Have A Car? Have An IPhone?
January 30th, 2009 4:36 PM
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If you answered yes to both questions, chances are you’re feeling relatively isolated from the economic pressures of the recession. Congratulations! Now go treat yourself to one of these iPhone applications compiled by CarType. Thanks to the power of Steve Jobs you can now shop for car insurance, look up the lowest gas prices in town, receive RSS updates on cars for sale, receive press releases from MINI, VW and Mercedes Benz, calculate your mileage, look up EPA ratings, receive traffic alerts in a number of countries, and play a plethora of time-wasting games all from your phone. Delphi’s James Bond-like bluetooth control for complete vehicle systems (first teased a year ago) is, sadly, still not available on the consumer market.
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Nullomodo NYC ! www.nycenet.edu We get paid more than most places in the country because our living costs are much higher. This job's unions have worked the system to ensure a teacher with 2 kids at home would be able to support herself... for a bachelor like me - this job is butter.
Since we're bragging about secure high-paying education jobs and all... My wife has taught in DC public schools for 7 years (ESL) and just got her national board certification on the first attempt.She holds 2 masters degrees (Ed. & Labor Relations) I think it's safe to say she is one of the better teachers in the system. She and her co-workers generally agree (and have loads of horror stories illustrating) that a school's administration is usually the least competent aspect of a school body and often is what keeps teachers from doing their best job. Usually it's by insisting that teachers do their job the way the admin wants them to, by using X system or method rather than how that teacher does it best. The administration feels like their oh-so-bright ideas will do the trick and feel like they are contributing, never mind that most of them have next to zero experience as a teacher or any instinct on what the students need. Of course, maybe that's just isolated to DC...
There was a bit of conflicting information in that video. First he says they're using bluetooth. Later he says they're accessing everything from the Safari web browser. Given the (artificial) capability limits placed on the iPhone, it has to be one or the other. Safari seems like a much more likely candidate than Bluetooth ("without modification"), albeit likely not nearly as secure. So, which is it?