Archive for the ‘primarypad’ Category

• iEtherpad.com Update

  Date: 2011.12.05 | Category: etherpad, primarypad | Response: 0

  So you may have noticed that iEtherpad.com has been down for a week+ and that there has been no update from the site owner.

  The owner of the site is called “Prasanna Sankaranarayanan” and is ignoring emails from myself, his users and the Etherpad foundation.

  Alarm bells rang over 6 months ago at the Etherpad foundation when Prasanna refused to contribute any of his source to the Etherpad project and did not place an SLA or any legal documentation on the website. Due to this iEtherpad.com was not included in the public sites section of Etherpad.org

  So who recommended iEtherpad.com?
  A bunch of people, and I told them not to but I was obviously biased but mheh. What can I do if people don’t listen? Now I’m recieving emails from people saying they have lost their work.. Three things here:

  1. Your work was not covered by an SLA
  2. You should have had your work backed up
  3. If you want to an SLA covered Etherpad service see PrimaryPad

  So what’s going on with your data?
  You have probably lost it, but go knock on Hawthorne Labs inbox. Hawthorne Labs is a company Prasanna founded and if they run that company the same way they have run iEtherpad.com then they are bound to have some sad customers and probably an inbox full of complaints and/or law suits.

  Make a stand people also be aware that you should be saving local copies of your work and remember that if there is no SLA in place the company doesn’t have to help you.

• Blowing our own trumpet.

  Date: 2011.12.01 | Category: ICT, primary schools, primary schools ict, primary technology, primaryblogger, primarypad | Response: 0

  Sometimes we get email that really make all of the hard work we put in worthwhile. Here is one of those emails:

  Just a note to say thank you for the excellent two packages I have used today. As you are no doubt aware that today was a strike day and unfortunately our school decided to close. Without politics being discussed I decided not to strike and used the Internet and two of your packages to host my lessons – run from the classroom, but with children in their homes. The technology worked seamlessly. My only issue was not having names on primary paint.  The software was quality all over and made my interactive lessons almost as they would be in the classroom. Thanks again.

  So not only did we get some positive, quality feedback we also got a bug report Thanks to the sender!

• PrimaryPad now works on Apple mobile devices

  Date: 2011.10.14 | Category: ICT, primary pad, Primary School, primary schools, primary schools ict, primary technology, primarypad | Response: 0

  When we designed PrimaryPad we knew that editing content on mobile devices would be an issue for a lot of people especially Apple device owners. Today we are pleased to announce that any Apple device running iOS5 will be able to edit pad contents. Enjoy!

• NEW FEATURE: PrimaryPad autoQue / Teleprompter

  Date: 2011.09.19 | Category: ICT, primary pad, Primary School, primary schools, primary schools ict, primary technology, primarypad, Safe Search | Response: 0

  Ever wanted to make a movie and needed an autoQue? Well why not collaboratively write your script in PrimaryPad then export it straight to our autoQue tool?

  We have released the autoQue tool under an open source license and we will be adding it to the suite of tools available through the safe search website.

  Check it out now, visit this pad then click Export –> autoQue

• PrimaryPad now supports Speech input

  Date: 2011.06.21 | Category: ICT, primary schools, primary schools ict, primary technology, primarypad | Response: 0

  You can now chat with PrimaryPad using speech input (only supported in Google Chrome). This new feature allows you to talk into the chat dialogue saving those important finger muscles to do furious desk tapping and head scratching.

  Try it out and let us know