January 2007 Archives

Flash drives and remote access are two ways of making sure you have your data available wherever you happen to be. Online storage via hosting sites is another.

"div-Share" is one such site that seems to provide unlimited storage - though access to your files seems less controllable than might be ideal.

"X-drive" is another place where you can keep your files with some degree of security.

I would advise against using these for anything too personal but for many items they provide a useful alternative. 

You can read more about online storage here at TechCrunch or via a search with Google.

Here's another site that allows you to upload files and create new content - this time it takes your pictures and creates a photo-mosaic from them.

You can find more about photo-mosaics with this Wikipedia article.

Create your own ringtones - and avoid paying lots of money to download them - via this online Ajax application.

There are some written languages which use colour in addition to symbols to convey meaning.

This article at 'ozoux.com' introduces one such and has links to lots more information. 

Booking seats on a plane? This site - Seat Guru - can help by giving you information about which seats to avoid and which ones are worth trying to book.

The Firefox application (and now the new Internet Explorer 7) allow the installation of plug-in extensions to add new features to your browser.

I have Google Mail checker, a small countdown timer (for the next holiday), a proxy-switcher and a Win-Amp control amongst mine.

This article shows what happens if you try to add every extension possible - interesting but stupid.

This is a link to a nice little BBC article about being able to access your home PC (or PCs) when you are not at home.

While you may able to access your school work when you are at home there are probably times when you wish you could do things the other way round too.

Well - now you can. 

Extra - a link to your school area via Remote Access. 

At the end of last year Popular Mechanics ran a little article discussing '10 Tech Concepts for 2007'.

It includes the "bendable concrete" you can see in the picture. 

The after-school sessions are intended to help with GCSE practical coursework for Year 11 students. If there are spare workstations then other students are welcome too.

Location : C24 - Time : 3 pm to 4:30 pm

16. Friday, 5^th January 2007
17. Thursday, 11^th January 2007
18. Wednesday, 17^th January 2007
19. Thursday, 25^th January 2007
20. Friday, 2^nd February 2007
21. Thursday, 8^th February 2007
    
    Wednesday, 14^th February 2007
    Year 11 only : half-term extra session - 10am to 3pm
    
    Last chance to add to coursework
     
22. Friday, 23^rd February 2007
23. Wednesday, 28^th February 2007
    
24. Thursday, 8^th March 2007
25. Friday, 16^th March 2007
26. Thursday, 22^nd March 2007
    
27. Wednesday, 28^th March 2007
    

Reminder to Year 11 ICT :
All coursework should be in by the end of Friday, 9th February 2007.

The sessions after half-term will enable you to come and ask me to go over any things you want to revise and re-acquaint yourself with.

Look here for the dates for 2006/2007 after-school sessions part 1.