First I looked at Readability. Since I already have the Firefox add-on called Adblock, it didn't seem much different from that. I do love getting pages without all the annoying ads...especially the ones that flash and blink.
I looked at the password storage programs and decided to stick with my current method...an excel spreadsheet which I have to refer to constantly. OMG, who can possibly remember all their user names and passwords? I am wary of online storage. How secure is it? I have my computer backed up and I keep print outs of my passwords (in secure places) so I feel okay with that method.
Then I looked at calendars. A group I belong keeps a Google calendar which I find difficult to use. The final product is satisfactory, but I don't find it that easy to update. Fortunately, someone else in the group has taken on that responsibilty.
Even though I had completed the assignment plus one, I decided to look at Making the Net Easier under the List of Tools and hit pay dirt (I think). I use Dreamweaver for the school's website which is a program that no one can just sit down and create a web page without any background knowledge. A committee in my school has been meeting regularly all year to "redesign" our website and find a web page design tool that doesn't have such a big learning curve, is less expensive, and would be easily accessible to people without web design knowledge. While we haven't found the perfect solution to that problem yet, one of the things we all agreed on is that we need a school calendar. But I don't want to be the one who has to do all the updates. I can't be depended upon to have the time to do daily updates. Voila...Calendar.Net . I easily created a calendar for my school (http://www.my.calendars.net/birchwoodes/) and added a link for it on our home page. Now all that remains is for the committee to have a look at it and figure out who is going to add all the events....something anyone can do.
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