Printing from your iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad

30 April 2010

The simplest way to print from one of these mobile devices is not to print at all: it’s to do what most users probably do, which is to e-mail yourself the photo, link, or note in question and then wait until you get to a Mac or PC, retrieve the e-mail, and either access the URL or print the attached photo or the contents of the message. Though simple, this is not an especially easy or elegant solution. Its biggest merit is that it works consistently and reliably, and almost ensures you don’t lose vital information.

Fortunately, third-party app makers have come out with a number of products designed specifically for printing from your iPhone. Some of these apps have been upgraded many times since their introduction—including new hybrid versions that run on the iPad as well as Apple’s other devices.

via Printing from your iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad | Printers | iPhone Central | Macworld.

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Posted by harryhaddon

iPad ban rumors nixed at Cornell, Princeton, GWU

30 April 2010

Rumors that three universities had banned the use of Apple’s iPad ran rampant across the blogosphere last week, leaving some to wonder whether the device had some type of hidden problem.

Those rumors, it turns out, were false.

However, iPad owners at all three–Cornell, Princeton, and George Washington universities–have faced varying degrees of connectivity issues.

via iPad ban rumors nixed at Cornell, Princeton, GWU | Apple – CNET News.

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Posted by harryhaddon

Rutgers Pilots the iPad for Students in One Program

29 April 2010

Students in an executive certificate program at Rutgers this summer will be equipped with an Apple iPad tablet that includes pre-loaded program materials.

[Source: Campus Technology]

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Posted by Oscar Retterer

11 Reasons Advanced Technology Classrooms Fail

29 April 2010

Over the last two decades, there have been few, if any, academic institutions that have not built new classrooms and integrated advanced classroom technology in them. Many of these undertakings have been successful, in the sense that the faculty, students, and administration thought that the technology was useful, that it worked as expected, and, that both teaching and learning goals were met in the new facilities.

It is likely that the vast majority of advanced technology classroom projects succeed in some measure, though far too many fall short of fully meeting the expectations of those who envisioned, funded, and built them. And there are several ways in which advanced technology classrooms can disappoint users.

[Source:Campus Technologyy]

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Posted by Oscar Retterer

18 Web 2.0 Tools for Instruction

29 April 2010

Experts offer up their top picks of web 2.0 apps that are having a big impact on teaching and learning in higher education.

[Source: Campus Technology]

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Posted by Oscar Retterer

Thoughts on Flash

29 April 2010

Certainly worth reading the entire post, but here are Mr. Job’s conclusions:

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Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to push it beyond PCs. But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards – all areas where Flash falls short.

The avalanche of media outlets offering their content for Apple’s mobile devices demonstrates that Flash is no longer necessary to watch video or consume any kind of web content. And the 200,000 apps on Apple’s App Store proves that Flash isn’t necessary for tens of thousands of developers to create graphically rich applications, including games.

New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too). Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind.

Steve Jobs

April, 2010

via Thoughts on Flash.

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Posted by Teb Locke

Enemy Lurks in Briefings on Afghan War – PowerPoint – NYTimes.com

29 April 2010

WASHINGTON — Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the leader of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan, was shown a PowerPoint slide in Kabul last summer that was meant to portray the complexity of American military strategy, but looked more like a bowl of spaghetti.

“When we understand that slide, we’ll have won the war,” General McChrystal dryly remarked, one of his advisers recalled, as the room erupted in laughter.

The slide has since bounced around the Internet as an example of a military tool that has spun out of control. Like an insurgency, PowerPoint has crept into the daily lives of military commanders and reached the level of near obsession. The amount of time expended on PowerPoint, the Microsoft presentation program of computer-generated charts, graphs and bullet points, has made it a running joke in the Pentagon and in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“PowerPoint makes us stupid,” Gen. James N. Mattis of the Marine Corps, the Joint Forces commander, said this month at a military conference in North Carolina. (He spoke without PowerPoint.) Brig. Gen. H. R. McMaster, who banned PowerPoint presentations when he led the successful effort to secure the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar in 2005, followed up at the same conference by likening PowerPoint to an internal threat.

“It’s dangerous because it can create the illusion of understanding and the illusion of control,” General McMaster said in a telephone interview afterward. “Some problems in the world are not bullet-izable.”

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via Enemy Lurks in Briefings on Afghan War – PowerPoint – NYTimes.com.

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Posted by Teb Locke

Why are colleges banning the iPad?

28 April 2010

It’s light, portable and can handle e-books. So why are some schools banning the iPad?

[Source: Higher Ed Morning]

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Posted by Oscar Retterer

TitanPad

28 April 2010

TitanPad lets people work on one document simultaneously

We are rescuing EtherPad for your use.

via TitanPad.

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Posted by Teb Locke

A Day Without Media

28 April 2010

What is is like to go without media? What if you had to give up your cell phone, iPod, television, car radio, magazines, newspapers and computer i.e. no texting, no Facebook or IM-ing?

Could you do it? Is it even possible?

Well, not really, if you are an American college student today.

According to a new ICMPA study, most college students are not just unwilling, but functionally unable to be without their media links to the world.

via A Day Without Media.

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Posted by Teb Locke

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