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Free Gift! Great New Translator App

Post author By Ted Hope
Post date December 25, 2010
1 Comment on Free Gift! Great New Translator App

Happy Holidays. If you aren’t in the millions that have already heard of this, add WordLens to the list of must-have apps (InstaPaper still being my fave). No longer worry when they hand you the foreign language menu…

12/27 Update: Okay, I was wrong. The presentation only made it look free. It costs $4.95. I agree with all the comments that this is deceptive and they should offer a true initial platform gratis and then have the add-ons cost. I bummed. Kind of like the toy that looks really great but breaks right off the bat. Dang.

Dowload it for your iPhone here.

Tags apps, iPhone, WordLens

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What To Be Thankful For: 10 Good Things About Health Care Reform

Post author By Ted Hope
Post date November 25, 2010
1 Comment on What To Be Thankful For: 10 Good Things About Health Care Reform

Gotta like this list. Universal health care has always been a good idea, just like equal opportunity and justice for all. You have to be thankful that we made some progress this year.

1. Insurance companies can no longer impose lifetime coverage limits on your insurance. Never again will you face the risk of getting really sick and then, a few months in, having your insurer tell you “sorry, you’ve ‘run out’ of coverage.” Almost everyone I’ve met knows someone who had insurance but got really, really sick (or had a kid get really sick) and ran into a lifetime cap.

Read the full list on the link above.

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Creativity Should Be Encourage As Much As Literacy

Post author By Ted Hope
Post date November 15, 2010
1 Comment on Creativity Should Be Encourage As Much As Literacy

Encouraged, that is… 😉

Tags creativity, education policy, Sir Ken Robinson, TED

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I Knew I Should Of Done This With My Son…

Post author By Ted Hope
Post date November 6, 2010

Living My Life Faster – 8 years of JK’s Daily Photo Project from JK Keller on Vimeo.

Had I started this with my son 8 years ago, you would have seen some significant changes. I have to imagine ten years from now, there will be 1000s of these, but for now I am grateful that JK Keller did it for us. Thanks!

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19 Reasons Californians Should Pass Prop. 19

Post author By Ted Hope
Post date October 25, 2010
2 Comments on 19 Reasons Californians Should Pass Prop. 19

OR: 19 Reasons Why Everyone Should Want To Make Pot Legal. Read here.

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Internet Privacy & Web Reputations

Post author By Ted Hope
Post date July 25, 2010

The NY Times Sunday Magazine has a thought provoking article by Jeffrey Rosen entitled “The Web Means The End Of Forgetting”. It’s filled with lots of good points quite relevant to the film biz in this time of audience aggregation and automized taste curation.

Rosen points out:

The truth is we can’t possibly control what others say or know or think about us in a world of Facebook and Google, nor can we realistically demand that others give us the deference and respect to which we think we’re entitled. On the Internet, it turns out, we’re not entitled to demand any particular respect at all, and if others don’t have the empathy necessary to forgive our missteps, or the attention spans necessary to judge us in context, there’s nothing we can do about it.