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Re: The Complete Guide To Importing Contacts Into Android’s Gmail

Bangalore Apartments — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:14:35 -0000

Thanks for guide was looking to import the csv into my HTC Wildfire

Re: Going Open: Lessons Learned from the Open Course Library

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Re: Effect International: Building Schools, Reshaping Luck

whitney dastrup — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:54:47 -0000

This is really great, it is amazing that such a large difference can be made with such little money!

Re: Schema.org + OER = Mmmm Good!

BCmoney — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 21:46:15 -0000

Agreed that Schema.org will continue to be an important resource, but there must be a way to add that Metadata automatically rather than expect everyone to add it manually...

Hopefully we see some tools along those lines roll out, but I suppose the WordPress and other CMS integrations would add alot of that automatically... anyway I'm rooting for more automation as adding metadata is boring and monotonous whereas reaping the benefits is educational, fun and exciting!

Re: The Complete Guide To Importing Contacts Into Android’s Gmail

tom4cam — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 15:33:24 -0000

I'm afraid I don't have a solution for this. Does anyone else have an idea?

Re: The Complete Guide To Importing Contacts Into Android’s Gmail

Jrfranks — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 15:22:22 -0000

I can see all of my 'people' contacts from my old Palm Treo 755p, but the 'business' contacts never show up. We've done 1/2 dozen transfers without luck.
I downloaded 'Import Contacts' app from Market, but it doesn't see the .csv file I loaded, it is only looking for something called vCard files. It returns an error message that no .vcf file was found.

Re: The Complete Guide To Importing Contacts Into Android’s Gmail

tom4cam — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 19:27:51 -0000

Hmm, I'm not sure why this is happening. Sorry!

Re: The Complete Guide To Importing Contacts Into Android’s Gmail

tom4cam — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 19:27:09 -0000

Thanks for adding those points! I don't think the Android contact importer app existed when I wrote this blog post a couple years ago!

Re: The Complete Guide To Importing Contacts Into Android’s Gmail

tom4cam — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 19:25:44 -0000

Since the Android system is designed by Google, all your Gmail contact should automatically transfer over as long as you have wifi or some kind of Internet connection. I'm assuming you are using the same Google account for your Gmail and your Android phone.

Re: The Complete Guide To Importing Contacts Into Android’s Gmail

Johnandlesley — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 05:24:56 -0000

Its all very fine getting the contacts into gmail but how do you sync them into the phone from gmail?

Re: The Complete Guide To Importing Contacts Into Android’s Gmail

Kimberly Patrizi — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 10:41:35 -0000

I moved from BBerry to Android phone. RadioShack was nice enough to sync contacts from my bbrry directly to phone. But now can't figure out how to get all that are on phone to sync with Google Calendar on PC. New ones I create on phone or PC are synching, but all ones that were imported directly to phone from bberry are not... help :}

Re: Using Instamapper & GPS Phone to Track MS150 Bike Ride

China TenQ — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 03:38:17 -0000

I like Android Tablet PC

Re: The Complete Guide To Importing Contacts Into Android’s Gmail

Mark — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 21:07:14 -0000

I had a .csv file I had exported from my iPhone. I dont' want my gmail contacts synched with my phone (WAY too many that I rarely use; but, don't want to delete). I wanted a way to import the contacts from my CSV.

These instructions are for t-mobile; but, will work for any other service that lets you import Outlook CSV files.I tried a couple of different apps, the free ones; but they either crashed or didn't work. Here's what *did* work.Reformat your CSV to use these headers (the Outlook CSV format): http://stackoverflow.com/quest... log into your T-Mobile account and import the contacts from your Outlook formatted CSV file. (Mobile Life>contacts>Add/Import Contacts>Import Contacts from Another Address Book>Browse and Upload CSV file)

Then use your phone to sync to "T-Mobile Contacts Backup".

Done

Re: Using Instamapper & GPS Phone to Track MS150 Bike Ride

Season — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 05:57:36 -0000

I bought a mini GPS Tracker in a China site called: www.spemall.com. So far so good!

Re: Reflections on Educause Institute

tom4cam — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:11:37 -0000

Brandon, I agree that Rogers' 5 factors to adoption are certainly no guarantee of adoption. There are usually political factors at play -- something Rogers doesn't address here. Sometimes subtle politicking explains why great projects never get off the ground while mediocre ones can get huge exposure.

Re: Reflections on Educause Institute

bmuramatsu — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:36:20 -0000

Tom, last year I helped run a workshop looking at dissemination practices of NSF-funded CCLI program from 1999-2009. While doing the prep for the workshop, and through our surveys and discussions with workshop participants, we were having the discussion that that Rogers Diffusion of innovation might not be as applicable as everyone wants it to be for learning resources like OERs, simulations, applets, and so on.

One take on this is that one can do "all the right things" from the standpoint of Diffusion of Innovation (or the way folks tend to interpret it), and you still won't get adoption.

Re: Schema.org + OER = Mmmm Good!

Rob Barton — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 23:03:16 -0000

Wrap your 100 calorie crepes around some Nutella and Peanut Butter Cup ice cream, Tom.

Re: Found a Recipe for Legoland-style Apple Fries

Hahaufool — Sun, 29 May 2011 19:02:01 -0000

Well although they were good as sauted apples they were not anything like fries. The were a little mushy and the coating didn't stick but they were good in there own unique way.

Re: Guns, penguins, and open textbooks

tom4cam — Tue, 24 May 2011 00:57:12 -0000

I agree with you Randall. Quality is important, but publishers are not the only ones who know how to get there. With the Open Course Library, our Instructional Designers are trained Quality Matters Master Reviewers. I'd match my IDs up against any other organization's design and quality review process any day... and we're building OER. :)

Re: Guns, penguins, and open textbooks

Djudje — Mon, 23 May 2011 23:54:38 -0000

One of the things I like most about Open Resources is that ti takes quality out of the hands of the publishers, who are remarkably slow at updating, and puts in the hands of the users who arguably care more about the accuracy of content than the publishers themselves. True, publishers have an interest in releasing new editions with revised content, but it is driven by profit rather than an earnest concern for the accuracy and quality of the content. I wonder if you've read "Whitewashing War". It's a scathing critique of the publishing world with a pretty interesting review of how errors and inconsistencies are treated. Easy read...highly recommend it.

Re: The Complete Guide To Importing Contacts Into Android’s Gmail

Evan — Sat, 14 May 2011 02:32:34 -0000

Hi, obviously I am a bit slow, I have only just decided to move from a treo 650 to android.

Your list seems to miss two points.
1) From the Palm Desktop software, you can export all details, fields, columns to .csv.
(You may want to "tidy the file" and include the column headings, so you can identify what they match in the Android people app.)
2) There is a free android "import contacts" app that reads .csv

Re: Concerns about MH Campus

Andy Williams — Mon, 09 May 2011 22:53:21 -0000

Here, here. While much publisher content is very useful, by its very nature it's not sharable. MH has partnered with Blackboard, resulting in locked-down courses and course content that make it difficult for different users to collaborate across classes and systems.

The trick here is to demonstrate to faculty and to college IT departments the benefits of shared, 'plug and play' curriculum and LMSs.

I look forward to the day when colleges and the state system decide to move away from expensive proprietary systems toward open-sourced and less expensive ways to offer content and collaborate.

Re: How Creative Commons Helped Me Graduate

Tom Caswell — Mon, 09 May 2011 14:09:33 -0000

Thanks Dave! It's nice to be done with the "formal academic student" phase.

Re: How Creative Commons Helped Me Graduate

Tom Caswell — Mon, 09 May 2011 14:08:50 -0000

It will happen gradually, but I see more and more people becoming aware of the benefits of "open" and moving to more those forms of publishing.

Re: How Creative Commons Helped Me Graduate

Rob Barton — Sun, 08 May 2011 21:25:36 -0000

Congrats. I found myself looking for the like button, but I'll leave you a comment instead. :) Seriously, though, it makes you wonder how long before the current publisher stranglehold on IP in the research world breaks.