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The “Real” Firefox Campus Edition

Cal’s post about his irrational anger towards the new Firefox Campus Edition at StudyHacks got me thinking. We mentioned Campus Edition ourselves briefly (I don’t believe it deserves further attention than that, really.) But I really don’t feel Cal’s anger is really irrational, from a productivity perspective this small little package is just [...]

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Notely - The WebApp You Just Want to Use

Notely first caught my attention a few weeks back. Since then, I’ve been playing with it from time to time. Since it also has a Facebook application, this particular piece of student aimed software has real potential to take off. Looking around the site, with its video tour and demo account (a [...]

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A few quick notes…

Adam over at Lifehacker has done me the great honor of doing his own version of my “5 Steps to A Consistent Workspace.” You may notice some movement between Cal Newport’s Study Hack and Russ Egan’s The Student Help Forum. That’s because both are great sites and you’ll be seeing us working together [...]

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Can you Fathom it?

A friend of mine directed me to this site today. It’s interesting, evidently setup by Columbia university to help out its distance learning program but the enormous amount of information here isn’t just for them. A quick perusal gave me more than one interesting topic, from Jewish Studies to Locating the Victorians: Technology, [...]

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