Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Smartphones: DOs and DON'Ts

DON'Ts:

  1. Don't use it to do major writing, such as wiring a message longer than a few characters.  Remember smartphones don't normally come with a keyboard or a mouse.
  2. Don't use it to check your mails, browse the web, etc when you are walking.  It is unsightly and dangerous.
  3. Don't use it when you should be talking to strangers,  friends and family.
  4. Don't disturb others when you use it as a phone. 
DOs:
  1. Use it as an alarm clock, a count down timer and a stop watch.  In short use it as an all-purpose timer.
  2. Use it as a sort of a swiss army knife.
  3. Use it to check weather.
  4. Use Evernote to compose shopping list
  5. Use Google Map to locate things and prevent from getting lost
  6. Use its camera to take pictures.  Note that this camera is no substitute for a good camera with stabilizer.  For example, the quality of the pictures will be poor if used on a whale-watching cruise.  Note that if you choose, the pictures when uploaded will have a google map alongside.  
  7. Use it as a flashlight.
  8. Use the cell network to provide Internet access to your Notebook computer when there is no Wi-Fi, such as when you are taking a bus.
  9. Use it as a USB drive as you would a flash drive.
  10. Use it as an iPod to listen to music, audiobooks, etc.  Use a stereo bluetooth headset for this.
  11. In a store, use your phone to scan a bar-code just like the casher, to find information or do comparison shopping.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

參與一個網路連署需要多少時間?

How about four seconds?  四秒!

假定你使用 Google Chrome, 或者 Firefox with add-on such as LastPass, 軟體會記得你以前填表用的資料, 而在你寫下你的名字的第一個字後, 就自動幫你把整個表填完.  At this point, you have used half a second.

剩下的 3.5 秒是用來做  CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test 來証明你是人, 不是程式) test.

這裹有兩個連署湏要你 8 秒鐘的時間:
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連署聲援成功大學零貳社同學二二八行動 (282 as of now)