We haven't seen any official announcement, but a few eagle-eyed readers pointed out that the Google Voice web interface now allows users to send text messages to multiple recipients.
To send multi-recipient SMS, just click the SMS button, start typing in recipients in the Gmail-style auto-complete box, and send away. Nothing much to it beyond that, but it's a great—and much-requested—feature addition. Thanks Joseph and Farhood!
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It’s an old maxim: Givers get. And it’s especially true when job hunting.
Our Silicon Valley recruiter, Dave Lloyd, confirms this.
“Last year, I was trying to fill a supply chain management position for a computer firm, so I contacted an industry association to see who they would recommend.
“Everyone I talked to told me the same thing: call Joe Jones in Houston. It seems Joe had organized an online forum for job seekers and was helping a lot of other folks in the process. His name was well-known among industry leaders – we offered Joe the job,” says Lloyd.
Action Step: You can join or create a job search forum for your city, using a service like www.yahoogroups.com. By sharing leads in a forum, you become the go-to person and your reputation can spread. As a
result, you may be among the first to hear of new job openings.
Compliments of David Perry and Kevin Donlin
Grab your Free Guerrilla Job Search Audio here.
Field Communication. NFC consumes very little power, so it's attractive to add to mobile phones. Instead of using our keys to enter that new Prius, imagine just having the doors auto-unlock when we get in range of our car, or by launching an app.TUAWDear Apple: What we want to see in iPhone 4.0, part 2 originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:30:00 EST.
This tool has an admittedly narrow application, but I’ve found it quite useful for working in a datacenter. It’s a ruler that’s scaled to count spaces in a computer or audio rack, which measure a standard 1.75 inches, making quick work of documenting racks or figuring out if there is enough space in an existing install.
-- William Jacqmein$17
Available from Amazon
Manufactured by Middle Atlantic Products
Samsung announced that its 32 GB microSD memory cards are now sampling to OEMs, so if your handset can handle the capacity, there’s a memory card for it. The new storage units don’t hit mass production until next month though, so you still have time to save up. Samsung hasn’t offered any pricing details but with 16 GB microSD cards holding roughly a $100 MSRP –although many are retailing for around $45 to $50 on Amazon these days — I’d anticipate paying $175 to $200 soon after the products debut. Samsung was able to squeeze 32 GB into the 1 millimeter thick card partially by moving their manufacturing to a 30nm process vs the prior 40nm one.
When the microSD format first arrived, I was leery of losing the cards due to the small size. But with capacities now at 32 GB, I don’t really see much need to physically remove the cards and that greatly reduces the risk of loss. Back when 1 GB was “hefty,” I expected to swap cards in and out of devices, but nowadays these small cards are so “large” that it’s not an issue.
It's a drag to get home at the end of a long day and try to piece together dinner from whatever's in the pantry. Food web site Cooking By Numbers helps you whip something up from the ingredients you have on hand.
To save you the hassle of running out to the store in mid-dinner prep for a missing ingredient, tell Cooking by Numbers what you already have in the fridge and cupboards. It scans its database, then churns out a recipe using stuff you already have in the kitchen. For random recipes that don't require a specific set of ingredients, click 'I Feel Lucky' instead.
Most of the recipes are standard fare—roasts, stews, and so on—along with a few more unique ideas like Apple, Orange, and Cheese Salad. Our favorite was Bacon Surprise: it's nothing but a rasher of bacon—that's the surprise.
Cooking by Numbers is based in the UK so measurements are given in metric form, but there's a handy conversion chart if you need a primer on how many ounces are in a gram. The site also has a section that demonstrates how to master common cooking skills like separating an egg or dicing a pepper.
Cooking by Numbers won't help you plan your next 12-course dinner party, and most of the meals are hardly gourmet, but it's a great resource for pulling a quick meal together without an extra trip out to the market. What kinds of meals have you made on the fly with ordinary stuff from the pantry that turned out to be surprisingly fantastic? Share them in the comments.
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are neither.
Of course they don't exist to help you plan or execute a career. Most of the organizations with booths are bottom fishing, looking for enough willing and able employees to fill established gaps in their companies. This is hiring on the hoof, wholesale filling of average jobs with people trying to be average. Planning a career at a career fair is a little like looking for a soulmate at a singles' bar.
And fair? Hardly. Because there are no average people, right? There are average jobs, certainly, average in that they require people to fit in, do what they're told and follow the manual. I'll grant you that those jobs need to get done, but I'm not sure they have to get done by you.
By the time a job opening hits the career fair, it's a job you don't want. And by the time a job seeker is walking down the aisles, standardized resume in hand, it might be too late for her to find a job that's worthy of her.
Here's to a new, better sort of career fair, one that's selective, interactive, long-term and both career and fair.
A week ago we asked you, the TUAW reader, to help us tell Apple what you want in the next iPhone: the OS, the apps, the hardware. Within two hours, I had over two hundred emails in my inbox. Within four days, the email total topped 1,100. As I was shifting and sorting through all your suggestions, one thing became clear: you love the iPhone, but you want to see it better, more intuitive, and more versatile - and you know how the iPhone can accomplish those goals.
4. Overhaul app navigation.
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