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01 November, 2012
Windows 8 can run on Apple Macs, there are at least four different ways. There are two commercial programs that will do the job. Parallels from the Swiss company of the same name and Fusion from VMware of the US along with a couple of freebies: Boot Camp from Apple and the open-source Virtual Box from Oracle.
31 October, 2012
30 October, 2012
There’s a fast-growing trend in the corporate world to replace human bias with algorithmic precision during the hiring process. In addition to an interview – or even during pre-interview screening – hopeful applicants are completing questionnaires. But unlike similar questionnaires of the past, it’s the computer that looks at the answers and decides whether or not the applicant has got what the company is looking for.
In software, skeuomorphism can be traced back to the visual metaphors designers created to translate on-screen applications before users were accustomed to interacting with computer software: virtual folders to store your documents, virtual Rolodexes to store contacts. But over time, skeuomorphism has seeped into all areas of UI design, especially in Apple’s software, where text documents, for example, are made to look like yellow legal pads.
29 October, 2012
Launching the white paper Australia in the Asian Century yesterday, the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, said the curriculum changes would be compulsory in return for state and territory governments and private school organisations receiving Commonwealth funding for education which was soon to be boosted.The white paper recommendation, adopted by the government, says every child must have the opportunity to learn one of Mandarin, Hindi, Japanese or Indonesian and every school must be linked to a school in Asia to support the teaching process. In some instances this would require the national broadband network.
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