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Greetings!
What type of smartphone user are you? Read our article that details the different types of smartphone users that are out there and see if you can pick out your style.
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Brian S. Pauls Graduates From Leadership Overland Park
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On Wednesday, June 24, PerAspera President Brian S. Pauls joined 29 other members of the the 2009 graduating class of Leadership Overland Park.
The Overland Park Chamber of Commerce has developed the Leadership Overland Park program "to ensure the continuing vitality of the community by providing a solid source of motivated leaders who are educated about the community and its issues, as well as trained to accept future leadership roles in the Overland Park area."
As a member of the program, Brian took part in nine sessions, focusing on multiple aspects of city, county, and state government, as well as community development, education, and quality of life.
Teams of four or five members each produced a final project focusing on an issue important to the community.
As part of his team's final project, Brian interviewed Overland Park City Manager John Nachbar, about the prospect of an Overland Park entertainment district.
The Leadership Overland Park Class of 2009 was recognized at the Overland Park General Membership Luncheon on June 24, and each member was awarded a commemorative gift by Leadership Overland Park Coordinator Amy Niemann, and Overland Park Mayor Carl Gerlach.
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 Smartphones: An Option for Everyone
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Jennifer Owens Overland Park, KS
I took a local poll (asked a few friends
and a few strangers standing in line at Planet Sub) to see how people
are using their smartphones. Well, it all depends on the device and
the needs of the person.
The Traditionalist: Uses their phone
for--wait for it--making phone calls. Even though they may have other
great features on their phone they really don't use them with the
exception of the eight or so phone numbers in their address book.
The Executive: This user likes to use
the productivity tools. In addition to the phone they make full use
of their calendar and task list which syncs with their computer. They
also download their email directly to their device and often send email
from their phone. They view attachments and documents such as PDF, Excel
and Word files.
The Über User: These people do it
all. In addition to all of the above they play games, use the GPS function,
record notes and send text messages. They surf the web, take pictures,
email pictures, change their Facebook status, send tweets, receive tweets,
(26% of the people reading this don't know what that means) and have
not only downloaded but have even created their own custom ringtone.
They text or call GOOG411 to get free information from Google, listen
to music, make bids on eBay (deep breath) and the list goes on and on.
No matter how you use your phone there
is an option for everyone. In my family there are two Traditionalists,
one Executive User and one Über User. We're all very happy being
who we are.
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How to Filter Spam Before it Gets to Your iPhone Email
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Greg Newell
Like most people, I have been putting up with spam since spam was
invented. I can say that I've effectively resolved this issue in
Outlook after a couple of years of trying different things. Ultimately,
I've settled on Cloudmark software and it's been great.
But I digress, this isn't about Outlook. After this concerted effort to
eliminate as much spam as possible from my inbox, I decided that it was
finally time to start using a smartphone for email.
My choices were Palm phones, Blackberrys, Windows based phones, Nokia
and of course the iPhone. I chose the iPhone immediately. I used Palm
when Palm wasn't even a phone, but not for email. Blackberry was the
best alternate choice and with respect to email only, might have been a
better choice.
Frankly, I
did not think to ask the store associate how iPhone handles spam. I was
too impressed with "Need for Speed". I've never seen a phone run a game
like that. iPhone is truly a handheld video game contender but again I
digress. I bought the 16 gig version (which I probably won't ever need,
but - you know). I also increased my already unlimited account by
another $35 for internet access.
I canceled my gym membership to pay for the increased cost of my
iPhone and justified that by saying to myself that I would get in shape
the old-fashioned way. I'd run, bike and exercise my way to thin-dom -
outdoors! Don't ask how that's going...but I LOVE my iPhone.
And then it hit me. I never realized how much spam I get since I've
eliminated most of it in my Outlook software. I was literally swamped.
I was getting 100 plus emails a day and 80% of that was spam. It was so
bad that it rendered the email on the iPhone not usable. A
quick trip to the iPhone Apps
store (via the Apps icon on the iphone) reveals no software that you
can put on your iPhone to solve this problem. My trusty Google search
yielded the same results. Apparantly nobody but me has a spam issue on
their iPhone.
Again though, Google came to the rescue. This time, in a different
way. I have had a gmail account for some time. Gmail allows you to
route other email through its account. I didn't use that feature too
much, but I did have one account doing this. Thinking back, spam was
never an issue with that account. Gmail was filtering the spam! So, I
started passing all of my POP3 email accounts through gmail. I then
read my gmail account using my iphone, Voila'! no spam. The way I have
this set up is simple. I use the IMAP settings for the iphone and POP3
settings for Outlook. When my iphone reads the emails, it leaves the
emails on the servers (by default). When my outlook gets the emails
from gmail, it deletes them from the server. I rarely see spam. That
problem is solved.
"Any issues?", you ask. The only annoyance I have is that now that Outlook is getting my emails forwarded from Gmail, if I reply, my
client gets an email from my Gmail account instead of my business email.
It's supposed to use a default address that I set up but it doesn't
seem to be working correctly. I had to set up my business email account
back up in Outlook and default to that. I have to make sure when I
reply that the email I'm sending from is not a Gmail account but is my
real business account email...not Gmail. It seems that there is an
achilles heel in all good solutions but this one I can live with.
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Fun New Gadgets -
The Nikon S230
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 Touch screen phones are becoming the norm, but what about touch screen cameras? In this informative video and article from WSJ's Courtney Banks, you will see how while she was skeptical at first, that she overall felt the touch screen aspect made for an effective way of navigating on the camera. | |
We hope you enjoyed our article about smartphone user types. If you ever have an issue setting up functions on your smartphones, please give us a call.
Sincerely,
Brian S. Pauls
PerAspera Consulting, LLC |
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