TIPS AND TRICKS: The whole world in your palm
The News Review:
- TIPS AND TRICKS: The whole world in your palm
- Some thoughts on Presidents Day
- Audience review: Bend it like Bollywood
- Re: Lest we get boring
TIPS AND TRICKS: The whole world in your palm
Pakistan Dawn – Feb 16, 2008
ne of the non-wiki features of Unyverse is its excellent support for Wikipedia. Although users cannot add articles from the web-interface to be read on handset they can fetch articles directly on the handset in a very readable format. The application menu Public Wikis > Wikipedia brings up two items: Search and My Articles. Searching ‘Pakistan’ for example results in only headings appearing initially from Summary to External Links where each can be read individually. This saves time of downloading an entire page as a browser would do. Further it makes it easy to go through a lengthy piece of article as one can always press Back button and hop to different headings. The view of article is semi-html in the sense that images are done away with but hyperlinks to other articles still appear in standard blue underline format… Further it makes it easy to go through a lengthy piece of article as one can always press Back button and hop to different headings. The view of article is semi-html in the sense that images are done away with but hyperlinks to other articles still appear in standard blue underline format. Reading Wikipedia on the move has never been that easy. Researchers and students who gather and read for their reference material off the news items (RSS) and Wikipedia can make use of Unyverse even on a low-end device with enough Jar size to install this application. By this time we have seen what can be downloaded or accessed using Unyverse. But the application also offers two-way communication. Since wiki is a way of editing pages any time and is collaborative in nature Unyverse lives up to this term by allowing the phone application user to edit wikis and such changes appear over the website almost instantly.
Some thoughts on Presidents Day
Summit Daily News – Feb 16, 2008
The history is actually rather interesting because Presidents Day was the very first federal holiday instituted in honor of a real person George Washington. Presidents Day was first celebrated in 1880 on February 22nd Washington’s Birthday. ur good friends at Wikipedia tell us that wasn’t until a full century later in the 1980s that Presidents Day became reinvented so to speak to include Lincoln as well as other presidents depending upon the state. For instance in Massachusetts all of the presidents hailing from that state are included as well. (In case you’re stuck on this one I’ll help you out. Native-born Massachusetts presidents include John Adams John Quincy Adams Calvin Coolidge and John F… ” In spite of the unfortunate fact that some of our presidents haven’t deserved that much celebration the holiday is now designated in a sort of desultory “let’s-lump-them-all together” way to honor all of the American presidents. And what adds to the fun is the fact that the whole idea of Presidents Day as an all-inclusive sort of holiday came about because of good old American corporate advertising. Wikipedia tells us that sometime in the 1980s there was a push from retail businesses to rename the holiday and set it on Monday but not as many people think in order to give employees a long weekend off. The idea behind the Monday move was to give retailers the opportunity for a major post-weekend sales event. That’s why so many consumers today associate President’s Day with furniture sales car sales and the like. It’s also the reason that as you may have noticed nobody gets President’s Day off anymore. Even banks and post offices stay open now to join in the retail business frenzy not that there seems to be much of one these days.
Audience review: Bend it like Bollywood
abc.net.au – Feb 16, 2008
As we sat down I cast about for a programme finding only a sponsor’s Indian tourism brochure (on one of the few empty seats). A portent of things to come? Well yes and no. Choreographed by Indian artist Shiamak Davar whose Wikipedia entry reads breathlessly as more like a press release than documentary fact (something Wikipedia acknowledges) the show was punctuated by short (hagiographic again) video clips of Shimak’s work followed by a booming voiceover extolling the virtues of the next piece intended perhaps to soften us up for what was to come. At least now I knew why there was no programme. So was this and the merry little technical glitches that seemed to plague these video clips what set the tone for the night?Definitely not; it was the dance of course. Colour and movement set to pulsating music took my breath away. Extremely physical movement (at least from the waist up) and incredible costumes were complimented by understated lighting.
Re: Lest we get boring
fredericksburg.com – Feb 16, 2008
This coming from the guy who pastes at length quotes from Wikipedia and a Catholic apologists website cherry picking from one or the other to suit his point!You’re an idiot if you trust either the Catholic Church or the Freemasons to give an objective audit of either themselves or each other. In this case Wikipedia is probably the least biased you’d find on the web as a quotable source. It might not be flawless but they’re not grinding an axe unlike you unlike the web sites you love unlike the Catholic Church. Dude that link you childishly and hopefully labelled “Undone” citing that bogus Catholic site WeLoveTheCatholicChurch. org or whatever it was? The author of that web page was talking about a book Galileo’s Daughter cherry-picking from it as evidence to support a hopelessly biased viewpoint… This coming from the guy who pastes at length quotes from Wikipedia and a Catholic apologists website cherry picking from one or the other to suit his point!You’re an idiot if you trust either the Catholic Church or the Freemasons to give an objective audit of either themselves or each other. In this case Wikipedia is probably the least biased you’d find on the web as a quotable source. It might not be flawless but they’re not grinding an axe unlike you unlike the web sites you love unlike the Catholic Church. Dude that link you childishly and hopefully labelled “Undone” citing that bogus Catholic site WeLoveTheCatholicChurch. org or whatever it was? The author of that web page was talking about a book Galileo’s Daughter cherry-picking from it as evidence to support a hopelessly biased viewpoint. The result is you citing uber-Catholic-Dude who is cherry-picking from a book to suit his Catholic apologetic goals which was talking about Galileo.
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