Inside View

Toughening It Out Teaching LongReads

WORKING ALONGSIDE THIRD LEVEL STUDENTS who are constantly inundated with Facebook newsfeeds, Twitter DMs, e-mail exchanges, text messages, and push notifications, I stress the need to carve out time to read 5,000-word essays on our creat...

Three Essential Apps

Bernie Goldbach in LIT-Clonmel with Jason Goff in Dublin. BECAUSE I KNOW that a conversation with Jason Goff always leads to a lovely discovery, I'm trying to record a 20-minute phone chat with him every week and share the result. This ...

Top Three Apps

Setting up New Laptop

I'VE A NEW DELL M2400 LAPTOP running side-by-side a Dell D620 and realise it will take several days to pull all my required programs onto the rippingly-fast Dell Precision laptop. Part of its speed is down to Windows 7. Most of its speed...

Sixty Minutes with X10

FIRST IMPRESSIONS FADE AWAY easily so I wanted to scratch out a few comments about the SonyEricsson X10 after using the phone for a little more than an hour. I inserted my O2 SIM and followed the instructions on the screen, typing a few ...

An X10 Flagship Experience

FIVE DAYS OF USING the SonyEricsson X10 have transmogrified my index finger into a stylus. As much as this disrupted my old school relationship with small computers, the X10 has given me ideas about touching and swiping my way through a ...

My Zoot

Bernie Goldbach in LIT-Clonmel | Zoot Software logo I'VE DIPPED BACK INTO Zoot XT now that it's a very stable and very fast beast. However, its learning curve can easily intimidate the tap and swipe brigade. I started out on laptop...