What’s a Browser?

13 10 2009


I found the video below through Free Technology For Teachers. It reminded me of a humorous previous post I made regarding the same topic, which is above. A perfect introduction.




What is a browser?

24 06 2009

Humorous video. So, what is a browser? Go here to find out. Google Chrome? Find out here (or read the comic version by Scott McCloud). Since you are here, you may also wish to check out Opera Unite and take a peak at Google Wave.

Thanks to Shane M. for the video tip.




Opera Unite

17 06 2009

Opera Unite will make your computer, data, and media available via any web browser through the Unite cloud. Read more here.




Dispatches

21 05 2009

One & Other

This summer 2,400 people from all over the UK will create an incredible living monument – the brainchild of the artist Antony Gormley. Every hour, 24 hours a day for 100 days, a different person will step up to the Fourth Plinth and help make a living portrait of the UK now. You can join in.
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Making the world’s knowledge computable

Wolfram|Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone. You enter your question or calculation, and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and growing collection of data to compute the answer. Based on a new kind of knowledge-based computing… more »

Also read what Wired has to say about it here.

Thanks to Shane M. for the tips.