Make friends and chat away to glory!

Many years ago, who knew technology would evolve to heights that systems would be developed to allow us to communicate online through simply typing. Such a communication we all know is called as chatting online. This is what helps us to stay connected with our loved ones who are distanced from us and not possible to make calls every day or every hour in that matter. But nowadays, not only are we given the opportunity and freedom to remain in constant touch with our own people but we can also connect with old friends and make new friends too! It seems like the world is at our finger tips with internet technology, isn't it?

Such is the chat technology developed that one can also view the person sitting on the other side of the chat through a medium known as video chat, apart from voice messaging, which is so convenient than using a phone.

Plus, with the usage of new and latest launched chat websites like iMeetzu.com one can come across other users worldwide, make friends, and keep chatting away to glory. There are users/chatters available online with whom you can randomly begin chatting with like chatroulette and omegle once you get online. You don't need to register, just get online and chat with strangers! you can also save your new connections who you've already connected and chatted with. Begin right away!

Secure your homes with a wireless intercom from Gadgetshack.com

As everyone knows a doorbell is used to alert you that someone is at your door. Before doorbells there were door knockers, which were mechanical devices that made a loud sound, and before that people just used their fist to knock on your door. Doorbells have the advantage over all of the previous methods because they are more easily heard above household noises.

The first doorbells were just a bell attached to a string, the visitor pulled the string to ring the bell alerting the homeowner that someone was at his or her door.

With modern technology evolving over time, doorbells now rely on the latest technology and can be combined with a wireless intercom to increase home security.

A wireless intercom is exactly that, wireless, so no complicated installation is needed. When someone rings the doorbell they can then speak into the intercom and say who they are. If you do not know them or consider them suspicious you can just tell them to go away and keep your door locked. This device makes it easy to find out who is at your door and decide who to let in.

It is an easy and quick way to increase your home security. There are also many other innovative gadgets that you can buy that can increase your security and that are also easy on your wallet. The website the gadgetshack.com has a great and interesting selection of wireless alarms and doorbell systems. One of the other types of alarms is a driveway alarm which is available in different detection ranges and styles. The basic wireless driveway alarm detects a vehicle or human within 20 feet of the sensor. The receiver can be placed inside your home within 200 feet of the sensor in your driveway, and this just takes a few minutes of installation without the use of wires and costs under $40.

Technology has moved us forward in so many areas, and provided us with many new and exciting gadgets and devices at a reasonable cost. Gadgetshack.com backs all of their products with a money back guarantee so you can order from them without any worries. For the latest available innovative wireless and home security technologies visit gadgetshack today.

Electronics parts like Tv parts can be easily found

Sometimes we are confused while in a situation that requires we repair damaged products in our homes which are utilized almost daily. Because we might not want to replace or throw away our products especially if purchased from a good brand/company like Sony, Panasonic, Toshiba, Sharp, Whirlpool, Frigidaire, Samsung, LG, GE, Blackberry, etc.. We tend to replace the damaged parts instead. But finding these parts are not that easy as thinking. And to wait for until your Television is repaired at the cost of days wasted and missing out of favorite soaps, better we find our TV Parts which can be quickly and easily gotten from Partsimple. They are a small group of people dedicated to their parts business since nearly a decade helping millions find the right part they need. Over the years they have bettered their services through faster, easier, and efficient processes.

They will help you to replace the broken or spoiled parts almost any product you use at home whether in your kitchen, bathroom, living room, or bed room. You don't have to worry for the right brand as they cover almost all of the big brands possible. You sure know what's it like when you our Laptop batteries give away while on an important online meeting? Partsimple will come to your rescue. They will deliver to you parts for almost every product small or big, from remote controls to home theater systems, knobs to refrigerator parts, clothes washers to gaming devices! Check out the huge list online.

Femtocell Technology

Sometimes it really gets annoying when you're expecting an important call and the single is not available. Or when you need urgent access to the internet from your cell phone and the service coverage is either limited or unavailable. But with time, technology keeps advancing and wilson street strives to fulfill the demands for bandwidth for homes, offices and other public areas. They are home to small cells technologies and growing with the secrets of how cell technology can be deployed within your homes, offices, etc.. They visualize a better tomorrow by today's mobile experiences transformed by small cells technology.

Manufactured by Alcatel Lucent, which cover a vast portfolio of industries, service providers and enterprises, femtocells are sold worldwide and allow service providers to extend service coverage indoors, especially where access would otherwise be limited or unavailable. A residential femtocell provide 5 bars of signal, works through a broadband route for internet and delivers reliable network, works with 3g phones, has power to work affectingly in congested traffic areas.

Summer isn't over yet in AZ

The summer isn't over yet as we humans are still finding it tough to live without air-conditioners. Be it this time of the year or any other time, the climate of Arizona is very high in temperature and residents there in the exceptionally hot summers are bound to make great use of air conditioners too. Are you already based in Arizona or thinking to build a new home? Always consider a guaranteed Arizona heating and cooling to fit your needs of the same.

Sometimes buy or replacing Arizona air conditioning can be positive or stressful but looking for the best contractor to guide you make the right decision is a wise thing to do, especially since you are investing so much. With the right contractor you will be benefited with equipment life, comfort, and high conditioners efficiency.

AC by Jay is highly recommended because they can assure you that their Arizona air conditioning service installation would bring into effect, greater comfort, and experience! Another important factor is your usage which you would be able to save as much on 30% to 60% through the unique technology they use. They have been providing air conditioning and heating services to almost 3000 homes across Phoenix, AZ Metro area including Scottsdale, Az. Check out their unmatched services right away!

Video conferencing with faceVsion

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How to succeed as a professional management consultant

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Consultancy is a tough job if you have worked as one and no matter what field you expertise in, you may always want to find ways to improve consultancy abilities. For example, if you are part of a consulting firm or you are an independent consultant you might need to simultaneously meet clients, sell work, deliver sold projects, train new people to deliver the work, generate intellectual property, write reports, write proposals, find contractors, find toolkits etc... and there is always never ending work to be accomplished all by yourself, sometimes making it extremely difficult because you lack a support team and this results in an unpleasant stirring up of things. Do not panic and rely on Lillilooloo, an one stop portal to help consultants with their problems.

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Revostock- a place to create, buy or sell footage stock

I would like to introduce you to Revostock, just because it is just a totally unbelievable Stock footage website where you can purchase stock video clips, motion templates, audio downloads, FX/transitions, backgrounds, editorials to music and after effects projects at great prices! Because their stock is created by professionals like videographers, motion graphics artists, producers and musicians worldwide, they are able to offer this footage at great prices, and the variety and quality of stock available cannot be found elsewhere. They also offer a special PRO Stock Media package at very competitive prices.

The stunning fast, dramatic Car logo/intro revealer footage almost made me jump off my chair as it seemed the car would crash along with my screen! That was great footage created from motion graphics after effects. I thoroughly enjoyed going through the large varieties of stock video, audio, animation, special effects, templates, and sound effects in a large variety of formats, including HD. If you’re a home video maker who needs just the right video clip or sound effect to finish off your project, or you have some high quality video clips or projects to sell, or if you are an animator with great after effects animation projects to sell, Revostock is the place for you. Don’t forget to check out the weekly freebie too!

Need: Real Life Tron Light Cycle

For those of us that grew up fans of Tron; either the video game or the movie, this item is a "NEED" and not a "WANT."

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Star Wars (Original Trilogy) in 2:13

If you have always wanted an easy, quick, and interesting way to explain the magnificince of Star Wars to someone, but didn't know how, these folks have taken a crack at it:

Star Wars in 2:13


Sorry for the lame post, I am not feeling well. Which explains why the posting has been even less exciting than normal over the past few days.

Convert 2D movies to 3D on your Samsung 3D TV

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of goviral. All opinions are 100% mine.

I remember watching many 3D films at the cinemas during my childhood and of course, they were always kids movies. Those days we used to be given a pair of dark glasses and the experiences were truly breath-taking. I also remember trying to grab an ice-cream which makes me feel funny now when i think about it. I was like any other kid so mesmerized by all the powerful bright imagery right before my eyes, so i would'nt feel like leaving the the hall! Not that my kids haven't watched 3D as they did so at an many auditoriums. We once watched a science film and it was pretty funny yet fascinating with all the 3D sea-creatures roaming around us! Aryan loved it. But now its really pleasing to know that with Samsung's latest innovation, we all as customers would be able to enjoy an immersive and life-enriching experience right within our homes! Our kids are going to love this and we would all have great family times in front of our home cinema ;)

Samsung 3D TV offers the ultimate immersive viewing experience by liberating content from the flat confines of the TV and turning it into explosive imagery and i guess this would be compared to cinema, when people would opt for the 3D TV home experience. So get your Samsung 3D tv soon :)

The speed of technology...

I found this picture on Crunchgear.com. I think it speaks for itself.

I am simply posting it to show how quickly technology has been progressing in the past 30 years.

-Posted by: Joe

Man Powered...car?

You mean legs right? Nope.

Saw this story, and realized that you must read Larry's take from Acts of the Apostasy. Only he can eloquently summarize this ground breaking achievement.

Man Powered Car - Next: Human Powered Plane!

-Posted by: Joe

Apple Tablet?

So in a few hours we will know if Apple has finally launched a tablet.

Here are just *some* of the rumors surrounding tomorrows alleged announcement of the tablet:

• A tablet
• iPhone-esque OS
• App's galore
• Camera's (plural)
• Video Conferencing
• Cool "native" games - similar to, but unique in functionality to that of the Wii
• On both the AT&T AND Verizon
• BIG!! (size)
• iTablet, iPad, MacBook Touch, iSlate, might be the name?
• Monitor, Keyboard, Mouse, etc... hook ups
• A huge impact on news papers & magazines

If this product comes out it will change computing for sure, but it might very well change the news and blogging into a new dynamic news force. Blogging could easily become TRULY portable with this device. 

So... please feel free to gift me one if it does in fact come out tomorrow. I promise I will accept it graciously, and do good things with it :)

Imagine the possibilities... I know I will :)

Top 10 Catholic iPhone Apps

Are you Catholic?
Have an iPhone?
Want some apps?

Check out this article: Top 10 iPhone Apps over at "Canterbury Tales"

-Posted by: Joe

Tech Engaged by Default?

Interesting discussion today on WBUR's OnPoint radio show.

The subject was landlines and what their future looks like. And while we might joke that "the future don't look so hot" for 'em, in fact what we're seeing on the ground is a re-distribution of the whole organization of the way companies respond to the ways that we want to communicate with each other.

The way we communicate with one another.

What's more, one of the patterns I'm noticing is that of getting beyond the idea of 'obsolescence' as a singularly defined event and more towards an understanding of shift as a matter of true 'evolution'. I mentioned this a couple posts back and it was striking to hear how on the show this afternoon how it relates to the telecom industry (which now could more precisely be referred to as the communications/entertainment industry given the foothold of cable in the market).

One way or another, it sure as heck looks like culture, innovation, the individual, and the sheer power of digital communication are now caught in an inflating Möbius strip.

This is indeed Zeitgeist stuff.

And the more I think about it, the more I think that the majority of folks left on the fence about the role of tech in the 21st century are going to simply fall into the 'user' catagory by default as society changes around them.

IMPLICATIONS OF CHANGING DEFINITIONS OF MEDIA MARKETS

An important contemporary development is the shift of media market definitions from traditional platform-based definitions to functional definitions. This is occurring because media product platform definitions are losing their specificity and uniqueness due to digitalization and cross-platform distribution developments.

Newspapers are becoming news providers, delivering news and information via print, online, mobile, and other platforms; broadcasters are moving off the radio spectrum, exploiting not only other streaming and video-on-demand opportunities, but also text-based communication on web and mobile platforms.

Although functional definitions clarify what companies actually do, they obscure wide differences in audiences, business relations, and revenue sources on the different platforms and give some the mistaken impression that a functionally defined operation can be successful operating the same way across the different platform environments. The functional definition is also confusing some policy makers and regulators concerned with effects of cross-media activity, consolidation, and concentration who do not carefully sort out the different elements of product and geographic market definitions among the platforms.

From the business standpoint, the fundamental problem of the functional definitions is that it leads many content providers to believe they can simply repurpose existing content across platforms. They are happy to do so because the marginal cost is near zero, but they ignore the facts that it also commoditizes the content, that the content losses uniqueness, and that similar presentation may not be appropriate on other platforms. Consequently, the repurposed content can produce only a small marginal increase in revenue.

To ultimately be successful in functional markets, companies need to offer a good deal of new content and launch new products on the new platforms rather than merely reusing what is already there in the traditional ways. Leading cable channels, for example, early in their development relied on motion pictures and syndicated programs previously shown on network television, but soon realized that they needed original programming to attract better audiences and gain additional revenue. Financial newspapers have begun to get it right on the Internet, offering more content and tools than in their print editions and establishing specialized niche products for different types of industry and business readers.

We are all watching to see who among general content providers manages to get their functional approach to markets right using the Internet, Mobile, e-Readers, and other platforms.

Free Thinking (as free as walking down a sidewalk)

Today starts the first of a series of Wednesday guest posts written by TeachPaperless readers.

And I'm happy to introduce Dan McGuire as the first guest blogger.

Before becoming a Minneapolis elementary school teacher, Dan tried his hand at poetry; he also spent about twenty years peddling lobster boats, packaging, computers, and telecom gear in regional, national, and international markets.

You can read more of Dan's thoughts about education on his blog; and you should follow him on Twitter: @sabier.

Free Thinking (as free as walking down a sidewalk)

A few years ago, when the city of Minneapolis was entertaining proposals for a new public wifi system, one of the vendors that submitted a proposal offered to give free wifi access to the Minneapolis Public Schools in return for letting the vendor mount their nodes on the school buildings that 80 years ago were scattered strategically all around town (too many of which are currently being sold off way too cheaply).

That possibility wasn't acted on; it was a dream that didn't come true.

But, it was and still is a very real possibility.

Broadband/wifi doesn't need to cost public schools a dime. It could and should be free.

Free text messaging is already a possibility that could become a reality if only we insisted that that's the way we wanted it to be. Providing text messaging costs the telecom carriers nothing, zero, nada. We're simply allowing them to charge us to use something that should be as free as walking down a sidewalk. I wrote a blog about this last summer.

Ira Socol , Will Richardson, and lots of other folks are talking about the day when schools decide to quit wrestling with the horse and instead decide to jump in the saddle start riding this bronco.

I mean: let kids use phones, or whatever, to communicate.

We already know how to manufacture enough of the devices, and the means of connecting doesn't need to cost anything. The biggest hurdle is deciding that we want to participate in the future instead of the past. It's about as hard as flipping a light switch and turning on the lights.

Once we make the decision, we'll need to do some more dreaming and questioning.

That's when it gets fun.

The future of networked and mobile environments is in the questions that teachers ask, and in our persistence in asking them and taking stabs at answering them and refining the answers and asking more questions.

Call it the Hypertext Socratic Method, or get seriously academic and go with Punya Mishra's TPACK. I personally like the 21st Century version of John Keats' Negative Capability theory: the ability of "Being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts without any irritable reaching after fact & reason."

John Dewey would be with me on that.

Because the future of education is not about things or even the way things are connected. As my friend from down under, Tomaz Lasic says, "This is not about computers, this is about people."

People and the questions they ask, I'll add.

I first ran into Tomaz when I had a question about how to do something with my Elementary Math, Science, and Writing Moodle site. I went to what has become for me a trusted source of knowledge: the Moodle Community Forums. Tomaz is a champion on the Moodle forums. He's been offering guidance and advice to students and teachers for years.

Tomaz's video on how to set up a Moodle database for students (Tomaz calls it the Moodle Swiss Army knife) was one of those "OMG, this is really cool" teacher moments. (Though I still don't get why someone would be that interested in water polo, but I guess living your life upside down on the bottom of the planet does things to you. And even though there's a fourteen hour difference in our clocks, his students were making similar comments about us when they got a glimpse of my students playing American football in the snow at recess this week.)

The future is not some new app, or even a new uber-theory cooked up by a guru followed by thousands of people on Twitter. The future is all of the new PLNs being created, FOR FREE, by teachers and learners all over the planet, on their own time. The future will look something like the kind of professional development being created by Nellie Deutsch and her friends at Integrating Technology.

They're doing it with class, passion, and grace: FOR FREE.

I passed up an invitation to spend an hour or so with some clicker vendors and a famous writer of books about education on Monday because, well, I don't like fighting for parking downtown at rush hour -- especially with 2" of fresh snow and temperatures hovering around 3 F.; that and I really wanted to go to my kid's basketball practice which I hadn't watched or helped out with for a couple of weeks.

As it turned out I didn't get to see much practice because I got drafted to make a delivery from the team to the food shelf and I had to shovel that two inches off my corner lot sidewalk. One way or the other, I learned more after basketball practice by spending time clicking on Twitter links from my PLN than I would have with the vendors and the writer.

(Now, if the someone had offered to chip in for a nice dinner and cover the parking and maybe toss in a little PD stipend, the decision would've been a little tougher; but basketball would still have won.)

Ultimately, I'd like to see education not be a market. When I moved to Minneapolis they gave me a library card FOR FREE. Well, my students and I need information access to wifi and texting, too; they're today's libraries.

Access is the sidewalk to the future. And it should be as free as walking down a sidewalk.

Population and Technology

In 1810, the population of the United States was just north of 7 million.

In 1910, the population of the United States was just shy of 100 million.

In 2010, the population of the United States will be greater than 300 million.

In 1810, the population of the United States per square mile was 4.3.

In 1910, the population of the United States per square mile was 26.

In 2010, the population of the United States per square mile will be at least 80.

Let's put this all into a little perspective.

There are over 270 million cellphones in use in the United States. That's almost double the number of land lines.

Now, if the average cellphone is 4 inches long, then if we set all those 270 million cellphones lying in a straight line, they'd measure out at 1,080,000,000 inches or 27,432 kilometers. That's more than half the circumference of the Earth at the equator.

And that's just the cellphones in the US. There's another 634 million in China. And 427 million in India. And Germany, Japan, Indonesia, Brazil, and Russia sport numbers well above 100 million each.

As for the Internet, there are 231 million users in the US (on a good day).

In other words, there are more than double as many folks online in the US today as there were people in the US a hundred years ago.

Now I know that these sorts of stats get cited and bandied about all the time; yet no matter how often I look at them they nonetheless give me shivers.

Because 2110 is gonna make 2010 look like 1910. And we've already produced children who will live to see that day.

What are we preparing them for?


Notes:

The numbers for 1810 and 1910 come from the 1990 Census of Population and Housing, "1990 Population and Housing Unit Counts: United States", (CPH-2).