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Siri feature request: continuous listening
Read more . . . →Apple's new Siri voice assistant is a really useful feature but a few improvements could be made. I have read several forums with users requesting continuous listening and I can hear the privacy critics howling already and it goes something like this: "Coninuously listen??! But then Siri will know all about my planned defection to the Communists! Unacceptable." All jokes aside, one of the biggest hurdles to using the assistant is getting Siri to begin listening. In order to signal to Siri that you want to give it a command you need to hold down the hold button for almost...
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Disappearing Wi-Fi Personal Hotspot on iOS 5.0
Read more . . . →Hello everyone, I've started up another year of school and I've been falling a bit behind on my Music Mondays posts. -Alex Massaad Like many other developers I have been running iOS 5 for the better part of their beta program. This has allowed me the chance to preview and test out some of Apple's next generation software, as long as I didn't tell anybody about it. Now iOS is out of beta and yesterday was made available to all users for free and I can report on this revolutionary update. I spent about 6 hours updating (apparently I had...
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The XX vs Alan Fitzpatrick & Reset Robot - Silicone Shelter - King Unique
Read more . . . →I've been listening to this for a long time now, and I really love this song. Here's proof that our future is not becoming less free.
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Is our future becoming less free? A course on recent audio-visual history
Learning Objectives: -Examine and utilize a variety of information/media exchange systems (bit torrent, social media, file sharing, forums) -Examine audience trends with pirate media or non-standard distribution systems (legal torrents, YouTube trends) -Understand and explore the impacts of the legal systems surrounding copyright -Develop an understanding of new technologies and their relationship to the multimedia they create -Have an understanding of the synergistic relationship between content creators and consumers and the idea of the “prosumer” Class 1: Avatars and Simulacrum 1 Watch: Surrogates (Mostow, 2009) Read: 1) Weisbuch, Max, Zorana Ivcevic, and Nalini Ambady. ... "RIAA, MPAA, and the Digital Piracy Issue: Comparing Public Relations Strategies and Effectiveness" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Sheraton New York, New York City, NY, <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p14465_index.html Week 11: Copyright, copyleft Watch: Good Copy, Bad Copy (Johnson, Christensen, Moltke 2007) Read: Pouwelse, J., P.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogSome shirts are statements. This one is a verdict. -
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Class 4: Simulated Realities
While I personally feel that cyberpunk is a very interesting genre because of its depictions of humans interacting with virtual spaces, the only cyberpunk film that I included in my syllabus was the Spanish film Sleep Dealer (2009). ... Digitextuality is an amalgam of this concept, fused with the understanding that digital media is breaking off from traditional media, and new media is being constructed and used in different ways than traditional media was.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogMade for people who left the room during Yellow.