We hope to have some Chromebooks available for loan soon from the CLAS Office of Academic Technologies. The New York Times had an interesting piece about the increased market share of Chromebooks and how they’ve improved in the last few years. I bought a Samsung Chromebook a few years ago and have never had trouble with it. I agree that its low price makes it an easy addition to your computing options. I also think the Chromebook market share will continue to increase as more…
Cloud storage fails? Yes. *All* storage fails! A good reminder.
A recent article in The Chronicle relates the story of data loss for Dedoose subscribers. Nobody wants that, but it can, literally, happen to anyone. With a cloud-based application that also stores your projects in their cloud storage facilities, it may be more challenging to create a local backup. But this story shows that you should at least consider it.
It would be a mistake to react to this occurrence by avoiding ‘the Cloud’ for your research and other application…
Snowmaggedon 2014
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Ok, not really, but it was nice to have yesterday off.
On Tuesday, when the weather forecast was calling for the snow to start around lunch (which later changed to 2pm, then 5pm) I turned on my camera’s intervalometer and captured a time lapse from roughly 12:30pm to 5pm. I’m attaching a video link (via youtube) below.
The camera was set to take a still image every 30 seconds, and the music was composed personally by me (via Apple Loops and Garageband).
Enjoy.
SnowLapse…