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NFC Phones and Digital Wallets
NFC Phones are phones enabled with near-field communication chips. NFC Digital Wallets Companies like Google and Verizon are scrambling to be the first to implement a mobile payments system that allows a cell phone to carry and transmit credit card information. The technology involves using near-field communication (NFC) chips that can transfer small amounts of…
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Pebble Watch Applications for Dentists
Pebble Watch has Hands-Free Applications for Dentists and Doctors While the Pebble Kickstarter campaign ended with much fanfare on May 18, 2012, as of March 18, 2013 you still can’t get a Pebble watch. But that’s not why I’m writing. I know the Pebble watch will eventually come out by either Pebble or some other…
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Intermedia Office in the Cloud vs. Office 365
A local Indianapolis dental office has decided not to update their local Exchange software and asked me to review hosted Exchange providers and online office productivity suites from Intermedia and Microsoft. They both are cloud-based and use Microsoft Office products, but each has slightly different features and benefits. Intermedia’s “Office in the Cloud” boasts migration…
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3D Printing Resources for Beginners
This video, Massimo Banzi: How Arduino is open-sourcing imagination was filmed in June of 2012 and it was one my first introductions to 3D printing. I heard about it on NPR that same month when Ira Flatow said, Can 3D Printers Reshape The World?. Since then I have learned a lot more, but I’m barely…
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Eye-Fi Wireless Card Helps Improve Dental Process
A Eye-Fi wireless flash card turns almost any digital camera into a wireless camera. This type of wireless card helped solve a problem at an Indianapolis dentist who needed a fast and easy way to take new patient photos. Each new dental patient was supposed to get their picture taken so it could be added…
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13 Trends That Are Changing the World
Things change and will continue to change, that much we know. But sometimes the change is so incremental that it’s hard to notice. This post aims to take a step back and review where we are now and where we might be going. Crowdfunding – funding a project large or small used to be limited to knowing…
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Exchange Public Folders and Tasks on iPhone and Android
How do you sync Exchange Public Folders with Android/iPhone? There is no way for the iPhone to show the Public Folders on its own, so we have a few options: Create additional Contacts and Calendar folders in Outlook. These new folders will synchronize with the Public Contacts and Calendars and as they’re in the mailbox…
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Stereotypes
Stereotypes of young professionals I learned last night from interaction with some college kids last night at a meetup: They think being an entrepreneur means coding an app. They don’t know how to make paper airplanes. They use their Mac laptops as word processors. They use Twitter to communicate (via app on their phones, not…
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Job Interview – A Review
It started out with a verbal technical questionnaire about how I’d merge two data sets. They were mostly Access questions and I didn’t do too hot on these. They use Access to update customer lists using the ‘join’ functions (apparently). Next, I was sat in front of a computer with sample data and asked to…