Archives for posts tagged ‘tools’

Strut Your Etymo-Lexico Stuff with a Mystudiyo Vocab Quiz

Just doinking around with Mystudiyo. They say they’ll never make me pay for this when they leave beta, which is cool – but I always wonder what will happen to this sort of work if the company goes out of business. Is all my labor lost? That being said, I love the ease of use. [...]

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Mac Users: Have a Few Gigs of HD on Me (and Monolingual)

Just spreading the love to my fellow Mac users by sharing Monolingual, a free open source program that saved me 4Gb of hard drive by removing the hundreds of languages localized on all my software, and by stripping the PowerPC files from my Intel MacBook.  (If you have Adobe Creative Suite, you’ll easily save 2 [...]

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Apture: Get it while it’s hot

[Apture rocks. Click the icon beside Shirky, and the one beside "addons", and then click each of the icons that I loaded, and watch the magic. I don't have to spell out how rich a tool this is for every use, educational and otherwise, you can think of, do I? It's in invitation-only beta right [...]

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