Tips by Tony

To coincide with the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, The History Channel has released The Civil War Today – an app exclusively for the iPad. The app presents a newspaper-like layout with tons of interactivity hiding just beneath the surface, including thousands of original document scans, photographs, maps, diary entries, quotes, [...]

We hear a lot these days about digital textbooks, but most examples I’ve seen are nothing more than digitized versions of the printed copy. While electronic versions of textbooks make your backpack much lighter, and provide the ability to search, what’s really needed is a complete re-thinking of how the content is provided. A new company named Inkling is taking the first step.

It’s been 2 weeks since Apple announced the iPad, and there’s no shortage of commentary on the upcoming device. I’ve read, and thought about, all the criticisms. Most are missing the point.