Tag: COLLEGE

With Microsoft busily pitching Live@Edu to learning institutions, Google continues to do what it can to make Google Apps an attractive alternative. Yesterday, the company announced the addition of a new Education category to the Google Apps Marketplace, which is designed to "make it easier for schools to have more web apps at their fingertips." Right now, the category includes around two dozen ...

Google Apps for Education has now been helping colleges and universities everywhere begin migrating their students and faculty to the cloud for four years. Just how many students and faculties, you ask? Over 10 million, according to Google's celebratory blog post. Even more impressive is the fact that Google has added more than two million new users since this May. A 25% increase in about five ...

Download Squad contributor Mark Bowytz decided to go freestyle with this rundown of Android apps -- please enjoy his geeky thriller ... and the apps, of course! Agent McCormick is to meet an informant who has some secrets to share about his Android phone...but will they make it out alive? The air in the Imperial Palace restaurant was a pungent mixture of fried dumplings and chemical fumes ...

digg_url = 'http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/08/16/10-extensions-students-school-google-chrome'; It's just about that time of year again -- time for millions of students to put their noses to the grindstone and head back to school for another year of academic excitement! Few learning tools are as versatile as your trusty laptop or desktop computer -- and your Web browser is likely ...

RandomDorm is a new site that's following in the footsteps of the explosively popular random video chat service Chatroulette, but adding its own twist: it's for college students only. To use RandomDorm, you need a .edu email address or a Facebook account with a .edu address as the primary email. RandomDorm is also limited to the US right now (it's "geotarded," as Lee is fond of saying). ...

Macmillan has just announced a new tool called DynamicBooks that allows professors to edit the publisher's massive repository of textbooks and provide them to classes in a digital format. I couldn't dig up any info on whether the format is proprietary, open, or uses an existing eBook standard, but Macmillan says its books will be viewable on computers and iPhones, with iPad and Android versions ...

Foursquare's been making a lot of news lately, breaking out of city-specific gameplay and expanding its location-based game to the entire globe. But what do you do after you take over the world? Well, if you're Foursquare, you start launching mini-games with a hyper-local focus. The first one just kicked off on Harvard University's campus. Foursquare's making a push for Harvard students to join ...

What do you get when you take a gaggle of enthusiastic, early-adopting online marketers and introduce them to one of the world's largest directories of job-seeking college students? We're about to find out, now that Facebook is acquiring FriendFeed. The move should mean improved versions of the real-time status and conversation features that Facebook was already moving toward, but that's not all ...

If you've been to college sometime in the past decade, you might have run up against Blackboard. It's an online assignment system that students generally dread logging into, because it usually means new work or more brown-nosing questions from that showoff in your class. That's not Blackboard's fault, though. To show they want to make things easier on their user base, the students, Blackboard is ...

Google Maps is all well and good if you're trying to find directions for your road trip across America. But what if you're a freshman in college and you can never seem to remember how to get from the dining hall to the library? Campus Destinations is a new college-centric map/search engine that can help you on your way. The service includes listings for academic, residential and other buildings ...

Communiversity is a new site which allows students of various colleges to post pictures and comments on their own school. Though opinions on the site can vary greatly and maybe leave visitors more confused than informed, this new service is an interesting and creative way to find out a little more about your next potential college. College.SparkNotes and Collegeboard are two other sites to ...

Social networks are huge, and Yahoo knows this, that's why they have been working hard to develop the next level of social networks, KickStart. Yahoo! KickStart is aimed at matching college students with relevant employers. This new service will give users a profile page where they can post a resume similar in style to LinkedIn. The companies listed in the service can then start up groups which ...

With some students already in school, and some preparing to enter yet another journey into a new semester, let DLS make your studies that much more organized with a few free desktop and web applications that will make your school life that much more enjoyable. From free document creation applications, online to-do's and organization applications, users are faced with a decision, go for the costly ...

Headed back to campus for fall? Our new little sister DIY Life shows you a way to create your own perfect dorm room; online. Don't find yourself stuck in a drab, uninspiring space -- in which you'll spend far too much time in front of your computer -- kick it up a notch and impress your friends. Homeslyce The really slick part is, you can collaborate with your new roommate from where ever you ...

In 2002, it was all doom and gloom for aspiring computer science students. They were being told that, by the time they graduated, offshore developers and computer scientists would be doing the jobs they sought, and for far less money. Sure, it may have been true for a while, and lots of development is still happening overseas but, did you realize Comp-Sci grads are still raking in bigger ...