There are a lot of magnets on the refrigerator in my apartment. Some of them were left by the previous tenants, but most of them come from local businesses and restaurants that leave them around the entryway of my building. And it’s no coincidenc...
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Summer vacation means roadtrips with the family, and roadtrips require a road atlas so you can get where you need to go. And with nearly 4 million miles of public roads to explore, you’ve got plenty of driving to do. The type of road atlas ...
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America has a serious paper problem. In fact, according to the EPA, Americans created nearly 85 million tons of paper waste in 2006, nearly triple what they generated in 1960. And Renee Thomas of document automation company Esker reports that we ...
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At first glance, the Nintendo Wiimote and a whiteboard don’t appear to have much in common. But in the eyes of Johnny Lee of Carnegie Mellon, the two go together like porcelain on steel to create an inexpensive, do-it-yourself electronic whiteboa...
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Google “whiteboards” and you’re more and more likely to find links to a new generation of computer-compatible electronic whiteboards like the Quartet IdeaShare. This new technology enables you to do a couple key things you c...
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We’ve already mentioned how electronic whiteboards can benefit your school or business in theory. But what about in practice? Everyone loves a good case study, and I recently found a story about a hospital in Canada using electronic whitebo...
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Interactive whiteboards help demonstrate how the Internet can exponentially expand the impact of visual communication by conveying digital images almost anywhere in the world. But while innovative devices like the Wiimote Interactive Whiteboard e...
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As an addendum to Tuesday’s intro to online whiteboards, I got a nice email from Jordan of Scriblink telling me how to turn my whiteboard into a saveable and uploadable screenshot. It all depends on whether you use a PC or a Mac. For PC users:Hit...
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Skrbl is an online whiteboard application available in two versions: a Team Edition that costs $10/month and a Free Edition. The Team Edition gives you phone/chat functionality, supports 5 users, and gives you 250 MB file storage. The Free Editio...
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