by Bruce | Aug 15, 2011 | General, Tech Trends, Things that make me think
I have had my Nook eBook Reader for a few month, and I am really hooked – so hooked that it bothers me when I have to resort to “paper solutions” for anything. It is so nice to be able to carry the Nook around with all kinds of books, news feeds (ala Calibre), PDFs...
by Bruce | Jul 6, 2011 | General, Tech Trends
For Father’s Day this year I got a new Nook “Simple Touch Reader” so I have had it for about a month – time for a review. I figure it was time when the “battery warning” came on yesterday and it told me I was down to 20% of capacity, so I decided to charge it up. ...
by Bruce | Aug 4, 2009 | Development, Tech Trends
Programming for Today’s Kids: Why NXT-G, Kodu, Scratch, Alice, Small Basic, KPL / Phrogram and others can reignite the imagination and understanding of technology for today’s kids. As Kids growing up in the 70s and 80s, we did not have all the technical resources...
by Bruce | Jul 19, 2009 | Development, Tech Trends, Things that make me think
One of the other fortunate things we were able to spend some time on last week was Kodu for the XBox 360. Kodu is one of those things that is difficult to describe in words or even screen shots, and really needs to be experienced to understand. In a...
by Bruce | Jun 22, 2009 | Development, Tech Trends, Things that make me think
Kidbook vs. Netbook I wrote almost a year ago of how I’ve been looking for a netbook that would meet some basic requirements for use by kids for their daily work. There have been a lot of netbook models which are basically all the same specs, but none have...
by | Feb 20, 2009 | Tech Trends, Things that make me think
I had the opportunity to attend Keith Brophy's 10th Annual "Tech Trends" Wednesday last night. It is great to have regular events like this to bring people together and stimulate conversation and ideas – which is exactly what it did. ...
