Phone Battery Life

Many times a week, I get asked the question: "Can I charge my phone?" A few months ago, I went to a local university to do some work. I was surprised to find a phone charging station in one of the buildings. It was basically a stand that had a small table, with about 10 different phone connections to charge any of the current phones out on the market. Now, something like this we do not have here, but you might want to try some of the battery saving articles found at these websites for Iphone and Android.

Accessibility Options

A few weeks ago, a group of teachers were discussing how to make things simpler for people who had problems using computers. We started talking about how the accessibility options in Windows can help in this regard as well as customize your computer. To see how to setup some of these options please see the video.

Augmented Reality

From being incorporated into computers, tablets, phones and glasses to name a few. Augmented reality is used to enhance the perspective you have in a book you may be reading, a shirt your friend may be wearing, an add you see in a magazine and the football game on the television. Go ahead and watch the following videos to see for yourself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0ojxzS1fCw&feature=c4-overview&playnext=1&list=TLBHVqIQojYOk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hACZeRDuTi8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH_LfXnklRw

1967 Mustang, Windows 8 and Xbox 360

For those of you who are into cars, gaming and computers: enjoy! Santa if you are reading and/or looking, it is number 1 in my list. And brother, I will add it to your list as well.

Project Detroit1
Project Detroit2

Old Computer Uses

As you might have noticed, there area few unused old computers in the classroom. Some ideas on what to do with the can be explored by reading the following article: 11 Uses of Old Computers
Some of this ideas will be explored as you take some of the Information Technology courses.