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“fring” is a free software program and service for Windows Mobile 5, 6 and Symbian phones that uses VoIP to allow you to make cheap and free calls and instant messages. If you’re looking for a way to bring down the cost of making a phone call, fring may be the solution you’ve been seeking.
It’s a unique offering that for the first time brings together connections to Skype, SIP, GoogleTalk, MSN Messenger, plus the sub-blogging service Twitter. You can choose whatever SIP service you like, including the GizmoProject, VoipCheap, VoipStunt, Free World DialUp and others, and even use SIP on fring with otherwise non-SIP enabled devices. These services come together on your mobile handset to give you the best possible chances to keep your phone costs low.
The arrangement works over over 3G, GPRS and Wi-Fi networks regardless of your carrier. All you need is your carrier’s data plan or a hotspot and you’;re good to go to make a free or low cost VoIP call. It allows you to conserve you airtime and save it for circumstances when no Wi-Fi connection is available. In addition, fring to fring calls are entirely free which makes buddy-to-buddy communications a snap. If you have a lot of friends, you’ll love fring.
To begin a conversation, you simply pick a contact and hit the green button, or go to options and then click either call or chat to begin a communication session. Does it get much easier than that?
fring allows you to organize all your IM and phone contacts in one place and rather than using SMS, you can chat freely using Messenger. For $30 per year you can use your SkypeOut account to make free calls to any phone in North America and low cost international calls.
If you have a lot of IM contacts, you can not only see when your friends are online, you can also see if they’re typing or not. It makes the chat feel more like a real conversation instead of waiting in limbo as they type their responses.
I’ve been a Skype user for years now and have all my phone numbers and contact information located there, so fring is a big plus in helping me to keep all this information together and make it available when I use the other services. The beauty of Skype (besides VoIP) is that it’s very much like GMail in that, your information does not exist on your device. You can access it from anywhere and on any device including your laptop, so it’s always available no matter what circumstances you find yourself in. All you need is an Internet connection and it’s always handy. That’s a big advantage for a person on the go and fring is a perfect tool to get the most out of the security and convenience this offers.
The beauty of the chat feature of fring as compared to SMS, is that you can view your entire chat conversation in real-time on your handset and reduce the high accumulated costs of SMS. However, fring does have some annoying aspects. Such as when you have 4 contacts named simply Joe and there’s no way to distinguish them. It’s a real oversight and needs to be corrected. Fortunately, it should only be a problem if you have too many people with the same identifying name on your list.
I laud the creators of fring for their efforts to create a different means for people to talk at much lower costs. The cellphone industry needs to be reigned in and taken to task for not providing cost effective services for people and businesses to use. Products like fring (if they become widely enough used) can put pressure on these companies and force them to lower the cost of phone calls for everyone. Hopefully, enough people will adopt fing, and services like it, quickly so that this can become a reality sooner rather than later.
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Hotspots Revisited: Earth’s Biologically Richest and Most Endangered Terrestrial Ecoregions $31.90 For decades, Conservation International has devoted itself not only to saving endangered regions on the planet but also to chronicling, in lavish volumes, the biodiversity of these areas. These volumes, according to Choice, are”a superbly produced . . . source of hard-to-find information on biodiversity, biogreography, and conservation.”Hotspots Revisited continues this rich tradition, drawing on … |
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Hotspots: Earth’s Biologically Richest and Most Endangered Terrestrial Ecoregions $44.00 A fraction of the earth’s surface–1.4 percent–is home to 60 percent of the world’s living species. Conservation International has identified these “hotspots” as needing immediate protection in the effort to safeguard the planet’s biodiversity. More than just reservoirs of abundant plant and animal life, however, the hotspots are at-risk areas already significantly degraded by humankind. By … |
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The Atlantic Forest of South America: Biodiversity Status, Threats, and Outlook (State of the Hotspots, Vol. 1) $70.00 The Atlantic Forest of Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina is one of the most devastated and most highly threatened ecosystem on the planet; less than eight percent of the original forest remains and is facing intense population pressures from all sides.The Atlantic Forest of South America presents a detailed assessment of the state of biodiversity in the Atlantic Forest. Separate sections examine e… |
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conservation biology institute
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Coral Reefs of the Southern Gulf of Mexico (Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies) $50.00 Coral reefs declined worldwide during the 1980s and 1990s, making them perhaps the most endangered marine ecosystem on Earth. This realization spurred John W. Tunnell Jr. and others to write a comprehensive book that would raise awareness of coral reefs and their plight. Tunnell and coeditors Ernesto A. Chávez and Kim Withers present an integrated and broad-ranging synthesis, while Mexican and … |
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Bridging Scales and Knowledge Systems: Concepts and Applications in Ecosystem Assessment $31.97 Bridging the gap between local knowledge and western science is essential to understanding the world’s ecosystems and the ways in which humans interact with and shape those ecosystems. This book brings together a group of world-class scientists in an unprecedented effort to build a formal framework for linking local and indigenous knowledge with the global scientific enterprise. Contributors explo… |
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Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota: Volume 2, Ocean and Coastal Economy (Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies Series) $23.99 The many economic factors affecting sustainability of the Gulf of Mexico region are perhaps as important as the waves on its shores and its abundant marine life. This second volume in Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota (a multivolumed work edited by John W. Tunnell Jr., Darryl L. Felder, and Sylvia A. Earle) assesses the Gulf of Mexico as a single economic region. The book provides informat… |
conservation biology internships
Interning at a Zoo for animal experience?
I’m starting to apply for summer internships at the local zoo. I want to get more experience working with animals since someday I hope to be a vet. I’m majoring in Biology right now and my minor is in psych. Which area of animal care would be best for me:
Primate
Conservation & Research (no hands-on animal work)
Herp
Carnivore
Behavioral Training
Thanks!
I think behavioral training sounds most fun, you might learn a lot and it sounds like most animal interaction. I’ve seen some trained animal shows at the zoo and they can be amazing, though I was most impressed how well they trained a house cat as I really know how hard that can be…. I wish somebody would teach me how to do that!
Otherwise I would prefer hands on work with animal and it depends on you whether you are most interested in snakes, primates or carnivores, I don’t think it really matters which one.
I would visit the zoo if you are not already very familiar with it and base my decision on what you see there.
But it’s great you are doing extra work experience outside your studies, it’s great for your CV when applying to school again. And I hope you have lots of fun whatever you choose.