TheAnthroGeek
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Category: TECH TIPS
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Depending on which state you call home, you may be spending anywhere from 28 to 46 minutes on average on housework every day. And while this may be significantly less than the amount of time that was generally devoted to home-upkeep half a century ago, it’s still more than most of us would like to…
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Today’s students are profoundly different than those of twenty years ago. These students come to class equipped with powerful technology. As personal devices become increasingly accessible, they begin to impact students’ educational experiences and expectations. As a result, BYOD (“bring your own device”) policies have become common in the higher education classroom. Top Hat is a…
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Samsung’s current move on the market is more aligned with producing devices that are well-designed to look fancy on any user’s hand. It usually comes with large and powerful screen as well as cameras that mimics the DSLR features. However, we were surprised when they finally introduced a phone that can withstand drops and water…
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It’s a good time to be a gadget geek. Smartphones have come along way since the original iPhone and Blackberry struggled for dominance. Apple’s touch-screen innovation has largely eliminated the old Qwerty keyboard, and smartphones are packed with processors that could run computers. The smartphone boon has opened the doors for competition. Apple remains a…
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Nowadays, it can be difficult for the average consumer to keep up with the rapid pace of technological development. Most businesses share the same challenge. In fact, the most successful companies gain a competitive edge by continuing to evolve and adapt to these incessant changes. Home security is one industry that is undergoing wholesale changes…
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Cali Lewis has been interested in home automation for as long as I’ve beeen following her video blog. In her highlights from CES 2013 she mentions a few items and her new cohost did an entire segment on one product but I was actually hoping for a more thorough investigation of this subject. Maybe next year. Her latest post…
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“Hackacademic” has a variety of meanings. In my current use of it here, I’m aiming for “hacks for the academic”. I spend most of my professional time, teaching or preparing to teach. I got an Ipad with the goal that I would strive to have it replace my laptop for in class teaching use. On…
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Is your head in the clouds? How about your data? Worse yet, is it in his?—> Software as a Service (SaaS), sometimes referred to as “Cloud Computing”, was the topic of a recent meeting I attended. Ian Duffield, COO of Decipher, Inc. Survey Reporting and Data Collection lead a discussion revolving around the implications of…
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Dial2do is the killer app of 2009. This is a bold claim in that it’s January 2009 but this app is really changing my workflow for the better. For example, this message is being recorded from my phone to illustrate the power of dial2do’s functionality. I spoke that sentence into my jawbone ear piece which…
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I just found skitch from the wizards at plasq and I must admit that It allows you to mark up photos rather easily. I’m trying to build what I’m HEREBY referring to as “totem posting” or building a pictorial life story of TheAnthroGeek and my lineage – and the indexing (i.e., pointing) feature on skitch…
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