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ECONOMIST Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:17:17 GMT
FULL marks to Apple for devising ways to improve how science, mathematics and other topics are taught in primary and secondary schools across America. The company’s “Reinventing Textbooks” event last week showed how effectively Apple’s popular iPad tablet computer can replace the stack of tedious, and invariably outdated, textbooks that school children have to lug around these days (see “A textbook manoeuvre”, January 19th 2012). Apple is providing a free Macintosh application, dubbed iBooks Author, which allows publishers, teachers and writers to produce interactive textbooks with video, audio and even rotating 3D graphics that spring to life with the touch of a finger. By and large, interactive multimedia offer more engaging explanations that students more readily grasp and remember. To play such books on an iPad, a free application called iBooks 2 must first be downloaded from the company’s App Store. Interactive textbooks can then be purchased from iTunes, Apple's online store,....
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GUARDIAN Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:27:38 GMT
Danny Golding wants to sort out a chaotic collection of personal data spread across several incompatible devices, including a paper address book. It should be simple, but it's not
My life is in chaos. I have personal contact details, diary entries, and reminders spread across a Windows XP laptop, Mac desktop, iPad, and Nokia mobile phone (not to mention an old style paper diary and a separate paper address book). I need to rationalise all this information and, ideally, find a way of keeping my various devices in sync, but am debating how best to do this.
As I use a number of Apple devices, one answer is to use the built in Apple apps and keep them in sync via iCloud. This has the attraction of simplicity, but as I am not a dedicated Mac-head, I am reluctant to lock myself into the Apple world.
Google provides an obvious alternative, but would not keep my devices in sync. I'm also a little nervous about giving Google even more access to my personal data.
Can you, or your readers,..
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