Self-reliance is a vital key to living a healthy, productive life. To be self-reliant one must master a basic set of skills, more or less making them a jack of all trades. Contrary to what you may have learned in school, a jack of all trades is far more equipped to deal with life than a specialized master of only one.
Note-taking is one of those skills that rarely gets taught. Teachers and professors assume either that taking good notes comes naturally or that someone else must have already taught students how to take notes. Then we sit around and complain that our students don't know how to take notes.
Great selection of downloadable, free applications that might be useful for students, families, teachers, etc. if installed on thumb drives and given away.
Mac OS X only: The popular VoIP application Skype has released a killer new beta for Macs, adding new features like screen sharing and Skype Access, a great new Wi-Fi access tool.
Input text, set the desired speed, and Zap presents the text rapidly in tiny chunks (default is 1 word as a time). Amazingly effective method to increase reading speed.
Interesting infographic providing coding professions, salary ranges, locations of positions and what each of the coding languages are used to accomplish.