Posted by Paige on Jul 29, 2009 in
Technology 
After setting up my two websites I went looking for a way to have e-mail accounts using my new domain names. The few sites that I found charge anywhere from $15/year to about $50/year, depending on the amount of storage and other various features you want (that’s is e-mail only BTW). I figured $15/year wasn’t that bad, and was about to do it when I came across Google Apps (standard edition). I cannot tell you how excited I am to share this gold mine of a find… Continue reading
Posted by Paige on Jul 26, 2009 in
Uncategorized 
After posting my findings about the various browsers I decided to try out Safari 4 and Opera 9.6. I had to quickly abandon Safari because it lacked the features that I need. So I starting playing with Opera. If you look at my previous post you will notice that (on my machine) the Opera numbers were far faster than the Firefox numbers. But I wanted to play around and see if I could find the features that are important to me.
The first feature I must have is Speed… Continue reading
Posted by Paige on Jul 25, 2009 in
Technology 
Yesterday I noticed that Firefox had finally released the latest and greatest, 3.5.1. As I went to download it I noticed they were touting an extreme improvement in speed, over 2x faster than version 3. That started me down a whole road of thoughts.
Frequently I have students who want to challenge my technical knowledge and one of the few ways they try is with the web browser. Honestly up until yesterday I had never really sat down and analyzed the browsers and their actual speeds. I have… Continue reading
Posted by Paige on Jul 25, 2009 in
Technology 
Last year a friend told me about this neat application called Grand Central that gave you a centralized phone number which, when called, would ring to any phone number(s) that you wanted. When I heard about this I immediately went to sign-up. Unfortunately at that point Grand Central was defunct. However, Google had taken it over and there was a post stating it was coming soon and I could sign-up to be notified when it was ready. Of course I did. Now, a year later, Google Voice is finally… Continue reading
Posted by Paige on Jul 23, 2009 in
Best Practices,
Technology 
Today was funny (peculiar, not haha). Yesterday when I started thinking about posting my top Google tips I knew that I wanted today’s post to be about Google Reader (a tool I heavily rely on). Then today I was showing my site to my husband and three teachers. Each of them asked “what is that little thing in the coffee cup?” (BTW, a HUGE thank you to the maker of this theme, Edward Caissie for doing so much to make my cute little icon work!). My response was, “that’s how you can… Continue reading
