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    Cell phone star finder
    From: Frank Reed
    Date: 2009 Dec 8, 17:37 -0800

    Here's another short review of "Google Sky Map" that I found a few minutes ago.
    
    "-- Google Sky: This is an amazing tool that lets you aim your phone at the 
    stars and find out what you are looking at in the night sky. This amazed my 
    kids one recent dark evening and continues to amaze me every night when I 
    walk out of work. This is truly a stunning app for stargazers."
    
    The original is located here:
    http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/49617
    
    We REALLY need to get going on something like this for celestial navigation 
    education. We could attract thousands, maybe tens of thousands of new 
    students to this subject (read "students" as "customers" if you're an 
    entrepreneurial sort).
    
    -FER
    PS: From the same reviewer, in case you think this mobile computing revolution 
    has peaked, consider this amazing new toy:
    "-- Google Goggles: Want information on anything? Take a picture of it. 
    Google's database will decipher what it is and attempt to return information 
    about the object to you. Want information about a store? Photograph the sign. 
    Want prices or reviews of a book? Photograph the cover or the bar code. Want 
    to know if a wine is any good? Snap a pic of the label. I thought this thing 
    was too good to be true until I tried it. A movie poster for "Slumdog 
    Millionaire" in my office was recognized in a snap (literally)."
    ...Dear Santa, to hell with the new girlfriend I requested in my previous letter. I want a new phone! :-)
    
    -- 
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