Awesome new iPhone app

Okay so I'm recording my blog by my voice and the application on my phone is called dragon dictation and is going to put it all into words for me. all i have to do is speak my blog and it types it for me and then I cut and paste it on the Internet. I love this. It is a new way to blog by using your voice. It's called dragon dictation and it's available on the iPhone for free go get it!


- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Location:Hester Ave,Buena Park,United States

WHEN THE MONEY RUNS OUT

As most of you know, my company produces a line of products (BBQ, hot BBQ, teriyaki, gourmet seasoning)

We sell our products at the Orange County Marketplace every Sunday.

This Sunday, a woman wants to buy a jar of sauce for $6. She hands me a credit card. I told her that we have a 3 jar minimum for credit ceard transactions. She complained how she had no money, only her cards.

Now I am not sure if she's crazy for not carrying money or if we need to just stop making money. At least get rid of the penny.

I am so confused. More and more people are using debit/credit card and yet our Gov't is redesigning all our bills and coins. I am not clear on why the need to upgrade a dying currency.

It's like coming out with a better record player.

What are your thoughts and suggestions for American currency?




- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

StupidVille comes to Facebook

I'm starting a new game called STUPIDVILLE. It's really cool. It's for everyone on Facebook. You don't have to grow crops or serve food or shoot people. You just have to stare at your computer screen for three hours a day. It's really fun and you will get the same results as you do from farmville, mafia wars & cafe world, but less work. Have fun with the new game and be STUPID.


- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

BLACK FRIDAY IS TURNING GREY

Once again, greedy America has ruined another great thing.

It seems that Black Friday isn't good enough. The fighting for shopping dollars has gone way overboard. Some sales started two weeks before Black Friday.

Walmart is having a sale every day leading up to Black Friday. Kohl's is having a before Black Friday sale. This is only the beginning.

Online Gamestop and Amazon are already doing their Black Friday early bargans. The official Black Friday website can't even keep up. It's more like Black November. It's not about the first shopping day of Christmas. It's all about getting that dollar. If they could have it their way, the first shopping day would have been the day after Halloween.

I will be out shopping this Black Friday, but it won't be the same.

AOL is on it way to AOHELL

Time Warner has spun off AOL. Merging with AOL was their first mistake. Now AOL is planning on firing 1/3 of their employees. Let's call a spade a spade. This is the beginning of the end for AOL.

They truly were helpful to millions in the early days of the Internet, but they never grew up with the rest of us.


- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

iPhone Blogging

Time to get back to blogging. I am trying out blogpress on the iphone.

I had a chance to see the new DROID phone this weekend. It feels clunky and has a dim screen. It runs faster than the I phone by about 30%. It's touch key board and real key board r hard to use. I think bringing out ten phones with android on it is going to hurt the brand. We will see. I've been wrong before.....but not often.

- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

CONAN RIPS ON TWITTER

I usually don't post videos other than my own, unless it's a classic. This video clip is a classic. Check out Conan 'O Brien ripping on twitter.

EMBRACING SOCIAL MEDIA

I believe every geek in the world has tried to explain what social media is to someone who just doesn't get it.

What does it take to embrace social media and other new technology, hardware and software?

Most of it has to do with age. I have taught people in my family, church, and business on how to use a computer, laptop, ipod, facebook, twitter, etc. Here is what I have discovered.

Anyone under 50 is open to new technology. That's because those people are the first gamers of our time. Your 40 - 50 year old people were around for pong, pac man, atari, defender, etc. They are the generation that is still playing games and will always play games until they die. So this age range is open to new stuff, just for that reason. I did however find that they are more open to gadgets then to internet media. The get their news from the internet, but they aren't that excited about social media.

Anyone over 50 is going to be your hardest age to convince to use social media. I have many people in my life that just say, "What is Twitter?" or "Why would you want anyone following you?"

That would be okay if the people 50 and above were not running our workplaces. We want our companies to use Yammer, and Twitter, and for the company to have a Facebook page and an intranet. Unfortunately, the CEOs of today are in that 50 and above range. So your task is to convince them how it works and why.

Here is what me and some others have done to jump that hurdle.

My pastor is Pastor Shane Womack of Knott Avenue Christian Church in Anaheim. He is an amazing pastor. He reminds me of the pastor from 7th Heaven. He has a lovely wife and five kids. OUCH!

Anyway, he is from the old school of thought and he is the first to admit it. He doesn't like emails. He writes all his sermons out with pen and paper. The toaster in my kitchen has more technology than the computer in his office.

I remember one day Pastor Shane was trying to scroll through his emails and it wasn't scrolling. Then a HUGE RED VIRUS WARNING popped up on his screen. So he turned the computer off. It was classic! He didn't worry about it and he didn't care. I wish I was more like him in that way, but sooner or later that virus will need to be dealt with at some point. :-)

Pastor Shane allowed us do something that was very cutting edge. He let us film him on the canon XHA1 HD camera, broadcast him live, and post his videos up on http://kacclive.blip.tv.

In the first few days those 5 videos had been seen over 500 times. In the first week it was over 700 times. When I told Pastor Shane, he was very pleased and maybe even a little surprised.

The point I am making is that you can't explain to someone why social media works. You have to show them. If your boss isn't embracing technology, then take the time to set it up and demonstrate it to him/her. All ages of people can understand visual results. The numbers are staggering when you use the internet correctly.

Don't get discouraged. If it's that important to get someone to embrace new technology, then show them. By the way, my mom is on the iMac and my dad has his first iPod. The are both in their 60's. God Bless them.