WriteBoard. The easiest online collabartion starter yet!

Want to collaborate online with your coworkers or students, but everything looks too complicated?

Well, try WriteBoard. It is fast, easy, and free. Where do these guys come up with this stuff? A few years ago I had to spend hours building websites and trying to get students to email me material. Now, in a minute I can setup a writeboard, and tell my students it's URL. They have no problem accessing it, and contributing.

Amazing stuff, what next eh? :)

Anyway, go try this. Now!

http://www.writeboard.com/

Finally! Dashboard widget fixed!

Well, it's a little buggy, but at aleast it works. If you use mac, run over to:

http://dl.google.com/macwidgets/Blogger.wdgt.zip

Download the new dashboard widget and start blogging easily.

Try Skype again

Ok, if you are reading this, you already use Skype. But in the off chance you don't, you should. I used it off and on a few years back and it was ok, but not amazing. Now, it's even better. The video chat between Windows and Mac worked flawlessly.

That has always been a challenge. Till now I was using iChat on the Mac and Trillian PRO(AIM) on Windows. Worked, but not well. It often dropped and I had to open a bunch of ports on my routers to make it work.

With Skype there was nothing to configure and it was totally free on both ends (As opposed to Trillian Pro which costs.) So, in case you haven't in a few months. Go get Skype (at Skype.com)

Camino 1.5 Released

There are far better websites than this that review Camino and why it's good. I just wanted to remind the Mac community that it's out there and it's a great browser. If you run a Mac lab this is better than FireFox since Camino listens to the MCX setting of default homepage and proxy settings. This means you can guarantee that students will see your homepage, and use your proxy for surfing (well guarantee might be too strong, but at least they should be using it).

Here is a good summary of it's new features: http://www.digitalhome.ca/content/view/1866/206/

Here is the actual site where you can download it: http://www.caminobrowser.org/