Toughest Tablet Yet?

Tablets are fragile pieces of technology. Dropping one face down on the ground is asking for a cracked, if not completely destroyed screen. If the reason you’ve been holding off on buying a tablet is durability, your fears are about to be over. Panasonic has created what is likely the toughest tablet on the planet. …

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Adobe Scraps Flash Mobile

Earlier this week Adobe announced that it will stop any further production of it’s Flash Player for the mobile market. And it would appear that Steve Jobs was right when he said that ‘HTML 5 was on the ascendancy and Flash was declining.’ Why It Happened: Basically, the release of HTML 5 is the reason for Flash …

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Custom Pods in Adobe Connect

Adobe Connect is great at live meetings and we’ve recently discovered some awesome new resources that can help make it even better. If you’re looking to add some interactivity or  some multimedia spice to your meeting, you’ll want to read the rest of this post. Adobe’s developers have offered up some Custom Share pods that …

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Touchscreens… More to Come

If you’re not a fan of touchscreens, I have some bad news for you… They aren’t going to go away anytime soon. In fact, they’re going to become more and more ubiquitous as they become more advanced. Two of the next big ideas in touchscreen technology are aimed at making them even more interactive-friendly. Smarter …

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Accessibility & Technology

If you use technology in your courses at all, one of the things that must be considered is accessibility. It’s a legal issue that aims at making sure that disabled students are not discriminated against and accessibility should be taken seriously. A few of the most common disabilities are impaired speech, vision, and hearing. When …

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