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The social bookmarking site Del.icio.us has had an overhaul to become a whole lot sleeker and easier to operate, plus the URL has lost the extra full stopsto become – http://delicious.com. As one of my most useful tools, it’s good to see this revamp.  Changes are detailed on the site and include clearer navigation and [...]

Having had trouble with my last post, I decided it was time to upgrade to the latest version of WordPress to overcome video embedding problems. Hooray, it’s been a success! Remembering to deactivate the plugins first always helps! Updating can be a challenge but once done, it’s a great feeling of achievement and version 2.5.1 [...]

Another good ICTEV Conference at Melbourne Grammar School.  I like the location of this conference as well as the easy layout.  It’s always possible to come away with something useful to apply to the classroom. I presented a workshop session this morning introducing Bloglines and Del.icio.us as research support tools. I got to use these tool [...]

The first bookmark I’ve saved into my Del.icio.us account with the new Internet Exporer addon has been another Microsoft related matter.  The New York Times, 16 May, announces Microsoft joins effort for laptops for children.  Finally it seems that Bill Gates and Nicholas Negroponte have reached and agreement and: “The first of the project’s child-friendly XO laptops running Windows XP [...]