http://richmccue.com Educational Technology, and other things I don't want to forget... Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:52:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Comiqs.com is a free web site that allows you to upload your photos and create comic-style stories. You can see in the photo the right that some proud parent took a picture of their cute baby and then added some comic strip style text boxes. It is a ... http://richmccue.com/2008/04/comisqs_photos_to_cartoons/ Sometimes it can be tiring being a parent... This reminds me so much of our little 4 year old Jillian. She just loves to be chased around, and be tickled... screaming with joy the whole time. http://richmccue.com/2008/04/tiring_being_a_parent/ Google Calendar Sync is a new Google utility that synchronizes your Google Calendar with your Outlook Calendar. You have to install and run the synchronization software on the windows computer where Outlook is installed, and then you can specify how frequently you want the syncs to occur, and in ... http://richmccue.com/2008/03/sync_google_calendar_with_outlook/ It may be a case of more style over substance, but for people switching from Microsoft Office to Google Docs, the change to the editing tool bar will help smooth the transition. No major new features have been added in the update (at least none that I've noticed), but the ... http://richmccue.com/2008/02/google_docs_looking_more_like_ms_office/ Being the father of five children under the age of 13 years old, and having 4 computers in our home, I've been experimenting with software over the past few years to try make my children's' experience on the internet wholesome... or at the very least porn free. After trying ... http://richmccue.com/2008/02/family_friendly_internet/ Google has released a new version of Google Apps called “Team Edition” that at a functional level, is essentially the same as the Basic version of Google Apps. The same word processor, spreadsheet, instant messaging, calendaring, and start page, but no email. What is different is that the "Team Edition" ... http://richmccue.com/2008/02/google_apps_team_edition/ I decided to write this summary of Michael Shermer's book, Why People Believe Weird Things partly for myself to review what I'd read (it took me a month of off and on reading to get through it), and to hit some of the highlights for my wife who told me ... http://richmccue.com/2007/12/why_people_believe_weird_things/ If anyone is interested in doing some screen casting, but do not like the free web based program Screencast-o-matic, Techsmith is now giving away an older version of Camtasia Studio (it is one of the better screen cast programs around, with plenty of bells and whistles). For the download links ... http://richmccue.com/2007/12/camtasia_for_free/ Below is the text of a letter that I emailed and mailed (first time I've sent anything other than cheques by regular mail in a long time), to Jim Prentice, Gary Lunn (my member of Parliament), and Prime Minister Harper. I was inspired by a BoingBoing post I read this ... http://richmccue.com/2007/12/canadian_dmca_bad/ Because of questions that a number of people have asked me, I've decided to set the record strait as to why I now consider myself a non-believing Mormon. This is not going to be an easy read for my believing Mormon friends, but it will be worth while and thought ... http://richmccue.com/2007/11/why_i_am_a_non-believing_mormon/