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this episode of technobuffalo is brought to you by full sail university what's up everyone welcome back to another episode of ask the Buffalo the show where you can ask me ashley is gather AKA not John any question you might have from the wide world of technology every tuesday we put up a call for questions on TechnoBuffalo calm you can leave your question in the post comments or you can send them to me anytime of the day or night at technobuffalo on twitter or ashley ask either but make sure you use the hashtag ask the be so i can see it and usually I'll answer between three and five questions every episode well this week we're going to talk about the full-size iPad versus the retina iPad design minimalism and more this is asked the Buffalo let's get answering Twitter user Brandon L Rogers asks what type of college degrees are suitable or ideal for someone who wants to get involved in your field of work it's a really good question it's something that's really interesting there are about a million ways you can get into writing about consumer electronics the first would be start up something yourself Brandon you could do it you can you there we have the power we have the technology we can build it you can build your own tech website another way to do it is you can get a degree in journalism you can get a degree in business and start your own website and hire people basically you just have to be passionate about what you want to do so if you want to get involved in technology you want to be passionate about it which obviously you are because you wrote in to the show make sure that you make your editors lives easy by having your own voice as a writer so that everyone knows what you're talking about and that you are able to speak eloquently about any topic and also you want to make sure that you have great spelling skills great grammar skills so that people are not constantly cleaning up after your articles so those are the two things i would say to work the hardest on but honestly you can get in pretty much any way that you can i mean if you can get a job working at a website do it our next question comes from at comic books guy he says john i have to get an ipad for school and i don't know whether to get the mini or the newest one with the retina display well comic books guy I have to ask you this question are you going to be using this iPad to read comics because I think your twitter handle is sort of giving you away there and if that's the case you want to go with the retina displays you're not that beautiful display when you're looking at all of your comic books however if you want something else a little bit more portable you would be shocked at how many people I know that have gone from an ipad 3 or an ipad 4 to an ipad mini without any complaints they actually prefer it to the full-sized ipad mostly because it's a lot lighter it's easier to carry in a bag if you have a smaller bag if you have a macbook air if you have any kind of thin laptop and you don't want to lug around another huge device then an ipad mini might be the way to go but like i said i'm a little suspicious comic book guy i think that you are going to be reading comic books on this ipad in which case i would say go read twitter use our ditzy pixel wants to know what are your thoughts on the minimalist future of interface design and do you think it will hinder usability I thought this was a really good question and I think that we are seeing sort of this trend of minimalist design in interfaces but I do think that the reason let's say the iphone originally had all of these sort of skeuomorphic designs that made you think you were using you know an office desktop calendar or anything like that was so that we could get people used to using a smartphone or a touchscreen so these are things that people weren't really used to beforehand if they weren't mired in technology so now people are so used to iPads so used to iphone so used to HTC wants Android Windows Phone that three-year-old babies are using iPads so it's so easy and really kind of in our collective DNA at this point for the most part I think that minimalist design is really the future of it because we don't have to get people used to using the technology so if that makes any sense we know how to use a touch screen we know how to use gestures so in that way I don't think it will hinder usability and I actually think it'll open some doors as to kind of merging the way hardware and software works together technobuffalo commenter josh asks hey Ashley how does it feel working in an office with all guys uh well since I have started here I been shot out with nerf guns we constantly trash talk and I have a feeling that today after buying the left 4 dead 2 bundle in the steam summer sale I'm gonna get smoked by Ralph and Brando but generally speaking it's awesome everybody's really cool there's no drama we all just have a really good time and of course there is not all guys here you have to think about the ladies boosie and Ava obviously we have the wonderful dogs here in the office and they're delightful so it's not quite all guys but all human guys yes before we all want to tell you a little bit about Full Sail University we all know the app business is exploding and there are a lot of you out there I'm sure with great app ideas and no way to create or manage it now that's where full sail University's online mobile development bachelor's degree it comes in handy so you get to learn both sides of the app coin programming so you can create and deploy your app and business so you can mark it and manage it it's really really great to be able to do both sides of app development through full sails launch box program students receive a macbook pro with industry software already pre-loaded on it it's awesome and you get iOS and Android devices so you can start making your brilliant app right away when you enroll once you enroll courses are delivered through full 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