Today’s New York Times reports that many colleges are giving away free iPhones or the iPod Touch to their students. Apple hopes to hook new customers with the program and the schools involved hope to improve communications, test educational applications, and allow online research in class. Many professors are concerned that the devices will be a distraction.
The crew at my old puking grounds, Gizmodo.com, have whipped up one of the most comprehensive guides to cables on the ‘net. Whether it’s USB to Firewire or CAT-5 or even DVI, you will leave incredibly educated on the subject of tech-related cables. Been trying to figure out what kind of charger that weird phone you got off Craigslist takes? This will help you find out.
So you dropped out of High School and now you work at a sewage treatment plant scraping condoms out of human waste. I’ll bet that if you had to do it over again you would have stayed in school, earned that degree, and worked in a cushy office job. Well, it’s never too late my friend. Thanks to UC Berkeley, you can get a top notch education for free.
Yesterday the University of California at Berkeley became the first college to offer lectures on YouTube when it announced the launch of the UC Berkeley Channel. With over 300 lectures covering a wide range of topics, there is sure to be something interesting for those with a passion for learning. Not me though, that shit is as boring as hell.
