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This weekend I had the pleasure of experiencing a 3-day swim meet with my daughter at the University of Incarnate Word. While I didn’t enjoy getting up at 5:30 AM every morning, I did enjoy people watching during the course of the long days. With hours and hours of down time, I, like many others, took to my smart phone to pass the time. As I look around, it seems that EVERYONE has a smart phone of some kind. I’ve seen Dad’s getting score updates on NFL playoff games, Mom’s taking pictures with their multi-pixel smart phones kids playing games and listening to music. I personally have pushed my Blackberry to the max…I’ve watched entire TV shows, listened to my music, streamed the UT Men’s basketball game, sent Blackberry Messenger updates on my daughter’s progress to friends and family, read my entire newspaper and other articles from my Viigo, browsed the Net, played online blackjack and poker, taken pictures/video, followed the weather AND used the stopwatch timer on my Tour (whew). Needless to say, my smart phone has had a workout this weekend. I’ve also done my best to “educate” others on applications or uses on their own smart phones that perhaps they were unaware of. If you’re still one of the few people that do not have a smart phone, perhaps it’s time that you look at one now. You too can do all of these things for just a few extra bucks a month. If you’d like to know how, call me…(800) GET-A-CELL. Don’t settle for another “dumb” phone when you could have the World at your finger tips! Oh, and did I mention that I even posted this blog from my phone?

I am not sure how many people are like me, but I was usually cramming for a test 5 minutes before it happened. In high school I always had good intentions to study, but many of the times my backpack was never even opened, which created the cramming sessions. I was going through my Viigo today and I found an application called Cram. It looks to be a really cool little tool that lets you upload your tests and answers to help you study.

Sometimes I ask myself why a tween or a young teen needs a Blackberry or PDA, but with helpful applications like Cram starting to come out, it is making a lot more sense. Many tweens, teens, and college students can take advantage of this. Instead of writing those 50 text messages before class they can take a few minutes to refresh their memories about the material. Even as an adult there are great applications you can use it for ,like reviewing your notes on your client before a meeting, or learning the names of all the people and their roles for a new project.

So Cram is really cool, it is $19, but has a free downloadable trial. It currently has 10 reviews and still has a perfect score. So hopefully this helps our readers out there, and if there are any cool applications you would like to share let us know!