Category: Education in Technology

The Top Time Management Tools

The Top Time Management Tools

The Top Time Management Tools   Time management seems at first to be a modern concept, but really it isn’t. The first step in time management is keeping track of it, and so every time-keeping device going back to the dawn of recorded history is a time management system. Even Stonehedge! Stonehedge was originally built [...]

Testing Your IQ Online

Testing Your IQ Online

Testing Your IQ Online   In recent years, the view of the IQ model has changed. It used to be believed that your IQ was the brains you were born with, nothing more. You were only so smart your whole life, your score was innate. Now we have a better understanding of cognitive functioning, and [...]

How to get a software project done on time.

How to get a software project done on time.

Getting your next software project done on time can be a matter of factoring a whole lot of variables.  Time, resources, features and not forgetting the client’s feature creep. Now before I get flamed for trying to document “the impossible” or get any more “keep livin’ the dream, buddie” tweets, let’s look at the basics [...]

Time Management Tips for your holiday break

Time Management Tips for your holiday break

Time Management Tips   In our increasingly busy society, we find ourselves barely able to fit everything we want to do into a day. If you feel like your days are slipping by without getting enough done, here are some time management hints from the experts:   1. Build your vocabulary. That surprised you, didn’t [...]

What is a Torrent?

What is a Torrent?

What is a Torrent?   You might be hearing it batted around on the web here and there, and even in other media like newspaper or TV: “Download the Torrent,” “Seed a Torrent,” “Visit our Torrent-tracker,” and so on. So, just what is this latest tech gizmo and why is everybody talking about it?   [...]

What Are the Most Innovative Careers For a Tech Graduate?

What Are the Most Innovative Careers For a Tech Graduate?

What Are the Most Innovative Careers For a Tech Graduate?   Some people get out of college, clutching their new diploma, and survey the job field with a finicky air. Sure, sometimes you want to go where the money is, or where there’s the most stability, but for the starry-eyed dreamers amongst us, the principle [...]

Christmas Giving – How To Give a Charity Gift

Christmas Giving – How To Give a Charity Gift

How To Give a Charity Gift   What, your recipient wants nothing for themselves, but instead wishes that a donation be made in their name to someone less fortunate? Aw, how sweet! No matter what their proclivities are, this is a commendable move, and it takes an unusually socially conscious person to turn their nose [...]

Laptops in the Australian Classroom

Laptops in the Australian Classroom

Over and over, we keep hearing about drives to bring a personal mobile computer to every student. There was the famed – but ultimately ill-fated – XO Laptop, which was to be cheaply produced and sold directly to governments around the world for their citizen’s use. There’s now about 12 versions of their story out [...]

How to Deal With the Technically Inept

How to Deal With the Technically Inept

Sure, here you are, reading a gadget blog. You’re confident with computers and mobile devices of every shape and size, you know all the jargon, you’re plugged into the blogosphere and digital gizmos hold no more mystery for you. And you probably have a few friends who share your tech savvy. But not everybody has [...]

Mobile Devices Every University Student Will Need

Mobile Devices Every University Student Will Need

For all of you thinking about shipping yourselves off to college or university next season, you’ve been probably wondering what you’ll need. It’s a little beyond just needing a pencil and some 3-ring binders, isn’t it? In case you’re wondering what kinds of gadgets will give you the edge in your new dorm-based life, here’s [...]