Showing posts with label The Internet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Internet. Show all posts

3/25/2007

Future of Apple is in logging time...



Apple lets customers in on the advanced features to be expected from their next "Large Cat OS", Leopard, on the companies website and the most innovative features are very exciting. The most recent selected disclosure surrounds the concept of creating a "scrollable" history of each edit made to any program, folder, file, etc. Leopard has been rumored as of late to be behind schedule, with internal sources hinting that the company will miss its April target for public release. As a recent Mac convert I am ecstatic and eagerly anticipate the release of Apple's answer to Vista, regardless of whether or not it will be released on time or not. Lets not forget that Vista was released about 18 months after it was originally projected to hit shelves. This feature is one of many enticing new components Apple is bringing to the table in their new OS. A profile of all Leopard advancements can be viewed here.

2/15/2007

Next Path reviews freeware must-haves for college students...



NextPath, a self-proclaimed education finance newsletter for students profiled their top ten freeware applications for college students. Some of them I use everyday, including Google Docs, Wikipedia, Google Reader and Del.icio.us, and now that I have read the reviews of the others I plan on integrating a few into my routine as well. In particular, Meebo, an instant messaging client that integrates Yahoo, GTalk, AIM, and MSN all into one interface. Also, Zoho is a Web 2.0 Power Point program which I have tried in the past and which appears to have a great deal of potential.

Interestingly, just this week Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska proposed legislation that would ban Wikipedia from use in US colleges. Though I agree with the premise that students should not be permitted to cite Wikipedia as a reference, I do not think that there is anything inappropriate about its general usage as a vehicle for driving inspiration on different ideas or interests students may have. It is a lot more useful that MySpace at least, which I consider to be the most substantial waste of time of all the internet social networking sites, and should absolutely be banned from college campuses (well, maybe not).