I know you’ve seen the sleepy cat videos, the failed skateboard stunts and the Cosplayers on YouTube. What you may not have seen is all the great educational videos. You can learn almost anything on YouTube. Anything from math to cooking. As a matter of fact, education videos are the largest growing area of YouTube.
Category: Web Apps
My Web Apps
Many of the Chrome apps are just Web GL optimized web-pages. Of course all of the Google apps are available including Gmail, Docs, and Calendar. The Huffington Post app is incredible. Also the Google Music App is pretty nice. The best app of all I think is the Kindle app. It is just like the Kindle…
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Cutting The Cord
If you hear someone refering to cutting the cord, they might be talking about the birth of their child but what they could be talking about is having the cable TV turned off. The package deals that are supposed to save you money really don’t save you anything. What about those terrific packages, that include the…
Over The Air
The first thing you must do has nothing to do with the Internet and that’s get an antenna. If you still have the old one on the roof that one will do fine. Rabbit ears on top of the TV may work but not well. Use this in conjunction with a digital TV tuner. If you…
TV From The Cloud
Streaming To Your Computer The second part of this endeavor to end the cable expense is getting programming from the Internet. This can be done a couple of ways. The first is watching TV programs on you computer. That’s right, there are many TV programs and movies you can watch on you PC, Mac, laptop ,…
Teaching Yourself Tech
A little more the twelve years ago I began my quest to learn computers and the Internet. It all started with a terrific show on TechTV (then ZDTV) called “Call For Help“. It was a show for those just beginning to use computers and the Internet. TechTV was sold and resold. Now called G4 it…
Teamviewer
Teamviewer is a free remote access program. There are other remote access programs and some even work better than Teamviewer but the two best things about Teamviewer is it works cross-platform (Windows, Mac, Linux and many mobile devices) and Teamviewer is free. Like all remote access, controlling the remote computer is a little slow.
Kahn Academy
The Khan Academy is an non-profit organization who’s mission is to changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education to anyone anywhere. There are over 2100 videos with subjects ranging from first grade Arithmetic to Differential Equations
Digital Media
Back in January we looked at how to use RSS. What we did not cover was where to find media to put in your RSS aggregator. This month that’s what we’re doing. We’re going to learn how to find digital media.
Good-N-Free Meetup 