this will mark the end of my starting late series of blog posts, and usher in the period of time when (hopefully) i can stay caught up with the monster blogs, and not have to stay up late to crunch five or so blogs in one night to relieve my stress...in any case, this past week (yesterday) we went over using iGoogle...my first response on seeing this last semester was "Oh god, Apple corrupted Google..." which isn't actually the case (as i understand it) iGoogle is a useful tool that allows all kinds of useful (or distracting) Widgets to be applied and checked regularly. as a starter to iGoogle, our assignment was to find a few widgets to add to our hoard. we HAD to get Gmail, Google reader, Google Docs, and two more widgets of our choice...i chose a few widgets last year to use as well...my current widgets (at the time of writing) include a stock ticker where I keep track of Goggle stock, for entertainment value, and Disney stock, because I own [a piece of] Disney, i also have a few fun widgets, a pair of eyes that follow my mouse, a hamster that does the same thing, but can also run on his/her hamster wheel, i also have a family of penguins that can interact with the mouse and be dragged across the widget, these three are fairly distracting...i also have a simulation of newtons cradle...wicked fun stuff...we also reviewed a few google tools, the entire class got a crash course on Google Docs, and I chose to review Google Earth and Google Sketchup...bot are useful applications, and i forgot to mention, as part of my review, that google earth and google Sketchup can be interconnected, allowing you to import buildings from google earth, and edit them in sketchup, seeing dimensions and size comparisons. Spelling mistakes be cursed, i'm ending this here
Goodnight and good luck,
Neil
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