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second fastest overall. That's all the sport for now. Now it is time

for a clip. -- time for Click. I'll an internet connection might be all

it takes to get an Ivy League education. A buyer's guide to the

latest printers. The latest tech news and we are all ears for you

this week in Webscape. What would you do to get into a top

university? Plenty of schoolchildren sweat for years to

do it, and only a few actually make it. But the internet has a habit of

turning the establishment on its head. We have been studying a

project in California which is throwing the jaws of education wide

open. Stanford University, home to many of America's brightest minds.

In the heart of Silicon Valley, it has long served as a breeding

ground for technological whiz-kids. Getting in there is no mean feat

Cup, only around one in 14 applicants make the grade and then

they have to fund it. A four-year education costs $160,000. But there

is a way to sample stand the's academic excellence even if you do

not have the economic or intellectual prowess to compete

with the elite. One Professor from Stanford is on a mission to make a

top-notch education available to anyone, anywhere for nothing. This

is the University which he built - Udemy. No lecture halls, no

professors. -- Udacity. Udemy is a player on the way it audacity,

appropriate for a company looking to overhaul higher learning as we

know it. Education, the same as university qualifications, to

everyone in the world for free. I take issue with an education system

that is expensive and exclusive. Students watch tutorials and master

concepts by taking frequent quizzes and having homework. The classroom

setting is not great for most students, too fast. Rather than

taking the time it takes to make a student strong, they give them bad

grades, which is discouraging. Udacity goes a case beat which is

right for people. And she would expect from a stand that inspired

education, the courses are not for the faint-hearted. Five weeks into

my course I have done some coding, written some basic programmes but I

have also missed dental appointments, gym visits and I am

to units behind. I definitely underestimated the time commitment.

It is no surprise that the drop-out rate is very steep. But for those

who stay the course, a certificate, useful for potential employers, not

to mention a wise business move for the company. We are currently

working on methods to get to see these two employers. In the

classical model it costs more than $1,000. If they were to pay $100

for each referral, we would have everything finance. The Professor

and his team educate the world from this unassuming studio. Everything

goes quite radically. technology is also fairly basic. A

pentane that, microphone and video recorder. -- a pen tablet. It

allows students to learn at their own pace, making it more effective

than a lecture hall. I ask the students a question and wait for

each one to get the answer right. In the classroom, the top two or

three students reply and that's it and all the other students are left

behind. The impact is undeniable. It opened for me the door to a vast

amount of knowledge for my research. It has assisted to my research into

computer vision. People of all ages in all countries - Bangladesh s,

and China, Sudan. People in hospital, single mothers - people

who could never afford education. All those people deserve a chance

and that is what we stand for. its worldwide reach, it is no

surprise that these massive open online courses, or MOOCs, have made

in reds. It also acts as a market case where anyone can build them

online course, set a price and coasted through the side. The

University of Phoenix is even better established, presenting

courses with the added promise of accreditation. MIT recently put

their first course on MITx, their online learning side. Checkout i

tunes University, a showcase for three lectures and other resources

in thousands of subject. But how do these two will stack up against

traditional education. This educational psychologist sees them

as a complement to the classroom, not a replacement. There are also a

lot of people not sure what they want to learn, particularly the

young. They need more encouragement, more support. More of a sense of

belonging to a community. Stanford the students seemed to

agree, embracing the idea of online courses but recognising their

limitations. I think education is a great thing, so for people to want

to take the stand for it causes is great. I have had many friends

embracing this idea of on online course accessed from anywhere. I

like the idea myself as well. think they should definitely try it.

A but just be collecting good data about it and hopefully the right

people are studying it. Which is exactly stand third's approach.

MOOCs are online, growing and still evolving. We are at the beginning.

And there are lots of questions. What are we trying to do, had we

serve the world? How do we said our and students? And D we have a

strong direction? These programmes are poised to change the education

landscape forever. If you are going to lecture to 500 students and not

be clear, you have got your competition set-up for you. You'd

better bring something else to your game. Reporting from California on

the new online by the leak classrooms. Dexter, this week's

The court asked the firm to hand over tweets associated with an

activist who took part in the Occupy Wall Street protests. The

micro-blogging site says that its terms of service make clear that

uses only content they produce. A trial has begun in Germany over

the head of a video on demand website. Uses accuse the man of

breaching copyright laws. The site is now closed but it used to get

thousands of visits every day. It comes off the back of last week's

High Court ruling in Britain that The Pirate Bay must be blocked by

UK internet service providers. Facebook has been busy on the up

front. It announced its own App Centre. All are united by the

option to look into Facebook. That gives Facebook more data about its

user base, allowing ever more tied in ads. Facebook has also snapped

up Glancee, a location app. And the professor behind the story

we just heard about it does not need to get behind the wheel of his

largest -- latest project. Driverless vehicles. The car mashes

up Google Street View, sensors and AI Software. The US is even issued

a special licence. The first to hit the road will be a souped-up Toyota

Prius. I find myself using my desktop PC

less and less these days. I do most of my work on a laptop. But when I

wanted to print something, I also want to be able to do it straight

from one of these. Fortunately, there are plenty of printers around

which allow me to do just that and more.

Today's printers come with more bells and whistles than the Rio

Carnival. But the first thing you need to decide his laser or ink.

Laser printers are much faster but more expensive feature for feature.

Most home users generally careful ink jet. -- generally go for a chat.

The cost to the new Brad Pitt cartridges may be more expensive

than the printer itself and if you print teases a single cartridge for

colour printing, wants any one, runs out, you have to use the --

replace the whole thing. The higher the printer's resolution, the

better the end result. If you're planning and printing a lot of

photos, choose one with more dots per inch. And to look out for

duplex printing for documents which means that both sides of the page

will be used. On to more advanced features. Printers have evolved

from dumb boxes waiting for instructions to independent

thinking machines capable of printing pictures straight from any

camera or USB key-ring. The latest crop of printers are even smarter,

collect -- connecting to various online services and printing your

pictures without ever touching a PC. Wireless printers can talk to

several devices on a personal network and print straight from a

mobile phone tablet or laptop. On a mobile app will device, this is

done through AirPrint, which works with almost no set-up. But it can't

print from third party apps. To do this, you will need to install a

separate printing out, like Printer Pro. AirPrint does not work on an

Apple. To print while Leslie from one of these, you will need to

install various drivers. How about commanding your printer from the

other side of the world? There are two ways to do this. Something

called e-mail to print firstly which means your printer get its

own e-mail address. Send it almost anything from almost anywhere and

people spit it out for you. -- it will spit it out. And look out for

this local of -- logo - Google Cloud Print. This can be linked to

tea recount and enable you to print from anywhere. First, register your

account on your Printer and a ball played -- print a page with the URL.

You can use Google Cloud Print with all the printers as long as it is

connected to a computer that is our mind. For now, you can only use

this service to the chrome browser -- through the Chrome browser.

Thence to the cameras on our mobile phones, we are now snapping more

than we used to. And these more diminutive printers can print a

mobile picture. You can Dockery I phone on to this one and print

instantly. This can then print it comes with 10 gigabytes of Klout

space. -- can then print it. It can print a photo in under a minute.

The company that invented instant photos over 60 years ago is also in

the business. This rechargeable poor road Printer is very light and

portable. It can print about 35 for photographs with one full charge.

It can connected to any PC while Leslie or to a Barba device which

Bluetooth and print using the Polaroid app.

The shop's stock a huge range of wireless printers. From small ones

to beat one's. -- big ones. If you missed our list of features, go to

the website. E-mail might be considered a little

old fashioned but it is still very popular. Around 294 billion

messages are sent around the world every day. Most of them to my Inbox.

Keeping on top of it all can be a struggle. But Kate Russell has

found a tool which turned managing your mail into eight-game. -- into

any game. I'd like a challenge, but clearing

my Inbox is more like torture. That was before I discovered the e-mail

game, which tend to e-mail into a Gay interface. -- game like

interface. The way you deal with your messages

does not change very much. But the time of lens a sense of urgency to

the process. There are patches and rewards for performance. You can

even compete against to own previous high scores.

If you like listening to radio, you will love TuneIn .com, with quick

online access to global and local stations covering music, sport,

news and current events. With over 50 stations to -- 50,000 stations

to choose from, you may not want to leave your desk. Unless you take

advantage of the mobile apps. When the first launch it, you will see a

message that streaming radio can eat up to 100 megabytes of data per

hour. Which could get expensive. You can switch the actor Wi-Fi only

mode and then all you have to do is sit back and enjoy the show. They

also podcasts queued up were available and you can record your

streaming radio while on Wi-Fi to listen to later on. It is a small

price to pay for the best of both worlds.

If our package about pod casting inspired you to make your own, I

have been looking at ways to get it out the world. There are many sites

and tools to help to create a feat, but the easiest I have come across

is Podbean .com. Publishing on this site is a lot like publishing on

any blogging -- blogging platform. But you get automatic options for

publishing your work on iTunes. You'll need to have created a

report cast in a format are supported by an iTunes, then check

the way it will look under the Settings tab. You can also make a

Facebook feed and that given embed codes to use on a website or blog.

The website will get you started but has limited storage than wit.

With a pro account, you can make your own Android app.

The world seems obsessed with taking ensuring voters are mine.

250 million up photos are uploaded to Facebook every day. This week,

the battle of the photo showing apps stepped up a gear with a

couple of notable releases. Less than a mont than a monthelling out a

billion dollars for Instagram, Facebook has added some filters to

its own app which allows access to the social platform for devices

that are not smartphones. Twitpic announced its new i phone app which

makes uploading and during the photos on Twitter more -- easier

than ever. You can put these apt to good use with a new campaign,

inviting the bought to capture a moment in their life and showed

through a d a y .org. -- share it through ADAY.org.