Google Voice as iPhone app?

Well not exactly. It seems Google wants the app on the iPhone one way or another. Recently, Google has rolled out the new interface from it's Google voice site and it's rather a quite nice GUI.

Complete with keypad and settings and quick access to the call and SMS buttons. Contacts are also easily added. However, it still doesn't offer any notifications yet. Maybe Apple and Google will mend whatever happened and we iPhone users will be able to use a local app for our Google Voice account.

I also had mentioned about Black Swan but since I am a small blog they haven't approved my beta testing request. Browse over to their site and check out that Google Voice web app as well.

Update:
I forgot to mention that this site works on the Palm Pre/Pixi devices as well. I can't leave out the true originator in the mobile arena. After all I started off with the old Palm M series PDA's. At tines I still miss my Treo.

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Adobe issues patches.

Adobe has patched eight security vulnerabilities, six of them critical, in its popular Adobe Reader PDF viewing and editing programs.

Many IT and Security experts urged consumers and corporate IT administrators to update Adobe Reader and Acrobat, calling the Adobe fixes more important for one of the first times ever.

Tuesday's Adobe update, the company's third since it announced it would patch Reader and Acrobat quarterly, fixed one flaw that hackers had already exploited.

Browse over to:
http://www.adobe.com
To download your updates...

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Which screen is better?

Which screen is better? Well according to labs.moto.com the iPhone is the clear winner. Of course I knew that ever since I tried typing on the Eris and Droid. I never liked the screen even with scrolling. It seems the fluidness of the iPhone is hard to copy. I haven't had the oppurtunity to try the Nexus One since I am still on AT&T and can't afford the new unlocked or new 2 year contract. Besides I don't want it.

I think Apple will release a new iPhone with OS 4.0. And 5 megapixel camera with flash. Hopefully the home screen will be changed to encompass a news feed, weather, tweets or other active data. Can we say background apps! Apple please let me run Pandora while I type an email or post a blog.

Please.....


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GodMode

GodMode!

It so happens to be the “Ultimate Power” in a Windows 7 environment. Although, one would expect to walk on water and such, this is no way possible with this set of power. It is only used to tweak system settings beyond regular user levels. It puts an enormous behemoth of tools at ones fingertips from a single folder (Not Bad Micro$oft).

All you need to do is create a new folder and remove the string “New Folder” and paste this string in without the quotes and no spaces.

“GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}”
Once that is done, the folder's icon will change to be similar to a control panel icon and will contain masses of control options for you to tweak your system…



Enjoy…







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Groovle.com was sued

The online startup Groovle was sued by Google for what seems to be confusion of domain names from what Google had stated. It appears that Google tried to take over the domain and lost.

The National Arbitration Foundation found that Groovle was not in any violations and was seen as a distinct enough domain that the suit was dismissed.

If you never had tried Groovle service before head on over to www.groovle.com and take a look. They offer Google search with a customized background image of your choice or you can use a premade template. Of course the initial home page is the only thing that is skinned and the rest of the searches will be the regular Google format.

There is also www.webmynd.com which skins the homepage and results as well.

Screenshot of Groovle.com


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Qik for iPhone - all versions

It looks like the folks at Qik are good at releasing live streaming apps, and the one they just released is working great on the iPhone 2g ( that's what I use). It has great framerate 7fps at 352x288). I have tried it several times with the edge network since we don't have 3g here at my locale and over wifi. Both work very well.

I would say get the app while it's free. Because I would definitely pay for this app. I like it so far over Ustream since the URL is easier to tweet or send via email/txt message and the quality is very decent for first gen iPhone.


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Is it the ugly duck? Hell no. It's the Blackswan!

Ok, where do I begin! Oh I know the iPhone is the best device known to man. Ok maybe I am stretching the truth with that line. However, I will be glad to say the iPhone does rock and there is an iPhone app for just about everything.

Except for one of my most used services. Google Voice. With all the various issues as to why AT&T or Apple removed the app. I have been disappointed.

Until now!!!

Meet Blackswan. From the looks of this webapp. That's right webapp. It looks very cool, and runs on HTML5. Once my beta sign up is approved (hopefully), I'll have an update. In the meantime check it out.

http://voicecentral.riverturn.com/


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No iPhones for yorkies.

For no apparent reason, AT&T has yanked the option to buy iPhones from their NYC website. I wonder if it's the crappy service app that has created the stir. . Now that sucks.


More to come I'm sure.

UPDATE.
It appears that the iPhone is back on sale and back in NYC Metro area. We may never know why, but at least it's back.

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Operation Chokehold!

The fake Steve Jobs is sick and tired of AT&T, that he wants to execute a plan to bring the service to it's knees.

Here is what he has to say...

The call to action:

Subject: Operation Chokehold On Friday, December 18, at noon Pacific time, we will attempt to overwhelm the AT&T data network and bring it to its knees. The goal is to have every iPhone user (or as many as we can) turn on a data intensive app and run that app for one solid hour. Send the message to AT&T that we are sick of their substandard network and sick of their abusive comments. The idea is we’ll create a digital flash mob. We’re calling it in Operation Chokehold. Join us and speak truth to power!

Will you unleash your digital whip and wreak havoc on the network.

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