There has been much hub-a-lub over the iPhone 4′s antenna problems. If you haven’t been under a rock the past month it has been reported all over the news and now Consumer Reports has done a 180 saying they cannot recommend the iPhone 4 because of the antenna design flaw even though they deemed it the best smartphone on the market. Phew! Video after the break. Read More
Over the past month or so I have been creating a Wiki page that will house tutorials, lesson plans, and resources that have one theme in common; using an iPod Touch in the classroom. If you would like to check out the progress of it you can view the it here: H.B. Whitehorne Tech Wiki. The Wiki is still a work in progress with the iPod Touch sections almost complete. The other sections will be worked on in the coming weeks. Read More
New York Times has an article published today, entitled How Privacy Vanishes Online, discussing how advanced computer systems can pretty much pinpoint to who and where a query came from. Computer scientists who have more advanced algorithms and tools at their disposal are now able to tell who a user is even if that user has used, in what the user thinks, complete anonymity. Read More
Piggybacking off of my latest entry on social bookmarking, I have decided to add another bookmarking site into my repertoire. Diigo is such a powerful research and knowledge sharing too, especially for my students as a technology teacher. Perhaps the most powerful knowledge-sharing tool, apart fromTwitter. Do not get me wrong, I still love some of the other bookmarking tools out there, such as delicious, but Diigo’s network and groups are extremely intuitive and offer a myriad of features that other bookmarking sites do not. Read More
There are many social bookmarking sites out there like Delicious, Diigo, Evernote, and Socialmarker, but only one is truly designed to save websites, images, and videos that are inspirational. Zootool does an amazing job of saving images, websites, and videos in a simple and stylistic fashion. A user uses the “lasso” tool, which is installed to a user’s bookmarks toolbar, to capture their inspiration. Read More
