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Oct 22nd 08 Posted by admin

How to print from Mac OS X to unrecognized foreign Samsung printers

I grew up on PCs, but when it comes to getting design work done, I’m a serious Mac user.  Most Koreans aren’t, and this means that there’s hardly ever anyone around who can help you, say, set up a Korean printer to work with your Mac.  This gets extra tough when the Samsung printer to which you’d like to connect isn’t actually meant to support Macs in the first place. I...
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Oct 21st 08 Posted by admin

Direct your own Computer Generated ESL Dialogs with virtual Characters using Xtranormal

Wouldn’t it be awesome if you had the computer animation chops to create every dialog your ESL students need to learn as a little virtual cartoon?  Think that would take you hours every time?  With a new web app, you already have all the chops you need, and it takes just minutes to script, design, and render a full dialog. A brand new website currently in Beta called Xtranormal is a killer...
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Oct 14th 08 Posted by admin

Dave’s ESL Cafe: Avatarizer + Imagizer + Profilizer

If you have Firefox with Greasemonkey installed on your computer (PC/Mac/Linux), then you can take advantage of my custom user script for automatically making it appear that you have added your avatar to all of your posts on any forum on Dave’s ESL Cafe Forums. This script also comes with a loosely-related but perhaps more useful feature: image links in any post are automatically displayed as...
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Oct 12th 08 Posted by admin

Dave’s ESL Cafe Discussion Forums: Automatically Block Specified Users

If you have Firefox with Greasemonkey installed on your computer (PC/Mac/Linux), then you can take advantage of my custom user script for automatically blocking posts from annoying users on Dave’s ESL Cafe Forums. Some posters on the ESL Cafe Forums are irritating and add little value to the community. This script asks you one time which users you wish to block, and then automatically hides...
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Oct 10th 08 Posted by admin

Dave’s ESL Cafe: How to make ESL Cafe search work like Google

[Update: Since writing this script, it has received a warm response on ESL Cafe.  Someone there asked how to filter the Google Search Results by date, so I added this additional post with the instructions] Dave’s ESL Cafe is a massive repository of all things ESL. But a huge collection of answers is only as good as the tool you use to ask the questions. The search function on Dave’s ESL...
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Oct 10th 08 Posted by admin

Dave’s ESL Cafe Discussion Forums: Wipe Away Sticky Posts That Consume Screen Real Estate

If you have Firefox with Greasemonkey installed on your computer (PC/Mac/Linux), then you can take advantage of my custom user script for automatically removing sticky posts from Dave’s ESL Cafe Forums. Install The Script Problem: The sticky posts on Dave’s ESL Cafe forums are full of absolutely vital information and should be read by any new user. That being said, 11 sticky posts on the...
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Oct 8th 08 Posted by admin

Dave’s ESL Cafe Job Board: Automatically Remove Korean Recruiter Job Postings

If you have Firefox with Greasemonkey installed on your computer (PC/Mac/Linux), then you can take advantage of my custom user script for automatically removing Korean recruiter postings from Dave’s ESL Cafe’s Korean Job Board. This script now removes just over 100 recruiters job listings on Dave’s ESL Cafe Korean Job Board. Install The Script (updated 2008/10/21) Here’s the...
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Oct 6th 08 Posted by admin

Boring Repetition Made Easy: Days & Months Mazes

Even when you think your student has the days and months down cold, a week or two later, they can’t remember if Wednesday or Thursday is the day before Friday.  How can we improve this? Repitition, repitition, repitition.  The result?  Boring, boring, boring.  So here’s how you get your student to repeat the days and months to himself or herself over and over without losing steam. The...
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Oct 4th 08 Posted by admin

The Über Clock: Customizable Telling The Time Worksheets/Templates

If you want to teach someone to tell the time in a new language, you’ve got to have clocks – lots of them.  It’s not difficult to find worksheets for exactly this purpose, but so many of them are low-quality JPGs, or photocopies of photocopies.  Even the high quality ones are usually pre-customized for you, making it tough to focus on smaller intervals.  In other words, it’s...
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Oct 2nd 08 Posted by admin

YouTube! No Language Redirect Version

One of the problems with living long term in a foreign land is that commonly-used websites like Google Search, Gmail, and YouTube tend to automatically try to display themselves in the local language.  Here in Korea, the most homogenous country on Earth, displaying in Korean is a pretty safe bet for about 98% of the population.  But not for me, and maybe not for you. Google No Country Redirect The...
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