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There’s no denying that the iPhone has become an amazing tool for taking your internet connected life mobile. However, many of its functions are available to even the lowest tech “dumb phones” on the market. This post will show you how you can use your dumb old RAZR phone to blog, tweet, podcast,...

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Since its debut in 2007, I’ve been a fanatical iPhone jailbreaker and general enthusiast of the device. As more and more iPhones have begun bogging down the 3G network in the Bay Area, Apple/AT&T seem to be taking their customers for granted (charging ever more...

One thing that grabs people’s attention when they get an iPhone is that phone numbers on websites automatically become hyperlinks. Click on a number, and the iPhone asks you if you want to call that number. Firefox on your computer has this same ability! You can make Firefox recognize phon...

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Web 2.0 has beguiled us to forsake our old offline apps and turn to the online cloud for more and more of our data needs. CNET’s Buzz Out Loud podcast proclaimed that “Offline is the New Online” when Google Gears came out in 2008. Our email files are no longer downlo...

Evernote is a great note‐taking application for Mac/PC and iPhone, as well as a powerful webapp. It gives you tons of ways to keep track of all the little bits of information in your life— that cool website you want to remember, your shopping list, a photo of your homework assignment, or the...

Mac/iPhone/iPod Touch

Need an easy way to keep track of your assignments? iProcrastinate has been a favorite of Mac users for a long time. Now iPhonies and iTouchers can get in on the fun. 

TouchPad Pro turns your jailbroken iPhone into a wireless remote control for your computer, allowing you to mouse, type, and control presentations from anywhere in your classroom, wirelessly.

I’m sure there are as many ways to use this as there are teachers. I have used it to advance my class...