The Google Cultural Institute : Archive of Historic Resources. I was lucky enough to be invited to deliver some training at the International School of Geneva this week. One of the Keynote speakers was Steve Crossan, Head of the Google Cultural Institute who was talking about some of their recent developments. I had heard of some of their early projects such as the Google Art Project or World Wonders, but I hadn’t seen some of their newer resources.
And they looked stunning! With a team of dedicated engineers, Google is building tools that make it simple to tell the stories of our diverse cultural heritage and make them accessible worldwide. Google have created a visually rich and interactive online experience for telling cultural stories in new ways. Visitors to the site can discover exhibits by expert curators, find artifacts, view photographs, read original manuscripts, watch videos, and more. It’s a fantastic resource, containing some very powerful images and stories. Let me know what you think in the comments. Every Stock Photo - A Search Engine for Free Images. Smartphone Charging Cables Don't Get Much More Portable Than This. Thin smartphones also mean thin batteries, and carrying a charging cable so your phone can last the day is basically a fact of life now.
To make the situation a little more convenient there have been countless keychain-friendly solutions for charging your smartphone, but none as perfectly tiny as the inCharge. The tiny charger is nothing more than a slim USB connector, a Lightning or microUSB connector on the other end, and a short inch-long flat ribbon cable connecting the two. When not in use the two USB connectors stick to each other thanks to embedded magnets, allowing the inCharge to be easily tethered alongside the keys in your pocket.
And while it does mean your smartphone has to sit right next to your computer’s USB port for a charge, that’s a minor inconvenience to never being without a cable. The inCharge is starting life through an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign hoping to raise $US20,000 to fund production costs. How You Can Supercool Water At Home. Late 2014 Tablet Buying Guide: Screen Size, Hardware And Specs Explained. Laptops are so passe. These days, you want something that you can use standing up on the train into work, or on a long-haul international flight — and that means you need the versatility of a tablet.
How do you pick the right tablet, though, whether it’s for work or play or a mix of both? It’s a little bit of a guessing game until you actually have one in your hands to try it out, but there are a few guiding rules you can follow to help pick out a few front-runners from the crowd. Great examples of laptops that are equally capable as tablets — we call these convertibles — include Lenovo’s brand new Yoga 3 Pro, and Microsoft’s evolved and refined Surface Pro 3. More out-of-left-field tablets can range from the HP Envy X2 to Android slates like the Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact and, of course, the ever-present Apple iPad.
Choosing The Right Tablet For You: Android, Apple And Windows Please enable JavaScript to watch this video. What’s In A (Touch)Screen? Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro: Australian Review. Delete Individual Pages From Safari's History On iOS With A Swipe. Pangu Jailbreak Tool Released For Mac. The Murphy Bed Workspace. Dell Inspiron 13 7000 2-In-1: Australian Review. We’re seeing more and more laptops that want to run dual duty as note-taking tablets or as entertainment machines. They’re rarely as good as the current standout Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro, but occasionally there’s a special standout that gets the job done admirably without trying to reinvent the wheel. Dell’s Inspiron 13 7000 Series 2-in-1, as the name might clue you in to, can transform from a general-purpose laptop to a tablet at the flick of a hinge. Gizmodo loves technology. Our product reviews are presented thanks to Dick Smith.
What Is It? The $999 or $1299 Dell Inspiron 13 7000, depending on which spec you buy, is a regular ol’ business laptop. But it’s also a tablet at the same time. There’s a touch-sensitive, non-digitiser stylus built into the Inspiron 13′s body, hidden away in the rear right side of the chassis as you’re looking on at the screen. Choosing The Right Tablet For You: Android, Apple And Windows Please enable JavaScript to watch this video. What Is It Good At? Interstellar Explained In One Timeline [Warning: SPOILERS] Filepane Adds File Management Options To Drag-And-Drop. This Tiny Home Uses Sliding Walls To Transform One Room Into Four. Please enable JavaScript to watch this video. We’ve seen our fair share of transforming apartments around here, from MIT’s super-advanced version to this IKEA-esque wonder. But none of them can compare to the sheer inventive genius of this apartment, in which huge sliding racks make it possible to pack a whole household into a tiny corridor of space.
It’s called the “All I Own House” and it was designed by four young Spanish architects, PKMN Architecture, for a fellow designer. Here’s how it works: The apartment is divided up into two basic programs, one empty and one full. On the full side, three huge shelving units made out of oriented strand board — a little bit like particle board — contain all of the owner’s belongings, from clothing to bedding to furniture to books. They also contain fold-down furniture, like the client’s bed and a kitchen table. What’s so cool about these huge wooden shelves is that they’re hanging from the walls, mounted on industrial sliding racks. Let's Talk About OS X Yosemite's Privacy Issues. Since Yosemite was released, users have found that the operating system sends all kinds of data to Apple and saves documents without you knowing it. On the surface, it’s an egregious invasion of privacy.
Let’s take a look at exactly what’s going on here. Privacy and Spotlight Searches The initial controversy around Yosemite’s privacy issues was sparked in the mainstream media when The Washington Post posted a story detailing how Yosemite logs your location and searches that you make with Spotlight and Safari. Yosemite relays your location, the type of device you’re on, the app, your language settings and recent apps you’ve used. It isn’t just Spotlight and Safari. On Apple’s end, the data you send in is grouped together under an anonymous ID that’s reset every 15 minutes, so it’s hard to trace it back to you. Apple has a privacy policy up for the feature and responded to The Verge with a statement: iCloud Data Privacy This is a feature of Yosemite called Continuity. Turn Off iMessage After Switching Away From iPhone With Apple's New Tool. If you’ve ever switched from an iPhone to an Android phone or to absolutely any other phone at all, you know that getting your phone number out of the infuriating black hole of dead iMessage numbers can be hell.
At long last, Apple has heard our prayers (and hours upon hours of customer service calls) — and released an online tool that makes the whole process as simple as it should have been all along. The quietly released tool, which was first spotted by Reddit, should help bypass what used to be weeks’ or even months’ worth of missed messages. Now, simply go to the new “Deregister iMessage” page on Apple’s website, enter your phone number, tap in the confirmation code you receive, and bam — no more infuriating undelivered messages. We’ve known that some sort of fix was coming eventually after Apple explained why the problem was so bad in the first place back in May. But back then, Apple was only hinting at “an additional bug fix in a future software update.” Learn How To Make Mobile Apps: FREE Charles Sturt Uni Online Short Course.
Got a great idea for an app or game? It’s easier than you think to get started. Australia’s Charles Sturt University will soon kick off its next open online course. Learn to write/release apps across iOS, Android and Windows via five weeks of after-hours webinars and 12 hours of structured work. By the end, you’ll be able to build your own app and earn a certificate after passing the final exam.
Fun fact: Mobile app development accounts for 9.4% of Information and communications technology (ICT) jobs in Australia and this figure is still growing. This short course will introduce students to PhoneGap, an open-source framework which allows you to write code once, and deploy across the mobile platforms mentioned above. PhoneGap (owned by Adobe since 2011) lets you develop apps using HTML5, CSS and JavaScript and port those apps to all the major mobile platforms.
You’ll even learn how to integrate a phone’s GPS, compass and camera hardware. Read the course schedule here. Three Places to Find and Download Public Domain Video Footage. This afternoon I received an email from a reader who was looking for some places that her students could download free videos to re-use in their own video projects.
These are the sources that I recommended as a starting place. The Internet Archive is the first place that comes to mind when I am asked for a source of Public Domain media. The Moving Image Archive within the Internet Archive is an index of more than 1.7 million video clips. Most of what you will find in the Moving Image Archive can be downloaded in a variety of file formats. You can search the archive by keyword or browse through the many categories and thematic collections in the archive. The Public Domain Review is a website that features collections of images, books, essays, audio recordings, and films that are in the public domain.
The National Parks Service offers a b-roll video gallery. 200 Free Kids Educational Resources: Video Lessons, Apps, Books, Websites & More. Learn How To Make Mobile Apps: FREE Charles Sturt Uni Online Short Course. Got a great idea for an app or game? It’s easier than you think to get started. Australia’s Charles Sturt University will soon kick off its next open online course.
Learn to write/release apps across iOS, Android and Windows via five weeks of after-hours webinars and 12 hours of structured work. By the end, you’ll be able to build your own app and earn a certificate after passing the final exam. Join 2,400 students who’ve already registered free. Here’s what you need to know. Fun fact: Mobile app development accounts for 9.4% of Information and communications technology (ICT) jobs in Australia and this figure is still growing. This short course will introduce students to PhoneGap, an open-source framework which allows you to write code once, and deploy across the mobile platforms mentioned above. PhoneGap (owned by Adobe since 2011) lets you develop apps using HTML5, CSS and JavaScript and port those apps to all the major mobile platforms. Read the course schedule here. The Most Frequently Used Apps On My iPad. Knowmia Was Acquired by TechSmith - What That Means for You. Over the last couple of years I have featured Knowmia in nearly a dozen blog posts.
Knowmia is a website and an iPad app for creating, sharing, and viewing video lessons. Today, I received a notification from Knowmia that they have been acquired by TechSmith. According to the email that I received from Knowmia, you will continue to have free access to your online content and to Knowmia's free iPad and web-based tools. From here forward TechSmith will assume responsibility for the future of Knowmia and will handle support inquiries.
Applications for EducationKnowmia's Assignment Wizard and iPad app provide an excellent way to create and distribute flipped lessons. The free iPad app allows you to make your own instructional videos to use in the Assignment Wizard. And if you're not using the flipped model, Knowmia can be a good place to find educational videos that your students can use to review or get "on demand" help when they cannot connect with you.