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27 February 2010 3 Comments

My Favourite iPhone Apps

My Favourite iPhone Apps

Following a post about ‘My Favourite Mac Apps‘, here is a list of my favourite iPhone Apps…
Apps I use (almost) every day:

Tweetie – A Twitter client. This is one of the apps that I use the most on my iPhone (along with Mail and Byline).
Countdown – A simple application which counts down to particular dates [...]

10 March 2009 9 Comments

Goodbye memory sticks… Hello Dropbox!

Goodbye memory sticks… Hello Dropbox!

As teachers, we often have to create resources at home and then transfer these to school somehow. When I first started teaching, I remember using floppy disks. These didn’t store much data, so I carried around a box of them with my different files on!
Later, I tried emailing documents to my school / home email [...]

12 November 2008 4 Comments

A little help from Twitter

A little help from Twitter

Twitter is a fantastic tool which allows you to post short messages online (140 characters max), telling people what you are doing. However, the main strength of Twitter comes from following others (and being followed by them), allowing conversations to develop between each other.
Today, I was looking for an online brainstorming tool. I know that [...]

28 September 2008 2 Comments

Make a mini ‘To Do’ list

As I mentioned in previous posts, I keep a list of things that I need to do online using Toodledo. A few weeks ago, I picked up a quick tip which shows a mini version of my To Do list on my computer’s screen.
How to do this:
1) Install / use a different browser to the one that you [...]

27 July 2008 6 Comments

Using Toodledo to Get Things Done

Using Toodledo to Get Things Done

I previously mentioned Toodledo in my ‘Living Life Online‘ post. However, it’s such a big part of my personal and professional life now that I wanted to write about it in more detail.
I’ve always kept lists of things to do… whether they be in my head (despite the ever-increasing danger of forgetting them), on pieces [...]