Today the mail server is down so I started tinkering with (i.e. breaking) my phone. I’d been thinking about modding my phone so that I could forward texts from my inbox to a twitter account. This has obvious applications e.g. use mobiles as powerful classroom SMS voting devices. I managed to programatically send SMS from [...]
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If you live in Europe you know that the mobile operators are serious cash cows. If you live in Ireland you feel this pain pretty acutely as everything has become ludicrously dear here (isn’t this what happened in Iceland towards the end?).
The problem is that the mobile operators, like the broadband ones, have [...]
Because I am lazy I always have a list of things I would like to blog about but never seem to get around to. I may write about some of these things in the future but I will need to chose which one(s). Here is today’s list - anything grab your fancy?
Why the top of [...]
I have been thinking about Moodle and Twitter lately. They share something in common. From a certain vantage they both look like a stream of babbling data. People frequently complain about the amount of emails they get from Moodle forums or how they can keep up to date with active Moodle forums and not get [...]
Using SMS for education generally costs money. Even if you use free software you will generally end up paying someone for each text you send. However there are free tools out there that incorporate free SMS functionality. Twitter and Jaiku are two simple ones. With these tools you type short messages and they are published [...]
This year I finally bought into mobile. Largely thanks to 3G and the Nokia N95. Last week I bought a new 4GB memory card on ebay for my phone. I did this on the bus while heading to a Wimba event in Trinity College Dublin. Buying something on ebay from my phone tips the scales [...]
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Prediction: Interactive whiteboards will be obsolete in two years.
Why? Because you can roll your own for less than 500 euro. Moreover this version will be portable and you can face the class when you write.
How?
Buy a usb tablet such as a wacom or wait for Aldi’s graphic tablet [...]
Above is the Q-R code for this site. The japenese have been using this for a few years now I think. You scan the image with your camera phone which converts it into a url. To try this I opened the bar code scanner app on my N95 (under Office) and scanned the above image. [...]
They keys are too small.
The top key is an absurd see-saw design. I swear you’ll need the law of the lever handy.
The unlock key sequence is so fiddly. How it is it so hard to get a phone out of keypad unlock mode? (See law of the lever)
I keep hitting the kill key [...]
