Did you score a new computer, MP3 player, smart phone, or HDTV this holiday season? Before you toss the old one in the trash, keep in mind that most electronic devices contain toxins that shouldn’t wind up in landfills. Some communities even ban such devices from being tossed out improperly. Planet Green has provided a list of recycling options for electronics .
Consumer Guides for E-Cycling After the Holidays on Planet Green (via The Huffington Post)
Photo: Alby Headrick on Flickr
From Gizmodo: The Best iPhone Apps of 2008 (note this blog sometimes uses some colorful language, but this post is clean). I haven’t tried all of these myself–I posted my own list of what’s currently on my iPhone a few weeks ago–but a few of them sound pretty interesting.
Don’t forget that Hello (this blog you’re reading right now!) is sort of an iPhone app! Just open hello.stratepedia.org on your iPhone, then add it to your home screen for easy access.
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) posted a series of articles today about how to use a variety of Apple gadgets. If you’ve recently received a new iPhone, iPod, or Apple computer you may be interested in one of these posts:
Not an Apple person? No problem–there are some other articles to guide you with your new digital camera or hard drive:
The New York Times published an article yesterday about the latest in electronic books–from Amazon’s popular Kindle (which I’ve talked about quite a bit in this blog), to competing products from Sony and other companies, to iPhone software for e-book reading. It doesn’t really touch on textbooks, but that could really shake things up if and when kids start toting an e-book reader instead of a stack of books (including some of the things we know about literacy).
Read More Readers Are Picking Up Electronic Books (NYTimes.com).
SIM network superstar Sue Woodruff has launched a Facebook group for professional developers working with SIM. There are already 27 members sharing photos, links, and discussions.
The group is private, but if you have a Facebook account and wish to join just visit the SIM Professional Developers group and request to join.
Sue has been doing a lot with social web technology this year: In addition to Facebook, she maintains the blog For Your SIMformation and is active on Twitter. I’m hoping that we can co-present on these technologies at next summer’s SIM conference.
Want to listen to your favorite websites or important documents on your way to work? Textcast might be worth a try. From its website:
Textcast turns any text — documents, web pages and entire blog feeds — into personal podcasts you can listen to right on your iPod and iPhone.
I could have used this a few years ago when my old-school white iPod was my best friend, commuting in Seattle. You can download a 7-day trial of Textcast. If you do, let us know what you think!
In case you were unable to attend the GIST webinars that were hosted last week, here are the recorded sessions. We are still learning our new Adobe Connect software so I apologize for the crude narrating and editing, but hopefully you will find these to be helpful.
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Do you like (or hate) Depot? Want to help me assemble my 2009 to-do list? Please take a couple of minutes to complete this short, anonymous survey about Depot. I’ll take your feedback into consideration as I determine what’s next for Stratepedia’s flagship application.
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