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Technology-based learning debuted in Umm Al Quwain

Bartosz Gonczarek — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:15:49 +0000

The UAE Ministry of Education and Gulf Educational Supplies and Solutions (GESS) have hosted a technology-based mobile learning workshop at Umm Al Quwain’s Safia Bint Abd Al Motaleb School, Umm Al Quwain Secondary School.

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Patrick Beyrouti, Business Development manager Education at authorised Apple distributor, Arab Business Machine, also showed how the iPad can be used as an effective learning tool in the classroom environment, and introduced a number of teacher and student friendly device applications, including Explain Everything, and additional educational apps.

Check whole article at ITP.NET by clicking this link.

Reminders come to Organizer+

Bartosz Gonczarek — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:19:10 +0000

After introducing Reminders in version 1.4 of Organizer+ we decided to improve this functionality in order to save battery life. Initial task reminders that we’ve implemented were based on GPS running in the background. If accuracy is the key – GPS seems to be ideal solution for launching reminder close to address of your choice. In reality battery life was substantially reduced. In version 1.5 we are going to introduce region-based reminders that don’t use GPS but iOS capabilities of detecting user location.

Frequently Asked Questions

Bartosz Gonczarek — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 08:44:00 +0000

FAQ:

Question: How can I change the default color (blue) of my calendar entries?
Answer: Tap on the gear icon (top left corner), select “Colors & Visibility” and choose your colors.

Question: I can’t edit my event, why?
Answer: Events that come from a server as an invitation cannot be edited. This behavior is consistent with iPhone default calendar, we’re not limiting your options here. What you can do is delete an event from view – to do that please open list view, swipe your event and press Delete.

Question: Why can’t I invite people to an existing event?
Answer: iOS has very limited capability when it comes to invitations. We’re struggling to find a consistent way of making invitations work, but be sure that we are working on this issue for future releases, indeed it’s on the top of our list of priorities.

Question: How can I hide some of my calendars from view?
Answer: Tap on the gear icon (top left corner), select “Colors & Visibility” and select / deselect your calendars

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Activity duration & custom icons

Bartosz Gonczarek — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 08:42:09 +0000

When creating events, Organizer+ tries to recognize your activity (such as meeting, call, drive or flight) and presents it as an icon. Also, activities have a duration attribute. Duration for the predefined activities has been set and is used by default (but you can change any of them) ie telephone call ~ 15 minutes, meeting ~ 60 minutes, so there’s no need to set an end time.

Organizer+ is equipped with a predefined set of activities, but there is no limit to using activity icons. You can create new activities and attach your own icons. This can be done in preferences (accessible under “gear” icon).

Defined activities will be recognized during new event creation. For example: define soccer as an activity that lasts 90 mins. Next time you creat an event – write “tomorrow 10:00 AM soccer with Paul” – Organizer+ will instantly recognize and add the end time 90 mins later, 11:30 AM soccer with Paul”.

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Working with events

Bartosz Gonczarek — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 08:39:46 +0000

Organizer+ automatically synchronizes with all defined calendars on your iPhone and therefore events in Organizer+ are all your calendar entries, but enhanced with underlying links to your iPhone resources (such as people in your Address Book, co~ordinates from GoogleMaps etc). When you receive an event from an outside source, say Exchange Server, Organizer+ will display it ‘as it is’ and will not force any icons or such. But such events can be edited and while doing so – Organizer+ will try to resolve, from the event name – associated people from your Address Book and from its location attribute – an address that will be linked to GoogleMaps.

You can change an event date by tapping its date icon (or changing it’s description and allowing Organizer+ to resolve the start and end time from the description).

Events can have alerts, that will inform you in advance about it’s occurrence – but since the majority of your events will come from iPhone calendars – alert may link to it instead of to Organizer+. For all events created in Organizer+ the alert window will link to event details in Organizer+.

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Placing tasks in calendars

Bartosz Gonczarek — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 08:38:58 +0000

Tasks in Organizer+ are used as events without a given date. So for instance; a task can remind you to buy a book at a given shop or pick up laundry on your way home (both of these tasks are not time specific) but sometimes it’s necessary to place your task in your calendar as an event. In order to do this in Organizer+ press & hold your task, then choose “Move to events”.

Your task will appear on the top bar allowing you to change view to LIST/DAY/MONTH, then point to the place where it should be positioned. Use Day view and tap to indicate the starting hour of your new event, or list/month for any other event and decide when your moved task should begin, before or after existing appointments.

Remember: when creating tasks you can choose which calendar they should belong to. This way your task will have a color assigned from the calendar it’s referring to. Once moved – it will be synchronized with the appropriate calendar.

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Highlights of Organizer +

Bartosz Gonczarek — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 08:37:57 +0000

buy for $1.99

Organizer + is a fully integrated calendar bundled together with GPS-enabled task manager. It’s a tool not a toy.
Why use Organizer + instead of a standard calendar? What are its highlights? Read 10 reasons how Organizer+ can truly save time while managing your day:

It’s time saving: Set your tasks or events instantly – describe them and Organizer + will resolve crucial information such as date, time, person involved or location directly from the content of your description. No windows, no pop-ups, just unbeatable performance for those that treasure their time. Learn more about instant event creation by clicking here.
Your daily agenda in the blink of an eye: Key event information is displayed with icons. No need to read event descriptions to get an understanding of your day. Get it much faster by looking at Organizer+ with a visual representation. Learn more about how Organizer + displays day view here, and here on how list view and month view is organized.
Event locations are geolocations: Event locations are linked to GoogleMaps, so with just one tap you can find directions without losing time cutting and pasting information. To set geolocation just type in the address and you’re done. Learn more about it here.
Task lists can be arranged by priority or your distance from them. If you keep forgetting to pick up your laundry or buy wine at your favorite shop – set it as a task with a location. By checking your current location Organizer + will sort your tasks by their distance from you, instantly showing you which task can be accomplished while you’re near its place. Read about it here.
Display ongoing and nearest events in blink of an eye. No need to browse your calendar to find the current event – tap on “Today” regardless of the view you’re using and Organizer+ will highlight in red ongoing or upcoming events. Read about it here.
Invitees are linked to your Address Book: People you meet or talk to are automatically interlinked with your iPhone address book so whenever you’re in a rush – initiate a call or send a message directly from Organizer+, with just one tap on their icon! Read about it here.
Manage tasks with relation to calendars. When creating a task Organizer +associates it with a calendar, so when you add a time of occurrence to a given task – it will know to which calendar your new event should belong. Relocate tasks by moving them into your calendar to create events. You can literally drag your tasks and drop them in your calendar – read more about it here.
Time-conscious calendar entries: Activities, presented by icons are time-conscious. Organizer + knows that if it’s a call you need to make – usually it takes up to 15 minutes so, just set the start time and you’re done. See more about this feature here.
User-customizable: Organizer + comes with a set of predefined, recognizable activities. It also allows you to define user-specific ones, so if you want to teach your child how to organize the day; set their appropriate activities (school, bike, homework etc) and make them recognize time flow and responsibilities during the day, but in an intuitive and illustrated way. Read more about it here.
Organizer+ works on top of iPhone calendars: No manual synchronization is needed (synchronization with iPhone calendars is automatic and shown by a spinning gear on the preferences icon). Therefore, using Organizer + with existing iPhone calendars enhances your capabilities (all existing calendar entries are visible within Organizer + and can be differentiated by color). Read more about it here.

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Nearest task? upcoming events?

Bartosz Gonczarek — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 08:25:02 +0000

How can you find out which planned task is nearest to your location so it can be done? How to see ongoing or upcoming events? Organizer+ makes it easy to find your way through a cluttered daily agenda and the number of tasks waiting for you to do in different places ‘while you are there’. Most importantly – you don’t have to remember them all if you use Organizer+. Here’s why:

Arrange task by their distance from you!

Tasks list can be sorted by distance from your current location. Therefore with one button you’ll easily find out which of them can be accomplished while you’re here. Organizer+ uses the GPS subsystem in your phone to calculate your distance, from the tasks locations and arranges the task list for you.

The best way to use this functionality is to always add places to your tasks when you create them (read about how to create tasks and events here). When adding places – confirm the address using GoogleMaps so Organizer+ will have the exact coordinates which will be used later for distance measurement. If you don’t know exactly which of your tasks have an exact location – you can check the color of the dot displayed on the top of the location icon. If it’s green – this means that Organizer+ knows the exact coordinates and will arrange this task in your list, by location, when you hold the “here” button. If it’s yellow it means that you need to make the location a bit more specific – tap on the icon and choose location with GoogleMaps.

Highlight upcoming and ongoing events!

When browsing your calendars (using DAY / LIST / MONTH view) you don’t need to look for current events – just press&hold the “TODAY” button and allow Organizer+ to highlight what’s happening right now and what will happen next. This way in a split second you can check your daily agenda and see your most important events at any given time.

Organizer+ highlights events in red if they are about to occur or are happening right now. If there are no more events (or nothing has been planned for a given day) – Organizer+ will use green, letting you know that there’s no need to mobilize yourself.
This feature works in every view available in Organizer+. Using it in DAY view will highlight a line representing the current time. Pressing “Today” in Month view will work the same as in “List” view but additionally, will highlight the current day of the month – in green if you’re not busy or in red if there are still scheduled events .

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Lists and month view

Bartosz Gonczarek — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 18:33:40 +0000

Organizer+ can display your agenda using LIST or MONTH view.

At first glance, list view is similar to the way most calendars display events. But if you focus on the details you’ll soon find out that:

Organizer+ list view presents enhanced information about your events. Both start and end time of events appear on the left side, information about events is enhanced with icons (if the event has one)
you can customize how events are displayed – for instance you can select to display only future events and not those in the past
press and hold “Today” button and Organizer+ will highlight current events or those that will begin soon.

In Month view you can use the event list to have a quick overview of your day. It’s also possible to get a summary of your day by touching & holding the date on your calendar. After that a small pop-up will appear with a summary of any planned event duration. You can also change months by swiping your finger left&right (or up&down).

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Organizer+ design

Bartosz Gonczarek — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 21:53:09 +0000

Organizer+ has been engineered with time efficiency in mind, to deliver to you not another toy, but a usable tool. Let us tell you what we’ve done in order to make it:

when browsing your calendar day-by-day – when you swipe to the next day most calendars would simply change the date and display the next day. In Organizer+ we’ve implemented a logic to show you precisely the same time-window you were using (say if you were looking at 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM – swiping to the next day would show what happens in the same hours). Also our logic checks if events for the selected time-window exist and if not – we’ll adjust the view to show your meetings according to what’s most convenient (so if there’s nothing at 10:00 AM but a whole block of events starting at 01:30 PM – Organizer+ will show you this day starting from the first event at 01:30 PM)
we know what it’s like to be in a hurry – checking what’s next on your agenda should take a split-second. Organizer+ is designed so that whenever you need to check where you are in your day – open Organizer+ and regardless of which view you are in (LIST/DAY/MONTH) – tap TODAY or even hold it. Organizer+ will highlight in red your current event.
when receiving a meeting invitation sometimes you need to quickly contact people involved. We designed Organizer+ to make it easier for you – it matches e-mail addresses of participants with your Address Book entries and if it finds a person with an invitation – it links this person to their phone number. To call, all you need to do is to tap their icon.

Calendar improvements like the ones we’ve highlighted above wouldn’t even be recognized in daily usage. We hope that Organizer+ will do it’s job saving your time but if there’s anything that you consider counter-productive – don’t hesitate to share your opinion or contact us directly (support@morriscooke.com ). Be sure we’ll consider all suggestions or change requests.

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