The AstroStat Slog » mobile phones http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:05:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 Wapedia http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2008/wapedi/ http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2008/wapedi/#comments Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:35:55 +0000 hlee http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/?p=1354 I do not rely much on my cell phone. It functions as a tool for confronting emergencies. On the other hand, it seems like people do lots of things with their smart phones and I like to add one thing to your “what I do with my phone.”

According to Wikipedia, Wapedia brings the contents of Wikipedia to mobile devices like mobile phones and PDAs. I might say that Wapedia is an optimized version of Wikipedia for mobile phones.

It’s hard to think about life without Wikipedia these days. I use it for getting summaries about stellar clusters (Messier or NGC). I use it for learning theories in astrophysics. I use it for reminding me the functional forms of various distributions and their moments. I use it for getting definitions of scientific and engineering jargon. And I use it for many many reasons.

Probably if someone gets along well with electronic gadgets, they already use Wapedia. It might be a cliche. Then, can you help me? I like to hear how people handle cheating with cell phone when one can retrieve any information through Wapedia during exams. I believe some sloggers are in education.

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