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User Name donhinkelman
Member Since 2002-12-05
Total number of Feedback Posts: 19
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Last 10 Feedback Posts by donhinkelman [ Search for All ]
NeoOffice 2.2.1 (Mac OS X)
Neooffice is now compatible with Leopard--before it is released! And compatible with Microsoft Office 2007 files, long before Microsoft releases a product on the Mac that can do that. And all for free and open source. I cannot understand why someone would not donate or why someone would complain about being asked to donate. Five stars for an amazing product and an amazing freeware effort. [alert admin]
Sunday, August 26 2007 @ 11:32 PM PDT
Quiz Press 1.7.4 (Mac OS X)
Standalone Quizmakers are Dead 
Quizzes are only one part of a learning website. Complete learning management systems (LMS) such as Moodle, Dekeos, Blackboard, etc. provide a full range of learning activities and learner management records. They need a good, fast quiz making tool to add lots of quizzes without a complicated procedure. Quiz Press could provide this but unfortunately does not provide integration. Until it does, it will fill a vanishing niche. [alert admin]
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Saturday, April 28 2007 @ 05:02 AM PDT
SnapNDrag 2.2 (Mac OS X)
Adjustable File Size is Wonderful and Intuitive
Do you need to keep jpg files under a certain limit for forum postings? The variable file size trimer is so easy. Just another reason why this tool is indispensible for me. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, April 25 2007 @ 07:01 AM PDT
Moodle 1.6 (Mac OS X)
I have used Moodle for four years now, and have tested version 1.6 in my classes enough to say that it is stable and ready for production sites. Bug-testing is thorough and fixing is fast. What I like best about this open source program is the user community. It supports innovation and contributions from teachers and developers all over the world. It has been adopted by the largest university in the world (Open Univ. UK--over 150,000 students) and yet is easy enough for a single teacher to set up with a couple clicks on a hosting service using Fantastico. I am now working with six other universities to make new modules--Project Module, Feedback Module, Mobile Phone Modules and other contributions. Imagine the next version, 1.7, which will begin repositories for teachers to share materials. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, June 20 2006 @ 01:12 AM PDT
Yummy FTP 1.5.1 (Mac OS X)
Lots of features, but my number one need is remote unzip. Downloaded Yummy, searched the menus, feature list, and help but appears this is not provided. Transmit and Fetch also have no unzip. Only RBrowser appears to feature it, but I like Yummy's interface much better. Will upgrade my rating when unzip is offered. [alert admin]
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Thursday, June 15 2006 @ 05:07 AM PDT
MAMP 1.2.1 (Mac OS X)
Thank you for updating the MySQL version. Now MAMP has the unicode bugs removed. The eAccelerator is also a wonderful feature. [alert admin]
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Saturday, April 08 2006 @ 01:05 AM PDT
Monolingual 1.3.0 (Mac OS X)
Reminds me of the joke... - what is a person who knows three languages? A tri-lingual. - what is a person who knows two languages? A bi-lingual. - what is a person who knows one language? American. And yes, I am a monolingual American who ironically teaches foreign languages for a living. :) [alert admin]
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Monday, January 30 2006 @ 06:28 AM PST
MAMP 1.1.1 (Mac OS X)
The Best AMP Distro for the Mac
This is the easiest distro for making an AMP server with a Mac. I have used Marc Liyanege's packages (thanks, Marc, for being the first) but they require considerable technical expertise. I liked the Server Logistics packages because they were easier and had a PHP accelerator built in. But those packages have not been upgraded in a while and require separate piece-by-piece installation. MAMP does all the pieces in one operation and the accelerator is built in. Now my only wish is that Apple build a Darwin kernel that allows MySQL to directly address the kernel like Linex does. Then we will have a truly fast server, comparable to anything else in the world. [alert admin]
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Saturday, January 21 2006 @ 04:56 AM PST
TAMS Analyzer 3.23b2 (Mac OS X)
Easy to install and intuitive reports/menus
I installed this and tried producing reports using the sample files. It all worked and I could figure it out in less than an hour. I am not an experienced qualitative researcher and have not used this software for more than an hour, but it looks real good. I also appreciate that the developer provides updates over the past few years. [alert admin]
Monday, July 04 2005 @ 08:52 PM PDT
Moodle 1.5 (Mac OS X)
Easy, intuitive learning--Fun for students
Three years ago, I first used Moodle as a teacher of English to students who understood no English--they loved Moodle. With no programming experience, it was simple to set up my own server using the excellent installation documentation. Questions were answered on the free service forums in hours, not days. Although I use it for smoothly for 150 simultaneous students, Moodle is scalable to over 30,000 learners. In version 1.5, you will find a much improved quiz module, faster chat, customizable themes, more standards-compliancy, instant messaging, flexible blocks--all in 60+ languages. It is so easy to expand, I have 5 student programmers making a new module at my school for handling projects. Because it is open source, this module will be freely available to all schools along with Moodle which will always be free. The best part is the interface, which is intuitive for teachers and fun for students. All user comparison studies point to Moodle as superior to Blackboard and WebCT, except in price. [alert admin]
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Monday, June 06 2005 @ 08:41 AM PDT
Last 10 Comments by donhinkelman [ Search for All ]
I, too, have been excited about the potential of this program. However, after paying $120 for its predecessor, I gave up spending on the constant and rather expensive upgrade fees. MacSpeech has a serious marketing/management problem.
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Sunday, November 08 2009 @ 01:25 AM PST
The warning about "3 plays only" is wrong. Tube TV is completely free. I recommend deleting the original comment and these replies.
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Saturday, December 22 2007 @ 04:03 PM PST
