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Tales of an iPhone User: The Phone, Part 2

Making a call on the revolutionary new iPhone is easy. Simply tap on the phone icon and you can browse through your contacts that are automatically set as the ones from your computer. You can also add more directly to your iPhone if you want.
The ways to browse through your contacts are favorites, recent calls or callers and contacts. Favorites are the people you call the most. Recent calls are the people who you have recently called, and the people who have recently called you. Contacts are all your contacts, the people who have their names loaded onto your iPhone. You can also call people by returning their calls.
You can use the keypad to easily call people not in your contacts list. When you are talking to that person, you can add them to your contacts list.
During a call, you can easily put the person on hold, and make another call. Then, you can easily switch between the two calls, or merge them to a conference call. Making calls on an iPhone is fun, easy, and interesting. Join us again, on Tales of an Iphone User!

Next, on Tales of an iPhone User: The Phone, Part 3.

The British Redcoats

Ever hear the story about Paul Revere riding through town yelling, “The British are coming, the British are coming!” Well, that probably isn’t entirely true.
During the Revolutionary War, when the people of America were fighting for their freedom, the term for a British soldier was “Redcoat”. Now, you are all probably wondering, “Why were they called that!!” The British soldiers were called “Redcoats” simply because they wore heavy, bright red coats. Another term for them is “Lobsterbacks” which was usually used as an insult to them.
Now, I will get to my point. In the 13 colonies, everyone was British. When Paul Revere came riding around*, he probably yelled, “The Redcoats are coming!”

*The British army had found out which town the Colonists stored their ammunition at. Paul Revere came riding on a horse through that town to warn the villagers. The Redcoats were planning to attack in the morning, and when they did, the townsfolk were ready for them.

Newsletter Progress

On Behalf of Wheelz,

I want to say thanks for everyone who took the time responded to last month’s newsletter. Also, most people with a print copy didn’t throw their newsletter in the garbage on the first release. You may actually think I’m kidding; it is actually a good improvement. 30% of the people receiving the newsletters, this half is students in school, kept the newsletter for about 5 days in their backpacks or took them home. The same goes for the 100 people who receive it by e-mail all around the world. I really appreciate the motivation you are giving me for the See-Talk-It Newsletter. If you have the opportunity or time, do a favor and when you are done reading, put your See-Talk-It Newsletter in the recycling bin rather than the regular waste basket. It does very well to our environment, and could earn you a few cents if you go to a machine, take off the staple and insert your garbage in. The same common sense goes for all other newsletters, newspapers, and other recyclable trash.

The iPhone

You walk into a Starbucks and you hear a good song playing. You take out your iPhone and tap the iTunes music store button. You see what the song is, and whom it is by. You decide you like it, so you buy it wirelessly for $.99.
These are some of the things that you can do with the now $399 (for 8 gig.) iPhone. Starbucks has recently teamed up with Apple in the way that I have just explained to you-when you walk into (most) Starbucks with wi-fi internet, you can preview or purchase the song playing, and the songs previously played. In the Starbucks, you can also browse the internet with your iPhone using their wireless network, rather than the slower Edge network.
When you are browsing the internet, listening to music and drinking your coffee, you receive a call. To answer, you simply pinch a small button (about the size of 1/4 of a stick of gum) that stops your music and answers your call.
You can find all this, and more in a sleek, silver, fun-to use product.

Next, in Tales of an iPhone User: The Phone, Part 1

The Space Elevator

By Mr. Science Guy

Not so far into the future, an ambitious project virtually impossible with present technology to make frequent space travel easier by far… the space elevator. A project that used to be only dream within man’s imagination is now seen not only as possible, but with future’s better technology, not too complex and very useful, so it will almost impossible to not think that it will definitely be built.
The elevator will start as a satellite in space in a geostationary orbit over land. A geostationary orbit is acquired by staying directly above one part of the equator and orbiting at the speed of one orbit per day, in other words, the satellite will always above one point of the earth. Then two things would be extended in opposite directions. One is the actual elevator, extended towards the earth. The other is a weight exactly the same weight and length as the elevator to keep the balance. The weight uses up a lot of material and it doesn’t serve any particular use besides keeping the balance, but it’s necessary. Once the bottom of the elevator is firmly attached to the ground, it’s ready to use.
The elevators are airtight. They are sealed on the ground once ready and no air should leak out. The middle part acts like a space station and a forward base. Once inside the middle part, astronauts can do experiments with zero gravity and vacuums just like they’d do in a space station, and spacecrafts and space probes, with or without humans inside, can take off from the middle part. That gets rid of the need to waste all the fuel and money to be launched in a rocket out of the atmosphere. The space elevator will be a very convenient and cheap way to go to space in the future, and it’s definitely a project worth doing.