Last night, I was finally able to view Apple’s recent education event from New York City. Yes, I had read about their announcements and downloaded iBooks Author and the new iTunes U, but hadn’t realized just how potentially game-changing these new tools are for what I do.
Last night’s This American Life featured a show about the working conditions in China that are a direct consequence of our — the West’s — need for gadgets. And while one company alone is not to blame, this show examines Apple’s relationship with Foxconn.
“How can you do such a thing to a book?! I love books, and you’re destroying them!” She couldn’t even look at me.
That’s geek-speak for new 27″ iMac, baby! The i7 designates one of Intel’s newest quad-core processors, so this sucker is fast. It makes my two-and-a-half-year-old MacBook Pro feel like a dinosaur. Also, the 27″ LED monitor is big, bright, and beautiful.
Yesterday, I reported that my new Ubuntu 9.10 install on my new Acer Aspire 4810T had a couple of problems: one major and the other one minor. Well, as of this posting, both seem to be fixed! Sleep, what the peecee laptop community calls “suspend” and “hibernate,” did not work. The CD/DVD drive did not [...]
Yesterday, I purchased my first peecee laptop to use for my daily “work.” It’s a surrogate for a broken MacBook Pro that’s running Ubuntu 9.10. After an evening of playing, I have some initial impressions, both of the machine and Ubuntu. First the good stuff. It is quick, even on my Acer Aspire 4810T’s single-core [...]
Dr. Gerald Lucas is an Associate Professor of English in the Department of Media, Culture & the Arts at Middle Georgia State. He teaches courses in new media theory, web site design, and humanities. His research and teaching interests include epic poetry, science fiction, technoculture, writing for digital media, and modernism.