Apple started an innovative program called One to One ten years ago, which consists of using the original iBook laptops in schools. Countless schools around the country have been using laptops since to supplement normal classroom materials.
Now, the next technology step for Henrico County Public Schools is implementing electronic textbooks, and use of tablets like the iPad to replace traditional printed textbooks. Currently, the county already uses around 26,000 laptops for middle and high school students (and their teachers).
This program means that the district will be phasing out buying any more textbooks, buying them digitally instead. The programme costs around $8 million a year. The district commented that they are also using technologies such as the Kindle and iPods. Patrick Russo, the new superintendent said that they will start the shift with next year’s science classes.
The guys over at Bare Feats have put Apple’s latest MacBook Pros to the test, and verdict is in. These machines are crazy fast.
With new quad-core Sandy Bridge processors in the 15- and 17-inch models, coupled with faster RAM and better GPUs, just about everything on the new notebooks is quicker than before.
OS X has long been heralded as one of the more secure operating systems on the market. Many have spoken about its excellent security and lack of viruses in the past. Whether you believe it to be true or you argue that OS X’s security has more to do with obscurity than anything else doesn’t really matter; a lot of people are running their Macs protection free. That’s a problem no matter how you slice it.
Apple takes security seriously, and they have a very good track record when it comes to getting patches out quick when compared to other major players in the market. According to reports today, Apple’s approached a number of security professionals, in the hope that they’ll take Apple’s latest developer build of OS X 10.7 for a spin before it goes public.
Recovery partitions aren’t exactly new. Every single computer I’ve used in the last couple of years (without an Apple logo) has shipped with one. Usually the manufacturer will partition a disk drive into two slices. One partition will include install files, while the other one will be your primary operating partition. Fixing an operating system is usually as simple as repairing with a repair partition. It’s looking like OS X Lion might just have that in store for us as well.
Tuesday, 6Wunderkinder released a few updates to its popular task management app Wunderlist. I reviewed the original here.
Besides a spiffy new icon, the original iPhone app was bumped up to include landscape mode, list sharing, email tasking, and push notifications (details below). Additionally, the Wunderlist family has grown to include a native iPad app, with Android and web apps soon to come. A beta desktop app is currently available for Mac and Windows.
And each of these apps — like the Wunderlist service — is free. (more…)
If you’re rocking a Slingbox along with the SlingPlayer on your iOS device, you’re going to want to head straight to the App Store and update your applications.
Earlier this week, Sling Media updated the SlingPlayer to included video out capabilities. Users can now connect their iOS device to a television using the appropriate cables, and watch their favourite television shows on a big screen instead of the iOS device. That’s pretty huge for anyone who spends a lot of time on the road, traveling around the world with nothing but iOS devices.
Consumer confidence in Apple would be unaffected if Steve Jobs were to step down as CEO, a new survey finds. According to data gathered by RBC Capital Markets and Changewave, 84% of respondents said that if Jobs were to step down as CEO it would have no effect on their likelihood of buying Apple products in the future. Only 7% said that it would make them less likely to buy in the future, and 8% were unsure. The survey polled 3,091 people, and was taken in late January to early Februrary 2011.
February 27, 2011
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