New Card 10: ED6060 ICT in Education 2012 (Wed 9, Jan)

New Card 10: ED6060 ICT in Education 2012 (Wed 9, Jan)

Calendar App Is a Fantastic Time Manager

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Calendar-App-Is-a-Fantastic-Time-Manager-77022.html

Fantastical improves on what Apple's Calendar app has to offer and does it in a compact, quickly accessible package. It doesn't ignore Calendar, however, but works with it. It shares information between the programs, including how items are colored, and setting up Fantastical is painless. In a game of word association, it's unlikely that "fantastical" will produce "calendar" in most players' minds -- unless they've used the dandy time management program for Mac OS X of that name. Apple includes calendar software with OS X. It gets the job done. It's nicely integrated with other calendar programs that use the CalDAV protocol, notably Google Calendar. Users can create multiple calendars within Apple Calendar, too. You can have a calendar for work-related events, for example, and another for after business hours activities. It also has a nice search function. Type in a search term and a nice list of relevant items will pop up beside the calendar. Apple Calendar, though, doesn't make the best use of screen real estate -- a drawback if you're using it on smaller Mac models like a MacBook Air or 13-inch MacBook Pro. Also absent from Apple Calendar is the kind of artificial intelligence that programs like Microsoft Outlook have been using for years to make creating new events and reminders easier.

Mrs.Pantharee Xanthavanij  ID: 551-9515 (panthareex.blogspot.com)

New Card 9: ED6060 ICT in Education 2012 (Wed 2, Jan)

New Card 9: ED6060 ICT in Education 2012 (Wed 2, Jan)

A full-time laptop meets a part-time tablet

http://www.cnet.com/laptops/lenovo-ideapad-yoga-13/4505-3121_7-35477652.html

The biggest hardware trend marking the launch of Windows 8 is the proliferation of touch-screen laptop/tablet hybrids. Some have screens that pull apart to become separate tablets, while others have screens that flip, twist, or rotate to give you a tabletlike shape to hold. We call those latter models convertible laptops, and one of the best examples to date is the new Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13. The name Yoga is suggestive of the system's big selling point, that the display flips fully over to become a tablet. In fact, it has four basic usable positions -- clamshell laptop, tablet, stand, and tent. The reason the Yoga stands out from the suddenly crowded touch-screen laptop scene is that it does something other convertible or hybrid laptops do not. When set up as a traditional laptop, the 13.3-inch Yoga doesn't compromise the all-important clamshell experience. The excellent double-hinge design means that it looks and works the same as any other ultrabook laptop, unlike the complex and often clunky mechanisms in systems such as the HP Envy x2, Sony Vaio Duo 11, or Dell XPS 12.The Yoga works best as a full-time laptop and part-time tablet, because when it's folded back into a slate, you still have the keyboard pointing out from the back of the system. Although the keyboard and touch pad are deactivated in this mode, it's still not ideal. Plus, despite the hype, Windows 8 is still not a 100-percent tablet-friendly OS, and there are some frustrations that span all the Windows 8 tablet-style devices we've tested.


Mrs.Pantharee Xanthavanij  ID: 551-9515 (panthareex.blogspot.com)