Last week I worked on a small school project in which we explored the merit of iPhones in education. Abiliene Christian University, it turns out, is on the forefront of this cause, with an excellent blog called iThinkEd posting the progress of their study into the matter.
Today, ACU announced they will begin handing them out […]
iPhones as standard-issue equipment for college freshmen! (Tuesday, February 26th, 2008)
Keywurl makes keyword searches in Safari easy! (Monday, February 25th, 2008)
I use Safari as my web browser because it’s pretty. There, I said it. OK, I also use it because it’s easy to sync up bookmarks between multiple computers and my phone (yes, I use del.icio.us, but I don’t like adding sensitive stuff there, such as where I bank). But as pretty as Safari is, […]
First impression of movie rental with Apple TV (Saturday, February 23rd, 2008)
In the interest of trying out the new Apple TV features we rented Michael Clayton a couple of nights ago. We’re finally getting around to watching it tonight. It’s paused while B. takes a call, so I’ll go ahead and report.
It’s pretty easy to find a movie using the built-in navigator. On some movies you […]
How often does Apple TV’s podcast directory refresh? (Friday, February 22nd, 2008)
I’m still in love with Apple TV, especially the built-in podcast directory included in Take 2. But is there a way to force it to refresh, or to specify a refresh rate, or at least know how often it find new episodes of feeds? I was checking on a show (in this case, Mahalo Daily) […]
A little more blog cleanup. (Saturday, February 16th, 2008)
I got rid of a few old posts that really didn’t have to do with the foci I’m trying to apply to this blog. Nothing big, and I didn’t delete any of the small handful of comments I’ve received here–so, no harm, no foul? (Sorry, I’ve been watching basketball most of the day.)
Podcasts on Apple TV (Friday, February 15th, 2008)
I’ve been putting the Apple TV through the paces the last couple of days. This evening I queued up the music collection from my iMac in the other room, turned on shuffle mode, and streamed away. This is a great way to rediscover your music collection, and makes it easy to put some background music […]
Apple TV Take 2 and distance learning (Wednesday, February 13th, 2008)
Apple finally released the Take 2 version of its Apple TV system software. I updated last night. The focus of the new software is downloadable movie rentals directly from your TV. In all honesty, I probably won’t use this service a whole lot–we’ve got Netflix and that works just fine for me.
Podcasts are another story. […]
Will MarsEdit make me a more responsible blog-type-person? (Monday, February 11th, 2008)
As is well documented, I am not very good at keeping up with the whole blog thing. This morning I starting wondering if it had to do with the extra baggage of signing into WordPress’ admin section. So I’m trying out a blogging program–in this case, MarsEdit. We’ll see how it goes.
So far, I like […]
Apple TV and podcasts in distance education? (Wednesday, February 6th, 2008)
I bought an Apple TV last week and got it hooked up over the weekend. I haven’t purchased movies through iTunes for it, and probably never will, but have been streaming the heck out of my music collection. I’m also looking forward to some of the features coming in the “Take 2″ version of the […]
New look for blog.ruralocity.com (Wednesday, February 6th, 2008)
Today’s a snow day–six inches fell on Lawrence overnight and KU actually closed campus. In my four-plus years as a student there they didn’t close campus once. This winter alone I think it’s been closed twice.
Anyway, so I decided to spend my time at home on a little professional development. I decided to tackle a […]
