I’ve been playing around with Google Chrome’s extension called Chrome to Phone, and I’m completely hooked. The concept is simple enough. You’re on your desktop and you find some information that would be useful to bring up on your phone in the near future (e.g. you’re about to leave your office to go to class).… Continue Reading
I’m now a contributor at AndroidGuys. Android Guys has been one of my favorite places to get Android related news since the first Android phone launched, and so I’m pretty excited to be able to help these guys out. You can check out my first post here.. It’s a video review/demo of Scan2pdf Mobile. Here’s… Continue Reading
I gave a presentation to faculty and staff today called about Google services. I focused on 5 cool things academics can do with Google Forms. Below is the slide presentation I used for the talk. I’ll be adding You Tube video in the little boxes soon to turn the presentation slides into a narrated presentation.… Continue Reading
UPDATE: 12/28/09 It only took the people over at NookDevs a week to jailbreak the Nook. There is a now a softmod that gets you a web browser. This is what I love about having an eReader that runs the Android open source OS – the odds of us getting the eReader to do what… Continue Reading
I’ve been waiting for the perfect eReader to sweep me off my feet with its native PDF capability and huge file capacity. I thought it would be the Nook, but it looks like the annotation function is missing some desirable features. There’s also salient possibility that PDFs of journal articles will be too small to… Continue Reading
I got a Google Wave invite last week. Now that I’ve played around with it for a bit, I’m sold. This thing is awesome. In this post, I’ll say a bit about what google wave is, and then I’ll briefly note a host of great things that philosophers (and other academics) will be able to… Continue Reading
I have a course blog. Students are required to post 2 substantive analysis posts on the reading for the semester. I stagger these deadlines so that every week there are a few analysis posts each week. These posts should be about 250-500 words in length. I also have a weekly 200 requirement. All students must… Continue Reading
This is awesome. You know how Google Books has all of these digitized books online? It looks like they’re finally starting to partner with tech companies and book retailers. Sony is going to make public domain books available (for free) on their eReaders, and Barnes and Noble is going to let people download the books… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading