Isaac Bowman

Google Voice's "Activate Google voicemail for this phone" isn't new

Posted Fri, 10/30/2009 - 01:38 by Isaac

This is a little lame. I got very excited when I saw the 'new' setting in my Google Voice account to "Activate Google voicemail for this phone". I would love an integrated way to have Google Voice catch calls made to my mobile, but I wanted to know how they did it first. But Google didn't explain the process; they made it seem like this amazing new feature when its actually the same call forwarding function you already had but with one addition... it stops the Google Voice Loop. Read more

Motorola Developes a Droid Phone - and I actually want it

Posted Thu, 10/29/2009 - 10:41 by Isaac

Its been a while since there was a Motorola phone that I wanted to buy but this new Droid phone is very impressive. Google's Android mobile phone OS is exciting to watch but the reviews of previous phones running it were lack luster. Most did not have the processing power to run Android effectively or lacked creative design.

That seems to have changed with the Motorola Droid. The early reviews sound great and some of the features that Motorola has come up with have really improved on Google's OS. The asking price is only $199 on Verison. Read more

Google Blogs uses a static URL to tell us that Dynamic URLs are best

Posted Tue, 05/26/2009 - 23:27 by Isaac

Sure we have heard Google say in the past that it can handle and index dynamic URLs but now I read on the Google Blog that they prefer sites to use dynamic rather then clean static URLs.

Clean/Static URL - example.com/archive/january.htm
Dynamic URL - example.com/detail?id=31

From the Google post: Read more

Screenshots of Blackberry App World on Bold 9000

Posted Wed, 04/01/2009 - 13:12 by Isaac

Here are a series of screen grabs I did for the new Blackberry App World on a Blackberry Bold 9000.

System Requirements

To ensure that your BlackBerry® smartphone will support BlackBerry App World™, it must have the following system requirements: Read more

Blackberry RIM's App World Having Bandwidth Issues or Just Blocked by Corp Filters?

Posted Wed, 04/01/2009 - 10:57 by Isaac

I downloaded and installed the new Blackberry App World software to my Blackberry 9000 Bold late last night but it will not connect to the Blackberry servers. The message I receive is:

"BlackBerry App World is having trouble connecting to the BlackBerry App World server. Verify your network connections and try again."

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Google CADIE Project released for April's Fools Day

Posted Wed, 04/01/2009 - 00:30 by Isaac

Good morning to you too Google. You had me for just a second with your timely midnight release of the CADIE project. At least it was fairly obvious and I didn't have to read 1500 words to get the joke. Of course this late of night and I am fairly easy to fool. Read more

Google Voice

I have had a Grand Central number for about 2 years but I will confess that I never did much with it. I was always too afraid that the service might fail and I would loose my number. Well, with Google taking over I figured that it was now safe. I will continue to test and mark any tips or issues that I face with the service. Read more

Tracking your packages with Web 2.0

Posted Fri, 02/13/2009 - 09:47 by Isaac

TrackThis can send you near instant updates via Email, SMS messaging, RSS feeds, Facebook, or Twitter.

Google Map your package. BoxOh has created a package tracking tool that will map your UPS, FedEx, USPS, or DHL/Airborne package's progress with Google Maps.

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