College Tools: Cramster.com

September 25, 2009 · Filed Under College Life 101, Tech · 1 Comment 

One of my favorite college tools that I discovered a bit late is Cramster.com. This website provides over 200 books in different fields with their homework solutions. Their subject range isn’t too big but it will help out mostly in Math, Computer Science, Biology and Physics. I would highly suggest to use this as an aid to compare your homework solutions to the solutions provided by Cramster. It is not very good to use it to just copy and paste your homework because you will fail the class (trust me). The solutions are given step by step so it is good to follow it and learn while you do it. The problem with the step by step is that it is not detailed and sometimes it might be a bit difficult to understand what they actually did. Cramster also provides a message board for when you need extra help with a problem or one of your homeworks is not listed on the website. Unfortunately Cramster.com isn’t really free…you can view all odd problem for free but if you want to see all the other problems then you will need to pay. The price isn’t very expensive and I think it is very well worth it. I signed up for the monthly pay of $4.17 which I believe was very well worth it. There are different plans that are more expensive but allow you to get more help and what not, it is up to you to see what suits you best. Don’t forget to cancel your subscription because it will keep charging you for ever if you don’t unsubscribe after you don’t need it anymore. I highly recommend to use this website as an aid to people in science and technical majors.

Yasser

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Scheduling A Meeting Using Doodle.

September 10, 2009 · Filed Under Tech · Comment 

If you host meetings or participate in some form of meeting then you know the hardest part of the meeting is trying to figure out a time when everyone is available. That is no longer that big of a problem thanks to Doodle. It is not a new service and it is a website that me and my friends have been using for about a year now. It works very simple, you set up possible times and days for the meeting and then people check the hours they are available on those certain dates. After everyone “votes” you can check when most people are free or everyone is free. It is very simple to use and not too complicated. Of course this is as simple as it gets so it doesn’t have anything too complicated and what not, it is just a simple way of scheduling meetings and events. Give it a try.

Yasser

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