Monthly Archives: October 2011

Why I Prefer Android to iOS

Forgive me if the timing of this post isn’t quite right. In no way, shape, or form should this take away from the legacy of Steve Jobs.

I, however, am biased. I have been an Android user for the last 18 months, and I love it. As with most competing technologies, there is an ongoing debate as to which mobile operating system is better: Android or iOS. I can’t answer that question. Realistically, nobody can answer that question. Each operating system has its strengths and flaws. In the end, it all comes down to what you, as a user, want from the experience.

Here are a couple of things I like about Android:

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Get Smarter with the Smart Board!

 An interactive Smart board is set up in the CIS Sandbox (Smith 234) providing you with an exciting tool to step up your presentations, training sessions and meetings to a whole new level of interaction.What is the Smart Board: A simple dry-erase white board with computer, internet and video equipment that uses a ground-breaking technology to create innovative user solutions.

What is so special about the Smart board:

  • Combined with a projector, a SMART Board manages to make one computer available for a whole class of students.
  • You can also collaborate on a project with colleagues using Windows Net Meeting in different locations or give a presentation from a remote location.Presentations to clients can be professional and attractive.
  • Interactive lessons and presentations can be prepared well in advanced and reused and updated as needed.
  • The ability to combine sound, video, interaction and Internet gets and keeps the attention more than traditional media.

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“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”

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Steve Jobs is a legend. Although this past Wednesday marked the date of his passing, I use the present tense of the verb because his legend will live on. In 1976, when Jobs founded Apple computer along with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, he set out with a view to revolutionize the computing industry. Now, 35 years later, I argue that he has accomplished that goal and then some. (more…)

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