Author Archives: Gail

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About Gail

Retired Technology Integration Specialist. I enjoy riding my bike, baking, and reading.

GiantTimer is Free and Easy to Use

Posted on November 7, 2012 by Gail

GiantTimer is a great app for your iPad. It’s free, and easy to use.  For 99¢ you can remove the ads. I’m using the free version and I’m happy. GiantTimer counts up like a stopwatch or down like a timer. It can easily … Continue reading →

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Using TweetDeck

Posted on November 6, 2012 by Gail

I’ve been creating Twitter lists this week. I still have people to move about and I can see that this will be an ongoing project as I follow more people, and get to know my present followers better. Now that … Continue reading →

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Using Twitilist to Organize Your Twitter Lists

Posted on November 5, 2012 by Gail

No program to download Today I went to Twitilist and signed into my Twitter account so that Twitilist could display the people I follow. This is a great tool. It’s free, did not take long to start listing people, and … Continue reading →

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How I Named my Lists in Twitter

Posted on November 4, 2012 by Gail

List names cannot begin with a numerical character I had planned to begin each of my lists with a number in Twitter, thinking that they would then be in the order I would like them to appear, with the most … Continue reading →

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Lists in Twitter

Posted on November 3, 2012 by Gail

I decided last week that I need to start filtering people into Twitter lists. I follow around 700 people and I have a lot of noise coming through instead of what I want to read at any given moment. There … Continue reading →

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Adding Profile Header Picture to Twitter

Posted on November 2, 2012 by Gail

Not long ago Twitter added a new feature. You can now upload a header picture. The photo in your timeline remains the same but the header photo shows at the top of your timeline. Visitors will see it when they click on … Continue reading →

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NaBloPoMo Time

Posted on November 1, 2012 by Gail

National Blog Posting Month is here and I’m going to attempt to post something each day during the month of November. I’d never heard of NaBloPoMo until this week, but it seems a worthy pursuit. All the same, writing a … Continue reading →

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IOS 6 for iPAD Offers French, German and Spanish Dictionaries for Free

Posted on October 24, 2012 by Gail

Good news for K12 language learners and teachers! If you have not upgraded your iPad to IOS 6 yet, there is a good reason to do so. The following three dictionaries have been included with the operating system: French German … Continue reading →

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Screencast-o-Matic – Free and No Learning Curve!

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Gail

Screencast-o-Matic is a free screen casting program. It’s super simple to use. It’s supposed to work directly from their web site, if your java is up-to-date, however, you also have the choice to download it. I had a bit of trouble … Continue reading →

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xQuake App for the iPad

Posted on October 15, 2012 by Gail

It was in Papua New Guinea that I experienced my first earthquake. I awoke in the middle of the night because the bed was shaking.  I heard a vase of flowers as they toppled over. My first thought was that … Continue reading →

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