Category Archives: Apple
How I make screencasts: Lecture capture, part 1
Sorry for the time in between posts lately. It’s been an odd mix of attending conferences, getting ready to attend conferences, and spending time in the hospital being treated for skin infections picked up at those conferences for the last … Continue reading
Filed under Apple, Camtasia, Screencasts, Technology
One month with the iPhone 4
Image by griffintech via Flickr Longtime readers will remember that I’ve owned an iPod Touch for a couple of years now, and it’s a marvelous device. The only things that kept it from being the perfect handheld, for me, were … Continue reading
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Is the iPad really what students need?
Dave Caolo believes that students are one of the four groups of people who will make the iPad huge, because: Students are on a fixed budget, and e-books are typically cheaper than their paper-based counterparts. Also, consider all of the … Continue reading
Filed under Apple, Education, Educational technology, Higher ed, Technology, Textbook-free, Textbooks
A simple idea for publishers to help students (and themselves)
Image by Getty Images via Daylife I’m doing some research, if you can call it that, right now that involves looking at past editions of popular and/or influential calculus books to track the evolution of how certain concepts are developed … Continue reading
Filed under Apple, Life in academia, Profhacks, Teaching, Technology, Textbook-free, Textbooks
A hostage to my OS?
A comment in my last post raised a point about using Mac OS X or Windows, as opposed to using Linux, that gets raised a lot in these kinds of discussions but which simply isn’t true. The point was: Go … Continue reading
Filed under Apple, Technology
Why I am not a Linux user any more
For the last couple of days I’ve been trying to install some new software on the Ubuntu Linux machine that my kids use in their playroom. Being able to get a real computer for the kids for about $75 (about … Continue reading
Filed under Apple, Linux, Technology
The iPod touch: Keeping new parents sane since 2009
With Harrison’s arrival on the 15th, I have had neither the time nor the raw material for blogging about math, education, or technology. Instead I’ve been mostly figuring out how to decrypt my new son’s little coded messages and trying … Continue reading
Filed under Apple, Family, Personal, Social software, Technology
About that iPod Touch…
…I got one. The story left off with me giving up trying to justify spending $399 for the 32 GB model, even though I’d saved up for it. Cheapness is in my DNA, and I’ve never been able to spend … Continue reading
Filed under Apple, Geekhood, Technology
iPod update: A new hope
So at the end of the comment thread on my iPod lust decision process about whether or not to buy a new iPod touch, I concluded somewhat glumly that I had probably better wait until the gap between what I’d … Continue reading
Filed under Apple, Life in academia, Technology, Textbooks
Help me buy an iPod, or not.
Apple today announced the newest iteration of the iPod nano and some changes to the iPod touch, among other things. This has been an eagerly-awaited day for me, since I took the honorarium from my April gig at Benedictine University … Continue reading
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