April, 2008

Rebuilding a History

In 2001 I think I used Ceres (later to be named Tinderbox ) and then later my first installation of Movable Type (when it was still free and TypePad was not even a twinkle in anyone's eyes), and before then it was via Tinderbox. ... I'll simply backdate it to the original date of publication, which strikes me as very 1984 but I shouldn't have to rely on the Wayback Machine to show that I was there.

Social Software Next in Education

From the Canberra Times (16 March 2008), an interview I did talking about social software in education with specific reference to students as co-designers and the importance of network literacy. 

Small Tech

I have a chapter ("Softvideography: Digital Video as Postliterate Practice") in Byron Hawk , David M. ... This collection has been four years in the making (books really are a cautious medium) and two copies arrived fresh off the press this week.

Google and Garmin add Send to GPS option

In the US at least, you can now send the location of businesses that you find on Google Maps to your Garmin GPS. It works through Firefox with my Garmin nüvi 760: first of all find the business you want in Google Maps (it doesn't work in Australia, but I've made it work for US businesses), then click the Send link towards the top-right of the Maps window, between Print and Link to this page (with the icon of the envelope to the left).


In the 'window' that appears, click the GPS link on the left. If the GPS link isn't there, the location can't be transferred to your GPS.


Choose the location you want to transfer from the Include: popup, then choose Garmin from the Make: popup. Click the Send button. This should take you to the Garmin website. The first time you try it, you will need to install the Garmin Communicator plug-in. This works with Firefox for me, but not Safari. Download and install the plug-in, then follow the instructions. Be careful the installer doesn't take you back to Safari after the installation, make sure it's Firefox.

How about other locations, apart from businesses, Google?