Tools for Teams

Here's an idea for teams to use: Asana. Introduced by Stepcase Lifehack, it is touted as "A Modern Way to Improve Teamwork." See for yourself!


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Go Kno!

Check it out: software to enable the reading of textbooks online:

Go Kno from Kno on Vimeo.
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Zotero

Well, I've just discovered the next best thing - for students, and for me: Zotero. Produced by the Center for History and New Media and (at?) George Mason University, this tool purports to simplify bibliography citations, archiving of articles, allows annotations, and just generally helps you organize information. All this is sync-able, too! I can't wait! I've downloaded version 2.1.8 as a Firefox add-on. Hope to put it to use soon! Now all I need is an easy way to take computerize-able notes in classes...


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Mobile Office on the Go

ScanSnap has a new video showing how easy it is to set up a mobile office on the go. How? Simply connect the ScanSnap 1100 (or 1300, which is the model I have) and  your Field Monitor Pro to your laptop via USB, and you're good to go. Sounds easy, no? Now I have to find out what a Field Monitor Pro is!


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Google Sites

I need to create a new website, but I haven't decided where to "host" the site. Well, here comes Google with an easy solution: Create a Google Site, without the fuss and the muss of having my own domain and host. And, I can let others participate in creating it! Sounds like an idea worth exploring...


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Pivot Tables

My next project involves organizing an inventory of household items. I want to make this inventory sharable, and updatable. So, the first step was to create the inventory using Excel, and then upload it to Google Docs. Next, I will send an email to those I want to help me edit the list. Meanwhile, I'm learning that there is more that we can do with the data. This video tells us how to create a Pivot Table, which is an easy way to display and analyze data. I'm going to try it out later, and see how useful it is. Meanwhile, here's the video:


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Mobile Webs

I surprised even myself by manually clicking through 140 slides on "Rethinking the Mobile Web" by Yiibu. I didn't even know I was interested! What I discovered was that there are some fundamental truths about mobile web programmers that applies to ALL of us. All of the content we programmers (Can I truly consider myself part of this tribe?) come up with must sooner or later reckon with the dilemmas of being seen on variably-sized-screen devices. We can no longer afford to design websites for just one dimension - our own favorite computer screen. Increasingly, more and more of the browsers will be delivering our content via devices for which we never prepared. SO - we had better learn how to adapt our programming styles now, before we get relegated to the ever-growing digital dust heap. Anyway, here's the slideshow that turned my head around:

Rethinking the Mobile Web by Yiibu

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