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  • On Education, Apples and Teachers

    On Education, Apples and Teachers

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    Apple has recently announced that they are going to make a play to bring textbooks  to the iPad and attempt to reduce some of the burdens set out by an aging educational system. Granted, most of the cases they brought up were in fact typical of the American educational system, but many of the issues…

  • Bringing Apple Back to the Classroom

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    I’m quite anxious about this one as I grew up with Macs in school. This was a very good thing and I wish my kid’s school would do the same instead of proliferating old loud beige boxes that no one wanted at home. If they weren’t good enough for your kids at home, why it…

  • So You Want To Use That New iPad at Work

    So You Want To Use That New iPad at Work

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    It’s the first week of January and you are just settling back into your workflow and you’re thinking of using that new iPad 2 that you got for Christmas in the office. With internet et securite you can make sure you navigate the web safely. But you don’t really know where to start or if…

  • Building a Better Tablet

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    “In 2012, XYZ Co have to build a better tablet [..] A REAL iPad competitor” I hear this far too often, and for all the wrong reasons. Whether it’s from die hard Google-Lovers like Gina Tripani, BlackBerry-centric tech-blogs or Apple haters, the top item on everyone’s agenda is to release an iPad level tablet at…

  • Happy Holidays from The Dads

    Happy Holidays from The Dads

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    Johnny Canuck
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    Those in the know understand the draw of the East End of Long Island. The Hamptons, sitting on the South Fork of the island, are a group of hamlets, villages and towns lying along the Atlantic Ocean. The area is a perpetual playground for the rich and famous, and for city dwellers who appreciate a…

  • Top 10 From The Last 500 Fat Ones

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    Last Week, Steph published the 500th post from on our 2FatDads site, a site he and I created far too long ago. Over the years we invited Ben, Eric and Steve to join us; not only writing some pretty awesome tech reviews and rants but also in creating the DadCast which will be resuming it’s…

  • Consumerisation and the LiteralNet

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    Johnny Canuck
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    This one is just for fun, but it strike a cord in most IT departments. The simple truth is that if you want to bring your own “toys” to work, you have better know how it works and expect to do a little Googling when things go awry. via ReadWriteWeb: Comics, The Real Story Behind…

  • Millennial: iPad king of tablets with 456% growth

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    The iPad dominated tablets, having grown a whopping 456% between the third quarter in 2010 and this past quarter, and impressions across iOS grew 60% over the same period. Apple was the top manufacturer on Millennial’s network in the third quarter with a 23.09% share followed by Samsung (16.48%), HTC (15.5%), RIM (11.05%) and Motorola…

  • DadCast Episode 41• The Dads Go Fourth

    DadCast Episode 41• The Dads Go Fourth

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    Nearly Live From The Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… It’s the Fourth Series of the DadCast. In this season’s opener, the Dads talk about their summer projects, including new PC’s, tablets, TV, and how to cope when the Analogue Signal dies out forever. We’d like to thank our new sponsors this year, two awesome Canadian…

  • Harry McCracken on the iPad Rivals of 2010

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    Spoiler: If you like happy endings, you should stop reading now. It really is as sad as it sounds. Read on for the an in depth and  complete run through of the class that never quite made it. via Whatever Happened to the iPad Rivals of 2010? | Technologizer.