This year at SXSWedu there was a lot of buzz in the Google lounge about a new product coming down the pike. Thousands of teachers were already using Google Docs as part of Google Apps For Education as their own free LMS (learning management system). Teachers were adapting Google Apps For Education in the ways [...]
Pokorny, Lee, and Constine On Tuesday at TechCrunch Disrupt New York, Josh Constine - a journalist for TechCrunch - had a chat with David Lee and Brian Pokorny. Lee and Pokorny are Co-founders and Managing Partners at SV Angel, a San Francisco based Angel Investor firm. The chat covered a huge range of topics, and shed [...]
I love when tools are easy to use. I love it even more when the easy to use tools create good looking results. Wideo is one of those tools. If you're looking to make an animated video for any reason Wideo offers a very easy to use and understand format. It's quicker and easier to [...]
On day two of TechCrunch Disrupt New York, Ryan Lawler - TechCrunch Journalist - had a chat with Comcast CEO Neil Smit. Though expectations were pretty low, Smit managed to dodge every single question that had any sort of significance and reduce the whole interview into a sort-of PSA for Comcast. It should be pointed out [...]
There are a ton of cooking and smart-cooking devices out there. Some are pretty inventive, including the Mellow. Mellow is a sous-vide machine that takes orders through your smartphone and keeps food cold until it’s the exact time to start cooking. That is pretty incredible. You can put the food in the Mellow, set what [...]
Oppo, the Chinese phone maker, just released its first 4G/LTE device, and it looks to be one of the best Android powered phones on the market: the Find 7. Well, actually Oppo is releasing two phones, the Find 7 and the Find 7a. The difference between the 7 and the 7a is only in screen resolution. [...]
Typing. It is a skill that everyone needs. Yet it is one of the most gut-wrenchingly boring and tedious things to learn. Back in my day, there were some pretty awful programs to teach you to type - Mario Teaches Typing is the only one I can recall off the top of my head. There [...]
There were a ton of great interviews and talks during day one of TechCrunch Disrupt New York. However, our favorite was, easily, the chat that TechCrunch's Matthew Panzarino had with Brendan Iribe, CEO of Oculus VR. The talk covered many topics, including the acquisition by Facebook, the future of Oculus and virtual reality as a whole. Facebook [...]
While many of you know that after four years of being Thedroidguy I abandoned my Android phone for an iPhone as my daily driver, I was and still am pretty much a Google user. I use Google docs, Google analytics, Google Maps, a Chromebook on occasion and Chrome as my default browser. Actually I typically [...]
Yesterday at TechCrunch Disrupt New York, there were a ton of interesting talks and interviews. On of the most interesting was Ryan Lawler's chat with Shane Smith, the Co-Founder and CEO of Vice. This chat was interesting for a number of different reasons. Firstly, Vice is rapidly becoming a major media empire. I really had [...]
