Gadgets that make study fun

Now in a world piled high with smart phones, tablets and e-readers, technology has entered the classroom in ways unimaginable. Taking classes can be fun too. All you have to do is swipe your fingers on your phone screen and download some apps, which can make your study more fun and efficient. Balancing study and play in a college setting has never been easy-and with the following few apps, it’ll be tough to tell the two apart.

Evernote

Use: note-taking

Can be used on: Phone/iPad/iPod touch, Android, BlackBerry, Palm OS and Windows, Phone 7

Price: free

It’s hard to imagine that with all the magical gadgets, the eager, studious types would still take out a notepad, a pencil, and a highlighter—and take notes in class. While it’s not an actual planner or a calendar App, if you take notes to stay organized, then Evernote is for you．The main thing about Evernote is that all of your notes are automatically sent into the cloud---and then you can access them from any web-connected computer via the Evernote app or a web browser. Evernote also supports audio and photo notes-rather handy if you want to record your lecture or take photos of any projected notes. But, of course, ask for permission first.

Wikipanion

Use: research database

Can be used on: iPhone/iPad/iPod touch

Price :free ( Wikipanion Plus for $4．99,or 31.87 yuan )

Now, you don’t necessarily have to go to a library or anywhere with computer services to do research work for your paper anymore. You can get access to the research databases just on your smart phone or tablet. Wikipanion gives you a simplified version of Wikipedia without leaving out any of the site’s extra features. The normal links that you’d see to each section of an article are no longer on the main screen. Instead, there’s small icon located at the bottom of the App, which can be used to access all the sections of an article. You can also open the links in Safari(苹果浏览器). According to the developers’ site, loading Wikipedia pages with Wikipanion is a lot faster than accessing the Wikipedia site from the iPhone’s browsers. To be honest, we agree.

Conquering Bilingual News Listening in 7 Days

Use: English learning application

Can be used on: iPhone/iPad/iPod touch

Price: For a limited time you can get the App for only $0.99—half price.

Still learning English with a workbook? If so, you are behind the times. Get 21st Century Newspaper’s new iPhone App, “Conquering Bilingual News Listening in 7 Days”. When you download the App on your iPhone, you can listen to the hottest bilingual news selected from the newspaper’s official website (w. w. w. i2lst. cn) and read by native speakers. User can enjoy the audio bilingual news with synchronized subtitles and fantastic pictures while immersed in an authentic language environment. With a simple tap, the sentence you choose will be repeated. “Conquering Bilingual News Listening in 7 Days” has ranked No 1 on the Chinese education App list.

※Project Management Assistant

Responsibility:

—Provide service for the project in Tianjin.

—Provide assistance to the project manager for everyday work.

—Responsible for file management, customer service for students & parents.

Requirements:

—College degree and above.

—Good English and computer skill.

—Related working experience in an international organization.

—Patient, careful, supportive. Have strong team work spirit.

※English Teacher

Responsibility:

—Conduct English teaching according to British education system.

Requirements:

—University degree and above in English major or normal English.

—Eager to learn and open-minded with creativity.

—With deep understanding for different cultures.

(Warmly welcome the fresh graduates to apply for this position.)

※Marketing Assistant

Responsibility:

—Responsible for the local management of marketing & sales activities according to the instructions from the head office.

—Collect related information to the head office.

—Develop relationship with local media and customers.

Requirements:

—College degree and above with good English (speaking & writing).

—With basic idea of sales and marketing, related experience is preferred.

—Working experience in the international organizations is a must.

—Good communication and presentation skills.

※Accountant（会计）

Responsibility:

—Accountant work for Tianjin office and project.

—Perform the finance management locally according to the rules & policy of the company.

Requirements:

—College degree and above in finance area.

—Good English and good computer skill.

—Have sense of finance management.

—At least 2 years' experience as an accountant in an international organization is a must.

—Self-management, hardworking, independent and able to deal with pressure.

You can go to http://www.51job.com for more information.

Please mail or fax your resume(简历)(both in English & Chinese), diploma, training certificates and expected salary to the following address within two weeks. No personal visit or telephone call before that. Your materials will be kept in ACE files.

Add: Room 1806 Plaza Building Hexi District Tianjin300221

Fax Number: 022-3728428

Email: lircarehxtj@sina.com

Several Jobs That Will Be Automated By Artificial Intelligence(AI) And Robots

Translator

Image recognition software and voice recognition software are bringing some major advances to language translation．Applications like Google’s Word Lens can translate words from signs and documents in real time and there are a lot of translation apps that allow you to type in a word or phrase and will translate it for you．

Some will even speak the phrase for you and raw word-to-word translation will be fully automated soon．

Fast food workers

Automated ordering booths have already made their way into a few McDonald’s restaurants around the world，and cooking positions could be removed next．The booths probably can’t handle customer service problems well，so televideo systems could bring in an office employee to deal with complaints．

Field technician

New advances in the Internet of Things could make this work obsolete.

Low-cost sensors combined with high availability cellular／satellite communications and cloud technology are being started to automate and alarm these sites, and can be checked and maintained from a desktop or mobile device.

Sales representative

But, e-commerce is changing how we make purchasing decisions, especially those where there isn’t much differentiation among the major competitors.

If you’re selling a high-differentiation product and／or a high-price, low-volume product you have some job security, but if you’re selling a high-volume, low-differentiation product, you better start polishing your resume, said Doug Camplejohn, CEO of Fliptop. “These kind of product sales are all moving online.”