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Dear Hackers, What’s the point?

Added by Pam Kreutzer on September 15th, 2010, filed under Technology

While getting ready for work one morning, I caught a segment on the Early Show about hackers who target cell phones.  The reporter demonstrated how easy it was to get into our voicemail messages and retrieve personal data that may be stored in our phones.  The reporter stressed how important it is to set up [...]

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What would Alexander Graham Bell think?

Added by Pam Kreutzer on August 5th, 2010, filed under Technology

When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, I wonder if he had any idea how it would be used 134 years later. When I was a kid, my mom and older siblings talked about sharing telephone services with our neighbors on a party line in the late 1960s.  If we wanted to make a call, [...]

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Is “Shorthand” still around?

Added by Pam Kreutzer on July 7th, 2010, filed under Culture, Technology

Looking back on my high school days, a lot has changed in the office setting.   While in high school, I can remember taking Shorthand.   That class was important if you wanted to work in an office as a secretary.  I was one of the girls that wanted to be an Executive Secretary; taking shorthand [...]

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Maps vs GPS

Added by Pam Kreutzer on May 28th, 2010, filed under Technology

When I was growing up and went on vacations with my parents, we learned how to read and follow Trip-Tik booklets from AAA to know where we were and see how much longer it would be before we would got to our destination. When I took my sons on vacation when they were growing up, [...]

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What would my typing teacher think now?

Added by Pam Kreutzer on April 16th, 2010, filed under Culture, Technology

I can remember taking typing as an elective in high school. I can still see the teacher covering up some of my classmates' hands so they would not look at the keys while they typed. We had to lay our fingers over the correct row of keys and memorize where the letters were on the [...]

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