Archive for the ‘Tech’ Category

Skype Video Chat

Russellteee and I have partaken in a Skype video chat.  He shared his screen, and I said “Yeah”.

Google Voice Invites

I have three Google Voice invites to give out.
If any friends/relatives are interested please let me know and I will hook you up…

The Twitter Enigma

Love it or hate it, Twitter is really a pretty amazing thing.
I’ve been using twitter for a little over a year now, and I’ve gone through phases ranging from daily use to weeks without tweets. Overall, I’m a fan and I think it’s a “cool” technology.
Granted you’re always going to have the [...]

The Best Buy $9.99 TV Saga

Today has been inexplicably one of the strangest most random days of all time.
I can think of nothing else to do than to simply run down the course of events in a detailed ordered list fashion as seen below:

I receive a phone call at approximately 5:20 AM, which wakes me up with a “something must [...]

Google Voice Voicemail Transcription

I have just recently enabled the “transcription” capability on my Google Voice account. Transcription allows Google Voice to create a text output of the voicemail and email it to me. Judging by the voicemail you will read below, my brother has likely sustained a serious head injury… OR – Google Voice speech [...]

Google Voice – Two Weeks In

Thought I’d quick post a few thoughts now that I’ve been using Google Voice for a couple weeks and have had a chance to get my hands dirty.
The basic functionality alone makes Google Voice totally worth using. Being able to have 1 number to give to friends, family, or co-workers and have that single [...]

Google Voice and Skype – Cheap Awesome Home VoIP Phone Service

For about 3 years, I’ve lived totally without a “Land line” phone and used only a mobile phone.
At the same time, carrying two cell phones around was always a pain so I decided to cancel my “personal” cell phone and use only my employer provided blackberry. I recently got lucky enough (after weeks and [...]

Xmarks

Ever since Google Browser Sync was ceased; I’ve been looking for a better way to have a unified browser experience.
I have 4 different computers at home, and three different computers at work. Sometimes I use Internet Explorer, sometimes Firefox, sometimes Firefox in Linux.
With all these computers and all these browsers, keeping my bookmarks synced [...]