It's time for students and teachers to head back to school. Be sure to check out our posts below for all sorts of educational tips, resources, and reviews.
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"T" is for teacher - Teachers need love too, so check out some cool apps designed to make the life of your favorite educator a little bit easier.
Stop, thief - If you dropped a lot of coin getting a shiny new MacBook and a bunch of cool apps, button everything up with these terrific security tips.
For future reference - Academic research can be kind of fun but does anyone really enjoy the drudgery of creating reference lists that must accompany every paper, project, or presentation? Malkinware's Reference Tracker 1.0 for Mac OS X is the perfect tool for creating these kinds of lists on the fly, and it's 35% off list price through September 30, 2008.
Write right - We already told you about great research tools for the desktop, but what do you do once you've got the info you need? Organize it, of course!
Do you read me? - iLearn is a new ezine devoted entirely to using Mac technology in the classroom. If you can't find something useful in the first issue -- that sells for only a buck, by the way -- then you aren't really trying.
Pinch your pennies - This time of year, it's possible to get back-to-school discounts on more than just paste and college-ruled notebook paper. There are plenty of ways to get a lower price on academic software, if you know what you're doing. (Image: HouseofSims @Flickr)
Fantastic - If you're an educator and need a graphics, writing, and publishing tool for the classroom, check out Canvastic. So cool, it even works on the older PPC Macs still found in in schools all across America.
Search party - Ah, research papers. The bane of students everywhere. We can't do the work for you, but we can show you a bunch of desktop tools that will make it a lot more painless.
No earbuds in class - You've got until September 15th to take advantage of Apple's education promotion offering a free 8BG iPod touch to to college students who buy certain Macs. Are you really planning on walking around campus without your very own conspicuous white earbuds? Didn't think so.
Giveaways:
Win a bunch of games from Freeverse.
Win a 200-CD conversion from Ripstyles, plus a discount for everyone
Win a bag of goodies (cases, software and a bag)
Other deals and specials:
Chromaticbytes offers a discount on ZeusDraw until September 21.
MindMeister offers free edu-premium accounts for its mind mapping tool.
RadTech is having a Back to School sale, offering up to 20% discounts through August 18. Use the code "school88" to see it.
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