The Floppy is Dead: Time to Move Memories to the Cloud

27 April 2010

Sony’s decision to end 3.5-inch disk production is just another signal that local storage media and platforms cannot be trusted with your precious data.

The history of data storage and backup is littered with the corpses of dead formats. Seven years ago I wrote about the beginning of the end of 3.5-inch floppy disks. At the time, it was still a popular portable storage medium, and I was derided as a heretic. Now, Sony has finally decided to stop making 3.5-inch floppy disks, which pretty much marks the end of the format.

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Posted by Charles Wachira

SMART Response interactive response systems

26 April 2010

The SMART Response product line offers five unique models that can meet the needs of a variety of learning environments, such as K–12, early education, special needs, advanced math and science and 1:1 learning environments.

No matter which SMART Response you select, you can easily create quizzes and deliver lessons from within SMART Notebook collaborative learning software, providing a consistent experience regardless of your classroom environment. And it’s easy to use because all necessary features are one click away.

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Posted by Charles Wachira

HTML5 video Libraries, Toolkits and Players

26 April 2010

For the most part, Flash has always been the standard for showing video on the web (think of YouTube and Vimeo), supported in all browsers with the only exception being the iPhone and most recently, the iPad. But now, with HTML5, the new video tag is creeping into our lives and opening up many new, exciting and standardized media possibilities for web developers.

Some quick resources to get started…

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Posted by Oscar Retterer

U Cincinnati and OhioLINK Research Digital Textbook Adoption

23 April 2010

An Ohio research project is investigating just how students would prefer to get the text for their courses–whether in hard copy form, in versions suitable for mobile devices, or in some other digital format.

[Source: Campus Technology]

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Posted by Oscar Retterer

ePub Bud – Publish and share your own digital books in the open ePUB format!

21 April 2010

Digitize your Real Children’s Books

Have your entire collection with you at all times!  Never lose or damage a book again!

How it works.

  • Mail your children’s books
  • We’ll email you when you can download them all onto your iPad!

That’s it!

There is NO CHARGE for this service!

Although ePub Bud can be used for any sort of book, we can only digitize children’s books.

Please realize that for copyright reasons we CANNOT return any books you send to us.

via ePub Bud – Publish and share your own digital books in the open ePUB format!.

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Posted by Teb Locke

PrintCentral for iPad – View, store & print email, attachments, documents, files, photos & more

20 April 2010

View, store & print email, attachments, documents, files, photos, contacts, web pages and copied items from other Apps, on your iPad. Open attachments from the Apple Mail app directly into PrintCentral and print straight away, transfer docs and files via iTunes using USB cable (Apps Tab), open documents stored in PrintCentral directly into iWorks for easy editing, open files stored in the cloud (iDisk or WebDAV service) directly into iWorks without downloading them (all done in the “Places” section of PrintCentral), open & print files directly into PrintCentral from any other app that support the “Open in…” file sharing

via PrintCentral for iPad for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store.

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Posted by harryhaddon

Universities Ban iPads

20 April 2010

Even though the Apple iPad has received much praise for its design and user interface, there are many who aren’t so enamored with the device. That includes a couple American universities that are having problems with the iPad on their networks.

The problem stems not from the iPad’s popularity but from the way it connects to wireless networks. Princeton University in New Jersey has blocked 20 percent of the iPads on campus because of “malfunctions that can affect the entire school’s computer system.”

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Posted by Charles Wachira

iPad Struggles at Some Colleges

20 April 2010

Apple’s iPad isn’t having an easy time during college admissions season. The tablet is having difficulty being accepted at George Washington University and Princeton University because of network stability issues. Cornell University also says it is seeing connectivity problems with the device and is concerned about bandwidth overload.

[Source: Wall Street Journal]

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Posted by Oscar Retterer

Welcome to ProfHacker

19 April 2010

The popular blog moves to The Chronicle of Higher Education and brings all its content along for the ride.

[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]

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Posted by Oscar Retterer

Spam Suspect Uses Google Docs; FBI Happy | Threat Level | Wired.com

19 April 2010

FBI agents targeting alleged criminal spammers last year obtained a trove of incriminating documents from a suspect’s Google Docs account, in what appears to be the first publicly acknowledged search warrant benefiting from a suspect’s reliance on cloud computing.

via Spam Suspect Uses Google Docs; FBI Happy | Threat Level | Wired.com.

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Posted by Teb Locke

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