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I love it when I come across something which changes the way that I do things that I do regularly online. For example, popurls – probably the most up-to-date site on the Internet – is now my home page, and I often direct my students to Clusty instead of Google due to its enhanced features.
I’ve just been reading the excellent Flux blog by the good people at Futurelab and in particular the post entitled What a great time to be alive!! by Tim Rylands. In it, he links to many great things, but in particular Sidekiq – a search engine on steroids:
Unfortunately, I can see this site being blocked in many schools/authorities as it lets users search for music, videos, etc. That would be a shame as it really is a one-stop-shop for pretty much anything you could possibly want. More digitally-literate students would have a field day, and less digitally-literate students could have all their results in one place!
Finally, and this is the killer feature for me, it integrates nicely into the Firefox search bar with one click. That’s it – Sidekiq is officially my search destination of choice…
I’m having MAJOR problems with my Macbook at the moment. It’s on its third ‘logic board’ at the moment and has just died again. I’ve just spent c.45 mins with AppleCare trying to resolve the issue and have told them I want a refund. They’re going to contact the Apple Store in Meadowhall, Sheffield, to see if they’ll do just that. Continue reading “Macbook woes”
