Toys
We console ourselves in different ways. For some reason, my choice seems to have been to try out new technologies. Here’s what I’ve been experimenting with over the last few days.
First of all, there is this very web site. Tumblr.com is a simply amazing service. The ease with which we can post all sorts of interesting content is unprecedented in my experience. This looks like a keeper.
I found Tumblr.com from Jott.com. a voice-to-everthing service. By registering your phone number(s) with Jott.com, you can use your voice to send text to people’s text-messaging clients, email, your blog, your Google calendar, and many more targets. The advantage is that you need not be near any sort of keyboard. If you try to send text messages while you drive, you need your head examined. But a simple phone call to a service that sends what you say as a text message? Why not? I’ll be posting to this site by voice from time to time.
GooSync is a free service that synchronizes your Palm calendar with your Google calendar. What a great way to avoid conflicts, and to keep you from having to read Google calendar pages in your PalmOS browser.
Eye-Fi is a wonderful little 2 Gb SD memory card that must be programmed in your Mac or Windows machine. Why programmed? Because when you put it in your SD-capable camera, your photos will be transfered wirelessly from the card to your computer or to any of a large and growing number of hosting and printing services, including…
Picasa and dotPhoto. Both of these photo-hosting services have distinctive advantages. Google’s is nicely integrated with its client uploader. dotPhoto offers more services, including some formidable online editing features. I have my Eye-Fi trained to upload everything to both.
So, now, with all these new ways to stay connected, the heat is on to actually have something to say, and images to share. Aha! There’s the rub. And yet, isn’t it just possible that filling such a vacuum might actually make us more observant? More interested in turning experience into reflection? More aware of the ways in which how we see, and what we see and do, appear to others?
I believe that will be the case for me. I’ll let you know. Meanwhile, give some thought to some of the toys mentioned above.
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