Thanksgiving is a great time to pick up deals on electronics, and so there will be a ton of debate deals out there. I’ll post what I see below the fold, add any you find in the comments.
I did a post on spdebate a while ago about debate tech I use, a few people have emailed me recently asking about it again so I figured I would post a centralized update. So below the fold you have my review of debate tech- both for stuff related to debate and for debate admin.
Ryan Ricard has provided simple instructions for downloading an offline copy of the NDCA wiki so that you can open it even when you don’t have access to an internet connection. To make things even easier, I have added Category code to each of the 2009-2010 policy pages; this allows you to access the category page and a listing of only the pages categorized as “Cross-Examination/Policy 2009-2010”. In order to be listed, a page must include [[Category:Cross-Examination/Policy 2009-2010]]—this can be added anywhere on the page. The best way to do this is to begin the page with __TOC__ [[Category:Cross-Examination/Policy 2009-2010]]. This adds a table of contents and makes sure that the page gets listed on the category page. The ability to download an offline copy of the wiki has been a frequent request; hopefully this solution will be helpful.
So I have some google wave invites and was thinking about how to dole them out in a just manner and I thought perhaps a little bit of a contest. The rules and description are below.
Below are some short videos on how to use the basic functions in debate synergy. If there is something you haven’t been able to figure out how to do ask in the comments and I will try to get around to them.
This judge choice discussion seems to be proving that this is getting out of hand- it seems discussion would be much easier if conversation took place in 1 spot instead of 5+. Perhaps some kind of agreement to keep discussion of a topic to the original blog where it was posted (in this case georgia debate)- keeping up is starting to feel like homework
Discuss… but only in this spot
Hey everyone, if you liked using this and have any questions/suggestions/troubles, you can email me at alexgulakov@gmail.com or AIM me at cloudheat16.
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Here’s what I use that’s directly related to online research.
fasterfox – makes webpages “endless”, so you don’t have to click “Page 2″ in some news articles or search results, you just keep scrolling; also lets you search google right from the url bar: the dropdown combines your visited sites history with the top results from google right as you type, so you never even have to visit google. make sure you disable “Auto Copy Selected” (for compatibility with Debate Copy) and maybe disable that annoying text popup bubble
evernote – lets you clip and save notes of anything. you should install both the software program and the addon. in the program options, you can assign a hotkey like F6 and that will clip either the selected text or the website to your notebook. I use it to organize literally everything I find; you can search, organize, or go back to original source later.
feedly – it makes RSS simple. subscribe to your favorite websites and it gives you a daily digest. I think it’s organized better than Google Reader
pdf download – you can set it to either ask you to download & open the PDF or load it as text in your browser.
LibX – puts links in Google Scholar results to my university library; you can also reload a page of a commercial database you find through google- like sagepub or jstor- through your university proxy. you should download it from your university website. use the addon “Menu Editor” to remove the annoying context menu entries it adds
readitlater – saves webpages for offline viewing. you can set it to automatically backup everything you add to it. I don’t use it anymore, but when I went places without reliable internet access I used it to backup the online caselist and maybe a few articles.
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If you are an IE or Chrome user and would like to use the Save Google Books feature, right click on any bookmark, select “Properties” or “Edit”, and change the URL to the code below. Press it while on a Google Books page to open a popup with the page image at the highest resolution possible.
Alex Gulakov has written a firefox add on that is pretty kick ass, you can download it here https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13295
It will let you do a lot of useful things, but the 2 best in my opinion are
-organize google news results in a way that automatically formats a debate cite for you
-copy out of google print without having to use an extra program- and this appears to produce a much higher quality image than screen capture software.
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