GrandCentral: Protecting you from the crazies.

Wednesday, February 27, 2008 · 13:57 · 1 comments

I recently signed up for this new Google service called GrandCentral. It gives you one phone number that rings all of your phones. So, it masks your real phone number. Basically, girls can leave a bar with a clean conscious. They didn't give their, "actual," number away, but they can still be reached. Follow me? No? Good.

This is something I wish I had when I was transitioning between three phone numbers last year. Even though that ordeal is over with, I still signed up. I can see something like this coming in handy when I'm out and about in the dating world. There are a lot of crazy women out there who claim they've deleted your number, and they will never call you again, then call every day after that from different numbers. To save everyone time, all I have to do is deactivate my cell phone from the GrandCentral phone number, and I'll never be bothered again.

You can find your own reasons to use GrandCentral. I'm sure they're a million of them. Since the service is backed by Google, you don't have to worry about it shutting down, since Google has found a way to print paper money using solar-energy.

Labels: cell phones, dating, Google, GrandCentral

Anyone can play guitar and make widgets.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008 · 19:52 · 0 comments

While waiting for his baby to magically appear (I still don't know where those "things," come from) Lee Kelleher has been updating his blog and playing around on the internet. Lee made a blog post talking about a Mozilla project called Prism. Said post reminded me that I had installed it a while ago, and I haven't tried using it since because it told me that there was no program, only XUL error.

So, I reinstalled it. Now it works.

Mozilla's Prism takes those fancy web sites (or web apps), and lets them run in their own stand-alone window. Lee does a better job explaining what it does, and what he uses it for.

But I found a different use for it.

Prism+iPhone facebook site/Wizardry=Widgets!

Widget/Gadget, whatever. It's basically a small application that runs on your desktop, and just about gives you full access to a sexier version of facebook.

It's neat. Digsby notifies me when something happens on facebook, so I move my mouse over to the "facebook mini," window and check it out. No need to search through tabs, or wait for the monster that is Flock (it's built on Firefox) to respond. There are other pros, and even cons, but I'll let the, "Everything has to be in one window," kiddies argue that for you.

Now, most, but not all, sites have a mobile/iPhone formatted version, so you may check it while you're in the bathroom. Once you have Prism installed, run the the program to turn your favorite website into a, "program." Also remember to create a shortcut so you won't have to go through the set up process again and again.

...and again.

Remember to resize the window so it looks right, and not stretched out.

Name of Site - URL - (mobile version)

Note! Standard Mobile versions are dull and boring.

facebook - http://iphone.facebook.com - (iPhone)
Gmail - http://m.gmail.com - (Standard Mobile)
Google Reader -http://www.google.com/reader/m - (Standard Mobile)
Google Reader - http://www.google/reader/wii - (Wii Edition)
iGoogle - http://www.google.com/ig/i - (iPhone)
iGoogle - http://www.google.com/m - (Standard Mobile)


Oh, you get to set an icon for your new, "program," or you can use the standard globe icon, whatever. I spent hours making a desktop icon for my "facebook mini," Prism app, and I'm making it available for you to download. You have three to choose from (256x256), and you can find them here.

Enjoy.

Labels: cell phones, Digsby, Facebook, Flock, Lee Kelleher, Links, Mozilla, Prizm

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