It is safe to say that most students use Google numerous times per day.   In fact, after analyzing the 2012 national EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR) Study for Tufts University, it is clear that students find that Google is one of the most important websites for their academic success.  However, when it comes to [...]

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AT Friday: Textastic

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So far I’ve showed ya’ll some neat tricks for how to get more out of your iPads, from reading other people’s code, to getting notes automatically written down for you. I’ve showed you how to hook up an SSH GUI to your mac with MacFuse, and a great text editor for your Mac, Linux machine, [...]

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Pinterest, an online site of virtual pin boards, exploded in the online social sphere last spring. Pinterest allows users to pin ideas they like across the web to pin boards in a centralized location. Pinterest has a set of common theme boards that it filters pins to and users can title their own boards for [...]

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The Horizon Report, a collaborative effort between the New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, explores a variety of emerging technologies that are likely to have a significant impact on higher education institutions across the globe.  The report focuses on six technological areas and their real-world applications at colleges and universities.  The six technologies [...]

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Want a visually appealing yet reliable data set to write a research paper or prepare a presentation? While the internet has tons of information, the excessive consumption of it may easily lead to headache. Luckily, we have the Ipad App–World Figures–coming to the rescue.

As a simple and free app, World Figures presents a [...]

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Budgeting your finances is one of the most annoying yet important tasks for a college student. Keeping track of all your receipts manually and putting them all in a piece of paper or even an excel spreadsheet isn’t our favorite thing to do, even for the “organized types” amongst us. Here’s where Mint.com comes in, [...]

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