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The Open High School of Utah is an online public charter high school, offering an incredible curriculum, personalized learning experiences, and the flexibility of studying from your home or wherever else you may be. And because the Open High School of Utah is a public high school, there's no cost to attend.

The idea is to find differences between similar looking images. If that’s your idea of a fun outing, you may be glad to know that anyone with an iPhone or iPod touch in hand can now partake in that same contest with a little application called Photo Hunter

The idea is to find differences between similar looking images. If that’s your idea of a fun outing, you may be glad to know that anyone with an iPhone or iPod touch in hand can now partake in that same contest with a little application called Photo Hunte

Beyond Current Horizons looks at the future of education, beyond 2025. The aim is to help our education system prepare for and respond to the challenges it faces as society and technology rapidly evolve. What skills will children need for work? How might parenting and the family change? What impact will new technologies have on learning?

While online video is a great tool, automatically indexing these videos and making them searchable is still a very hard task. EveryZing, a Massachusetts-based company that focuses on media indexing through speech-to-text and natural language processing, released a new version of its media player today that allows users to search online videos on third-party sites for keywords and tags. Currently, however, this technology is only available to EveryZing's corporate partners, with the Dallas Cowboys being the first to make use of these new capabilities. While testing the new player, we came away thoroughly impressed with the accuracy of the transcripts and the ease of use of the interface.

The first Android phone. the G1, goes on sale today at T-Mobile stores. And, although I have some issues with the software/hardware interface, those are more than overcome by all the great software on the phone. I’ve been testing out a phone for about a week, and I don’t think I’ve made more than five actual calls on the phone. For me, it’s all about the apps. The apps I use the most come with the device: Gmail, the Web browser, and Google Maps, in that order. The phone also comes with the Amazon MP3 store, which lets you buy songs and download them over the air directly onto the phone. But you can also download apps from the Android Market, which is similar to the iPhone’s App Market. Many of the original apps on the review phones have been scrubbed, and about 50 are supposed to be loaded onto the market for today’s launch.

The first Android phone. the G1, goes on sale today at T-Mobile stores. And, although I have some issues with the software/hardware interface, those are more than overcome by all the great software on the phone. I’ve been testing out a phone for about a w

Perfect for winter usage and keeping touchscreen devices smudge-free, New York-made Dots Gloves offers simple affordable gloves adorned with metal dots enabling use of iPhone, iPod and other touchscreen phones and devices without direct finger contact. The dots' smooth curved surface provides safe scratchless use.

Making screencasts (also known as “video tutorials”) is already easy, and becomes easier with better tools and broadband proliferation. However, no tech is complete without a human who dives in, does experiments, and discerns best practices from the results. I’ve made over 200 video tutorials, mostly for the virtual world of Second Life, and I’ve also done tutorials for stuff like YouTube and Sony Vegas. If a picture’s a 1,000 words, then a video is… a LOT more. Through such experience, these are tips ‘n’ tricks I’m sure you’ll find practical and applicable to your further forays into the video fields:

Making screencasts (also known as “video tutorials”) is already easy, and becomes easier with better tools and broadband proliferation. However, no tech is complete without a human who dives in, does experiments, and discerns best practices from the resul

We extracted the colours from 10 million of the most “interesting” Creative Commons images on Flickr. Using our visual similarity technology you can navigate the collection by colour. Also available with Alamy Stock Photography.

We extracted the colours from 10 million of the most “interesting” Creative Commons images on Flickr. Using our visual similarity technology you can navigate the collection by colour. Also available with Alamy Stock Photography.

Students for Free Culture is an international chapter-based student organization that promotes the public interest in intellectual property and information & communications technology policy.

he AppLoop Application Generator is a web-based tool that converts any RSS feed into a brandable iPhone application in less than 2 minutes. Convert your blog to a fully native mobile application in less than two minutes. We'll maintain your codebase, provide analytics, and manage your end-to-end mobile content distribution strategy

Co-op makes it easy to stay connected with your co-workers without disrupting them. Your team can use it to post updates, ask questions, share links, and track time. Quickly share your daily agenda with your co-workers. Quickly scan your co-workers' agendas. Then cancel your daily status meetings! As each team member updates status and tracks time, Co-op automatically records the transcript. You can go back in time to see what your team has accomplished each day.

Are ebooks going to go mainstream with Amazon becoming a de facto distribution monopoly? Or is a marketplace characterized by many different players and options looming still on the horizon?

Still in doubt about whether to get an Amazon Kindle? Not fully convinced that these new ebook reader devices have the form factor and usability traits you are expecting? John Blossom has taken the time to go out and borrow an Amazon Kindle from his close-by public library, and has played with it for over two weeks before writing this review.

I have a feeling that the question we pose today is wrong. It’s not about mobile anymore. For some people, mobile means the devices that we carry around as we move, usually hooked up to a cellular network. The truth is, the activities we go through online with computers and what we do with our “mobiles” cannot be seen as separate anymore. This convergence means our language needs to change or our culture will never understand its future.

I have a feeling that the question we pose today is wrong. It’s not about mobile anymore. For some people, mobile means the devices that we carry around as we move, usually hooked up to a cellular network. The truth is, the activities we go through online

While map mashups in many ways defined this genre of application, the second most popular type of web mashup here on ProgrammableWeb are photo mashups. How popular? Just this past week the number of photo-related mashups passed the 500 mark, and there are now 505 listed. And even though there are now 48 photo APIs, it’s still Flickr and their ever-popular API that rule this segment. There are now 382 Flickr mashups listed here. The next most popular photo APIs include ImageLoop, Panoramio and Picasa (the latter two being Google products).

While map mashups in many ways defined this genre of application, the second most popular type of web mashup here on ProgrammableWeb are photo mashups. How popular? Just this past week the number of photo-related mashups passed the 500 mark, and there are

Muslim social network Muxlim.com, live since late 2006, is planning to launch a Muslim-oriented virtual world not unlike Second Life. The idea is that something tailored to the Muslim world would be allowed through the IP-blocks of countries like United Arab Emirates which currently stops access to virtual worlds and online games considered unsuitable or offensive to Muslim culture. The virtual world is said to launch in 4-6 weeks and will “allow the opportunity to wear a hijab, and go to prayer rooms.” Muxlim itself is your standard social network offering community features, blogs and video sharing. The revenue model will be VIP accounts, virtual gifts, virtual furniture/clothes, themes/styles, profile applications, advertising, branded communities and physical merchandise like t-shirts.

Muslim social network Muxlim.com, live since late 2006, is planning to launch a Muslim-oriented virtual world not unlike Second Life. The idea is that something tailored to the Muslim world would be allowed through the IP-blocks of countries like United A

This specification defines an API that provides scripted access to geographical location information associated with the hosting device.

So long as you’ve got a Wi-Fi signal to grab onto and a Web browser with Google’s Gears engine on board, Google is enabling Web developers near and far the option to locate users all around the world and feed them information relevant to their respective places on the map. It is doing this with an enhancement of its Gears Geolocation API, which was originally designed to provide location services for mobile phone users. Now the company includes users of PCs in the process.

So long as you’ve got a Wi-Fi signal to grab onto and a Web browser with Google’s Gears engine on board, Google is enabling Web developers near and far the option to locate users all around the world and feed them information relevant to their respective

Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): Firefox extension Geode adds experimental geolocation features to your browser. We've already seen how a location-aware iPhone can change your life, and the idea is very much the same with Geode.

The market for video games is changing profoundly, and a comparison of two prominent titles’ recent sales figures shows just how much: Wii Fit, a game largely marketed to women, is outpacing the latest installment of one of the industry’s biggest franchises, Grand Theft Auto. With some 8.7 million units sold worldwide, Nintendo’s Wii Fit has already grossed far more money than Take-Two’s Grand Theft Auto IV.

The market for video games is changing profoundly, and a comparison of two prominent titles’ recent sales figures shows just how much: Wii Fit, a game largely marketed to women, is outpacing the latest installment of one of the industry’s biggest franchis