Franciscan Community Connections

FCconnections is focused on keeping the family and friends of the Franciscan Communities' residents connected to their loved ones and communities.

This site is part of a larger program involving touchscreen kiosks, cable television, wireless cafés, high-speed internet access, and e-mail. We are looking forward to making this program available at all of our communities.

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New app promises wireless sync for iPhone — if Apple approves it (Ben Patterson)
Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:34:11 GMT
Ben Patterson - Zune users have been able to sync their music and videos over Wi-Fi for years now — not so for patrons of the iPhone or iPod Touch, which can only sync up files via USB tethering. That said, an enterprising developer is looking to change the game when it comes to wireless iPhone and/or iPod Touch syncing ... if Apple will let him, that is.

BlackBerry's new Pearl 3G goes old-school with 14-button keypad (Ben Patterson)
Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:36:03 GMT
Ben Patterson - What's the first thing that comes to mind when it comes to a BlackBerry? For me, it's Research In Motion's iconic QWERTY keypad, or at the very least the modified "SureType" keyboard, which crams a couple of letter keys on each number key. So it's a little jarring to get a load of RIM's new, pumped-up Pearl 3G — the first BlackBerry ever with a standard alphanumeric keypad, same as on many garden-variety cell phones.