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I love Roomba

Condo Blues — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:50:45 -0600

I have to admit that my Roomba is a busy woman's best friend. However, my dog is't a fan. He likes to bark at Roomba. My dog eschews clean.

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iTunes U

Virginia DeBolt — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:11:18 -0600

People are always amazed when they learn what's available at iTunes U. It's truly wonderful.

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Asimov's three laws

Virginia DeBolt — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:07:56 -0600

Let's hope these mutant robots know about Isaac Asimov's 3 laws of robotics. Otherwise, I'd urge everyone to attempt to keep their Pleo from walking off any tables.

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I'm so there!

Skye — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:29:12 -0600

Not just robots, but MUTANT robots? Sweet!

K-12 Literature on iTunes U

violet33 — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:10:37 -0600

One of the sites within iTunes U is Lit2Go from the USF College of Education. It is a great resource of K-12 stories and poems. You can download the audio and print the accompanying text files to read along as you listen to the podcast. They are categorized by grade level and there are also some stories in Spanish.

Pleo

Virginia DeBolt — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 10:07:37 -0600

Or perhaps a mutation?

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Pleo

Denise — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 09:22:57 -0600

Liz has been talking about Pleo and we vetoed it at our house - too expensive and too many robotic toys have been purchased here in the past and they've usually been a bust.

But, at her father's house, they celebrate a Hanukkah/Christmas combo and Liz received a Pleo this weekend. She informed us yesterday that it walked off the table and now makes noises it was not intended to make. Hah. Accidental upgrade?

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The best app's with the mobile devices

ChakaSB — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:35:42 -0600

What I love about having an iPhone are the great app's. My favorites are:

Urban Spoon

Pandora

Zhiing

Facebook

They are all free and helpful.

Keeping Technology Simple

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A Phone for Canadians

Laurie_Halo Secretarial — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:12:33 -0600

Might have to see about that Cleo phone, not that I need a new one! I do like Samsung phones though - great list!

Laurie, mom of 3 boys and

blogger about my VA business and my life as a mom!

Love the Noel case! thanks

AshleySF — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:47:54 -0600

Love the Noel case! thanks for the tip, I may have to add that to my xmas list. It's so hard to find a nice looking case for the iphone.

Ashley

www.themadgrad.com

I get new music

Virginia DeBolt — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:35:45 -0600

ideas from the radio, too. Often someone Terry Gross interviews on Fresh Air or someone I learn about from All Songs Considered. Listening to the radio while sitting at the computer is especially hazardous to my budget, because I can open iTunes and buy music before the radio spot is even finished.

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When my built-in 6-cd

shelleyp — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:19:47 -0600

When my built-in 6-cd changer ate one of my CDs, I replaced it with a single-cd player that had an MP3 input jack. I don't listen to my iPod through the earphones any longer (having hearing problems), so I now have a desktop iPod player for home, and the CD plug-in for playing the iPod in the car.

Haven't touched an audio CD in months, probably years.

However, I do still listen to radio on short trips, so I can discover new music and new artists...or hear that first Christmas song being played on Halloween.

Now, about that chocolate chip recipe...

Yes

KatieBeez — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:10:31 -0600

For my job here in Europe we have to use rental cars all the time for traveling to other sites. Some of the stereos have standard USB port inputs that will read mp3s, which is super convenient for myself and all my other geeky co-workers.

Just this week my boyfriend got a rental for a trip and it didn't have any of the new adapters so we went old school and burned a CD with some of his favorite mp3s.

Gadgets!

RenaissanceTrophyWife — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:29:28 -0600

My current obsession is the Panasonic G1, but that may have to wait a while. :-(

http://renaissancetrophywife.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/gaga-for-the-g1/

Thanks for the great links; I also like http://www.dealnews.com for tech sales.

RTW

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Tumblr

Virginia DeBolt — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 07:42:12 -0600

I don't know how you and Professor Kim save things you want to go back to again, but I have been using Tumblr lately. You can save things to an account there with notes and tags. It helps you find things when you ready to go back to it.

I often save a bunch of links there when I'm researching an idea. It really saves time when I'm ready to put things together.

Virginia DeBolt
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