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Father’s day is this weekend, however, one of the things I would like is simply not available yet.
That thing is the “i’m Watch”, a connected watch that works with your Android phone, which is not available to purchase, but you CAN preorder on the www.imwatch.it website.
You get a wrist-watch type device that runs the Android operating system and interconnects to your Android smartphone. It enables you to keep your phone in your pocket, while receiving text messages, email and notifications from popular social media sites like Twitter, Facebook and Foursquare.
You are not limited to those applications, there will be more available and you can develop your own!
Basically, this thing puts the information you need most right on your wrist. You can get it in a variety of colors and styles it would appear.
Oh yeah, it’s a watch too… =)
Should I get my hands on one, I will let you know more about it, until then, visit the i’m Watch site for more info. Now if you ARE with “i’m Watch”, feel free to send me one for father’s day.
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Please come join The Dockside Band on June 18th at the wonderful Break Time bar and pool hall in Anderson, SC…
Also, like us on facebook at http://www.facebook.com/DocksideBand and check out our website at www.TheDocksideBand.com
If you would like to book a great band in the Greenville / Upstate area, please call us! We play a variety of beach, country, classic & southern rock with a laid back, fun attitude!
Something More Than a Game at Warehouse Theatre
Thankfully, John, Megan and I were able to fit a night into our busy schedule this month to see “Something More Than a Game” at Greenville’s Warehouse Theatre last Saturday night… and I’m so glad we did! I am also pleased that we arrived early enough prior to the performance to hear the playwright, Jayce Tromsness, speak to hte audience about his experiences which led to the creation of this wonderful historical play. Also of interest to me since I am a native Greenvillian of “middle age”, were some of the references to familiar names and places that I remember hearing and seeing as a child. The play was also ironically seen at the same time by two Greenville icons: Nick and Emilie Theodore and Dick and Tunky Riley!
I loved how Tromsness wove the story through the old newspaper adage, “When the legend outweighs the facts, print the legend.” This quote was the basis for the plot that easily carried the audience from present day to 1919 and back again. The story is told through the relationship of a father and his daughter regarding the myth and legend of Shoeless Joe Jackson and the 1919 Black Sox scandal. More than the scandal and the game, the play delves much deeper into the family dynamics and relationship of a father and his daughter. The audience soon feels such compassion for Joe Jackson that the event in question takes back seat to Joe’s life and obvious love of the game of baseball.
John and I are not big sport fanatics, so I was a little concerned with how much I would enjoy this play. But I was delighted with the story and the actors were so perfectly matched to the characters of the play that once again, The Warehouse Theatre enchanted my family! The next time I’m walking through WestEnd in downtown Greenville, I think I’ll pause a little while to admire the statue of Shoeless Joe =)
Pamela McAbee Hoyt – @PamelaHoyt
The WHO (World Health Organization) proclamation that cell phones could, maybe, possibly, some way somehow, cause cancer has a bunch of people up in arms.. There are now groups of people swearing off cell phone usage, and now places declaring they are a “cell phone free zone” all in a matter of hours after the WHO announcement.
Sure, they may have a valid concern, but what about the more immediate concern about your smart phone security?
Not much is being said about this one, but I hope that will change. It seems that users of smartphones will believe anything! If an app asks for credentials to a social media site, people give them without questioning it at all. A group of researchers published their findings about 100 apps designed for both the iPhone and Android phones in which they came up with more than a dozen ways in which scammers could utilize malicious code to allow the collection of user names and passwords on popular social media sites!
Here’s their findings…. http://w2spconf.com/2011/papers/felt-mobilephishing.pdf
Obviously, the phishing is good in smartphone land!
Expect more to be said about this from security experts and news outlets as time goes on.
BTW: The next time you are prompted for your credentials, you might want to just think about WHY you would need to give them….
I’m going to just post this link….. I leave it up to you to read it, or not. Believe it, or not.
http://gizmodo.com/5803498/apple-to-customer-service-dont-help-our-customers-with-malware
There is a further link from that page: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/apple-to-support-reps-do-not-attempt-to-remove-malware/3362
If you happen to feel your Mac is infected – seek a professional computer service provider’s input.
Found an interesting article titled “Google Is Serious: You Can Kill Chrome’s URL Bar” which gives a glimpse of what may be around the corner; The ability to hide the URL bar by default.
What is the purpose? Smaller desktops, such as those found on netbooks could benefit from gaining a few pixels of real estate on the screen. However, as we browse more visually these days, it is not difficult to imagine that different ways to navigate the web may also be coming. I still enter a large percentage of all sites that I visit in manually, but I can foresee the day when that may not be the case.
Those who use tablets to browse find every way they can to avoid manually putting in the URL already.
Lenovo’s new ThinkPad Edge E420 (1141-55U) notebook has all the features that make for an enjoyable business user experience, in addition to claims of it including “Advanced VoIP features”.
With businesses going global, video conferencing has become the new standard for communication. ThinkPad Edge E420, featuring a low light-sensitive 720P HD camera and multimedia function keys, delivers a high-quality video conferencing experience. These features coupled with noise reduction technology and the new 2nd generation Intel® Core™ i3 processors make it a perfect choice for SMB customers.
- 2nd generation Intel Core i3-2310M processor
- Genuine Windows 7 Professional 64 bit
- 320GB/7200rpm hard disk drive
- 4GB memory
- Spill-resistant keyboard
- Digital microphone
- HDMI 1.4 for projecting HD
- 4.6lbs
- 4.2 hr
All that for $579.oo!
Homeland Secure IT is proud to be your Greenville / Upstate Lenovo partner. We offer the full line of Lenovo products, including the new E420! Call us today at 864.990.4748 or email info@homelandsecureit.com.
Please be sure to catch our band, The Dockside Band at Break Time in Anderson, SC on Saturday, May 21st!
I think we get started about 8:30, and it should be a blast!
Break Time is a “pool hall”, if you will, allowing 18 year olds to go in, but not to drink. They have a full bar, and I believe Saturday Nights are their “Bikes & Babes” nights or something of that nature.
For more information about The Dockside Band, you can find us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/DocksideBand or http://www.TheDocksideBand.com - You can also follow us on Twitter @DocksideBand.
Thanks for your support, we look forward to seeing you!
Simple people are easily amused I guess, but I am LOVING the Bluetooth features in the Cisco SPA525G2 SIP VoIP phone.
If you have one of these phones, you can associate it with your smartphone via Bluetooth and then do the following:
- Make a call from your smartphone’s number, using your Cisco phone
- Answer your incoming smartphone’s incoming calls from the Cisco phone
- Download the contacts from your smartphone to the Cisco phone
- See the signal strength and battery charge of your smartphone on the Cisco display
- Charge your smartphone using the USB port
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- Homeland Secure IT Alert
Homeland Secure IT Alert for Friday, May 13 2011
On May 04, the FBI issued a warning about links related to the death of Usama bin Laden.
The text from the FBI site follows:
Homeland Secure IT Alert
