By default, Siri [the voice assistant on iPhone 4S] uses Google for search; so, if you hold the home button, and say “Siri, search the web for ‘ostrich’” it will find the results of Google search [Wikipedia as the top entry]; however, it turns out that you CAN use the other alternative search engines if [...]
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Ebooks and Scholarship
February 20, 2011
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Chronicle of Higher Education published a timely article (E-Books’ Varied Formats Make Citations a Mess for Scholars) about challenges of quoting e-books (and other sources with no page numbers) in research, and the difficulty that academic citation standards (MLA, APA, etc.) publishers face trying to keep up with the rapid changes in technology. What I found most [...]
Read moreOlivia Mitchell's Practical Presentation Advice
February 9, 2011
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Not long ago I read Switch, Heath brothers’ follow-up to their best selling book Made to Stick. I liked the sequel less than the original, but Olivia Mitchell found it inspiring enough to produce this very sensible, experience-based short list of just 6 things “to get People to take action after your presentation,” available on [...]
Read moreRick Altman on iPad Presentations
February 9, 2011
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“And now when it comes time to actually deliver the presentation, I am required to stand behind a podium? I have spent the last five years advocating against the use of podiums (podia?). [...] Here is where the irony becomes almost too much to bear. Can you imagine if Steve Jobs were tasked with presenting from [...]
Read moreThe Design of The Daily
February 8, 2011
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From fontsinuse.com comes this detailed, and – as always – spot-on analysis of type used in the new iPad Daily, which was the subject of one of my earlier posts last week, and a whole flurry of activity on the web.
Read moreDid Apple really save Barnes & Noble?
February 4, 2011
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Even if you don’t give a zip about Apple, technology, computers, Barnes & Noble, or even books (in which case you’ve probably stopped reading long before getting this far), you will probably find this article published on February 02, 2011 by the Author’s Guild engrossing. I’m tempted to say it’s a real page turner, but [...]
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