Sep 27
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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Aug 29
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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Apr 19
Synopsis of “How to Session” for Accessibility. Hardware, software, and techniques to use in creating an online course were discussed. The technologies presented were: Screen Readers: Kurzweil 3000 JAWS-PC Voice Over-Mac Speech to Text Dragon Naturally Speaking-PC Dragon Dictate-Mac Screen Magnification and Color Contrast Zoom Text-PC Mac Screen Magnification Braille Reader/Writer Accessibility Techniques: 1. Alt …
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Mar 14
Apple announced at a press conference last week that the newest version of it’s iPad will be coming out this Friday. Some of the highlights of the new version include an even better display, increased processing power, full HD recording capability via a new camera, and fast 4G LTE network connectivity. If you’re interested in the …
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Jan 26
The push for digital textbooks is only going to get bigger now that Apple has announced their next big idea is to disrupt the textbook industry. In New York last week they announced an unprecedented partnership with three major textbook publishers: Pearson, McGraw-Hill, and Houghton-Mifflin-Harcourt. According to McGraw-Hill’s CEO, Steve Jobs wanted to revolutionize the …
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