Friday, February 21, 2014

Thing 3

I played with the Google Goggles option in the Google Search app. I am at the library, so I am mostly restricted to objects like books, movies, and tissue boxes. I found it to be pretty reliable in identifying books and movies (although not always in the language I zapped). It took me directly to pages where those items could be purchased. I can see how a library patron might use this to find a book available for purchase that she had checked out from the library collection.

Alas, Google Goggles did not recognized the "Hot reads for cold nights" logo on my coffee mug. :)

Thing 2

I watched several youtube videos and read blogs on ios7 tips and tricks as I worked through this challenge. Since I am more or less a rookie at using an iPad to begin with, the "what's better about ios7" pieces were helpful (despite me having no knowledge of ios6). The biggest take away was closing apps. When I've used my husband's iPad, I've always just left everything open b/c until today I didn't realize that I could close them by flicking them up in the multi-tasking view. Very helpful!I also found an article that gives suggestions as to using parental controls with some degree of sophistication. At some point, my small people are going to start pushing the boundaries of appropriate use (for our family anyhow).