This is True®
by Randy Cassingham

Randy Cassingham's Bonzer Web Sites of the Week: Recognizing Interesting Sites that are Beyond the Microsoft/AOL-Time Warner/Media Megalith

PhoneSpell

Yeah, this is somewhat meaningless in many countries, but in the U.S. the phone pads have letters associated with each digit (except 1 and 0). What does your phone number spell? Put in your number and PhoneSpell will check it against its extensive dictionary and spit out a bunch of possibilities for you to choose from.

From This is True for 21 March 2004

Suggestions for further reading:

Algebra 2
By: Ron LarsonLaurie BoswellLee StiffTimothy D. Kanold
List Price: $93.56
Amazon Price: $81.93

 
Dead Man's Cell Phone
By: Sarah Ruhl
List Price: $13.95
Amazon Price: $11.16
Editorial Review:

"Satire is her oxygen. . . . In her new oddball comedy, Dead Man's Cell Phone, Sarah Ruhl is forever vital in her lyrical and biting takes on how we behave."-The Washington Post

"Ruhl's zany probe of the razor-thin line between life and death delivers a fresh and humorous look at the times we live in."-Variety

"Sarah Ruhl is deliriously imaginative and fearless in her choice of subject matter. She is an original."-Molly Smith, artistic director, Arena Stage

An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet caf. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man-with a lot of loose ends. So begins Dead Man's Cell Phone, a wildly imaginative new comedy by playwright Sarah Ruhl, recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" Grant and Pulitzer Prize finalist for her play The Clean House. A work about how we memorialize the dead-and how that remembering changes us-it is the odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption, and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world.

Sarah Ruhl's plays have been produced at theaters around the country, including Lincoln Center Theater, the Goodman Theatre, Arena Stage, South Coast Repertory, Yale Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, among others, and internationally. She is the recipient of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize (for The Clean House, 2004), the Helen Merrill Emerging Playwrights Award, and the Whiting Writers' Award. The Clean House was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2005. She is a member of 13P and New Dramatists.


 
Caillou: The Phone Call (Clubhouse series)
By: Marilyn Pleau-Murissi
List Price: $2.50
Amazon Price: $2.50

 
Stephan Schiffman's Telesales: America's #1 Corporate Sales Trainer Shows You...
By: Stephan Schiffman
List Price: $10.95
Amazon Price: $8.76
Editorial Review:
If you've got ten minutes a day, you can make a telesales breakthrough!

By providing one concise, easy-to-read chapter for each daily coffee break, Stephan Schiffman's Telesales, Second Edition has the power to transform your career and help you post noticeable increases in your numbers in just ten working days and transform your career after a mere twenty-one.

Stephan Schiffman has coached thousands of sales teams across the country to improve their telesales performance. He knows exactly what works and doesn't, and in this completely revised second edition, he shares with you all of his insider's secrets, including how to:

·Master the five ways you can increase your income

·Track your numbers . . . and use them to your advantage

·Evaluate your performance effectively . . . so you hit your own goals

·Gain control of the call

·Leave effective phone messages

·Use "how" and "why" questions to your advantage

·Learn what's going on in the prospect's world

·Understand the four types of negative responses . . . and find out how to get past each one

·Turn small adjustments in your performance into large income gains

By spending just minutes a day with this one clear, concise book, you can learn everything from creating a script; to recognizing when not calling a prospect can increase your sales productivity, to practicing the ten traits of world class salespeople. In this highly competitive world where the obstacles against telemarketers continue to become increasingly daunting, you can't afford not to have these tools in your sales arsenal!


 
iPhone Fully Loaded
By: Andy Ihnatko
List Price: $19.99
Amazon Price: $13.59
Editorial Review:
iPhone Fully Loaded is a one-of-a-kind reference that teaches you how to fully exploit the power of your Phone or iPod touch. Clear step-by-step instructions teach you how to convert any form of home, office, or online media -- dusty LPs, movies on DVD, spreadsheets, databases, presentations, downloadable books, comic books, as well as music and video to an iPhone or iPod Touch compatible format. Written by wildly popular technology expert and Chicago Sun Times columnist Andy Ihnatko, iPhone Fully Loaded is a full-color guide designed to work for both Mac OS X and Windows users. From uploading Web pages to downloading television shows and a variety of documents, including Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents, the iPhone does much more than make phone calls, play music, and send e-mail.
 
About the Site
About This is True
About the Authors

Subscribe Free
to This is True
and see the Sites
when they're issued!
Your e-mail:



Find by keyword:

Prev: True Random Number Service

Next: Engrish

Complete Name List

Copyright 1999-2008 ThisisTrue.Inc, all rights reserved. May not be copied or archived without express, prior, written permission. "This is True" is a registered trademark of ThisisTrue.Inc, Ridgway Colorado. 3889