Katie Couric Explains How Texting Works in Relationships (5)
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Let it be known, Katie Couric is OK with saying you love someone over text message. Just don't dump somebody that way. Text messaging: Adequate for love, not quite seething enough for hate. [via textually]
Review: Q Contacts (1)
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Q Contacts v1.0 | Published by Addy Mobile, Inc. | Via App Store | Free | Released: 11-14-08 Overview Q Contacts is a handy little app that may make it onto the main screen of your springboard. Simply put it enables you to quickly search for a contact, and then text, email, or call them without having to load their contact card. Functionality Q Contacts begins with typing in the name of a contact. You ...
Why Am I Surprised? (1)
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Even though I know I'm a digital immigrant, I try really hard to keep up with what the digital natives in my house know. This time, my youngest two taught me a lesson!I recently gave my five year old twins a Nintendo DS for their birthday. They had been playing their sisters' games and enjoying them regularly so I wasn't surprised when they pulled them out every chance they got.But I was surprised when I ...
Study reveals the top U.S. texting markets (1)
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A study by Scarborough Research has found that El Paso, Texas, is the top texting market in the U.S., where 57 percent of phone users over the age of 18 send text messages, compared to 48 percent of adults nationally. Salt Lake City, Dallas, Memphis, Tenn., and Cincinnati rounded out the top five markets. Release
Lenovo ThinkPads to freeze when texted, deter thieves from getting the goods (4)
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We've seen some pretty sophisticated laptop security measures out here in the volatile civilian world, but Lenovo's taking things all top secret with its new Constant Secure Remote Disable feature. Slated to hit select ThinkPads in Q1 2009, the Phoenix Technologies, um, technology enables specially equipped notebooks to become utterly worthless if stolen -- so long as the owner remembers to text in the emergency code, that is. You see, with the Remote Disable function, ...
How to enable emoticons on any iPhone (1)
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A new feature that was included in firmware 2.2 was emoticons, however this feature seems to have been made available only to those on the Japanese carrier SoftBank. But, worry not, if you are outside of Japan and feeling a strong desire to have those sometimes annoying little icons, then a fairly simple process will [...]
Single Texting Addicts - Meet Speed SMS Dating (1)
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Texting (SMS) is certainly popular, especially amongst the younger crowd. In fact, one teenaged girl sends more than 600 text messages in a day -- almost double what an average American sends/receives in a month. A 29-year-old man travelled from San Francisco to Green Bay to meet a woman he met via text message. It was love at first texting. We've all heard of the term "speed dating", which allows you to meet many people ...
Single Texting Addicts - Meet Speed SMS Dating (1)
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Texting (SMS) is certainly popular, especially amongst the younger crowd. In fact, one teenaged girl sends more than 600 text messages in a day -- almost double what an average American sends/receives in a month. A 29-year-old man travelled from San Francisco to Green Bay to meet a woman he met via text message. It was love at first texting. We've all heard of the term "speed dating", which allows you to meet many people ...
How to leave evidence: hire hit-men via text messages (3)
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Murder, plotted via text messages. Kevin Poulsen quotes Oklahoman Tonia Mullins: "Don't care who as long as they can in no way be traced 2 me or u guys through someone else," the 32-year-old Oklahoma woman texted a would-be intermediary. "Price is going 2 be the big factor here. What r we lookin at?" Seven to nine years, it turns out. But I'm getting ahead of myself. The sharp edge of the case is that ...
Papel pintado de diseño para colorear (1)
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Este papel pintado, un diseño original de Jon Burgerman, es en realidad un diseño compartido por quien pueda y quiera hacerse con uno, ya que se trata de todo un cuaderno “pinta y colorea” a lo grande, repartido por toda la pared de la casa. (more…) JOn Burgerman, papel pintadoCompártelo
Triathlon Training: Day 33, workout #15 (1)
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In case you don't remember, I joined the NYU Tri Club at the start of the semester and began training on October 13, 2008. We workout at 6:15am-7:30am on Mondays (strength/drills/core/plyometrics), Wednesdays (cardio/core), and Fridays (swim). That's why the number of workouts is less than the number of days since I started. Anyway, I have already lost 5 pounds since I started! At this rate, I will be at my goal weight by the end ...
The More IM Use, the Worse Test Scores (2)
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A new study just published suggests that the more expertise one has with instant messaging (IMing), the worse one’s test scores. And, not surprising and consistent with prior research, the new study (Fox, 2008) found that IMing increases the time it takes to complete a task. The study looked at 69 undergraduates who were randomly assigned to one of four different groups: reading a simple text passage and answering some questions about it, with one ...
HP Compaq Presario SR5610f (1)
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The HP Compaq Presario SR5610f debuted on September 28th, 2008 as an entry in HP's ever-growing line of streamlined desktop computers. Classified as a nettop, the Presario SR5610f has a dual-core 2.5 GHz AMD Athlon X2 4800 processor, 3 GB of DDR2 SDRAM memory, a 320GB SATA hard drive, and a NVIDIA GeForce 6150 SE video card with 128MB of memory. This desktop also comes with a DVD-RW drive and Windows Vista Premium straight out ...
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به گزارش خبرگزاري فارس جاسبی رئیس دانشگاه آزاد با بيان اينكه مسئله تكريم ارباب رجوع دانشگاه آزاد اهميت بسياري دارد و واحدهاي دانشگاهي بايد به آن توجه كنند، گفت: بيشترين مشكلات دانشجويان به ترتيب مربوط به نحوه برخورد كاركنان، انتقال دانشجويان، معادل سازي و آييننامه مربوط به دانشجويان ممتاز، امتحانات پايان ترم و برگزاري كلاسهاي درس است. - بهنظر شما چيز ديگري هم باقي ميماند؟!!