Just in time for the holidays! This piece will indeed share 14 cool tricks that will make you look like a smartphone paparazzi! Thanks to the folks at PC Magazine for making this slideshow to make us look good. Get all the information here! Tease….did you know that your volume button can snap your picture?
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This year, bring your spring cleaning to the office and add your smartphone/laptop to the top of the to-do list.
Gizmodo is a blog, started in 2002, that focuses on gadgets and technology. This month, they posted tips and trick to refresh your technology. In the article titled, “Give your smartphone or laptop a spring cleaning, read about how to tidy up your device(s) both inside and out.
Have you seen these before?
Quick Response Codes (QR Codes) consists of black modules (square dots) arranged in a square pattern on a white background. The information encoded can be made up of virtually any kind of data. If you have a mobile device that uses smart technology (IPhone, Android, IPad, etc.) you can download an app that will read these two-dimensional (matrix) codes.
Originally QR codes were designed for the automotive industry to store large amounts of production information. More recently, the system has become popular across any industry type due to accessibility, readability and large storage capacity (compared to standard UPC barcodes). Today its has any number of applications for anyone looking to market to a tech savvy customer without the need for large layout space. If you are interested in creating your own QR code all it takes is a free QR code writer and you can begin placing them on any printable surface.
Check back next week, CMLE will feature a member library who is using this little box in a big way.
According to research firm International Data Corp (IDC), smartphones outsold PCs in the final quarter of 2010 on a global level. Researchers indicate that the smartphone industry has seen a year-over -year increase of 87 percent in the fourth quarter. This is faster than most experts predicted, with many thinking that smartphones wouldn’t outsell PCs until 2012. So, how can we account for the success of smartphones? Mainly, PCs have market saturation, so it’s natural to see some growth in the “latest and greatest” product. Additionally, there’s something to be said for the convenience of smartphones and their ability to connect to information, people, or data sources almost instantaneously. Who can resist having an app for that?!!
Want to know more? Check out the following articles http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/d96e3bd8-33ca-11e0-b1ed-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1DTdKFg99 and http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/02/07/idc-smartphone-shipment-numbers-passed-pc-in-q4-2010/.
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Check out the most recent Things on a Stick Newsletter at http://thingsonasticknews.blogspot.com/. Thing 64, written by Dayle Zelenka from Traverse des Souix Regional Library System/SMILE and Gina Zelenka from Blue Earth County Public Library, is titled Face-to-Face Social Networking for Libraries: Let’s Get Back to Basics. Thing 63, written by Dayle Zelenka as well, focuses on the new Droid X. Check it out now, and be sure to review some of the older posts in the archive – the multitypes were busy this summer bringing you the latest and greatest in technology via the Things on a Stick News Archive!