Raise your hand if you’ve ever sent a text to 466453. If you’ve done it, you already know that Google SMS is one the most helpful inventions of all time. At least in my humble, understated opinion.
4-6-6-4-5-3 = G-O-O-G-L-E on most cell phones. Text Google if you need anything (within reason) and you’ll get it. Here are some examples:
- Text “Pizza 48104” and you’ll get a list complete with address and phone number for Pizza House, Cottage Inn Pizza (3 locations), Papa John’s, Domino’s and “reply: more for more listings.”
- Text “USA 97” and get “23 Jan 2009 US 97 DTW Depart: 6:20 AM Departed LAS Arrive: 8:01 AM Landed Gate: T1/A12” and then some… WOW!
- Text “CBOU” and get “Stock: CBOU (Caribou Coffee Company, Inc.) 1.61(+0.00.0.17%) Jan 23 11:44am ET Real-time price data for NASDAQ.”
Wow! The last 6 months have been insane over here with Custom Programming projects galore! I’d be remiss if I didn’t say that our programmers at Dynamic Edge are beyond awesome. (In the same breath, we’re looking for one right now, so if you’re a power programmer who likes video games and Mountain Dew, drop us a line!)
One of our biggest projects in the pipeline just got some major press from our Nashville office. The gang has been running on all six cylinders since January, 2008 with a group called DisastersNet, Inc., a Nashville-based company that implements fully automated, web-based emergency management systems for hospital environments.
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Today’s posting brought to you by Jason the Programmer — who needs a little more to do with his time!
In search of an answer to this age old question, I’ve consulted numerous sources and scoured the Web. Hopefully, you’ll find this tidbit of information as useful as I have. The difference between the forward slash and the backslash is as follows:
/ = the forward slash leans forward
\= the backslash leans back
That’s it. Wow. That was complicated!
For Average Joes and Janes like myself, that’s all you really need to know — because we really only use slashes when typing in website URL’s. And, yes, I did casually say “slashes” because most of us regular users only know where one slash is, anyway. It shares a key with the question mark.
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Ok Folks, it’s time to dig deep and give big! There are only 14 short hours remaining to cast your vote for Dyanamic Edge’s Best Beard of 2008!
Statistics show that one in every eight adults lacks the literacy skills needed to be successful in society. If you are reading this post right now, you can make a difference in the life of one of these individuals. With every $1 vote, you make a donation to support literacy in our community!
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Do you ever ask yourself, “If I’ve got iTunes set to shuffle all songs, why do I keep hearing these same songs over and over again?!?” For some reason, the loop of tunes you’re hearing doesn’t really feel shuffled – much less random – at all. Wouldn’t it be nice if your iTunes played only the songs that you haven’t heard in a long time? Oh wait, it CAN! … Who knew?
Apple developed this tool called the Smart Playlist that allows you to set certain parameters to generate a playlist populated by only the tunes that you’ve got an inkling to hear. Like Christmas music, Songs about Love, or comedy bits by Adam Sandler that are more than 4 minutes long.
The Smart Playlist gives you ultimate control: letting you be as specific as you want to be, and then paring down your lists by more than a dozen variables. And, as a matter of fact, when I’m finished writing this post, I’m going to create a playlist Hip Hop, R&B and Rap songs with the word “Girl” in the title… just to find out how many I’ve got in my library 🙂
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Everyone knows that keyboard shortcuts can help you to get the most out of your software programs. They can speed up your work by letting you perform functions without searching for them on the menus and dialog boxes. If you can memorize these commands, your fingers will literally NEVER have to leave your keyboard.
Here’s the great part! The shortcut keys in Word 2007 are pretty much same as the shortcut keys in earlier versions of Word. But, there is one main difference: if there isn’t a command that works for you, you can customize shortcuts that are easier for you to remember! Maybe you may want to create a key command for a shortcut doesn’t exist, you can do that too.
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