January 18, 2015

A Link is a Promise

"Summary: Any broken promise, large or small, chips away at trust and credibility. The words in a link label make a strong suggestion about the page that is being linked to. The destination page should fulfill what the anchor text promises"

A Comparison of 5 Tools for Building Classroom Websites

"In the chart below I compare five popular tools for building classroom websites."

January 17, 2015

Be My Eyes Lets You Help A Visually-Impaired Person See Via Their Phone’s Video Camera

"Be My Eyes, a new Danish non-profit ‘startup’, has taken a commodity technology, the humble video call, and, by combining it with a community of sighted volunteers, used it as the basis for an iOS app that lets you help a visually-impaired person ‘see’ through their phone’s video camera."

They do have a waiting list for those wishing an Android version.

January 10, 2015

Researchers work to counter a new class of coffee shop hackers

"If you’re sitting in a coffee shop, tapping away on your laptop, feeling safe from hackers because you didn’t connect to the shop’s wifi, think again."

January 03, 2015

How to Backup and Restore Your Apps and PPAs in Ubuntu Using Aptik

"If you need to reinstall Ubuntu or if you just want to install a new version from scratch, wouldn’t it be useful to have an easy way to reinstall all your apps and settings? You can easily accomplish this using a free tool called Aptik."

January 01, 2015

How to Move or Transfer Email Accounts from One ISP to Another

"You can try to perform a migration yourself and there are tons of tutorials on the Net, but if you’re not familiar with the technical details or don’t have the time, it might be better to use a third-party solution. So if you need to transfer your account info, emails, tasks, calendar items, address book and contacts, etc to a new email provider, there’s a paid service that can do it for you."