So I’ve managed to borrow an iPad for a few months. Exciting…well that’s what I thought but I’m not so sure anymore. My problem is I don’t know what to use it for. Read the full article →
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Last Saturday I attended, and presented at, the ICT in Education conference which was attended by, I believe, over 160 people (mainly teachers) who have a real passion about using ICT as part of their teaching. Read the full article →
Over breakfast this morning my 5 year old son was telling me that if you find a horse shoe it’s lucky. I was explaining to him that it is an old Irish wives tale. Then I started to think of the other ones I knew.
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Facebook recently announced that FB users will no longer be able to add Static FBML applications (like ‘tabs’) to their (business) pages and that users should instead be using iFrame applications. So how do you create an iFrame application?
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The latest versions of the iPhone allow you to add a website shortcut to your iPhone’s ‘Home Screen’. You can easily specify the icon that gets used on the home screen, here’s how.
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Tipperary Institute is holding its annual Digital Media Exhibition on its Clonmel campus. Renamed Pen & Pixel, the exhibition takes place on the 14th of April at 6.30pm and will run until May. Read the full article →
One of the advantages of Adobe AIR applications over browser based Flash apps is that you can write data to the computers local file system. Here I show you how. Read the full article →
A group of students at Tipperary Institute are currently working on a web project which requires them to display information about all the counties in Ireland. They were hoping to extract the information from Wikipedia so to help them I have put together some code which uses Infochimps API.
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Some of my students are writing an Adode AIR RSS reader and will need to be able to parse XML that uses namespaces, here’s how.
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