I use the HTC Touch Pro from Sprint to scan business cards directly to my contacts, or exchange server.  The Application called WorldCard Mobile comes preinstalled on this Windows Mobile 6.5 device. 
This phone also has accelerometers for tilt and rotation detection, making it fun for gaming.  GPS with voice for turn by turn directions [...]

Filed under : Reviews

Didiom.com’s all in one application allows you to stream music from your PC to your Window’s Mobile Phone wirelessly, for free.  You can use your own library or choose songs from the Didiom Marketplace which contains over 1million songs.
Didiom.com is Zumo Drive For Free, for Windows Mobile as it were.

With Didiom, you can use your [...]

Filed under : Product Reviews

The measure of your network is not how many people are in it, but rather how many people would take your call at 3 am from your Jail Cell in Mexico.
Much like Blogging, it’s not who you read, its who Reads you, or the Cliche “its not who you know, its who knows you.”  Mark [...]

Filed under : Success

It seems that 25% of girls ages 16 to 18 have sent a sexy photo to someone.  33% of boys have received a sexy photo intended for someone else.  Sexting is all the rage in High Schools, and with teen starlets.
Miley Cyrus has had her iPhone hacked and all sorts of her wet t-shirt snaps [...]

Filed under : Risque

Getting the most out of Google Adsense doesn’t involve anything dirty or deceptive.  It involves implementing Adsense the way Google intended.  These “hacks” will help you get the most money out of your content, and will do so with in the TOS of Adsense.
Google Adsense Hack #1:  Write Good Content
This would seem like a no-brainer [...]

Filed under : Money, Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Circuit City Black Friday Ads, Sales, and Door Buster Specials are going to be big this year with them going out of business.  Their already low prices are even lower.  Definitely worth starting your day there.
Automotive Cobra 9-Band Radar Detector $29.99   Motorola Bluetooth Speakerphone / iPod Adapter $74.99   Computer Related CA Internet [...]

Filed under : 2009 Black Friday Ads, Sales, and Door Buster Specials

5 Ways Your Gadgets Will Betray Your Privacy is just the beginning Stacey.  I have seriously considered just showing up EVERY where Scoble twitters he is going, just to prove why I his experience and everyone else's with the product are not the same.
But back to Stacey and her gadgets.  If you play much with [...]

Filed under : Industry News

Google is introducing a Web site tool called Friend Connect today that promises to extend the reach of social networks such as Facebook to any site that wants to use the tool.
That's right, now when I Google your name instead of getting your Linked in Page I'm going to see that your secretary bought you [...]

Filed under : Industry News, Rants and Tangents, Technical

Sony is now offering the Dual Shock 3 controller for $55, it has compatibility with a few games like High Velocity Bowling now, and will have compatibility with "real" games like Rainbow Six Vegas 2 in the coming months.
Formula One Championship Edition*MotorStorm™*PAINHigh Velocity Bowling™MLB®08: The Show™Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune™Resistance: Fall of Man®*Ratchet & Clank®Future: Tools of [...]

Filed under : Gaming

Unsatisfied with the Omni-Directional Antenna that came with my Digital Antenna (DA4KSBR-50M) 70dB Cell Phone Repeater Kit, I decided to improve the system with a Wilson Cellular PCS Yagi (1850MHz-1990MHz) Cell Phone Antenna.  While that helped my mountain living situation, it didn't get me where I wanted to be so I "improved" it. with a [...]

Filed under : How To

Vinson Filyaw former construction worker convicted of kidnapping and raping a 14-year-old Lugoff, South Carolina girl, holding her captive in an underground bunker. This bunker had been constructed in order to elude police who were seeking to arrest Filyaw on an unrelated rape charge. Filyaw's girlfriend was also arrested on charges of aiding and abetting [...]

Filed under : Random News

SAN FRANCISCO (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) March 3, 2008 — Today Zannel (zannel.com) announced that it is launching an open API (www.zannel.com/developers) that will allow developers to leverage the power and functionality of Zannel’s Instant Media Messaging™ (IMM) platform to create media-rich mobile applications, widgets and mashups. With access to the IMM™ platform, developers can [...]

Filed under : Site Reviews

Video of a Strange "Alien Fish" has hit the web after Village residents from the Rostov region of Russia caught a weird creature two weeks ago after a strong storm in the Sea of Azov. The shark-looking creature was producing strange squeaky sounds. The fishermen originally believed that they had caught an alien and decided [...]

Filed under : Videos

CES is beginning to look a little Green. Let me start by introducing you to www.Solio.com. In short this Berkeley, CA and London based company has created – "Solio™, the Universal (Solar Power) "Hybrid" Charger is powerful enough to charge all of your handheld electronic products at home or on the move, anywhere under the [...]

Filed under : Reviews

Vivica Fox was recorded by a "special friend" with out her knowledge. When word that the sex tape existed got out, Vivica did what any sane girl would do.  She called the police.  You'd think that if you were lucky enough to get a night with Vivica, you'd not be dumb enough to e-mail the [...]

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Vivica Fox was recorded by a "special friend" with out her knowledge. When word that the sex tape existed got out, Vivica did what any sane girl would do.  She called the police.  You'd think that if you were lucky enough to get a night with Vivica, you'd not be dumb enough to e-mail the [...]

Filed under : Celebrity News

My core readers may have noticed that I have been doing a lot of work with Google Trends lately.  But Man555.com has done something reasonably impressive.  They "hacked" their way on to Google Trends using SMS Messages.  Sending 100's of thousands of text messages to cell phone users, and using a trojan to access e-mail [...]

Filed under : Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

KodakOffer.com and KodakOrderNow are selling the Kodak EasyShare 5300 for $179.95. This is a great printer for schools, business, and families who do a lot of printing.  While this printer is about $30 more than an All in one Printer with comparable features from HP, the Kodak Easy Share 5300 will save a typical user about [...]

Filed under : Reviews

Welcome to the future of instant messaging. AIM 6.5 lets you update your status, change the color of your Buddy List® window, play games with your buddies with QQ Games and so much more.
Installing AIM 6.5 overwrites any AIM 6 software that you might have on your machine. However, you can still use AIM 5.9, [...]

Filed under : Industry News

New UK-based MVNO Blyk launched today, targeting the 16- to 24-year-old demographic with an invitation-only service — which happens to be free.
Users get a free account with a limit of 217 texts and 43 minutes per month in return for viewing content from advertisers: a minimum of six ads per day.
"Buena Vista, Coca-Cola, I-play Mobile [...]

Filed under : Industry News

I have been using a service from Callwave for a few weeks now.
It provides a replacement voicemail system for my mobile cell phone with a range of really useful services.

It has a Windows Vista Sidebar gadget that hooks up to your voicemail and lets you listen right from your desktop.

Plus, it has a [...]

Filed under : Industry News

Deutsche Telekom's mobile phone division, T-Mobile, will sell Apple's iPhone in Germany for 399 euros ($558) each, the companies said, but kept silent on details of the deal. Full Story

Filed under : Industry News

Deutsche Telekom's mobile phone division, T-Mobile, will sell Apple's iPhone in Germany for 399 euros ($558) each, the companies said, but kept silent on details of the deal. Full Story

Filed under : Industry News

Call it Second Life on the web, call it an MMO markup language, call it the most powerful open-standards, web-driven game platform ever made public — however you end up describing it, we finally have the main details to go on. After a year of rumors and terse venture funding announcements around Raph Koster’s new [...]

Filed under : Industry News

Internet TV and Media Center’s and WebGuide were released for Media Center today.
Both services will be available free of charge to Media Center owners. “It’s a good example of how the Media Center platform keeps evolving,” says Scott Evans, group manager in the Entertainment and Devices eHome Division at Microsoft. “It adds value for [...]

Filed under : Industry News

Any good Racing Simulation (Gran Turismo, Forza, Dirt, Colin McRae Rally, Test Drive Unlimited) follows certain driving rules which if you learn will make you better if you like to play driving games.
Get Forza2 Specific tips here.
Seating:
Posture is important when playing games, especially if you are going to play for hours, or do well in [...]

Filed under : Gaming

The first casualty in the newly named "Iris" marketing campaign for Microsoft's HALO 3 is a college student from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Michael VanderZand, a marketing and advertising major at Grand Rapids Community College, has received hundreds of phone calls and text messages on his cell phone since the "alternate reality game" began due to [...]

Filed under : Gaming

PS3 is wasting energy folding, and 360 is conserving energy with new Download and turn off settings.
 
Windows Live Messenger Comes to Xbox LIVE, Uniting Friends and Families on the TV, PC and Mobile Phone

Starting tomorrow more than 6 million members of Xbox LIVE can instant message with people on PCs and [...]

Filed under : Gaming

At an event this week I managed to snap a shot with my cell phone (I will likely not get invited again…)of the soon to be announced White PS3.  Jokingly called the "Brute" by the guys in the Sony booth, officially "Gloss White" , this is Sony's answer to the Xbox Elite, this new version of the PS3 sports a [...]

Filed under : Gaming

Comcast is imposing limits on its higher bandwidth users…  I am Seriously concerned I will get a notice.  You see I gave up "live" TV, and have been getting all of my TV via Amazon, Xbox Live Market Place, and other various online place.  No P2P, this has all been legit.  This has partly been [...]

Filed under : Technical

“The result of extended dialogue with the mobile industry,” PlayReady offers PlaysForSure DRM for mobile phones.  This is not to be confused with Zune DRM which at least today will not work on a mobile phone.  PacketVideo vowed to be the first company to implement this content access technology.
PlayReady will be a licensable technology allowing [...]

Filed under : Technical

I got it all hooked up, was playing, and the stewardess comes over to tell me the controllers are wireless and I have to stop….
 2 I-suns, a power inverter, a Personal DVD player, and I'm playing Xbox 360 In first class.  12 year old next to me thinks he won the lotto. 
The 767 I [...]

Filed under : Gaming, Goofing Off, Hard on the Pocket Book, Technical

I have a friend who is trying to do the right thing and be a good mom, giving her 12 year old daughter a Cell phone, but also doing the creepy mom thing by using the Disney service that includes Tracking your kid.  This worries me.  The problem is that while knowing that her daughter [...]

Filed under : Rants and Tangents