For those that have been waiting for this phone tomorrow is the big announcement from London: 2pm EST
Here is the website and access to live streaming from the event: http://www.thenextgalaxy.com/
Current phone rumors:
- quad core 1.2 or 1.5 Ghz processor
- 1 GB Ram
- 12 mp camera
- 720 or 1080 screen
- Android 4.0
- all carriers potentially
Here is a video with the add:
My semester is over! Now it’s time to grade, grade, grade. Unfortunately for me once grading is over, my job is not. At that point, it’s time me to begin writing. Additionally, I am teaching a course summer 1. This is a new course so I have a lot of prep work ahead of me.
Now on the TED website (http://ed.ted.com/) you can not only post videos, but you can create quizzes, add materials, and even keep track of your users. Seems pretty cool and is a great way to promote open education. Check out the video that walks you through the new site:
Harvard is pushing its faculty to publish in open access journals due the high prices that journals charge. Here is the article: http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/25/harvard-overpaying-for-research-wants-open-access/
I have recently been thinking about this concept: I spend a lot of time writing an article, months of revision, and finally get it published only to find that my school needs to pay a significant amount of money to access the article. Not only that, but I am paid nothing and lose rights to it. Additionally, this journal will probably ask me to help peer review their articles, again paying me nothing. This makes no sense. Either the schools or professors need to be paid for this work and should not be charge outrageous amounts of money for journal access since all of the leg work was done for free by faculty. So open access makes sense. Open access journals are usually online and available for free to anyone.
The only problem for myself? I am not a full professor so I need to continue publishing to the ‘top’ journals whether they are open access or not. So while I applaud Harvard’s effort, I hope that they are telling their junior faculty that they do not need to go for the ‘top’ journals but rather open access journals (and open access can be the ‘top tier 1′ journals but I am just assuming they are not in all cases)
With many dropbox clones making their way into mainstream, I thought I would blog about each of them to show their strengths/weaknesses.
Dropbox – Works on mac, windows, iOS, Android
2GB – Free
50GB – $99 year
100GB – $199 year
Team option – need to contact for details
Box – Works on mac, windows, iOS, Android
5GB – Free
25GB – $9.99 month
50GB – $19.99 month
Microsoft Skydrive – will work on Windows and Mac and iOS
7GB Free
20GB – $10 a year
50GB – $25 a year
100GB – $50 a year
Google Drive – Works on mac, windows, iOS (coming soon), Android
5GB – Free
25GB – $2.49 month
100GB – $4.99 month
1TB – $49.99 month
BitCasa – Works on mac, windows, iOS, Android
Unlimited space for Free!
Apple’s i-Cloud – iOS, Mac, Windows
5GB – Free
10GB – $20 year
20GB – $40 year
50GB – $100 year
Amazon’s Cloud Drive – works on both mac and pc
5GB free
20GB – $20 a year
100GB – $100 a year
1000GB – $1000 a year
My recommendation: Dropbox or Box for ease of use. BitCasa for storage. Also, look out for deals from these services as they compete with each other. For instance, I got 50GB free for life from Box for downloading their Android app when it was first released.
We will find out everything about CS6 today but here is the latest. There will be a cloud based service so that users can purchase the software at $50 a month instead of buying it forever. This means that you could essentially rent the software. This would actually be great for my students who only need it for a few months:
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/23/adobe-cs6-subscription-creative-cloud-photoshop-official/
At an event in San Fran, Adobe will announce the release of CS6 today. Very excited to see if all the rumors are true.
This is a free online scheduler. Its very easy to use and allows you to enter your participants, dates, and times. At that point your participants then choose the dates/times when they are ready to meet. It is brilliant for a professor during advising.
Here is a video which shows how Doodle works:
Your first steps with Doodle from Doodle AG on Vimeo.
My most recent publication. This was a class project that several of my students and I turned into a publication:
Rumors speculate that the next generation Wii, called the Wii U will retail at $300. I think this is right on and Nintendo knows exactly what they are doing. Given the economy and the fact that these consoles are released every 4-5 years, they should not be costing us more than $300. I think Sony and Microsoft need to pay close attention to this. People are not going to pay $400+ dollars for their next consoles. I know I will not.
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