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: "Apple's iPad goes to college" | CNN.com

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:13:50 -0400

: "Apple's iPad goes to college" | CNN.com:

“If I were to predict, I would say that the results are going to be dramatically different and much better,” Martin D. Ringle, chief technology officer at Reed College, told The Chronicle of Higher Education, “and they’re going to point the way to what role this technology is going to play in higher education.”

:"Potomac School students take photos of Earth's curvature with help from iPad" | Washington Post

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:49:16 -0400

:"Potomac School students take photos of Earth's curvature with help from iPad" | Washington Post:

“The group headed to Delaware, driving toward the cooler’s location on InstaMapper. They drove on rural roads, closing in on the cellphone’s GPS signal, until they finally spotted the bright orange parachute in the middle of a strawberry field. A few anxious moments later, they turned on the camera and looked through the pictures.

Mission accomplished.”

: "5 Useful Mac Utilities" | theAppleblog

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:07:02 -0400

: "5 Useful Mac Utilities" | theAppleblog:

My personal favorite from this list is Notational Velocity.

Song A Day #561: The iPhone Antenna Song (via...

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:19:49 -0400

Song A Day #561: The iPhone Antenna Song (via therockcookiebottom)

Toy Story iPad Painting = Awesome! Toy Story 3 iPad Finger...

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:55:15 -0400

Toy Story iPad Painting = Awesome!

Toy Story 3 iPad Finger Painting by Kyle Lambert HD (via kylelambertportfolio)

Wow! Finger Painting on the Apple iPad from the live model...

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:01:00 -0400

Wow!

Finger Painting on the Apple iPad from the live model David Kassan http://davidkassan.com (via DavidJonKassan)

HTC Droid Incredible signal strength issue

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 08:03:02 -0400

HTC Droid Incredible signal strength issue:

Signal strength issues when holding the Droid Incredible at the bottom.

"Look… I don’t mean to belittle concerns about this issue. But in the context of people..."

Sat, 26 Jun 2010 22:04:24 -0400

“Look… I don’t mean to belittle concerns about this issue. But in the context of people who live with greater or lesser flaws in other gadgets that don’t land on the front of news sites, it only seems fair to ask iPhone 4 owners freaking out over this particular item to a) deal with it and b) take a spot in line with everybody else coping with flawed electronics, some of whom paid much more for their gadgets. These things aren’t perfect and never will be, otherwise there wouldn’t be the chance for dramatic upgrades every year that spur perfectly sane people to wait, and wilt, in line in 95-degree heat outside stores.”

- Faster Forward - Technology News, Observations and Occasional Rants by The Washington Post’s Rob Pegoraro

Look! It is an iPhone family portrait. iPhone, iPhone 3G,...

Sat, 26 Jun 2010 10:14:47 -0400

Look! It is an iPhone family portrait.

iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3Gs, and baby bro iPhone 4

The iPhone Family (by MrCTeach)

Infographic of iPad’s competition Meet iPad’s...

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:31:34 -0400

Infographic of iPad’s competition

Meet iPad’s Competition (by Section Design)

10 Awesome Apple iPad Decals | Mashable.com The Lego Man is my...

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:24:10 -0400

10 Awesome Apple iPad Decals | Mashable.com

The Lego Man is my personal favorite.

: "Will the iPad and Similar Technology Revolutionize Learning?" | Edutopia

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:34:37 -0400

: "Will the iPad and Similar Technology Revolutionize Learning?" | Edutopia:

” Someday, teachers might just create apps for their students instead of handing out papers, or posting assignments on the Internet. I also wonder if this technology will allow access for students across the world that do not have access to schools or teachers.”

Native apps? No way. Web apps? Quite possibly…

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Fri, 04 Jun 2010 18:03:01 -0400

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How is Apple Revolutionizing Education?

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 01:12:05 -0400

Via Research by Online Degrees.org

: "Can apps make kids smarter?" | iPad Atlas - CNET Reviews

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 01:02:57 -0400

: "Can apps make kids smarter?" | iPad Atlas - CNET Reviews:

“A separate study conducted by Nielsen has shown that smartphone usage is 12 percent higher in households with children than other households—which is possibility attributed to use by children. Maybe it’s time that parents come to terms with the reality that our phones and iPads moonlight as entertainment for our kids, and try to make the most of it. With the right apps and the proper restrictions, a little time with Mom’s and Dad’s gadgets may just do them some good.”

: "QuickCursor Automatically Uses Your Favorite Text Editor for Other Programs" | Lifehacker

Sat, 22 May 2010 08:11:22 -0400

: "QuickCursor Automatically Uses Your Favorite Text Editor for Other Programs" | Lifehacker:

“QuickCursor sits in your menu bar and waits for you to activate it by clicking on its icon, which produces a drop down menu displaying a list of compatible text editors. By clicking on one of them, QuickCursor will automatically paste the currently active text in your frontmost window into that editor. When you finish writing and you leave that editor, your edited text will automatically be pasted back in the original program. Thus, if you’re writing an email in Mail.app, writing a blog post in Safari, or working on a document in Pages, you can seamlessly move to your favorite editor to do so and back again with little effort.”

I utilize Quickcursor for editing text in Textmate and Writeroom.

:"Take a planetary tour with Solar Walk": The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

Sat, 22 May 2010 08:07:35 -0400

:"Take a planetary tour with Solar Walk": The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW):

Love this app on the iPhone and iPad…

“iPod Touch Comes to the Grade 1 Classroom” (via...

Sun, 16 May 2010 16:03:42 -0400

“iPod Touch Comes to the Grade 1 Classroom”

(via ianw91)

: "The iPad and Education - It's Not The Size of the Screen, It's What You Do With It" | ParentDish

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:36:22 -0400

: "The iPad and Education - It's Not The Size of the Screen, It's What You Do With It" | ParentDish :

“Gray says putting iPads in classrooms is a good idea, as long as they are properly utilized. He says educators used to be anxious to get their students in front of a computer, but once they were there, they didn’t always know what to do with them. Now that computers are more ubiquitous, “we can have more intelligent discussions about how they should be used,” he says. Gray says he hopes educators don’t fall into the trap of using the iPad as “free time for the teacher,” plopping the kids in front of yet another screen. And even a hardcore technologist such as Gray acknowledges that computers shouldn’t be used by teachers of every subject.”

: "Why the iPad is a creativity machine" | Computerworld

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:40:06 -0400

: "Why the iPad is a creativity machine" | Computerworld:

“In Japan, millions of novels have been written on cell phones. My great-grandfather wrote his Ph.D. dissertation with a #2 pencil. Chaucer, Shakespeare and Jefferson wrote their brilliant works with bird feathers. Yet the iPad’s critics say creation is impossible using a device that would have been a Pentagon supercomputer 20 years ago. The computers that today’s writers say are absolutely necessary for writing didn’t even exist 10, 20 or 30 years ago. Is that when they think literacy started?”