Morgan Pozgar, a thirteen-year-old from Pennsylvania, won $25,000 at the LG National Texting competition by typing "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" in 15 seconds. [Link]
Don't have access to a fax machine or a scanner and you need to send an important document ASAP? Or do you want to keep the notes you wrote on the whiteboard during your last work meeting? scanR is your solution. Jason writes:
scanR is a free service that transforms phonecam photos of documents, business cards, or whiteboards into cleaned-up PDFs that it will then fax or email on your behalf.
Documents are placed through an OCR process, so the text is selectable and searchable (though I'd probably rather have my documents converted to plain text or html). For whiteboards, you don't even need to take the shot head on. The software will take cues from the whiteboard's edge to transform the image into proper alignment.
Pjotro wears a green suit which plays music based on the movements that he makes. DJ eFFeX is a beat boxer and uses his vocals to create percussion beats. Both make music in different ways -- can you decide who wins the challenge?
The Last Messages tells the story of a fictitious IT-executive in Finland who resigns from his job and travels throughout Europe and India, keeping in touch with his friends and relatives only through text messages.
His messages, and the replies — roughly 1,000 altogether — are listed in chronological order in the 332-page novel written by Finnish author Hannu Luntiala. The texts are rife with grammatical errors and abbreviations commonly used in regular SMS traffic.
"I believe that, at the end of the day, a text message may reveal much more about a person than you would initially think," said Luntiala, who also is head of a company that keeps databases on people living in Finland.
Morgan Pozgar, a thirteen-year-old from Pennsylvania, won $25,000 at the LG National Texting competition by typing "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" in 15 seconds. [
