With the advent of Google Wave looking like it could replace Independent Learning Centre. And Google Docs now being used heavily by students — news article link. It’s not so far fetched to assume that students will have laptops running the Google OS while reading on Google Books.

www.google.com/appsstatus shows the status of popular Google apps, and service information. Gmail has been having a lot of issues as of late, and this page really helps to inform users of the extent of the issue and other details relating to the service disruptions.

ClickTale.net lets you watch users use the site, and has “heatmaps” that let you see what ares users are drawn to your site.

It has some other basic tracking features, but it’s real value is the recorded visits and heatmaps. It’s really worth checking-out.

TeamViewer teamviewer.com is a free VNC program ( control a remote machine from your machine), that is very easy to set-up and use.
Highlights are:

• Free for public use
• Cross-platform friendly (OSX and Windows, no Linux though)
• Breaks through firewalls
• Uses an uber-strong backbone connection, so less lag than a VNC that uses public networks

Specials shout to JMSTP for introducing me to it.

I just paid $2.50 for a domain for a year, thanks to retailmenot.com.

I’ve been using this site for a couple years now, and I’d say it saves me a $100 a year, at least.