How to Keep Electronics Going With No Power @pogue What creative solutions &/or gadgets are you using to get through the new issues #Sandy has left for you?— Tucker Carlson (@Tucker_Carlson) October 31, 2012 The Hurricane Sandy storm damage here in my Connecticut town was fairly extensive — beautiful old trees are down everywhere, 85 percent of our homes are without power, and officials are saying it will take at least 10 days to restore electricity — but at least our homes are standing. Still, on Twitter, a number of people have suggested that it might be interesting to hear how a tech columnist muddles through a 10-day stretch without electricity and Internet (not to mention heat or hot water). The short answer is: Pretty much like the other seven million people whose electricity blew out with the storm. The Times’s technology columnist, David Pogue, keeps you on top of the industry in his free, weekly e-mail newsletter.Sign up | See Sample Internet. For Internet, therefore, I’ve been using my phone’s tethering feature. Power.
A Mind-Blowing UI That Could Finally Make Group Work Intuitive We’ve seen "magic-window" augmented reality interfaces, Minority Report-style gestural interfaces, and computer-vision-powered collaborative display interfaces. But what about an iPad app that combines all three? That would be T(ether), an experimental design from the MIT Media Lab. Creators Matthew Blackshaw, Dávid Lakatos, Hiroshi Ishii, and Ken Perlin call T(ether) "a tool for spatial expression" that "acts as a window affording users a perspective view of three-dimensional data through tracking of head position and orientation." T(ether) opens up mind-boggling possibilities for creating interactive digital art or exploring novel scientific visualizations. I also asked Lakatos what T(ether) offers the user that plain-old touch-screen manipulation doesn’t--in other words, why do you need the glove if you’re still just pinching and zooming pseudo-3-D objects that are only visible on a flat screen? Okay, sounds good.
Tops of 2012: Digital Smartphone owners became the majority of mobile phone users for the first time this year, growing from 49 percent of mobile subscribers in Q1 2012, to 56 percent by Q3 2012. Mobile app usage also continued to grow. Among the top 10 mobile apps, Twitter was the fastest growing Android app, and the Facebook Messenger app grew the most among iPhone apps. Google remained the top Web brand, with an average 172 million unique visitors each month between January and October 2012, followed by Facebook, which garnered an average of 153 million visits each month. Online video continued to grow in 2012, but YouTube remained the top online video source, averaging 132 million unique viewers during the year.
iClassroom iManagement – tips for managing an iPad classroom So, every school now is rolling out their own BYOD and 1-to-1 programs. Mobile learning (mLearning) is the new black! Whether it is just a fad or not, mobile devices change the way the class runs, and they change the way students learn. 1- Set clear expectations: a lot of classroom management challenges can easily be overcome by setting clear guidelines and expectations for iPad use. 2- Let go of control: mobile devices can be distracting and they can empower students to do many things, and that challenges the traditional role of the teacher as the centre of the students’ attention and the main source of knowledge and information. 3- Differentiate the task: if a student is disengaged from a task and seems to be easily distracted, ask them for reasons. 4- Explore gaming: see how you can bring gaming into the classroom. 5- Assign group roles: the iPad is meant to encourage collaboration, and I am a big proponent of collaborative learning. Like this: Like Loading...
iPad - ArtRage Powerful natural painting tools at your fingertips What Is ArtRage? ArtRage iPad is a powerful, intuitive painting package that makes it easy to produce natural looking artwork on your iPad. ArtRage iPad Features ArtRage contains natural painting tools like oil and watercolour, sketching tools like pencils and ink pens, and utilities to make painting easier. See It In Action… Take a look at a gallery of interface and feature screenshots, along with samples of work produced by users of ArtRage. Key Features: Natural Paint ArtRage simulates real world properties of paint like wetness & thickness so that the tools work like the real thing. Easy To Use Interface ArtRage presents the important tools in a simple, clean interface that gets out of the way while you paint. References & Tracing Sometimes it can be handy to have other images open while you work. Layers ArtRage supports Layers – Transparent overlays that let you paint on your canvas without damaging the paint beneath. Gallery Shortcuts