Posts Tagged ‘phone’

Use Your Mobile Phone to Stay Organized On the Go

Like my geek ancestors before me, I am deeply devoted to my Moleskine notebook. I keep one in my backpack or in my back pocket at all times, with a range of suitable pens that make writing a joy (I’m a fan of the fine-tipped pigment pens favored by illustrators). For quick notes and thinking time, there’s nothing better.

But I’m also a big fan of doing things efficiently, which… » Continue

May 28 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: mms, mobile-phone, phone, sms, text-messaging, web-app | 12 comments»

How to Ruthlessly Reclaim Work Day Time

When you’re starting a small business or working from home as a freelancer, you need to make every minute of time count; it’s a race against the clock to break even before your new endeavor uses up your savings and breaks you.

But there are always a million and one things that interfere with and take over your day. Your to-do list of twenty items that you intended to tackle by… » Continue

April 28 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: email, feedreader, freelancing, home office, housework, phone, Technology | 21 comments»

How to Get Things Done with Jott

I first tried out Jott last year, and was really impressed with what it could do. You call their number, say something into the phone, and it sends it as a text message back to you. And it works — aside from a few odd names and strange words, its transcriptions are pretty much spot on. Apparently they run your voice message through a speech-to-text engine and then… » Continue

January 11 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: jott, phone, tool, voice, web-app | 28 comments»

Skype hack for cell phone flakes

If you’re like me–and hopefully you’re not–but I simply cannot seem to keep my hands on my cell phone. And if I can, it’s not charged or I don’t have any reception. Or I’m a thousand miles away from the charger and can’t bring myself to buy (yet) another charger. It makes me feel crummy because I’m supposed to be all up on my technology. But I have recently… » Continue

June 19 2007 | By Nick | Tagged: mobile, phone, skype | 46 comments»

6 Tips To Reach A Human Operator

Get past annoying and time wasting dial selections over the phone with these tips to get through to a live operator. They come from the GetHuman database of shortcuts for more than 500 individual call centres. These tips are good for general use when those robot voices are driving you mad.

Interrupt. Press 0 (or 0# or #0 or 0* or *0) repeatedly, sometimes quickly. Unfortunately the same keystroke does

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June 14 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: anger, phone | 12 comments»

How To Avoid Phone Surveys

They always call during dinner, don’t they!? I’m a generally patient person and don’t mind constantly telling phone surveys to beat it, but you may want to get off their lists for good. And with good reason.

Someone who worked at “the largest phone survey companies in the country” told Consumerist.com how to get rid of those phone survey callers calling back.

Sadly, it appears the only real way to… » Continue

June 4 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: call, phone, surveys | 6 comments»

One phone number to ring all your phones

GrandCentral is a service that gives you one phone number and will ring all of your phones when you receive a call. Here’s how it works…You pick a phone number from the database of numbers in (or around) your area code. Then you enter all of your personal/business phone numbers and only give out the number assigned by GrandCentral. When GrandCentral recieves the call it will forward… » Continue

March 20 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: grandcentral, phone, Technology | 1 comment»

Confessions Of A Verizon Sales Rep

A former sales rep for phone compaby, Verizon, got in touch with The Consumerist to help deal shoppers get the edge whilst in the store.

It’s a handy 8 stepper just to make sure you’re on the same playing field as the reps.

Never get a 2-year contract.

Verizon reps get tons of money from new lines and certain accessories and text packages, take advantage of this.

Mention the lost or stolen program

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March 7 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: phone, shopping | no comments»

You Can Sue Telemarketers!

Since I started working from home, the occurrence of my day being interrupted by unwanted calls has increased dramatically. I dread answering the house phone because I am certain half of the calls are telemarketers.

But did you know you can turn that daily nuisance into a paycheck?

André-Tascha Lammé was granted a judgment of $3,500 last month, and he’s making a living out of it.
Lammé started getting pelted with calls… » Continue

February 14 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: law, phone, telemarketing | 2 comments»

Make phone calls from your browser

The Web site Gizmo Call lets make phone calls (to cell phones or land lines) for free from directly in your browser. The Web site is very simple to use, however, phone calls can only be made to numbers within the United States and Canada. Gizmo call even accepts what they call “call me” links. This is basically just a shortcut way of calling a number… » Continue

February 5 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: Communication, phone, voip, web+application | 1 comment»

Joel on Phone Screening

Joel Spolsky at Joel on Software visits the essentials of phone screen. He talks about the importance of having a phone screen before a full in-person interview can save you a lot of time, because candidates who good on paper does not mean they are good at what they do. In phone screen for developers, Joel focuses in technology and politics, and then drill into a technical problem:

Politics. Behind the… » Continue

October 25 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: interview, phone | 1 comment»

Call In Sick Without Getting Out Bed

This is a US & Canada service, but it looks interesting enough for me to blog. A free service called “Call-in-Sick” allows you to record a message, set a time to send it later. How is it useful for call in sick? Read their introduction:

Call-in-Sick is a revolutionary new FREE service that allows you to call in your sick message to your boss or employer from anywhere, any time.

Picture the… » Continue

October 5 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: phone, software, web | 1 comment»

BBCalls - free telephone call with your BlackBerry

Through BlackBerryInsight, there is a program for BlackBerry called BBCalls which enable user to make phone calls using the Jajah service.

So how does it make your phone call free? Well, Jajah has a free call plan which allows you to:

…make free local and international phone calls. It applies to land line and mobile calls to and within: the United States; Canada; China; Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan… » Continue

September 13 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: phone, software | no comments»

How to Use Your Moto Q Effeciently

Chad Gniffke is a Moto Q user and he has figured couple of great ways to utilize his cellphone. He covered quite a lot of areas, such as email, key information, calendar, virtual earth, weather, blog reading, media, and use Camera for ScanR. The post will be a good help if you have Moto Q:

Over the past month I have been grinding away on my new Moto… » Continue

September 13 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: phone, software | 3 comments»

Wiring VoIP to your phone jacks

An elegant hack to use VoIP is to hook it up to the house’s phone jacks. This is very useful because you could have VoIP connection around your house, without the need of wireless phone. Engadget has a quick how-to on wiring your VoIP around your house without any soldering irons - quick and easy if you know what you are doing:

… The idea for this one is pretty easy… » Continue

June 21 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: hardware, phone | 1 comment»

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