The image that immediately comes to mind when thinking of planning and preparing teaching lessons is of the kindly teacher, laboriously trudging through large amounts of paper and mapping out the direction of the upcoming lesson. Oh, hang on...that was a Dickens book i was reading. Well, its either that or you can update it to the 20th Century by imagining the same scenario with its modern day equivalent - Excel spreadsheets and Word documents. Now it's time to move on from those efficient but bad old days and move into the next generation of lesson planning. Common Core is ... Read more
If your business wants to stay one step ahead of the pack it's not just a question of advertising your business online and hoping for the best. The huge advertising and marketing potential of Facebook provides one way of promotion that can't be ignored. And, with millions of potential customers just sitting at their computer or on their mobiles and tablets every day, it might be the time to do as the big boys do and start a custom made app. ShortStack is a great set of business tools that lets you further your online presence with contests, sweepstakes and ... Read more
I wonder how many of you know what's going on in terms of entertainment in your city tonight. You'll probably think you have a pretty good idea but it's actually fairly difficult to get a grip on the multitude of events that are happening every night in a major city unless you buy an evening newspaper, the local 'whats on' guide and then check a few local Internet sites. Wikido is a very flexible geolocalization-based entertainment search engine that hunts down all the entertainment in your city from countless websites whether it be a concert, a rodeo or sports event. ... Read more
With Apple's iPad being the 'flavor of the moment' there is always going to be a lot of speculation about new developments and the tips and tricks of the trade. There are a number of ways of keeping up with the latest gossip surrounding, what has turned out to be, one of Steve Jobs' best legacies. iPadNewsBlog has become the number #1 source of the best information on all things iPad and has been featured recently in publications all over the world including the Wall Street Journal, AppleInsider and MacRumors. iPadNewsBlog is the premier iPad focused website for iPad ... Read more
The life for the modern day student can be rather lonely and rather daunting - especially in the early days and even more so if you are studying far from home. Student'U is a social application for Facebook that splits your social networking into two and introduces you to the social student world. It let's you know where the best parties, events and places are and even creates a private place where you can flirt with like minded students and keeps your flirting out of the prying eyes of your friend or family. University and college campuses can be ... Read more
So have you ever built your own website or even thought about putting one together? Website builders often offer huge, complicated behemoths of design that are not only hard to create but also cost a fair amount of money. Quite often they are so complicated that you end up hiring a professional design team to do it for you. This is fine for big business but, if you are a small business or a creative professional, that's often not an option. Plebu is a 'software as a service' web design and website creator that makes it easy and cheap to ... Read more
It's said that if you are the employer of a great software engineer it's best to try to nail them into a new contract before they've been with you for five years or so. One tends to find that if they haven't found what they are looking for in your business by then they will think about moving on. It's the nature of the beast. So if you are an employer looking to coax one of the great ones out of their soft, cosy and comfortable conditions it's rather difficult for obvious reasons. But how could you encourage and court ... Read more
The Internet is a weird evolving object that springs up more than a few surprises. People can be even weirder. If you have read any Malcolm Gladville you will be well aware of the organized chaos that we live in. Take social networks for example. I remember a friend telling me not long after Facebook's inception to "just sign up" and it wasn't that long before its reputation grew and the "Tipping Point" was reached. Now it is getting close to a billion users and everyone from cute Kentucky girls to Sherpas in Tibet seems to have an account. Add ... Read more
You used to have to constantly keep one eye open to make sure your website was running up to scratch but now, with the introduction of tracking tools, you can automatically check to see whether all is well from any desired location. But StatusCake goes one step further. This website monitoring service checks your any number of sites for performance and downtime every five minutes from different places the world over to make sure you know if anything goes wrong. If there are issues, StatusCake will send you immediate notification. It is important to know when your website is ... Read more
The way we get our news has changed dramatically over the last few years and it's likely to be only the beginning. Ten years ago most of us would have had the daily paper delivered to the door or would pick a copy up on the way to work but these days many have abandoned the paper chase to get their news experience directly from the Internet. But it's not the same is it? From reading snippets of articles on the net one doesn't get the full spectrum of news from around the globe. Yet it's getting harder to find ... Read more