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Check out this website I found at antonymayfield.com

Probably good to remember that, no matter how restrictive your institution's setup is, you're probably doing better than these people.

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Is Posterous the Future of Blogging?

Hard to tell. It's certainly easy to use as it only requires an e-mail
connection.
 
But... yet another platform? We'll see...

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Free, as in speech

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The Online College has a great post on free or open source tools particularly applicable to students.

From image editors to IDEs and to-do lists to web browsers you'll find something of interest here.

69 Free or Open Source Tools For Students | Online College

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At last - PDF to Word Conversion that Works

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Just managed to get a trial of the pdftoword.com site. It allows you to upload a PDF file that it then e-mails back to you. Not only does it work well but the Word dosument is intelligently laid out ready for editing.

Hugely impressed. Get on the beta invite list and try it for yourself.

Convert PDF to Word (DOC) Online — 100% Free!

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Make Use of... Anything

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Make Use Of is a great site with tips for doing all sorts of things on your computer. On the day I looked the front page had a link to:

• Best source code sites
• Grabbing MP3s from FLV files
• Making use of Research features in Word 2007
• Using Gmail offline
• Online image editing

Add it to your feed reader today.

Cool Websites, Software and Internet Tips

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Don't pay teachers; That'll learn 'em

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When in doubt, consult The Bugle.

The Bugle Column: Don't pay teachers; That'll learn 'em | Andy Zaltzman - Times Online

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Back to the Future

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It's Monday and you're back at work. It's not good. So, at lunch time only of course, why not try the on-line Apple ][ emulator.

About Virtual Apple ][
Virtual Apple ][ is a site which will take you back to the 1980's through its collection of more than 1250 game disks online. Play and enjoy old Apple ][ (Apple2) and Apple IIgs games and other disks through your Internet web browser. You will find games like Oregon Trail and Number Munchers which many of you played as kids, as well as games like Tetris, Battle Chess, Leisure Suit Larry, Choplifter, Archon II and Kings Quest.

I started on one of these more years ago than I care to remember and, while my school would have no truck with the games available here, I lusted after them from afar.



Just make sure you eat before you start or you'll get sucked in and not remember.

Virtual Apple 2 - Online disk archive

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