Lisa L. Spangenberg

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  • About
    • Contact
    • Policies
  • Blog: IT
  • Scholarship
  • Teaching
    • The Writing Process
    • On Passive Voice
    • Rhetorical Figures
    • Seventeenth Century Prose Style
    • Teaching with Technology
    • Writing at Work
  • Technology
    • IT: Blog
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  • Writing
    • Purple Prose
    • Murder Your Darlings or Kill Your Darlings
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  • Accessories,  Hardware,  Review

    Brydge+ with Speakers iPad Keyboard

    Lisa Spangenberg / June 16, 2014

    The Brydge iPad keyboard began as a Kickstarter project. New owners based in Singapore took over in 2014, and the current models are improved. You should look at the Brydge Keyboards Website for…

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  • Hardware,  News

    John Gruber on the new iPad Mini with Retina Screen

    Lisa Spangenberg / November 15, 2013

    John Gruber writes: After three days of extensive use of the Mini (a review unit on loan from Apple), it works and feels exactly like the iPad Air. Everything about it is of…

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  • Accessories

    Belkin iPad Stands for Cooks and Kitchens

    Lisa Spangenberg / April 24, 2012

    In the course of working on an article about the iPad and various stands, I discovered that two of my favorite stands from Belkin, both designed for kitchen use, are on sale at…

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  • Apple,  Hardware

    Apple’s March 7 New iPad Announcements

    Lisa Spangenberg / March 8, 2012

    First, the big news. Apple is taking orders right now for March 16 shipping for their third version iPad. The specs are here. The crude details: Retina display with 3.1 million pixels (2048-by-1536-pixel…

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  • Commentary,  Software

    iPad for Book Lovers

    Lisa Spangenberg / March 4, 2012

    Peachpit has posted an article by me about my love for books, and the iPad: Lisa L. Spangenberg, coauthor of The iPad 2 Project Book, readily confesses to being nuts about books. Like…

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  • Pedagogy

    iPad Tips for the College Student

    Lisa Spangenberg / October 17, 2011

    I’ve written a short article on Peachpit’s site on “iPad Tips for the College Student.” I suggest several useful and time-saving iPad apps for students. None of the iPad apps I’m discussing cost…

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  • Accessories

    Which iPad Case and Keyboard Should I Get?

    Lisa Spangenberg / June 29, 2011

    I’m looking for an iPad keyboard and case combination. It’s for a first generation iPad, and I’m trying to decide between the Zaggmate and the Adonit Writer for iPad 1. They’re both about…

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  • Commentary

    iPad, Mostly Love, and Some Annoyances Abated

    Lisa Spangenberg / April 24, 2011

    Dennis on iPad, Mostly Love, and Some Annoyances Abated: I love my iPad and (most of) the apps on it. I qualify the app assertion because there’s one from Apple for which I…

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  • Hardware,  iOS

    First (and Second) Impressions

    Lisa Spangenberg / April 9, 2011

    My co-writer, Dennis Cohen, has an interesting post on his own blog about the state of the iPad world. Dennis makes intelligent, thoughtful remarks on the iPad 2, the iPad 2 release and…

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  • Accessories,  Tips

    About that battery . . .

    Lisa Spangenberg / January 23, 2011

    Just for the heck of it, and because I was curious, I wanted to see how long my iPad’s battery would last if I were using it just to read some locally stored…

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