Finally having a chance to catch up on some stuff today. A little free time before a hectic afternoon (and possibly evening). Playing with Celestia. Wondering if you could use it to create some short scenes for sci-fi. They also have ships and other items from a range of movies/tv shows. Star Trek for example - http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/catalog/fic_startrek.php
Schoolhouse 2 | The homework manager for Mac.
Nice looking software manager for students. Though, at first glance, it looks exactly like iGTD. The classcast thing looks interesting, though I wonder who else would use it. But maybe faculty at schools with limited access to content management systems would benefit from this.
Best Life Magazine: Health & Fitness: Eat these eight foods every day to cover all your nutritional bases | 09.14.07 |
How often do you see a list of 8 foods you should eat every day and each of them is tasty. Well, except for the walnuts. Not big on walnuts since we used to collect and crack them when I was a kid. I think a quarter of my weight must be made from walnuts I cracked and ate in my youth.
Still, everything else looks good. I’m eating yogurt and oats every day. Though I’m only getting the oats because every loaf of bread on Toronto seems to be full-grain and better than the white bread we had in the States.
I’ve worked with VLC before. Excellent free program, but hasn’t been anything groundbreaking. Now, however, they’ve added the server download. This allows you to turn a computer into a media-streaming machine which can play from DVDs, video files or even a TV encoding card.
This might be an excellent method for recasting media from your home machine. I’m lucky enough to have a home-theater PC with a Hauppage 350 digitizer. The only question is, “Where will I watch it?” Not certain I would until this can serve to a mobile phone. But even then I’ll need a nice digital broadband package for my Treo (or an eventual iPhone, after they get it into the next version).
Thus, little help for me. But this is a great tool for faculty to be able to access media for playback. I’m not certain what the licensing for a central server would be, or whether faculty could build their own, but it will certainly happen in the future.