The BEST feature, however, is built into FilesAnywhere’s Android app. For those of us who deal with documents on the go, this app has a feature that can’t be beat: you can fax any machine in the world directly from your phone using your FilesAnywhere account.
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Facebook Apps Can Now Access Your Address & Mobile Number
Well, yet another questionable move by Facebook in terms of protecting user information and privacy. Certainly not a questionable move in terms of monetizing their platform and making it advertiser/corporate friendly, though. On January 14th Facebook released a new feature for application developers: “We are now making a user’s address and mobile phone number accessible.”
Read the rest of this entry »Diaspora – My Impressions Two Months In
I thought I’d give my impressions of the up and coming new social networking concept Diaspora, an open source peer-to-peer vision of social networking. Personally I’m much peeved by the fact that Facebook claims all rights to *everything* you upload – pictures, video, text, everything. Plus they obviously have no qualms about selling your personal [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Handy Android App: Google Voice Callback Free
Google Voice Callback is a spiffy little app from Xinlu I just discovered & installed. It nicely complements the existing official Google Voice app by providing a means to automatically use Google Voice for outbound calls only if the dialed number matches certain phone numbers, area codes, etc. While it’s probably more useful for those [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Swype Touchscreen Keyboard For Android
Swype has come up with the best touch text input concept I’ve ever come across – good enough to make me think I don’t need a physical keyboard anymore on my phone. And that’s saying something, as I’ve disliked touch keyboards since day one.
Read the rest of this entry »Signal Strength Drop – iPhone 4 vs Droid
Dealing with the iPhone 4 signal strength issue, Apple tactics including saying that all smartphones suffered signal loss on being held. A youtube video by Apple showing signal strength decreasing on a Motorola Droid when held in a certain way raises some questions about whether this is a legitimate comparison, or just plain ole spreading of Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt.
Read the rest of this entry »Making Google Voice Work After Moving To Canada
UPDATE: As of December 2011, this hack no longer works. Google no longer allows 403 area code numbers. So, I admit that I have been completely absorbed by the Googleplex. And… I kind of enjoy having a Google-centric life, actually. So when I moved to Canada and faced giving up my Google Voice, I cringed [...]
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