Applications

Two things worth checking out this morning over your coffee, or depending what time you read this your lunch: Jen covers her use of Easy Grade. Me, I have never had a class where I was keeping track of this many assignments, so investing the time to try out a grading program seemed a bit …..

Okay, finally, without too much further ado, and two plane rides of writing later, I am going to outline all the steps I go through to “build” a presentation. Let me say a few things up front though. First, this again is not an expert thing, this is simply what I have developed to make …..

If you are a student determined to stay on top of this semester, the unofficial apple weblog, points to Funkwares Task List a program designed to track all of your assignment needs. There are several other apps out there that do similar things, but this seems to be one of the most full featured, and …..

Via reader recommendations, here are two possible software choices for managing all of that academic writing and information. Scrivner: Scrivner is another attempt at making a word processor aimed at managing large projects (such as novel writing or screenplays) similar to Ulysses, but in my estimation a bit more powerful. Scrivner allows you to look …..

I am catching up on all of the items I flagged for reading over the past week, and I ran across a tremendously well developed paper on Seminar.net about The Rhetoric of PowerPoint. This is a paper by Jens. E. Kjeldsen an associate professor at the University of Bergen, Norway. Kjeldsen rightly points out that …..

Have you ever edited a document, saved it, and then wished you could go back and change it? A reader sent this tip in: Versomatic allows you to retrieve old versions without hacking any code or accessing system files. I have not used it, as I run daily backups of documents, but if you don’t …..

I was just looking through iusethis a great resource for Mac apps. and noticed that the sixth most popular application is Quicsilver. This doesn’t suprise me, as I use this application so frequently I almost forget about it. My favorite quote was the person who wrote, “I consider a Mac without Quicksilver broken.” It’s true, …..

Okay not quite . . .but. . . many people have emailed asking what the Windows alternative to Devon is. My answer is: Nothing. I did however find this today (via Lifehacker), Evernote, might be your best choice. Fair warning, I haven’t tested this as I don’t have an Intel Mac, or quite frankly the …..

This is one of those everyone knows, but everyone forgets things: I was buying a program today, and literarily as I was about to hit the accept button, I wondered to myself, “Does this company have an educational discount?” Guess what they did. A $30 program, became $20. Often this is hidden, companies are not …..

A couple people asked me a while back about alternative spreadsheets to Excel. On the PC, Open Office has always been a choice. And while on the Mac one could use Neo Office this program is a bit slow and clearly shows that it is not a native Mac application (even the newest Aqua release). …..