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Android Text Message Bug
The newly discovered SMS bug in Android sure makes “Antennagate” look like it was much ado about nothing. This interesting little snafu will have you sending messages to the wrong contacts. Think about it for a moment – this could be disastrous, depending on who your intended message ends up going to. This issue has [...]
Would You Text Your Emergency to 911?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Mashable reported that the FCC may allow you to send text messages to 911, as well as images and video. They feel that this would lead to better, faster responses. I feel that it’s stupid and lazy. I mean, the time [...]
How Often Do Teens Text?
Researchers show that U.S. teenagers on average send or receive a half-dozen texts every wakening hour, which amounts to 3,339 messages per month. The Neilson Company shows that teens aged 13-17 text more often than people in any other age group. In this age group, girls exchanged the most texts, at 4,050 a month, while [...]
Who Texts While Driving?
According to a new study, it’s not teens who text the most while driving. The guilty parties, actually, are adults. The Pew Research Center says that of those adults polled, 47 percent of respondents admit they either send or read messages while at the wheel of a vehicle. Amongst teens aged 16 and 17, only [...]
How to Understand Teenagers
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Have you ever wondered what those teenagers are saying when they type acronyms like LOL, WTH, etc? Community member Lamarr Wilson created this video to showcase a website that will help you figure out what the heck (WTH) your kid is [...]
Do Teens Text Too Much?
According to a study done by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, young people between the ages of 12 and 17 send more than 100 texts a day. This may be due in part to the many unlimited plans offered by most cell companies. Texting beats out every other form of communication for this [...]
Text Generator
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed If you follow me on Twitter, or you’re a fan on Facebook, then you may have seen some funny-looking text flow through my stream recently. You may have even wanted to try it out for yourself! Well, I’m happy to report [...]
What Did You Get for the Holidays?
I’m curious to know what you got for Christmas! Did Santa bring you everything you asked him for? Were you happily surprised by anything? What pieces of technology were you ecstatic to open this year, or find in your stocking? Everyone in our community is abuzz with glee over gifts they received. Some were luckier [...]
Are You Ready for the Holidays?
Can you believe that Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and Christmas is but a few weeks away? I was aghast yesterday when I walked into a store that was playing Christmas carols… until I realized what the date was. Holy crap where did the year go? I haven’t even started to think about holiday [...]
Make Your Life Easier When Working With Text
If you are working with text material frequently on the computer, you really should consider a text editing program. One that we recommend is created by a long-time supporter of Lockergnome. It is an award-winning software program from Eric Fookes called NoteTab. This program has won numerous awards and it is recognized as one of [...]
You Never Know What People are Going to Type
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed You know that I record in front of a live audience. I invited them to participate on a site I came across for this video. It was a successful experiment, but it’s quite obvious that you just never know what someone [...]
How to Send SMS Text Messages to Groups of Friends
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed So what is Tatango? It’s a free site that allows you to text message umpteen-billion people at once. Standard texting rates will apply, of course. If you have something important to say, why not tell everyone all at once? There are [...]
How to Organize Text and Programming Code
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Managing text in a single text file is a bit of a kluge. Let’s say that text happens to be code, such as PHP or CSS. You may want color highlighting, so that if you make a mistake you’ll be able [...]
How to Convert PDF Files
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Oh, PDF you are so beautiful there in my viewer, but I cannot edit you! I have to convert you somehow to a format that I can edit. Or I can head over to a new website that I came across [...]
Which Do You Use More: Mouse or Keyboard?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Which input device do you rely on more – the keyboard or the mouse? Are you someone who uses them equally? I still use a keyboard more than my mouse. I love keyboard shortcuts. They increase my productivity by quite a [...]
