Mobile Phone Offers
Students collaborate on a geo-location exercise at El Polin using an internal compass and GPS on their mobile phones.
Photo by: Erica Pallo
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Photographs in this collection have been produced by Erica Pallo and Connor Rowe in order to chronicle the course activities of the students of UC Berkeley Summer 2011 Anthropology 136E class, under the direction of professors Ruth Tringham and Michael Ashley, as they digitally document and interpret the cultural heritage of El Presidio de San Francisco (the Presidio of San Francisco) from the 18th to the early 19th Centuries.
The purpose of the course is to focus on the real world challenge of documenting archaeological places through the creation of interpretive walks and non-invasive site installations, specifically at the Presidio of San Francisco. The course focuses on the tangible remains and documents of the past, but also the intangible heritage in the form of memories, knowledge, performance, and skills of the past of the San Francisco Presidio and El Polin Spring (Tennessee Hollow Watershed).
The course involves the design, field trial, and documentation of these different formats of representation of cultural heritage places, with an emphasis on practical digital field recording combined with geo-temporal databases. The aim is to seek alternatives to permanent markers of information about places, and their tangible and intangible heritage, especially in sensitive sites, such as national or regional parks. The course takes advantage of the many specialists in these technologies in the Bay Area, especially the Presidio Archaeology Lab of the Presidio Trust, with whom the class has contact and who have offered to contribute their help to the course.
The San Francisco Presidio (37°47′N, 122°27′W) and surrounding areas (like the Mission Dolores) was a military-occupied fortification controlled by various empires/governments throughout history including Spain (1776-1821), Mexico (1822-1846), and the United States of America (1846-1994 as an Army post, with the ownership of the park to be fully transitioned to the National Park Service by 2013). Archaeological excavations began on the site in 1993 after development expansion projects unearthed parts of the original stone foundation of El Presidio’s Spanish fort beneath the Funston Avenue Officers’ Quarters by archaeological consultants working for the the U.S. Army.
Photographs in this collection were shot between July 5-August 12, 2011 during the hours of 9am-4pm Pacific Time under a multitude of atmospheric conditions. Photos were captured on the following cameras: Apple iPhone 4 with an external lens device attached called the OWLE Bubo, Canon DSLR XSi/T2i, S95, Sony Cybershot, Canon Powershot. Lenses used include: Macro 60mm, Telephoto 70-200, Canon 18-55mm, Canon 17-85mm. A tripod was used for Gigapan, telephoto, and HDR shots. Various types of mobile phones were also used for documentation shots and Geo-tagging. The photos were post-processed in Apple iPhoto and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.
Description written by Erica Pallo with excerpts originally prepared by Ruth Tringham.
All photos Copyright ©2011 Center for Digital Archaeology, Berkeley CA, licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC 3.0 For more information, contact Center for Digital Archaeology, Berkeley, CA, 94720 or visit: www.codifi.info
For more information about El Presidio de San Francisco, visit: www.presidio.gov, or the Presidio Archaeology Lab of the Presidio Trust at: www.presidio.gov/history/archaeology.
Mobile Phone Offers: Lucrative and Effective
Article by Amanda Dorothy
The mobile phones revolution has stormed the mobile phone market of UK and the mobile business is growing many folds with each passing day. With such a situation, the fear of saturation in this industry is also arising. The mobile phone users are becoming more and more demanding with each passing day. So, to allure them towards buying a particular mobile phone is quite difficult task. Thus came the concept of lucrative mobile phone offers that are prevalent in the modern UK market. The mobile phones are now sold as a part of the mobile phone deals better known as the contract mobile phone deals.
Ideally, these mobile phone offers are a contract between the mobile phones manufacturers and the network service providers and is marketed by the mobile service providers. The user is given a lot of benefits in the form of calling incentives as discounted talk time, discount on text messages and free calling to a particular destination and so on. The mobile phones come as a part of this deal and they are given away for free. Plus, you can also get a lot of other free gifts that are an addition from the mobile phone dealers end. You could simply make the best out of the other deals that are available in the market. The users sign a contract with a particular mobile phone network service provider for a particular span of time wherein they are supposed to abide by the terms and conditions of the particular plan for that time. These plans can be of varied types like the 12 months free contract plan, cheap pay as you go mobile phones plan and so on.
The gifts which come as a part of the mobile phone offer could be as a varied as Satellite navigation system, i-Pod nano, LCD screen and so that come as a part of the whole offer. So, the user can get benefits from these mobile phone offers that are quite perky in nature.
Mobile Phone Offers question by gdawson1990: Which t-mobile touch screen phone would be the best to get with my upgrade?
Im trying to get a touch screen phone with my upgrade. T-mobile offers Smasung Behold, Samsung Memoir, T-mobile G1, or the T-mobile My Touch, which one would be best to get?
Mobile Phone Offers best answer:
Answer by Farg G
I’ve tried the G1 and the My Touch.
I can’t offer my opinion on the other 2 but I can tell you that the G1 and My Touch are awesome.
Only feature that i find the G1 lacks is a 3.5mm standard jack.
The My Touch is also newer and has a better processor than the G1.
All I have to say is, go for the My Touch.
Good luck.