Category: Apps

Classroom Apple TV Pilot

This summer semester we ventured into the unknown with our first Apple TV pilot.  We’ve seen many other schools do it and we had a curious faculty member willing to be the test subject…er, innovator.  Ed South room 131 became our testing ground.  After installing a projector with HDMI input, and some additional network and …

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OS Wars

A recent article from Campus Technology reveals that Android OS is more prevalent than any other when considering any and all computing type devices.  Windows obviously still owns the lion’s share of OS in the PC market, but when taking mobile devices and tablets into account its Android by a long-shot. Meanwhile, Blackberry continues to …

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6 Things You Need to Know about NBC Learn

Texas A&M University-Commerce has an incredible opportunity to take advantage of the resource tool, NBC Learn.  Click on this FCTT white paper, “6 Things You Need to Know about NBC Learn” to consider how you can use this resource tool to enhance your course(s). You can also read more by going to the FCTT’s webpage and clicking …

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They have an App for it!

With the smartphone market booming, people are trying new and innovative ideas to get an edge on the competition. One way to do this is by offering apps that let users do anything you can possibly think of. Apps may be categorized into many different forms, but we will focus more on the smartphone apps in …

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Android officially pulls Flash from Google Play Store in favor of HTML5

The bell tolled on August 15 for Android-based device owners using Adobe’s Flash Player multimedia plugin. As foretold in November 2011, Adobe will be offering no certified implementations of Adobe’s Flash Player beyond Android OS 4.1, and as of August 15, Flash has been removed from Google’s app store, Play, according to a PCWorld article, …

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