Educational WeblogsDisruptive Technology Resource for Educators using Weblogs, Blogware, Collaborative tools, RSS & Podcasting, web services and digital tools at home, school, university and community.Podcast Maker Updated- March 22, 2006 OSX users, Podcast Maker gets updated. $29.95 dollars. MacWorld gives it a perfect 5 rating. New features and changes: Advanced options for podcast. Available through the View menu. Creative commons license support in the advanced options. Podtrac support in advanced options. You now have two choices for chapter image types in the preferences: jpeg and png. Episodes have an info...http://educational.blogs.com/instructional_technology_/2006/03/podcast_maker_u.html Netvibes launch a 1 GB personal web storage module ! - Netvibes.com Blog- March 22, 2006 Netvibes, the browser based personalized home page portal ups the ante by offering you 1 GB of storage. See their blog for more info. When one is against Google and Yahoo, one needs to pull out all the stops. Link: Netvibes launch a 1 GB personal web storage module ! - Netvibes.com Blog. Now you have a 1 GB hard...http://educational.blogs.com/instructional_technology_/2006/03/netvibes_launch.html The Lightning Project - Integrated Calendar- March 21, 2006 Add calendar feature to Mozilla's Thunderbird. Link: The Lightning Project - Integrated Calendar. Projects Coding o Module Owners o Hacking o Get the Source o Build It Testing o Releases o Nightly Builds o Report A Problem Tools o Bugzilla o Tinderbox o Bonsai o LXR FAQs The Lightning Project The Lightning Project is...http://educational.blogs.com/instructional_technology_/2006/03/the_lightning_p.html bluedot.net Google Bookmarks bookmarklet- March 19, 2006 If you are using your customizedpersonalized version of google home page quite often, you can add bookmarks to that page easily with this bookmarklet , that supports labels, star and notes, as mentioned in the post. It was fast and easy when i tried it out! Link: bluedot.net Google Bookmarks bookmarklet. I love del.icio.us and dont plan on switching...http://educational.blogs.com/instructional_technology_/2006/03/bluedotnet_goog.html Photo Slideshows with Music: About Slideroll - Add Flash to flickr, myspace, xanga, and Blogger- March 19, 2006 A new web service for making slideshows online. Looks very cool. I will try it out tonight. Check it out. http:slideroll.coms=rtmpfbje Link: Photo Slideshows with Music: About Slideroll - Add Flash to flickr, myspace, xanga, and Blogger. Slideroll is online slideshow software that allows people to create smooth, video-like slide shows and publish them on the web. Slideroll is unique...http://educational.blogs.com/instructional_technology_/2006/03/photo_slideshow.html Pukka + NetNewsWire =- March 19, 2006 Cool interop between applications. You have to download the beta of NetNewsWire to have the functionality to use Pukka and post to Del.licio.us Link: Code Sorcery Workshop - Pukka NetNewsWire = . Were happy to announce that the latest NetNewsWire Beta has added support for a del.icio.us posting client in addition to a normal external blogging client. Whats more, Pukka...http://educational.blogs.com/instructional_technology_/2006/03/_pukka_netnewsw.html reBlog by Eyebeam R&D- March 17, 2006 reBlog .... very fast and quick... efficient. Watch out Bloglines!LifeHacker has intall tips and a video screencast on reblog's speed. A must see!!http:video.google.comvideoplaydocid=-1769970635441545616 Link: reBlog by Eyebeam RD. About reBlog What is a reBlog A reBlog facilitates the process of filtering and republishing relevant content from many RSS feeds. reBloggers subscribe to their favorite feeds, preview the content, and select...http://educational.blogs.com/instructional_technology_/2006/03/reblog_by_eyebe.html Squib: weblogs managed simply- March 16, 2006 As I was working on my desktop version of instiki wiki, I was writing some short notes regarding desktop weblog editors this morning on the train to school. Every time I think about Userland's Radio, I remember a great desktop application that was way ahead of its time! Why Radio never took off... only the folks at Userland know. More...http://educational.blogs.com/instructional_technology_/2006/03/squib_weblogs_m.html MarsEdit 1.1.2 Update- March 15, 2006 Here are the changes to the OSX desktop blog editor MarsEdit by Brent Simmons of NetNewsWire fame. Changes in MarsEdit 1.1.2 from site. A new backups feature. Before a post is sent to the server, a copy of the post is written to LibraryApplication SupportMarsEditBackups. That way if the server has some sort of internal error, and tells MarsEdit all...http://educational.blogs.com/instructional_technology_/2006/03/marsedit_112_up.html Performancing Metrics Public Beta- March 15, 2006 Performancing Metrics helps you keep track of your blog traffic. The service is in public beta and free so far. Performancing is also the developer of the very cool free Firefox extension that lets you blog directly from FireFox. Link: Performancing Site Helping Bloggers Succeed. Performancing Metrics is here! 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