Sunday, October 30, 2011
Friday, October 28, 2011
Cooking For Engineers - Step by Step Recipes and Food for the Analytically Minded
Dear Eric,
You are getting close to going to college, where you intend to study engineering. You will do many experiments. You will need to eat. Learning to cook requires experimenting.
I have found a website for you to review.
Monday, September 12, 2011
Cleaning and removing rust off tools
http://preventrust.info/cleaning-and-removing-rust-off-tools/
Sincerely,
David Lundeen
Sent from my iPad
Sunday, September 11, 2011
What to do in college right now | Penelope Trunk Blog
http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2011/09/05/what-to-do-in-college-right-now/
Sincerely,
David Lundeen
Sent from my iPad
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Your Daily Dog Walking Forecast
AccuWeather.com - Outdoor Living Weather Forecast for Winter Park, FL:
Sunday is predicted to be very good for walking your dog.
Only in America...
Monday, August 15, 2011
10 Reasons to Skip the Expensive Colleges
10 Reasons to Skip the Expensive Colleges on Shine
1. Beginning adulthood without debt is worth far more than a designer diploma.
The authors’ No. 1 rule for parents: Don’t let your child go into debt for college. In 2010, almost two thirds of undergraduates borrowed money, and student-loan debt outpaced credit card debt for the first time. The College Board likes to say that a typical senior graduates with “only” $24,000 in debt, but with interest, collection charges, and penalties for postponed payments, the amounts owed can exceed $100,000. If you ever default on a federal student loan (and the rate of defaults is rising), you’ll be hounded for life. Lenders can garnish your wages, intercept your tax refunds, and have your professional license revoked. You can’t work for the government or collect your social security. “People have been sold this propaganda: ‘The rates are so low; just get a loan,’ ” Dreifus says. “The long-term effect is to cripple your children.”
9. Going to an elite university does not guarantee success.
To prove this point, Hacker and Dreifus tracked the 900-odd students who graduated from Princeton in 1973 to see if the school was delivering on its promise “to prepare students for positions of leadership,” whether in business, public service, or the arts, which Princeton administrators claim as their goal. “We were very disappointed,” Hacker says. “There were only a handful of recognized names in that class of 900. What that tells us is simply this: In America, if you put your talents to their best use, by the age of 35 or 36, you’ll be passing people from Princeton, no matter where you went to school.” Sure, the authors acknowledge, a designer degree might help you get into medical school or law school at Harvard, Stanford, or Yale. That’s a nice bonus if you can pay the full sticker price, they say, but not enough of an edge to saddle your child with many thousands of dollars in debt.
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
National Geographic Reviews the iPad2 for travel
Adventure Travel - National Geographic Adventure Blog
A few apps they call out:
• National Geographic National Parks Maps HD App - $4.99
This app pairs hi-res images of points-of-interest within National Geographic HD topo trail maps for 15 parks (Yosemite, Yellowstone, Zion, Grand Canyon, Grand Teton, and ten others). The iPad’s Digital Compass will locate you within the park when you are ready to start exploring.
• JetSetter - Free
This visually stunning, content-driven travel app lets you discover travel destinations through a gorgeous layout and photography. The stories and editorial reviews will tantalize you to take a trip—and the app even allows you to book a hotel stay with a cool calendar feature. It also has “Flash Sale” limited-time travel deals.• TripAdvisor - Free
Thanks to the iPad’s digital compass, TripAdvisor’s vast database of user reviews are made available on Google Street maps. Simply locate yourself via the GPS, then read reviews of nearby restaurants and hotels positioned on a Google Street View map. What’s surprising is all the local information. I always considered TripAdvisor to be best for international hotels. But with the app, I located myself in my apartment in Brooklyn and it showed me all the restaurants and businesses on my street with contact info and user reviews.
• Fotopedia Heritage - Free
Brilliant photos illustrate the world’s UNESCO World Heritage sites in this app. The Machu Picchu slide show alone has 59 images.
• FlightBoard - $3.99
This app quite simply lets you see the Arrivals and Departures flight boards in any airport. Pretty handy if you are dealing with weather delays.
• AllSubway HD - $.99
This is the first collection of subway maps from the world’s great cities, from Moscow to Munich to Perth. You don’t need a Wi-Fi connection to use it, so subterranean navigation is possible.
Starting in May, Apple is going to offer free travel app workshops for consumers at their 200+ U.S. stores. At these workshops, Apple instructors will show the latest and best travel apps available.
Friday, June 17, 2011
Military adopts iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad
The article states that a modern smartphone has the computing power of a 10 year old laptop and has replaced a lot of heavy gear that no longer has to be lugged along on a mission. Not to mention that when you have time you can get away from it all by plugging in your earphones and listening to music.
The U.S. Army has established an app store (the Army Marketplace) for military smart phone users. This includes the iPad, which soldiers are also big fans of. The army app store includes an "App Wanted" section where users can post descriptions of an app they need. If a developer (in uniform, or an army approved civilian with access to the Army Marketplace) is interested, a discussion can be started on an attached message board. The army hopes that the needed app will be quickly created and made available at the Army Marketplace.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
MobileMe Find My iPhone (or iPad or even iPod Touch)
MobileMe Find My iPhone
Good way to protect yourself if you lose your iPhone or iPad.
OK, this is a great App and its free. I downloaded from the App Store. Set it up in about a minute using my existing Apple ID and password. Then you can go to me.com, enter your ID and password and it will show you where your iPad is currently. (in my case not just the building, but pretty much where in the building!)
You can also make it play a tone for two minutes, send a message to display on the device. You can even lock the iPhone or iPad, or if need be, wipe all your private data off of it. All for free.
You can also make it play a tone for two minutes, send a message to display on the device. You can even lock the iPhone or iPad, or if need be, wipe all your private data off of it. All for free.
Good way to protect yourself if you lose your iPhone or iPad.
App of the Week
Home | Leafsnap: An Electronic Field Guide
Not sure this will work well in Florida yet, but very intriguing for iPhone and iPad.
This free mobile app uses visual recognition software to help identify tree species from photographs of their leaves.
Leafsnap contains beautiful high-resolution images of leaves, flowers, fruit, petiole, seeds, and bark. Leafsnap currently includes the trees of New York City and Washington, D.C., and will soon grow to include the trees of the entire continental United States.
This website shows the tree species included in Leafsnap, the collections of its users, and the team of research volunteers working to produce it.
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Sunday, June 05, 2011
Friday, June 03, 2011
On Top of Diamond Head
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