Helen Gallagher

Helen Gallagher
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Glenview, Illinois, U.S.
Birthday
December 31
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Helen Gallagher is a freelance writer, author and popular speaker in the U.S. and Canada on technology, writing and publishing. She also writes essays and reviews non-fiction books for Blog Critics Magazine (blogcritics.org), and for New York Journal of Books. Helen is the author of "Blog Power & Social Media Handbook," "Computer Ease," and "Release Your Writing: Book Publishing Your Way." She manages several great blogs including Pajama Marketing for Authors at pajamamarketing.wordpress.com, and is a member of SPAWN.org, ASJA.org and other groups who support the efforts of writers.

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Salon.com
JULY 20, 2010 7:00PM

Summer road trip? There's an app for that...

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Last July I reviewed a fascinating book: The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science and Technology Come Alive.

Author John Graham-Cumming compiled this atlas to ensure you won't drive by a museum of math, science, or technology in the world, without a quick stop.

From the Escher Museum in The Hague, home of M.C. Escher’s marvelous drawings, and optical illusions to Alexander Graham Bell’s summer home is in Baddeck, Nova Scotia, Canada, where he lived from 1889 to 1922, you can now navigate your way through The Geek Atlas with a iPhone app.

Yep, Alexander Graham Bell might just roll over in his grave when your arrive with your Geek Atlas Companion app on your iPhone.

 

Geekiphone
 
 
Geekeuro

 

European destinations are well represented in the book, so if you're in England, stop at Oxford's Museum of History and Science with over 15,000 items collected since antiquity. Thankfully, no one there ever erased the blackboard displaying Einstein’s 1931 calculation showing the age of the universe based on its expansion.

All the Geek Atlas destinations are packed into this app, made available through the book's publisher, O'Reilly Media, Inc. and the app is available through iTunes.
 
The app's introductory price of $2.99 is good for a limited time only. Your travel adventures will last forever. 
 
 
 

 

 

 


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