Typography Insight – New ways of learning & teaching typefaces: Typography Insight is an iPad application that introduces new methods for learning and teaching typefaces. The project stemmed from my love for typography and evolving mobile platforms. It was inspired by my own experience in typography classes whilst attending design school. Do you know the …
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No One Knows the Day or Hour 36 “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only. 37 But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. 38 For as in the days before the flood, …
Using an iPad (first generation) for a few weeks now improved the way I work. Taking notes Taking notes helps me stay focused and engaged during a meeting or conversation. If you saw me in a meeting, it was a safe bet a notebook or legal pad (yellow paper please) wasn’t far from my side. …
Everyone in the room sighed and rolled their eyes skyward. “He’s written about this so many times. Too many times.” I like Macs, but recently added a Windows-based netbook to my lineup of writing tools. Here is an update of the software I use all the time. I’ll be brief. Mac Adium X for instant …
Bureaucracy is strangling public education as politicians continue to proclaim their concern for students while discussing numbers, not people. Students are not numbers by default. Grownups turn them into numbers. How many will be accepted? What is the attendance rate? How many graduated? How many met state guidelines? Who didn’t make the cut? It’s easy …
We all have plans, goals, things to do, and many of us whine the same shallow complaint. “But… But… I just don’t have time.” Let’s look at that clock again. All clocks dutifully report the same 24 hours of time in each day. It doesn’t matter if the timepiece is on your wrist, my iPhone, …
Lead from where you are Fancy titles and expensive business cards don’t make you a leader and you don’t have to be anyone’s boss to be their leader. Everyone has the capacity for leadership and anyone can be a leader regardless of their role. Constant use has muddled the meaning of the word leadership. True …
This blog needs focus. When I discovered the World Wide Web in the early 1990s (AppleLink! eWorld!), the virtual frontier was free for the taking and I claimed a chunk just because I could. I published a website where I could prattle on about whatever was on my mind by publishing a website just because …
My family and some friends recently spent our week of spring break in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Julie and I led a group six kids to a cabin in the mountains. Jordan, Meg, and Kat each invited a friend with parents crazy enough to let us bring one of their kids. All told, there were …
Coming soon… Posts that aren’t so nerdy! Julie gave me a netbook last week. My last PC was a 386 with an 80mb hard drive and 8mb of RAM. I replaced it with an Apple Performa 6116CD, which science can carbon date to the early 1990s. I have been a dedicated Mac user ever since …
