THE GOOD NEWS Well, “long ago” I pieced together some instructions to get your Google Voice working in Gmail, but now with the new Hangouts Dialer integration, this just got a lot easier. From your PC… you can hit http://www.google.com/hangouts/ and grab the plugin for your browser. From your mobile device, you can go to the […]
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The Short Version If you like Droid, and you like a nice big screen backed by a powerful processor, this phone will not disappoint you. AT&T’s Network This phone can’t fix their network. But it is not the device, from what I can tell, because this is my third ATT phone and the symptoms of dropping
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Well, let’s start by saying this mouse is interesting. It was something new and different, from the design to the touch-factor. The results? As an innovative product idea, it was impressive, but as a day-to-day piece of gear it’s definitely not ready for prime time. PROs It looks cool Don’t have 2 batteries, that’s OK
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That’s a fairly broad and sweeping judgment, of course, but I contend, even based on my personally limited sample set, that it is true!! Let’s take some examples… I have a phone that can measure how far I walk, it can monitor my eyes and scroll the screen when my eyes hit the bottom of
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I just recently found out that Astrid has been acquired by Yahoo! and from what I can tell, it looks like it is going the route of Gizmo 5. Remember Gizmo 5? Yeah, so anyway, maybe they will let Astrid coexist, but from what I can tell they already have a Get It Done application
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Today, most folks are members of over 20 websites, and at work folks have 20+ applications that may or may not be single sign-on, and then some websites/apps ask us to change our password every so often… finally, with the push for “strong passwords” and not using the same password for EVERYTHING, how is a
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For the past year or so, my Thunderbird client has been acting weird – it keeps not being able to install an update of some kind. Combine that with a general curiosity to see what was out there in the free realm, and I ended up spotting this handy list from Wikipedia. I decided, after
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Well, howdy. If you are like me, you went scrubbing the internet looking for ways to speed up GoAnimate. When I searched there wasn’t much out there…so hence this post. Usual Disclaimer: There’s lots of factors involved in setting up a workable environment for any application, I am just sharing what worked for me and
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So, I saw this article on prepping a USB drive, and then prepping the Acer to boot from USB. That was a cool post, but in my case the netbook hard drive was dead. So what I wanted to do was prep the new hard drive prior to installing it in the netbook. This method
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FB2 Electric Boogaloo Odd… there have been several other posts I’ve contemplated, but I finally get around to typing something and it is about Facebook again. Again? Isn’t there something beyond Facebook? Hmm, ironically, that is why this post came about. Social Network Blues I pulled out of several networks. Let’s face it, maintaining a
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