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WAC Lab Library Take-Over!

The Learning Commons is collaborating with Writing Across 
the Curriculum (WAC) to put on an event in the library 
today. WAC tutors will be offering last minute help with 
papers. You'll see their table set up in the Learning
Commons. They'll work with students in the Living Room.

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thisistheverge: Back from the dead: why do 2013’s best smartphones have IR blasters? Remember when you couldn’t buy a high-end phone without an infrared (IR) port? If your exposure to smartphones only starts with the iPhone’s appearance in 2007, you might not. But if you’ve been using smartphones for longer, you may recall that many of the Palm, Symbian, and Windows Mobile devices that once comprised the market were equipped with infrared transmitters and receivers. (Nokia even put IR blasters on its dumbphones years before smartphones were in the picture.) These were used for very basic — and slow — file transfers between devices, but some enterprising developers did write apps to let you control your television and entertainment consoles. 

thisistheverge:

Back from the dead: why do 2013’s best smartphones have IR blasters?

Remember when you couldn’t buy a high-end phone without an infrared (IR) port? If your exposure to smartphones only starts with the iPhone’s appearance in 2007, you might not. But if you’ve been using smartphones for longer, you may recall that many of the Palm, Symbian, and Windows Mobile devices that once comprised the market were equipped with infrared transmitters and receivers. (Nokia even put IR blasters on its dumbphones years before smartphones were in the picture.) These were used for very basic — and slow — file transfers between devices, but some enterprising developers did write apps to let you control your television and entertainment consoles.