Another slow news Sunday, so I'll post a few tools for your consideration.

Traditional Universities are doomed! Not really, but if they don't change they do open the door for the “For Profit” schools.

http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/09/05/1431212/All-You-Can-Eat-College-For-99-a-Month?from=rss

All-You-Can-Eat College For $99-a-Month

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday September 05, @11:18AM from the om-nom-nom dept.

theodp writes

"Writing in Washington Monthly, Kevin Carey has seen the future of college education. It costs $99-a-month, and there's no limit on the number of courses you can take. Tiny online education firm StraighterLine is out to challenge the seeming permanency of traditional colleges and universities. How? Like Craigslist, StraighterLine threatens the most profitable piece of its competitors' business: freshman lectures, higher education's equivalent of the classified section. It's no surprise, then, that as StraighterLine tried to buck the system, the system began to push back, challenging deals the company struck with accredited traditional and for-profit institutions to allow StraighterLine courses to be transferred for credit. But even if StraighterLine doesn't succeed in bringing extremely cheap college courses to the masses, it's likely that another player eventually will."

“Cheats” are simply command summaries. If you think you know every command, try looking at a Cheat Sheet.

http://posters.msug.vn.ua/default.aspx

TechPosters: Technical Posters and Cheats for IT Guys

For Academic use only. (You can tell by their logo)

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For my starving students

DirectTextbook – Online book price comparison site that lets you quickly compare book prices across 30 major book retailers including Amazon, eBooks.com, Powell’s, Buy.com, Walmart, Book Closeouts and more. Read more: DirectTextbook – Compare 30 book stores to find cheapest book prices

For my obsessive/compulsive friends. Organize, over-organize, re-organize.

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/pick-3-icon-changer-programs-to-customize-your-folders-by-color/

Pick 3 Icon Changer Programs To Customize Your Folders By Color

Sep. 5th, 2009 By Saikat Basu

… Changing the colors of our folders has certain visual advantages. Other than the superficial visual appeal, different colors for different folders can serve as visual tags. We can color code folders according to importance (for instance, red for red hot documents) or say, according to contents (green for country music, orange for grunge?) or whatever strikes our fancy.

iColorFolder is an Open Source project and supported by Windows XP.

Folderico is a free software and supported by Windows XP.

StyleFolder is a free software and supported by Windows XP.