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Venting your rage against computers

From today’s Future Tense , a University of Maryland psychologist has been conducting online surveys (non-scientific) to gauge our frustration level.
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FireFox extension: researchbuddy

This new extension tried to make citing a web page easier. Research Buddy allows you to setup topic areas to file web sites and cited quotations as you browse.
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Another nail in Internet Explorer’s coffin: Penn State

As always, Educause Blogs provides a rich summary and many reference links to the recommendation by Penn State ITS that its campus community not use IE. Ah, FireFox tastes good doesn’t it?
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Two days on thunderbird, haven’t switched back yet

I think I might stick with Thunderbird now. Even though it doesn’t spell check as I type, I don’t miss the floating Eudora ad.
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The Chemistry Collective: very nice virtual labs and learning activities

This site has some great Java simulations. http://www.chemcollective.org/
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Thunderbird 1.0 is out, I’ve switched from Eudora!

Thunderbird 1.0 (Firefox’s email cousin) was released yesterday. I just made the switch from Eudora which I’ve been using since it was born in 1992!
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