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Written By: James Rintamaki on June 25, 2009 No Comment
What is Google Voice, now that they’re fulfilling invites?

What is Google Voice? Now that they’re starting to fulfill invites, many people may not quite know what it is — read more to find out!

Written By: James Rintamaki on March 21, 2008 No Comment

A couple years ago, I posted how to fix your Dell XPS m1210 keyboard if it had a bulge in the keyboard.  A few months after that, I changed webhosts and managed to loose all the pictures, and today when searching through www.archive.org, I was able to find the thumbnails of all those pictures! [...]

Written By: James Rintamaki on March 21, 2008 No Comment

Today, www.giveawayoftheday.com is making available Evernote Beta for free!  Check it while you can — Of special note, one feature I think is great is it’s ability to index any notes you take (copy stuff from the web, take digital pictures of rebates/business cards/etc) and it can make any text in those images (even [...]

Written By: James Rintamaki on March 6, 2008 No Comment

Finally, a FREE and working desktop app to sync your outlook calendar with your google calendar!  This is especially great news for windows mobile users (among any other applications that use an outlook calendar) cause now both gcal and outlook can sync up with your pda/phones!  Now, if only there is a way to [...]

Written By: James Rintamaki on January 9, 2008 3 Comments
WMWifiRouter, turn your wifi smartphone into a router

Just saw this posted on lifehacker, tried it out, and had to spread the word!  This freeware smartphone app will turn your wifi enabled smartphone into a wifi router (ad-hoc, aka: computer-to-computer) — in other words, you can take your windows mobile phone, and if you have a data plan and wifi, you can have [...]

Written By: James Rintamaki on December 1, 2007 No Comment

While I can’t remember where I was  when I saw this (… was it the airport?), it definitely caught my eye.  More and more often I see devices that are traditionally coin operated ‘upgraded’ to accept credit cards, and for what ever reason, I had to take a picture of this! 
I remember seeing [...]

Written By: James Rintamaki on November 29, 2007 No Comment

 
As many sites have posted, google maps just recently released their new version (2.0.0) which now does location tracking based off cell phone towers!  It’s not quite as accurate as a GPS based location, but as you can see from the pictures above, it’s pretty close! 
Find out more information about Google Maps [...]

Written By: James Rintamaki on November 16, 2007 No Comment

Starting November 21st (through December 20th), buy a new Xbox 360, and get a free copy of Halo 3 in your mail box!
Here’s How to Get Your Halo 3 Game

Buy an Xbox 360 console by December 21.
Connect to Xbox LIVE.
Register HERE with promotional code XBX7777, your new console serial number, and a valid mailing [...]

Written By: James Rintamaki on November 1, 2007 10 Comments

I can’t express how excited I am over LogMeIn’s release of Hamachi for Windows Mobile (download it here) — though it may have been out for a while, but I just found out today!  This opens so many doors for connecting your pda/phone to your hamachi network. 
for those who don’t know, hamachi is [...]

Written By: James Rintamaki on October 31, 2007 2 Comments

(image from mdhenly5)
Ah, finally, att / htc has released the windows mobile 6 rom for the cingular 8525!
Download link from HTC:  http://www.america.htc.com/support/8525/software-downloads.html Direct link to the rom:  http://download.america.htc.com/RUU_… Discussions about the rom over at xda-developers.com:  http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=340987
I have yet to install it myself, (yay [...]

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