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May 2009

iPhone/iPod Touch and Autism in the News

This morning while going through the morning routine, I came across several news articles talking about communication applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch.  Proloquo2go was the app being featured, but each article spoke vaguely regarding the quiet applications that provide a benefit to those with disabilities.  I started to …

iPhone and iPod Touch Apps for an Autistic Child

A while ago I was contacted by an educator that was looking for good applications on the iPhone for their autistic child.  They noticed that their autistic child will play with the games their other children play, but wondered at other applications that they could find for their child that …

Learning Captivate

Recently I have been looking at various trainer and instructional design positions to get a good view of what the Industry is looking for, and how we as a Continuing Education department could help meet those needs.  One program that kept coming up is Captivate. Captivate, for those of you …

Kerberized SSH on Mac OS X v10.5 Server

This week I have been teaching the Advanced Systems Administration class for Mac OS X 10.5, and we talked about security and secure access.  As usual, I mentioned the security necessity for SSH authentication when accessing the server through the Command Line remotely, and how to set up public and …

Wheeler Farm Field Trip: My Son, My Wife, and I

My son’s preschool had a field trip to Historic Wheeler Farm yesterday, and as I was pretty much done preparing for my class on Monday, I took some time off to go.  I haven’t spent time at my son’s school since I can rarely justify the time off, but this …

eBooks, The Kindle DX, and the Much-Rumored iPod Slate

To date, the eBook market has been, well, experimental.  This is mostly because reading on a virtual display can give one headaches depending on the display at worst, and at best it has been rather difficult to get a format that works well (with a few exceptions).  More often than …

In the Garden

Earlier last month I planted my front garden in vegetables, with beets, carrots, radishes and lettuce growing like crazy, and the cucumbers not coming up yet at all (might have been too cold, I’m not sure).  The plants, being cold weather plants, are growing wild and free, with plenty of …

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