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As a City Kid, I’ve never had much need to “identify the plants and animals around me” but now that I live in a semi-rural area, I’m kind of curious about the flora and fauna I see. This app may be able to help.

I find this to a very odd thing for our Royal Canadian Mint to do.

When I read about this yesterday, I was sure it was an April Fools’ joke. Good to read it isn’t.

My wife and I watched this video this weekend and were enthralled. We immediately went out and bought semolina flour so we could try our hand at some of it and now I want a pasta maker for myself.

If this is the future, let me off the planet. I want no part of it.

Wired: The modern web contains no shortage of horrors, from ubiquitous ad trackers to all-consuming platforms to YouTube comments, generally. Unfortunately, there’s no panacea for what ails this internet we’ve built. But anyone weary of black-box algorithms controlling what you … Continued

This history is more interesting than it has a right to be. That being said, don’t ever do this to strangers on the street.

What a great idea.

This is the most wondrously nerdy thing I’ve read all day.

Apple on Tuesday held an event in Chicago focused on its education customers. They offered a total solution that included an iPad and software to make learning in the classroom better for teachers and students, but somehow they are getting severely criticized for all of the announcements. […]

Cook’s comments in general are interesting but the Facebook burn is getting all the attention. I’m looking forward to watching the full interview.

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Dave Mark joins me this week to talk about all of Apple’s announcements at its education event held this morning in Chicago.

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Everyone Can Create is a range of free learning resources and teaching guides that help teachers easily weave drawing, music, filmmaking or photography into any lesson, topic or assignment. The curriculum gives students different ways to express themselves and helps them to discover and develop new skills.

Developed in collaboration with educators and creative professionals, Everyone Can Create includes teacher and student guides, lessons, ideas and examples to help teachers bring creativity and new communication skills into their existing subjects like English, math, science and history. For example, students can use the built-in camera in iPad to learn about fractals or they can use Apple Pencil and apps like Tayasui Sketches to learn about symmetry.

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Schoolwork is a new app that helps teachers create assignments, view student progress and bring the power of apps to the classroom in exciting new ways. Schoolwork features Handouts, an easy way to create and send assignments with almost any type of content, from web links to PDFs and documents.

With Schoolwork, teachers can take advantage of the power and creativity of apps available on iPad. They can easily assign a specific activity within an app and direct their students directly to the specific point within the app. Popular education apps like Nearpod, Tynker and Kahoot are already integrating support for Schoolwork.

I love the fact that teachers can assign specific activities within the app. There is a lot of good things in here.

I really hate the idea of there not being any ability to opt out of at least some of these alerts. I certainly won’t need an alert that an earthquake is happening – I’m pretty sure I’ll already know.

“Privacy means people know what they’re signing up for. In plain English, and repeatedly. That’s what it means.”

Open Culture: Ray Ellis had a six-decade career as a producer, arranger, and jazz composer. And while he’s best known for arranging music for Billie Holiday’s Lady in Satin (1958), he also enjoyed a long career orchestrating music for television. … Continued

Film School Rejects: Soderbergh and Baker might be the highest profile directors to turn to cellular devices for feature films, but there are plenty of independent filmmakers turning to the format. The iPhone is a great tool for filmmakers – … Continued

Thos of us old enough to remember the bad old days know that Apple had a reputation at times for not being very “gamer friendly”, whether it was towards gamers themselves or game developers. Steve Jobs was famously apathetic and dismissive of the Mac as a gaming platform. But the iPhone has changed all of that.

I think this behind the scenes video is even more interesting than the ad itself.

It’s good to be the king. Apple makes design and engineering choices that other companies wouldn’t even imagine doing.

Slash Film: When George Lucas was off at film school at the University of Southern California, he was exposed to all manner of film, from the mainstream to the experimental. One of the films that made the most profound impact … Continued

Today is the first official day of spring for those of us in the northern hemisphere. The cherry blossoms and tulips are just starting to bloom here in the Vancouver area. While I know many in the northeastern US and the Canadian Maritime provinces are hunkering down in the teeth of yet another snowstorm, just hang in there and hopefully, this video will remind you what you have to look forward to.

Along with the slight name change, the app comes with a bunch of cool features.

Open Culture: How does it compare to the blockbuster film? From its first salvo of Wakandan warrior prowess in a cold open set in the 5th century A.D., to its seventies-African-funk-inspired theme song, to a present-day scene in the White … Continued

Reading this story this morning made me incredibly sad. These are magnificent animals and we are hunting them to extinction.

Tim Hardwick, MacRumors:

Bluetooth is what your Mac uses to connect to wireless devices like keyboards, mice, trackpads, speakers, and other peripherals. Generally, it’s a reliable technology. At some point however, the chances are you’ll run into difficulty establishing a Bluetooth connection with one or more of your devices.

Most problems can be fixed by unpairing and repairing the Bluetooth device, changing its batteries, rebooting your Mac, or performing an SMC reset. But if none of these methods work, you can always try resetting your Mac’s Bluetooth module. Here’s how to do it in macOS using the hidden Bluetooth Debug menu.

Great tip, well documented.

Jeopardy! has always been my favorite game show but I never gave the process of the creation of the clues much thought.

For many, Cohen will be an acquired taste but he’s always been one of my favorite songwriters, right up there with Prince. But where Prince had a love of life and sensuality to it, Cohen would be described as depressing (not by me though). But I still love listening to him.

I love this video. These cartoon sound effects are as familiar to me as my own voice.

This is an amazing video. I’ve seen these kinds of tapestries when I traveled in Europe and always wondered how they were created.