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UPDATE - I’m updating this to let you know how I did this without having to listen to the audio. First, if you wish, you can follow me at www.Utterz.com/angelagb or, if you don’t want to follow me, just go to www.utterz.com. From Utterz.com you can follow others and use it to crosspost to your blog or social networks of which you are a member. To setup any of those options, click on the Apps & Widgets tab on the top of the website and select Crosspost.

I’m planning to use it for mobile blogging. I looked into some other methods of mobile blogging this past week and none of the options I found worked well for me. I think this one will because you can post text, audio, video, and pictures to your blog via the Crossposting feature using your smartphone. It seems rather easy to do once you get it setup.

It appears to be fairly new so be patient and give ‘em some time to perfect it.

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…in baby girl’s hand as a handset rather than an earpiece. Who’d da thunk an earpiece would make a perfectly fitting handset for a toddler?

Hey! Wait! No fair! I had to wait until I reached the magical Sweet 16 for my Trimline phone (remember those? how retro!) in the mid-70’s. My 22 month old granddaughter already gets to have a bluetooth earpiece?

Just kidding! She’s using Dad’s bluetooth earpiece paired with his iPhone to chit chat with Mommy while she’s away from home working. At the same time, Dad’s using the iPhone to take her picture to share with all of us. My, my…we’ve come such a long way with telephones, haven’t we?

I tried to locate an old picture taken in the mid 60’s of my younger brother standing in his high chair in the kitchen playing with the wall mounted rotary phone to share, but couldn’t find it. Even that era of telephone history was a point where we had come a long way from the wood box wall mounted crank phone the Waltons and all their neighbors used. Come to think of it, didn’t they yell, “can you hear me now?!” on their phone, too?

I remember having to wait our turn to use the phone at my Grandparent’s home. It wasn’t a matter of waiting for another family member to get off the phone, though. You had to wait until the party that shared the line aka a party line gave up the shared phone line.

And the phone numbers…EVERGREEN6-3796 rather than 386-3796. Was that supposed to make it easier to remember phone numbers? Before that you had to rely on someone who might have been known as Myrtle the local operator to connect you with the party you were calling.

Couldn’t tell a secret because that’s likely how the rest of the town found out about it because Myrtle could hear your conversation, too. What a career! I bet the National Enquirer would love to be able to hire a few Myrtles and use that old technology today, huh? Especially in Washington DC and state capitals around the country during election season.

Have you got any pictures of family or friends using old phones? I think it would be interesting and fun to see some of the old phones in use. If you do, let’s create a blogging web of telephone history. Leave a comment here with a link to the blog post where you’ve shared your telephone history, memories, and pictures.

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YO! Baby Boomer Online News, WHY are YOU polling MY RSS Feed from my post at Goodbye Laptop! Hello Portable Firefox Browser?

This mobile stuff just keeps getting better and better. Ok, so some of you already know about most of this stuff, but I didn’t. Upgrading to a Blackberry has opened up a whole new mobile world for me. While surfing blogs about mobile technology I discovered Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition on a post at Web Worker Daily. Perfect!

I KNEW I’d find another good use for the 1GB Mini SD card that came already in my Blackberry! See, I replaced that one with a SanDisk 8GB microSDHC Card (SDSDQ-8192, Bulk Package) so the 1GB is free for the taking now and the portable edition of Firefox, among other things, is going to take it and cruise around in my shiny thumb drive.

So what’s the point of the portable edition of Firefox? Well, I’ve got tons of Firefox plugins, links, etc. that aren’t available when I use another computer. Yes, I have an iGoogle page full of links, calendars, gadgets and other stuff, but that’s nothing like actually having your own personalized browser available most anyplace you go.

The laptop is moving into a part time position as I’ll only need it mainly for more secure purposes now and then. With the help of gotomypc.com, I’ve already been able to cut down on lugging the laptop along to some business appointments. My shoulder is much happier these days. Now to get the kitchen sink out of my purse.

Hmmm…looking over at my Digsby Buddy List (thank you, Heidi!) and wondering if it’s possible for it to ride along on my thumb drive with the portable edition of Firefox? My Blackberry takes care of all communication, but that’s a thought to consider for those without a BB. Making a note to look into it.

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