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The new texting law says that drivers cannot read, write or send anything from their mobile phones. This includes text messages, instant messages, email and using the internet on your mobile device. Violators of the new law will be fined $150. Drivers over the age of 18 are still able to talk on their mobile phones while driving, but talking is prohibited for drivers under 18. If you must talk on the phone while driving, I recommend you use a Bluetooth headset. With a Bluetooth headset, you can use voice-activated dialing and talk hands-free while you’re driving.
Want to learn how to use Bluetooth on your iPhone? Attend our iPhone/iPad Lunch-N-Learn on August 12!… Keep reading
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My husband I were watching Jeopardy last night when we saw something unusual in one of the questions (or should I say “answers”?):
“THIS BRAND USES THE URL quickerpickerupper.com FOR THEIR WEBSITE.”
If you’ve ever watched Jeopardy, you know that all of the answers are displayed on a blue screen in BIG WHITE CAPITAL LETTERS, so it was very unusual to see “quickerpickerupper.com” in lowercase letters. This got me thinking, why are all URLS (or at least all the ones I can think of) always in lowercase letters? Is it “internet grammar” or something else?
After a little bit of research, I found out it was both “internet grammar” and “something else.” Through a process called “URL normalization,” a website’s URL is automatically standardized to be lowercase. I won’t go into the complex details, but you can read more about why URL normalization exists here. Even if I typed … Keep reading
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One of our lunch-n-learn attendees had a great idea for our newsletter: App of the Week! This week’s App is Quickoffice, which allows you to use the Microsoft Office suite on your mobile device. Quickoffice is available on the iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry, Android and Palm. Look for it in your phone’s app store, or online at quickoffice.com
Ryan did a demonstration of Quickoffice at last week’s lunch-n-learn. Here is the short video:
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Everyone knows by now that social networking is a pretty big deal. When I first joined Facebook back in 2004, it was a closed community only available to students at a few colleges. This week, Facebook is poised to enroll its 500 millionth user. That is significantly more than our country’s population, and twice as many as it had this time last year.
Twitter has over 100 million users, and it hasn’t been around half as long as Facebook. Then there’s LinkedIn, Yelp, Google Buzz…you get the idea. The point I’m trying to make is, no matter what age, gender, race or other demographic your target market is, they’re all likely to be active on one or more social networking sites. You should be too.
Watch out Google; the next wave … Keep reading
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If you need to do a quick calculation, there’s no need to reach for the calculator. Just type the equation in your search engine’s search box. This works in almost any search engine for basic calculations:
Bing is the math whiz of the search engine world. It can do complicated calculations involving logarithms, square roots and exponents:
Bing even knows Algebra!
Warning: Do NOT share this with your children. It will make math homework way too easy 
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Most of us know that downloading music from file sharing services like KaZaa and Limewire is a bad idea. Not only is it immoral and illegal, you also run the risk of downloading viruses and spyware onto your computers.
But there are alternatives! Keep reading to learn about three legal, safe online music services that you can listen to on your computers and mobile devices.
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