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Create a digital ID with Adobe Acrobat | Create | Creative Notes | Macworld
Create a digital ID with Adobe Acrobat | Create | Creative Notes | Macworld
Last week, we discussed how to create a digital signature that you can use to sign official PDF documents in your own handwriting. But what if you don’t have a digital ID yet and you need one? Stay right here, and I’ll walk you through the steps you need to take in Adobe Acrobat.
#osx#howto
·macworld.com·
Create a digital ID with Adobe Acrobat | Create | Creative Notes | Macworld
Museum Studies with Second Life in HUMlab
Museum Studies with Second Life in HUMlab
Images from third term museum studies students who are in the final stages of a term-long project working in Second Life. These images are from a group working around ideas of environmentalism and class. The biosphere’s with clean water and living plants is the preserve of the privileged few, while the wasted urban environment is where the majority of people live.
#museum#secondlife#virtual_worlds#marcusidea#MarcusInstitute#midea#hz10mu
·blog.humlab.umu.se·
Museum Studies with Second Life in HUMlab
Computing with a wave of the hand
Computing with a wave of the hand
The iPhone’s familiar touch screen display uses capacitive sensing, where the proximity of a finger disrupts the electrical connection between sensors in the screen. A competing approach, which uses embedded optical sensors to track the movement of the user’s fingers, is just now coming to market. But researchers at MIT’s Media Lab have already figured out how to use such sensors to turn displays into giant lensless cameras. On Dec. 19 at Siggraph Asia — a recent spinoff of Siggraph, the premier graphics research conference — the MIT team is presenting the first application of its work, a display that lets users manipulate on-screen images using hand gestures.
#hznmc#hz10#gesturecomputing#altinput#altinteraction#hzk10#hz10k12#flexscreen
·web.mit.edu·
Computing with a wave of the hand
Laptop Skins Schtickers Shop Create Participate
Laptop Skins Schtickers Shop Create Participate
Laptop Skins by Schtickers.com is the orginal maker of designer laptop skins, laptop decals, laptop stickers and laptop covers that are removable and reusable. You can call it a laptop skin, laptop sticker, or laptop decal but we call them Schtickers. Schtickers are designed to instantly makeover your laptop or ipod with some of your personal style. You can even upload your own image, logo, or other item to create your own custom laptop skin. We custom trim to fit any laptop (Dell laptop skins, Compaq, HP, Apple, Toshiba, Gateway, Acer, Alienware, Avertec , Sony)
#design#art#computer
·schtickers.com·
Laptop Skins Schtickers Shop Create Participate
25 Spectacular Light Painting Images
25 Spectacular Light Painting Images
Light Painting in its many forms has been a growing trend on Flickr and other photo sharing sites in the last couple of years. These images are attention grabbing and full of amazing color, movement and detail. In this post we share 25 examples to inspire you.
#photography
·digital-photography-school.com·
25 Spectacular Light Painting Images
3-D software gives doctors, students a view inside the body
3-D software gives doctors, students a view inside the body
James Oliver picked up an Xbox game controller, looked up to a video screen and used the device's buttons and joystick to fly through a patient's chest cavity for an up-close look at the bottom of the heart. And there was a sight doctors had never seen before: an accurate, 3-D view inside a patient's body accessible with a personal computer. A view doctors can shift, adjust, turn, zoom and replay at will. Software that uses real patient data from CT and MRI scans. Software doctors can use to plan a surgery or a round of radiation therapy. Software that can be used to teach physiology and anatomy. Software that puts virtual reality technology developed at Iowa State University to work helping doctors and patients, teachers and students.
#3d#software#medical#video#gesturecomputing#altinput#hznmc#hz10#hzk10#hz10k12#flexscreen
·sciencedaily.com·
3-D software gives doctors, students a view inside the body
Rogue Amoeba | Fission: Lossless Audio Editing for Mac OS X
Rogue Amoeba | Fission: Lossless Audio Editing for Mac OS X
Edit audio in minutes, not hours. With Fission's streamlined audio editing, you can quickly copy, paste and trim audio, as well as split files. Fission also works with compressed MP3 and AAC formats to edit without the quality loss caused by other editors. Get perfect quality audio when editing natively in the MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless, AIFF and WAV formats.
#audio#software#mac#osx#tools#apple
·rogueamoeba.com·
Rogue Amoeba | Fission: Lossless Audio Editing for Mac OS X
2020 Forecast: Creating the Future of Learning
2020 Forecast: Creating the Future of Learning
Over the next decade, the most vibrant innovations in education will take place outside traditional institutions. This 2020 Forecast: Creating the Future of Learning presents a critical dilemma facing these institutions: how to reconcile bottom-up developments in education with the traditional top-down hierarchy that is currently in place. Such peripheral innovation will redefine how learning is organized, who comprises the broad “school community,” and what the actual experiences of learners will be like in the future. The validity and role of formal institutions of education will be challenged by key forces of change and will be reconsidered by an expanding group of stakeholders. Together, the pressures of change and new stakeholder demands will create a new future for learning.
#education#future#research#hz10#hznmc#hzk10#hz10k12#trends
·futureofed.org·
2020 Forecast: Creating the Future of Learning
When it comes to making data sexy, you can't be too graphic - CNN.com
When it comes to making data sexy, you can't be too graphic - CNN.com
The good news: data from governments and other organizations is increasingly open and online. The bad news: it's rather dull. The result? A booming interest in data visualization, which can transform boring stats into compelling graphical presentations explaining our world. "Institutions, governments and companies more and more are releasing and making publicly available their own data sets," notes Manuel Lima, an interaction designer and data visualization expert.
#hznmc#hz10#analytics#visualization#infographics#graphics
·edition.cnn.com·
When it comes to making data sexy, you can't be too graphic - CNN.com
A new way of looking at the world - CNN.com
A new way of looking at the world - CNN.com
An emerging set of tools is making it easier than ever to track and compile all sorts of "data" and display it in a way that's relatively easy to understand. You can now point your mobile phone at a street and instantly get ratings for restaurants. Or type in your address and find reports of crimes that may have occurred in your neighborhood. It's even possible to track emotions on a national and global scale.
#analytics#visualization#future#infographics#hznmc#hz10
·edition.cnn.com·
A new way of looking at the world - CNN.com
Above-Campus Services: Shaping the Promise of Cloud Computing for Higher Education (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE
Above-Campus Services: Shaping the Promise of Cloud Computing for Higher Education (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE
Cloud computing has arisen as the in-vogue description for the massive aggregation of a wide variety of IT services delivered via fast digital networks — much like power generation and the electrical grid of a public utility. The idea is not new. In fact, the concept of today's cloud computing may date back to 1961, when John McCarthy, retired Stanford professor and Turing Award winner, delivered a speech at MIT's Centennial. In that speech, he predicted that in the future, computing would become a "public utility."1 Yet for colleges and universities, the recent growth of pervasive, very high speed digital networks offers not simply access to more efficient computing but rather a new capability and an opportunity to rethink approaches for delivering IT services.
#cloudcomputing#hznmc#hz10
·educause.edu·
Above-Campus Services: Shaping the Promise of Cloud Computing for Higher Education (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE
Big Ideas Fest
Big Ideas Fest
The worldwide economy has jolted all of us to attention, while our public and private institutions are faced with budget-cuts, hiring freezes, and uncertainty. As we know, education has always been our country's source of new ideas and wealth creation. That's why it's more important than ever that we address unmet needs in education. Come be a part of the process of supercharging education during these tough times! The inaugural Big Ideas Fest is the starting point for a movement that supports innovation in education at a time when the need to accelerate high-quality learning is truly essential for our country and our future. The goal of this unique three-day meeting of experts and creative doers and thinkers is to spotlight, challenge and change the ways in which education can be made relevant to learning in the post-industrial world. The goal is to increase relevance of education while placing learning at the front and center of all that we do
#conference#education#nmcfuture#oet09
·bigideasfest.org·
Big Ideas Fest