Vimeo – $60 a year for extra features, and the ability to upload up to 5GB of video a week. Vimeo > than youtube because there’s no cap on file size or length, whereas with youtube you’re limited to something like 1GB or 10 minutes, whichever comes frist.  I decided to go with this to suppliment my Kodak Zi8, as I plan to upload my class lectures here.  

Another guy in the class and I both had the idea at the same time, but this is the first time my two current professors have been recorded.  As IT Gurus, I could see their minds racing when I asked if I could put the files online.  One said it was okay, the other is thinking about it because he wants to write a book from his slides.  

One of the interesting things about the program is that it’s not really focused on using technology.  None of our classrooms are “smart” and they don’t demo or really talk about this program or that program.  It’s kind of a mishmash as the students are left to their own devices to solve problems and understand things the way they want.  About half the class doesn’t bring a laptop, and I’ll bet of the half that do, they don’t use it to take notes.  Maybe after working with technology all week, everyone is just like “Fuck that.”  

LogMeIn Pro^2 (squared?) – $12 a month for some cool dashboard features, FTP style transfer and music streaming.

I find myself not wanting to deal with multiple locations and desktops while I’m studying at Wai’s place, so I’ve decided to kind of use her barely capable computer as a thin client to my home computer.  

It’s actually not too bad, although I still do word processing and Excel on her computer.  The music streaming is pretty cool though, and after about 10 seconds of shaky buffering it’s solid.  In the future when she gets some kickass speakers, I look forward to streaming my music to her place while I’m there.