Now I'm Just Showing Off

Yes, now I'm am just showing off during my vacation week.

Laura and I are on a cruise to Honduras, Grand Cayman and Mexico. Just to show off the power of the Internet and the accessibility of GoogleApps, I wanted to create a blog post from the middle of the Caribbean Sea.

Since the ship offers wireless Internet, I can check email, modify and Google docs, and even create a Voki.

Oh and Laura also ran into a Pingree Alum on board.

Below are some photos of our cruise. Have a great week!




















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Google Demo Slam Championships!

People are using regular Google Apps to create mind-blowing experiences.  Teams are now competing against each other on demoslam.com to come up with the best ways to demonstrate the power of Google Apps.

Watch each team battle it out at www.demoslam.com!



Try Google Translate at www.google.com/translate.  Remember you can now sign in with your Pingree email address and password.

And You Thought Skype Was Advanced...

Ray Kurzweil speaks of the exponential growth of technology.  In his book, The Age of Spiritual Machines, he outlines how fast technology has progressed and will progress over the next few decades.  In case you missed them, here are a few tech advances that are going on right now:

Texas Student Attends School as a Robot

Suspended Animation Conference, 2011

The Cloak of Invisibility

So You Think Your Robot Can Dance

Dave

Passwords: A Love Hate Relationship

Passwords, you can't live with them, and you can't live without them.


In today's world, there is a username and password for just about everything on your computer and the web.  Unfortunately, until finger prints, facial recognition, and/or retinal scans become more mainstream we will have to live with typing and remembering our passwords.


My suggestion is to relax, take a deep breath, and find a root word that you can easily remember, like Pegasus.  Then based off of that root word you can then modify it with numbers, characters or letters to keep it fresh and secure.


A great example of a password based on this theory would be 1Pegasus@537.  I can remember we have 1 mascot and we are located at 537 Highland Ave.  Utilizing a root word, along with a mix of numbers and characters will keep your information secure and easy to remember.


Please, whatever password or combination you use, try to avoid what this....Please watch.

"Real Page Numbers" now on Kindle

Good news on the Kindle front!

Amazon has released a software update for its Kindle e-reader that makes “Real Page Numbers” available for e-books, a move likely to bring joy to faculty lounges and book clubs alike. The new page numbers will match the page numbers in print books, so you can easily reference and cite passages.

Google Art Project

Google launched Art Project the other day. It is an amazing website where you can virtually explorer many world famous museums and paintings in unbelievable detail. They used Street View technology in making the museum tours and extremely high resolution photography that make it seem as if you're standing in front of the painting - except that you can get as close up as you want. You can see Van Gogh's brush strokes and Seurat's dots with amazing clarity and you can get up close to Botticelli's Venus -- so beautiful!

Below are some videos that gives you the highlights of the features. Take the time to check this out - it's worth it!

Click to go to Google Art Project





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