Monthly Archives: January 2007

Cellphone Search

Posted on by Kathy E. Gill

I feel a little bit better about my struggle to find a SmartPhone that I’m willing to live with for a year or so. That’s because I expect by 2008 I will have migrated to Apple’s iPhone. But my (ahem) six-year old phone has a stone-cold dead battery, and I’m just not gonna put more money into it.

It seems like most of the "SmartPhones" sold in the US have Microsoft as an OS — just look at the offerings at Cingular, Verizon, T-Mobile. Rim and Palm have the best market share, supposedly. But the big three all charge a pretty premium for Blackberry data. And Palm has a crippled Treo, compared to Europe’s Nokias. And don’t get me started about how the Big Three insist that incoming phones have wiFi crippled. Grrr.

I found this great article at Internet News: Why aren’t smartphones more popular?

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Winter 2007 – My, Oh, My!

Posted on by Kathy E. Gill

Gack! It’s been a month since I posted here. In the interim, we had the windstorm from hell … resulting in a nightmare experience with Delta on our holiday tirp to the Bahamas. Seattle has been locked in the grip of Arctic air fronts and ice and snow and sub-20 weather … until now. Two classes this quarter: COM 300, Intro to New Media … and COM 585, DM Content Creation.

I’m a regular guest now on Blog Talk Radio – RSS feed here! And I’ve put a toe in the water in political podcasting; inaugural post info.

Powerpoint To HTML

Posted on by Kathy Gill

Students in COM300 create a PPT presentation as part of their role as a discussion leader. This tutorial (part of the COM300 website) walks students through creating a basic powerpoint presentation and saving it as HTML. [HTML version required Winter 2007 only, not Spring.] In addition, students learn how to upload those files (FTP) to their University of Washington webserver.