Personal Technology Tips in Plain English
iPhone
Deal Alert: Free Apple iPhone 3G 8GB (No Rebates Either)
Feb 27th
Here’s a straight-forward deal alert:
If you’ve been saving up for an Apple iPhone on the AT&T network, you don’t have to break open your piggy bank any more.
BestBuy usually sells the Apple iPhone 3G with 8GB Memory in shiny Black for $99 with contract or upgrade for existing customers.
In fact, if you want to shell out your 100 bucks for the iPhone, you can see the regular offer on their website right now. Just go to www.BestBuy.com and search for the “iPhone 3G”.
You won’t be able to buy it on the internet like you can from AT&T Wireless or Apple.com because Best Buy only sells the phone directly to you in their big box store locations.
But if you can get $100 off the price of an iPhone 3G, wouldn’t you be willing to drive to the store to pick it up?
This offer is extremely tempting. . . Read the rest of this entry »
How To Bulk Submit To Social Bookmarking Sites
Oct 26th
Social media is all the rage these days.
Anyone with a website knows they should be submitting their website pages to the various social bookmarking sites to gain better visibility on the web.
But we’re also talking about a time consuming task to do the repetitive submissions to the top social bookmarking sites like: Digg.com, Propeller, Delicious, Reddit.com, Stumbleupon, Technorati, Mixx, Twitter, Furl.net, etc.
There are completely automated tools that submit in bulk, but sometimes they can be seen as spam. The next best thing to manual hand submissions one at a time is to use a semi-automated tool. . .
SocialPoster.com allows you to set-up the basics first and then go through various filtered lists of social bookmarking sites and quick-click-thru to the posting page with the main data pre-populated for you.
Here’s a video walk-through tutorial of the process of using socialposter.com:
It won’t completely eliminate the time-consuming task of manually submitting to dozens of social bookmark sites, but it certainly will shave off a decent portion of time spent on the task. Moreover, it will help you to consistently submit to the top sites using socialposter.com’s list of sites.
All Things Digital on Your iPhone
Jul 22nd
Walt Mossberg is one of the writers that I try to read first when I pick-up the Wall Street Journal.
His reviews and columns on tech are informative, easy to understand and usually about very practical things relevant to today.
Mossberg runs a WSJ conference called “All Things D” (D for digital!) which brings in the heavyweights (Gates!) and other speakers that talk about all the latest goodies in tech.
The AllThingsD.com website has become a hub for Mossberg/WSJ’s tech stuff. A great place to land when you want to enjoy some practical tech / tip content.
Now, you can take it with you on the go with a new iPhone app that can be used on the Apple iPhone or the Apple iPod Touch.
They built it right, allowing you to tap the social media sites in the ways that you should be able to. For example, you can post links direction from the app to Twitter. Facebook can be peppered with articles and reviews that you find on AllThingsD.com
Features:
•Daily columns, blogs and video
•Product reviews and analysis
•Breaking Silicon Valley news
•Galleries of D conference videos and photos
Tools:
•Post links directly to Twitter
•Share on Facebook
•Email blogs and video links
Content:
•Walt Mossberg’s Personal Technology, Mossberg’s Mailbox and Mossblog
•Kara Swisher’s BoomTown
•John Paczkowski’s Digital Daily
•Peter Kafka’s MediaMemo
•Katherine Boehret’s Mossberg Solution
•Voices links to compelling stories from around the Web
How to Load mp3 Music Onto Your Apple iPod Touch or iPod Nano
Jul 22nd
It’s easy as pie to go to the iTunes store on your iPod Nano or iPod Touch and download music directly onto your device.
But a lot of your music might be on your computer, and you want to load your iPod with the mp3 music you already have.
One you learn how to do this, you’ll have the freedom to take any music you have in the house or on your computer with you on the go on your iPod Touch or any other iPod device.
The Apple iPhone has a very similar process to load mp3 music onto the mp3 player device part of the phone.
Downloading music onto your iPod is a simple process if you’ve seen it before. Here’s a video that walks you through the whole process:
How To Gain Podcast Powers – Part 4
Jul 2nd
I’m so glad that we had the opportunity to feature Graham Scharf’s wisdom about podcasting microphone accessories on essistme.com.
He really covered the basics for those that want to take that first step in creating good quality audio content for podcasting.
His tips find the intersection of quality / ease / price and practicality.
Here’s Graham’s final installment of Podcast Powers: Read the rest of this entry »
How To Gain Podcast Powers – Part 2
Jun 17th
In our last installment, podcaster Graham Scharf shared his secret for crystal clear messages using the Mighty Mic accessory with his iPod Touch or iPhone.
He explained the why anyone who wants to start podcasting should consider getting an external mic for the Apple iPhone or iPod Touch.
If you read Part I of the interview carefully, you also found the secret for how to make an iPod Touch into a full-fledged cell phone whenever you’re in a WiFi zone!
Today, Graham shares some of the tangible considerations you should go through when going to buy an external mic like the MightyMic.
What should you know before you buy an external mic like the MightyMic? Read the rest of this entry »
Quick Recommendations for Neat-o iPhone Apps
Apr 8th
Seems like people can’t get enough after I posted some practical and neat recommendations recently for Apple iPhone and iPod Touch owners. The tip on transforming the iPhone into a Amazon Kindle Device was popular too!
The Apple iPhone App Store is what makes the iPhone unique…until Microsoft finally unveils the Windows Mobile Apps Store which it’s working on as we speak.
But until then, here are some more recommendations for new apps to download and try on your iPhone or iPod Touch from Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal. He’s one of my favorite personal technology general interest writers that I follow becuase his advice is simple, straight-forward, and marketing-spin-free. I’m sure you’ll agree after viewing his video recommendations for iPhone applications: Read the rest of this entry »