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2008 January

Make Your Cell Phone Battery Last Longer

Mobile phones are only as portable as its power source. When it comes to battery life, there are two separate, but connected, considerations: how to make the battery last longer between charges, and how to prolong the overall life of the battery. Today I will cover both.
1. Turn the phone off: This [...]

Blackberry Tips

At work I get allot of calls from customer service reps that have questions about blackberry devices. Blackberrys are great for seamless email and form. Using its many other functions is sometimes intimidating for people. Here are a few tips to make these functions a little easier. This is specifically directed [...]

Things your cell phone can do that you may not know!

Today I thought I would post a few lesser known uses for your cell phone. These are things that are out there but not very many people know about them.
1. GOOGL: Send a text message to GOOGL (46645) with a search query, like “Chinese restaurants, Times Square” or “Weather 11215″ or “Define existential” [...]

WeGame

“Alphaxion” in the chat room mentioned this site earlier today and I thought I would check it out. Here is the You Tube Video he did on it as well.
It is a program that allows you to upload videos of your gaming. It is currently in public BETA and it looks like it [...]

Troubleshooting Voicemail

Another common issue I get at work is voice mail. This is usually a very easy call because voice mail is not hard to troubleshoot. Here are some ways to do it without calling customer service, please keep in mind that these are all AT&T specific. Other carriers may vary.
Symptom: When I [...]

Troubleshoot Text Messaging

Today at work the majority of my calls seemed to be trouble with text messaging, so I thought I would share some tips on troubleshooting the problem. Please keep in mind these tips are for providers that use GSM technology (Mobile phones that use a SIM card).
1. Power cycle your phone. This [...]

LED Faucet Light

I saw this and just had to post! LED faucet light is a device that screws onto you faucet and emits a light when the water is running. Blue for cold and when the water reaches 89 Degrees Fahrenheit, it changes to red. As well as being pretty darn cool, it serves [...]

Bluetooth Virtual Keyboard

Are you a texter? love to send SMS (Short Message Service) on your mobile phone? Tired of trying to type using the number pad on your phone? Well, Say no more squire! Enter the Bluetooth Laser Virtual Keyboard. With this nifty device, the keyboard is actually projected onto any hard [...]

Embedded 3G Laptops

As some of you know, I work for AT&T as a technical support rep.
Recently laptop computers, most notably Dell, has started integrating 3G data cards into their devices. Since that time I have begun thinking about how this will effect the consumer and what transitions they will have to make.
At first glance I thought [...]

Free Tax E-Filing and Preperation

We all know it’s here, some love tax time, some hate it. Me, I love it. I’ve always gotten a return so it’s almost like a savings account for me that i withdrawl at the end of the year.
For the past 3 years I have used TaxAct to do my taxes. This [...]

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