Just a quick post to note the new iPhone specific format for the blogs at Penn State went live this morning. The blog team upgraded several things today including protected blogging and an amazingly fast search. Nice work to the whole team!
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I guess I should have guessed that I'd stumble upon some University using the mobile phone in an ochetra after posting about the Leaf Trombone yesterday. The video below shows a Stanford's experimental MoPho group.
This morning I came across the video below demonstrating a new iPhone application, the Trombone Leaf from Smule. I love videos that use only one or two people doing different parts of a song and then mash it all together. At any rate, I love the video but what I am wondering after meeting the faculty from our Guitar Hero/Music 112 project is if we could convince some students to make some of these with the help of Digital Commons? Might be really fun and cool to pull off.
If you have an iPhone and you work at Penn State I am betting you've been trying in vein to get your Oracle Calendar to talk to one another without jumping through major hoops. I know it has been one of the biggest frustrations for me over the last couple of years. That is a thing of the past with the new $14.99 iPhone App, Tool+Cal+Sync (opens App Store). Yes it costs money and yes I paid for it out of my own pocket, but if this works I am more than happy.
I was shown this little gem by Chris Hubing in ITS' Emerging Technologies group. He has a great post up over at his blog (dude, get an offical PSU blog!) where he lays out all the settings. One word of warning, it works very slowly on my iPhone ... I am guessing b/c I have a large number of calendar entries. But it does work -- as a matter of fact it is working its magic right now!
