Are you interested in mobile learning, whether it’s on a tablet, a phone, or something else? AZK12 is hosting Mobile 2012 April 11-13.
Check out the list of speakers:
Jaime Casap
Eric Marcos
Janet Wozniak
Tony Vincent
I’ve attended a conference with Tony before and chatted with him. He definitely knows his stuff. And the Wozniak last name should sound familiar in connection to Apple…
It’s impressive enough to speak at a TED event. It’s even more impressive when you’re in 6th grade.
Here’s a great video tribute giving an overview of the contributions of Steve Jobs:
Think different.
Endeavor is delivering a dark-matter hunter to the International Space Station.
That sentence alone sounds epic. Now check out the photo the crew posed for:
NASA did a pretty decent Photoshop to recreate this:
All Photoshopping aside, check out this amazing photo from Stefanie Gordon’s iPhone:
She was in a plane flying by the launch site and snapped a photo. It should be noted that she just gained 1,000+ followers on Twitter.
Do you think Apple’s releasing the app store for Mac applications? No matter what it is, I’m intrigued, even if their grammar is a little off.
Sometimes you need a computer voice reading text. GarageBand does great when you supply the voice, but what if it’s a big chunk of text that you want as an AIFF and don’t have time to record?
In Terminal (found in Utilities) type in:
say "Hello"
You can change the voice. The names of the voices can be found in the VoiceOver utility (like “Bruce” or “Cellos”). Use the -v option in Terminal to choose the voice:
say -v "Bruce" "Hello"
To have it output as an audio file, add -o and then the file name (with the .aiff extension). It will save the file in your home folder (in Finder, it’s the folder that has your name with the house icon).
say -v "Bruce" "Hello" -o hello.aiff
Instead of just simple “Hello”, you can have the voice read from a text file by using the -f option:
say -v "Bruce" -o article.aiff -f article.txt
If the text file is in your home folder, you can leave it as is. If it’s in a different folder, you need to specify the location. ~/Desktop tells Terminal the file is on the desktop, ~/Documents lets it know it’s in the Documents folder. You can also use that same syntax for where to output the audio file.
say -v "Bruce" -o ~/Music/article.aiff -f ~/Documents/article.txt
Here’s the audio file I just created using the text from this article:
article.m4a
(I saved it in GarageBand as an .m4a to play well with browsers.)
Now to figure out how to write a program to run Terminal. I know it’s possible; I’m just not cool enough yet.
There’s so much great accessibility stuff out there. Click here to see what more VoiceOver can do.
Have you seen a Braille monitor? Very cool stuff:
The world of Smart Bikes just got sleeker.
Imagine being able to map out your ride and to wirelessly share exercise info instantly. I’m not a big runner, so I haven’t tried the Nike + iPod thing, but this is pretty cool. If this bike truly responds to voice commands, which Apple has the power to do, we’re one step closer to my flying cars.
In other tech news, Google Wave got canceled. There’s irony in using Firefly quotes, a show that was canceled before it had run its course.
“Can’t stop the signal.”
This will more than likely not be a part of the new iPhone (which I agree with predictions of a June unveiling).
My guess is that this patent is in relation to a second-generation iPad, since the keyboard is the screen. One step closer to a Star Wars datapad:
Tonight watching WordGirl (yes, I have little kids at home and yes, we hang out watching PBS) the show had a news reporter with GarageBand’s “Broadcast News Long” jingle as the background. The show LOST on Hulu uses a GarageBand jingle to transition into the show. I’m telling you, it’s quality software for free on a Mac.
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