3:48 am on November 14th, 2007 by Chris Lesinski
The only problem with an in-browser email application like Gmail, is the bothersome mailto: tags. If you find yourself inadvertently opening Outlook, Mail or what have you when you click on something like this: hackcollege@gmail.com , then now is the time to install the Firefox plug-in from Lifehacker.com:
It has lots of other bells and whistles through Greasemonkey (another Firefox plug-in, required for this hack to work, available here), but the mailto: avoider is completely indispensable. If you don’t have Greasemonkey already, I would say it’s worth installing, just to enable this plug-in.
4:00 am on November 13th, 2007 by Kelly Sutton
Regardless of your political leanings, the New York Times is a world-leading publication. And so, we’re serving some up for you:
New Class(room) War: Teacher vs. Technology
If you would like to read our retroactive rebuttal, check out my guest post at Cal’s blog:
Guest Post: How to Use a Laptop in Class
2:16 am on November 12th, 2007 by Kelly Sutton
Earlier last week, Facebook continued its march to dominate the world in all things Internet related. And whenever the Facebook developers even breathe, we here at HackCollege are here to report the news. Facebook rolled out three new products. To help explain, we’ll address each of them separately.
Read on to your heart’s content »
9:57 am on November 10th, 2007 by Kelly Sutton
Episode 8: Live from Bonn!:
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Episode 8: Live from Bonn!:
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We’ve been having a little bit more trouble this week getting our stuff on servers across the world. It’s actually because our first live episode was too awesome.
The episode was fun and we’d like to thank everyone that came out. Scott did a stand-up routine before we got started to warm up the crowd. Look for that at the end of the podcast file. Cafe Podcast was a great little venue and we filled up their stage area with 20 of our most awesome friends. Enjoy!
This week’s topics include:
This week’s music:
- “Stadiums and Shrines II” by Sunset Rubdown
10:34 am on November 8th, 2007 by Rosario Doriott
We’ve all learned how to outline a paper. Roman numerals, letters, numbers, and nonsense, according to Cal over at Study Hacks. 
He recommends constructing a topic skeleton instead.
Forget hierarchies. Your outline should capture the topics you want to discuss in your paper. A topic is more general than a specific fact or observation, but less general that a multi-argument discussion. For example:
“Letter to Philip Johnson suggesting chapel idea” is too specific to be a topic.
“The conception and construction of the Rothko chapel” is too general to be a topic.
“Rothko’s Courting of Philip Johnson” is a perfect topic.
Topics are what you’ll capture with our outlining process.
After you’ve created your topic skeleton, simply dump all the quotations you’ve gathered from your visits to the library, and there you are. Arrange the information, organize transitions, and that should be it. Sounds pretty good to me. And much faster.
Read on: Monday Master Class: How to Use a Flat Outline to Write Outstanding Papers, Fast
10:08 am on November 8th, 2007 by Rosario Doriott
FileHippo is a cleaner, better Download.com, offering the newest updates to popular software without the popups and without the spyware. Their best feature, however, is their Update Checker. A small download with amazing speed that does exactly what it says and nothing more: It checks for updates to all the software you have on your Windows PC.
If you’re like me, you like to keep you software up to date, ready for all the newest features and bug fixes and glitter and glam. FileHippo’s Update Checker makes this tedious task very simple! A 100KB download, no installation required, 2-10 seconds of your time, and, BAM, it will list all the available software updates and even beta updates, too. Very easy.
Visit their site to download: FileHippo Update Checker
5:05 am on November 8th, 2007 by Kelly Sutton
We’ve jumped on the new Facebook bandwagon and created a “Facebook Page” for our “business.” A Facebook Page is a much better way to interact with users than a Facebook Group is. We’ll be adding to it in the next few days and hopefully building in some cool gadgets.
We’ll be updating you as to what all this madness is, but for now:
Join the HackCollege Facebook Page
3:02 am on November 8th, 2007 by Kelly Sutton
Hallo! So I made my aforementioned presentation yesterday at web2open/Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin. It was a small turn out, but everyone there seemed interested in what I was talking about. And I nabbed some delicious Indian food with a friend on my way out of Berlin.
As I promised to those attending my presentation and for everyone here, I am posting my presentation online. Included in this zip file are my notes (.txt), my presentation (.ppt) and an audio recording of the presentation (.wma unfortunately :(). I learned a lot during this presentation.
I’m open to criticism and critiques. So let me know what you think in the comments.
“American Student 2.0 in Europe” web2open Presentation in Berlin on 7.11.07 [.zip]
8:01 am on November 6th, 2007 by Kelly Sutton
Hey everybody. This live show last night went great. Check for it up in the next day or two.
Anyway, I’m giving a talk titled “American Student 2.0 in Europe” tomorrow at the Web2Open conference in Berlin from 15:50 to 16:40. I’m guessing not many readers will be able to hop right over to Berlin, so I’ll be posting my slides and notes afterwards. I’m nervous as all hell, but hopefully I’ll do a decent job.
8:00 am on November 5th, 2007 by Chris Lesinski and Kelly Sutton
This week among all the craziness that’s going on, everyone at LMU has started receiving reminders about one particularly dreadful thing: class registration. Don’t worry, we’re here to help make sure you get the best schedule possible. Here’s a walk-through of everything registration: organizing your schedule to a tee, getting into those quick-filling classes and avoiding a professor from hell.
Read on to your heart’s content »
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