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In 2010, the U.S. Copyright Office said jailbreaking (or rooting) your smartphone did not violate Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). It was now legal to use your phone the way YOU wanted and it was not long that I eventually dove into the world of rooting. But now that exemption is [...]
As electric and electric hybrid cars like the Chevrolet Volt work their way onto our roads, the infrastructure needed to keep these cars charged is developing as well. GM’s OnStar division is today opening up a set of proprietary APIs so that power companies can help electric car owners out with their charging decisions. The [...]
With the transition toward a more technology-driven society, the idea of allowing personal electronic devices in the classroom was inevitable. At the start of the 2011-2012 school year, all Wylie ISD students (K thru 12), were permitted to bring their personal Internet-enabled devices to school. The MyWyFi Program allows use of laptops, netbooks, smartphones, Android [...]
Advances in computer memory are going on all the time. Just recently it was announced that science has managed to represent a usable bit with just 12 atoms. Now there’s an advance that puts that to shame. It’s called Phase-Change Material, or PCM. PCM memory stores information by changing the material from an amorphous state [...]
With NAMM 2012 in the books, it wraps up another show of creative product designs mixed in with consumer gadgets. NAMM 2010 & 2011 were the marks of a new era with DJ and music production apps hitting the market such as TouchOSC, djay and iMaschine. DJ on an iPad Last year Numark released a portable controller called [...]
Who says gamers can’t use their hobby to contribute to the greater good? The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has published a solicitation for a game-based program that will help DARPA scientists debug complicated, large scale software programs. While automated debugger tools like garbage collectors and hypervisors are nothing new, they’ve thus far been [...]
New Google Privacy Policy No stranger to privacy issues, Google has announced changes to its privacy policy on the Official Google Blog. What the changes boil down to is that you’ll be treated as a single unique individual user across most of Google’s properties, such as Google+, Gmail, Google Reader, Google Maps, etc. Data will [...]
Apple wants to reinvent the textbook, or at least change the way students interact with teaching materials. At an event this morning in New York City, Phil Schiller, Roger Rosner, and others from Apple unveiled new initiatives to put the iPad at the center of students’ learning experience. More Interactive Books: iBooks 2 Apple’s eBook [...]
Who Cares About SOPA? SOPA is a serious issue. It’s a bill also known as the Stop Online Piracy Act, or H.R. 3621, and was introduced to make it easier for the U.S. government to fight piracy and copyright infringement online. As wonderful as that intention sounds, the bill has some serious flaws that make [...]
The PROTECT-IP Act is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is moving quickly through Congress. It is scheduled to go before the Senate on January 24, 2012. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has said he plans to bring it up on the first day the Senate is back [...]
Is it bad form to admit you don’t subscribe to podcasts anymore on the blog of one of the top podcasts on the Internet? If it is, I apologize. I’m not saying that I don’t watch Internet hosted videos or web series—I do! I even do work with some. I just don’t subscribe. It’s weird [...]
Welcome to Monday, January 9th 2012 dear readers! You know what that means—Yes, it’s time for the Consumer Electronics Show, that magical time of year when technology journalists are filled with a sense of wonder, excitement, dread and exhaustion. We’re no exception. Cali Lewis, John P, Scott Ellis, Dave Curlee, Mr. Mark Zamora, Scott Kublin, [...]
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QNAP has donated a multi-bay, Gigabit Ethernet, NAS unit for each workshop attendee! We'll show you how to work it, and you'll take one home at the end of the weekend for fast, reliable and redundant storage.
Belkin has donated a new WiFi router for every participant! You can use it to get your QNAP NAS online!
ProPrompter is donating an iPad prompting bracket for every attendee as well! So you can get your prompt on, after you learn how to use it.
