The Tightwad Tech http://www.thetightwadtech.com Doing More with Less Wed, 01 Jun 2011 22:45:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Episode 49 – Listener Spotlight #7 http://www.thetightwadtech.com/2011/06/01/episode-49-listener-spotlight-7/ http://www.thetightwadtech.com/2011/06/01/episode-49-listener-spotlight-7/#comments Wed, 01 Jun 2011 22:45:55 +0000 Mark Cockrell http://www.thetightwadtech.com/?p=713

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Synopsis:

    This week Mark and Shawn are joined by Seth Anderson for the seventh installment of our Tightwad Tech Listener Spotlight

Links:

StarBurn

VLC

Moodle

Spiceworks

TIPS:

  Tech Tips of the Week: Barcode Tape Label Generator and Hiren's Boot CD

  Teacher Tips of the Week: TeacherTube & Scratch   

   End-User Tip of this Week: Ninite

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Synopsis:

    This week Mark and Shawn discuss the hows and whys of running virtual platforms on the desktop.

Links:

VMWare Player

VirtualBox

VirtualPC

TIPS:

  Tech Tip of the Week: PCLoginNow – Reset Windows local passwords

  Teacher Tip of the Week: LinoIt.com – Online corkboard with sticky notes

 

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Synopsis:

    This week Mark and Shawn are joined by Jacqueline Botterill, manager of the Skype in the Classroom proect.

Links:

PreyProject - A service to locating stolen laptops and smart phones.

Skype in the Classroom

Video from Brian Crosby about Skype in the Classroom

TIPS:

  Tech Tip of the Week: Giotto - A free Flash animation tool

  Teacher Tip of the Week: InformationIsBeautiful.net - Cool info-graphics Web site

 

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Synopsis:

    This week Mark and Shawn are joined by Steven Campbell, the Director of Information Technology for the International School of Kabul, Afghanistan for our sixth installment of the Listener Spotlight.

TIPS:

  Tech Tip of the Week: Great article from The How-to Geek on locking down Ubuntu installations

  Teacher Tip of the Week: dotsub.com – Online video hosting with language transcription options.

 

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Synopsis:

    This week Mark and Shawn cover a range of mini-subjects in their second "Hodgepodge" episode.

TIPS:

  Tech Tip of the Week: Everything Search Engine

  Teacher Tip of the Week: GeoCam.tv

 

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Synopsis:

    In this episode Chris and Josh discuss WINE and its various implementations for allowing users to run Windows programs on Linux.

 

Links:

WineHQ

Debunking WINE Myths

GameTreeLinux

CrossOver Office

WineTricks

 

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Synopsis:

    This week Mark and Shawn are joined by John Mikulski of the Niagara – Wheatfield School District to discuss his use of tightwad tech in his 7th and 8th grad Language Arts classes.

Sponsor:

Power PTC

  Use the discount code "tightwad" and get 20% off at checkout.

Links:

John's Blog

iEtherPad

TIPS:

  Tech Tip of the Week: Duplicate Commander

  Teacher Tip of the Week: www.zarastudio.com

 

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Synopsis:

    This week Mark and Shawn are joined by Michael McKean and Elaine Robinette of CDI Computer Dealers to talk about how refurbished computer equipment can be a tightwad's best friend.

Sponsor:

Power PTC

  Use the discount code "tightwad" and get 20% off at checkout.

Links:

CDI Computer Dealers

TIPS:

  Tech Tip of the Week: ITSamples.com

  Teacher Tip of the Week: Skype in the Classroom

 

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Synopsis:

    In this episode Chris and Josh examine some of the add-on software available for Ubuntu Linux, tacking every-day tasks such as organizing your music and photos and managing your social media accounts.

 

Links:

GIMP

F-Spot

Gnome-do

Gwibber

Empathy

Evolution

Remmina

Ubuntu One

XChat

 

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Synopsis:

    This week Mark and Shawn are joined by Steve Cherubino of the Podnutz podcast network for a great discussion of the art and science of podcasting.

Sponsor:

Power PTC

  Use the discount code "tightwad" and get 20% off at checkout.

Links:

Podnutz.com

Reaper.fm

TIPS:

  Tech Tip of the Week: WinX DVD Author

  Teacher Tip of the Week: Khan Academy

 

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