Jon • 31st Jan 2012 • Geek, WWW • cloud storage, Dropbox Review, free online storage, online backup, share files online, store documents online, sync my files
Dropbox is a free online storage website where you can store all your files, and folders to be accessed by multiple computers. You are also able to access files on mobile devices. You can share folders with other dropbox users.. this is a perfect solution for family members that may not have very much networking experience. The files are synced automatically to all devices so you don’t have to worry about figuring out your network settings. My family personally uses dropbox and I also use it for work. You start off with 2GB of FREE storage with options to upgrade to 50GB, 100GB, or 1000 GB with their new teams plan
Click on my link below and receive an additional 250mb when signing up for dropbox.
Signup for FREE 2GB of online storage and share files online today @ Dropbox.com
Jon • 9th Jul 2011 • WWW • getting paid for youtube, how to make views on youtube, vagex, vagex review
make money browsing youtube videos, you don’t even have to be at your computer really. they have a firefox plugin that runs the viewer.. or you can download their standalone program that auto loads the videos to view and auto likes, subscribes, favorites the videos if you want to gain some extra credits.
I let this run on 2 computers all day as it doesn’t use much resources at all.. so why not if i can make a little bit of extra cash?
if you market on youtube instead of cashing in your credits you can also use your credits to go towards views, favorites, likes, and subscribes for your videos and youtube channel. either way it’s a pretty sweet system to gain popularity on youtube or make a little bit of extra money.
Here’s a proof payment of getting paid by vagex.
if you refer your friends to use the site as well you make 10% of the credits they earn. so join through me and get to refering your friends.
click here to join vagex, and make some spare change.
everything is explained in their FAQ after joining.. if you have questions still you can ask me in the comments but it’s pretty much all explained.
Jon • 24th May 2011 • Geek, Mobile • google voice, google voice transcription, voice transcribe, voicemail
Google Voice Transcribe is a pretty cool feature for Google Voice that acts as a voicemail transcription service. When people leave you a voice mail it transcripts it to text and has the capabilities to email or text you the transcription. unfortunately.. it’s far from perfect. For me at least.. it seems to only work halfway decent for female voice messages. Then again.. I do live in Kentucky. I guess until Google decides to hire a hillbilly for their text2speech technology this is a pretty useless capability for me.
here’s a few highlights of the voicemails I’ve received:
5/24/11 5:37 PM 2 hours ago
Hi Robin, with parrot alright measure my mother. Hello. Bye.
5/23/11 1:53 PM 30 hours ago
Hey Joshua, college just wanna make sure that you’re such a critical hired hall. I just don’t you try to call, so there’s a problem.
5/22/11 2:41 PM 2 days ago
And I guess. Okay, that there’s Russian check with you see if you’re here. Good Afternoon, Your case you wanna share this with area. What to do a dinner too. General So I just get back, get back with me 473 or Well, we will
here’s a site/tumblr dedicated to funny gvoice transcripts: http://www.gvtranscribe.com/
here’s what it’s suppose to do according to google:
Jon • 9th May 2011 • Mobile • android, android 2.2, froyo, intercept, samsung intercept, virgin mobile
I switched to virgin mobile about 6 months ago from straight talk since they had a much better phone selection and plans. Straight Talk does have unlimited “data” as well.. but I put quotes around “data” because even though it’s unlimited they restrict anything and everything. You can only browse a select amount of sites that they allow you too.. and half the times the ones that weren’t blacklisted by them didn’t even load either. (IE: Facebook). I could complain about Straight talk for a couple 20 paragraphs but back to the point of my post.
I ended up getting the Samsung Intercept and the phone itself was pretty buggy on 2.1 eclair.. but they promised there would be an update to 2.2 froyo at some point in the future. I believe Sprint released 2.2 for the intercept in November but don’t hold me on that.. it was in 2010 though. VM finally started pushing out the update in April and it made this phone finally worth while. Before it was pretty much unusable aside from the usual phone functions such as making calls, and responding to texts. The screen was VERY non-responsive to touches, and you’d have to hit the button over and over before it actually decided to do what you wanted. but the update has fixed that problem and a ton of others. I actually enjoy this phone now and have been going a little crazy downloading random apps. I would definitely recommend this as a starter android phone if you haven’t dealt with androids or iphones before. Also you can’t beat getting actual unlimited data for 25$/month through Virgin Mobile.
I’m not the best at themes.. but I did pretty up my android desktop some.. with a custom lockscreen and a few widgets.
Jon • 16th Apr 2011 • Geek • chrome extension, facebook &theater, facebook gallery, facebook photo
I dunno about everyone else but I can’t stand the new facebook photo viewer where it uses AJAX to show you the photo in a “new window”. you aren’t able to copy the direct photo link to share with friends if the persons profile you’re linking them has their photos set to friends only.
I found this google chrome extension that disables facebooks new &theatre gallery. click to install.
the plugin basically just refreshes the page as soon as you load a photo that removes the &theatre link. that’s also an alternative that will work in any browser.. when you click on a facebook photo just remove &theatre at the end of the link and press enter.. and it will reload the photo using the old gallery so you can then get a direct link to the photo.
firefox alternatives and a few more click here
Jon • 6th Apr 2011 • WWW • bidding, ebay, marketplace, rant, reserve price
I really hate people that set a reserve price on their ebay listings. I honestly don’t understand the point in it. If someone can think of a viable reason to do this please enlighten me. The only reason I can possibly see.. is maybe if certain people are addicted to ebay auctions.. and they start bidding and keep getting outbidded. so they bid higher.. and end up bidding higher then they ever attended too. Regardless of that I still think it’s dumb. Because I doubt those people would end up actually following through with the payment.
But seriously.. it pisses me off to no end. Instead of setting a reserve.. why not just start the bidding off at that amount? Then you wouldn’t waste other peoples time bidding when they have no idea what the reserve price is.. so it’s just a shot in the dark whether you’re going to guess an amount that the seller would actually accept or not. Just tell us from the very start the minimum amount you’re willing to take.. and let everyone make their bids.
Jon • 27th Oct 2010 • Geek • OiNKPlus, waffles.fm, what.cd
I recently switched from Firefox to Google Chrome with their browser sync option, and a few other things that motivated me to switch. I wouldn’t have been able to switch without having OiNKPlus though.
works with what.cd and waffles.
click to install
EDIT: I didn’t create this plugin, I was just sharing my find.. for discussion and updates on the plugin try these 2 links.
what.cd thread & blogspot
