iOS 5, iCloud, and Lion Updates Will Start Really Changing Things

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The griping about the iPhone 4S—which the more I think of it is a great update to the iPhone 4—has overshadowed the real stuff that is going to make us love our iOS devices more—iOS 5, iCloud, and the Lion updates to support them. By all accounts, iOS 5 fixes how freakin’ annoying notifications are [...]

Teaching Sans Laptop for the First Time

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I’ve been teaching classes through UBC Continuing Ed for a good couple years now. I teach building websites with WordPress (for normal people, e.g. no coding) and Podcasting 101. Both are fun to teach and every time I teach them I get better at presenting the topics. Yeah the first couple were a little rough, [...]

Tablets Aren’t Instead of Devices, They Are With Devices

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Another school (this time in the U.S.) announced that it is requiring iPads for all students which is cool (I’m not sure on the requiring part as much as the using part), but before people really start thinking about iPads as replacements for other technologies (well maybe paper textbooks) I wonder if it’s better to [...]

Apple, Don’t Kill Newspapers! Offer In-App Subscriptions

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I’m a huge fan of the Vancouver Sun (Postmedia, really) iPad app, it is (as I said initially) part of my daily routine of reading the news. Now, I know that Postmedia doesn’t push all the articles from the Sun (or other papers) to the app, but that’s okay. Kobo came out with real subscriptions [...]

What’s the secret sauce for iPad magazines?

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There is a lot of discussion about iPads, magazines, and newspapers of late. Most of the posts focus on the failure of iPad magazines, but I think these first magazine apps (the iPad as a platform for a digital magazine is not even a year old, remember) have been great first trys. And first trys [...]

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