Andrew Cullison

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 [...]

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I’m back. The break was great. We went to Jamaica just before Christmas with my wife’s side of the family, and we just finished Christmas with my side of the family. It’s time to start doing some philosophy. The really exciting news is that my wife and my folks went in together and bought me [...]

Filed under: Uncategorized, nook, open source by Andrew Cullison
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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 [...]

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Blog platforms are so good and versatile that educators have all of the resources we need to run a course management website without the need for proprietary software. Blogs do just about everything a course management software system can do and more. There are also several other benefits to do something like this with a [...]

Filed under: educational technology, open source, teaching, the academy, the profession by Andrew Cullison
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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 [...]

Filed under: android, educational technology, google phone, open source, research tools by Andrew Cullison
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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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I’ve started a group here on campus to help promote and support the use of open source software on campus. Right now our site is called Open SUNY. When I tell people on campus that we should consider making the switch to open source software, I often here something like - “Yeah, but who’s going [...]

Filed under: educational technology, open source, the academy by Andrew Cullison
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I’ve been asked to present at a campus Earth Week event on open source software, the environment, and social justice. As with the “9 Cool Web Apps Post“, I’ll be using this post as a kind of handout that people at the talk can go back to. I hope off-campus readers will get something out [...]

Filed under: educational technology, ethics, open source, teaching, the academy, ubuntu by Andrew Cullison
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It’s like noble medics offering to heal the wounded enemy…for free. Gotta love open source.

Filed under: educational technology, open source, ubuntu by Andrew Cullison
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The recent version of Open Office makes it very easy for philosophers to insert logical notation into their papers. It’s done through by adding special commands into the AutoCorrect Feature. This post will show you how to do that. Suppose you want the existential quantifier to automatically replace ‘/e’ - Here’s what you do.

Filed under: educational technology, open source, research tools, teaching, the academy by Andrew Cullison
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