Instead of using the system installer disc that came with your Mac, create a system installer flash drive, like the one that comes with the MacBook Air. It’s smaller than an optical disc, more reliable, and runs faster.
[Source: MacWorld]
How to create an OS X flash drive installer
31 May 2011
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Research shows ways to make iPad apps more user-friendly
31 May 2011There’s a learning curve for every new consumer technology — both for people who use the device and for makers of software or services that run on it. This has definitely been the case for Apple’s iPad, which hit the market just over a year ago.
According to new research from Nielsen Norman Group (NNG), the usability of iPad apps and of Web sites displayed on this device have improved substantially in the past year. In particular, “apps have become more consistent and standardized, making them easier to use,” NNG said.
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Taking Next-Gen Classrooms Beyond the Pilot
25 May 2011The University of Minnesota has ramped up a new concept in technology-enabled classroom design, and students in the new classrooms are outperforming their peers in traditional spaces.
[Source: Campus Technology]
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We’re in a Bubble and It’s Not the Internet. It’s Higher Education.
25 May 2011Peter Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal, is questioning the value of higher education and thinks it will be the next market to crash. “Education may be the only thing people still believe in in the United States. To question education is really dangerous. It is the absolute taboo. It’s like telling the world there’s no Santa Claus.”
Thiel has put his money where his mouth is. The idea is simple: Pick the best twenty kids he could find under 20 years of age and pay them $100,000 over two years to leave school and start a company instead. The winners of his Thiel Fellowship for 2011 have been announced.
[Source: Tech Crunch]
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Students Say Tablets Will Transform College, Though Most Don’t Own Tablets
25 May 2011Nearly half said they expected the devices to replace textbooks within the next five years.
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
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IBM Donates Supercomputer To Union College
25 May 2011IBM says it is giving Union College a supercomputer unmatched on any liberal arts campus nationwide, if not worldwide.
[Times Union via University Business]
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Introducing discussions in Google Docs
24 May 2011Comments in Google Docs now supports rapid and seamless discussions and integrate with email in an intuitive way.
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ProfHacker: Better Googling
24 May 2011The most widely used search engine on the Internet features some powerful—if sometimes little-known—features.
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
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Amazon’s E-Book Sales Pass Print Books – NYTimes.com
20 May 2011In the latest chapter in the unfolding tale of the book evolution from ink to pixels, Amazon.com said Thursday that its customers now buy more e-books than print books.
Since April 1, Amazon sold 105 books for its Kindle e-reader for every 100 hardcover and paperback books, including books without Kindle versions and excluding free e-books.
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Hedge fund uses Twitter to predict markets
19 May 2011The British firm Derwent Capital announced the launch of a $40 million hedge fund that will identify investment opportunities by filtering millions of Tweets to get a real-time fix on cultural mood shifts that may play a key role in market movements.
[Source: The Daily]
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