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Google Voicemail Transcriptions
Feb 12th
This is how Google Voice transcribes a message. This voicemail was left in Chinese by my Auntie Linda, who was inviting me to dinner. Here’s the original:
Hey Jen, If I’m doing, Dante at 10 AM. A number on a budget. The basic compiling a list call back. Yeah, okay. Yeah back. Bye bye.
Import Facebook Phone Numbers into Your Google Contacts
Feb 4th
My coworker Kurt was asking about this so I’ll post it up here:
If you have Firefox and GreaseMonkey, then install this script. Go to your Facebook Phonebook, then in your Firefox menu, go into Tools > GreaseMonkey > User Script Commands… > and you’ll see Export Facebook Phonebook. Extract the data, and then POST it to AddressBooker, which will then guide you through merging it into your Google Contacts.
Script by Brad.
Enable Internet Connection Sharing (Sprint HTC Touch)
Feb 1st
I’m finally documenting this here because every time I do a hard reset on my phone, I forget what I need to do to tether my phone to my laptop and allow internet sharing.
I actually don’t like my wireless carrier because it uses CDMA technology, which doesn’t allow me to use SIM cards when I’m at work overseas in the summer. But I couldn’t resist it because the monthly plans were so cheap (including data!).
With ActiveSync installed on my computer, use a registry editor such as CeRegEditor and delete the value \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\InternetSharing\Settings\ForceCellConnection.
Hasta La Vista, Vista
Jan 28th
Since I sold my XT at the end of last year, I was forced to get some bigger memory cards. My brother joked that his phone had more memory than my camera. Sad, I know.
And I started shooting in RAW this year, so hard drive space has become an issue. I’ve moved most of my old images off to an external hard drive, leaving only the most current files from this and last year on my computer. The good news is, I finally got rid of Windows Vista from a triple boot and reclaimed the space for my images.
The process was fairly easy.
- Download and install EasyBCD to restore the XP bootloader
- Use a partition editor (I used gparted in Ubuntu) to re-size the partitions
- Check the flags column to make sure something other than Vista was set to boot
- Unmounted and delete the Vista partition
- Re-size the share drive and reclaim the unallocated disk space
- Hit “apply” and wait…for what might seem like an eternity
Everything’s fine now with my dual boot setup: XP and Ubuntu. Except I might need another external drive at the rate I’m shooting.
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