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| Santa's Chief Team of Elves
Each elf on my team has a smart phone with suitable apps to
help him in his responsibilities and day-to-day activities.
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| NORAD TRACKS SANTA |
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| Google Santa Tracker
By the way, I have a million friends on Facebook and a
million followers on Twitter and the number is growing every year. Of course,
you must be aware of my aliases. I am also known as Father Christmas, Santy,
Kris Kringle, Saint Nicholas, Saint Nick and simply Santa! So look out for any
of these names signed on your Christmas Goodies this year!
Only
a few hours to go before my departure! You never know when I shall visit your
home on Christmas Eve! I am blogging this letter so that it reaches millions of
you at a time, instead of writing to each of you separately! After all, I am the Smart Santa of the
Digital Age! Merry Christmas !
Yours Affectionately,
Saint Nicholas (Santa)
 
References:
17. http://printablesantaletters.com/blog/2010/08/5-free-christmas-postcards-with-vintage-santa-images/
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| Genius is 99% Perspiration and 1% Inspiration - Thomas Alva Edison |
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| Edison - The Electrical Pioneer |
From this quote, one may infer that the
gift of high intellect depends very less on being inspired and ninety nine
times more on working really hard and sweating it out. ‘Genius’ is chiefly understood as being the result of hard work, rather than an inspirited vision of
intuition. Have we, in some way, misinterpreted Edison, the coiner of this adage?
Interpreting the 'Genius' Quote:
P.S: The main objective of this post is to interpret the ever popular 'Genius' quote by the great Inventor, Thomas Alva Edison. Any errors, misrepresentations and inaccuracies in any form are genuinely regretted.
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| It is raining Apps
Great to be blogging again! Does the title of this blog post
sound absurd? Well, it is not! In fact, I think that it is the perfect title
for my blog post and I hope, you, my readers will also shortly agree with me!
The latest
fad for some arguably, may be online shopping! But to me, it appears to be
‘Apps’! I personally had only heard
about Apps before, but now I know what they are and how one can use them! Thanks to the new Tablet mobile at home! To those of
my readers, who have probably just heard about them but do not really know what
they are, I am quoting its definition (as defined in computing) from the web,
“An app is a self-contained program or piece of software designed to
fulfil a particular purpose; an application, especially as downloaded by a user
to a mobile device”
It is
great fun to download an app from the google play store and install it on the mobile
and then just as easily, uninstall it from the mobile. The App space is an ever-growing space which
seems to be encompassing almost every aspect of the average person’s life.
There are apps for education, games, entertainment, social media, weather,
newspapers, food, travel and even apps for blogging. You name the space and there sure is an app
for it! Even as I write this post, I am
sure that there is an app developer some where out there, coming out with an
app in a hitherto unexplored area (by apps)!
My
Favorite Apps:
Other Notable Apps:
In addition to the above, there are other Apps like
 denotes the Blogger App denotes the Wordpress App
I could go on and on with the list of apps
crowding the app stores.
It seems to be an endless list!
Apps have truly given a great boost to
programming for Mobiles, probably resulting in increased employment
opportunities for app developers. Apps are
probably an indicator of how ingenious the human brain can get. On the other hand, they also indicate the
increasing human dependency on external gadgets for various necessities.
I think that we are in the midst of a digital
revolution and the world is truly at our fingertips!
But, is
it time to pause and ponder that the world is becoming just a little too
saturated with
Apps?
Would
you not agree that it is indeed raining Apps?
Food for Thought: Are we being flooded with Apps or has the
human creative potential reached its zenith point with Apps? Think about it!
Let us just look back a few decades when there
were no mobiles. We just had the telephones where we had to manually dial in
the numbers. While this may seem less advanced when compared to life today,
where we have tablets and iphones with manual dialing of numbers no longer
required, the telephone or the landline as it is now known, made us remember
the numbers that we had to dial each time, we wanted to reach another person.
Now we just store the number in our mobiles and forget about it! From this
perspective, we had better memories in the past. We were more self-reliant.
The technological advancements,
creativity and ingenuity of the human brain may have made life easier for the
modern man, but has it made him more dependent on gadgets?
In the past, Man used to rely on his brain,
now he relies on gadgets, one such gadget being the mobile loaded with Apps.
Are we heading in the right direction?
Apps are mostly being developed as part
of marketing brands. The brands become part of our daily lives. But do the
developers responsible for creating the apps get their due recognition?
Food for Thought: Technological
Advancement and Brand Marketing coupled with Human Values and Wisdom is the way to true progress.
Think about it!
Thanks for reading!
If you ‘Like’ it, ‘Share’ it!
References:
2.
http://community.lessonplanet.com/t/bringing-the-world-of-educational-apps-into-your-classroom/765
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