Posts Tagged ‘google’

product review: misc blackberry apps

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

i <3 my blackberry… it’s just like a computer.. i dunno why i haven’t gone the smartphone route till now…

tho the fact that it’s like a computer is kinda deadly for me — i tinker with it a ton… whether it’s changing settings or installing random apps…

i had a ton of issues in the beginning, especially when i would do a restart (quickpull) — the phone would just essentially do a BSOD

i finally figured out what was wrong — basically, the data i was restoring from wasn’t reliable… so now i know what to do if my phone dies (so i got that going for me…)

so yea, here’s a list of my favorite apps i have currently on my phone:

  • ubertwitter: by far, the best twitter client on the bberry. it loads quick and it has easy to remember hotkeys. i tried twixtreme (which sounds more like a candy than a twitter client), but it didn’t work too well for me — it’s pretty tho… but i’ll stick with uber!
  • scoremobile: i used to just go to espn mobile on the browser, but that isn’t the best… takes a long time to load and doesn’t always refresh. so i tried this out and it’s pretty good so far. really fast loading and has almost any sport you would care about. it can run in the background and refreshes too! one of the cool features is that you can mark a team as a favorite, which will have it display at the top of the list on the scoreboard
  • itookthisonmyphone: i’m all about backing important files up — like pictures.  so this app will AUTOMAGICALLY upload your photo to a secure site — you can set the pics to go to a public or private folder. you might be thinking, “but i have a microSD card” — yea… so did andy… ouch…
  • drivesafe.ly: this is more of a fun app, but can be pretty useful. it will read your incoming text messages out loud. i wrote a post previously about the fun times you can have with this…
  • bigtincan mapper: this is a cool gps type app that can give you your longitude/latitude position, which can come in handy. it can also track your routes

so those are the not-so mainstream apps out there that you might wanna give a try… i also have these more popular apps: google talk (awesome since talk got blocked at work), gmail, facebook, google sync (syncs with my google calendar!), pandora, and weathereye (shows an icon of the current weather)

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the google will take over the world

Friday, March 20th, 2009

sweet… i FINALLY got the go-ahead from grandcentral to upgrade my account to googlevoice! been waiting on this for a while now.

858.225.7413

858.225.7413

did some quick tests and so far, it’s pretty nifty — it doesn’t replace any phones you have (for now…), it’s more of an add-on:

  • ability to link multiple phone numbers — it’s the only number you’ll need to remember
    • neat — you can transfer calls from saved number to another
  • sending a call to voicemail and being able to hear the person as they leave the voicemail — then you can actually pick it up at that point (listenin)
  • recording incoming phone calls (all stored online)
  • sickest feature: if someone leaves a voicemail, it’ll store that online AND also transcribe it for you — oh and you’ll get a text with that transcribed message too
    • on a side note, i absolutely hate it when people leave a 2 second voicemail like “hey give me a call back” — ummm… you coulda texted that to me or i woulda noticed that you called anyway

but i digress…

overall, it’s a slick service! i’m gonna be using mainly for the biz — so i can keep track of client calls and also record them if the client gets outta hand… ha

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this is what you get when you mess with us

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

you know what’s weird? i bought this new domain name on sunday and i just happened to check google last night and bam — i’m already in google (2 days!)

the cool part was that the budweiser post was already spidered that night — very sneaky google…

so far there’s one bug with the new site — and it’s pretty big… in firefox, forms can’t be filled in unless you first right click in them. stupidly enough, IE works fine –

sarmad: I guess that goes against your “what? really? bullshit… use firefox and it’ll be fine”  canned-response

it’s bad karma i guess (oh.. that’s why you wrote that title for this post — you’re clever, joey!)

chaunce suggested that the scripts that i’m using might be the culprit… so i gotta get my troubleshooting hat on (it’s at home, btw) and try that out…

** quick note on chaunce’s site, he’s got some sik ringtones for iphones and regular phones alike:

so with google checking out my site, hopefully more people will read my reviews — or they’ll read about a guy whose liver failed when trying to accomplish some lame ’50 beer goal’

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