App your phone: Be your own boss

App your phone: Be your own boss

by | Jan 7, 2013 | Business | Tech

Produced by WorkBC, the Boss Yourself app (available for Android and iPhone) is designed to inspire and educate youth considering starting their own business. Even though Boss Yourself appears to target teenagers in, or about to finish, high school, I hoped the app...

Best study spaces at UVic

by | Dec 19, 2012 | Video

The Martlet’s Business & Tech editor, Nina Neissl, takes time off from business and tech reporting to list a few of the top study spaces at UVic … some you may know about, others you may not.

Events Calendar: December 17–26

by | Dec 13, 2012 | Culture

ACTIVISM Monday, Dec. 17 Red Umbrella March In recognition of Dec. 17, the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, there will be a rally in Victoria to bring awareness to the violence faced by those employed in the sex trade worldwide. Organized by the...

Former UVic student creates new alphabet

by | Dec 12, 2012 | Video

The Martlet speaks with former UVic Computer Science and Linguistics student Graeme Kilshaw, who explains how his “Friendship Cube” works. The Friendship Cube is a teaching tool for Kilshaw’s invented alphabet, which has been developed to go...