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"With Dictation, you can use the magic of speech recognition to write emails, narrate essays and long documents in the browser without touching the keyboard. To get started, just connect the microphone to your computer and click the Start Dictation button. Dictation uses your browser's local Storage to save all the transcribed text automatically as you speak. That means you can close the browser and it will resume from where you left off."

"According to a recent survey of people in 65 countries, 73.4% of people own a smartphone. Those with smartphones check them an average of 110 times per day, which amounts to every five or six minutes spread out over a twelve hour period. Another study found a slightly higher frequency - 150 times per day. That's a lot of people with instant, constant access to email, social networking, and text messaging. Not all of them will suffer all or most of these negative effects, but the draw of checking  your phone "just one more time real quick" is obviously difficult to resist. Heck, most people don't even try to resist it, because staying connected and apprised of everything everywhere can only be a good thing, right? Let's take a look at some of the possible consequences:"

"My prediction is that if dictation technologies become less expensive and more widely available, and if it becomes normal to use them for everyday writing (such as email and text messaging), then students will grow disinclined to type their writing assignments, preferring instead to rattle off their compositions by voice. Educators will thus be confronting inescapable decisions about how they should respond to students' inclinations to write with dictation technologies."

With a wealth of information at their fingertips, how can students use the iPad to appreciate resources?

"CamScanner is a document scanning and sharing app. It allows you to instantly scan any type of text or graphic and save or share them with others. Using your phone or tablet camera, you can take a photo and CamScanner will automatically enhance the scanned results so you can easily email, print, fax or share them in PDF or PNG format." The basic version is available for free

The facility of Promotional Bulk SMS has brought a drastic revolution in the way businesses were conducted until a few years back. Gone are the days of traditional advertising SMS Marketing.Now you can promote your Product/Services at just a click directly to thousands of Mobile Phone users through promotional SMS. This has only opened attractive new arena of communication mode. Mobiles have become the most common communication mode(Bulk SMS). Every other individual, today, has a mobile. Nothing can be better than sending Bulk SMS to the prospective customers. We are Intenext Solutions, one of the leading Bulk Sms Providers in Patna of this amazing facility. We are based in Patna and offer effective and efficient services to clients' spread across the country. We provide SMS/email to OPT-IN Subscribers Only.

The facility of Promotional Bulk SMS has brought a drastic revolution in the way businesses were conducted until a few years back. Gone are the days of traditional advertising SMS Marketing.Now you can promote your Product/Services at just a click directly to thousands of Mobile Phone users through promotional SMS. This has only opened attractive new arena of communication mode. Mobiles have become the most common communication mode(Bulk SMS). Every other individual, today, has a mobile. Nothing can be better than sending Bulk SMS to the prospective customers. We are Intenext Solutions, one of the leading Bulk Sms Providers in Patna of this amazing facility. We are based in Patna and offer effective and efficient services to clients' spread across the country. We provide SMS/email to OPT-IN Subscribers Only.

""I think Google is likely 75% fucked," Paul Kedrosky, a venture capitalist, wrote in an email to Mashable. "Nothing's totally fucked, but... they're at a precipice, and no one is calling them on it." Just a few years ago - heck, even a few months ago - that statement would have come across as utterly out of touch with reality. Even now, it probably reads as mostly hyperbolic. Mostly."

"Welcome to another post that is a new entry in my Googal In Google Series. In fact, I was ecstatic about the enthusiastic responses from my Ten Items All Should Know When Using Google Basic Search… Far From Basic posting. (If you didn't see it, give it a click.) In this first of a three part posting I will cover some great things to know about Google Advanced Search. I will even try to convince you that perhaps you will increase student understanding by teaching them to search with the Advanced Search Page! As always, feel free to subscribe to this Blog by RSS or email, follow me on twitter at (@mjgormans), and also discover some great resources at my 21centuryedtech Wiki! You will also find my other postings at Tech and Learning Magazine. Now let's take a moment and advance to some of the advanced search strategies using Google Advanced Search! - Have a great week - Mike"

"This is a continuing article in my series "The Googal In Google" This posting will focus on the art of searching using the basic Google search engine. I have tried to include the obvious and the not so obvious techniques. As you look through, I am almost certain you will learn something new. Please share this article with other educators and students. Just understanding these ten concepts will assist anyone into being a more productive researcher. As always, please feel free to follow me on twitter at (@mjgormans), I will do the same. Also, please take a moment to subscribe to this blog by email or RSS. I am always finding useful information to share! Let's begin our search. - Mike"

"my6sense is the best way to experience your top content from social networks and news sources - all in one app.Read your most relevant items and updates from your Facebook, Twitter, news, RSS and blog streams (*Google Buzz on Android), share via email and social networks, discover fresh content, manage your streams and more! All you need to do is use the service, and we'll personalize your content for you. Using our 'Digital Intuition' technology, we accurately learn what's important to you and personally rank your streams so that your most valuable information is always at the top. There's no need for you to tell us what you like/dislike or set any preferences. It's completely effortless!" So far so good enjoying the random nature of it so far. Especially when the Google Reader is bursting at the seams. Like the integration with my twitter feed too. 

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LinkBunch lets you put multiple links into one small link which you can share over IM, Twitter, email or even a mobile phone SMS.

Free surveys can take vie text mobile web keeps data secure on your mobiode username sitecan email text it out to people

"Create a new thread to discuss a topic online with friends, co-workers or any other people you know. The simple way to have a hassle-free talk online. No chaos with emails. No need to create a complete bulletin board. Just create a single thread!"

# Grade online assignments in a single step! # Get reporting and analysis on student performance! # Works with Google docs # Email students their scores. # Designed by a teacher, for other teachers!

Fantastic use friendly site for creating mind maps of images / information online. Works almost in fairly similar way to prezi. Very easy to learn. Free sign up. Collaborate on mind maps with other people. You can select to be emailed daily, weekly or monthly changes to the popplet. Think you only have 5 free 'popplets' though :(

Securely receive files from anyone to your Dropbox. Ever wish you could easily receive big files from anyone? Now you can!  Together with Dropbox you can setup an unique upload address with password protection. DROPitTOme is your one stop solution when an email is just not enough.

"At first Snozerr looks like most audio recorders, until you notice the button for the camera. This app gives you the ability to take photos while recording audio; each picture is timestamped to the point in the recording where the photo was taken, and you can easily synchronize the images with the audio for later playback. This combination of features makes Snozerr an ideal app for students recording lectures and workers recording presentations with lots of infographics. You can use the timestamped photos to target the interesting parts of the lecture and ignore the non-relevant parts. All of the voice and photo files created in one session are linked together, so it is easy to share content with your peers. The app also supports nested hierarchical organization, dual cameras, and sending files by email."