VeriziPhone vs iPhone (2G)

My great friend Anthony Fontana is visiting for a couple of days and he’s staying with me.  He is proudly showing off his new iPhone from Verizon, subsequently called the VeriziPhone.  Since my iPhone was stolen a few weeks ago I’ve had to revert back to using my old 2G iPhone which I got the […]

Word Lens

In the last 24 hours I’ve seen the new iPhone app Word Lens come across my radar twice.  Once in a mention from a friend on Twitter and the second time on the blog that the chair of our Sociology department puts together. BTW, I read Jay’s postings with regularity and enjoy them, he does […]

Academic iPad Wiki

I’ve been seeing many resources floating around already regarding the use of the iPad in education. I decided I wanted to start keeping track of those. Then I thought that it might be a great idea to get other to help, with the benefit that they would be able to see the resources also. So, […]

iPad – Day 2

Has my world changed?  Well, yes and no. I think this is going to do exactly what I expected and wanted it to do. I’m not writing these blogs to try to convince anyone to get or try an iPad.  However, please don’t be such harsh critics, some of you, until you actually work with […]

Happy Birthday – to both me and the iPad

I mus apologize.  I first wrote this yesterday but posted it into the wrong blog.  I am reposting it here, with my regrets for the delay. ***** Today is my birthday, which only some of you knew, but it is also the release day for Apple’s iPad, which I’d be surprised if any of you […]

NZVWG Visit – Additional ways to configure

As a few folks have tried getting ready for tomorrow (I’ve done so myself and it works quite well, best to cut/paste the long entry in #4 though), two of the folks on the VWER Planning Committee have also written up alternate directions. For those of you using Mac, try these: The instructions they give […]

Auto Sign In

Thanks to John from the CHSS Tech Team for providing me the instructions on how to set up our Faculty Resource Room computers to automatically sign in to the Faculty desktop.  Here are the rough instructions, I’m putting them here so I can search this blog in the future and find them if I need […]

Hey Ya, You Make My Dreams Come True

Ok, so you really must be wondering what the title of this blog is about. Last night, on the Rachel Maddow show, I watched segment she did about Rolland Burris, the now famous Senator from Illinois, who was awarded President Obama’s seat in Congress.  He actually did a quite original reading of Twas the Night […]

iPhone OS 3.0

Today is a pretty big day for iPhone users (and those iTouch users who are willing to fork over $10). Today, we get an OS upgrade. Unlike our iTouch brothers and sisters, iPhone users will not have to pay for this upgrade. There are a lot of nice features in this upgrade and I’m looking […]

SnapSession: Web based chat rooms

I’m not sure how many of you know about the web site http://www.go2web20.net but its a great site to visit to find out what is going on in the world of Web 2.0 applications. Its also a great place to go to find solutions to problems. I recently had a faculty member who was putting […]