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We all know that searchbox in Firefox that you can customize with different search engines -forget about that. This here is the real thing: in chrome you can set up as many search engines as you like, so if you want a search engine for your own personal blog, then that’s no problem! On top of that, Chrome also allows you to assign simple keyboard shortcuts to each one of your search engines: look at the video to see how easy it is! Don’t forget to turn the captions on (press CC button in the youtube…
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And here are the pictures from our New Media & Web 2.0 seminar that we organised in Ghent in July 2011:

Here are the pictures we took during our Moodle@school seminar in Athens:

Below you can find the memolane for our New Media & Web 2.0 seminar which we organised in Ghent in July 2011:

Here’s a memolane for our Moodle at School seminar which we organised in Athens, Greece, in July 2011 -a few tweets, a few pictures, a few films… Enjoy!

Memolane is an web application that turns all of your tweets, facebook posts, picasa pictures, youtube videos etc. into a timeline that you can easily search. Alongside the currently supported services such as Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Picasa, Last.fm, Foursquare, Instagram, Tripit, YouTube, myspace, vimeo and wordpress, you can also add RSS-feeds.

What is Memolane?

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Embedit.in is one of those applications you just have to write something about -it’s a web application that provides embed codes for just about any document or site you would like to show on your site: pdf files, Office or WordPerfect documents are now actually shown on your site in a nice and customizable little player, as you can see in the full post, so there’s no software required to view documents. Read the rest of this entry »

If you are not yet using dropbox, then maybe you should start considering it -it’s a fantastic tool for synchronizing your important files across multiple computers. If you are already a dropbox fan, then you might be interested in IDriveSync, which does essentially the same thing but with a few more options. Check out this review on downloadsquad for more details.

Imagine you have a bunch of videofiles that you’d like to play on a standalone DVD player -with a nice menu of course. Well, in that case, DVD Flick is definitely worth while considering, not just because it is extremely simple, versatile, powerful but also because it is open source -oh joy! Read the rest of this entry »

Who needs Sharepoint workflows when you have the Web at your disposal? In spite of all the YAs (yet another …) every once in a while there’s that one particular application that really catches your attention -Backboard really does belong to that last category. Want to know why? Then read on …

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