Check out my video showcasing U-verse Mobile and how I can download and watch TV shows while on the go.
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Check out the following video of Fiona enjoying Kideos and the Rhino Song before taking a nap.
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Before deciding on a guest post this week, I read through the comments on my last Calm, Cool, Connect blog post and found the perfect suggestion for connecting technology with my last month of pregnancy – thank you! I had not thought to download an application for timing contractions.
Naturally once I searched “pregnancy” on my phone, a plethora of options came forward. I opted for Contraction Master , which seemed worth the $0.99 investment. Childbirth class taught us to wait for 5-1-1, contractions lasting for 1 minute, 5 minutes apart for at least 1 hour. And now I have the perfect tool to track the timing and frequency of my contractions. My husband walked by as I was downloading the app, and commented that he needed it on his as well. This app will definitely eliminate the guesswork and provide a history of the contractions that can be emailed or at least shown to my nurse and doctor when I finally do arrive at labor and delivery.
I also downloaded the What to Expect app. Even though I only have a few weeks left, it’s calming to read that if I went into labor now, the baby is considered full term. And fun to know that moms expecting boys experience more of an increased appetite in the third trimester. Does that excuse the incredible sweet tooth I’ve developed as of late?
Nicole Anderson
Hello, everyone! I’m Nicole, an AT&T employee and soon-to-be-mom of a baby boy. My husband, Justin, and I are expecting our first child at the end of April. It’s been a year of big changes for us, as I relocated with the company last April from the San Francisco Bay Area to Dallas. Thankfully, my husband was able to maintain his career, working remotely from Dallas. I’m jealous he gets to go back to California every month or so, especially during the summer to beat the heat! Just as we started getting settled in Dallas – learning the neighborhood, what road led where, and I was getting up to speed on my new job – we found out we were pregnant! It has been an exciting, if overwhelming, journey for us. Critical during our relocation was the use of our smartphones. If we got lost, or if we needed to find a restaurant, e-mail our realtor or send a quick text, our smartphones didn’t let us down. Now with the text4baby program, I can get quick and informative baby advice sent directly to my phone. With all the hecticness in our work and lives, these texts create a quick moment to reflect on the big change coming in our lives and learn something about the new life we are forming. I look forward to sharing this experience with you through my blog posts, and learning more about how to use technology as a new mom. Is there an app that helps your baby sleep through the night?!Posted by Calm, Cool & Connected in Applications, Guest Blogger, SmartPhone, Uncategorized Tags: Guest Blog, iPhone applications, SmartPhone
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With a hectic schedule at home, it was not realistic that my husband and I would be able to pick up any of the volumes of books published to help new moms and dads navigate through their first pregnancy. Not that we didn’t want to soak up knowledge, we just needed a better way to get the information that we needed. Thanks to the AT&T Smartphone app Pregnancy Tracker, we now track our baby’s development on a weekly and daily basis. The app also provides us information on the radical changes my body is going through.
As a first time Mom, I have heard of all the expected symptoms during pregnancy but not much is said about some symptoms that can make anyone worry. Thanks to the Smartphone app, I knew that during the 2nd trimester of pregnancy it is common to have your heart race periodically. This is due to your heart pumping blood for two. Trust me, if my heart started to race and I did not have advance warning of the possibility of this occurring, I would have thought I had a heart problem.
The app also provides me great analogies for what is happening to my body – inside and out. I knew when in the development stages my little bundle could hear me and when taste buds were developing. This is when I knew to sing the Eyes of Texas and to be sure to eat my favorite veggies in abundance – brussel sprouts anyone? Speaking of vegetables, according to the app, our baby is about two pounds and is about the length of a cucumber. That is a mighty big cucumber.
Laura HernandezHello, my name is Laura, and I am a wife and working mom who has been with AT&T for 13 years. I am a mom who is about to be a mom for the first time – sounds confusing. I have a stepson with a disability who lives with us, and my husband and I are expecting our first child together in May. My stepson is completely dependent on technology to communicate, so if we want to communicate with him when we are not at home, e-mail and texting is the way to go. I use technology in every aspect of my life. Aside from using my Blackberry to stay connected to work issues, I use Navigator to get around my new city of Dallas, and I use multiple smartphone applications to manage grocery lists, get restaurant reviews or find important locations, like the shoe repair, tailor and, yes, even clean bathrooms. As two working parents juggling the demands our stepson presents us, we use technology to coordinate social schedules and yoga classes and to keep our friends and family up-to-date on happenings in our lives. More recently, I have used the internet to track how my pregnancy is progressing.
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After many months of trying to convince Amy that she needed a smartphone, the birth of our daughter Fiona became the deciding factor. Now, instead of sending SMS messages using a T9 interface, she’s tapping away at a touch-screen interface, texting faster than I could ever hope to. Her phone has become her go-to camera to take pictures of Fiona, and it’s how she checks her email.
Then there are the apps. Amy is officially ‘addicted’ to apps. She uses her smartphone to keep up with Facebook, check the weather, hunt for a new house, track workouts and food intake, play games, share pictures from our Flickr account, and keep up on parenting information, among other things. She just might be on her smartphone more than I’m on mine, which is saying something.
Does anyone else have a significant other who fought the transition to a smartphone, only to become ‘addicted’ to mobile apps?
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My journey as a guest mommy-to-be blogger continues this week on Calm, Cool & Connected, as I found a way through technology to hear my baby-to-be as opposed to just feel him wiggle and kick around.
At my prenatal check-up this week, my doctor measured my belly and listened to the baby’s heartbeat as per procedure. However, this time I thought it would be fun to keep the sound of my baby’s hearbeat with me instead of waiting another two weeks to hear it again. So I whipped out my Smartphone to use the Voice Memos app to record seven seconds of my little man’s heart beating away.
After my appointment, I sent the recording via text to my husband so he too could share in the reassuring sound of our little miracle. Take a listen yourself!
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Nicole Anderson
Hello, everyone! I’m Nicole, an AT&T employee and soon-to-be-mom of a baby boy. My husband, Justin, and I are expecting our first child at the end of April. It’s been a year of big changes for us, as I relocated with the company last April from the San Francisco Bay Area to Dallas. Thankfully, my husband was able to maintain his career, working remotely from Dallas. I’m jealous he gets to go back to California every month or so, especially during the summer to beat the heat! Just as we started getting settled in Dallas – learning the neighborhood, what road led where, and I was getting up to speed on my new job – we found out we were pregnant! It has been an exciting, if overwhelming, journey for us. Critical during our relocation was the use of our smartphones. If we got lost, or if we needed to find a restaurant, e-mail our realtor or send a quick text, our smartphones didn’t let us down. Now with the text4baby program, I can get quick and informative baby advice sent directly to my phone. With all the hecticness in our work and lives, these texts create a quick moment to reflect on the big change coming in our lives and learn something about the new life we are forming. I look forward to sharing this experience with you through my blog posts, and learning more about how to use technology as a new mom. Is there an app that helps your baby sleep through the night?!Posted by Calm, Cool & Connected in Applications, Guest Blogger, Nicole, SmartPhone
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I am amazed at the apps available today. Not just for work – but for our time outside work. For those who are practically minded there are apps that help you maintain your car, track your bills and ones that even act as personal assistance. There are sport apps that help improve your golf swing or track the results of baseball and football games. For travel bugs, there are language translators and assistance with the conversion of money. Concerned about keeping your mind active after massive amounts of time watching Barney with your kids? You can use your mobile phone do Sudoku and brain teasers to keep your mind active. Even the White House launched an app that can be used to access streaming video of President Obama’s upcoming State of the Union address.
My husband writes computer software — for fun. Go figure… The last time I wrote a computer program it was in graduate school and it was in Assembly Language. This was just shortly after the Jurassic period. I remember clearly when I erased my back up file, around 3 AM, for a key project. That was when I determined that I, indeed, had a more colorful vocabulary than I realized — even if I did not actually say the words out loud. More importantly, I found I did not have the passion I needed to be a really good programmer. Without passion, your job is just work. I am glad that there are opportunities for programmers with a passion, like my husband, who can use their creativity to create applications and share them with others. Sometimes they are silly, but sometimes they are very useful.
There are apps on cell phones today that help people with Autism communicate and ones under development that may help older people anticipate when a fall is likely so they can prevent injuries. This means that older people may be able to stay in their own homes longer rather than go to a assistive care or a nursing facility. There are applications like Dragon that enable you to dictate your emails – useful to people with conditions such as arthritis and those over forty who do not have their reading glasses! The work being developed today that is often offered at no cost by online good citizens who just want to help their virtual neighbors, is truly inspiring. Many applications are accessible for people who have vision loss like me and there are groups that talk just about those applications.
For those trying to juggle home and work, you can find healthy recipes and menu planners for shopping. And on the lighter side, or hopefully lighter side, you can find several programs that count or track calories or carbs. There are applications related to wellness as a whole and, I am told, ones that will help track your workouts as well. I should probably check into those…
Of course, there are games for kids of all ages. The handset vendors I’ve met say these help people to use a keypad more quickly and efficiently. I am skeptical. I think they are really just for fun. And, if my observations are correct, they are there to help people waiting in airports pass the time without becoming belligerent. For kids, there are educational applications that teach things like phonics and counting. There are even apps that provide a virtual experience of things we ACTUALLY did like skee ball, board games and spin art. The only application that I have not been able to find is one that will soothe the overtired toddler. But then, there is a nap for that…
About the author: Susan Mazrui, who just celebrated her 15th anniversary with AT&T, has two daughters, Sarah (23 years old) and Nicole (3 years old). Sarah works full-time and goes to Law School part-time. Nicole is a part-time preschooler whose current career aspirations include medicine and firefighting. Married to Jamal, a brilliant software developer and civil servant, Susan enjoys listening to books, described videos and international travel. Susan and Jamal also have a Cavapoo named Ginger (1 year old). Ginger initially aspired to become a guide dog for Susan but later decided to become a watch dog as she thoroughly enjoys people watching and really did not want to work that hard.Posted by Calm, Cool & Connected in Applications, Guest Blogger, Just for fun, Organization, Shopping, Uncategorized Tags: SmartPhone
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