Personal Technology Tips in Plain English
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How to Create A Custom Wallpaper for Your Cellphone
Aug 20th
Customizing your cellphone is tons of fun since you are making it your own.
Everyone knows about cool ringtones you can create for your phone. They even have “outrings” meaning, the caller can hear a customized “ring” if you want.
Another easy and cool way to customize your cell phone is to create a photo wallpaper for the background of your cell phone screen. The only problem is resizing the photos, and getting them to your phone.
A new service I came across will do this for free, and supports all the major phones (they know the best photo sizes to resize any photo). Read the rest of this entry »
How to Convert Any Song Into a Custom Ringtone for Blackberry Cell Phones
Aug 16th
If you have any of the newer Blackberries, you can now easily create custom ringtones to set your phone apart from the crowd.
There’s a new easy service for the Blackberry Pearl, Blackberry 8800 series, Blackberry 8700 series, Blackberry 7100 series, and Blackberry 7130 series phones that converts ANY mp3 music or audio file into a ringtone.
Sounds Like 24 Cures for Apple iPhone Envy
Jul 5th
Have you seen one yet? It’s so elusive, yet there are about a MILLION of them out there. And they’ll multiply quickly — up to 10 Million by the end of 2008! The Apple iPhone will surely be Time Magazine’s “Device of the Year” for 2007, which is responsible for more cell phone sales in a single day in the history of AT&T Wireless. Reports state that more than 3/4 million iPhones were sold on June 29th.
While you may know someone who knows someone that has one and you probably aren’t reading this on your new iPhone (unless you’re really are — in which, you should email a photo of yourself reading essistme.com on your iPhone to info[at)essistme.com and we’ll post it here!).
If you’re like one of millions that have been struck with iPhone envy, but still have another brand cell phone or smartphone in your hand, here’s one iPhone fix to simulate the iPhone experience on your phone. In fact, with this simple short-term cure for iPhone envy people will ask if you have an iPhone in your pocket when you get your next call! Read the rest of this entry »
Samsung Blackjack vs. OfficeBerry Music Capabilities
Jun 8th
The Samsung Blackjack is a complete mp3 and multimedia player that can play audio and video to waste your time away on demand.
Here’s a video that perhaps is another time killer looking at the music capabilities of the Blackjack vs. the OFFICEBERRY Read the rest of this entry »
GPS on the Blackberry 8800 With Google Maps
May 29th
It was only a matter of time before the GPS device on your car became obsolete!
And of course Google is the one that’s about to kill the entire Garmin-TomTom-Magellen-industry. How?
With Google Maps integrated with GPS live on your cell phone! The Blackberry 8800 which comes GPS-enabled on ATT Wireless / Cingular allows applications on the device to use the location services and GoogleMaps is an elegant solution . . . Read the rest of this entry »
I love tech, gadgets and the web. Hope you pick-up a useful tip or two here today that helps you use technology to your advantage! Better yet, why not share your own expertise in a comment on a post today to help the other readers that land here for answers!