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Lectures To Go

Having a major allows you to focus your passion, and strengthen your expertise in a particular knowledge field. However, focusing all that attention in one place can lead you to neglect your lesser passions in other subjects. For example, has your talent in art taken a back seat to your science degree?

With a busy student schedule there's not always enough time to indulge your off-beat interests... until now. More and more universities across America are publishing audio lectures in podcast form - so you can listen in on a lecture about Picasso at the bus stop, at the gym, or on your way to chem lab. Why limit your learning to your class schedule, when podcasts are free - and recorded by top intellectuals in a diverse range of topics? All you need is an mp3 player and headphones to become a true renaissance student.

Colleges currently offering lectures by free audio download/ podcast include:

Stanford University

John Hopkins University

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

University of California, Los Angeles

Yale University

What are you doing for Thanksgiving?

As college students, one welcomes Thanksgiving break as a much needed rest from tests, projects, presentations, and other stress. But does family time on Thanksgiving become a whole new stress on its own? Check out what college students in Texas are doing this Thanksgiving:

"I actually lied to my boyfriend's mom and said we were going to a wedding in Alabama in order to avoid another family Thanksgiving. I'm sick of turkey and family time.

Instead, I might go to Sonora, TX for my geomorphology project! Nothing like a small town where there's nothing to do on normal days, much less national holidays." - Julie, University of North Texas

"I have to go do the obligatory time-with-parents thing. If you're in college and live in the same city as your parents, Thanksgiving is one of those holidays when you're really expected to see your family." - Corey, University of Houston

"Any excuse is a great excuse for food and love, and in any social circle, about half the kids spend thanksgiving with their families, and the other half ..well, either dont have families, or have families that don't celebrate, or have families too far to celebrate with... which calls for a Thanksgiving poor-college-man's pot luck dinner... complete with lots of liquor and turkey sandwiches with hash browns!

And dont forget the post Thanksgiving Thanksgiving dinner. There's always Thanksgiving dinners happening even after the holiday. Oh - and don't forget Thanksgiving left over dinner." - Mariam, University of Houston

Microsoft Vista Fun

Check out this fun evolution of Windows sounds and logos over the years:



For font fanatics, you might want to check out the new fonts that come with Microsoft Vista and Office 2007.

For tech savvy types, check out these 10 cool tips for customizing Vista to your liking.

Comparing Cats: Mac OS X Leopard vs. Tiger

Last week Apple launched the new Mac OS X Leopard, calling it "the biggest system update in Mac history." What's so hot about the new Mac operating system? Here are a few things that are reportedly better about Leopard than the last Mac OS X release, Tiger... see if you agree:

1. Leopard has better Help than Tiger. The new Help menu has a search box in the menu bar. When you search for something you need help with, the search results menu lists the names of all matching menu commands. It even opens the menu for you with a large blue arrow pointing to the command you wanted, so it's easy to see.


2. Leopard has its own Time Machine. Leopard's Time Machine will automatically launch whenever you connect an external hard drive to your computer. If you choose to make that hard drive a backup drive, Time Machine will incrementally and automatically back up your hard drive and any changes to it - every hour of every day.


3. Leopard has cleaner organization - look, stacks and spaces! The new OS reduces clutter on your desktop with three stacks: applications, downloads, and documents. The stacks fan out or display in a neat grid, depending on your preference. You can also use "spaces" to organize everything on your desktop into groups. Simply toggle between different spaces to work on different groups of applications without getting confused.
   
   
4. Updated Finder with Cover Flow The new finder's sidebar groups items into categories: places, devices, shared computers, and searches. Type in a keyword into the Spotlight feature to bring back results from your hard drive. Flip through your files like flipping through music albums with cover flow.
   

Overall, Leopard has over 300 new features built into it - making it one of the hottest new software releases on the market. In the first four days of its release last week, the program sold over 2 million copies. It took Mac OS X Tiger 39 days to sell the same amount.