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Beam me up Scotty, the iPad is here

The iPad is here, the iPad is here! 
Alright, alright, I’ll stop shouting.  But just in case you haven’t been subject to the media bombardment surrounding Apple’s newest tech toy, the ‘bigger-than-an-iPhone-and-smaller-than-a-laptop’ gadget has been causing quite the stir among technology lovers everywhere.
Reminiscent of Star Trek’s PADD (Personal Access Display Device), the iPad has been proclaimed [...]

Rediscovering Education…and Ourselves in the Process

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Over the past six months or so, I’ve been working as a scribe for a friend and local educator in the school system who has decided to advance her education and pursue her Masters in Education.  This decision did not come lightly, as returning to school combined with juggling a teaching career and being a single parent [...]

New Point2 Agent Email System Almost Here!

Macbook-Mail

It’s almost here.  Next week marks the start of the migration to the new Point2 Agent Rackspace email accounts!
Between the weeks of September 15-October 9, current email accounts through Point2 will switch over to Rackspace email accounts.  Due to the volume of emails within Point2 Agent, this migration will be done in stages.  Users will receive a migration [...]

Who says “Bigger is Better”?

Many of you have been acquainted with our current set of Getting Started Guides, and while the feedback has been positive, it has also indicated that the Guides were a bit long.  Averaging 30 pages each, maybe just a tad!  The words of my high school English teacher come back to haunt me: “Tanya, you’re too wordy…”
Well, [...]

Merging Knowledge with Technology: The New Real Estate Photographer

Paul Freeman Photography

One great thing about shooting real estate photography is that the house never complains. It never says things like, “my shingles look weird in that one,” or “ewww, my blinds were half-closed – can we shoot again?” Therefore, it’s left largely up to the photographer to know what shots work, and what do [...]

Innovative Approaches to Virtual Environments

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It was sometime during the late-1980s or early-1990s when I first tried virtual reality at the local video store.  My memory is a bit vague, but I know it was prior to Virtual Boy and The Lawnmower Man – that I’m sure of.  The system itself was temporarily on display in an effort to draw [...]