Posts Tagged "university"

College Collaboration Tools

Posted on Oct 26, 2008 in Opinions, The web

This semester we’ve been assigned a lot of coursework that needs to be worked on in teams, with each team  usually consisting of around 3-6 people. To help us share files, work on document together and generally stay in sync, we’ve started using a few different online services…

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Back to School Shopping Guide Part II: Essential Apps

Posted on Sep 21, 2008 in Mac, Opinions, Reviews

No college student can get by nowadays without a few productivity apps to help them keep track of assignments, files, notes etc. There are a ton of different apps designed to do this sort of thing, but a lot of them are either aimed at business users (and priced accordingly) or don’t just feel to feature-laden and dense to be really practical for quick notes in classes.

So here’s a few productivity apps that students might find are worth checking out. Affordable, intuitive and ideal for quick notes, references, links and more.

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iPhone Cisco VPN support

Posted on Mar 7, 2008 in iPhone

Yesterday’s iPhone SDK announcement is great news for all Mac developers and a huge opportunity for Apple to establish the iPhone platform as a real alternative to Windows Mobile, as well as Symbian and Blackberry devices. But what caught my attention was the mention of Cisco IPSec VPN support in the upcoming firmware update.

That’s great news for University students as a lot of university’s require you to log on to their VPN network if you want to use a wireless access point. And the majority of institutions use Cisco’s VPN implementation. So come June I’ll hopefully have full WLAN access at home, work and now University as well. A great move by Apple…

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