Archive for October, 2007
For whom the phone rings
More importantly for whom the phone does not ring, like telemarketers, and other undesirables.
The Treo phone has a nice option. You can select to have the phone not ring for people not in your contact list. Since up to now all my cell phones had been Treos I thought this was an option on all phones.
I almost returned my new Mogul to the store when I found it didn’t have that option. However there is an easy fix and it should work on just about any cell phone.
First you need a ring tone that is silent. This was not easy to find. (Silent.wav )
Install the silent ringtong in your ringtone directory. ( My Documents/My Ringtones on Windows Mobile )
Assign it to be the main ringtone for your phone.
Lastly assign a ringtone that makes noise to all the contacts in your phone. ( Tone Manager will let you do bulk updates on Windows Mobile )
Here is a quick way to take notes with your mobile phone camera
Quipit is a free online service that lets you take pictures of documents, book pages, class notes and more, and Qipit will clean up the document for you and save it as a pdf.
You sign up for a free account, take a picture, send it to Qipit and they handle the rest. You can now use your cell phone to make copies of documents, fax or email documents, or post them to your blog through Quipit’s service.
It might be a way to keep you from getting arrested. Harvard Coop calls cops on students who wrote down textbook ISBNs
