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What does a cluttered desktop mean? | freewaregenius.com - 9 views

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    Is your desktop so frequently cluttered with icons and folders that its hard to find room for new files or projects? Do you wish that your desktop was more organized or that you had more room to breathe? This posting explores some aspects of what a cluttered desktop means. It argues that it is important to have a clean, organized desktop at least some of the time, and suggests a methodology of keeping your desktop organized.
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How to use Jing in your classroom - 28 views

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    So what is Jing? Jing is free image and video capturing software that you can share instantly over the web, IM, email, or even just save to your desktop. You simply download Jing to your desktop and it will sit at the top of your desktop.
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Mini Handle USB Keyboard Vacuum Cleaner - 0 views

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    This Dust-free PC Desktop Keyboard USB Vacuum Cleaner works great in removing cigarette ash, dust, dirt from keyboard, desktop, or monitor. USB Powered Vacuum Cleaner with stretch USB cable is more convenient for use, requiring no external power source, just plugs straight into any USB port with this Keyboard Hoover.
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Students Learn Better With Star Trek-Style Touchscreen Desks | Popular Science - 3 views

  • A UK study involving roughly 400 students, mostly aged 8-10 years, and a new generation of multi-touch, multi-user, computerized desktop surfaces is showing that over the last three years the technology has appreciably boosted students’ math skills compared to peers learning the same material via the conventional paper-and-pencil method. How? Through collaboration, mostly, as well as by giving teachers better tools by which to micromanage individual students who need some extra instruction while allowing the rest of the class to continue moving forward.
  • the researchers have concluded that these new touchscreen desks boost both fluency and flexibility--the critical thinking skills that allow students to solve complex problems not simply through knowing formulas and devices, but by being able to figure out what the real problem is and the most effective means of stripping it down and solving it.
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    UK study involving roughly 400 students, mostly aged 8-10 years, and a new generation of multi-touch, multi-user, computerized desktop surfaces is showing that over the last three years the technology has appreciably boosted students' math skills compared to peers learning the same material via the conventional paper-and-pencil method.
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    UK study involving roughly 400 students, mostly aged 8-10 years, and a new generation of multi-touch, multi-user, computerized desktop surfaces is showing that over the last three years the technology has appreciably boosted students' math skills compared to peers learning the same material via the conventional paper-and-pencil method.
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Read Google Books on your desktop | GooReader - 10 views

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    Read Google Books and Magazines on your desktop and/or save to pdf, currently only works w/Windows XP/Vista/7. And you need to have .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 installed on your computer. Send request for other OS through support form. Free download.
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Cool CS3 style Icon and Web 2.0 badge Generator - 0 views

  • Clockmaker Icon Generator is an Adobe AIR app that lets you generate cool CS3 style icons or Web 2.0 badges. The app is simple to use enter the text you want to appear in icon and select the background color, it will generate the icon automagically. Click on the Create icon to save the icon to your desktop. It generates 4 icons with variable sizes in PNG format, 128×128 px, 48×48px, 32×32px and 16×16px. If you like to use it as Favicon for your blog you can convert this png image to Favicon.
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    Clockmaker Icon Generator is an Adobe AIR app that lets you generate cool CS3 style icons or Web 2.0 badges. The app is simple to use enter the text you want to appear in icon and select the background color, it will generate the icon automagically. Click on the Create icon to save the icon to your desktop. It generates 4 icons with variable sizes in PNG format, 128×128 px, 48×48px, 32×32px and 16×16px. If you like to use it as Favicon for your blog you can convert this png image to Favicon.
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notify.me - Stay update on the information that matters - 1 views

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    An "RSS reader" for IM, SMS, Email, or Desktop Application.
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Ramven Mobile Web Apps - 4 views

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    Ramven has released Mobile Web Apps for informative and productivity. Our Mobile Web Apps include financial calculators, unit converters and many more categories. These Mobile Web Apps are light weight and support all major mobile, tablet, smart phone and desktop web browsers.
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Canvastic dot NET - 0 views

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    The desktop version of Canvastic is a fantastic student-focused graphics/text publishing tool for K-8. It features easy to understand tools and options with a clear, clean interface. There are no "toy" features that waste the students' time. Canvastic presents the perfect interface for any user by adjusting automatically. No other educational software does that. Packed with dozens of new user-requested features, refinements, and fixes, Canvastic v3.5 is even more flexible, powerful, and easy to use. Teachers have expanded options to customize the application to meet students' needs. It has the best spell checking feature for students ever, transparent color choices and more.
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ZoeyBot - Virtual Desktop (Wikipedia & Google - Just for Kids! - 0 views

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    FREE for kids to use an animated desktop where they perform safe searches for articles, videos, tutorials and more.
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Live Mesh Beta - 0 views

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    Like DropBox but with 5gb of space.
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    With Live Mesh, you can synchronize files with all of your devices, so you always have the latest versions handy. Access your files from any device or from the web, easily share them with others, and get notified whenever someone changes a file. Working on one computer, but need a program from another? No problem. Use Live Mesh to connect to your other computer and access its desktop as if you were sitting right in front of it. Live Mesh is as easy as sync , share , and access .
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Grant Robinson : Montage-a-google launcher - 0 views

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    Montage-a-google is a simple web-based app that uses Google's image search to generate a large gridded montage of images based on keywords (search terms) entered by the user. Not only an interesting way of browsing the net, it can also be used to create desktop pictures or even posters
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MathType (Design Science) - 0 views

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    MathType is a powerful interactive tool for Windows and Macintosh that lets you create mathematical notation for word processing, web pages, desktop publishing, presentations, and for TeX, LaTeX, and MathML documents.
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Bradicon! - easily turn an image into an icon - 0 views

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    Ever wanted to turn your images or photos in to icons so you can set custom icons in your desktop or for your blog. Bradicon allows you to turn any image in to an icon quick and easily. Using the app is simple, upload an image and download the icon. The service is currently free and works well. Currently it supports Jpg, PNG and GIF formats and gives you an ICO file. The icons preserver the transparency.
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ScreenFlow - 0 views

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    ScreenFlow is a brand new application for creating amazing screen recordings on your Mac. Using a unique new screen capture system, powerful enough to capture the contents of your entire desktop at the same time as your video camera, microphone and computer's audio, you'll be creating incredible screencasts in no time. The finished result is a QuickTime movie, ready for publishing to your website or blog.
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Google LatLong: The blue circle comes to your desktop - 0 views

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    Google Maps
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Sugar Labs-learning software for children - 0 views

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    The award-winning Sugar Learning Platform promotes collaborative learning through Sugar Activities that encourage critical thinking, the heart of a quality education. Designed from the ground up especially for children, Sugar offers an alternative to traditional "office-desktop" software.
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Pixelpipe - Free your content, post, upload and share anywhere - 0 views

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    Pixelpipe is a media gateway that allows users to publish text and upload photos, video and audio files once through Pixelpipe and have the content distributed across over 95 social networks, photo/video sites and blogs, and other online destinations. We provide free mobile & desktop applications, liberate your media and share your life.
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Mindomo - Web-Based mind mapping software - 1 views

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    Mindomo is a versatile Web-based mind mapping tool, delivering the capabilities of desktop mind mapping software in a Web browser - with no complex software to install or maintain. Create, edit mind maps, and share them with your colleagues or your friends.
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Adobe - Acrobat.com Presentations - 0 views

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    Acrobat.com Presentations provides a new way to create, edit, and share presentations with others online. Built on the Adobe® Flash® Platform, Acrobat.com Presentations looks and behaves like a desktop application, but it operates inside a web browser. There's no installation required, so getting started is easy - and free.
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