I guess where there are kids, there are bullies. And where there are bullies, there’s a nonprofit organization funded by your tax dollars that’s telling us the obvious: it’s wrong.
Apparently 1 in 5 kids gets bullied electronically and text messaging is the most popular. A report by NCH gives you an idea of what kids are saying to each other, which sounds very much like what we used to say to each other back when I was a kid (except the “we’ll burn your house down” part):
“You’ve got ‘you’re big, you’re fat, you smell and nobody likes you’ right through to ‘we know where you live and we’re going to burn down your house and you’re going to die'”
In fact, there’s even a Web site: http://stoptextbully.com/.
Need more info? Cnet has a good article on it.
So what’s the solution? It’s the same one today that is used to be a long time ago: beat the crap out of the bully. Except now instead of fists, it’s hacking geeks to the rescue! Shut ’em down, boyz!
Podcasting Overview
/in Heard on the RadioThis is the perfect podcast for someone interested in creating a podcast, sponsoring a podcast, or using a podcast for their business as well as people that want to know about podcasting.
Want to make your next business meeting a smash hit?
/in Heard on the RadioWant to make your next business meeting a smash hit? I’ve got a red-hot tip. At your next meeting, bring a laptop and projector. Project the agenda document on the screen and use it to guide the meeting and to take notes as well. Make sure you take notes live, projected on the screen. This has a fantastic effect because everyone watches what you type and participates much more than usual. And since everyone is seeing the same thing at the same time any inaccuracies are corrected immediately. Now here’s the best part: when the meeting is over, all you do is simply email all this notes you took to everyone who’s there and you don’t have to writeup those tedious “meeting minutes” ever again. Try this at your next meeting and I guarantee you’ll never do it any other way ever again.
Do quick Outlook Contact lookups
/in Heard on the RadioThe next time you’re looking up a contact in Outlook, click somewhere on the right hand side window where your contacts are listed and slowly type the last name of the person you want find. Outlook will quickly start flipping through the contacts to match the letters you’re typing. This is the fastest way to search. Try it!
Blogging is huge and here’s the report that proves it
/in Heard on the RadioNeed to prove to someone that blogging is huge? Check out this Pew Research report on blogging. Some notable points:
Let Google be your dictionary
/in Heard on the RadioHere’s a great Google tip. The next time someone throws a big word at you, like “stenosis”, you don’t have to reach for the dictionary or a gag towel. Just go to Google, type the word “define:” then follow it with the word you want to learn about and Google will pull up all the definitions on the Web. You’ll love it.
iTunes 4.9 video demo walk through
/in How-To's with VideosWant to see how to use this feature the cool way?
Checkout the video for a step-by-step demonstration!
(And let me know if you experienced any difficulties)
If you’d like to see how iTunes 4.9 works, check out this video.
Overall, nice, simple UI. Better than iPodder Lemon. You can drag and drop podcast links to subscribe, and the directory is easy to browse. I like it.
iTunes 4.9 released!
/in Heard on the RadioThis is the moment podcasters around the world have been waiting for. I’m downloading it right now with a full review ASAP!
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
YCM is Your Tool
/in Heard on the RadioA quick review of the purpose of the Your Computer Minute (ycm.com too) podcasts:
How to synchronize your podcasts with Windows Media player
/in How-To's with VideosWant to see how to use this feature the cool way?
Checkout the video for a step-by-step demonstration!
(And let me know if you experienced any difficulties)
If you don’t have an iPod but you want an easy way to synchronize your podcasts with your Pocket PC or any other MP3 player, you can configure Windows Media Player to automatically sync newly downloaded podcasts and even deleted podcasts.
It took a little while to monkey around with this but I got it to work and it works like a charm. Check out the video I’ve put together and let me know what you think!
If you don’t want to watch a video, here’s what I did:
Bullies move to text messaging
/in Neat Tech & NewsI guess where there are kids, there are bullies. And where there are bullies, there’s a nonprofit organization funded by your tax dollars that’s telling us the obvious: it’s wrong.
Apparently 1 in 5 kids gets bullied electronically and text messaging is the most popular. A report by NCH gives you an idea of what kids are saying to each other, which sounds very much like what we used to say to each other back when I was a kid (except the “we’ll burn your house down” part):
In fact, there’s even a Web site: http://stoptextbully.com/.
Need more info? Cnet has a good article on it.
So what’s the solution? It’s the same one today that is used to be a long time ago: beat the crap out of the bully. Except now instead of fists, it’s hacking geeks to the rescue! Shut ’em down, boyz!