Finish 3.0 Makes All Of The App’s Premium Features Free. Apple Design Award-winning slacker-productivity app Finish is announcing its biggest update in a year today with the release of version 3.0 on the App Store. The biggest change isn’t the introduction of any major feature in particular; instead, Finish designer Ryan Orbuch tells me that the update is all about opening up the app’s premium feature set for its entire user base. In a phone call, Orbuch told TechCrunch that his app’s target market of procrastinating teenagers just doesn’t pay for things on the App Store. Rather than locking what he considered to be some of the app’s key features (adding more than 10 tasks, letting you set specific times for when tasks had to be completed, and an optional “bother me” notification every hour when key tasks became overdue) behind a paywall, Orbuch decided to open them up to everyone who could benefit.
The specific timing of the release is based in part on technical issues, however. Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth. Decoding Social Media Data. Yes, social media has changed how we interact with our friends and with brands. We post pictures of our experiences to share. We rave or rant about a recent service experience. No one argues that social media has not changed the landscape of our social lives.
But the question that companies are trying to answer is: How should social media change our business practices. Some organizations treat social media strictly as a communications vehicle. This sounds great, right? First, there’s more data than many of us know what to do with. Watch Prof. So what’s causing the discrepancies between offline surveys and online social media? • Opinions expressed don’t necessarily reflect majority opinion. . • Opinions systematically differ across venues.
What’s the solution? 1. 2. 3. In the recent study published in the Journal of Marketing Research, my co-author and I did exactly that. The Modbook Pro X Convertible MacBook Is The Most Impressive Tablet. This number represents how hot an article is at any given time. Apple may make a laptop and a tablet, but nothing they've put out thus far has the capability to be both at once. A portable Bluetooth keyboard on an iPad only does so much, and there's no way an iPad's processor can replicate an actual MacBook.
From the same people who previously turned MacBooks into tablets before the iPad comes the Modbook Pro X, a 15.4-inch Retina Quad-Core Mac OS X tablet, which might be the most impressive tablet ever. These guys have done this before, so this isn't a janky, brute force conversion, but rather a process that they have down pat. While they used to take apart the classic white MacBooks and toss them in their own housing, adding a Wacom digital stylus, they're going big this time with way more computer in the MacBook Pro. Also available from Modbook is a special backlit keyboard that seamlessly integrates the Modbook Pro X into a workstation. Modbook Pro X — 15.4" Retina Quad-Core Mac OS X Tablet by Modbook Inc. There’s never been a tablet quite like the Modbook Pro X.
Designed from the ground up for power and speed, with a large and bright high-resolution display and a highly sensitive pen tablet interface, the Modbook Pro X takes tablet computing to another level. The Modbook Pro X sports a 15.4-inch (diagonal) Apple Retina display with a 2,880 x 1,800 pixel resolution at 220 pixels per inch. Its digitizer pen offers 2,048 pressure levels, pen tilt and rotate functionality, programmable dual side-switches, a digital eraser and replacement nib set. The Modbook Pro X is configurable with up to a 2.8GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 processor, integrated Intel Iris Pro Graphics with an optional NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M GPU, up to 32GB of 1600MHz random-access memory, and up to 2TB of 1GB/sec PCIe flash storage.
Result: all the speed and power you need to create and refine even complex renderings, videos and documents with ease. It’s a mobile device. The results blow away almost any comparable solution. 8 Tips and Tricks for LinkedIn Power Users. You have hundreds of connections, stacks of skills and endorsements, a killer review of your experience and a flattering but professional headshot. Your LinkedIn profile is all set up for some seriously productive networking, and you're ready to build up your brand online as you climb the ladder of success.
But don't you wish you could get a little bit more out of LinkedIn? While having an extensive network is a big advantage, there several little things you can do to help make the most of the website — and a lot of them are free. Here are eight ways to get a leg up on the LinkedIn competition. 1. When you send connection requests through the Connect button on someone's profile, you have to prove you know them through a mutually listed company or school. 2. Image: Mashable, LinkedIn Whether it's an old college rival or your new boss, it's natural to want to delve a little deeper into someone's professional past. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Broadcast your hangout to the world for free - Google+ Hypertext Essay. Hypertext is writing on the web that incorporates the use of hyperlinks.
This is its main feature and what makes it different from regular writing. While we read most book text or papertext from top to bottom, left to right, front to back, we don't necessarily read hypertext in the same linear way. Hypertext is read differently by each reader, and therefore each hypertext document continues to change. The reader is as much a part of the writing as the writer in making meaning. Let's say you're on a nature walk, like one that you might go on at the Elwood H.May Environmental Park. We can think of that walk as being like the way we read papertext (a book, a story, even a newspaper article). Pretend now that you're on a "hypertext" nature walk.
Remember your friend? You started out together on the same path (the same home page) but you ended up clicking on different links that took you literally worlds apart through time and space. . © Dawn Hogue, 2001, rev. 2010 | Top of page | Programs « OESIS 2013 : Online Education Symposium for Independent Schools. (It is large so give it a few seconds!) Key for Audience Focus: Elementary Middle High Keynote, Jane Swift, Former Governor of MA and CEO of Middlebury Interactive Learning “Scanning the Horizon: the Global Future of Education in a Convergent and Collaborative World.” Keynote, Angela Maiers, Author of The Passion Driven Classroom and The Habitudes “Is this time different? Presentations & Workshops 1. Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day: The Flipped Classroom Elementary Middle High Implementing the Flipped Class provides teachers with more face-to-face time with students, allows for true differentiation, compels students to take responsibility for their own learning, and enables students to master rigorous course concepts. 2.
Is anybody out there? Elementary Learn how one teacher with the help of her administrator took her primary grade students’ work outside the classroom using a range of web 2.0 tools and school-based publications. 3. Middle High 4. 5. 6. “But it’s so impersonal!” 7. No more books: High school goes all digital. WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Out of curiosity, Nicholas Dadario weighed his backpack last year when it was filled with textbooks for his high school freshman honors classes at Archbishop Stepinac High School. It weighed 35 pounds. That backpack is going to be much lighter this year. Stepinac in White Plains has become one of the first high schools in the country to drop all textbooks like dead weight and replace them with a "digital library.
" When students started classes Monday, they were zipping to an app or website on their tablet or laptop and had instant access to all 40 texts in the Stepinac curriculum, not to mention all sorts of note-taking, highlighting and interactive features. "It's not only lighter, but you're mobile," said Dadario, 15. "You can bring your computer to your friend's house, wherever, and you're all set.
" It's a given that everything in K-12 education is going digital. "This is the wave of the future," Lauro said. For the Rev. "It reads to you," he said. 8 Gmail Hacks That Will Change The Way You Use Email. Creating an eBook with InDesign (Part 1) | Instant InDesign. Share this Episode Please select a language: Autoplay End of Video Show End Screen Default Quality Adjust your embed size below, then copy and paste the embed code above. Community Translation Episode available in 1 languages Available Translations: Join the Community Translation Project Thanks for your interest in translating this episode! Please Confirm Your Interest Thanks for your interest in adding translations to this episode!
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Runtime : 00:16:49 Added : 08/18/2010 About this show Instant InDesign. 50 Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed. It has been another action-packed week here at Mashable. We've been covering the newest gadgets coming out of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the Pope's last Tweet and the fate of Groupon CEO Andrew Mason. We know you've been busy with your own lives, so we rounded up the most important updates in tech and social media to keep you informed.
So read below for tons of digital media resources, new innovative apps and much more. Editor's Picks Become a Graphics Pro Free During Photoshop WeekCreativeLIVE is hosting the first ever Photoshop Week, consisting of 40 free online classes that began live-streaming on Monday, February 25. Social Media 9 Tumblrs Every Environmentalist Should FollowTumblr is more than just cute animals and inspiring quotes.
Operators and more search help - Web Search Help - Web Search Help. You can use symbols or words in your search to make your search results more precise. Google Search usually ignores punctuation that isn’t part of a search operator. Don’t put spaces between the symbol or word and your search term. A search for site:nytimes.com will work, but site: nytimes.com won’t. Refine image searches Overall Advanced Search Go to Advanced Image Search. Search for an exact image size Right after the word you're looking for, add the text imagesize:widthxheight. Example: imagesize:500x400 Common search techniques Search social media Put @ in front of a word to search social media.
Search for a price Put $ in front of a number. Search hashtags Put # in front of a word. Exclude words from your search Put - in front of a word you want to leave out. Search for an exact match Put a word or phrase inside quotes. Search within a range of numbers Put .. between two numbers. Combine searches Put "OR" between each search query. Search for a specific site Search for related sites. Gedwards30. 6 Examples of Using Twitter in the Classroom. [NOTE: I have published an update to this post, titled "100 Ways To Teach With Twitter". This newer post contains the links below plus a new set of articles that provide a much more robust set of resources for ideas about teaching with Twitter. I highly advise clicking through to that article. Thanks! - KW Feb 8, 2010] It has seemed to me that lately there’s been an increased level of ‘chatter’ on the Internet about using Twitter in the classroom, as a part of the learning process, so I decided to take a closer look into it.
I’ll start by providing links to two articles (here is one, and here is the another), about teacher Monica Rankin using Twitter in instructional application at the University of Texas at Dallas. More ideas for using Twitter in the classroomFor those thirsting for more ideas about this tipic, here’s a few more related posts: If anyone knows of any other web postings about other teachers actually using Twitter in the classroom, please comment and let us know.
10 vital questions to ask before investing in classroom technology. There are so many new technologies and devices appearing on the education market every day now that it can become very difficult to determine where to spend your money, if indeed you should spend it at all. Before you make your next investment, ask yourself the following questions: Would more students get involved in the learning? Too many students spend most lessons sat there listening, watching, or reading – i.e. being passive. Will your new device(s) give more students the opportunity to get actively involved in their learning? iPads in Education - Exploring the use of iPads and Tablet computers in education. Teaching and Learning: Using iPads in the Classroom. Updated 01/2014 If I had thirty iPads in my class, what would I do with them?
How would I use them to help my students learn better and help me teach better? Perhaps a better question is what would I do with them that I could not do with other tools that are available and cheaper? Certainly iPads are cheaper than computers, desktop or laptop, and they are more mobile. Speaking of computers, they were supposed to be the transformation of teaching and learning as we know it. In some ways there has been a transformation, but the basics of teaching and learning have remained unchanged.
Perhaps, the iPad will be the tool that really does transform classroom practice. Kinesthetic Learners The iPad has a number of unique features that provide for interesting possibilities in teaching and learning. As a completely portable learning tool, the iPad camera allows documentation to be taken to a whole different level. Students can also attach videos, and voice recordings to their field notes. Google Docs. Why Google Docs? Google Apps is a tremendous platform for facilitating online collaboration in your classroom, or beyond. It is freely available on the Web and if you are familiar with other word processors, spreadsheets, and presentation programs, you can easily use Google Docs.
The chat feature on presentations makes it possible to create a "permeable classroom" by bringing experts into a lesson to interact with students online. Here are some benefits of Google Docs: It is available from anywhere and anytime with an Internet connection. Note: Google Docs in part of Google Apps, a suite of tools that also includes Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk, and Google Sites (for web page creation). Google Docs Tools Google Docs is comprised of five tools that all work together. Documents is an online word processor and multimedia editor. Presentation is an online slideshow tool. Create, fomat, edit, and publish a presentation online.
Spreadsheet is an online spreadsheet tool. The Ultimate Guide To Using Twitter In Education.
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