Apple mobile devices
Online magazines for mobile devices (i.e. Android, and iOS devices like iPhone and iPad) are not exactly magazines, not exactly newspapers, or even RSS readers…but they can be, if you wish it. I have been trying out almost every one of these new forms of information presentation since I first got an iPad (some time [...]
At long last there is a worthwhile note taking app for the iPad. Notability (now only 99 cents!!) allow for seamless use of typing, handwriting, audio recording, insertion of links, photos, and content. It syncs with DropBox (amongst other cloud storage apps), and some pretty easy PDF annotation too. I could go on, but the [...]
There are some amazing things going on in the computer industry these days… as a barometer, if you were to look over the vast majority of the technology press, and its coverage of computers, you might surmise that Apple was the preeminent brand…for years. They sure have been making some leaps in technology, especially when [...]
This may be a real prize winner in the world of appropriate technology…a simple length of bamboo (with a slot sawn into it) amplifies and focuses the audio output of an iPhone as well (or better) than far more expensive, more complex, electrically powered gear… How can you not like this! The Most Eco-Friendly iPhone [...]
These two articles sound, at first apprehension, amazing… That is, until you start to think through what they really represent. Of the millions of tablets in use in the continental US…what is the proportion of iPads in this mix…? I would make a wild guess and state that the percentage of iPads in the US [...]
The interactive white board (i.e. smartboards, et.al.) are fine technology, but they have the problem in being in almost every classroom I have ever taught in, and I have never seen them used…There are plenty of ways to describe this white elephant of educational technology…as a waste of money (usually they are several thousand dollars [...]
One thing which continues to fascinate me about the iPad is that there are still emerging ways to use, and to see what this tablet is capable of. At the beginning, the iPad was seen (correctly) as a media consumpti0on device (it works quite well at this!), and was considered to be nearly unusable as [...]
For you new iPad users, the thought of taking this tablet to the level of being a valid and complete PC replacement may be one of the many (little) Holy Grails out there. In the time I have used mine, I have discovered a variety of little tricks in using Safari, and far more importantly, [...]
In the last several months I have seen an increasing number of perspectives about the fact that: 1. The mobile internet is growing faster than the (old school) ‘net 2. That the iPhone and the iPad represent an increasing share of this growing worldwide marketplace for Apple 3. That an increasing amount of the money [...]
I have finally found what may be a reasonable personal information-safe for iOS devices (i.e. the iPad and iPhone). PrivateInfo uses real encryption (AES256 bit) and allows you to ‘safe’ most kinds of information (i.e. photos, movies, data, documents, personal information, etc.). While this is not the same thing as having the whole OS encrypted [...]
