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Dad, you're a nicer person without your iPhone

As parents, do we find ourselves in situations where we are physically with our families but not present? The following is an interesting article, that makes you think.

http://www.iphonematters.com/

Full article  (resistanceandrenewal.net)

Quotes:

"I had probably (but can’t exactly remember) been sucked into twitter when he asked again, this time more insistently. ‘Dad, can you answer me?’ This time I snapped back: ‘Look, can’t you see I am busy? Let me just finish this’.

He was quiet – and then replied evenly:

‘Dad, you’re a nicer person without your iPhone.’

"And it is a reminder to me of listening to the right voices. Adults can easily assume that children don’t really have much to say to us – this is why children get patronized and fobbed off with distracted answers. But I need to remember that anything my son is saying to me is always more important than anything I can read on twitter. "

Taking a day away from technology

Here is a challenge for over the Summer Break. Take a break from technology. The author suggests a 24 hour break but it needs to be planned to get the most out of the time.

Full article (bbc.com/capital)

Quotes:
"If you’re anything like me, your precious time is gobbled by a pinging phone, a bouncing email icon and the ubiquitous stack of admin."

End the work week on a high

Use the hours before you shut down to become that clean desk person. Attack your do-do list with vigor and plough through your emails.

Plan something fun

Plan an activity, such as a hike or meal with friends, but do not overbook

The Sabbath Manifesto is a creative project designed to slow down lives in an increasingly hectic world.
http://www.sabbathmanifesto.org/

The near future: Apple's new OS and iOS.

Here is the near future with Apple operating systems. We are not suggesting updating to these systems as soon as they are released. Just wanting to keep you in the loop of what is ahead.

The school will advise our community what is the best option for SFS. 

At present it is:

Mac laptop: Yosemite (10.10), Mavericks (10.9) and at least Snow Leopard (10.8)

iDevices: OS 8 and at least OS 7

http://www.apple.com/osx/elcapitan-preview

http://www.apple.com/ios/ios9-preview/

Google Cultural Institute

• Tour the lava tubes on this South Korean island and World Heritage Site. 
• Walk up to the Great Sphinx and gaze at the Great Pyramids in Cairo.
• Get a fish-eye view of the most extensive coral reef system in the world. 
• Peep a 360-degree view at the top of the snow-covered mountains.
• Take a drive down legendary Route 66.
• Examine dozens of 3D animal skulls—from the California Grizzly to the Amazon River Dolphin.
• Step inside Ford’s Theatre, view artifacts like John Wilkes Booth's derringer, and get a history of the building itself and the fateful night that put it in the history books when President Lincoln was assassinated.
• See the evolution of the spacesuit at this Russian manufacturing organization.
• Neither Rome nor the Eiffel Tower was built in a day, and this digital exhibit walks you through the entire process with stories, drawings, and amazing photographs of the tower as it was built.  
• From the Museum Victoria, this exhibit contains images that show in stunning detail a variety of natural history illustrations from 1850 to 1900.
• Queensland Museum has the F.P & A.P. Dodd Collection of Tropical Insects from Australia and New Guinea with elaborately arranged cases of colorful beetles and butterflies.   
• Jump from room to room and floor to floor in an empty, virtual version of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
• If people are your passion, scope the collection at the National Portrait Gallery.
• The closest thing to an internet art museum, the Art Project page on the Cultural Institute site is a gallery of high quality images from around the world, across time and medium. 

From an article at: http://mentalfloss.com/article/63148/15-best-pages-google-cultural-institute

Backup for Mac and PC

Contents

1 Backup for Mac and PC
1.1 Backup: Which Files to backup? - Mac
1.2 Backup: Which Files to backup? -Windows 8
2 Backing Up Web Bookmarks (important if you are leaving or are getting a new computer)
3 Backing Up Options: #1: Use the 'cloud' (important if you are getting a new computer)
4 Backing Up Options: #2 (for teachers): Use your SFS network drive (important if you are getting a new computer)
5 Backing Up Options: #3: Use an external drive (important if you are leaving or are getting a new computer)
6 Backing Up Options: #4: Use Mac Time Machine or Windows Backup and Restore.
7 Mac Time Machine (important if you are getting a new computer)
8 Windows Backup and Restore (important if you are getting a new computer)
9 Taking away your school Google Account  documents (seoulforeign.com) (important if you are leaving)
9.1 Method 1: Share the documents with another Google account outside the seoulforeign domain
9.2 Method 2: Use Google Takeout
10 Other Tips

Backup: Which Files to backup? - Mac 

(These instructions are for MacBook Pro running Mountain Lion or older. They should be similar of Mavericks)
You probably want to backup these files.

documents
movies
music
pictures
files saved on your desktop

On Mac you can find folders for all of those files in your 'Home' folder - in Finder choose Go > Home.


NOTE: iMovie, iTunes and iPhoto also keep their files in these folders.

Backup: Which Files to backup? -Windows 8

Now simply called Documents, this folder is a convenient location for storing all of your documents, such as text files, spreadsheets, and presentations. Like My Documents, Documents is available on the Start menu, and you can also create a shortcut to it on the desktop for faster access. In addition, new searching and organizing tools, such as the Navigation pane and the Search box, are available to help you rapidly locate files.

Unlike the old My Documents folder, Documents does not contain folders for pictures and music. Those folders are now stored outside of Documents and are also available on the Start menu.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/what-happened-to-my-documents
Backing Up Web Bookmarks (important if you are leaving or are getting a new computer)

Most browsers allow you to synchronize bookmarks across many devices (including phones and tablets) - this is an easy way to backup your bookmarks. These videos show how to set this up.

• Google Chrome
• Firefox
• Safari
• Internet Explorer (only in Windows 8)

NOTE: If you use Internet Explorer in Windows 7 or below you can use a simple trick to synchronize bookmarks across many computers.

You can also copy your bookmarks to a different browser.

Google Chrome: menu > Bookmarks > Import Bookmarks and Settings
Firefox: Bookmarks > Show All Bookmarks > Import and Backup > Import Data from Another Browser
Safari: automatically copies bookmarks when you first run Safari - see these instructions
Here are some options for backing up your files.

All of these methods can be used to transfer your files to a new computer.

Backing Up Options: #1: Use the 'cloud' 

(important if you are getting a new computer)

You can save your files in a 'cloud' service such as Google Drive.

With Google Drive you can:

install the Google Drive program which automatically synchronizes a folder on your computer to the 'cloud'
store and edit any type of file - not just Google Docs (30 GB free)

• access your files from a phone or tablet
• access your files offline
• share files with other people
• organize photos with Picasa

If your computer stops working your files are saved in the 'cloud'.

Similar services are:

• DropBox (starts with 2GB free)
• Box (5GB free)
• SkyDrive (7GB free)
• SugarSync (5GB free)
• iCloud (5GB free)

Backing Up Options: #2 (for teachers): Use your SFS network drive (important if you are getting a new computer)

You can save your files on your SFS network drive (also known as your 'U' drive).

Your files are automatically backed up, but you can only access them at school.

Instructions for connecting to your network drive are on our tech tips page under MACBOOK PRO > Connect to Network Drives.

If your computer stops working your files are saved on your SFS network drive.

Backing Up Options: #3: Use an external drive 

(important if you are leaving or are getting a new computer)

Buy a USB flash drive or a portable hard drive - the SFS Spirit Shop sells USB flash drives and the stationery shop at the bottom of the SFS hill sells portable hard drives.

If you want to use the drive on both Mac and Windows make sure it's 'FAT32' format - watch this 1 minute video to find out how.

You can regularly (e.g. weekly) copy your files to the external drive.

Each time you make a new backup you can delete the old one.

If your computer stops working your files are saved on the external hard drive.

Backing Up Options: #4: Use Mac Time Machine or Windows Backup and Restore.

Mac Time Machine (important if you are getting a new computer)

Time Machine is a Mac program which automatically keeps backups of your entire computer on an external drive. It keeps hourly backups for the past 24 hours, daily backups for the past month, and weekly backups until your external drive is full.

If your computer stops working your files are saved on the external hard drive.

Watch this 3 minute video to find out how to use Time Machine.

Windows Backup and Restore (important if you are getting a new computer)

You can use File History to back up the files on your PC in the Documents, Music, Pictures, Videos, and Desktop folders and theOneDrive files available offline on your PC. Over time, File History builds a history of your files. You'll first need to set up a File History drive and turn File History on. For more info, see Set up a drive for File History. If your original files are lost, damaged, or deleted, you can restore them. You can also browse and restore different versions of your files. For more info, see Restore files or folders using File History.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/what-happened-to-backup-restore

Taking away your school Google Account  documents

 (seoulforeign.com) (important if you are leaving)

If you have been using the Drive app downloaded to your computer you will have a copy of all your Google files locally. The non Google documents will be in their original formats (if you did not convert them) but the Google

documents will be in a format that you won’t be able to take away easily. You will need to follow the Google Takeout process explained below.


Method 1: Share the documents with another Google account outside the seoulforeign domain

You can share any of your Google documents with another Google account such as a personal account. Just go to the share options and add the gmail address (make sure that it has edit permissions).

To be on the safe side, go into your other Gmail account and make a copy of the document. This means that when your school account is deleted you will not lose the file.

Any mail you want to keep can be forwarded to the other address.


Method 2: Use Google Takeout

Google provides a service that allows you to download all your Google content using Google Takeout. This link will take you to Google Takeout. The site explains what this service will do and which Google apps it can deal with.
It is important to note that it isn’t perfect. Documents are converted to another format (MicroSoft, Open document and pdf formats) and lose all sharing permissions.

You can download email but it involves third party mail clients to load the emails into other mail accounts. You maybe interested in this PC World article on Google Takeout

Other Tips

If you have lost files which you did not back up you could try some of these suggestions.

If you recently deleted files you can probably recover them with software like Disk Drill (Mac) or Recuva (Windows).
If your computer won't start at all you might be able to get files from it with Target Mode (Mac) or by starting it with an Ubuntu LiveCD (Windows).
If all else fails a computer repair shop may be able to recover your files.
There is a computer repair shop in Yonhi Dong at the Wooribank intersection where you can get help. The technician speaks good English.

Ultimate Drawing App - Paper by 53

A drawing program that allows you to sketch, edit, mix, move and to share. You can download the free version that gives you enough tools  to get started and create. But it won't be long before you buy the add ons to give you more options especially the color mixing palette (This was the experience of one of the Digital Learning Coaches).

Gallery of images people have created using Paper