Cell Phones & Smart Phones

Miro Video Converter is
‘A super simple way to convert almost any video to MP4, Ogg Theora, or a specific phone or iPod.’
‘Miro Video Converter has presets that will convert video to the correct sizes and formats for popular phones, iPods, and other media players. Just convert your video and copy it [...]

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Today I have to share another great Website introduced to me by KimKomando.com.   This Website is especially designed for the mobile Internet user (ie: iPhone and Blackberry).  TidyRead.com strips all of the graphics and ads providing the articles and posts only.    You can either

type in the entire url of the Website you want to [...]

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I have heard the iPad being described as an iTouch on Steroids as if that would be a turn-off to me.  Being an iPhone fanatic I’d love to have a tablet size version of an iTouch!   However, I recognize that it won’t please everyone. 
Obviously, Hitler himself is extremely disappointed (language warning)…

There is also a [...]

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Here are a few shortcuts I’ve learned:

mhm = means ‘yes’
l8r = means ‘later’
tnx = means ‘thanks’
lol = means ‘laugh out loud’
btw = means ‘ by the way
ttyl = means ‘talk to you later’
sys = means ’see you soon’
lmk = means ‘let me know’
ryb = means ‘read your book’ or ‘read your Bible’
b/f = means ‘boyfriend’
ttus [...]

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An article on InsideHigherEd.com entitled, ‘Text Generation‘,  got me started thinking about texting and communicating with students.   Personally, I don’t think in most cases the students should have a teacher’s cell phone number.  However, I think it would be interesting to provide texting options with the ‘library and specificially the ‘reference librarian’ as in the [...]

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ResearchBuzz.org introduced me to a ‘Huge Online Database of Blueprints‘.

I found it interesting and am going to send it to my high school’s CTE (career & technical education) teachers.  The drafting teacher in particular may be interested in it.   Budding artists may also be interested.  There are blueprints of:

cars
motorcycles
trucks
ships
buses
WWI airplanes
WWII airplanes
modern airplanes
tanks
weapons
science fiction
humans
phones
misc.

http://www.the-blueprints.com/blueprints/

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The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press released a survey of opinion on the 2000-2009 decade.   The report was presented under the title:  ‘Current Decade Rates as Worst in 50 Years: Internet. Cell Phones Are Changes for the Better’. http://people-press.org/report/573/#prc-jumpDecember%2021,%202009
Princeton Survey Research Associates International conducted telephone interviews for survey purposes.   The [...]

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