Have any of you tried Discourse yet? Is it any good?

Software recs

Every now and again, I list the extensions, add-ons and other bits and pieces I'm currently using. It's dead useful every time I need to teach a new computer to walk and talk. :)

Firefox

• Adblock Plus: Exactly what it sounds like, it blocks all those annoying pop-ups and flashing ( Read more... )

"We Must Be Killers" is not only my current favourite of all the vids I've made, it's one of the most technically complex vids I've edited, about on par with a constructed reality like "Movin' On". Hopefully you have no idea what I'm talking about right now, because if I've done my job right, you shouldn't even really notice that "We Must Be ( Read more... )

Here's a list of the ten applications I've used most (while not at work) this week. I'm bundling a few applications together because of similarity of function or because they are commonly used together.

Note: I'm not a software expert. These have worked well for me, but take all the usual precautions before downloading and installing them. Read ( Read more... )

I'm not going to cross-post these non-fiction links about delicious to rec_room, but rather than delete them, I thought I'd make them available ( Read more... )

What a day of mixed news!

ETA: Delicious Says It’s Not Shutting Down, but It’s Not Staying at Yahoo Either. Thanks to polykleitos for the link. This is good news, but it's probably still worth backing up your data. This is actually confirmation that Yahoo has abandonned ship, even if Delicious does plan to find a way forward -- there might be some shaky ( Read more... )

I finally have my new computer -- OMG YAY -- which is very shiny and very fast, but is also driving me spare. I'd forgotten how much tweaking I'd done to the old one over the years. I keep going to do things, like a word count on a web page, or adding something to Read-it-Later, and can't. Because the add-on isn't installed yet. Who knew I used so ( Read more... )

Watching Google Wave demo. Stop. OMG. Stop. I want it. Stop. Start now pls.

Why did none of you tell me about this? What else have I missed!!!?!

*goes off to look at Google Chrome*

When I first started vidding, I looked around for guides and found several really great ones. However, they were aimed at people who were, shall we say, less technologically challenged than I was ( Read more... )

So, I'm getting close to the end of the Summer School marathon, with just a week and a half left of teaching and marking. I'm tired, but it's going smoothly ( Read more... )

So, I'm getting close to the end of the Summer School marathon, with just a week and a half left of teaching and marking. I'm tired, but it's going smoothly ( Read more... )