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Google Wave’s Little Secret: It Already Works On The iPhone
Google Wave, the search giant’s latest experiment in post-email communications, is hardly out the gate, with some of the first 100,000 private beta testers still waiting for their invites. (I just finally got mine today, two weeks after launch). But Google Wave already has a few secrets. The one that surprised me is that even though not that many people can use it yet, Google Wave already works...
A Thousand Never Evers by Shana Burg
A Thousand Never Evers by Shana Burg
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers (June 10, 2008)
ISBN-10: 0385734700
ISBN-13: 978-0385734707
Source of book: Review copy from publisher
If there’s one book you, your children, and your students should read this summer, it’s Shana Burg’s debut novel, A Thousand Never Evers.
Set in Kuckachoo,...
In-house Radio.app in the works for iPhone and iPod touch
We’ve just received a tip that an iPhone radio.app is being developed in-house by Apple for use on the iPhone and iPod touch. From what we know, the app will be allowed to operate in the background like iPod.app and will offer the same functionality as the FM radio in the new iPod Nanos. The source mentioned that this application could also be incorporated into the iPod.app before release.
The...
COMPARISON OF “THE SOLITARY REAPER” AND I WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD”
THE SOLITARY REAPER
Behold her, single in the field (a)
Yon solitary highland lass! (b)
Reaping and singing by herself; (c)
Stop here, or gently pass! (b)
Alone she cuts and binds the grain, (d)
and sings a melancholy strain; (d)
O listen! for the vale profound (e)
Is overflowing with the sound. (e)
No Nightingale did ever chaunt [chant] (a)
More welcome notes to weary bands (b)
Of travellers in some...