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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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I’ve always been very careful about letting just anybody use my computers for any reason, let alone do any repairs for me. As a matter of fact, there are only two people I know that I would let come anywhere near my computers when it comes to repairs. After seeing this news video about virtual spies you can bet your sweet britches I will NEVER allow just anybody to do anything to my computers for sure now.

What ever happened to virtues such as integrity, honesty, trust and respecting the privacy of others?

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