Introducing Hackademe!

My latest online project: Hackademe!

Hack: A clever use of technology, software, or modified items to solve a problem or increase efficiency.

Academe: The community of scholars and students engaged in higher education and research; also known as academia or acadème.

Hackademe: A website devoted to sharing clever uses of technology, software, or modified items to solve problems [...]


My favourite web apps.

I don’t really use Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, or the other social networking stuff that the kids are into these days (bah!), but I do try to keep up with more useful web 2.0 applications. Here’s a list of some of my favourites.

Firefox
This is the best browser, period, and it finally surpassed IE! One [...]


Blackberry apps that rock.

I have been a CrackBerry user for several years, and am rarely seen without it in my hand or on my belt. Last week I traded my 8700 for the Bold (9000) — wow, what a good move! The Bold is faster, sleeker, and has 3G capabilities for functions that I would not [...]


Mendeley (and other free software).

Some time ago, I posted about my search for a new reference management program for Windows that would be the rough equivalent of Papers for Mac (which is the rough equivalent of iTunes for PDFs).

I played around with Zotero, but I prefer something standalone rather than embedded within a browser. You may like it, [...]