Tag: Text
What Your Email Style Could Be Telling Others About Your Personality
As much as I don't like email, it is unfortunately still the most widely accepted form of business communication. I send a ton of emails every day, but one thing I never realized is that my email style reveals a lot about my personality. It's true. Not only do the words in your emails reveal your ge ...
Sleep Texting: How To Avoid This New Ailment Affecting Geeks
It's been all over the Internet lately...Apparently the dangers of sleep texting are severe since people seem to be making such a big deal out of it. To me, it screams 'first world problem,' and it's almost offensive to call it an ailment considering all the real ailments in the world. However, just ...
![Why People Still Prefer Visual Infographics Over Text [Infographic]](https://bitrebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/why-infographics-so-popular-infographic-optimized.jpg "Why People Still Prefer Visual Infographics Over Text [Infographic]")
Why People Still Prefer Visual Infographics Over Text [Infographic]
Just yesterday I wrote an article about how cats and bacon still rule the Internet. The search traffic for those words is still high, and their popularity doesn't seem to be waning even though it's been several years. Today I'd like to talk about infographics from this same perspective. Some people ...
Forget Calling Ghostbusters: Ghost App Translates Words From Spirits
If you believe in ghosts, you will probably think this ghost app is intriguing. If you don't believe in ghosts, you might still get a kick out of it. This isn't the first ghost app that claims to translate messages from the other side, but it's the first one I've seen that's gotten a lot of attentio ...
![How Cell Phone Etiquette Is Different Around The World [Infographic]](https://bitrebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/worldwide-cell-phone-etiquette-infographic-optimized.jpg "How Cell Phone Etiquette Is Different Around The World [Infographic]")
How Cell Phone Etiquette Is Different Around The World [Infographic]
You probably haven't thought about this before, but manners are generational. What I mean is different generations think different things are rude or inappropriate. I could probably list five or ten of those types of things off the top of my head just based on what my mother thinks is rude. For the ...
BreakUp Text: iPhone App To Help You Break Up Via Text
Apps are made to make our lives easier, and in most cases, they do. But there are also apps that take things to a whole new level of lazy. Apps are a great way to tune up, refine and optimize our everyday realities, but they can also make things a whole lot more weird. Take the BreakUp Text app for ...
![What Your Handwriting Style Says About Your Personality [Infographic]](https://bitrebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/what-your-handwriting-reveals-personality-optimized.jpg "What Your Handwriting Style Says About Your Personality [Infographic]")
What Your Handwriting Style Says About Your Personality [Infographic]
I don't know about you, but I hardly ever write anymore. Every once in a while I'll use handwriting when I'm taking notes on a Bit Rebels conference call, but for the most part, I don't write anymore with a pen and paper. Handwriting is quickly becoming an art of the past. It's a shame really becaus ...
School Children Learn About Grammar From Celebrities On Twitter
We all know that techspeak can hurt our grammar. 'Techspeak' is a word used to describe the shorthand we use in text, IM, emails, social media and more. It goes beyond abbreviations like LOL, OMG and IMHO. It also encompasses real words that we spell wrong on purpose because it's faster or shorter. ...
$12 Basic Emergency Phone Emerges In China
I think a lot of people are sick and tired of having to constantly upgrade their phones. Some tech geeks would happily buy an upgraded smartphone several times a year if they could, but for some people, this lavish living is not an option. Don't get me wrong, upgrades are good, but it all comes with ...
Touchscreen Braille Smartphone For Visually Impaired Techies
Wouldn't it be nice if visually impaired people around the world could get to feel the same feeling you got the first time you experienced a smartphone? It's a rush of adrenaline most of us take for granted now that we've had smartphones for several years. It must be hard knowing that everyone aroun ...
Text Technology Adds Animated Face & Emotions To Your Text Messages
If you have experienced a close friendship or even a romantic relationship with someone online, you know that even though technology has progressed enough to make communication across the globe easy, it still has its limitations. There are so many aspects of a human being's personality and feelings ...
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Find The Right Communication Method For Your Audience [Flowchart]
We have a lot of different ways to communicate these days. Without even thinking about it, we make dozens of decisions each day about which communication method to use with our friends, family and coworkers. For some people, a text might be appropriate. For others, it's only Skype. For your grandmot ...
Emoticon Alphabet Book Has All Your Social Media Emoticons From A – Z
We see emoticons everywhere in social media. They are all over Twitter and Facebook. Emoticons have even made the transition over to handwritten text since some people use them when writing notes. There are a handful of them that are popular, but what I didn't know is that there is a lot more emotic ...
![How Much Money Would It Cost For You To Live On Mars? [Infographic]](https://bitrebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/cost-of-living-on-mars-optimized.jpg "How Much Money Would It Cost For You To Live On Mars? [Infographic]")
How Much Money Would It Cost For You To Live On Mars? [Infographic]
People have always been fascinated by the thought of traveling to Mars. Whenever I think about what it would be like to live on Mars, I am reminded of the original 1990 movie Total Recall. Lately though, it seems like people are even more interested in learning about the planet that some people will ...
![Modern Communication In A Geek’s Workday [Comic]](https://bitrebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/modern-digital-communication-funny-comic-optimized.jpg "Modern Communication In A Geek’s Workday [Comic]")
Modern Communication In A Geek’s Workday [Comic]
As I logged into Skype this morning like I do almost every morning, I started thinking about how much our communication has changed over the past decade. Modern communication is completely different now than it was even a few years ago. The generation after mine is what people are calling the first ...