Changing our opinion on technology as first as technology changes
http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/21/itronix-gd2000-a-rugged-handheld-for-your-skydiving-bullet-dod/
I don’t know much about it except that a company called iTronix is manufacturing it.
As soon as they have a model that packs a terrabyte of storage so I can carry most of my data around, I’m a buyer!
For the last three years, our family has taken a 21 to 30 day trip every summer across the nation. First year we did most of the states either side of the 35th parallel from NM to NC. Last year we hit most of the national parks west of the Mississippi. This year we headed north and east and saw the Cosmosphere in Kansas, President Truman’s house/library, President Hoover’s Library, the Ford factory (where we saw them build Ford F150 pickup trucks), President Ford’s library, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, the Erie Canal (road a bike through the locks), Susan B Anthony’s house, The Hudson river valley artists houses, Theodore Roosevelt inauguration house, Niagara Falls, FDR’s House/library, Gettysburg, a coal mine, the Walton’s house, and Thomas Jefferson’s house and many other places.
Part of the adventure for us is to camp along the way – our kids have become masters at setting up and taking down their tents, while we stay in the diminutive teardrop trailer. Since we both basically work for ourselves, working these trips is a bit more challenging than when I travel to teach (and have a hotel or classroom to office out of).
Clients and friends often ask – “where do you work on the road?”
This panoramic photo gives you a pretty good idea!
Yes that is my laptop on the small table on the side of the teardrop. Last summer, we rewired the little guy teardrop trailer to run off of a portable rechargeable battery and to plug into the “shore” power we might find at some campgrounds. The rechargeable battery provides 8 hours of uninterrupted iPhone charging, iPad charging, lights for the cabin, lights for the kitchen area and laptop plug in power.
With hundreds of thousands of available apps in the iTunes store, it is becoming harder and harder to find the app that best suits your current needs.
Enter Chomp, an app that uses a ” proprietary algorithm learns the functions and topics of apps, so you can search based on what apps do, not just what they’re called.”
Chomp is free on the web and in the iTunes Store and works both on the iPhone/iPad and Andriod platforms.
Alaska Airlines recently announced that they intend to replace over 2.4 million pages and 50 pounds on every flight by allowing their pilots to go paperless (see Engadget.com article here)
The article goes on to state that they intend to use one of my favorite apps – Goodreader for managing their documents.
If you have an interesting in going paperless – this article from the CCIM institute gives you an idea of the technology and process you need get started.
Trimensional is a new app in the iTunes App store that does one simple thing – it takes a “3D” photo, converts that photo to a series of data points and into an animated graphic.
Although I have not yet found a lot of practical applicaition, it is a lot of fun to play with.
I realize, I will most likely only be able to keep this post up a day or two before it drives us all nuts!
I recently signed up with Square for their SquareUp credit card service. Square sends you a small reader device that plugs into your iPhones headphone port.
Thursday of this week, I tested out this system when I accepted 4 credit cards during the course I was teaching on “Understanding NM’s Property Tax System“.
The hardware/software system could not have been easier to use. One fast swipe of the client’s credit card
Followed by entering an amount, the client’s email address and having them “sign” with their finger and Viola!
An email recipt was sent to the client and I, and on mine, I could see the amount, the location of the sale, and the client’s email address.
Many of us know, the easier you can make it for someone to pay you, the more likely you are to have additional sales – and the Square system could not be an easier – and it looks very cool!
TechCrunch has this fabulous infographic on the size of the social networking universe.
AMong the many trends it shows, one of the most startling is the number of mobile devices that access the internet (5.3B) which is more than double the number of computers that do.
My wife’s iPhone stopped charging and wouldn’t sync. Apple wanted to reset and if that didn’t work, sell us a new phone.
While a new phone to replace her 3Gs is a nice idea, the problem is she hadn’t backedup her phone in ages.
Fortunatley, we found Fullbars on Albuquerque’s westside. In less than an hour and for $75 they had her back up and running- thank you Fullbars!
IREM’s latest Journal of Property Management Gadget column has 3 must have devices – A tiny HP printer that is iPad compatible, a case with built in charger and battery for your iPhone and a pocket sized paper scanner from Fujitsu.
Introducing the amazing EggBot, a robotic egg designer. Determined to best my wife’s amazing Ukrainian egg designs, this Easter, I applied by tech prowess with my able assistant, the EggBot. Unfortunately, it is still a work in progress, but I remain hopeful that we can generate thousands of egg designs. Until the next Easter, we are practicing on ping pong balls!
9th sphere web design