Archive for the “Geek” category

Dropbox Review – free online storage

1 • 31st Jan 2012 • Geek, WWW • , , , , , ,

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

Google Voice Transcribe

0 • 24th May 2011 • Geek, Mobile • , , ,

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:

google voice transcribe

disable facebook photos theater gallery

0 • 16th Apr 2011 • Geek • , , ,

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

OiNKPlus for Chrome

6 • 27th Oct 2010 • Geek • , ,

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