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iOS Back Tap

iOS offers some techniques if you take the time to learn them. This one was passed on by my wife. The accessibility features often are ignored if you don’t face difficulties in dealing with your Apple devices. These features can … Continue reading

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Liker for education?

Perhaps you would like to explore an alternative to Facebook. You have grown tired of the acrimony or perhaps you object to the way Facebook harvests your personal information to target the ads you see. I have been exploring several … Continue reading

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Apple challenges Brave iOS compensation to content providers

I have been a Brave browser and ecosystem convert for a long time. Brave, which is built with Chrome and allows most Chrome extensions, blocks traditional ads and the collection of personal information that goes along with these ads, but … Continue reading

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A pioneer

Time to invest a little effort to understand and appreciate the pioneers. Doug Engelbart is someone I followed from my earliest tech days and he is even a bigger personal hero of my wife who spent time with him at … Continue reading

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123apps Chrome tools

123apps is a great collection for tools for the Chrome browser especially for those relying on Chromebooks. The apps run in the browser from the web site and are ad supported. The ads appear when a given tool is active, … Continue reading

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Data on pandemic learning – not too bad

The NWEA (think MAP testing folks) offers some data on student learning during the pandemic. The general summary – not too bad. Students taking the exam (an important consideration) scored a bit lower in math, but at about the same … Continue reading

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