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Download Squad's Back-to-School Software Picks

The first is a crossword-puzzle generator for Mac and Windows called Crossword Forge. Now, crossword makers have been around for a while, but this one gets an A+. It does crosswords and word searches (complete with accidental profanity filter--a must) and a spelling checker. It will even spit out a Flash-drive online puzzle so your students or kids can go the paperless route.
Check out the rest of our picks after the jump.
College is a busy, busy place. If you've never been a full-time college freshman, then you've never known the same unparalleled sense of schedule overload. That's why you'll appreciate Schoolhouse, the personal schedule and task manager sent mercifully from on high made just for busy students. Schoolhouse offers a grade tracker and calculator--so you'll know what mark you're getting even before your professor does. This one is Mac-only. But I'm guessing--if you're a good enough student to warrant using Schoolhouse, you probably already carry a Mac.Which brings us to another device many students will be carrying back to school this year: the iPhone. In the early days of portable mp3 players, one of the most cunning uses for one's iPod was to carry files around, using the hard drive-based iPod like a flash drive but with more storage space. Today's iPhone is flash based, but it still packs up to 8 GB of internal storage, so why not use it to tote your term papers and cheat sheets? All you need is a simple way to move your files to and from your iPhone. The answer? iPhoneDrive.
Simple is as simple does--and iPhoneDrive is as simple as it gets. Copy files to your iPhone and back to your Mac with one window. Looking for a way to do iPhone file transfers on Windows? One of the users at ModMyiPhone.com came up with something similar for Windows--check it out.And if you want to get a little extra mileage out of that old iPod (or convince mom and dad to finally buy you one), check out iPrepPress, who offers text study guides and classic literary works that you can download to your iPod. From George Orwell's 1984 to Algebra and Chemistry charts, these guys might make your dreaded third period class with Mr. Stemple just a little easier to tolerate.
As I tell the students in my house, go get those A's this year, kid. Your future might be riding on it. Or maybe you'll become a rock star instead.



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Cactus said 4:27PM on 8-23-2007
SchoolHouse is for OSx, no windows or linux version?
Some other stuff for back-to-school:
http://docs.google.com (online word processing)
http://www.findarticles.com (journal and research)
http://www.freetube.us.tc (live TV streams for the cash strapped college-bound)
imeem.com (music)
gmail.com (email *vital*)
tv-links.co.uk (tv shows)
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Ken said 6:18PM on 8-23-2007
How about GadgetTrak (http://www.gadgettrak.com) to recover iPods and other devices in the event they are stolen?
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Ken said 6:21PM on 8-23-2007
How about GadgetTrak (http://www.gadgettrak.com) to recover iPods and other devices in the event they are stolen?
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notesake said 6:26PM on 8-23-2007
We commented another post on here a few days ago but I thought I might add a reminder here.
http://wwww.notesake.com
We are a simple but very powerful note site. We launched last week and have gotten a great response from everyone. Come by and check the site out.
Ian Smith
- co-founder of www.notesake.com
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R said 9:18PM on 8-23-2007
Notesake site is down.
"..powerful note site", you say? LOL.
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