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ModernFamilyInfographic

Are You An Average ‘Modern Family?’ [Infographic]

Posted By on November 3, 2012

In the 50′s, we had the nuclear family, 2.3 children that were always successful at school, a dog who always caused enough problems to be noticed but never anything that would make you lose your smile, a successful husband, and a wife who always had dinner ready with the latest and greatest meal. Now-a-days, the modern family looks a little differently and the gadgets seem to be a big focal point of this difference.

The infographic below did a study of 2,000 Brits, but it would seem very accurate for most of North America and I am sure many other first world cultures.

How do you compare to the “average modern family?”
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Communication, Computers, IT, Policy, Web 5

One-to-One Church

Posted By on November 1, 2012

“One-to-one,” in case you haven’t heard, is a program within schools to provide every student with an electronic device for academic use. The school I work at has been doing one-to-one for years with MacBook laptops. This year, they switched over to the MacBook Air. Currently, every sixth through twelfth grade student in our district has a MacBook. Next year, every single student will have a device of some kind, either a MacBook or an iPad.

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Computers, IT, Strategy, Web 7
Dropbox Arrows

Dropbox Saves the Day!

Posted By on October 31, 2012

My daughter went overseas to teach ESL in Taiwan. She’d been there only a week or so when one day, in a matter of moments, she lost her operating system and every speck of data (it’s a PC, not a MAC, for those interested in such details). That’s a heart-churner in the best of circumstances, but even harder when you are in a place where there is no English-speaker in sight, your class plans are on that machine, and another day facing students starts in a few hours. Continue Reading…

Computers, IT, OS 18

Windows 8 Is Here. Are You In?

Posted By on October 26, 2012

Windows 8

Windows XP finally died.

Windows Vista was a nice try.

Windows 7 was solid.

Windows 8 is …

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Accessories, Computers, Creative, IT 0

Creatively Re-Purposing Floppy Disks

Posted By on October 20, 2012

Floppy Disk Notebook

How many times have you thrown out boxes of these floppy disks?

Etsy store Fishstikks has come up with a cool way to reuse’em!

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Art, Computers, Creative, IT 6
literal computer trojan horse

A Literal Computer Trojan Horse

Posted By on October 11, 2012

It sounds silly, but here it is.

A giant horse made from old computer keyboards.

Named ‘hedonism(y) trojaner,’ it clearly reminds us that,

“The internet itself, not only its viruses deserves the term ‘Trojan’. We are looking for information via internet, we share it and pass some on, voluntary or involuntary.”

Take a look:

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Computers, Inspiration, iPad, IT, Mobile, Web 6
Steve Jobs Styled

Dreaming Ahead: Steve Jobs

Posted By on October 11, 2012

I’m not a worshipper of Steve Jobs. I’m a fan of his work, and I’ve long thought that he’s a very interesting person. However, I balk at the near-deification he’s received since he passed. However, this is pretty cool.

Apparently, Steve gave a talk at a conference back in June 1983 wherein he offered some insight about the future of computers . To provide a little perspective about how long ago that was, I was still six months away form being born! But anyway…

In this twenty-minute talk and the forty-minute Q/A that followed, Jobs pontificates and predicts, fairly accurately, the technological landscape for the next thirty years, including networking issues, the shift to computers for use as communication devices, and eventual dominance of computers in society. To me, however, his greatest little nugget was this:

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Computers, Creative, Experiences, IT 0
spongebob

Computer Recognizes Sketches [Video]

Posted By on October 3, 2012

I’m really bad at drawing and sketching, but after watching this video, I have every confidence that this computer program would be able to identify even my poor artistic talents.

Researchers at Brown and the Technical University of Berlin have produced a computer application that can identify simple abstract sketches of objects almost as often (56% of the time) as human viewers ( 73% of the time).

That’s impressive, but not as impressive as the fact that this program can identify an iPod or SpongeBob from a drawing :)

See this technology in action:

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Accessories, Computers, Creative, IT 0

Keyboards Built to Last

Posted By on September 30, 2012

Imagine keeping your keyboard when you got a new computer?

What would it look like if keyboards were built to last?

Like this:

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Computers, Inspiration, IT, Web 4

What Would You Do If You Met the Man Who Invented the Computer?

Posted By on September 11, 2012

Russell Kirsch and Joel Runyon

If you’ve missed Joel Runyon’s encounter with Russell Kirsch, you’ve really missed out!

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