Posts Tagged as ‘applications’

8 December 2008

Blogging from your iPhone

WordPress released an application with which you can blog directly from your iPhone. You can download it form here.
I’ve been starting using it!

Can you imagine what does that mean in addition to another app which can record voices, the images you shot with the embedded camera and the video you can ultimately shot with the [...]

31 July 2008

Mobile Phones for Social Change in Africa

Last thinking before going to vacation: how to use mobile phones to support social change in Africa, moving web activities towards the cellphones and possibly other devices.
In Almada we talked about future applications of KM on mobile phone. Communication Initiative recently dedicated its newsletter to initiatives involving cell phones in Africa.

Two weeks ago, I re-launched [...]

17 June 2008

Let’s set a new world record: Firefox 3 DOWNLOAD DAY!!!!

23 April 2007

Going online today

Do you want to create a multimedia presence on the Web?
Go for it: it has never been so easy!
Ok, here are the steps:

create a BLOG on WordPress, the place where you are going to take note of your thinking, day by day, experience after experience;
open a PHOTO ALBUM on flickr, as images are very useful [...]

30 March 2007

Petition for free access to water

Interesting use of the Internet to spread to voice about one of the main future topics of development: Water. Here is the example of Votre Goutte d’eau and their petition to highlight the problem of free access to water for everyone

Online petition are a viral way to involve people not only with direct actions but [...]

23 October 2006

Tips to increase Firefox capacities

Using Firefox is very simple and comfortable. It offers many different innovative features like the tabbed browsing, the automatic update, and comfortable system to manage all personal data, including browsing history, cookies, Web form entries and passwords.
In addition, everyone can install some add-ons which extend the funcionalities of the standard browser. Here is a [...]

4 October 2006

Why I do choose Firefox as my favourite browser

I see many people around talking about Firefox and IE. Personally, this is something very important for my job and I have my idea: I spend my time on the Internet to understand it and to be able to suggest my colleagues how to use it properly to better their job. So, the first question [...]

30 April 2006

Travelling with portable applications with you

Traveling is something common for us. We have to move to a place to another. Sometimes you know what you find, some others don’t. I’m sure you have a laptop, but it is not always there, and maybe it is not properly configured and sometimes it does not work, etc.
So, a pen drive is maybe [...]

3 April 2006

CMS for e-learning: MOODLE

For our new online course on “Facilitating online communities” we are going to test a new platform called Moodle. I think you know it.
Moodle is:
“is a course management system (CMS) – a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities.”
It is a very interesting tool [...]

31 March 2006

Feed readers comparison

Good good good, we proceed on getting information about web 2.0.
This time we can know more about Feed Readers. First of all, have a look at the definition of a feed reader or aggregator. Then you can read this interesting article about a comparison among the best online services.

16 February 2006

Podcasting and e-learning: together in the future

This is something very interesting about podcasting learning contents:
http://punto-informatico.it/p.asp?i=57606
http://www.apple.com/education/solutions/itunes_u/