where you can edit, add, delete, and do other things with events. When you are finished, and come back home to your computer, those changes made at the internet cafe will automatically update itself in Sunbird, saving you lots of time trying to keep the different copies synchronized."
http://alternatetech.wordpress.com/2010/01/31/mozilla-sunbirdgoogle-calendar-harmony/ (helpful picture demos)
The blogger explains, "First of all, you may be asking, why put Sunbird and Google Calendar together? Well, to put it simply, it offers even more flexibility than what even Sunbird and Google Calendars offer by themselves. To put these two together, we’ll be using Sunbird mainly as our interface and Google Calendar as our “database”, or storage of where the events are actually saved. Note that the only requirement for this is to have an internet connection whenever you wish to access your calendar, but that would not place any new limits if you were using Google Calendar by itself. This combined setup is extremely useful for a number of reasons. If you have more than one computer, such as a desktop and a laptop, and have your Google Calendar configured in Sunbird on both machines, you’ll have completely synced events on both computers without even touching any sort of button with a “Sync” label on it. Another example would be when you are traveling and happen to be away from your computer. You can get on another computer, such as at an internet cafe, and look through your calendar using Google Calendar, where you can edit, add, delete, and do other things with events. When you are finished, and come back home to your computer, those changes made at the internet cafe will automatically update itself in Sunbird, saving you lots of time trying to keep the different copies synchronized."
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Google Docs
Google Docs is a great tool for working files on the go. I love this nowadays. I organize many ideas with Google Docs, such as diary, reading notes, findings, plans, etc. I love "auto save" function. I don't need to worry about losing writings. As long as internet is available, my files travel with me.
Friday, December 31, 2010
LiveMocha
LiveMocha provides an internet tool of learning languages. I have not tried it yet. But it looks great. I will add more thoughts later.
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
A Search Engine That Relies on Humans
The New York Times
Bits: A Search Engine That Relies on Humans
Aardvark, a social search company, is developing a new paradigm for Web searches that taps into social networks, not automated formulas, to provide answers to queries.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/05/a-search-engine-that-relies-on-humans/
Humans, Web, and Future
Three words are recurring when I think about the future. Our life will not be told without web. The experience of web will be the social network, thus life environment. To note that perspective, I think of a word, webcology. I will write anything related to web influence on life at present and in future, such as educational technology, social search, digital library, emerging technology, and so on.
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