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Lunch & learn: An app a day: Tasty apps for iPhone and Android

Posted on February 24, 2010 by Jon Edwards

“Smart­phones are the new plat­form, and apps are the core,” says Dou­glas Dixon, an inde­pen­dent tech­nol­ogy con­sul­tant, author, and speaker spe­cial­iz­ing in dig­i­tal media. “In just a year and a half, the Apple App Store for iPhone users has sur­passed … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Screencast: How to Create and Edit Maps in Google Maps

Posted on November 16, 2009 by Angel Brady

In this screen­cast, we will show you how to cre­ate a maps, edit the map (by adding direc­tions, points of inter­est via mark­ers, and draw­ing boxes to high­light areas on the map), and save them to share with oth­ers, under … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Lunch & Learn: The Joys and Ploys of Little Toys with Doug Dixon

Posted on April 23, 2008 by Jon Edwards

Doug Dixon, Man­i­fest Tech­nol­ogy, returned to Prince­ton to exhibit the hottest, minia­ture tech­no­log­i­cal won­ders in the elec­tronic mar­ket­place, notably media play­ers, com­mu­ni­ca­tion devices, and audio acces­sories. On his web site, Dixon main­tains a tech­nol­ogy blog as well as the­matic gal­leries … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Lunch & Learn: Why Your Humble iPod May Be Holding the Biggest Mystery in All of Science with Bernard Chazelle

Posted on December 12, 2007 by Jon Edwards

In 1965, Intel co-founder Gor­don Moore pre­dicted that the num­ber of tran­sis­tors placed on an inte­grated cir­cuit would dou­ble approx­i­mately every two years. That pre­dic­tion, notes Bernard Chazelle, Com­puter Sci­ence Pro­fes­sor at Prince­ton, if any­thing under­es­ti­mated the results dur­ing the … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Lunch & Learn: Teaching with Tablet PCs with Serge Goldstein

Posted on December 6, 2006 by Jon Edwards

At the Decem­ber 6 Lunch ‘n Learn, Serge Gold­stein, the Direc­tor of OIT’s Aca­d­e­mic Ser­vices, pre­sented “Teach­ing with a Tablet PC.” Tablets, explained Gold­stein, are sim­ply Win­dows lap­tops (there are no Mac ver­sions cur­rently) that use a spe­cial “pen” rather … Con­tinue read­ing →

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