Apps to save money on textbooks, apps to replace the paper textbook, and a new service to allow people to write their own apps. An iTouch or iPhone is starting to look more and more like the must-have college accessory.
As the father of two teen boys I can attest that they have no interest in twitter or email for that matter. But then again is that such a surprise? They live and communicate for the most part in their own private, evolving teen world. And as they mature through their college years and then into the working world their attitudes and methods of giving and receiving information — how they communicate — will mature along with them.
A picture is worth a thousand words — and sometimes even a thousand words aren’t enough to get a point across. An awful lot of discourse in our culture is text based — blogging, twitter, text messaging, email, most powerpoints, white papers, check lists — all text based. But text is not the only way to organize and explain ideas.
In web site testing designers customarily view the page in various flavors of Internet Explorers, Firefox and Safari on both Windows and Mac operating systems. But are mobile browsers on your list? With the rapid rise in mobile usage they need to be. With a WordPress site there are a number of plug-ins that will fast-track the mobile version of your site. On this blog I use MobilePress, which I’ve been very happy with. Check out the Weblog Tools post listed below for more ideas and go mobile!
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According to a write-up in Popular Science you can easily travel 20 – 30 mph in one of these cycles. I’m not quite sure I’d feel safe riding them on the road, but it sure would be fun to try. Maybe in the future there will be more dedicated cycle/human-powered vehicle lanes. The price is a little steep too at the moment — but maybe when you consider the gas and gym membership savings it works out…
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