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Wiki Recap

Another topic that would be interesting for groups of people around our age would be technology. More specifically apple products. Doing a wiki about apple products would be a good topic because most people purchase apple products and they have become a neccessity in our daily lives now. Other pages that could branch out from the home page would include iphone, ipod, and ipad informations, as well as information about mac computers. The home page would be an overview and history about the company. Each page would have about fifteen to eighteen bullet points and two to three sentences in the begining as an introduction to the information. I would only have this much infomation to keep it short and only provide important points about the products.

Dish Offers to Buy Sprint, Joining Phone to TV Service

• Dish network wants to combine with Sprint so they could offer both high-speed internet at home and wireless
• They offered Sprint $25.5 billion so they could provide internet and cellphone service for their costumers at a more affordable price 
• Dish Network hopes to beat the offer that Sprint got by a Japanese telecommunications company Softbank, which offered them a bid of $20 billion
• Dish Network said it would be able to combine its existing broadband and TV offerings with Sprint Nextel’s cellphone operations, allowing it to better compete with rivals like Verizon
• A combination with Dish Networks would pose more of a threat to AT&T and Verizon
• If the bid goes through Dish Network would also take over Clearwire, another wireless operator that Sprint owns

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Multiple-Display Software Follows Your Gaze to Keep Your Focused

• With the aid of an eye-tracking program,researchers at the University of St. Andrews created a software to dim and freeze monitors the user is no longer focused on and adjust the highlighted display.
• When the users eyes move to another tab on the screen the monitor responds 
• 98% accuracy at detecting lines of vision
• the most successful program is the "Pixmap" technique, that highlights information on a pixel level, offers the most effective balance in information density and level of intrusiveness.
•  With these types of attention-focusing techniques, users don't have to worry as much about what they might be missing on other screens, which leads to less frantic eye darting

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Do Now 4-8-13

All in all this spring break was okay, but I'm actually happy to be back in school and the normal routine. The whole week I had track practice at 9 for 2 hours and a  meet on Tuesday and Saturday, which we were all freezing at. Then on Wed. I left to go to Rhode Island to look at a college in Providence; the college is Johnson and Whales University. Johnson and Whales is a culinary school, that is known for its amazing cooking programs and internships. So I took a tour of the campus and talked with admissions and financial workers at the college. Also, when we went to Rhode Island we walked around downtown Providence and a small beach town called Newport. To end break we had a huge track meet.

Johnson and Whales campus