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View all →June 3, 2010
WINNER – Jawbone ICON Father’s Day GIVEAWAY & Review – Become a Hero!
I have always wanted a Jawbone ever since I read about the company and their Bluetooth headset products. It could be simply because I was sucked into their strong marketing, but I like to think it is because of the design and technology. Jawbone has been creating revolutionary, high-end Bluetooth headsets for several years, and they have just come out…
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May 28, 2010
Keep Track of your Kids through Social Media & a Cell Phone, But BE CAREFUL!
I have always been a big proponent against the use of Social Media by children, especially when they are in elementary school. Interacting with Social Media is not something you want your kids doing at an early age, at least not until they can really understand its implications. However, as they grow older and more independent, loosening up the reigns…
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May 20, 2010
The Ripple Effect of Social Media – Get Mobile for More Waves!
We all know the well used imagery of throwing a stone into a pond and watching the ripples spread out from the center. The same imagery can be applied to social media, I believe. But there are different ways choose the rocks and throw them. Most of the time, I stand in the same place, casting similarly shaped rocks into…
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May 11, 2010
Social Media for the Rest of Us
I heard an interesting statistic today that the smartphone sales accounted for only about 20% of all of the cell phones sold this past quarter. I was actually a bit surprised with that number. I would have thought that the percentage would have been a lot higher. Of course, I live in a technology bubble. Not only do my various…
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May 7, 2010
New GelaSkins Give your iPad Protection as well as Personality
Putting a skin on your electronic device is nothing new. Just go to a mall or an electronics store and you can find a bunch of different products that wrap around your device. But there are several drawbacks to those run of the mill skins. They have boring designs, the don't fit your device quite right, they look and feel…
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May 6, 2010
“Lose The Laptop” in 140 Characters or Less!
The next AT&T Lose The Laptop Challenge is upon me and it is all about Social Media. #LoseTheLaptop [99] For my first article for the Challenge, I’m going to try something different, use only 140 or fewer characters at a time. [121] While this 140 character requirement is only for Twitter, it actually can help a person’s writing become clearer…
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April 28, 2010
The Ford Sync – a “Knight Rider” for the Rest of Us
Remember way back in the 80's there was a TV show called Knight Rider where one of the two main characters was a car that talked to you and responded to your voice commands? Of course K.I.T.T. (the name of the car which stands for Knight Industries Two Thousand), did a lot more than just answer commands, he drives "himself",…
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April 26, 2010
No AT&T iPhone Tethering Because of the Apple iPad 3G?
Is tethering ever going to arrive for AT&T and the iPhone? Rumor has it, it will be coming soon. We are a year later after there was an announcement that tethering would be coming to the iPhone. But then various parties started dragging their feet. Could AT&T handle the extra strain on their network? Was the feature just not ready…
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April 15, 2010
That “Nagging” Voice – Getting Directions (#LoseTheLaptop)
Men refuse to ask for directions. Perhaps it is an "independence" thing or has something to do with pride. Women, on the other hand, insist on the careful organization and planning of trips, stopping and ensuring that the way is meticulously laid out. This could go as far back as the early hunter and gatherer time, I'm thinking. Men would…
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April 5, 2010
What Do You Take When You Travel? – #LoseTheLaptop
So you have packed your bags, they are in the cargo hold, and you are 30,000 feet over the glistening ocean, and you start thinking...did I pack the [fill in the blank]? Suddenly you get that big hole in your stomach and you know that you didn't hit an air pocket. It's an "oh crap" moment. Let's face it, I…
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April 1, 2010
Who Has Time to Travel Anyway? – Lose the Laptop!
Travel? Who has the time or money to travel nowadays! Sure I travel...a lot! From the bed, to the shower, out the door, to the car, to the train, on the train, to work, and back again. It's a great trip actually. I get to read the paper and occasionally do some writing. In fact, my writing is happing right…
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March 22, 2010
“Tracking, Texting & Texas” with Cast of Dads Podcast – Episode #13
It’s seems like we at Cast of Dads are always talking about social media and parenting and how at times they are mutually exclusive. Part of my day job is to actually be doing a lot of marketing on various social sites. And, in fact, all of us dads on the Cast of Dads are pretty active within social networking.…
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