January 9, 2012
There are many wacky, interesting, useful and just plain fun apps you can install on your smartphone. When we come down to it, no app is really absolutely essential, and we all did very well without any of them. But having all this rich abundance of apps at our fingertips truly makes the world a more colorful place. One app which definitely added color to my life is Blip.me.
October 10, 2011
You may not know that your iPhone has a few built-in voice command features that can save you the trouble of typing keystrokes. This feature indicates that we can expect even more and similar voice command technology in future releases of the iPhone. Let’s explore this potentially powerful feature further here in this article.
December 28, 2010
It’s no secret that apps are the thing of the future. In many cases, they give our phones enhanced functionality that you wouldn’t otherwise get from them, depending on the phone you have of course. Last month, for instance, I gave you 3 Fun & Simple Phone Apps That Will Change The Way You Text [...]
August 26, 2010
Recently, I was working on a story involving a person that made a phone call, which was recorded. That person later refused to admit that they’d ever made the call at all. With the recorded voice from the phone call and a clip of the person denying the accusation, I set to work trying to [...]
August 7, 2010
VoIP, or voice over IP, can save you a lot of money. Services like Skype offer free calls overseas to other computers and really cheap rates to overseas phones. That’s all well and good, but frequently using such services results in complaints on the other end about poor VoIP audio quality. If you find yourself [...]
May 5, 2010
In 2007, Google, with full support for the open source community and 65 hardware, software and telecommunication companies, quietly unveiled the Google Android operating system. I say quietly because, like most things Google, they get launched, tested, improved upon, then take over the world. This year seems to be the beginning of the full launch [...]
April 10, 2010
Push-to-talk is available on a few Nokia and Motorola handsets, and this feature has come to the iPhone for free in the form of two apps, iPTT and HeyTell. iPTT allows you to talk with anyone who has downloaded the push-to-talk iPhone app, whether with friends or complete strangers. HeyTell allows you to talk only [...]
March 19, 2010
Ever since I got a Motorola Droid, I’ve been searching constantly for mobile voice applications that can transform my mobile experience into one that’s much more hands free. I finally did discover Google Voice, and wrote about it, but that wasn’t enough. So, digging into Google Voice, I finally figured out a way to use it [...]
February 28, 2010
Through the years, the way we handle our telephone messages has gone through some dramatic changes. Remember the days of needing tape cassettes to record answering machine messages? I suppose it hasn’t really been that long has it? With the old answering machines, there really wasn’t much flexibility. You could listen to your messages and [...]
February 19, 2010
Many advanced computer users have long used voice recognition programs to both voice navigate their computers and for dictating writing. Both Windows and Mac have voice commands programs installed in their software systems, and there are two popular programs on the market, Nuance’s Dragon Naturally Speaking (for Windows), and the Mac version of the voice [...]
