Andrew Cullison

A couple days ago, I posted about my reasons why I wanted a Nook and why I think philosophers should be interested in it. However, something has come to my attention that makes this is device slightly less attractive. Based on the discussion forum here, it looks like annotation is only available on items that [...]

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So, just yesterday the tech community started freaking out (in a good way) about Barnes and Noble’s new eReader - the nook. There’s a lot to be excited about. It has the e-ink technology. The basic idea behind e-ink is that it interacts with yours eyes like reading text off of a page. I’ve seen [...]

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This is exciting. An Android App for Drop.io is in the works! Academics with Android phones should be very excited about this. I use Drop.io to have students submit papers. I use Drop.io to help me share files with students, but still be within Fair Use Guidelines. Drop.io is, all around, an incredibly useful tool [...]

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Google Forms are turning out to be an awesome for academics. I use it for the Philosophy Journal Surveys. Last week, I showed how you can use Google forms to have your students create a gradebook spreadsheet for you. This got me thinking about other cool ways to use Google Forms. In this post, I [...]

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Earlier, I posted about Evernote. I focused particularly on the Android smartphone application that was recently released for beta testing. In that post, I did a little blackboard test. I wanted to test the feasibility of using Evernote to (a) take snapshots of a blackboard, and (b) have those snapshots show up accurately in key [...]

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I love my Android Smartphone. Every now and then, a service comes along that actually justifies my having one. Evernote is one of them. They have native apps that communicate and sync with your free online account for Iphone, Windows Mobile, Blackberry, Palm Pre. They recently released a beta app for Android, and I’ve been [...]

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We’re off on another road trip. Any blogging will likely be mobile. Somethings that will be coming soon… 1. Young Philosophers Call for Papers 2. Journal Survey Update 3. Philosophy (I hope) (Posted from my Android Phone)

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We just got back from our Florida/Midwest trip, and for the first time I really used my phone extensively for blog posts. I kind of love it. I managed to write quite a bit on this phone. I may actually have a draft of a paper now. I’m kind of amazed at how quick and [...]

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Contents [hide] In this post (Google Phone = Pocket Xerox Machine), I discussed some web apps that can turn an Android phone (and other smart phones) into a pocket xerox machine. These services include Evernote and Qipit. I’ve recently found an app on the Android Market that I think is even better for this purpose. [...]

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I’m back from the Boundary Waters. While on my trip, I was pleasantly suprised to bwin a little Twitter contest that sponsored by the Android Guys.

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