Owners of older Apple devices cheered when the news came from Cupertino that iOS7 was going to be available on older models like the iPad2 and iPhone 4S. However, the joy that came with running a brand-spanking-new OS on an older machine was tempered with the realization that the older hardware produced good-but-not-great performance.
The folks over at CNet have taken a look into some of the direct causes for the sometimes-sluggish performance in these cases and have come up with a few workarounds that could have those older devices running iOS7 like it was designed specifically for them. Some of these solutions seem fairly obvious, but the logic behind them is sound.
What is innovation? Google the term and it is~ the action or process of innovating a fairly unhelpful definition for those who subscribe to the notion that you cant define a word using a derivative of it. Synonyms include change~ alteration~ upheaval~ transformation~ or breakthrough.
People frequently imagine new technologies~ electronics~ scientific advances~ startups and other types of change when they hear the word innovation. People~ including those who care about...
While there's currently no version of Microsoft Office for iPad, a young software firm, hopTo Inc., is providing iPad users with a convenient workaround.
hopTo allows users to create, open and edit Office documents on the iPad before saving them to the cloud. The current version supports both Word and Excel files, with PowerPoint slated for an upcoming update. ...
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Rupee, an 11 month old pooch, has done something no dog has done before. He has climbed to the base camp of Mt. Everest with his owner, Joanne Lefson. Called Expedition Mutt Everest 2013, the journey was to create awareness to homeless animals and to promote adoption. Joanne found Rupee abandoned in a city in India. The pair trekked through snow and crossing old bridges and wet paths to reach 17,598 ft. in 13 days. Joanne said that Rupee pulled her...
Whats behind the pushback diversity trainer Jane Elliot gets from many white students about her now-famous Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes exercise? The exercise aims to explain the daily struggles of nonwhite students, and the pushback doesnt come from a place of hate, but one of ignorance or even arrogance.
Its the common problem in our culture of denial, both in the sense of denying identity within race and thus denying the problem as well as denying the reality of...
Quiz themboth orally and on paper
Listen to their retellings
Have them read from the basic sight word list
Select a variety of papers that demonstrates their progress in spelling
Administer and score an attitude survey for each one
Give them the unit pretests and prepare the end-of-level posttests
Prepare a cloze passage for them
See if each one can segment a word into phonemes
Take a running record of everyones oral reading for the...
I have one student~ who lives and breathes fishing. He knows more about different types of fish~ fishing gear~ and fishing conditions than most adults. He has read dozens of books and magazines on the subject~ written his own E-book on fishing~ and serves as a fishing guide for his father and other family members.
I think its safe to say hes obsessed with fishing.
In fact~ it can be quite common for gifted children and those highly curious and enthusiastic about...