Category Archives: Morning Musings
Morning Musings: FaceTime(beta) now available for Macs! Are you going to use it?
October 21, 2010
Officially launched yesterday shortly after their ‘Back to Mac’ release keynote, Apple has launched a beta release of FaceTime for Mac computers (Snow Leopard or higher). The popular FaceTime video chat protocol was previously available for iPhone 4 and new iPod touch users with the inception of the front facing camera on the device. FaceTime [...]
Morning Musings: Facebook Apps in trouble over privacy breach
October 18, 2010
The Wall Street Journal has published an article detailing a new security breach with Facebook and its applications. WSJ claims that some of the most popular applications on Facebook have been transmitting user identification data, something they are claiming affects everyone regardless of privacy settings. The investigation from the WSJ has found that names and in some [...]
Morning Musings: Apple is releasing the iPad on Verizon!
October 14, 2010
Good news for anyone looking to use the iPad on Verizon’s 3G network! Apple and Verizon have just announced a partnership in releasing the iPad for Verizon Wireless customers this holiday season and bringing an end to AT&T exclusivity of Apple 3G devices. There will be one major difference between AT&T 3G iPad’s and those [...]
Morning Musings: Do you have the new twitter yet?
October 5, 2010
It’s a little over 3 weeks since Twitter announced the new web interface for their popular social network, and as promised many users are now beginning to experience the “new” twitter. The roll out for the new layout has been slated for release over the past few weeks, and many are still waiting. The new [...]
Morning Musings: Amazon launches Kindle for the Web
September 29, 2010
Amazon announced a further expansion for the Kindle platform jumping to a browser friendly format for the web. Already hitting most major mobile platforms, Amazon’s Kindle for the Web is currently in beta format allowing book previews and samples to be read directly from the browser. Kindle for the Web content can be embedded directly [...]
Morning Musings: RIM jumps into the tablet world with the BlackBerry PlayBook
September 28, 2010
Research In Motion (RIM) has unveiled their answer to Apple’s iPad; The BlackBerry Playbook. Touted as the first enterprise ready professional tablet, RIM has pulled out all the stops to truly give the iPad and the tablet market a good shakeup. The BlackBerry PlayBook, on paper, looks like the beefier tablet when compared to the [...]
Morning Musings (afternoon edition)- Harrisburg University Provost Bans Social Media (for a week)
September 14, 2010
Starting this week students on campus at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology in Pennsylvania will be in for a big surprise when they try to load their Facebook profiles. Provost Eric Darr has enacted a campus wide lock out of all social media for users of the campus network. However, this lock out will [...]
Morning Musings – Google Instant Search has arrived!
September 9, 2010
Yesterday marked a radical change in the way people search and find information via Google with the announcement of Instant Search. Instead of typing an entire question, or query, Google Instant Search will dynamically display search results as you type. Search as you type. Google Instant will also rely heavily on its prediction algorithm to not only [...]
Morning Musings – Google Logo Mystery
September 7, 2010
Google is famous for constantly changing their main page logo, known as doodles, in order to highlight significant dates in history, and birthdays. Today Google has unveiled one of their coolest looking doodles yet; an animated bunch of particles that react to the placement of your mouse. Typically, Google logos also link directly to a [...]
Morning Musings: iTunesU hits 300 million downloads
August 24, 2010
Launched in 2007, iTunesU has quickly become a leading tool for participating institutions to upload, manage, and share custom course content online. Over 800 Universities around the world have joined Apple to create one of the world’s most popular, and prolific online educational catalogs. In just three years, iTunesU has surpassed the 300 million download mark from [...]