Monthly Archives: May 2011

LeafSpan – Take Your iPad 2 Into the Field

One of my undergrad majors was biology and I can still remember the expectations for one of the botany courses. For the final, we walked around campus and the prof would point at a tree or shrub and ask a … Continue reading

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Will Apple change the way we consume music (again)

I seem to be stuck on music posts lately. With the new online music services from Google and Amazon now available, one wonders what the Apple service will look like. Bloomberg BusinessWeek offers some speculation and also describes what Google … Continue reading

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Google Music Scrobbling

I applied for access to Google Music beta when I first learned Google was planning a music service and I received an invitation about a week ago. The service takes an “upload” your own music and then play it from … Continue reading

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Mac Malware

There have been rumors now for some time of Mac malware and when LifeHacker says we should pay attention, I do. I know Apple says they will address the issue in a future release, but it is unclear when this … Continue reading

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More on the future of books as learning resources

This link will forward you to an interesting link from David Warlick considering the future of textbooks. It offers a nice summary and deserves attention. I know that many of these ideas are shared and some clearly believe such ideas … Continue reading

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Scrible

Here is another new service I guess I would throw in the general category of web research. I might describe Scrible as a combination of Diigo and Instapaper (or Evernote and Delicious). In other words, it offers a way to … Continue reading

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