Yesterday at the Lloyd Center I had the opportunity to explore the new Samsung Galaxy Tablet. The Best Buy Mobile store in the mall had just received them about a week prior and were finally allowed to put them on display. The unit itself is branded with Verison, but no contract is required to use the wi-fi, but is required for the 3G. It’s small enough to be handled in one hand while the other navigates the screen; it is about the size of your average paper back book and about half an inch thick. The Galaxy tab is lighter, smaller, has about a 7 hour battery life, two built in cameras, Android 2.2, micro sd card slot on the outside, and looks very similar to an enlarged Evo. The backside of the tablet is textured and therefore doesn’t seem to require any type of extra screen on it like an iPad would.
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Can the essence of Google TV be whittled down to a single sentence? I’d like to think so and this is my adaptation based off what I read on Engadget’s extensive review.
Google TV is basically an integration of a netbook within your television that allows you to use Chrome to search the internet for content with a modified Android UI at the proper resolution.
On my own, I have discovered that it is relatively easy to find information related to using Drupal as a framework for making multiple sites run off a single core installation. The unfortunate part is that many people have questions, yet very few have answers. There was a single page on d.o that had the proper information for anyone trying to do this, but in my frustration and impatience I didn’t read it throughly enough to get it to work on my ow n. What I have listed in this post is what I found out in terms of process and for the sake of your sanity and my future reference. I have bolded the most important part of it all: creating a folder with the proper name. This was the one thing that kept me from being able to get it to work, but I got it figured out eventually with some help from the Drupal community.
In general we all have a love/hate relationship with the internet. It makes us laugh, it makes us cry. It ignites hot troll debates about who actually is a n00b or if that jerk made a new user name and is spamming again. Despite it all, the internet is a great resource of information and communication. A large part of this is the databases that contain the various job listings. It’s difficult to know if these job listings are real because the websites tend to be plastered with advertisements, require you to sign up in a long and arduous process, and the status of the listed jobs is never clear. Are they still open for applications or are they just left up to frustrate us?
Luckily, we have this handy-dandy no ad supported free website called Craigslist.org. Riiiight….
Despite the popularity of using Craigslist as a way to give away free kittens and pawn off your record collection so you can pay rent, it isn’t always the best place to go to when looking for a job.
Jakob Nielsen, do you know him? Donald Norman, heard of him in class maybe? If not, you definitely need to do a little bit of research into what these two men have done for our industry. Despite the fact that we go to an art school, our major has a second part that I feel sometimes is forgotten about “Interactive Media”. Everything in our scope of learning is interactive. Even the act of learning is interactive. The internet is evolving and the shift is growing towards tablets and smartphones.
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- Registered for Spring term yet? If not, talk to Bill ASAP!!!
- Late night notice: the first #webraising meeting will be held on 2/23 at 4:45/216. Event happens 4/16. See aidepartments/fb for details.
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- @Sm0K1ngGnu Na wenn das kein Argument ist… :)
- @laurakaci Thank you, Laura! :)
- @djmodular Thanks for posting the photo, Danny!
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- Great Stop Motion Music Video by Le Petit Écho Malade, a Studio from France http://t.co/oRZVOyto
- Our favorite tweets of the weekMay 14 – May 20, 2012 http://t.co/nF1Cbbee
- Madame Peripetie's eccentric photographs are weird but oh so striking http://t.co/OZXX2wlR
Net Tuts
- http://t.co/lwx7X9l - My wife making fun of me as I attempt (complete fail) to get a nice white background for videos.
- A WordPress book I helped contribute to is on sale at AppSumo today. http://t.co/U0MzM0J
- Don't forget to follow us @envatowebdev since we have switched!