HIST 390-001 The Digital Past Fall 2013

Even though we don't need to add original multimedia to the final, these are still cool to check out.

I'm pretty sure GMU subscribes to Office 365, which means that you can get Microsoft Office products for free while you're enrolled here. Quite a deal. Or you could use OpenOffice, the open source alternative.

I just checked up on this. The FAQ for GMU's Office 365 says the subscription only includes free access to the new Outlook and Calendar. I use OpenOffice on my computer, and apart from some formatting inconsistencies when working with people using Microsoft Office, it works great.

An article that explains the reasons why Wordpress is considered the most powerful platform for blogging.

Here's a helpful youtube video that tells you how to create word clouds through wordle.net that can be added to the final project.

I thought I would post this site where you can make word clouds for our final project, if your interesting in adding some media to it!

The time has come and our loyal reader know already our traditional Advents Calendar. For the people who don't know, every year we had in December each day, until the 24th (Christmas Eve in Germany), a post with specials, tips, tricks, plugins, tutorials and so on. Since it is quite a lot work to accomplish 24 high quality posts, we asked some of the finest WordPress Experts in Germany if they would like to contribute some ideas and great posts to it every day. http://wpengineer.com/2652/every-day-a-post-of-wordpress-tipps-and-tricks-until-christmas/

This article has 7 essential tips for WordPress beginners.

Really helpful tips on how to learn to use Prezi.

Some interesting information on Dropbox, cloud storage.

This is a short yet interesting article of Cyber Monday being an instigator for an increase of cyber crime. Reading it before shopping online may make you choose carefully on which site you want to order from on Cyber Monday.

The Supreme Court will not throw out New York state's tax on Internet purchases.

Article by Fox news gives us a glimpse into the future of gaming

Article by CBS news explains how schools in California are replacing textbooks for tablets

This article the the NY Times explains how the Obama administration is making sure everyone has access/knowledge to a computer

This article by the NY times back in 2010 explains how China's censorship on the internet, mainly google is creating a wide variety of issues.

An article that talks about how Yelp has incorporated SeatMe directly into the Yelp experience so users can now book restaurant and bar reservations from the venue's Yelp listing.

This is the Wikipedia page that has all of the unusual wikipedia articles information on it. I found a lot of this information to be very interesting and unique. Enjoy.

if you had Google Chrome, now you can use the voice search on it.