Hardware
Create Cool Teaching Tools Using a Wii Controller
Thursday, June 19th, 2008Let’s be honest. It’s been pretty tough for departments to justify purchasing video game consoles for training purposes. Sure, Wii Sports may improve your golf swing or bowling accuracy, but, apart from reducing workplace stress and increasing worker morale, video game consoles haven’t yet made a significant impact on workplace learning.
Thanks to Johnny Lee, you [...]
Microsoft Having a Bad Year
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008First, the software giant’s $44.6 billion offer to purchase Yahoo was rebuffed, sending Microsoft back to the boardroom to plot its next move.
Then, the European Union fined Microsoft $1.35 billion for failing to comply with a 2004 ruling that found that Microsoft had withheld interoperability information from its competitors.
Then, last week, a judge made available [...]
Four Dumb Things I Do Out of Habit (But Plan to Stop)
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008A week ago, I switched to browsing the Web using a portrait- rather than landscape-oriented monitor. Although my new monitor can pivot back and forth between the two orientations, I haven’t moved it back to landscape mode since trying out the Web in vertical format. This is definitely the right orientation for all the reasons [...]
Browsing the Vertical Web Through Horizontal Eyes
Monday, December 31st, 2007Middle-aged eyesight led me to a computer store in search of a monitor that provides crisper, easier-to-read text. What I found there were shelves stacked with relatively inexpensive, high-resolution, wide-screen monitors ranging in size from 19 to 30 inches. Given our consumer lust for electronics, the affordability of these screens, and our aging population, many [...]
Low-Cost, Lightweight Laptops for Learning
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007I’m not at all in love with my laptop.
It was purchased just over a year ago for about $1,200. It has a battery that lasts about 2.5 hours, which gets me about 30 percent of the way on most of my business trips. And, although it was marketed as lightweight, it feels like I’m carrying [...]
