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Revenge is Sweet - But a Prank is Better!

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:38:15 GMT

clipped by: handleriii
clipper's remarks: There is a new service "out there" that allows you to send a "TEXT BOMB" - meaning 1,000 text messages every 10 minutes with the message of your choice...like ""Just 9999 reminders that SIZE DOES MATTER!"

I think it is geared towards disgruntled employees and jilted lovers, but hey, if your cheating spouse has a cell phone...or her boy/girl friend?

""Only 9999 more reminders that Valtrex is on Blue Light Special!"

I could not figure out if you have to pay for this text - bombing experience. It appears to be free. ..and legal.

Clip Source: www.textbombpro.com

www.TextBombPro.com

You pick the text message you want to have delivered. Every 6 minutes a new text message is sent. Most will count down from 9,999. The person getting the text messages won't know how many text messages they will be getting. So for 10 text messages over an hour they will know they are about to get 9,999 more text messages. Because the service is free and I'm not dumb enough to give this type of power to EVERYBODY, I have decided on the limit of 10 text messages. Also you will need to return after the current TextBomb has completed before you can start a new one on the same person. Happy bombing, and make sure you don't make the mistake of ending up on the recieving end of this service. Don't be a Jack-Ass!!!!

Clip Source: www.textbombpro.com

Pick a Message to Send

"Only 9999 more reminders that you are a Loser!"

"Reminder 9999 that you actually Cheated on me with that Nasty Skank!"

"9999 Your test results are back and you are POSITIVE"

"Just 9999 reminders that SIZE DOES MATTER!"

Tags: text bomb, revenge, cellphone, prank

Cellblock

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:34:09 GMT

clipped by: lutzland

Clip Source: www.cellblock.com

Using a cellphone or email, send pictures & videos to aizfuq@cellblock.com.
Watch below as they appear in seconds.

Missing Mother - Lucely "Lilly" Aramburo

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:18:42 GMT

clipped by: yogini
clipper's remarks: 23 y/o Lilly Aramburo vanished 6/1/07 from Miami, FL. http://justiceinmiami.blogspot.com/

Clip Source: mymilkcarton.org

MISSING: Lucely "Lilly" Aramburo

Lilly was last seen at her boyfriend's condo in Miami, FL. They had an argument and according to him, she left at 2am in pajamas, without a cellphone or purse and 2 bungee cords, This info has not been verified. Lilly has been missing ever since.

Tags: lilly aramburo, lucely aramburo, missing person

Evernote

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:38:36 GMT

clipped by: TechVirUs

Clip Source: lifehacker.com

Expand Your Brain with Evernote

A new school year is just around the corner, but this semester you're looking for a safer way to enhance your brainpower than getting all hopped up on caffeine pills Jessie Spano-style. This year, the robust note-taking software Evernote is your answer. Let's take a look at how you can use your computer, cellphone, and digital camera in conjunction with the free, cross-platform application Evernote to remember everything for the rest of your life—or at least until the end of the semester. More »

Verizon's Cheat Sheet For Battling AT&T, iPhone

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:39:56 GMT

clipped by: Elizabeth Woyke
clipper's remarks: Oops! Verizon obviously didn't plan for this flyer--essentially a list of anti-iPhone talking points for its employees--to become public. While the specifics are interesting--there are a lot of exclamatory points!--it's not surprising that the company drew up such a list. I'm sure plenty of consumers walk into Verizon stores inquiring about the iPhone. It's sound business to prepare your employees for such conversations.

Clip Source: gizmodo.com

Oh, deary deary me... Verizon's tactics to combat the JesusPhone 3G now include briefing its employees about the iPhone's failings, so they can answer customer questions about why it doesn't carry the device. There are four big "myths" about the cellphone apparently, ranging from "twice as fast" to "iPhone data plan covers all data," there's even a dig about the lack of audible turn-by-turn GPS navigation. Hasn't Verizon worked out that that's just an app, and is a facility that may yet be added in the future?

My fave "mythbusting" point has to be that the iPhone 3G "will be twice as fast only where AT&T has 3G coverage!" No shit... like, you can only run trains on train tracks? OK, so it's really a dig at AT&T's 3G coverage, but you get my point.

This has apparently been distributed within Verizon, and though there's the possibility that it's not quite legit, it certainly seems the real deal to me.

Tags: verizon, at&t, iphone, apple

iBasket Laundry Concept is Clothes Hamper, Washer For The Lazy

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:12:10 GMT

clipped by: FidoDido78

Clip Source: gizmodo.com

Like most New Yorkers, my building has no laundry facilities of its own and, in order to get clean clothes, I have to summon the willpower to drag my brimming bag three blocks. Oh, if only I had this automated washing machine basket instead. Designed by Guopeng Liang and one of the finalists in Electrolux's Design Lab '08 contest, the iBasket is a space saving clothes hamper and washing machine in one.

The device sports an all clear body and is programmed to begin the wash cycle once your clothes pile up to a certain weight. After giving your unmentionables a good rinse down, it sends a message to your PC or cellphone via its integrated wi-fi. Other than the annoyingly unimaginative name (trust me, iAm as iSick of iThis and iThat as you guys are), this gadget idea seems pretty golden. [Born Rich]

This made me smile

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 11:38:32 GMT

clipped by: wiredwytch
clipper's remarks:
Somehow I have been neglecting blogs that turn out to be totally worth reading over the last week... First: Neil Gaiman is in China and therefore the - hilarious - Web Goblin took over his blog. Read this post (http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/08/how-well-do-we-use-our-freedom-to.html), and laugh out loud.

The following part really made my morning:

Clip Source: journal.neilgaiman.com

Mr. G sends the following from his cellphone:

In Taipei airport there were toilets for men, women, enormous telephones, daleks and people feeding giant venus flytraps.

Tags: mr g, funny

Giant Problems

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:38:53 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: "We discussed what might have made her life better. If every time strangers spotted her, they focused on how they identified with her, perhaps her Indiana drawl, her Pacers hat, her jewelry (Allen loved jewelry, the only mainstream women’s apparel she could fit into), things would have been different.

No stares, no questions, no cellphone cameras. No hiding inside a nursing home, no abandonment. She would have loved that, I think. She would have been madly popular. "

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

SANDY Allen: superhero. That is how I perceived the world’s tallest woman, 7 feet 7 1/4 inches, from my vantage point as the tallest little girl in Delmar, N.Y. Ms. Allen, who died last week at the age of 53, appeared invincible in her photograph in the Guinness Book of World Records.

But when I drove to Shelbyville, Ind., last year to interview her, I found her alone in a claustrophobic convalescence-home room, made smaller by her 8-foot-long bed. She lived down the road from her childhood home, on $54 a month in discretionary income.

She greeted me with a hug and a joke: “If you ever want the ceiling painted, put a hat on my head and tell me which way to walk.

But she tried not to give into bouts of depression, which are shared by other giants, who live in isolation and poverty.

“I try to be friendly with everyone I meet,” she told me last year. “Some make it tougher than others

The decency was rarely returned to her

Digital Camera Forces You to Recycle By Witholding Your Photos

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:52:50 GMT

clipped by: JackieDel
clipper's remarks: What a good idea!

Clip Source: gizmodo.com

Digital Camera Forces You to Recycle By Witholding Your Photos

The Eco Digi Mode camera is a 3-megapixel digital camera that you have to send in to get the images "developed", and the lab sends you back a ~~wallet of photos and the developed film~~ CD of the photos. "Um... what?" you may be now thinking... but that's exactly the design, even though it sounds like the disposable cameras of yesterdecade. The lab either wipes the cam and resells it, or breaks it down for parts—the 2.4-inch screen could go into a cellphone, for example. They're cheap, at around $12 in Japan, and the waterproof version could be fun, and I can see the sense in forcing you to recycle, since it's better than tossing a disused camera in the trash. But it's so bizarre a concept it's difficult to understand without a good long think.

Tags: cameras, photography, recycling

LG KG290 Rhino Cell Phone & Accessories

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:19:58 GMT

clipped by: lixjannet

Clip Source: jaxboo.com

LG KG290 Rhino Cell Phone & Accessories

The LG KG290 Rhino mobile phone with a 262,000 colour screen, ideal for playing Java games, can send images and sounds. With downloadable ringtones, you are given a wide variety of favourite songs to set as your ring tone.

Tags: lg, kg290, cell phone, cellphone, cell phones

Yahoo's Fire Eagle shares your location with friends online

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:07:03 GMT

clipped by: A53GG4

Clip Source: www.usatoday.com

Yahoo's Fire Eagle shares your location with friends online

Posted 19h 51m ago | Comments2 | Recommend

By Rachel Metz, AP Business Writer

NEW YORK — Yahoo is riding the wave of location-based services with the launch of a service intended to help users share their real-world location with their friends online.

Yahoo made Fire Eagle available to the public this week. Previously, the service had been available in a private "beta" test since March.

YAHOO: Information on Fire Eagle

After signing up with a Yahoo ID, users can update their physical locations through Fire Eagle's website or from a cellphone with Fire Eagle's mobile site. They can then let the service interact with a variety of desktop, Web-based and mobile applications to let people know where they are. Early participants include Dopplr, a site for sharing travel plans, and Pownce, a site for sending messages and files.

"Location is an extra thing that can transform every site on the Web," he said.

Tags: internet

Polo Ralph Lauren Brings Mobile Shopping to the US (finally).

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:40:52 GMT

clipped by: pitim

Clip Source: myitthings.com

With mobile shopping it's not about how fast you can look through the racks and how early you can get to Target for another celebrity designer sale. It's is about getting the latest cellphone (with web browser capabilities), downloading the right software (QR Reader) to read those pixelated bar codes that you can scan with a mobile phone, and training your fingers for a quick browsing between the latest items. In fact it's so new and sophisticated that Polo Ralph Lauren, the very first luxury retail brand to launch the mobile shopping site in the US, had to include FAQs section on its homepage. For me - I need perhaps an educational video to really get it.

The QR code, a two-dimensional symbol that holds a large volume of information including URLs, when detected by the phone’s reader software will automatically connect the mobile user to a specified internet portal, by holding the mobile device over the given symbol or photographing it.

Jacks: The Future of Journalism

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:31:26 GMT

clipped by: Brian Wingfield
clipper's remarks: Call 'em what you will: one man bands, SoJo's (for solo journalists) or journalism jacks (of all trades), this is likely a large part of the future of reporting, especially in far-flung corners of the world.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

CNN announced on Tuesday that it would assign journalists to 10 cities across the United States, a move that would double the number of domestic cities where the cable news network has outposts.

But in a reflection of the way television networks are reinventing the way they gather news, the journalists will not work from expensive bureaus — rather, they will borrow office space from local news organizations and use laptops to file articles for the Internet and TV. When news happens, they will use Internet connections and cellphone cameras to report live.

Tags: journalism, cnn

Using a cell phone to stop car theft

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:37:15 GMT

clipped by: Fast T friend
clipper's remarks: The young inventor is looking for funding to bring it to market.

Clip Source: www.crunchgear.com

Forget cell phones that can play music, take pictures and occasionally make a call, this cell phone system controls your car. It can thwart a car theft by stopping the car in its tracks.

The Block & Track anti-theft system was invented by 18-year-old Morris Mbetsa. The self-taught Kenyan inventor created the system that uses a combination of voice, DTMF and SMS text messages to issue commands to your car’s electrical system

If someone starts your car, the system will send a message to your cell phone. At that point a message can be relayed to the car, issuing a command to shut down while automatically notifying the police. For the finishing touch, a listening device can even be activated to record the sounds in the car.

Way cool. Now just add some dye in an exploding steering wheel so the would-be thieves get marked up à la would-be bank robbers and we just might have something here.

Tags: car, security, theft, cellphone, invention

10 Awesome Tools That'll Make You A Twitter User Expert!

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 04:19:50 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: 7. Twitterfone
Twitterfone is a nifty tool which let's you post messages to your twitter account using your voice. It translates your voice into text and posts them. You can use it when you don't feel like using your cellphone's keypad to tweet.

8. Twittercal
Twittercal, as it says, connects your Twitter account to your Google Calendar account and let's you easily add events from twitter.

9. Quotably
Quotably let's you view the twitter conversations as a discussion thread and also allows you to reply to them and participate in the discussion. This can be very useful if you are looking to follow a particular discussion.

10. Timer
Last but not the least, Timer does a very simple but extremely useful thing. It uses twitter to remind you about a task at the time specified so that you don't forget to accomplish it.

I hope you'll find all or some of these tools useful as a twitter user. You could also follow me on twitter.

Clip Source: www.dumblittleman.com

Before you read this, I would like to mention that this is not a comprehensive list of all twitter tools (there are hundreds of them) but these are the ones which I found very useful and thought would be good to share. And yes, these are some of the very few twitter apps which actually make sense!

Desktop apps

Twitrefresh

Firefox extensions
If you are one of those who don't like to leave their browser when they are online, then there are some cool firefox extensions like Twitterfox and Twitbin which work like the desktop apps helping you to update and use twitter from right inside the browser.

TwitterSnooze

Twitterfeed
Twitterfeed is a must use app if you're a blogger and use twitter. It retrieves the RSS feed of the blog and updates the twitter status when you publish a new post on the blog. This could be an additional source of traffic for your blog.

Summize

Here is an article which delves further into some nice tools to search twitter

Note: This tool worked so well, Twitter just bought it.

Tags: twitter, desktop apps, firefox extensions, blogger, rss feed