From the monthly archives:

How to Transform Your iPod into an iPhone

by Dan on January 31, 2009

There is only one difference between an iPod touch and an iPhone: You cannot make calls from an iPod touch. There is a way you can adapt your iPod touch to make calls without the extra expense and call packages involved with iPhone. It is fairly simple but requires a few extra components. First you [...]

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Proper Cell Phone Etiquette

by Dan on January 25, 2009

In the early days of the telephone there weren’t many options—you were either home to take a call, or not. Then came answering machines, caller ID and the concept of screening. The advent of the cell phone took that concept to bold new heights. With land line phones there was no real way of knowing [...]

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Where For Art Thou, Latin?

by Dan on January 19, 2009

There was a time not too long ago when doctors wrote all of their prescriptions in Latin. If you wanted to be a pharmacist you had to be in continuing medical education to be able to read these Latin prescriptions. If you were a Roman Catholic you were required to learn Latin because all masses [...]

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Who Put the “Pig” in Pig Latin?

by Dan on January 12, 2009

Anyone that has watched, or still does watch, the short comedy films of the Three Stooges is very familiar with pig Latin. The Stooges used pig Latin all the time and what they did was take the consonant from the beginning of the word, put it at the end of the word, and the stick [...]

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Battle of the Online Translators

by Dan on January 5, 2009

Online translators have been around for a very long time and it is only recently that they have been accurate enough to be considered worthwhile and useful. Of course like anything on the internet there are free translators and pay translators and the ones you have to pay for are usually more accurate than the [...]

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