• Boost Your List By 500%? http://ow.ly/CS7x
  
  
• Help Noobie choose a holiday logo. Need your vote now! http://ow.ly/CLKq
  
  
• If you are a small business owner struggling to find your place on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn, the solution has arrived http://ow.ly/CJZL
  
  
• Aaron Rodgers with the spin move!
  
  
• Big Red Tip-Off!
  
  
• Snapfish running a pretty good promo. 20% Off SITE WIDE! Only at Snapfish.com! Exp 12/31, Coupon Code: HOLIDAY09 http://ow.ly/BRux
  
  
• The secret to monetizing your tweets. http://bit.ly/HarF6 @nansen @Radioblogger @techxav @LarryWentz @twittess @williger @charlesyeo
  
  
• Who has done iPhone advertising? Recommendations on what company to use as an advertiser?
  
  
• So let me get this straight. I can buy jeans now at Amazon.com? http://ow.ly/BbP9
  
  
• Six scariest words I've ever read: "Polar Pop is out of order."
  
  
• What is ViralURL? http://ow.ly/AUn4
  
  

One particular story my client told me today really tickled my fancy. She said that her son knows so much more than she does that one time she had to call her son's school and get him out of class just so he could tell her her password.

What's the most ridiculous thing you've had to ask your child or grandchild to help you with? Can you beat the above story? Leave a comment below and let me know.

• Are u a realtor wishing u knew how 2 use social media 2 get more biz? My good friend Colin has the answer in this seminar http://ow.ly/ATZz
  
  
• My son just added one too many "sh" sounds when reading "Sheep will sit here." I successfully ignored the mistake.
  
  
• Amazon Kindle giveaway is exploding right now. Get your chance before it's too late! http://lnk.ms/2wRQk
  
  
• GI Joe. Worth renting tonight on DVD?
  
  
• I don't mind the Windows 7 commercials until they end with "I'm a PC". Let it go Microsoft. You'll never make us forget the "I'm a Mac" ads.
  
  
• Five boys running wild in my house now. I forgot how creatively destructive boys can be.
  
  
• Is it just me or is Wisconsin always the first team to step on IU's bowl dreams?
  
  
• If a CAPTCHA is a word that computers can't read, how does the computer know if I typed it in correctly?
  
  
• Check out my new personal web site. And while you're there learn how to win a free Amazon Kindle! Feel free to ooh and ah. http://ow.ly/zYUt
  
  
• Noobie is giving away an Amazon Kindle. Enter here: http://lnk.ms/2wRQk
  
  
• Just walked into Moe's and they didn't say "Welcome to Moe's!" and now I am disappointed :(
  
  
• Yes, I am totally stoked about this:Chick-fil-A Hey, fans! The Peppermint Chocolate Chip Milkshake is back and it's fantastic. Try one today
  
  
• Does anyone have an iSocket invite or other way to get me access to an account?
  
  
• Why cut your own Christmas tree when you can rent one? http://ow.ly/z3YD
  
  
• Would you pay $0.99 to tap your iPhone 1 million times? Other people would. http://ow.ly/z3Xq
  
  
• Of all the pay-per-tweet services I have sampled so far, this one is a clear favorite. $4.52 per tweet so far. http://bit.ly/HarF6
  
  
• If anyone has a laptop they are thinking of replacing, please let me know. I know a family in need that could really use it.
  
  

If you haven't entered yet for your chance to win, use the link below to do it now before you forget!

Click here for your chance to win a brand-new Kindle!

And if you have no idea what a Kindle is, here's a few articles and blog posts on the Kindle from the Noobie web site to get you up to speed:

• Print Newspapers Get Recycled as Digital Media
  
  
• Amazon's Kindle promises wireless paper-free reading
  
  
• Amazon Kindle 2 tempts me all over again
  
  
• TILTS: Kindle Public Library
  
  

Twitter started rolling out a new feature about 2-3 weeks ago called lists. Basically, you can group together your followers and others so your Twitter buddies are more organized. Let's check out the new features.

Setting up a list

The Digitante currently follows 144 people on Twitter. Before lists came along, those people were a nebulous cloud of people. They only order to the group was the order that they were added to my followers. With lists, it is easy to toss people into buckets that you create.

Notice you can sort people into public or private lists. This is handy for throwing your friends and family together. Chances are you are the only one who need access to that list. However, you may want to share a list of tweeters who have a hobby similar to you. My favorite hobby is tech stuff.

Now that I've added a few tweeters to my tech list, you can find The Digitante on Twitter and add my list of tech tweets to your Twitter.

What does this do for me?

A couple of things:

• Prioritize - As you get more and more followers, it gets hard to keep up on everyone's tweets. I generally have a hierarchy of tweet reading on my personal account: buddies, Indianapolis people, Tech, and if I get around to it, celebrities. By dividing them up, I can skip the celebs if I'm a bit too busy.
• Share interests - As mentioned above, I can share hobbies with others or check out their Twitter friends who have similar interests to me. On the side, The Digitante is a bit of a beer connoisseur. I find out about all kinds of small craft breweries and the various beers they have to offer through my acquaintances on my beer list.

Biggest drawback?

For me, there are no problems on Twitter's end, however, I use my BlackBerry with a program called Twitterberry. Unfortunately, there is no way to use lists on Twitterberry yet so I am currently still stuck reading all the tweets that come along.

Andy has been a technophile for years and recently decided to share his love of gadgets through his business, The Digitante. You can read about The Digitante's adventures through the digital landscape at http://www.thedigitante.com and feel free to catch him on Twitter as well. Be sure to add @mrnoobie and @thedigitante to your newly minted tech list on Twitter.

Q: When I tried to open a Word document attachment, a pop up said it was created from a newer version of Microsoft Word and that I needed to install a compatibility pack.

When I clicked through to see what was involved to do that, it came up that it would be a big deal with a number of preliminary steps so I decided it wasn't worth the effort and risk. Did I do the right thing?

A: You can either go back and stumble your way through the compatibility pack installation for free or upgrade to Office 2007. You can get away with the Home & Student version for around $90 - $120 (price fluctuates frequently). But you may need to spend another $80 to get the newest version of Outlook 2007 as well.

Keep in mind that Microsoft is releasing the next version of Office in 2010 so, even if you upgrade to Office 2007, you will only have the most current version for a few months to a year.

So you can spend just under $200 to be current (for now) with your Office software, or install a compatibility pack for free.

I didn't mention this but you also have another option. You could send an email reply to the person who sent you the Word 2007 attachment and ask him or her to re-save the document in a more compatible Word 2003 format. Then you would be able to open the attachment with no modifications to your computer.

This special checkout line should be called the Best Buy up-sell line. When I arrived I was second in line behind an older couple. It took nearly 15 minutes for this couple to get checked out because of the 500 (yes, I am exaggerating) up-sells they had to respond to.

I debated for a second standing behind the salesman and giving a thumbs-up for each up-sell I thought the couple should consider and a thumbs-down for the ones they should avoid like the plague. Then it dawned on me that I would have probably thumbs-downed every single up-sell so I just stayed in my place and kept my mouth shut.

As a result, I'm pretty sure the couple ended up purchasing over half of the up-sells presented to them. Black-tie service; extended warranty; Norton security package; you name it. And they happily paid for all of it.

Next victim please

Finally, it was my turn. After scanning the computer and monitor, the counter person prepared for his up-sell attack on me.

"What level of Black Tie service would you like with your new computer?"

Little did he know I had the ultimate secret weapon.

"Oh, I don't know. This is a gift for a friend and I have no idea what he would want."

He kept trying. "Oh, ok. Well, what about an extended warranty?"

"Gee, that might be something he wants but I don't want to presume anything. Can he just add that on later if he decides he wants it?"

"Um...... sure. I'll just ring up the computer and monitor and he will have up to 30 days to return to the store to add on any features he wants."

"That would be perfect."

Victory was mine. And I'm pretty sure that everything I buy from Best Buy from now on will be a gift.

• My son went trick or treating as a Tootsie Roll. He actually carried a bag of Tootsie Rolls with him and gave them back to homeowners. Solid
  
  
• I'm not sure I understand the usefulness of Twitter lists. Anyone care to explain?
  
  
• Funny video on @edeckers blog || What Peyton Manning Shouts at the Line of Scrimmage http://ow.ly/yrPm
  
  
• I totally need to read this || Google Wave Guide: User Manual Released for Wave http://ow.ly/yrIQ
  
  
• Getting a Spanish word tweeted to me each day to help in my new quest to learn Spanish. http://ow.ly/yrBa
  
  
• How To Use Google to Rapidly Grow Your Home Business http://ow.ly/yuz1
  
  
• Will someone watch this 19 minute video for me and give me the Cliff notes version? || What’s the Future of Twitter?http://lnk.ms/4JBBK
  
  
• I don't know what an unsafe blood pressure number is but I do know watching the Packers right now has put me over it.
  
  
• Not happy with Johnny Jolly right now...
  
  
• Wondering what dumb Favre record they will talk about today. First QB to win a SuperBowl and then beat their own team on their own field?
  
  
• Sad to see @thebeancup closing today. Enjoyed my last "Doug's Joy" at the current location. Excited though to join the Bean Cup Underground!
  
  
• 15 more votes for "Patric Welch - What's Noo?" on the Top 50 Indiana Blogs site will get me to the #4 spot. Will you help? http://ow.ly/xJi9
  
  
• My 30-day iLearningGlobal Challenge is complete... whoo-ah!! And yes, Pete, that means you don't have to see any more of these posts :)
  
  
• 30-day iLearningGlobal Challenge. Be a product of the product. One video per day. Watching: Dr. Mike Thompson - 9 Stinkin Thinkin Beliefs
  
  
• Starting to transfer positive mojo to Aaron Rodgers for the big game this Sunday. Aaron will do good... Aaron will rise to the challenge...
  
  
• Are you still carving triangles in circles in your pumpkins? Time to step it up! http://ow.ly/xj1P
  
  
• 30-day iLearningGlobal Challenge. Be a product of the product. One video per day. Watching: Mark Victor Hansen - Leverage the Economy
  
  
• 30-day iLearningGlobal Challenge. Be a product of the product. One video per day. Watching: Mark Fournier - Daily Insight and Affirmations
  
  
• Who wants to win a free laptop? http://ow.ly/x3HH
  
  
• Snapfish: Buy 1, get 1 free Photo Book code: FALLBOOKS09; PLUS 25% Off Photo Panels code: FALLDISPLAY through 10/31/09 http://ow.ly/x2ZG
  
  
• 30-day iLearningGlobal Challenge. Be a product of the product. One video per day. Watching: Dawn Billings - Choose to be great
  
  
• My 6 yo picked out a Mickey Mouse PDA for his Disney World souvenir. I'm not joking. It has 2k of memory.
  
  

Too little too late.

But not on my recent trip. My family and I arrived at our gate at the Orlando airport with nearly two hours to spare before our flight departed. For the record, I don't need to get to the airport that early but the Disney Magical Express does.

So while my kids played their Nintendo DS and my wife read a magazine, I fired up my iPhone and started browsing movies in the iTunes Store. Within a few minutes I had my selection.

The rental process was simple. Touch here, touch there, enter your iTunes account password and the movie instantly starts downloading. Piece of cake!

One (not so) little problem

Or so I thought. One thing I neglected to take into account was the wi-fi speed at the Orlando airport. While perhaps ok for checking email, the wi-fi speed was no match for my 1.8 GB (that's 1.8 gigabytes or 1,800 megabytes or if you don't like numbers, really, really, really big) movie download.

So I waited, and waited and waited until I heard the words that proved I wasn't going to make it. "Now boarding for Indianapolis." Nearly 90 minutes of downloading and the movie wasn't even close to finishing.

So once again I reached 30,000 feet and once again, I didn't have a movie to watch.

Be a boy scout and plan ahead

Ironically, when I got back to my house, my iPhone locked on to my own wireless signal and completed the download in about 15 minutes.

So what's the lesson to be learned here? For starters, plan ahead. And don't rely on airport wi-fi. Even better, download the movie on your computer with a wired Internet connection and transfer it to your iPhone before you leave.

The steps required to star in your own video game are pretty simple. You just need to step inside a special photo booth and do the following:

1. Run in place.

2. Jump up in the air.

3. Do a victory dance.

The result (for my 8-year-old) is this:

If you can't see the embedded video above, please click the following link: Star in your own video game

Be sure to watch at minute 1:20 when I screw up playing the game and my son gets squashed by a giant red brick thing. And if you stay to the end (it's only a couple minutes), you'll be sure to get a chuckle out of my son's victory dance!

I can't tell you how big of a kick my kids got out of doing this. They thought it was the coolest thing they have ever seen. And I have to admit, I thought it was pretty cool too.

Take it home with you

And the best part? No only did my kids get to play their own game minutes after creating it, I was able to enter my email address and have a link to the game emailed to me so they can play it back home as often as they want.

I remember on the last visit seeing a bunch of professional photographers scattered throughout the parks. For the first day, we avoided them completely because we thought they were going to try to sell us a bunch of expensive photos.

Only later did we realize that these professional photographers only enhance your entire Disney experience. This is because of something Disney calls the PhotoPass.

What is a PhotoPass?

If you don't know what a PhotoPass is or how they work, allow me to give you a quick breakdown. A PhotoPass is a credit-card sized card that contains a unique code. Any time you see a professional photographer in a Disney park you hand him or her your PhotoPass (if you don't have one, the first photographer you talk to will give you one for free). The photographer will then take a bunch of pictures of you and then scan your PhotoPass card.

Here's where it gets awesome. When you get home, you can jump on the Internet, go to the Disney PhotoPass web site, enter the code on the back of your card, and see every photo taken of you by a PhotoPass photographer on your vacation.

The PhotoPass has a ton of advantages to it. Namely:

• The professional photographers take great pictures
  
  
• Your entire family can be in the picture (no more "hey where's Dad in all of these pictures?")
  
  
• Disney photo editors can enhance your pictures by adding elements into your pictures (see the balloons in my sample picture above)
  
  
• You can enhance your own photos by adding borders, Disney characters or the year you took your vacation
  
  

Now one thing about PhotoPass still stings a bit. The pictures are expensive. But as I mentioned earlier, on our last Disney trip, we only used the PhotoPass photographers sparingly. I didn't realize until we were back home that despite the high cost of the individual pictures, you can actually order an entire CD of every picture taken with your PhotoPass.

Yes, the CD is expensive. It is currently selling for $149.95. But considering one 5 x 7" print is $12.95, individual prints can add up a lot quicker. Plus with the PhotoCD, you can order however many prints you want as often as you want. And from your local drug store or online print retailer. With the PhotoCD, Disney gives you full copyright release on all of the photos.

A smarter Mr. Noobie

So armed with all of this knowledge from our first Disney trip, my family and I stopped at just about every PhotoPass photographer we came across. The pictures turned out great and I can't wait to get the full PhotoCD!

So please bear with me as I dedicate the next few blog posts to some very cool technology-related experiences I had on my vacation.

First up, an iPhone app. I know, I know, I love to talk about the iPhone but experiences like this one just make it too easy to do!

Using my iPhone at Disney

You might think the part I loved about having my iPhone with me at Disney World was being able to call or text my wife if we had to separate in one of the parks for any reason and needed to reconnect. Nope, I could do that with almost any cell phone.

But how many cell phones can tell you the wait times, in near real-time, for all of the Disney World rides and attractions? Well, thanks to the Disney Wait Times app, my iPhone can!

How does it work?

The Disney Wait Times application for the iPhone relies on human input. In other words, if the current wait time for It's a Small World reads 10 minutes on my iPhone but when I get to the ride I realize the wait is now 15 minutes, it is my responsibility (duty?) to update the wait time for the application to 15 minutes. This is why I call it near real-time.

This may sounds like a major drawback to the application but it isn't. My wait times were dead-on or within 5-10 minutes every time! It's fun to think there were probably hundreds of people walking around the park all doing our part to make sure the wait times were accurate.

Not just wait times

The Disney Wait Times app was just one of three applications I used during my trip. The second gave me the complete menu listings of every restaurant in the Disney parks and helped me find them in relation to where I was standing. The third gave me step by step instructions on how to find all of the Hidden Mickeys.

Ironically, the biggest drawback to these applications was the cost. Two of them cost $1.99 each. I say ironically, because I actually debated whether or not $1.99 was worth it for an app I would only use for a few days. Then I finished my $10 hamburger and $3 drink and came to my senses.

• 30-day iLearningGlobal Challenge. Be a product of the product. One video per day. Watching: Stephanie Frank-Two words that banish conflict
  
  
• Guess where I've been hiding the past five days?
  
  
• 30-day iLearningGlobal Challenge. Be a product of the product. One video per day. Watching: Lee Brower - Phases of Wealth
  
  
• Just utterred to my wife, "I need double A batteries and a toothbrush. Stat."
  
  
• 30-day iLearningGlobal Challenge. Be a product of the product. One video per day. Watching: Dave Crenshaw - Can't Say No
  
  
• 30-day iLearningGlobal Challenge. Be a product of the product. One video per day. Watching: Ivan Misner-Most biz people are cave dwellers
  
  
• Anxious for the "External SEO: Google's Most Heavily Weighted Aspect" session to begin so I can start to sharpen my SEO skills. #mbo09
  
  
• Listening to Mark Hill, keynote speaker at MBO, talk about the Internet's role in the future of business. #mbo09
  
  
• What is your favorite fountain drink? http://bit.ly/VGuO3
  
  
• Will you help vote for my blog on the Top 50 Indiana Blogs list? Click "Vote" next to "Patric Welch - What's Noo?" http://ow.ly/vz5p
  
  
• I'm putting a moratorium on any presentation that starts with "Webster defines xxxxxx as..." That was catchy and informative 20 years ago.
  
  
• I'm still on the fence about Windows 7. But apparently everyone else is not. http://ow.ly/vrs8
  
  
• Karaoke, Internet style! http://ow.ly/vrei
  
  
• Please be true. Please be true. Please be true. http://ow.ly/vrbX
  
  
• Oh-no! Techie's secrets exposed!! http://ow.ly/vr3x
  
  
• 30-day iLearningGlobal Challenge. Be a product of the product. One video per day. Watching: Brian Tracy - 7 Secrets of Leadership
  
  

Locations such as Starbucks, McDonald's and gas stations are known in the GPS world as points of interest, or POI. My GPS is loaded with hundreds of thousands of them.

But little did I know there were thousands more to be had.

After a presentation last Friday night, a gentleman walked up to me and asked me if I had heard of the POI Factory web site. I admitted that I hand't so he promised to send me the link.

I'm glad he did. Wow! I had no idea what I missing.

Apparently there is more to the GPS world than Starbucks and McDonald's. On the POI Factory web site, you can download such specific points of interest as:

• Non-Chain Mexican Restaurants
  
  
• Man vs. Food (based on the Travel Channel show "Man vs Food")
  
  
• Haunted Houses and Ghost Tours
  
  
• Offbeat Tourist Attractions
  
  
• Farmers Markets
  
  

And even...

• Red Light & Speed Cameras
  
  

All of the above points of interest can be individually downloaded as a file on your computer and then easily transferred to your GPS system.

Given the season, I may have to start with the Haunted Houses and Ghost Tours collection.

• I have tried 5 times to type ACN in a cell in Microsoft Excel and 5 for 5 it has changed it to CAN. Auto-correct FAIL.
  
  
• 30-day iLearningGlobal Challenge. Be a product of the product. One video per day. Watching: Sandy Botkin-The Effects of Taxes-Documentation
  
  
• Why is it when I ask for something "ASAP" in an email I feel like a jerk but when I change it to "as soon as possible" written out, I'm ok?
  
  
• My wife just finished making my 6 year old's Halloween costume. He's going to be a Tootsie Roll. Priceless.
  
  
• New cable modem in place and activated with Comcast. Went from total Linksys solution to Motorola Surfboard / D-Link router. Fingers crossed
  
  
• Get a FREE professional video for your Facebook fan page produced by @TurnHere! No catch, 100% free. Check it out: http://bit.ly/3xwEcg #ad
  
  
• 30-day iLearningGlobal Challenge. Be a product of the product. One video per day. Watching: John Gray - Children are from Heaven
  
  
• Getting ready to head off to this month's All Pro Dad's breakfast with my boys. Chick-fil-A biscuits await!
  
  
• 30-day iLearningGlobal Challenge. Be a product of the product. One video per day. Watching: Boyd Matheson - Checkers vs Chess
  
  
• My son just invented the shower tornado. "One day I did it and the next day it was awesome." His words.
  
  
• For those who are debating the WSJ article claiming email is dead, I have 4,054 unread emails in my personal Gmail (not Noobie) account.
  
  
• Hey Star Wars junkies, what do you think of this? I'm totally on board with it. http://ow.ly/umE3
  
  
• To my iLearningGlobal peeps: Seth Godin just reinforced what Boyd Matheson told us in Salt Lake City. http://ow.ly/ulZV
  
  
• Does Barnes & Noble have any chance competing against Amazon's Kindle? http://ow.ly/ulTy
  
  
• Every blogger who thinks they will make thousands of dollars from their blog within a few months should read this. http://ow.ly/ulS9
  
  
• I wonder how this impacts the eBook industry? || How to Convert A PDF to Text With Text Extractor http://ow.ly/ulQH
  
  
• Want to be the first kid on your street with something other than a white Wii controller? http://ow.ly/ulNj
  
  
• Just dropped below my Stickk.com weight goal for this week. It's Wednesday. Weigh-in is Saturday. Any bets on whether or not I can sustain?
  
  
• 30-day iLearningGlobal Challenge. Be a product of the product. One video per day. Watching John Gray-How to get what you want and want...
  
  
• Just replaced my Linksys router with a new D-Link router. My office reeks of testosterone.
  
  
• 30-day iLearningGlobal Challenge. Be a product of the product. One video per day. Watching: Sandy Botkin-Series 1 Pt 2 Tax Bracket Overview
  
  
• I'm not sure if I'm just too lazy to go buy a new razor of if I just like not having to shave. Still shave-less since airport kept my razor!
  
  

One question that always comes up is the one about social networking, or social media. It usually comes in one of the following flavors:

• "What is this Twitter thing?"
  
  
• "My daughter told me to get on Facebook. It seems like a big waste of time to me. Is it worth the trouble?"
  
  
• "Who cares what someone had for breakfast this morning?"
  
  

I always struggle answering these questions because social media is one of those things that you either get or don't get. So even when I explain what it is and how it can be used (more than just letting people know what you had for breakfast), some people still just stare at me with a blank expression.

Recently, someone sent me a link to this social media video on YouTube. I posted something similar to this a while back but this video concentrates exclusively on social media while the other video I posted was more generic to the entire Internet.

Think social media is just a fad? Watch the video and see if you are once and for all convinced it's not.

If you can't see the embedded video above, please use the following link to watch the video directly on YouTube: Social Media Revolution

Instead, I want to talk about what happened when I decided not to continue with the service after the free trial. In other words, when I went to cancel the service.

It took a bit of digging on the web site, but I eventually found this under the Support option:

In order to cancel your free trial or to change your subscription plan you need to contact us via live chat and request the desired change at least one day prior to your billing date. If this is not done, the charge incurred is a non-refundable charge, regardless of whether or not you choose to use the service. Your billing date and how much you will be charged is communicated in your order confirmation e-mail.

Red alert! Red alert!

When I read this, noobie alarms were sounding everywhere. The only way to cancel is to use the web site's built-in live chat feature? What happened to being able to pick up the telephone? And how many noobies out there are technical (or courageous) enough to actually use live chat?

This bothers me because I actually really liked the Mvelopes service. The only reason I was canceling is because it was too much of a time commitment to keep up with it. At least more of a time commitment than I was willing to give.

But now I have a sour taste in my mouth with Mvelopes because I feel they intentionally made it difficult to cancel their service.

I never understand this because I probably would have recommended this service to dozens of people. But now that recommendation will come with a disclaimer. "It's a great service but be warned they don't make it easy to cancel."

How do you think that's going to go over with my clients?

But guess what showed up on my mobile phone today?

Cash in your hand! Get $1500 wired to your Bank! Faster, Cheaper - Go to: http://www.UScashDepot.com Promo Code: ***** Quit? reply STOP

Grrrrrreeeeeat

Now I'm not sure if the "reply STOP" directive in this text message is legit or just another way to tell the spammers "Hey, we got an active one here!" but I did it anyway, more as a service to my readers so I can address this same issue when it is asked of me down the road.

As of now, I don't know any other way to stop text spam. Anyone out there know the answer? Please share in the comments below.

• Salt Lake City airport security confiscated liquid from my shaving kit & rescanned luggage. Just realized they kept entire shaving kit. FAIL
  
  
• 30-day iLearningGlobal Challenge. Be a product of the product. One video per day. Watching: Sandy Botkin - Series 1 Part 1 Intro
  
  
• Just ordered the Amazon Kindle in preparation for an upcoming Noobie giveaway!
  
  
• Tax Extension Deadline is coming up on October 15th. Got your copy of TurboTax? http://ow.ly/tups
  
  
• I just strained a muscle in my neck and now it hurts to look to my right. Any emergency remedies?
  
  
• 30-day iLearningGlobal Challenge. Be a product of the product. One video per day. Watching: Boyd Matheson - Motion vs. Movement
  
  
• So apparently you can buy Halloween candy at Amazon? http://ow.ly/tuDl
  
  
• Sitting with my iLearningGlobal homies at O'Hare waiting for our next flight.
  
  
• Tax Extension Deadline is coming up on October 15th. Got your copy of TurboTax? http://ow.ly/tup4
  
  
• ILG Sneak Peek: Character - Preview http://bit.ly/R2Ssq
  
  
• 30-day iLearningGlobal Challenge. Be a product of the product. One video per day. Watching: Garrett Gundersen - 5 Tracks of Wealth
  
  
• Amazon dropped the price of the Kindle $50 because they heard I wanted to give one away. That was awfully nice of them. :)
  
  
• This is kind of scary. http://ow.ly/teC3
  
  
• Free photo books (even free shipping) if you can put up with a few pull-out ads. http://ow.ly/tex9
  
  
• 30-day iLearningGlobal Challenge. Be a product of the product. One video per day. Watching: Bill Bartmann - 6 Keys to Success
  
  
• Thinking about buying Monster cables? || Expect an HDTV, and Your Crappy CRT Will Suddenly Become One http://ow.ly/tehu
  
  
• Interesting but I'm not sure it's death to PDF || Death to PDF: Google Adds Quick View to Search Results http://ow.ly/tefX
  
  
• Just installed it! RT @WISH_TV: iPhone App users: Visit app store 2day & download latest version of WISHTV.com App! We now have 3G video!
  
  
• My 6 year old just had to explain to me what a hornbook is.
  
  
• Great article by @problogger on speaking for free at conferences || Speak at My Conference... for Free? My Thoughts http://ow.ly/sZS9
  
  
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On the last day of the conference, several of us wanted to exchange contact information with each other. That's when I remembered the Bump application I recently downloaded for my iPhone.

Bump works like this. You open the application on your iPhone and specify which contact information on your phone you want to exchange. The person you are exchanging information with does the same. Then you simply hold your iPhone in your hand and "bump" hands with the other person. As soon as each iPhone detects the bump, it automatically exchanges contact information with the other iPhone.

If you can not see the embedded video above, click the following link to watch the video directly on YouTube: Bump for iPhone from Bump Technologies

Simple... and totally cool

Of course, this only works with two people who each have an iPhone. But believe me, it's not difficult these days to find someone who owns an iPhone.

So did I have to resort to the old pen-and-paper or business card exchange with the other people who didn't have an iPhone? Nope. But that's a topic for another blog post later this week.

P.S. Special shout-out to Alicia in San Diego for volunteering to be my first bump!